He's caught over 810 pound large mouth bass holder of 13 worldwide patents and Inventor of the wheel is trolling motor prop dug hand it is the bass professor Today on Retro Bass and we are gonna take a look at some of the contributions some of the many contributions of dug hand in the bass Professor truly one of the innovators in bass fishing and an angle that most definitely Swam against the current of conventional wisdom Retro bass and kicking some ass in wearing ray on jackets Thinking my build dance watching these fish pranks through my Ray band glasses Ain't nothing better than 40 year old lures Come in all for zip code 33 Oh Out on the bass boat making beer cans floating some dress bass in Fish and it old school this old stuff who's welcome to retro bass If you grew up watching the bass masters on ESPN you likely recall a segment called the bass professor Where a lucker hunter a dug hand in with detail often little discuss aspects of bass fishing His weekly savings covered everything from catching bass during seasonal transitions and fluctuating water conditions to the effects of barometric pressure like conditions and of course the moon phase on bass behavior Doug was an expert diver and videographer and his segments were often accompanied by a dramatic underwater footage of Lunker large mouth hiding in the shadows waiting to pounce on unsuspecting baitfish each Saturday the bass professor Literally submerged the viewer in the world of the large mouth bass two and a half minutes at a time Well, I always assumed the bass professor was a marine biologist or at the very least a lifelong large mouth bass enthusiast I was surprised to learn that he actually never picked up a rod and reel into undergraduate at Elaine University in his book Hand in Feel Guide for Bass Fishing co-author Horatio Carter tells the story of the first cast They would ignite a lay-flung quest to unlock the secrets of the large mouth bass I'm gonna go ahead and read a segment from that book which I found rather intriguing It all began when Doug visited his fiancee's parents ranch in Wimbledon, Texas Where the beautiful Jean-Clear Blanco River flows to their 400 acres in a remote corner of the Texas Hill Country On a day when there was nothing better to do, Lint and Sheff Doug into an old 12-foot John boat handed him a rod and reel and said Let's go catch some bass Not daring to offend the lady of his dreams He accepted the invitation and before the afternoon was over had a pattern cut for the rest of his life They caught a few bass that day and Doug admitted that he was fascinated with bass fishing Soon afterwards Doug told Lint after we were married we will move to Florida find us a place to live on a lake And then I'll learn everything there is to know about this fish I intend to know every angle that anyone else knows plus some Everything that will help me understand the species well enough to catch them year round and in every kind of weather I'm going to make bass fish in the study of my life's work, he said And so he did but what shocked me most about this story is that the bass professor made his first ever cast in Wimberly, Texas, which is just about 12 miles down the road from this exact spot The nickname the bass professor was coined by journalist Frank Sargent of the Tampa Tribune who was more than impressed with Doug's fish catching abilities During the 1980s hand-implied these shallow weedy waters around his adopted home state of Florida in a 16 foot aluminum John boat Compiling an impressive string of catches that included over 810 pound large mouth bass To comprehend just how insane of a accomplishment that is you could go out and catch one 10 pound bass every weekend for the next 15 years and Not surpassed Hannan's record When he wasn't fishing he was writing and Hannan was a freaking contributor to bass master magazine and wrote a number of groundbreaking books on bass fishing strategy In the upcoming episodes of this mini series we will look at the lost lessons of the bass professor But today we're going to start with the first ever lesson that I learned from Mr. Doug Hannan and that is Hannan's Northwest factor In his 1984 book Catch Bass the rule simply states the Northwest area of the lake in the northern hemisphere is a center of fish life and Spawning activity This occurrence has to do with four different factors The first is that the location is protected from seasonal Northwest cold winds Two the southern angle of the sun provides more sun and less shade on the northern shore Thus increasing the water temperature by three degrees or more Three added sun and warmth enhances plant life and Four increased plant life provides a dark bottom condition which absorbs more of the sun's energy So if you hit in the lake after a long winter's nap and are not sure what to start your quest I'd recommend heading for the Northwest corner next week in our lost lessons the bass professor mini series We will take a closer look at the natural approach of the bass professor and why he thought It was so important to have everything from your boat to your hat camouflage in the meantime if you're looking for some more old school content Click right here. Otherwise. I'll see you right back here same time same place and until then keep the carpet side up and Definitely fish at old school