The Century Club, which began in 2024 as a way for Major League Fishing to recognize and thank anglers who have fished 100 or more tournaments with MLF and its predecessors (FLW and Operation Bass), added 57 new members to its ranks in 2025. The total now stands at north of 1,200 members, dating back to the beginning of digital recordkeeping in 1994.
This week, we’d like to highlight four more members of the Century Club. Two of these pros you’ll recognize from the Bass Pro Tour (and FLW Tour before that). Another just added a 13th MLF victory to his bass fishing résumé – and it was a big one.
Roger Fitzpatrick
If you fish in the Ozarks region or follow grassroots bass fishing at all, you know the name Roger Fitzpatrick. He’s a BFL stalwart, an Ozarks legend and now he’s a REDCREST 2026 qualifier after winning the Toyota Series Presented by Phoenix Boats Championship at Grand Lake last week – his 13th win with Major League Fishing and its predecessors. Fitzpatrick has a list of accolades a mile long, including more than $600,000 in career earnings, nine BFL All-American appearances (five Top 10s) and now a Toyota Series Championship victory to go along with 68 total Top 10s. Legendary indeed.
Victor Hawkins
From 1995 to 2023, Sugar Land, Texas’ Victor Hawkins was a staple of the BFL Cowboy Division, piling up 13 Top 10s in that stretch with a third-place AOY finish in 2011 and never missing a single season. He also dabbled in a handful of other BFL divisions as both a boater and a co-angler, eventually tallying a whopping 215 tournaments with MLF.
Wesley Strader
In 20 years on the FLW Tour, Wesley Strader piled up 42 Top 10s and likely about three times as many hilarious moments. A fan favorite, Strader has fished all seven seasons of the Bass Pro Tour with six more Top 10s in that span. In total, the Mercury pro has fished 349 tournaments (and counting) under the MLF umbrella.
Cole Floyd
BPT pro Cole Floyd just turned 29 earlier this month and has already eclipsed the century mark thanks to a career that includes a litany of Abu Garcia College Fishing tournaments, a whole bunch of BFLs (including back-to-back-to-back AOYs in the LBL Division from 2017 to 2019), eight years of Toyota Series events, four years on the Pro Circuit and the last four years on the Bass Pro Tour – the last of which Floyd turned in a fourth-place AOY finish.