ACTIVE ANGLER
Skylar Hamilton was stranded. During one of the first events of his rookie season on the Bassmaster Elite Series in 2017, the Tennessee pro found himself up a Florida creek without a paddle when his trolling motor stopped responding. “My foot pedal locked up,” Hamilton recalls. “It wouldn’t steer, so I ended up taping my light pole to the head of the trolling motor and using it the old-fashioned way.”
Hamilton says his trolling motor locked up twice that season — enough