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Winner of the Forrest Wood Cup as a co-angler in 2006, Arey has consistently pushed himself to compete at a higher level every year. He made the switch to the front of the boat in 2007 and has since been improving in the Angler of the Year standings.

I was born and raised on a farm in NW Arkansas, close to Beaver Lake. There were three things that my life revolved around growing up on the farm: hard work, athletics, and the great outdoors. My father taught me at a very young age that the only way you can get what you want out of life is to work hard and be dedicated to what you have committed yourself to doing. I have tried to uphold these values throughout my life.

Bolton, a former junior college tennis player, has racked up just shy of $1 Million in earnings in his FLW career. He is the 2019 FLW Tour Sam Rayburn winner and a 14 time FLW Championship Qualifier. This Kentucky native has seen more than half of his top-10 finishes come from the legendary ledges at Kentucky and Barkley lakes.

Nebraska native Denny Brauer left a career as a brick mason to uproot his family to Missouri to chase his dream of becoming a professional angler, and went on to become the most notable flipper and pitcher in bass fishing history.

Stephen Browning is a professional bass angler competing in the Bass Pro Tour. Since turning pro in 1996, he has competed in over 250 professional level events across the United States, qualified for Ten Bassmaster Classics and is a member of the exclusive BASS Million Dollar in Winnings Club.

Sergeant Major (r) Jamey Caldwell, spent more than 21 years in the United States Army, serving his entire career in Special Operations. SGM Caldwell served 7 years with the 75th Ranger Regiment then spent the following 14 years in a Special Missions Unit that maintained a high operational tempo in Bosnia, Iraq, Afghanistan, and numerous other countries in the world. He has deployed to combat 14 times and has conducted well over 500 missions.

I’m still married and have one daughter. I grew up on a lake and only fished bass until I was introduced the St. Croix River and walleye. These fish were hard to catch and people wanted them for dinner. Fishing was something I did on my off time, I grew up playing tennis 6 days a week and tournaments all over the place.

I got in to fishing at a young age white bass fishing and cat fishing off the banks of Lake Livingston with my day. One day while it was raining, I met a gentleman who had been bass fishing and it had started to rain so he parked his boat under the marina stalls where we were crappie fishing. He told me that he had left the bass biting just now and he showed me how to rig up a Texas rig.

With one of the highest overall career winning percentages in the MLF Bass Pro Tour field, Jason Christie can claim one of the most rare achievements in professional bass fishing: he won back-to-back FLW Tour and Bassmaster Elite Series events in 2013. Christie has earned 15 tour-level wins, 61 Top 10's, 100 top 20's, and more than $2.2 million in career winnings. Two of his go-to LEWS reels would be the HyperMag and Super Duty.

One of the original Major League Fishing anglers, Mark Davis is also one of only a handful of pros in history to win the Bassmaster Classic and the B.A.S.S. Angler of the Year title in the same year (1995). Davis also claimed AOY honors in 1998 and 2001, and has racked up six wins, 64 Top 10s and $2.3 million in career winnings. In 2019, Davis was inducted into the Bass Fishing Hall of Fame.

Cole Floyd has been fishing since he was a child.  His father was an avid tournament fisherman and introduced Cole and his 2 brothers to bass fishing and the outdoors at a young age. Growing up Cole fished tournaments with his dad and brothers in southern Ohio and spent his summers chasing largemouth on Lake Guntersville and Kentucky Lake.

In the mid-1990s, David Fritts was revered throughout central North Carolina as the King of the Yadkin. He was known nationally as the crankbait guru who won the 1993 Bassmaster Classic on Logan Martin Lake in Alabama, and the Bassmaster Angler of the Year title the following year.