Doug Hannon Profile
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Week of July 1-7 Game Fish Video SeriesDoug Hannon has dedicated his life to studying the largemouth bass. Having caught more than 800 bass over 10lb, Doug's written hundreds of magazine and newspaper articles, and authored three books ( Hannon 's Field Guide for Bass Fishing, Catch Bass, and Big Bass Magic ). Doug produced three videos with 3M (Understanding Bass, Catching Big Bass, and Bass-Formula for Success), which among them won Cleo and Teddy awards. He publishes the Hannon Moon Times nationally for TV, magazines, newspapers, and radio. He is on the masthead of "Outdoor Life Magazine". Doug Hannon holds over 12 U. S. Patents on various fishing inventions ranging from fishing lures to chemical treatments to improve fish survival in release tournaments, to anchors, and invented the weedless trolling motor prop now seen on virtually every fishing motor made today. Doug has served as a tackle design and marketing consultant to companies like Brunswick/Zebco, Cabela's, and many other manufacturers. Doug was a fishing boats design consultant for Outboard Marine Corporation (Johnson and Evinrude outboard motors), Stratos (the largest manufacturer of bass boats in the country), and designed the "Panfisher Series" line of fishing boats for Bass Pro Shops. He has also worked with several large tourist attractions in Florida , like Busch Gardens , Homosassa Springs, Weeki Wachee Springs, and Silver Springs on the maintenance of fish habitat and the setting up of fish displays for the public. Doug Hannon appeared weekly as talent on ESPN's Sportsman's Challenge ( the number 1 rated outdoor fishing show on all networks for 3 seasons) and shot all of the underwater video . Doug also produces the "Bass Professor" segment on ESPN and ESPN 2 52 weeks a year and has spent considerable time diving, observing and documenting underwater behavior of many species of both fresh and saltwater fish. He was also a script consultant on the "Billion Dollar Bass" show produced and aired on the popular PBS series, "Wild America". In 1997 he produced Hannon's 21st Century Bass Professor, a computer software program featuring, for the first time ever, a 3-dimensional mapping system for lakes . Doug Hannon was nominated by General Norman Schwarzkopf and inducted into the Fishing Hall of Fame as a "Legendary Angler" in the year, 2000. Doug currently makes a living as a consultant, inventor, writer, educator, and photographer, videographer, and TV personality. Conservation EffortsIn the early '70's, Doug began writing about and advocating the now familiar Catch and Release ethic for big bass. He became the most famous big bass guide in Florida , starting out by requiring three-day minimum bookings and allowing only one fish to be kept in those three days. Then, in 1976, Doug became the first prominent guide in the state to require the release of all fish without exception. He's tagged hundreds of big bass, studied their movements and lifestyle, and tried always to convey to the public the rarity and value of big fish in the ecosystem. Doug was a consultant to Texas Parks and Wildlife Department on the development of the Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center, which is not only the nation's best example of the way state fisheries agencies should reach out and interact with the public, but also the nation's best state-of-the-art Florida Bass hatchery. He helped develop and promote the "Catch and Release" livewell additive. As a consultant to the Bass Anglers Sportsman's Society, the nation's largest bass fishing tournament organization, he designed their procedure for treatment of bass with his own chemical formulations and cooling procedure at weigh-ins. These two efforts, both by themselves and by national example, save the lives of countless thousands of tournament-caught bass every year. He also worked with agencies like Brunswick 's Fish America Foundation, and participated in numerous charity functions over the years. His patented propeller has allowed anglers to fish vast areas of previously inaccessible weed beds where bass truly live, and fought the battles to stop the irresponsible use of herbicides in our waterways. He's lobbied the Florida Game and Freshwater Fish Commission in the arena of the public media, until they lowered the creel limits on bass. For the past eight years, as "The Bass Professor" on ESPN, Doug has given the public a better understanding and appreciation of our most important freshwater gamefish by taking them into the underwater world of the largemouth bass. His goals have always been to advance an enlightened public interest in the outdoors, using all the elements including participation, invention, and influence of public policy, education, and documentation in the form of writing, photography, video, and public appearances. |
