... Tommy Martin in 1974; and a cropduster pilot, Jack Hains in 1975. Even the kingpins of bass fishing in the 1970s, Roland Martin and Bill Dance, depended on their television shows and other avenues for comfortable livings. Today there are dozens ...

... leaves for a six-to-eight week maternity leave following Friday's show, and will be replaced temporarily by Roland Martin. Klein said Brown's show isn't in any danger, noting that it took years for Olbermann and O'Reilly to build ...

... By the time bass tournaments took off in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Mann was an early standout, along with Roland Martin and Bill Dance. The Little George was a lure than virtually every tournament anglers used at times, and this was ...

... Hall of Fame members are Ray Scott, Johnny Morris, Bill Dance, Cotton Cordell, Denny Brauer, Stan Fagerstrom, Roland Martin, Bob Cobb, Guido Hibdon, Jimmy and Chris Houston. Established in 1999, the Bass Fishing Hall of Fame, headquartered ...

... Currently, this week, Davis is going for an even rarer landmark a three-peat in BASS national tournaments. Only Roland Martin has achieved this, and Martin did it in the 1970s in the infancy of national bass tournaments. Davis is in the field ...

... hatted men, one an Arkansan and the other an Alabamian, were the best known figures in bass fishing, even ahead of Roland Martin, Bill Dance and all the rest of the competitors. But times and circumstances change. People change. Businesses ...

... totaling 14 pounds, 10 ounces, just six ounces more than Scott Martin of Clewiston, Fla., son of bass fishing legend Roland Martin. Anthony Gagliardi of Prosperity, S.C., was third at 13-7. Clausen, 26 and single, is in his rookie year ...

... have become bigger names to the public than Cochran. Roland Martin, Bill Dance, Jimmy Houston took to the television ... years later etched the inscription deeper. Neither Roland Martin, Bill Dance nor Jimmy Houston has won a Classic nor ...

... Bass Pro Shops. Morris and Westmorland will fish. So will Bill Dance, his first competition in many years. He and Roland Martin were the top anglers, the best-known bassers, in 1974 at Beaver Lake. Larry Nixon of Bee Branch will be in the ...

... of those 105 fishermen who anted up $100 each in 1967 is competing on the national circuits, two of them, today. Roland Martin didn't fish that 1967 inaugural; he competed in the second Bass Anglers Sportsman Society (BASS) event in 1968 ...