Episode 1371: FULL CIRCLE WITH BEN MILLIKEN
BASS TALK LIVE
Mark Jeffreys
4.9 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 13 January 2026
⏱️ 98 minutes
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Summary
From the Opens to the Elite Series, Ben Milliken joins BTL to talk about his last three years in the world of high stakes tournament fishing.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the 22nd season of Bass Talk Live. |
| 0:05.0 | BTL is presented by Bass Cat Boats. |
| 0:10.0 | Striking lures. |
| 0:12.0 | AFCO. |
| 0:14.0 | Pro Guy Batteries. |
| 0:15.0 | Spro. |
| 0:16.0 | Gama Katsu. |
| 0:18.0 | The Bass Tank. |
| 0:20.0 | Beatdown outdoors. And Sunline. gamakatsu the bass tank beat down outdoors and sunlight btel coming at you good morning everybody |
| 0:29.8 | welcome to another edition of btel bass talk live where we are going to talk about bass fishing |
| 0:36.0 | we've got a really good show today, |
| 0:37.7 | kind of wrapping up the first two weeks of the 20, 26 season. |
| 0:43.0 | I call it Ben Milliken Full Circle. |
| 0:46.9 | We'll get into that a little bit later. |
| 0:48.5 | Obviously, yesterday, if you are a historian, a fan of the sport, |
| 0:52.3 | you've been following it for a little bit. |
| 0:55.7 | We had Charlie Hartley on at the end of last year, and he mentioned on the show that his thoughts and prayers were with Dion Hibden, |
| 1:06.3 | Forcewood Cup champ, Best Master Classic champ from the long lineage of the Hibden family. Obviously, his |
| 1:12.0 | boys fish, Gito Hibden, pioneer of the sport, who I think, believed, passed in 2018, somewhere |
| 1:21.9 | around there, but that he wasn't doing very well. Last night, Dion Hibden passed or yesterday. He |
| 1:27.2 | did 58 years old. Leaves a strong legacy ever. that he wasn't doing very well. Last night, Dionne Hibden passed or yesterday he did. |
| 1:27.6 | 58 years old leaves a strong legacy, everyone that he came in contact with. |
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