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He's won everything you can win, and outside of KVD you'd be hard pressed to find anybody with a resume that stacks up to his.

 

Hope he enjoys retirement and finds a new passion.  He still seems plenty young to keep professionally fishing, heck he won a BPT event not to long ago.  

I’ll never forgive him for that yellow crankbait rod 🤣🤣🤣 seriously he’s a good guy and had some very good tournament wins.. seems like the appropriate time I guess. 
 

Best wishes to ya Skeet! 

Enjoy the time off Skeet, you’ve earned it! 

He talked about retiring on Ikes podcast the other day. It sounds like he isint going to quit tournament fishing all together. I think he said he was going to try the NPFL. 

Another one of the “Old Guard” stepping away.  It was refreshing to see Hackney pull in another win.  I worked some shows with him and he’s a real hoot.  

I hope that means they will retire his rod commercials. Absolutely insufferable. Congrats to Skeet though. 

13 hours ago, Jar11591 said:

I hope that means they will retire his rod commercials. Absolutely insufferable. Congrats to Skeet though. 

Isn’t that skeet though. Dudes been a character his whole career and has been wildly successful running his marketing campaigns. In an industry full of dry personalities he was a refreshing change of pace. 

11 hours ago, GReb said:

Isn’t that skeet though. Dudes been a character his whole career and has been wildly successful running his marketing campaigns. In an industry full of dry personalities he was a refreshing change of pace. 

I mean what do you expect from a former Chippendales dancer? 😂

He's focusing on growing his business. His rod commercials are unique. I think they are funny and definitely fit his off color sense of humor. The sport needs characters.

 

 

I've noticed some of the higher echelon bass anglers of my generation (I'm 53 BTW) are retiring earlier than the generation before them.

 

I'm not sure my generation will have any Rick Clunns. You take Roland Martin, Shaw Grigsby, Tommy Biffle, etc to name a few that retired in their mid to late 60s.

 

KVD and Skeet both retired at 55 or 56 and Mike Iaconelli is my age at 53 and I can see him hanging it up or maybe kayak bass for fun in the near future. I also wonder how much longer Swindle will do it. Hackney is I think the same age as me and I can see him fishing NFPL if nothing else for a while.

 

I was born in 1971 so I consider that 1967-1973 birth year kinda "my generation."

He’ll be busier now than when he was fishing events.  He sure was a blast to follow.  My favorite memory was Skeet fishing a BASS event on Clear Lake decades ago.  It was a Senko bite and Skeet wanted to cover water. He said, “ Homey can’t fish a Senko. I Need something to get out quicker and get to the bottom quicker.”  He started pitching a tube.  Fun times.

2 hours ago, dickenscpa said:

I've noticed some of the higher echelon bass anglers of my generation (I'm 53 BTW) are retiring earlier than the generation before them.

 

I'm not sure my generation will have any Rick Clunns. You take Roland Martin, Shaw Grigsby, Tommy Biffle, etc to name a few that retired in their mid to late 60s.

 

KVD and Skeet both retired at 55 or 56 and Mike Iaconelli is my age at 53 and I can see him hanging it up or maybe kayak bass for fun in the near future. I also wonder how much longer Swindle will do it. Hackney is I think the same age as me and I can see him fishing NFPL if nothing else for a while.

 

I was born in 1971 so I consider that 1967-1973 birth year kinda "my generation."

Shaw is still competing at 69

Don’t forget the General.  😉