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UltiMate bass radIo
by Kent brown
for Bass Anglers
F
or the past seven years bass anglers
have had their radio tuned to Ultimate
Bass as they head out to their local lake
or tournament on Saturday mornings. Ultimate Bass has become the drive time commute
show for the early risers heading out and most
weekends they get the chance to get in the boat
with the top pro’s from across the country and
regionally.
Ultimate Bass is hosted by long time Western
tournament pro Kent Brown and was an idea that he
and partner Sep Hendrickson just one day decided
that an all bass fishing show would work with the
huge numbers of anglers we have in Nor Cal. They
launched the project over seven years ago to lead into
the award winning California Sportsman Show hosted
by Hendrickson.
When we first started the show the critics all said
that nobody would listen to an all bass show. There are
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many good radio shows in the West but none of them focused on one specie and we are either crazy or doing a pretty good job because nobody has jumped on the bandwagon and tried their hand at it. i had limited time in the radio studio doing shows prior to Ultimate Bass and have never had any formal training. i was just a fisherman that understood the sport, had a pretty good memory of the history and having been a competitor for so many years i am friends with the best bass anglers in the country. So i have access to them when other media sources might not and that is pretty special.
The power of the KHTK 1140 signal being 50,000 watts allowed us to reach out to so many other areas than just the Sacramento market but the 5am time slot has always created challenges. early on in the show we had to record it on a Cd and send it to tony Stoltz to get the archives put on Western Bass and often times schedules would get us weeks