Pittsgrove, NJ, March 3, 2015. Three professional bass anglers—Pam Martin-Wells, Trait Crist and Nicole Jacobs—join Mike Iaconelli on the Female Anglers Special Edition of Ike Live!, Sunday, March 8, at 7:00 pm ET, live-streaming at MikeIaconelli.com. A free-form fan call-in/tweet-in follows at 9:30.

Pam Martin-Wells, winner of a WBT championship and four BASS events, has dominated women’s bass fishing for a while now. She is the all-time money ­­­­leader on the WBT and the only woman to make the top 25 in the Bassmaster Classic, against a field of top male anglers.

Trait Crist turned to bass fishing to fill the competitive void she felt after lettering in basketball, volleyball and golf in high school. She started fishing bass tournaments in 2012, and now—with eight sponsors backing her, she fishes the Bass Pro Shops Bassmaster Opens in hopes of qualifying for the Elite Series and Bassmaster Classic.

Last May, newcomer Nicole Jacobs placed 14th in a field of 187 co-anglers at her first tournament, the Bassmaster Northern Open #1 on Lake Douglas in Dandridge, TN. Like every pro, she studies the lake’s topography, conditions and pattern; practices with different lures, and develops a plan.  

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About Mike “Ike” Iaconelli

A South Philadelphia native now living in South Jersey, Mike Iaconelli fell in love with fishing at his grandfather’s side in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania. He began fishing in tournaments after high school, joined the pro-am circuit in 1992 and turned pro in 2000. In 2003, he won the Bassmaster Classic. To date, he has won Bassmaster Elite, Classic, and Open championships, including the Bassmaster Elite on the Delaware River in August 2014, and earned over $2 MM in prize money.

He and wife, Becky, run The Ike Foundation, which provides fishing equipment to youth fishing club to “get kids fishing.” In addition, he and fellow fishing champ Pete Gluszek run The Bass University, which offers intense 2-day fishing classes that bring avid amateurs and professional fishermen together.