Cochran Takes ’87 Classic

Brian Waldman

Brian was born near Chicago, IL, but his parents moved him at the tender age of 5 to the bass-rich waters of Indiana. Here he honed his fishing skills on some of the best equipment of the day, starting with a cheap cane pole but quickly progressing up to Zebco 202s. As a teenager, he decided he’d become a pro bass angler, but his name is still absent from the current list of Elite Series pros some four decades later. Professional aspirations aside, he still spends way too much time fishing, is starting to spend way too much time online reading and writing about fishing, and has a piscatorial library that rivals the amount of tackle sitting in his garage, which is really saying something. Brian is an expert on all things Fishing Facts and In-Fisherman as well as B.A.S.S.