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Dave steward as9/2/2023 ![]() ![]() “The owner of the resort started relying on me for information to give his clients staying there so they could have successful bass fishing during their stays there, and even to the point that the owner started to request from me that I go out with some of the guests that were struggling to catch bass and show them what they needed to do to put some fish in the boat.” “At the same time that I was getting a reputation on the Internet as a local knowledge person here on the lakes, I was gaining a reputation at the resort as someone that was a good bass angler,” he says. ![]() Then, the fish started biting one after another-in other words, the phone started ringing. Before long, he was providing regular fishing reports for several sites. ![]() The more he engaged online with other fishermen, the more site administrators started noticing his vast knowledge about the sport and the lakes on which he lived. “Back in those days there were very few internet sites that were devoted to fishing, as well as very few anglers that were taking advantage of this new technology which opened a whole new world of information to them,” he remembers.Ī seasoned fisherman might say that the “conditions were just right” for Stewart to catch an opportunity. While he fished and took time to relax from a lifetime of rigorous discipline, Stewart played around on the Internet, where he found that the burgeoning World Wide Web offered limited resources and little information for bass fishermen. “When I realized with the initial shock of leaving my military family of which I had been a part of for so many years that I needed to take some time to relax and assess what I wanted to do with the remainder of my working life, I decided to go fishing for a while,” he recalls.Īs luck would have it, a motor home on Kentucky Lake awaited him-a hideaway he’d purchased a few years prior to help maximize his time off, a perfect place for a man who was pondering the future. It’s ironic then, that the events that led to Stewart’s two-decade career as the helm of Bass Buster Guide Service and one of bass fishing’s leading experts were all just one “accident” after another.Īfter retiring from the military in 1995 after 26 years of active duty and facing life as a civilian for the first time since childhood, Stewart found himself a bit adrift. Dave with one of his clients, Luke, on a previous guiding trip.īass fishing guide Dave Stewart has been leading trips on Kentucky Lake and Lake Barkley for 23 years, so he knows that having a good fishing day on those lakes by and large does not happen by accident or chance. ![]()
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