Pro Bass Insider

Dave and DJ
Pro Bass Insider

Pro Bass Insider (PBI) is a podcast dedicated to bringing our audience insightful Bass fishing techniques, tips, and strategies. Learn from both professional anglers out on tour and outdoor enthusiasts. Don't forget to hook up with us by sending an email, a tweet, or following us on facebook. If you love bass fishing then the PBI podcast might just be for you.

  1. 03/03/2016

    March 3, 2016 – Pro Bass Insider 2016 Geico Bassmaster Classic Preview with Elite Series Angler Bill Lowen – Pro Bass Insider Episode 031

    Are you ready for the Classic? Pro Bass Insider (PBI) talk Classic strategy, off-season training, being a caged animal, beach bodies, and more with Pro Angler Bill Lowen, so sit back and enjoy the interview. Hello everyone! It’s that time of the year again because when the calendar hits late February and early March anglers can’t wait for the Geico Bassmaster Classic presented by GoPro to get underway. The 2016 Classic is being held on Grand Lake O’ the Cherokees in Tulsa, Oklahoma from March 4-6. Elite Series Angler and 2016 Bassmaster Classic Competitor Bill Lowen returned to the Pro Bass Insider (PBI) Podcast to talk about his past experiences at the Classic and to preview the upcoming 2016 Classic on Grand Lake. PBI is typically an audio podcast but due to severe weather and bad cell reception between Oklahoma and New York at the time of the interview, we chose to release the interview in the form of an article as well. Be sure to look for our post 2016 Classic interview with Bill Lowen where we promise to get back to the high quality PBI is known for. We encourage you to give the audio a try and if that doesn’t work for you please enjoy the article below – we sure did! PBI: To kick off our 2016 season of the Pro Bass Insider Podcast let’s welcome back to the show none other than Professional Elite Series Angler Bill Lowen. Bill how are you man? Bill Lowen: I’m doing just fine how you guys doing? PBI: We are doing well and we are really looking forward to the 2016 Classic and for the fans out there we’re doing a pre-and post-2016 Bassmaster Classic interview with Bill Lowen. We hope that sometime in about a week and a half on that Monday or Tuesday after the Classic we’re talking with the 2016 Bassmaster Classic Champion because then you will be coming on with us before every Elite Series event wouldn’t you? (Laughter) Bill Lowen: You know what, that would be a good idea and a great way to start the year off; so yeah I’m looking forward to that. PBI: So let’s get right into it here Bill because I think for myself, for DJ, and for everyone out there we want to know what makes the Bassmaster Classic the Super Bowl of bass fishing? Why is it so important, so stressful, and what is it about this tournament that the big names can win or like a couple years ago a relatively unknown angler like Paul Mueller can come out of nowhere and set an all-time single day record with over 32 pounds. Mueller went from 47th place to third on that record setting Saturday and then finished in second place after a solid day on Sunday. What makes this tournament the Super Bowl of bass fishing and why is this tournament so important? Bill Lowen: Well, I think we always compare it to the Super Bowl and then call it the Super Bowl of bass fishing for the reason that everyone who fishes or that’s a competitive tournament fisherman this is where they want to be. They eventually someday want to fish the Bassmaster Classic and fulfill their dreams and if you’re a fisherman this is where you want to be. Anybody that’s anybody in the fishing world strives to get here and I think that’s what makes it the thing that everybody wants to try to go to. PBI: Just like the Super Bowl it is the best of the best. Not to bring the Super Bowl up again but so much has changed in the 50 years of that big game, especially the media attention, so much has also changed at the Classic. For example, the product manufacturers have made the classic they’re coming out party where it use to be ICAST. Bill, do you now feel one of if not the hardest things about the Classic for a competitor is just trying to maintain focus on fishing the tournament when there is so much more going on? Bill Lowen: Yeah it is and I always use my first Classic as an example. I couldn’t tell you anything about my very first Bassmaster Classic because it was like being on a roller coaster ride all week. After practice is over,

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Pro Bass Insider (PBI) is a podcast dedicated to bringing our audience insightful Bass fishing techniques, tips, and strategies. Learn from both professional anglers out on tour and outdoor enthusiasts. Don't forget to hook up with us by sending an email, a tweet, or following us on facebook. If you love bass fishing then the PBI podcast might just be for you.

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