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Former BASS Tour and FLW Tour pro Kyle Mabrey, was killed late Sunday night, Feb. 19, 2017 in an automobile accident in Alabama. There are not a lot of details released yet, but at some point in the evening, Mabrey’s vehicle went off the road while he was en route to his parents’ home near Lay Lake after a day of fishing on Logan Martin.
Mabrey fished the FLW Tour from 2008-2012. He then took a few years off to get his Yellow Hammer Lures business up and running. He returned last year to the FLW Tour and fished all six events. Prior to that he fished the BASS Opens and BASS Tour from 2001 to 2005.
Mabrey worked as a respiratory therapist at the Children’s Hospital in Birmingham. He was always upbeat and great to work with, and we will miss talking fishing with him. Our thoughts and prayers are with his wife Beth and his two young children as well as his many friends and acquaintances in our fishing community.
UPDATE: Details on his accident are in this report.
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COO and Publisher, Jason Sealock came to Wired2fish shortly after inception in January of 2010. Prior to that he was the Editor-in-Chief of FLW Outdoors Magazines. He worked up from Associate Editor to Photo Editor and finally Editor in Chief of three magazines FLW Bass, FLW Walleye and FLW Saltwater. Now he sets the content direction for Wired2fish while also working directly with programmers, consultants and industry partners.
Sealock has been an avid angler for the better part of 40 years and has been writing and shooting fishing and outdoors content for more than 25 years. He is an expert with fishing electronics and technologies and an accomplished angler, photographer, writer and editor. He has taught a lot of people to find fish with their electronics and has been instrumental in teaching these technologies to the masses. He's also the industry authority on new fishing tackle and has personally reviewed more than 10,000 products in his tenure.
He has a 30-year background in information technologies and was a certified engineer for a time in Microsoft, Novell, Cisco, and HP.
He mostly fishes for bass and panfish around the house. He has, however, caught fish in 42 of the 50 states in the US as well as Costa Rica, Mexico, and Canada and hopes to soon add Finland, Japan, Africa and Australia to his list.