The Inside Bassmaster Podcast is back for 2022 with hosts Ronnie Moore and Kyle Jessie. In Episode 82, Moore and Jessie invite Elite Series Rookie Jonathan Kelley onto the podcast as they covered the Rookie of the Year race at this point in the season.

Kelley’s sit-down interview with Moore took place after the fourth Elite event of the year. Since then, he had an 86th place finish at Lake Fork and a bounce-back 41st at Pickwick Lake. With three events left in the 2022 season, Kelley sits in 7th in Rookie of the Year and 73rd in Angler of the Year, 63 points from the Classic cutline.

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0:00 – State of the Rookie of the Year Race
17:59 – Jonathan Kelley joins the show
19:26 – His goal of making Elites
22:50 – Kelley and College Fishing
31:45 – Qualifying through the Opens
33:22 – Grading himself
42:48 – Kelley’s favorite way to catch bass
45:45 – His fishing knowledge growth since College
49:30 – Running a pattern on the Elites
51:00 – Confidence is KEY!
54:15 – How he got started fishing
1:00:00 – Rookie talk