| Personal | |
| My website: | http://www.bassncrappie.com/ |
| Name: | LeRoy Price |
| Home Town: | Claypool, AZ |
| Birthday: | April 8 |
| Occupation: | Retired Locomotive Mechanic, Fishing Guide |
| Hobbies: | Fishing and Hunting |
| Stats | |
| Year’s tournament fishing: | Over 30 years |
| Titles/honors: | Won the Western Bass Central Arizona Division in 1982. In 1994, my partner and I won the AllStar Super Team Championship. This year my partner and I won the AllStar Best Bet Aluminum Boat Team Championship. I have won Angler of the Year on several different circuits over the years. |
| Career highlights: | Three Championship wins, and in two have won boats. One was a fully rigged Stratos, and the other a fully rigged Tracker |
| Angling stuff | |
| Favorite Bait: | White Spinnerbait |
| Favorite Method: | Throwing Spinnerbaits |
| Angling Hero: | Hank Parker / Rick Clunn |
| Home Lake: | Roosevelt Lake |
| Favorite Lake: | Roosevelt Lake |
| Least favorite Lake: | Lake Pleasant |
| Favorite Technique: | Casting Spinnerbaits |
| Primary fishing strength: | White Spinnerbait |
| Secondary fishing strength: | Brown Worms |
| Biggest weakness: | Dropshotting (hate it!) |
| Boat: | Nitro 898 |
| Motor: | 200 Mercury Optimax |
| Tow vehicle: | 2008 Nissan Titan |
| Fishing sponsors: | Tracker Marine Boating Center, Nitro Boats, Mercury Outboards, Horne Dodge Chrysler Jeep Nissan, Bass N’ Crappie Guide Service, Jack Lewis Baits |
| Personal Stuff | |
| Favorite food: | Chicken Fried Steak w/gravy |
| Favorite Movie: | Lonesome Dove |
| Favorite Music: | Country |
| Non-Angling hero: | My wife of 44 years, because she supports my fishing and hunting |
| When not fishing: | Hunt, travel, and spend time with my Grandkids and GreatGrandkids |
It seems like I have been fishing all my life. I grew up in a small town on the Kentucky Lake in Tennessee. My Dad took me fishing for Bass and Crappie every chance he had. When he couldn’t take me, I would fish in the creek close to the house. I always had a rod and reel hidden under the bridge, so I could fish on the way home from school.
In l958, we moved to Arizona and I started fishing Roosevelt Lake, Apache Lake, and San Carlos Lake.
Over the past 30 plus years I have been very successful as a tournament fisherman. I have fished championships at Truman Lake, MO; Tom Bigby Waterway, Columbus, Miss.; Kentucky Lake, TN; and all over Arizona. In l982, my partner and I won the Western Bass Central Arizona Division. In l994, my partner and I won the AllStar Super Team Championship. We won a 20 ft. fully rigged bass boat. This year, my partner and I won the AllStar Best Bet Aluminum Boat Team Championship and won a fully rigged Tracker boat.
In 2002, I started Bass N’ Crappie Guide Service and became a licensed guide for Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass, and Crappie. I guide on Roosevelt Lake. We do full day, half day, and instructional trips. We can customize a trip for you. If you want to go fishing, call me at 928-425-3037 or go to my website http://www.bassncrappie.com.
I still fish tournaments, mostly team tournaments, and am presently on the Pro Staff for Tracker Marine Boating Center at Bass Pro Shops in Mesa, AZ. I do Crappie and Bass Seminars there when my schedule allows, as well as boat shows. I am also on the Nitro State Team and Mercury Pro Staff.
I do seminars for schools, Bass Clubs, and Scout Troops.
Over the years, I have had articles published on me in Outdoor Almanac; Arizona Hunter & Angler Magazine; Arizona Boating and Watersports; Arizona Republic Newspaper; Kingman, AZ newspaper; The Silver Belt Newspaper, Globe, AZ; Country Shopper Newspaper, Globe, AZ; Crappie World Magazine; and an on line article at FieldandStream.com.
I am blessed to be able to do what I truly love – FISH!