Episode 1377: JAMES WATSON IS BLOWING THE WHISTLE IN 2026 ON RULE BREAKERS
BASS TALK LIVE
Mark Jeffreys
4.9 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2026
⏱️ 141 minutes
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Matt is joined by James Watson to talk about his new role with Ultimate Match 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. |
| 0:25.5 | BTL coming at you. |
| 0:29.6 | Good morning and welcome to another exciting edition of BTL, Bass Talk Live where we are going to talk about bass fishing. |
| 0:40.3 | We've got a very exciting show today. |
| 0:43.3 | We have one and only JMW James Watson, big news in the James Watson camp coming out recently this week. |
| 0:50.3 | We're going to dive into that. |
| 0:52.3 | Plus, plus a very historic date, January 1st, |
| 0:58.2 | 2026 for Mr. Watson, who appears to be in his spacious home in the Ozark region. |
| 1:05.7 | Drew Gill, getting the job done this past weekend yesterday on a very chilly Gunnersville. |
| 1:12.4 | I think we're all going to see how important the scoping period played at Lake Gunnersville. |
| 1:16.8 | We have an elite series event there in just a couple of weeks where they won't be able to scope. |
| 1:24.7 | And it was pretty interesting to watch the strategy of these guys that were going down on it. You had some old school guys. You had a Mark Davis. You had a guy like Mark Davis. He was like, yeah, no, I'm going to catch him on this Carolina rig and wind in this bait. And I'm not turning on the forward facing at all. And then you had guys who literally like depended on it and then tried to make it work all the way through you had a good mix well anyway long story drew gills really dang |
| 1:48.5 | good and he's supposed to be in studio uh on the 21st in two days i have to get with him to figure out |
| 1:54.4 | what the schedules are we're going to film some CTL stuff we're going to get him live in studio |
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