The Women's Bass Tour

 Bass fishing is not an activity or hobby to me. It is a pure passion!  

It started at 8 years old, sculling a boat while he fly rodded the river for bass.  When I saw him set the hook on a 3 lb bass and watched it tail walk over Lilly pads, I was hooked and addicted!  A year later I caught a 3/4 pound bass in a rice canal and pedaled my bike as fast I could to show my pops!  

I read everything I could find on bass fishing. I fished ponds, canals, and the river every spare moment I could!  At 13 I had an aluminum boat with 3.9 Merc I roamed the river with.  At 16 pops bought an original stick steer Skeeter  with a 33 Evenrude. Pops restored it completely and gave me the boat and his old 64 Ford pickup.  I spent summers at Toledo staying at my uncles camp in an old travel trailer he had.  Those were the glory days of Toledo and I reveled in catching big bass in big quantities!  

I started fishing open tournaments regularly.  A family friend was a BASS pro and took me under his wing! I learned so much from him.  I spent most of my life fun fishing but competitive bass fishing enslaved me.  I discovered LBAA Ladies Pro Tour one year and fished it for a few years. Traveling all over south/southeast US.  I met a lot of great lady anglers! I became close to one and breached the idea of starting a regional ladies bass tour. That was the beginning of Women’s Bass Tour Texas/Louisiana/Mississippi. We grew WBT and helped ladies learn how to fish competitively.  

I have had the utmost pleasure seeing ladies come in as novice co anglers, learn skills, grow, place in tournaments, buy boats and fish pro side!  It is now our end of the 2026 season, and I have transferred the organization to some of our younger ladies to grow and expand it.