Back in the Saddle

Winans makes return to ICAST, event showcases new fishing gear for 2023

  • Last November, Winans won a bass club tournament at Cedar Creek while fishing from the back deck. Winans and his partner started the morning casting at the lake’s dam, the same spot where he nearly lost his life a year earlier. COURTESY PHOTOS / BRADY WINANS
    Last November, Winans won a bass club tournament at Cedar Creek while fishing from the back deck. Winans and his partner started the morning casting at the lake’s dam, the same spot where he nearly lost his life a year earlier. COURTESY PHOTOS / BRADY WINANS
  • Sunbelt Sales rep Brady Winans of Caddo Mills recently returned home from ICAST 2023 in Orlando, Florida. It was Winans’ first trip to the world’s largest sportfishing trade show since was severely injured in a tragic boat crash on Cedar Creek Lake in December 2021.
    Sunbelt Sales rep Brady Winans of Caddo Mills recently returned home from ICAST 2023 in Orlando, Florida. It was Winans’ first trip to the world’s largest sportfishing trade show since was severely injured in a tragic boat crash on Cedar Creek Lake in December 2021.
    Outdoors Writer Brady Winans of Caddo Mills is a veteran tournament angler who cut his fishing teeth chasing bass and crappie with his dad beneath the FM 515 bridge at Lake Fork. In 2004, Winans turned his passion into a career. That’s when he hired on as a sales representative for Sunbelt Sales, a tackle manufacturers sales rep agency based in Willis. He represents some o...

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