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10 Legit Ways To Make Money Fishing |
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Making money fishing isn't easy, but there are certainly some legit ways to make money in the industry we love. Check out some solid advice on how to accomplish earning a living fishing here.
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The Southern Nazarene University Athletic Department is proud to announce the addition of Men's and Women's Bowling to its current list of varsity sports. In addition to the announcement of adding the sport, SNU Director of Athletics Danny Thomason also announced the hiring of Mark Jeffreys as the first Men's and Women's Bowling Head Coach.The Crimson Storm will compete in the USBC (United State Bowling Congress) where they will battle against universities across the country, including schools like Oklahoma Christian, Oklahoma State, Wichita State, Louisiana State, Nebraska, and Stephen F. Austin. Southern Nazarene joins Oklahoma Christian and Oklahoma State as the only Oklahoma schools with a bowling program. The first Southern Nazarene bowling team will begin competition in fall 2023.
Coach Jeffreys comes to Southern Nazarene from Blanchard High School, where he will continue to teach and coach for the next year, while also recruiting for the SNU Bowling team. This will be his sixth year coaching basketball at Blanchard High School. During his time, he has guided his teams to two state qualifiers, as well as 2 state academic championships.
"I am very excited and honored to be selected as the new Head Bowling Coach at Southern Nazarene University and to be a part of starting the SNU program from the ground up," said Jeffreys. "I am grateful that SNU Athletic Director, Danny Thomason and SNU President, Dr. Keith Newman, have given me the opportunity to lead our student athletes not only in collegiate bowling, but to the mission and values of SNU. I look forward to putting together a highly successful program built around family, faith, and education. There is a Crimson Storm coming in the collegiate bowling world and I can't wait for the 2023 season to arrive."
Prior to his time at Blanchard, Jeffreys created his own media company, Z3, and worked as a lay coach at multiple schools. Jeffreys brings an abundance of bowling experience to Southern Nazarene. He has been a member of the PBA for 31 years and a Youth Bowling Coach for 15 years. He has won 22 local and regional titles and was a past member of the Greater Los Angeles Junior All Stars, the most prestigious youth bowling league in the US.
"You only have to spend a few minutes with Mark Jeffreys to realize his passion for creating a top tier collegiate bowling program," said SNU Director of Athletics, Danny Thomason. "We are so excited he has made the choice to realize his dream here at Southern Nazarene University. I am confident we will be ready to compete in both Men and Women's Bowling at a high level in Fall 2023."
Jeffreys graduated from the University of Oklahoma. He enjoys fishing and was nominated for the Bass Fishing Hall of Fame for his journalistic work. He is married to his wife, Caroline. They have two boys, Mark and Aaron.
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First Female National Champion |
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Fallon Clepper realized a lifelong dream last month when she won the High School Fishing National Championship, but the highlight of her weekend didn’t come until the following day.
The newly minted champion was walking toward her boat when a young girl in a gray T-shirt and Birkenstock sandals recognized her and asked to take a picture. Clepper happily agreed, letting the young fan hold the trophy she had earned.
“Winning the national championship was amazing,” Clepper said. “But that was the best part of the entire trip, just having a little girl look up to me and just be like, ‘I want to be her one day.’ ”
Clepper and her partner, Wyatt Ford, bested the other 235 boats in the three-day competition on Pickwick Lake near Florence, Ala., to claim the championship. The victory made Clepper the first female angler to win the title, a validating achievement for the rising senior at Lake Creek High in Montgomery, Tex.
Clepper and Ford, both 17, have been partners since they were freshmen. Despite being one of the later boats to enter the lake, they took the lead after the first day of competition when their three bass weighed in at 18 pounds 8 ounces. That output was especially significant considering Clepper and Ford’s late draw meant the location they had scouted was already occupied, forcing them to go elsewhere. Clepper said she didn’t realize their three fish would weigh that much until her father, who was the captain of their boat, hinted at it.
“Having 18 pounds with three fish is unreal. I don’t know anybody who’s actually really done that,” Clepper said. “We went into the tackle store, and they said that they’ve never even heard of 18 pounds coming from three fish.”
A slower second day meant the pair led a slimmed-down field of the top 10 competitors by just one ounce entering the final day of competition. Soon after arriving at the same location where they had found their first-day success, Ford caught a 7-pound 8-ounce fish.
