PROFILE :
CODY
MEYER
STAR , ID
If ever anybody deserved the nickname of “ Hardest Working Man in Bass Fishing ,” it ’ s West Coast pro Cody Meyer . Or at the very least “ Most Well- Travelled Man in Bass Fishing ”.
Meyer made a gigantic splash on the tour-level tournament bass fishing scene in 2009 when he came out of the Stren Series Championship to finish third in the Forrest Wood Cup on Pittsburgh ’ s Three Rivers . A year later – his rookie season on the FLW Tour – the Northern California native finished second in the 2010 Forrest Wood Cup on Lake Lanier , Georgia after qualifying through the Western Division of the National Guard Series .
Meyer ’ s success as a pro in both FLW and MLF has come with some timely breaks , lots of good decisionmaking , and more days criss-crossing the United States than most tour-level anglers can even imagine .
Here ’ s what the new resident of Star , Idaho had to say about his career , his time behind the wheel , and how he plans to keep on keepin ’ on as the hardest working man in bass fishing .
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By Joel Shangle
PHOTO BY PHOENIX MOORE
The bass-fishing world identified you quickly as a very successful pro after you came close to winning both the 2009 and 2010 Forrest Wood Cups . Here was this smiley , fresh-faced 26- year-old kid from Northern California , mixing it up with Larry Nixon , Mike Iaconelli , Scott Suggs , etc ., and making it look pretty easy . It wasn ’ t THAT easy , was it ?
( laughing ) ‘ Easy ’ is definitely not the right word . I ’ d say more like ‘ lucky ’. I remember seeing a photo from that 2009 Cup in Pittsburgh where I ’ m standing onstage with Nixon , Iaconelli , Suggs , Greg Hackney , Bryan Thrift , just a group of hammers . Suggs had won $ 1 million at the Cup on Lake Ouachita two years before that , and here I am standing right next to him in the top 10 photo . It was pretty awesome .
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