

In the meantime, she has launched her own line of Castaway Jaz merch and has been named a Texas Parks and Wildlife Foundation “ We Will Not Be Tamed” ambassador for 2022. So it’s no surprise that she’s already set her sights on competing in the Bassmaster Elite Series, the Super Bowl of fishing.īassmaster fields are made up of pros and co-anglers (who fish off the back deck of the pros’ boats) Robinson plans to start as a co-angler and eventually make her way to the pro side once she gets her own boat. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, where she co-hosted a radio sports show. She went on to major in radio and television at Stephen F. The Oak Cliff native (and current Duncanville resident) was an active only child, playing basketball and volleyball at Justin F. But that’s the thing with it, just getting past that fear and being consistent with it.” So it’s amazing to see how far I’ve come. I have a video of myself years ago, where I was afraid to touch a bluegill.
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“It’s intimidating to a lot of people in general but especially women, because you have to know how to hold certain fish. “In the inner city, you don’t find a lot of women who go fishing,” she says.

Unfortunately, he and I didn’t work out, but we are still good friends.”Īfter the breakup, and in between jobs as an insurance adjuster, she focused her energies on her new love, learning more advanced techniques and starting an Instagram page for others-especially women of color like her-who are new to the sport. Once you start catching them, it’s kind of addictive. “But I found the beauty in just being among the elements and relaxing,” she says. She was impatient at first, frustrated with both the lack of a pull on her line and the lack of romantic evenings on the town with a cocktail and someone else’s catch of the day. Their date nights often ended up at the side of a pond or a lake, fishing poles in hand. Jazmine Robinson didn’t grow up fishing, but her ex-boyfriend, a Dallas police officer, did.
