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five pros who have fished at least 75 tour-level events
with flw, but did not fish last season, are returning in
2018, including:
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Chad Grigsby
Glenn Chappelear
Glenn Browne
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60s – 14 (7.45%)
50s – 38 (20.21%)
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70-plus – 4 (2.13%)
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19 or younger – 1 (0.53%)
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gary yamamoto, at age 74, was the oldest angler
on tour when the season kicked off in late January.
Jimmy houston, nick gainey and dave Smith are all
70-plus, too. Sheldon collings, whose birthday is in
early february, was the youngest at age 19.
as of Jan. 25, which was the first day of the first
tour event, here’s the age breakdown:
20s – 23 (12.23%)
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Texas – 22
Alabama – 18
Florida – 15
Tennessee – 12
Georgia – 13
Arkansas – 12
Kentucky – 12
Oklahoma – 12
South Carolina – 9
California – 9
Louisiana – 6
Minnesota – 6
Indiana – 5
Missouri – 5
North Carolina – 5
Ontario – 4
Wisconsin – 4
Illinois – 3
Virginia – 3
Michigan – 2
Pennsylvania – 2
Connecticut – 1
Delaware – 1
Kansas – 1
Maryland – 1
Mississippi – 1
Nebraska – 1
Ohio – 1
Oregon – 1
West Virginia – 1
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David Nichol
Craig Rozema
Tyler Stewart
Joe Thompson
Andy Wicker
David Wootton*
Ronald Young*
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Cameron Gautney
Cody Hahner
Steven Hatala*
Miles Howe
Freddy Hurley
Rob Jordan
David Larson*
Wes Logan
Greg Mansfield*
Taylor Ashley
Matt Becker
Clint Brown
Tim Cales*
William Campbell
Todd Castledine
Russell Cecil
Sheldon Collings
Matt Garner
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the 2018 roster includes 50 pros who did not fish a
single regular-season flw tour event in 2017 and 33 pros
who have never fished an flw tour major event as a pro.
among them, there are 25 official flw tour rookies – pros
who’ve never fished from the front of the boat in any
tour-level event with flw or the bassmaster elite Series.
the rookie list is below. anyone indicated by an asterisk
fished the entire 2017 flw tour season as a co-angler.
Cup
ChampIons
Scott Martin – 8
Mark Rose – 6
David Dudley – 5
Bryan Thrift – 5
Anthony Gagliardi – 4
Clark Wendlandt – 4
Larry Nixon – 4
John Cox – 3
JT Kenney – 3
Matt Arey – 2
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40s – 55 (29.26%)
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