Ep76 - Seth Feider: Bassmaster Battles & Fishing Industry Real Talk
Dive Bomb Squadcast
Ashur Tolliver
4.9 • 561 Ratings
🗓️ 9 June 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
In Episode 76, Bassmaster Elite pro Seth Feider joins Matt Judy for an inside look at life in the competitive fishing world. From his early obsession with bass fishing to breaking into tournaments as a co-angler, Seth shares stories, strategies, and the mental side of chasing big bags under pressure. They talk tournament structure, pre-fishing rules, and what it’s really like competing at the highest level. Seth also opens up about sponsorships, content creation struggles, and why relationships matter in such a tight-knit industry. Whether you’re a weekend angler or chasing the big leagues, this one is packed with insight—and a few wild stories!
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| 0:00.0 | What's up, everyone? |
| 0:09.1 | Welcome back to episode 76 of the dive bomb squadcast. |
| 0:13.0 | I'm your host, Matt Judy. |
| 0:14.5 | And today we have a competitor of the Bassmaster Elite series, |
| 0:18.2 | one of the grimyest small mouth guys to ever hold a rod, also known as the llama. We got Seth Fider on today. How we doing, Seth? Oh, yeah, doing good. Thanks for having me on. Yeah, dude. Glad you could come on on a good old Friday night. I saw you're drinking like a Miller High Life or something like that. Champagne of beers, man. Hell yeah, dude. I like that. I'm more of a bush light guy myself, but I should have grabbed a bush, honestly. |
| 0:42.0 | Yeah. No, they're good. I enjoy some lattes as well. |
| 0:46.2 | Hell yeah. So you got a little break between derbies going on right now. |
| 0:50.9 | Yeah, yeah. The first good break we've had all year. We've been running pretty hard. |
| 0:54.6 | I got like three weeks off. So I'm going to enjoy it, chill out. |
| 0:58.3 | That's good. That's good. Heck yeah. |
| 1:00.7 | And yeah, get back after it. When does, when does your, like, when does your year kind of |
| 1:06.5 | kick off in the elite series? Well, technically it starts like our first tournament's usually in |
| 1:12.8 | February, but realistically for me, like January is when I got to start getting everything |
| 1:18.7 | rolling, get a new boat, get all rigged and wrapped and do a bunch of tackle stuff. But, uh, yeah, |
| 1:24.1 | first term, it's usually February and then we usually end in August or September. |
| 1:29.4 | Gotcha. |
| 1:30.1 | Yeah, that's quite a long time. |
| 1:32.0 | What kind of, what kind of boat you run in this year? |
| 1:34.5 | I got a Vexus VXS 20, first year, and I liking it. |
| 1:38.4 | I enjoy it. |
| 1:39.3 | Hell yeah. |
| 1:39.7 | Pretty sweet boat and not as nice as your bass boat, but I i love yours i always love when you drop a fire |
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