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Team ODM
 Team ManagerMarlon Ventura (NJ, USA): Marlon is a seasoned angler chasing multiple species in the Northeast. He is passionate about light tackle fishing and taking light gear to the upper limit. Marlon enjoys the pursuit of trophy striped bass, fluke, blackfish, and a variety of other bottom fish. If he isn’t striper fishing, you’ll often find Marlon on a jetty or boulder field with a couple dozen crabs ready to feed the tautog. |  Team Captain/Public RelationJohn Johnson (NJ, USA): John has a enjoyed a lifelong love for surfcasting and all types of fishing, growing up in New Jersey chasing Bass, blues, fluke, and all freshwater species from a very young age. When hes not behind a stove, he most enjoys plying the night tides for trophy striped bass with plugs and eels up and down the Striper Coast. His passion for fishing has taken him from Texas to New England to the offshore canyons, always in pursuit of a bent rod. |  Team Field Tester/Promoter (MA, USA)Colby Brouillette (MA, USA): Colby is an experienced angler who loves all aspects of trophy striper fishing from shore. He is a mostly catch and release fisherman. He has spent the last 30+ years successfully targeting big stripers from the Cape Cod Canal and Cape Cod beaches. Colby is a versatile angler who loves tactics such as eeling from the beach to throwing topwater lures for explosive hits. Above all, his favorite way to target big bass is drifting jigs in the deep, fast moving. |
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 Team Field Tester/PromoterChristopher Pepice (CT, USA): Chris is an experienced angler who loves to test out new products. His knowledge in fishing tackle from freshwater to saltwater is impecable. Chris true passion is catching stripers all year round in the New England area. He is most at home walking the rivers and beaches in Connecticut casting light jigs to lures. You can often find Chris targeting trophy stripers at the cape cod canal. |  Team Field Tester/PromoterTony Skojec (CT, USA): Tony is a veteran all around fisherman. His passion began as a young boy. Starting with chasing stripers, bass, and fluke, and has taken him to the offshore canyons chasing Giant Bluefin tuna, and plying the frigid northern waters for elusive and challenging steelhead. Tony has a passion for chasing Trophy Striped bass all over the Striper coast, particularly in the cape cod canal, and by boat in the Northeast’s finest striper havens. He brings a wealth of knowledge. |  Team Field Tester/PromoterDon Pugliese (NY, USA): Hailing from the great Striped Bass Nation of Long Island! Don brings a huge passion and decades of knowledge to chasing Striped Bass up and down the Striper Coast. For forty years and counting Don has been plying the night tides of Montauk, North and South Shores, for that fish of a lifetime, and traveling up and down the Striper Coast in his tireless pursuit of that 50 pounder. “Fishing isn’t just something I do, it’s a way of life for me…” |
 Team Field Tester/PromoterJoe Manion (PA, USA): Joe’s Passion for chasing and catching trophy striped bass started at a very young age. As he grew over the years he became obsessed with catching that “fish of a lifetime”… Joe is a true warrior of the Surf, and enjoys exploring, learning, and producing trophy catches up and down the Entire Striper Coast…From wet suiting the rocks of Montauk and New England to wading stealth missions throughout it’s southern most points throughout the year. |
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