“I was just like, ‘Okay, we might actually have a shot here to win,’ ” Clepper said.
They still had a long wait ahead. The final weigh-in was conducted in reverse order of the previous day’s standings, meaning Clepper and Ford were last in the queue.
Clepper’s nerves were alleviated somewhat when she spoke with a member of the second-place team. Clepper estimated she and Ford would weigh in at 10 or 11 pounds, and her competitor was at about seven. But she had to wait another 45 minutes for the result to become official. “It took forever, and I was just ready to weigh in,” Clepper said. “I already knew as soon as the other team pulled up that we’d won it, and I was like, ‘Can we just get to us already?’ ”When it was their turn, Clepper and Ford discovered their three fish weighed 12 pounds 14 ounces, bringing their total to 39 pounds 9 ounces and securing the victory by a comfortable margin of more than five pounds. Clepper remembers seeing her family rejoice, jumping up and down in celebration. Clepper and Ford earned more than $250,000 in potential scholarships as well as a place in the field at November’s Toyota Series Championship in Guntersville, Ala. They each also nabbed a bass fish trophy, which Clepper plans to place on the mantel at her father’s home.
Clepper said she hopes the win inspires more girls to get involved in fishing.
“Winning this I hope showed that you can do it,” she said. “It’s been one of the best experiences of my life.”
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5. Baits Not Being Talked About |
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The 6th Sense Cloud 9 Series Crankbaits were designed to be the ultimate line of medium and deep diving crankbaits. The Cloud 9 Series features a large bill that helps them dive quickly and produce a much wider wobbling action than most crankbaits. They are also engineered to sustain a true running depth and maintain their action for the majority of the retrieve. The Cloud 9 Series of crankbaits are also fitted with super sharp black nickel hooks, 3D eyes, 3D gill plates, top-of-the-line paint schemes, loud internal rattles, and textured scale pattern finishes. Available in multiple sizes and a range of colors, the 6th Sense Cloud 9 Series Crankbaits are sure to be your new favorite crankbaits. Check out the full lineup here.
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6. What We're Watching & Listening To |
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Braid Or Fluorocarbon On Your Spinning Rod? |
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In this video Bradley Hallman dives into detail about the advantages of Fluorocarbon vs Braided line in spinning applications. Have you tired straight Fluoro? This is a topic that is always up for debate, and anglers have changed their views on it over the years. Check it out here.
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Recent Tackle Warehouse Pro Circuit champion Kyle Hall's sponsorship lineup includes Phoenix Boats, Huk, Owner, Power-Pole, Garmin, Mercury, Odiehammer Rod Co., Tri-Lakes Tackle Town, Costa, and Fun-N-Sun Boats And Tackle just to name a few. |
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Store Your Trebles In Style With Slit Foam |
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Store and organize your Gamakatsu treble hooks in style with our popular G-Box slit foam cases. Our G-Box 3600 series checks in at a size of 10″ x 7.5″x 1.1″. Great for Rigs, Hooks, Flies and Jig Heads. Easy to See Slits. Easily opened with one hand. Product stays in place and organized. Rounded corners easy to get out of tackle bags or boat compartments. The slightly smaller G-Box 3200 is 8.1″ x 5.7″ x 1.6″ with the same great features as the 3600 size. These slit foam case will help you get organized in style! Check them out here.
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We are fortunate here in the U.S. to have a healthy largemouth bass resource. Starting with Ray Scott and his creation of B.A.S.S. and the catch and release ethic in bass fishing, anglers and bass tournaments have been and continue to be protective of this valuable resource. An important key to a future healthy resource, and continually growing bass fishing opportunities is how anglers care for the bass we catch.
The purpose of this guide is to help educate anglers on the basics of how to best care for largemouth bass. The increasing number of largemouth bass anglers and tournaments at all levels makes this information more important now than ever. Many tournaments provide live-release boats and good weigh-in conditions that help survival of fish, but they cannot save injured or severely stressed fish. It is essential that every angler understands that the conditions during capture, handling, and livewell confinement are critical in determining whether a bass ultimately survives after release. Learn more valuable information to help you better care for your catch here.
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