What Truck, Boat and Outboard does Michael run?

2017 GMC Sierra, 2022 Bass Cat Puma STS with a Mercury 250 ProXS or a 2022 Nitro Z18 with a Mercury 150 ProXS

My Sponsors

OGS Tournaments LLC, Mile Creek Farms, AmFirst Federal Credit Union, Coosa Riverkeeper, Alabama Rivers Alliance, Mobile Baykeeper, Crusher Lures, GARMIN, LOWRANCE, Green Monster Fishing Lights

What Michael does for a living:

Auburn University Environmental Managament, Tournament Director with OGS Tournaments

What you should know about Michael:

Tournament Angler in South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama and Mississippi

How Michael started fishing

Grew up fishing on Lake Hartwell in my home state of South Carolina. 

Aspirations or goals with fishing

Enjoy compettitive angling with others who enjoy the same. 

Favorite way to fish

Spinner Bait

Most exciting fishing experience

Winning a Red Man Tour event on Clarkes Hill. 

How Michael preps for a tournament

Using my sonar to find structure offshore while also searching out shallow water structure. 

Three favorite search baits

Swimbait, Spook and squarebill 

Best tournament finish and what you did that day when you were fishing.

1st place on Clarkes Hill Lake fishing a spinnerbait in 25 feet of water chasing herring. 

Most challenging part of tournament fishing

Having enough prep time. 

When tournaments don't go my way

Head down, keep searching. Learn from those days to become better. 

Advice to give to an aspiring tournament angler:

Make sure you have a job that can support your passion. Nothing wrong with fishing out of a used rig or aluminum (I did) until you can upgrade. Fish don't care about new boats. 

Some shared general bass fishing techniques for people just getting into the sport

Start out with a Carolina Rig or Texas Rig and work your way up from there. A buzzbait is a great topwater starter.