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Age: 46
Residence: Norman
Kenyon Hill has never had what most people would consider a real job. For 26 years, he’s earned his living as a bass fisherman.
He currently competes on the Bassmaster Elite Series, the top professional level of the B.a.S.S. (Bass Anglers Sportsman’s Society.) He has won three tournaments on the tour, finished 22 times in the top 10 and qualified for four Bassmaster Classics.
His father, the late Loren Hill, was director of the University of Oklahoma Biological Station on Lake Texoma for 30 years and chairman of the OU zoology department.
Dad got his Ph.D at (the University of) Louisville. I was born in Louisville, Ky. when I was 2, he got the job at the University of Oklahoma. We moved to Norman and lived over on Kansas Street.
Dad was kind of a rising star in the university. He was a biologist specializing in fisheries, which is ichthyology. He also invented different products in fishing. his first one really was the Bill Norman Snaketrix, the plastic worm.
He came out with a pH monitor. He found out the various acid and alkaline balances in the water affected fish location and behavior.
Then he figured out that fish could see color and could differentiate different shades of the same color. They could see different colors better under different light conditions of water clarity, which was the color selector.
The color selector was the most successful product offering he ever had. Mechanically, it is a light meter. In simplified form, if the probe of the color selector disappeared in two feet of water it was considered muddy water. Two to four (feet) was considered stained and beyond four was considered clear.
It had three different bands with all different kinds of colors on it. you read whichever band it was and it gave you the color. (Fish) could see that color the best at the given conditions.
It went over huge and it affected lure companies and the colors they sold. That was a summer of ’85. He made a lot of money off of that.”
I grew up at the Biological Station on Buncombe Creek. even though we lived on the lake every summer for 14 straight years, I never learned how to (water) ski. Dad was a fisherman. I grew up fishing for anything.
He knew a lot of (bass fishing) pros and knew about the industry. when I got old enough to do it, he knew it was a legitimate deal. He even knew all the guys, Roland (Martin) and Bill Dance and Jimmy Houston and all those guys. Dad kept me on my feet ’till I got them underneath me and that’s how I started.
It’s the only thing I’ve every really wanted to do. when you make the Classic that’s a pretty cool deal. when I won my first tournament, that was pretty special. the second one I won, I was like, ‘OK, I am not a flash in the pan. I am actually legitimate.’
The last one I won I got to share with dad before he passed away. People at the Bass Zone flew home from Clarks Hill Lake (Ga.) with the trophy on the plane to take to dad. He had severe dementia along with esophageal cancer but I think he got to enjoy the victory.
It’s not easy. sometimes you are not catching them. I had to borrow money against the boat once to keep going. back in the early days, I remember heading to a tournament in Columbia, S.C., and fishing Lake Murray and had $26 in a checking account waiting for me when I got home.
The lifestyle is unforgiving, the time on the road. How many sponsors you’ve got is how many bosses you have. It’s not all about tournament winnings. Sponsor dollars is what you really count on.
I don’t know (about the future of pro bass fishing). I think things are really out of whack. I think $5,000 entry fees for a (Elite Series) tournament is ridiculous. I think the expenses have gotten too big a pill to swallow, especially for a guy starting out.
If you are going to fish the Elite Series, you are in the hole about $85,000. you got to figure it’s just going to cost you that much to fish.
I will never be a wealthy man doing this but I got pretty much what I need. I just need something to get my boat to the lake. I just need a home to go to when it rains.
I like fishing in upstate New York. hardly anybody bass fishes up there and there’s lots of little lakes there and the (bass) are dumber than stones. you can just catch them and catch them and catch them.
I love Venice, La. It’s a super special place. you can just catch them and catch them. Kentucky Lake has got an obscene amount of bass in it. Those (Mexican) border lakes, Amistad (Texas) has still got a trainload of big fish in it, and Falcon Lake (Texas) is one of the most amazing bass fisheries I have ever seen.
Oklahoma lakes are fair. We don’t have any really awesome lakes. It’s a habitat issue as much as anything.
Outside of Falcon, all the great fisheries in the country have grass in them. We don’t have that in our major reservoirs. because we don’t, we probably will never have a world class fishery.
Our lakes are not terrible. They are just not awesome lakes. (Lake) Eufaula has the potential. An aggressive stocking of hydrilla (aquatic grass) would turn Eufaula into a mega fishery. it would super charge everything. the whole lake would hold more (fish) per acre.
Having a dad as a scientist gave me a deeper appreciation for all of the outdoors, not just fishing. I will drive down the road and wonder what kind of trees those are. All of the stuff we did (together) helped give me a better understanding of the smaller pieces that make up the whole.
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