Episode 1301: ELITE ANGLERS RESPOND TO FFS CHANGES IN 2026: MILLIKEN, LIVESAY, FOTHERGILL, LEE, AND WAGNER

BASS TALK LIVE

Mark Jeffreys

Bass, Dallas, Sports, Outdoor, Fishing, Bassfishing

4.9 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

It's a breaking news episode of BTL as Matt talks with Ben Milliken, Lee Livesay, Easton Fothergill, Jordan Lee, and Emil Wagner about the recent announcement from Bassmaster about limiting forward facing sonar during the 2026 Bassmaster Elite Series season.

Check out the Bassmaster press release here:
B.A.S.S. announces Live Sonar rule change for 2026 Elite Series - Bassmaster

Transcript

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0:00.0	This is the 21st season of Bass Talk Live.
0:05.4	BTL is presented by Bass Cat Boats.
0:10.0	Strike King Lures.
0:12.4	Aftco.
0:14.0	Pro Guy Batteries.
0:15.5	Spro.
0:16.7	Gama Katsu.
0:18.4	The Bass Tank.
0:20.5	Denali Rods. Beatdown Outdoors, and Sunline.
0:27.6	BTL coming at you.
0:30.8	Welcome back to a bonus edition of BTL Bass Talk Live, where we are going to talk about bass fishing at a great show
0:38.8	this morning with the one and only Dave Mercer recorded a best on tour this week with
0:46.2	Dave Rush and then my phone started blowing up as I'm sure it did across a lot of the
0:50.9	fishing landscape the long awaited pressure release from Bassmaster.
0:55.8	Breaking News, FFS rule change announced.
1:01.1	And I remember I did kind of a mega show last year.
1:04.4	It's a little bit more planned out.
1:05.7	I wanted to get some actually initial reaction to this.
1:09.8	We are going to kind of read through the press release and then we're going to bring on a
1:13.9	number of Elite Series anglers from across the board, some hybrid scoper, some pure scoper,
1:21.5	some power fishermen, and just get their kind of initial reaction to it.
1:26.8	This is the world that we live in now
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