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BASS TALK LIVE

Episode 1358: KYLE WELCHER ON SECRET BAITS, AI, AND HIS 2026 SCHEDULE

BASS TALK LIVE

Mark Jeffreys

Bass, Outdoor, Sports, Bassfishing, Fishing, Dallas

4.92.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Matt is joined by Elite Series pro Kyle Welcher to talk about the changing landscape of professional bass fishing.  

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the 21st season of Bass Talk Live.

0:05.0

BTL is presented by Bass Cat Boats.

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Strike King Lures.

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AFCO.

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Pro Guy Batteries.

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Spro.

0:16.0

Gama Katsu.

0:18.0

The Bass Tank.

0:20.0

Denali Rods. Beat Down Outdoors, and Sunline.

0:27.6

BTL coming at you.

0:31.1

Good morning and welcome to another exciting edition of BTL Bass Talk Live where we are going to talk about bass fishing

0:39.3

recorded show today we had a great show with Mark Menendez to kickoff the week yesterday

0:44.9

I said at the end of that show yesterday we could have done five or six different shows all in

0:50.0

one he talked a little bit about Kentucky Lake uses biology background to talk about the resurgence

0:55.3

of the large mouth on that fishery that's coming with it now being predominantly small mouth with

1:00.3

the Asian carp. We talked a little bit about the new off-limit stuff. We talked about

1:05.5

re-qualification. We talked about the sponsor game. It was really interesting. I thought that was really interesting

1:11.9

when we kind of dove. We did about a 20-minute segment on what a Bassmaster magazine cover

1:17.2

in the early late 90s through that 2007, 2008 period really did for a guy's career. And I mean,

1:26.9

it was a big deal back then.

1:28.5

Now, just with all of the different media and how fast it moves and how many tournaments

1:33.0

there are, I think it's still valuable to be in the old print, the magazine cover that

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