A lot of you may not realize there are actually two Bassmaster LIVE streams being broadcast simultaneously. There’s the official LIVE show coming out of the studio in Arkansas, and the LIVE Mix show with angler commentary from the Elite anglers in Clayton, New York, accompanying the LIVE footage from on the water.
Not to knock the main show–it’s awesome–but the LIVE Mix is definitely worth a look and listen too. John Cox just said something profound to basically sum up his style of fishing shallow in a world that is increasingly obsessed with venturing offshore and becoming more and more versatile.
“I’m just trying to get better at fewer techniques.”
The simplicity and maturity of such a statement goes against what we’ve been conditioned to as anglers over the last few decades. As legends like Denny Brauer and Tommy Biffle became “one-trick pony relics” in the eyes of critics who argued an angler had to be able to do it all to compete at the premier level, John Cox emerged as a hero of the people, beating the bank and the best of the best at the same time.
Then Cox told us in the next breath about passing out while working as a paver in his previous career and falling face first into the hot asphalt.
