Set the Hook! with Pat Rose

Pat talks about Prime Time Wrestling's big show Death and Taxes coming up on April 13th 2024 in Gadsen Alabama. Then the MAIN EVENT in segements 2-4.

Danny Shirley front man of Confederate Railroad talks with us about music, fun, and the beginings of his career and backing up a couple of country music superstars.

Fisher Davis -  The fishing legacy continues to run deep in the Davis family with Fisher Davis 

Joe Opager -

Senior Director of Communications for Major League Fishing 

Chris Lane -

The winner of the 2012 Bassmaster Classic and an eight-time tour-level winner, Chris Lane has claimed more than $2.4 million in career winnings.

STHWPR 2-17

We talk to Bobby Lane and Bobby Lane Jr.

Father and Son Bass Pros Chris and Cal Lane.

True South South Custom Lures - Discover handcrafted, custom bass fishing lures, meticulously made in the USA by our family-owned business. Dive into the art of angling with style, culture, and a love for the outdoors. No gimmicks. Pure craft. Unrestrained passion.

Hank Parker - A force in bass fishing from the beginning, he achieved stardom by winning the 1979 Bassmaster Classic at Lake Texoma, Texas, in only his second year on the tour. He qualified for the prestigious world championship every season he competed, from 1978 through 1990 — an amazing 13 in a row. He became one of the very few individuals to earn more than one Classic title when he won in 1989 on the James River out of Richmond, Virginia, claiming the crown by a 2-ounce margin over Jim Bitter of Florida. It was one of the narrowest winning margins ever.

Al Hopkins and Chad Mrazek

President and CEO of Major League Fishing, Boyd Duckett. Talks about a new way we're going to be able to catch the MLF next season.

Jason and Pat talk about his recent Youtube mention.

Carl Fergie was a regular in the Memphis territory in the early 1980s. Fergie had previously been in a tag team with Larry Latham called 'The Ragin' Cajuns' in the Gulf Coast area. He later served as a referee in the UWF promotion. Carl is now an insurance broker.

Denny Brauer - Nebraska native Denny Brauer left a career as a brick mason to uproot his family to Missouri to chase his dream of becoming a professional angler, and went on to become the most notable flipper and pitcher in bass fishing history.

Join us as we talk to Amber Carrington Lewis, Brent Brady, and Boyd Duckett.

This is an exclusive show to the podcast. We're not sending this show out to the radio affliates.

Join us as Pat talks to Father and Son, Randy and Laker Howell.

Mark Menendez

3 time Bassmaster Champion 6 time Classic qualifier TV Host of “Mark Menendez BassTV  The Boys -

Kerry Von Douglas - Jason Kirk and Pat Rose talk Pro Wrestling

Terry Funk - We revisit a converstation with Terry Funk. Terry passed away 8/23/2023. Join Set The Hook! with Pat Rose as we rememeber the great Terry Funk.

Roland Martin

Roland Martin is a professional sport fisherman. Martin is host of Fishing with Roland Martin on the NBCSN television channel. Fishing in 291 tournaments, Martin's BASSMASTER career includes the following achievements – 19 tournaments won, 9 B.A.S.S.

Dave Mercer

Fishing funny-man Dave Mercer, host of Facts of Fishing and The Bassmaster Classic & Elite Series emcee.

Ron Nelson

Tackler Warehouse Invitationals Angler of the Year

Matt Becker

 Matt finished the 2023 Bass Pro Tour with a win at on Saginaw Bay and the Bally Bet Angler of the Year title.

Two time Elite Series winner

Joey Cifuentes 

Miles Burghoff

A versatile angler who exudes a passion for fishing, Miles Burghoff has lived in California, Florida, Alabama and now, Tennessee—all the while pursuing a career in professional bass angling. Fishing his way up the ladder, Burghoff has experienced every high and low of the tournament world, including stops on the Costa FLW Series, BFL, FLW College Fishing and Bass Federation—all the way to Bassmaster Opens. Today, he's a fixture on the MLF Pro Circuit, having won the 2021 Tackle Warehouse Pro Circuit tourney on the Mississippi River.

An homage to his outdoorsman father and actor, Gary Burghoff, who's known for his role as "Radar" O'Reilly on TV's classic show M*A*S*H, Miles has adopted the moniker "Sonar." A super hard worker who's dedicated to passing his excitement for fishing to anglers of all skill levels, "Sonar" is as approachable as any angler on the pro bass tour today. He lives with his wife Katie and dog "Doppler" in Dayton, Tennessee.

