{"id":482,"date":"2008-06-13T08:48:27","date_gmt":"2008-06-13T14:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homepages.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2008\/06\/13\/bears-excel-at-fishing\/"},"modified":"2008-06-13T08:48:27","modified_gmt":"2008-06-13T14:48:27","slug":"bears-excel-at-fishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2008\/06\/bears-excel-at-fishing\/","title":{"rendered":"Bears excel at fishing"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AltonI’ve never been much of a fisherman — too impatient, I suppose — but I’ve got enough outdoorsman in my blood to understand those who do. Two Baylor alums have made the news this year for their fishing exploits: Alton Jones won the Bassmaster Classic<\/a> in February, while Charlie Pack was inducted into the Texas Freshwater Fishing Hall of Fame<\/a> earlier this month.<\/p>\n

Jones<\/a> (pictured at right) claimed the title at the world’s biggest bass-fishing tournament this spring, earning with it the $500,000 prize. Jones, who is very outgoing about his Christian faith<\/a>, attended Baylor in the mid 1980s before beginning his career as a professional fisherman. His triumph even led Baylor men’s basketball coach Scott Drew — himself an avid fisher — to add Jones’ picture to a “wall of fame”<\/a> at the Ferrell Center.<\/p>\n

Pack, a 1960 graduate and three-year basketball letterwinner, hosts a weekly half-hour television show (“Fishing Country with Charlie Pack”<\/a>) that airs in eastern and central Texas and western Louisiana. He also started the Tadpole Foundation<\/a>, an organization aimed at giving every child a chance to go fishing. (The Waco Tribune-Herald<\/em> ran a nice feature on Pack<\/a> in May.)<\/p>\n

Interestingly, after Jones won the Bassmaster Classic this year, he was invited by President George W. Bush to the White House<\/a>, where the President noted that he had previously been introduced to Jones by none other than Charlie Pack. Small world!<\/p>\n

Sic \u2019em, Baylor fishermen!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve never been much of a fisherman — too impatient, I suppose — but I’ve got enough outdoorsman in my blood to understand those who do. Two Baylor alums have made the news this year for their fishing exploits: Alton Jones won the Bassmaster Classic in February, while Charlie Pack was inducted into the Texas […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-athletics","category-honors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}