When you’re promoting for your sponsors, you may be conducting seminars, making videos for social media, television and commercials and/or working and speaking at consumer shows. Phillips: When you’re fishing a six-day tournament with a first-place prize of $100,000, you’ve got to have your mind totally on finding and catching fish. Each side of the business of being a professional fisherman works together. But the good part about this 50/50 split is when I’m fishing I’m promoting, and when I’m promoting, I’m often fishing. Phillips: How much of your time is spent fishing, and how much of your time is spent promoting?ĭeFoe: I would say it’s about 50/50 because our tournament days are 8 hours on the water. We show the new products that the companies produce every year, as well as their goods and services, and we demonstrate how effective they can be to find and catch bass. Often we become the faces of the companies that sponsor us. The TV coverage we get, as well as livestreaming, social media and the print media and how we relate to all those media outlets is a very critical part of the business of being a professional angler. The tournaments we fish and how we perform in those tournaments gives us a platform to speak to other anglers about the products we use, why we use them, and how those products help us to be successful. You fish tournaments to represent your sponsors and the brands of products they produce. Most newcomers to our sport don’t understand that a professional angler is primarily a promoter. Phillips: Ott, what is the business side of being a professional fisherman, and who manages that for you? How do you learn the business of being a professional angler?ĭeFoe: I learned the business side of becoming a professional angler mainly by trial and error. The Business Side of Professional Bassing Ott DeFoe has earned more than $2.5 million bass fishing and shares about the real world of a professional bass fisherman. But there’s another side of professional bass fishing that often goes unknown. They may believe that when they reach that level of bass fishing, all they’ll have to do is travel the nation pulling their bass boats behind them stocked with rods, reels and tackle and pulled by a pick-up truck that looks like a fishing-tackle store packed with many colors of different lures. She is also active on social media and loves to connect with other anglers from around the world.Many bass fishermen dream of one day becoming pro anglers. To help educate and inspire other female anglers, Ashley hosts fishing events for women on the ice and during the open water season. She has hosted television episodes on the World Fishing Network, and travels to various trade shows to present seminars. Today Ashley shares her passion for fishing through writing articles and blogs for various publications and websites internationally. Although she wasn't raised in a fishing family, it was a friend of the family who introduced her to the sport at the age of 5. Ashley Rae Ashley Rae is a year-round multi-species angler from Ottawa, Ontario (Canada). These seven top female anglers have been making waves in the fishing community and across social media with darn good reason. Let's tip our lucky fishing hats to a group of women aren't as much about being famous female anglers, as they are about consistently demonstrating that they don’t wait for respect, they simply reel it in. The top female anglers in the fishing community are women who inspire and empower other women to get out on the water by setting a strong example.
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