Meet Ken

Hometown: Dallas & Zavalla, Texas
Hobbies: looking for golf balls left of the fairway & chasing Hollis Walker
Favorite Lure: Swim bait
Favorite Technique: Pitching and Flipping
Favorite Lake: Sam Rayburn ...or Falcon 

It's mostly my grandmother’s fault, I spent many days in my
youth sitting exactly one cane poles length to one side of her with my cousin
Wayne the same distance on the other side, swinging fish after fish to her to
remove and add another worm to my hook. Then in the spring 1978 my high school buddy from Little Rock Tim Nesterenko and I decide to graduate from fishing the
creeks around our houses to tournament fishing.

My first tournament I was a co-angler (or "Co-pro"
as my friend Billy refers to himself now) and my boater was a half hour late
after oversleeping. So many things stand out from that day over 35 years ago on
Ouachita, how incredibly fast a bass boat with a 115 hp could run, the
excitement of a new experience and the first (and only) bite of the day. Abu
5000 on an Ugly Stick, whatever line I had found and a buzz bait. Third cast a
7 lber came out of a bush about 10 feet from me and slurped it down. But the
most vivid memory was walking up the hill to the weigh in with that giant (hey
this was 1978!) in that bag, and the looks and comments as I walked to the
stage...needless to say I was hooked.

Fortunately my parents were wise enough not to let me take
my boat to college with me at the University of Arkansas where I received a
BSBA degree in Finance. And although I have worn a tie to work almost every day
for the last 31 years, I take if off every weekend to get back to my passion.

I am married to my lovely wife Sarah who just caught her new PB in 2018 at Rayburn, a 6-8 on a..wait for it, White Trash Skinny Dipper. We welcomed the newest addition to the family last August when Hollis Walker joined us as a healthy 8+ lb little boy. You'll start seeing him as soon as he's big enough to fit in a life jacket! We also have three 4 legged babies, Bodie the wonder dog, and Stella our now 2 year old lab affectionately nicknamed "Moose" and of course our working girl border collie we found abandoned at the boat ramp at Sam Rayburn last year, aptly named Sammie Rae.