After a storied career fishing on numerous regional circuits out west he qualified for the BASSMASTER 150 tour through the BASSMASTER western opens & fished on various iterations of that tour including the BASSMASTER elite series from 1999 - 2018 & along the way he qualified for & competed in 20 BASSMASTER classics finishing in the top 10 nine times including 4 runner-up finishes . Aaron Martens won 9 BASSMASTER tournaments in his career with 3 of those wins on different waters in his home state of California along with wins in Alabama , Illinois , Arizona , Maryland & New York
. During Mr. Martens fishing career at B.A.S.S he had won more than 3,000,000$ in prize money