In retirement from full-time touring competition, Brauer and his wife Shirley have decided to list their Camdenton, Mo. There have been ups and downs, but we step away with the warmth of friendship, support and a career full of goals reached and dreams realized.
Back Video Tips. Hunting Seasons. Back Submit Photos Advertise with Us. Friday, November 12, Learn more Whitakers win Polar Bear Open at Maxinkuckee. Thursday, November 11, Wednesday, November 10, What do you love most about bass fishing? The unknown. It's like a giant puzzle you want to solve. In a lot of sports, you know exactly what you need to do to win. In bass fishing, that changes from the morning to the afternoon.
It's part of the reason I built a home on Lake Amistad — it's a terrific puzzle and a very rewarding one. Flipping heavy cover. As a professional bass angler, you need a lot of diversity and you need to be able to do everything, but my favorite technique by far is tossing my signature jig into thick brush and whacking 'em.
What is your greatest weakness as a bass angler? Finesse fishing. I don't like to do it, but if I have to I can usually do it well enough to salvage a tournament. When I was competing, I tried not to think of one place as my favorite or least favorite because when you have to go to your least favorite lake that puts ideas in your head. If you have to go to a lake you don't like, you're probably not going to do well.
Early in my career, I loved Sam Rayburn Reservoir and won my first two national tournaments there. I haven't been there in a while, though, so I'm not sure if I like it as much as I used to. Now my favorite is Lake Amistad. It's where I built a new home and where my wife and I live. The thing I get asked most is, 'How do I get sponsors?
You don't ask what they can do for you, you tell them what you can do for them instead. You need to show them that you are valuable and worth their while. A lot of guys will spend too much time in one place, and before they know it, they've wasted an entire day.
There may not even be fish in the area you're in, so you need to move around. If these guys could watch us practice, they'd be amazed at how much we move.
No, I really don't. But there is one thing I like to do before I hit the road. I have to have my rig washed, have all my tackle organized, my rods re-spooled and hooks replaced.
I need to be ready to go when I get where I'm going. You create good luck by working hard, I think. No doubt there's an element of luck involved in fishing, though. For example if you hook a fish and he goes left into open water or right into a bush and breaks off, that's pure luck. There are too many things you can't control in fishing, so you need to focus on the things you can control. Brauer went on to win 17 B. He competed in a total of 21 Classics, and finished in the top 10 in eight of them.
During his Classic victory he factored in the knowledge that spectator traffic might hinder his shallow water flipping pattern and specifically sought out areas where boat traffic and boat wakes would not impact his targets. In addition to B. The same year that he won the Classic he also won the FLW Tour Angler of the Year award, and became the first angler to be featured on the Wheaties cereal box, joining other champions including Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods.
Long after his time on the FLW Tour ended in , he continued to compete in FLW Outdoors events, mostly in Texas, and in he won a Toyota Series tournament on Toledo Bend, beating a best-of-the-best field of local and national talent.
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