The Miles Burghoff Master Plan
April 24, 2019 by Curtis Niedermier - Miles Burghoff is in a rare position. He’s a rookie on the FLW Tour, and he’s leading the 2019 Angler of the Year race with two tournaments left to fish.
Traditionally, the AOY frontrunners are veteran pros in the prime of their careers, not rookies who are often still trying to learn their way around a full season of Tour competition.
Burghoff, however, isn’t your traditional rookie. Unlike many burgeoning pros who establish their careers in a region before expanding to new waters on the national level, or who use college bass fishing to vault into the pro ranks after just a few years, Burghoff spent a decade patiently (but strategically) picking his way through the lower tiers of the bass tournament world to wind up at the starting line of the Tour. READ MORE