Curt Lytle, a 12-year pro from Virginia, is retiring from professional fishing.
"I'm doing this for family reasons – not for sponsor or financial reasons," said Lytle, the father of daughters aged 5 and 3. "I want to be able to have dinner with my family every night, and that's just not something that a professional bass fisherman gets to do."
He qualified for the Bassmaster Classic and Forrest Wood Cup three times each and logged a 5th-place finish in the 2003 Classic. He won a Bassmaster Invitational at Missouri's Lake of the Ozarks in 2000, along with a pair of Strens at Beaver Lake in Arkansas. He made five Top 10s on the FLW Tour.
He ended up 116th in the Tour points race this year, with a top finish of 67th at Kentucky Lake.
The holder of a degree in mechanical engineering, he's worked part-time over the years for Chesapeake, Va.-based Donald L. Blount and Associates, an internationally recognized naval architecture, marine engineering and yacht design firm. When he first linked up with the firm it was working on the yacht Destriero, which averaged a still-unsurpassed speed of 53.1 knots on a voyage from New York to England without refueling in the early 1990s.
"I've always had a love of boats, and they've got me going at it pretty much full-time," he said
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