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<blockquote data-quote="Crow Terminator" data-source="post: 5872755" data-attributes="member: 220"><p>People forget that today's older fishing legends, started fishing professionally and winning when they were in their 20s too. Hank Parker started professionally fishing at age 22 and won his first classic when he was 24 or 25. I don't remember which but he was young. KVD started fishing professionally when he was 23 and had won Angler of the Year by age 25. The biggest difference between back then and now is, back then there wasn't as many ways to get your name out there for sponsors and all that to help pay for travel, entry fees, etc. You pretty much had to already know people to establish that relationship and have a lot of family money backing you. Many of those early guys worked in tackle shops and got to know company Reps, etc and got in that way. There was only one big professional tour and it was still in its infancy, and the only media outlet was a select few that had made it onto TV and Bassmaster magazine. There wasn't any social media to help get recognized. There wasn't high school or collegiate fishing to help get you recognized and put on the map. Now there is and it opened the door for more younger anglers to fishing professionally. Not to mention there's more tours for professionals...not just Bassmaster.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Crow Terminator, post: 5872755, member: 220"] People forget that today's older fishing legends, started fishing professionally and winning when they were in their 20s too. Hank Parker started professionally fishing at age 22 and won his first classic when he was 24 or 25. I don't remember which but he was young. KVD started fishing professionally when he was 23 and had won Angler of the Year by age 25. The biggest difference between back then and now is, back then there wasn't as many ways to get your name out there for sponsors and all that to help pay for travel, entry fees, etc. You pretty much had to already know people to establish that relationship and have a lot of family money backing you. Many of those early guys worked in tackle shops and got to know company Reps, etc and got in that way. There was only one big professional tour and it was still in its infancy, and the only media outlet was a select few that had made it onto TV and Bassmaster magazine. There wasn't any social media to help get recognized. There wasn't high school or collegiate fishing to help get you recognized and put on the map. Now there is and it opened the door for more younger anglers to fishing professionally. Not to mention there's more tours for professionals...not just Bassmaster. [/QUOTE]
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