Rick Clunn
Rick Clunn
Rick Clunnis a professional bass fisherman from La Porte, TX who currently resides in Ava, Missouri. He has won the Bassmaster Classic tournament four times, in 1976, 1977, 1984, and 1990, tying him with Kevin VanDam for most wins. Clunn is considered one of the best anglers of all time, having placed in the top 10 in over 100 tournaments, and winning seventeen of those. In 1988, he was voted Angler of the Year by the B.A.S.S. organization. In 2001,...
bag biggest
I could do it. I'd need the biggest bag of the tournament, but on this lake, it's possible.
percent skill
In a three-day tournament, it's 95 percent skill and 5 percent luck.
change fish next
One or two big fish are the equalizers in this tournament. A lot can change in the next two days.
age age-and-aging dead philosophy tired
I've never adhered to the age philosophy in this country. Every day you should be making a contribution. You should be dead tired at the end of every day.
hope
You're going to be making a lot of decisions, and you hope they're the right ones.
ahead change classic mean might month past patterns practice practiced returned stable
I think this Classic will be the first where the practice will mean something. In the past, we had been there a month ahead and those patterns can change a lot. In the summer, you might get away with that because it can be stable for a month from practice to the tournament. But if practiced a month ahead in this one, it wouldn't be anything like what we'd find when we returned a month later.