Drew
Benton
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Phoenix Boats
Costa
Lowrance
Lew's Reels
Tightlines UV
Seaguar
Owner
Phenix Rods
Power-Pole
Bagley Bait Company
Millennium Marine
Nichols Lures
Doomsday Tackle Company
Biography
In 2019, Drew Benton will compete in his fourth year on the Bassmaster Elite Series. He notched his first Elite Series win in 2018 at Lake Travis for the Toyota Bassmaster Texas Fest event. Benton also won the 2016 Bassmaster Elite Series Rookie of the Year. He has eight Top 10's to his credit early in his career.
Personal Info
Hometown
Panama City,
Florida
Birthdate
May 10, 1988
Family
Amanda (wife), Cade (child)
Hobbies
Hunting
Content
What the Classic means: Drew Benton
What the Classic means: Drew Benton
Hurricane Michael was a natural disaster of the first order when it laid waste to Panama City, Fla., and surrounding communities last October.The Category 4 storm was one of the most intense to...
Podcast: The Drew Benton Story
Podcast: The Drew Benton Story
Jim and Thomas sit down with Elite Series pro Drew Benton and hear about how his pro-angling career got started.
Fantasy Fishing: Dancing in dirty water at Knoxville
Fantasy Fishing: Dancing in dirty water at Knoxville
The 2019 GEICO Bassmaster Classic presented by DICK’S Sporting Goods should be one for the history books for numerous reasons.The fishery is relatively unknown to most of the 52 anglers, and...
Sometimes you have to man up
Sometimes you have to man up
The 2019 Toyota Bassmaster Elite at Lake Lanier was a unique experience for me, and it demonstrated the importance of hanging tough in the face of adversity. I was fired up when I first...
Meet the Elites: Drew Benton
Meet the Elites: Drew Benton
“Stick your hand into the fire and see how much you can take.” That’s Elite Series Pro Drew Benton’s formula for climbing to the highest ranks in professional bass fishing. The 31-year old Florida...
St. Johns: It was the real deal
St. Johns: It was the real deal
What a week! The first thing I want to do is congratulate Rick Clunn. There’s almost nothing a fellow angler can say about him. He’s caught them for years. It’s obvious he still has what it...
DiPalma and Benton on Day 2
DiPalma and Benton on Day 2
Greg DiPalma and Drew Benton have a great Day 2 on the St. Johns.
Things are falling into place
Things are falling into place
The roof has been replaced on our house. That may not sound like much, but it’s important to me. I don’t have to keep tabs on the temporary repairs to keep our house from getting get wet from...
Elite: Forget practice?
Elite: Forget practice?
Late winter and early spring in the South, especially Florida, can be a roller coaster of emotions. What to expect from one day to the next can be a straight-up guess.But guessing is not how this...
More on matching the hatch
More on matching the hatch
I’ve read the posts from my last column. I’m concerned that some of my readers got the wrong impression about what I was trying to say about matching the hatch. It’s critically important that our...
Fantasy Fishing: Familiar fishery featuring new faces in 2019
Fantasy Fishing: Familiar fishery featuring new faces in 2019
The 2019 Bassmaster Elite Series season is quickly approaching, and that means Fantasy Fishing is getting revved up as well. This season will feature new names and faces that many fans aren’t...
Fantasy Fishing: St. Johns River same place, different time
Fantasy Fishing: St. Johns River same place, different time
The Bassmaster Elite Series will begin the 2019 season on one of the all-time favorite B.A.S.S. venues, Florida’s St. Johns River. While it’s no secret that some familiar faces won’t be competing...
Zona LIVE, B.A.S.S. Brawl this week from Georgia
Zona LIVE, B.A.S.S. Brawl this week from Georgia
A B.A.S.S. Brawl and Zona LIVE are set for Thursday and Friday this week beginning at 9 a.m. ET each day.
Fantasy Fishing: Experience will be critical at St. Johns in 2019
Fantasy Fishing: Experience will be critical at St. Johns in 2019
Bassmaster fans and Bassmaster Fantasy Fishing players are in for a treat this year. With a reduced Elite Series field filled with returning and unfamiliar faces, a substantial Fantasy Fishing...
Let’s match the hatch — properly
Let’s match the hatch — properly
The first step in matching the hatch — before you do anything else — is to check and see what they’re eating. This isn’t a casual glance or two, and it isn’t about what they were eating last week....
How the Classic waters looked
How the Classic waters looked
Last time I said I’d give you an update after I’d had a chance to go to Knoxville. Here goes…I spent three or four days on the Tennessee River scoping out the playing field for the 2019 GEICO...
The Classic: It’s new water to me
The Classic: It’s new water to me
Things are getting better down here. I won’t go so far as to say they’re back to normal, but at least we’re at a point where we can start to think about other things. For me that means taking a...
Life goes on
Life goes on
Let me tell you something. The Benton family is living high on the hog these days. We’ve had electricity and running water for four days now. That’s hot showers, laundry washed in a washing machine...
My world: Family, bass fishing and hurricanes
My world: Family, bass fishing and hurricanes
I’m Drew Benton, a Bassmaster Elite Series angler, and I’ll be doing two columns a month for the foreseeable future. I would have liked to have had this one up before now but I live in Panama City,...
'I’m feeling the fire!'
'I’m feeling the fire!'
It’s a funny thing, winning a Bassmaster Elite Series event. It pushes you forward with a new level of confidence.I’ve won before — an FLW Tour event in 2013 — but it didn’t feel like this one. I’m...
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