RC 0.5
Length:1-3/4” Weight:1/4oz

In 2001, Rick Clunn completed his quest for the BASS "Triple Crown" by winning Megabucks. Though he had won four Bassmasters Classics and an Angler of the Year title earlier in his career, it was the Megabucks title that eluded him the longest.

"I had been so close to winning Megabucks on two other occasions," Clunn recalls. "So when I won Megabucks at Douglas Lake in 2001, it was certainly a satisfying win."

Now that Clunn has won nearly every major title in competitive bass fishing, what's left for him to accomplish?

For Clunn, the eternal dream of bass fishing is not about filling his shelves with trophies; his bass fishing dream is fueled by the quest to, "touch perfection."

"Certainly winning is a part of the fishing dream," Clunn says. "But it's not the whole dream. Winning and touching perfection are two different things."

Clunn defines touching perfection as a period during the fishing day when the universe becomes timeless and he is fishing every moment with such absolute perfection that doubt, judgment and expectation no longer exist.

"Everything becomes effortless because all negativity ceases to exists," he explains. "All negative things are purged and transformed into positive things. The wind becomes a positive because it pushes you to the next fish. Getting hung up becomes a positive because it leads you to a different casting angle that produces a fish. Your mind, body and soul become one and everything works in harmony - it's truly a special place."

However, touching perfection is rare, even for Clunn.

"Sometimes it lasts for 15 minutes; sometimes it lasts for an hour," he reveals. "Only once have I touched perfection for a full day, and it was amazing."

The desire to touch perfection more frequently and for longer periods of time is what keeps Clunn casting.

"As humans we want to touch perfection in something - mine just happens to be in fishing," he says. "To touch perfection on the water for any length of time is my eternal fishing dream; to touch perfection for an entire tournament and win is my ultimate fishing dream."

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