Kevin VanDam

Kevin VanDam, often called simply "KVD," is a professional bass fisherman from Otsego, Michigan. He is the all-time money winner in professional bass fishing, having earned $7,089,388 through August 2022 according to Major League Fishing.

Steve Daniels

The Teacher, Coach & Top Captain Steve Daniel. Steve Is know as. "The teacher of Bass Fishing" and among the most talented in the fishing industry. Todd Hamill

CEO Wired 2 Fish and sponsor of Set The Hook! with Pat Rose.

Brock Mosley

Winner of the 2023 Folds of Honor Bassmaster Elite at Sabine River.

Mark Menendez 3 time Bassmaster Champion 6 time Classic qualifier TV Host of “Mark Menendez BassTV “ ·

Luke Palmer - Winner Bassmaster Elite at Santee Cooper

Career highlights: After earning his Elite Series invitation through the 2018 Bassmaster Central Opens, Luke had a strong rookie season with three Top 20 finishes in 2019. Since then, he’s added five Top 20s, including third place at the 2020 NOCO Bassmaster Elite at Lake Guntersville. From Bassmaster.com

Drew Benton - Winner Bassmaster Elite at Lake Murrary Career highlights: Drew was the 2016 Elite Series Rookie of the Year and has seven Top 10 Elite finishes, including a win, in his career at Lake Murrary in 2023. From Bassmaster.com

Randy Howell is a 21-year veteran of the Bassmaster Tour. He is the 2014 Bassmaster Classic champion. Camden Smith is a hot and upcoming country music star. He currently has 2 songs out on your favorite streaming platfroms and a new relaease on 4-15-2023 titled "Hell of a Night." Download it NOW!

Buddy Gross

Chattanooga's own Buddy Gross - Buddy is a two-time FLW Tour winner who earned an invitation into the Elites via the Eastern Opens division. During his rookie campaign, Buddy won the Bassmaster Elite at Lake Eufaula, coming from 10th place on Championship Sunday to win his first Elite title. Buddy won another at Harris Chain in 2022.

Jeff Gustafson

 2023 Bassmaster Classic winner in Knoxville Tennessee. From Kenora, Ontario, Jeff Gustafson's career include  11 top 20 finishes, one of which was first place at the Bassmaster Elite on the Tennessee River in 2021 and winning the Bassmaster Classic in 2023.

Brian Thrift

Thrift won REDCREST 2023 under the newly-implemented change to a five-fish format, leading the pack in both knockout rounds and the final round with a three-day cumulative total of 15 bass weighing 46 pounds, 12 ounces. Thrift arrived for the 2020 Bass Pro Tour season after his most successful season as a pro: Thrift claimed the 2019 FLW Cup, racked up eight Top 10s, won two events and pocketed over $520,000 in tournament winnings in 2019 (one of the Top 10 seasons of all time across all leagues). Thrift’s career includes nine wins and 65 Top 10s (second-most in FLW history). His $3 million in winnings was second-most in FLW history. Now in MLF, Thrift has posted more than 70 Top 10s and more than $3.6 million.

Roland Martin

Roland Martin is a professional sport fisherman. Martin is host of Fishing with Roland Martin. Fishing in 291 tournaments, Martin's BASSMASTER career includes the following achievements – 19 tournaments won, 9 B.A.S.S.

Andre Rocha

Tour Manager of Koe Wetzel stops by to chat with Pat about the show in Chattanooga, TN. 

Austin and Boat EFX

My name is Austin, owner and operator of BoatEFX. I am a 30 year old entrepreneur from Waynesville, Ohio. After owning a couple other businesses, I decided it was time to open one that I was passionate about. Bass fishing, boats and welding have been a long time passion of mine. In January of 2020, BoatEFX was born. We set to provide high quality products backed by the best customer service.

www.boatefx.com

Justin Barnes

Justin Barnes Winner of the first Bassmaster Open of the season on Alabama’s Lake Eufaula.

Bassmaster Elite Series Pro Joey Cifuentes Lake Seminole.

Joey Cifuentes kickstarted his career by finding success as a Strike King co-angler. He won a Toyota Series event on Sam Rayburn in 2014; then in 2016, he won the Tackle Warehouse Pro Circuit event on Beaver Lake. 

