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Glenn Browne
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Hometown: Ocala, FL
Glenn Browne has been fishing professionally since 1998 and signed with Lew’s in January 2011. He gave his Team Lew’s TL1H a good workout at the FLW Tour’s event on Lake Okeechobee where he finished in 11th place. He said, “They’re one of the best I’ve ever put in my hand. I can’t believe how far I can throw and how smooth they are. They’ve come out with a fantastic product.” |
Stephen Browning
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Hometown: Hot Springs, AR
Stephen Browning is a strong competitor on the Bassmaster Elite Series, having earned nearly $884,000 throughout his B.A.S.S. career and an additional $189,000 in FLW Outdoors tournaments. In early 2012, Browning joined Team Lew's and will be fishing with Lew's reels. On a recent outing for bass and stripers, he reported back to us, saying, "There's a lot of torque on the reels, and the drag is flawless."
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Jason Christie
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Hometown: Park Hill, OK
Christie, an Oklahoma angler who resides at Park Hill near Lake Tenkiller, has mostly fished FLW tournaments over the past dozen years. He's earned nearly $650,000 on that trail, including the top prize money from five BFLs on Grand Lake. He's also added another $105,000 in earnings from B.A.S.S. events, with most of that coming from his two Bassmaster Open wins in 2012. One of those, his July win on the Detroit River in Michigan while fishing in the Northern Open series, is what qualified him for the 2013 Bassmaster Classic. He also won the Central Open tournament on Oklahoma's Fort Gibson Lake in September 2012. Christie joined Team Lew's in early 2013 and will be fishing Lew's reels.
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Mark Davis
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Hometown: Mount Ida, AR
Mark Davis has been a regular on B.A.S.S. tournament leader boards ever since entering his first event with that trail in 1986. Davis is gearing up with Lew's rods and reels for the 2012 tournament season. Davis' first baitcast reels were Lew's Speed Spools given to him on his 16th birthday by his dad. Raised on spinning gear, Davis credits his introduction to Lew's baitcasters as being instrumental in his fondness for fishing deep-diving crankbaits.
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David Fritts
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Hometown: Lexington, NC
David Fritts has the most history with the Lew's brand having been a primary spokesman for the Lew's name over much of his nearly two decades of tournament fishing. Fritts helped put the Lew's BB1N Speed Spool on the map through his prowess at throwing big-lipped crankbaits a "mile" and "feeling" them all the way back to the boat. Over a career that includes six FLW tournament wins and five BASS victories, including the 1993 Bassmaster Classic, Fritts has won more than $2 million in competitive fishing.
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Tim Horton
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Hometown: Muscle Shoals, AL
Tim Horton has picked Lew's for his choice of reels and has already incorporated the all-new Lew's baitcast and spinning reels into his fishing arsenal for 2011. Horton, known for his offshore deep-cranking skills, has had 27 top 10 finishes in his 15 years along the BASS tournament trail and earned the coveted BASS Angler of the Year award in 2000. He's recorded wins in four of the events and earned more than $1.2 million along the way.
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Wally Marshall
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Hometown: Garland, TX
Marshall, also known as Mr. Crappie, has been a true leader and visionary for the niche sport of crappie fishing and has accumulated a number of accomplishments over the past 25 years. He has qualified for 31 crappie championships, earned an angler-of-the-year title in 2002, won the Crappie Classic in 2003 and claimed top prize at the Crappie Masters One-Pole Championship in 2010. Marshall was inducted into the Legends of the Outdoors Hall of Fame in 2008.
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Mark Menendez
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Hometown: Paducah, KY
Menendez credits the Lew’s Speed Spool for several important career highlights, which include qualifying for the Bassmaster BP Top 100s, catching the largest bass in the first 31 years of BASS, making his first Bassmaster Classic and earning his first Bassmaster win. |
Marty Robinson
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Hometown: Lyman, SC
Robinson, from Lyman, S.C., has been competing along the Elite Series tournament trail since 2007. He has five top 10 finishes to his credit, including a third place check from the 2012 B.A.S.S. Elite event held in June on Toledo Bend Reservoir. The announcement that Robinson will fish Lew's reels was made just before the 2013 Bassmaster Classic, the second such appearance for Robinson; his first was in 2012 on the Red River out of the Shreveport-Bossier City, La., area. |
Mark Rose
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Hometown: West Memphis, AR
Rose has earned more than $1.6 million in winnings along the FLW trail over his 14-year career. He had two wins in 2012: a FLW Tour Opens title on Alabama's Wheeler Lake, and a BFL victory on Kentucky / Barkley Lakes. Rose won a FLW Tour Majors event in 2011 and took the FLW All American Championship in 2009. Rose also has two other FLW wins to his credit. |
Terry Scroggins
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Hometown: Palatka, FL
Scroggins has been fishing BASS tournaments since 1999, recording five wins and more than $1.2 million along the way. He says flipping is his primary strength, and that the new lightweight Lew's reels with their paddle handles are perfect for what he does best. |
Kevin Short
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Hometown: Mayflower, AR
Considered by many as a river rat and shallow crankbait specialist, Short has been a threat to win several Elite Series events since 2006 before winning in 2009 at the Mississippi River out of Fort Madison, Iowa, and again in 2010 at Lake Pickwick out of Florence, Ala. Short says the Lew's Tournament Pro and Tournament reels have performed far beyond his expectations, the Tournament Pro becoming his favorite because of its incredible light weight (6.7 ounces) and durability. |
Marty Stone
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Hometown: Fayetteville, NC
Stone began his bass fishing career in 1997 and since then, has fished 175 B.A.S.S. and FLW events, with career earnings exceeding $820,000. He has won two B.A.S.S. Elite Series tournaments, had 15 top 10 finishes and 35 top 20 finishes to his credit. Stone took a year off from professional fishing in 2011 and is now back, fishing the FLW Tour and Open events. |
Peter Thliveros
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Hometown: Jacksonville, FL
Thliveros, known to most bass fishing fans as "Peter T," has been fishing professionally for nearly 20 years. He has seven wins along the BASS trail, plus an FLW win, contributing to his nearly $2 million in combined tournament earnings. |
Jay Yelas
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Hometown: Corvallis, OR
Yelas has been fishing professionally since 1989, spending most of his first 15 years on the B.A.S.S. tournament trail. He won the Bassmaster Classic in 2002 on Alabama's Lay Lake, and was the B.A.S.S Angler of the Year in 2003. Yelas has been fishing the FLW Tour for 11 years. He was FLW Angler of the Year in 2002 and 2007, and has added more than $800,000 in FLW earnings to his $1.3 million from his B.A.S.S. tournaments. Yelas is just as adept with finesse gear and a drop shot rig as he is with heavy gear and tossing a jig. Yelas will be one of the anglers helping Lew's broaden its spinning reel lineup for 2014. |
