RIP Doug Hannon: The Bass Professor

[Ben_Daniels]

Just came across the sad news that Doug Hannon: The Bass Professor has passed away. He invented the weedless trolling motor prop and a bunch of other fishing products. Sad day for the bass fishing community. I remeber meeting him at a young age and he was really a great guy. I also learned today that he was born in Canada.

He caught more than 800 bass over 10lbs.

http://www.wired2fish.com/legendary-inventor-angler-doug-hannon-passes-p18084
http://www.bassmaster.com/news/doug-hannon-dead-66

Heres a few of my favorite videos he made:

 

http://www.youtube.com/embed/mGjKcFcaT2M?list=UUynoqKmKns_8D8f6GPQ7YNA

"http://www.youtube.com/embed/Le0CAyCofXY?list=UUynoqKmKns_8D8f6GPQ7YNA

Edited April 2, 2013 by B_Dan

[Terry]

he was a big part of bass fishing, rip

[Lunker777]

Hmmm seems kind of sudden ? was he sick ?

 

Sad news.

[Fang]

complications from neck surgery

 

66 years old - way to young

 

It was his "fishing snake" lure that really turned me onto largemouth bass fishing. Up until them I was a trout and walleye guy pretty much

 

I bought that pack of lures from Barkleys early 80's, fished them out in quinte with what I had which was only walleye spinning rods. On the trip out east next weekend walked out of Barkleys with a Shimano Bantam Mag 10 on a 6 ft pistol grip bait casting rod and a couple weeks later added a Bantam 200 baitcast combo

[bare foot wader]

sad news, I've read a few of his books, good reads, he focused a lot on trophy bass..he did a lot for the fishing industry