Major League Fishing Stage One Winner Chris Lane, Kissimmee Chain.

The winner of the 2012 Bassmaster Classic and an eight-time tour-level winner, Chris Lane has claimed more than $2.4 million in career winnings. His latest victory happened at the 2023 Stage One on the Kissimmee Chain, a place where he grew up fishing with his dad and brothers.

Tyler Rivet of Raceland, La.,  winner of the 2023 SiteOne Bassmaster Elite at Lake Okeechobee. First place with 86 pounds and 15 ounces. 

Mark Davis is one of the original Major League Fishing anglers, Mark Davis is also one of only a handful of pros in history to win the Bassmaster Classic and the B.A.S.S. Angler of the Year title in the same year (1995). Davis also claimed Angler Of the Year honors in 1998 and 2001, and he has racked up six wins, 65-plus Top 10s and $2.5 million in career winnings. In 2019, Davis was inducted into the Bass Fishing Hall of Fame.

Scott Martin

Career highlights: After a successful FLW career that included eight FLW Tour event wins plus the 2011 Forrest Wood Cup Championship and over $3 million in winnings.

Joshua Weaver

Joshua Weaver got his first major career win and a $115,000 prize by catching over 72 pounds of bass at the Tackle Warehouse Invitational at Lake Okeechobe in Florida in 2023.

John Murray has been a full time professional angler since 1985 fishing local, regional and national tournament circuits like Won Bass, FLW and the Bassmaster Elite.

Rick Clunn's five-decade career as a professional angler stands as a model of longevity, innovation and on-the-water success

Tommy Biffle — In his 34-year career as a professional angler, Tommy Biffle of Wagoner, Okla., has become one of the leading money winners in professional fishing, amassing more than $3 million, including almost $2.3 million with B.A.S.S.

Boyd Duckett - Boyd can lay claim to one of the most impressive “rookie” seasons in the history of professional bass fishing. Duckett won the 2007 Bassmaster Classic on Lay Lake, Alabama, and then followed that up with a win in Bassmaster Legends events six months later on his first full year on tour. Duckett, the co-founder of Major League Fishing, has registered four wins, 24 Top 10s and more than $1.8 million in career winnings.

Randy Howell

The winner of the 2014 Bassmaster Classic and a 28-year veteran of tour-level competition, Randy has accumulated more than 50 Top 10 finishes.

Michael Iaconelli

Known as Mike and by his nickname "Ike" is a professional bass fisherman, television personality, and podcast show host of Ike Live.

Arkansas native Mike McClelland earned the nickname “McStick” the old-fashioned way: by winning eight tour-level events and collecting 35 Top-10 finishes.

One of the most consistent pros in the country, Tennessee native Wesley Strader collected 42 Top-10 finishes in 20 years on the FLW Tour, and then immediately won two events his first season fishing B.A.S.S.

Florida native Bobby Lane is one of only three anglers in the world who can claim to be a REDCREST Champion and a Bassmaster Elite Series winner. Lane won the 2017 MLF General Tire World Championship, and then he went on to win REDCREST in 2022 on Grand Lake in Oklahoma.

The nephew of Bobby Lane and son of Chris Lane, Lake Guntersville-based Tackle Warehouse Pro Cal Lane joins Set The Hook! with Pat Rose to talk about what it's like to fish with two of the best in the business, and how to they compete together. 

Josh Butler and John Hunter

Sandy Sullivan and Jack Daniel

Miles "Sonar" Burghoff

A versatile angler who exudes a passion for fishing, Miles Burghoff has lived in California, Florida, Alabama and now, Tennessee—all the while pursuing a career in professional bass angling. Fishing his way up the ladder, Burghoff has experienced every high and low of the tournament world, including stops on the Costa FLW Series, BFL, FLW College Fishing and Bass Federation—all the way to Bassmaster Opens. Today, he's a fixture on the MLF Pro Circuit, having won the 2021 Tackle Warehouse Pro Circuit tourney on the Mississippi River.

