FAVS:
Brandon Palaniuk - His drive and consistency is what draws me to him
Dustin Connell - His YouTube channel is one of the more transparent channels there are. He really wants others to grow their knowledge.
Carl Jocumenson - such a cool story from Australia, great drive and determination.
Wheeler - I think he's one of the top on the planet.
Patrick Walters - Have grown to appreciate his style of fishing....he's a machine. Elites, bass opens, always at the top consistently.

"Anglers" I don't like:
Big O

Top 5:
Hackney
Christie
Feider
Palaniuk
Wheeler
(honorable mention: Connell, Swindle, Montgomery)

Bottom 5:
Horton
Duckett
Evers
Alton Jones Sr
(not really a pro but IMO but Aaron Britt)

Top 5.
Hackney
Christie
B.P.
Swindle
S. Martin.

Least a bunch.

DUCKETT. (God i can't stand him)
Anyone in Wheelers group so....
Wheeler
Connell
MDJ
Avena

on Ike one thing noticed is he found his own fish.. by that the last time the elites were on Rayburn before the information sharing rule almost all of the pros had a local showing them where to fish. Ike was in the boat with his son doing it on his own. Granted he didn't do as good as the others but he did it on his own. KVD when he weighed the big stringers on Toledo had the number one local pros mapping chip with his way points. Jacob Parozniak had Mr. Hale showing him where to fish. Wheeler had a guy from etoile just dying to show him the fish he won on. I have met Ike several times off the lake and he is approachable and nice. I met many of these guys at the charity tournaments Brian Robison puts on and brings all of the football players to. One of the most interesting things is at those tournaments the nicest and most approachable people were the superstar football players, Adrian Peterson paid 10,000 dollars for a fishing trip with KVD, and was very friendly. KVD on the other hand was stand off ish. Mark Zona is the most approachable of all. For an all around good guy you cant beat Brian Robison and what he was doing. All of the younger Elites that I met were incredibly nice and humble guys.

Plus one to all that-I’ll add KVD.
Also like Tak and Hackney. How could anybody not like those guys?

Wheeler(never thought I’d say it)
Lee
DeFoe
Montgomery
Fieder

Worst to me? This is all based on personality. They are all better than me...even my partner. Lol
Iconelli (loudmouth)
ANY Lane (whine too much)
Zaldain (dudes a spazz)
Googans (well.....)
My weeknight fishing partner (drinks and farts too much and breaks stuff)

FAV
Christie
Howell
Clunn
Hackney
Klein

LEAST
Cox
Wheeler
Rojas
Thrift
Zaldain
Palaniuk

Christie
Hackney
Nixon
Sprague
Montgomery

Fave
Skeet Reese
KVD
Gerald Swindle
Mark Daniels, Jr.
Jason Christie
Takahiro Omori
Randy Howell


Least Favorite
Mike Iaconelli
Shaw Grigsby
James Watson
Wesley Strader
Ish Monroe
Timmy Horton

None are in order.

Favs:
1. Rick Clunn
2. Van Dam
3. Ott Defoe
4. Brandon Palanuik
5. Greg Hackney
Hates:
1. Mike Iaconelli
2.Ike
3.Screamin Ike
4. Iaconelli
5.See 1 - 4 above

Ike is one of the best fishermen in the US whether y'all like him or not... lol