Chunkin' and Windin' His Way to the Top

There's a WWE Hall of Fame wrestling champion who used to claim he was "the excellence of execution." The same thing could be said of Bob Glass, who became the first-ever Dewey Mullins Memorial Bass Angler of the Year in the 2013 tourney series. His recognition came during the presentation of awards at this past weekend's annual, two-day Classic tournament held at West Neck Marina.

Bob weighed fish in all but one of the 17 events he participated in during the 2013 Dewey Mullins Memorial Bass Tourney Series. He finished the season with three 1st-place awards, five 2nd-place awards (one of which was the Classic), and one 3rd-place award, which easily eclipsed all the other anglers, except for one--his partner and brother-in-law, Randy Conkle. Randy would have shared Angler of the Year honors but for the fact he missed one tournament that Bob fished.

En route to catching 82 tournament bass throughout the year, Bob amassed a total weight of 168.97 lbs., including one fish that weighed in at 6.89 lbs., which earned him braggin' rights to the Seasonal Lunker Pot for the second year in a row. His average weight for the year was 9.93 lbs. per event and 2.06 lbs. per fish.

If these stats don't show that Bob is "the excellence of execution" with a fishing rod in his hands, I don't know what would. My hat's off to him for a superb tourney year, and I wish him well next year, too. As he already has demonstrated, he's a hard man to beat. "Tight Lines!" my friend.