An homage to his outdoorsman father and actor, Gary Burghoff, who's known for his role as "Radar" O'Reilly on TV's classic show M*A*S*H, Miles has adopted the moniker "Sonar." A super hard worker who's dedicated to passing his excitement for fishing to anglers of all skill levels, "Sonar" is as approachable as any angler on the pro bass tour today. He lives with his wife Katie and dog "Doppler" in Dayton, Tennessee.

from Zmanfishing.com 

Tai Au 

2020 MLF Toyota Series Angler of the year, 2017 Wild West Bass Trail Angler of the Year, 2X MLF Champ.

Tai continues fishing at the highest levels that the western landscape provides.  The main motivation for fishing is to eventually win at the regional level. He’s been so close so many times. He just wants to close the deal on one in the near future. Tai created a social media group called “AZ Anglers”. 

Jimmy Houston is a pro angler and TV host. He was on ESPN for 21 years before he switched to the Outdoor Life Network. He is currently on NBC Sports. In 1990, he was inducted into the National Fresh Water Fishing Hall of Fame.

Bill Dance is an angler and host of Bill Dance Outdoors, a fishing television series on the Outdoor Channel, and Bill Dance Saltwater on the Sportsman Channel.

Stephen Browning is a professional bass angler competing in the Bass Pro Tour. Since turning pro in 1996, he has competed in over 250 professional level events across the United States, qualified for Ten Bassmaster Classics and is a member of the exclusive BASS Million Dollar in Winnings Club.

Jonathon VanDam is a two-time tour-level champion and one of the most prolific smallmouth anglers on the 80-man Bass Pro Tour roster, Jonathon has 20 Top 10s and more than $700,000 in tournament winnings to date in his pro career.

Brody Brent Broderick a Bass Master's top 100 fishermen.

Jason and Pat, talk radio and shoot the breeze, listen to Jason's inside the radio thoughts. 

Steve Daniels 

30 years Okeechobee Captain, On-Air Personality/producer Glades Media Radio Group, Hooked up with Steve & Deb.

Mark Menendez

Mark held the B.A.S.S. Big Bass record from 1997 to 1999 for a 13-9 large- mouth. He has won three B.A.S.S. events, including an Elite tournament, Bassmaster Southern Open and Top 100 tournament.

MLF Bass Pro Chris Lane

The winner of the 2012 Bassmaster Classic and an eight-time tour-level winner, Chris Lane has claimed more than $2.2 million in career winnings.

MLF Jason Lambert 

Tennessee pro Jason Lambert comes into the MLF Bass Pro Tour with one of the most impressive records in fishing: he racked up 101 pounds, 9 ounces at an FLW Tour event on Kentucky Lake in 2018, the biggest four-day weight total in that organization’s history. Lambert has seven wins and 21 Top 10s to his credit.

On this week's show we welcome, 9 Time Gold Record Winner Leon Everette. Artist of hit songs such as "If I Keep on Going Crazy" (1981), "Hurricane" (1981), "Midnight Rodeo" (1981) ; "If I Keep on Going Crazy" (1981), "Hurricane" (1981), "Midnight Rodeo" (1981)."

Edwin Evers

One of the most successful anglers of all time, Evers is one of only five competitors in history to pass the $3 million mark in career winnings.

Boyd Duckett

Boyd Duckett can lay claim to one of the most impressive “rookie” seasons in the history of professional bass fishing. Duckett won the 2007 Bassmaster Classic on Lay Lake, Alabama, and then followed that up with a win in Bassmaster Legends events six months later on his first full year on tour. Duckett, the co-founder of Major League Fishing owner of Duckett Fishing , BD Baits and sponsor of Set The Hook! With Pat Rose, has registered four wins, 24 Top 10s and more than $1.8 million in career winnings.

The Opry House had been closed for a few years until Georgiana resident, Tracy Eason, decided to transform it into a performing arts theater.

2021 Bassmaster Angler of the Year Seth Feider

In 2022, John Crews is competing in his 17th year at B.A.S.S. 

Join Buddy Gross and Alan Jones 

Buddy Gross is entering his 3rd year on the Bassmaster Elite Series. In his short career, Gross already has an Elite Series win on his record (2020, Lake Eufaula) and nine Top 20's. He competed in his first Bassmaster Classic in 2021 and will fish Lake Hartwell for his second Classic berth in 2022.

Brandon Lester - BASSMASTER Elite Series Pro

Laker Howell -Being the son of an established Pro in the industry, Laker has had the blessed opportunity to have grown up in the world of fishing. Growing up on the tour and watching how special this sport really is has put Laker on a path towards the pro circuit. He remembers back to each and every tournament he traveled to with his dad and getting to watch highs and lows of it all.