MERCER-The Awkwardly Honest Fishing Podcast

Steve Kennedy is a 3 time Bassmaster Elite Series Champion and a 10 time Classic qualifier. His outside-of-the-box thinking has helped him make over 60 tour level top 10's. This week, Kennedy joins the podcast and allows us all a very honest and open look into his marvelous mind.

Hunter Shryock grew up dreaming of motocross trophies but at the young age of 21 he quickly grew tired of broken bones and off season surgeries and retired from professional motocross. However, he was still addicted to competition. So addicted, that it fuelled him to do what many think is impossible - start over in a totally different sport and make it to the top level. Today he is a 3-time Bassma...

Jason Christie has 16 tour level victories and well over 2 million dollars in earnings. He is introduced as one of the most feared names in professional fishing. In reality, he is calm, calculated and maybe a more content competitor than ever before. Which may make him even more scary to compete against.

Jake Latendresse is a Bassmaster cameraman and an all around outdoors bad ass. He has travelled half way around the world in quest of the next shot and spent over a decade on the back deck of Bassmaster boats. There is not much he has not seen or heard and this week, he joins the podcast to share a few stories you have never heard.

Randy Blaukat is a lot of things. He is a pro angler who has qualified for 8 Bassmaster Classics and 9 FLW Cups. He is a promoter, an angling pioneer and most recently, a You-Tuber. Randy’s amazing mind has brought lots to the angling industry. Today he joins the podcast and once again pulls no punches and speaks his mind!

In a little over a decade Brandon Palaniuk has won 6 Bassmaster tournaments, a Bass Nation National Championship & the Bassmaster Angler of the Year title. All of this amazing success has been fuelled by the prodigy’s powerful positivity. This week we talk about all that and a bunch of other stuff including Idaho's New Years Eve potato drop?!?

He is a Bassmaster Elite Series Champion, a two-time Classic Qualifier, but before all that and above all of that Frank Talley is a father and a husband to his incredible family that fuels the fire inside Frank the Tank.

He grew up in Toowoomba, Australia - a part of the world that does not even have bass. So to say Carl Jocumsen is an underdog is an understatement. But what he lacks in experience, he replaces with heart, thus his motto, 'Fear My Heart'. This week, the only Australian to ever win a Bassmaster Elite Series Tournament, Carl Jocumsen joins the podcast.

He is a 3-time Bassmaster Champion and a 6-time Bassmaster Classic Qualifier. But above all that, he values the respect of his peers and is driven to leave this sport better than he found it. A very open, honest and sometimes emotional Mark Menendez talk about all that and more on this week’s podcast.

This young pro is truly fearless and focused on his future in fishing but his big dreams don't stop him from enjoying every single step of the journey. He cleared out a corner of his bedroom/tackle room to join this week's podcast to talk about the only thing that matter to him...Fishing.

Life hits us all with obstacles and road blocks. Recently, pro angler Chris Groh hit one of those when he was cut from the Bassmaster Elite Series field. After 4 years his life long dream was taken away. He may have been cut but this interview proves he is far from finished!

College anglers Logan Parks & Tucker Smith just won 1 million dollars in a bass tournament! Before they even get a chance to deposit the check they were kind enough to join this week's show to discuss their historical victory at the Bass Pro Shops US Open National Bass Fishing Amateur Team Championship.

Just days after winning the Yamaha Bassmaster Redfish Cup Championship in Port Aransas, Texas. Bassmaster Elite Series Pro Chris Zaldain & Redfish Pro Capt. Ryan Rickard join the show to explain how 2 total strangers, with 2 totally different target species came together to take the title.

Drew Cook was truly born to be a Bassmaster. His childhood dream that started at 5 years old is off to a great start. Three years into his Bassmaster Elite Series career he has already collected a Rookie of the Year title, he has never finished out of the top 18 in Angler of the Year points and 2 out of 3 years he has been in the top 10. This week he joins the podcast to talk about all that and so...

Hot off a 2nd place finish in the Bassmaster Elite Series Rookie of the Year race Justin Hamner is a Bassmaster Classic Qualifier & this week’s guest on Mercer 30

Longtime Bassmaster Opens Series Senior Tournament Manager Chris Bowes was promoted to Vice President of Tournaments on the same day as this podcast was recorded and he never said a word about it. But we did learn he was once a trapper.

26 years old & Alabama’s Wes Logan is already a Bassmaster Elite Series Champion. To win so young takes incredible commitment, drive & work ethic or maybe you just gotta HATE losing bad enough!

Bassmaster Elite Series Pro Brock Mosley of Collinsville, Mississippi knows a thing or two about close calls. With four 2nd place finishes on the Bassmaster Elite Series, he finds himself more motivated to finally win than ever. This week, he talks about that and a bunch of other stuff on this week's MERCER podcast.

Bassmaster Elite Series Pro The Sleepy Assassin Austin Felix usually does his talking at the scales but this week he opens up about life on the Elite Series, Harry Potter, Social Media & a bunch of other stuff.

Bassmaster Elite Series Champion Takumi Ito returns to the show. But this time it is from his home in Japan, where he tells us how his life has changed since winning almost 3 months ago on the St. Lawrence River.

Tim Little & Matt Allen; the creators, hosts & master minds behind Tactical Bassin. These 2 incredible anglers with a passion for teaching have built up a cult-like following by simply telling the truth and helping people catch more fish. This week they join the podcast.

This week we get inside the amazing mind of Bassmaster Elite Series Pro Kyle Welcher. He may only be 2 years into his Bassmaster Elite Series career but his free & focused mind has always amazed me. To him, looking back is never an option; only a distraction from the goal ahead.

2 time Bassmaster Angler of the Year Gerald Swindle gets real, raw and honest. Talking about exactly what you would expect. Whatever pops into his amazing brain.

Bassmaster Pro Matt Robertson is a down-to-earth, working class hero that fishing fans can’t get enough of. He is a 2 time Bassmaster Classic qualifier, a Bassmaster winner, a heart throb to the ladies and he is this week’s guest….Giddyup!

Jacob Wheeler is the King of the Ding. He is a 5 time MLF Bass Pro Tour winner and 3 of those have come this season. This week he joins the show to discuss all things DING.