Doug Ashley joins ILF Organization as the 2022 ILF tournament season starts to take shape.

Bob and Mike welcome Doug to ILF. Doug Ashley may be new to some of you , but if you've been around tournament bass fishing in Indiana, perhaps he's just an old friend back in the spotlight. Doug Ashley got his start in tournament fishing when he was just 7 years old. Although his father David Ashley got him into bass tournaments in the early 80's, it was his mother Diane that took him to his first derby in the mid 70's. Although there are no records to confirm the results, Doug believes he finished in the Top 3 of the first and only Anchor Mates Bluegill Tournament on Aqua Gardens in Anderson. Sources have it that there were 4 contestants that day and one went home early because she needed to take her nap.

Doug is joining the ILF Tournament Team to help grow the circuit and the format. With his help, ILF will add more tournaments to the circuit in future and look at ways to make the events even better. Doug is not new to the world of tournament bass fishing. When he is not participating in bass tournaments, he has been known to organize and operate a few as well. He was a co-director of the Indiana Federation Tournament Trail for 6 years in the mid 90's. He also was one of the original directors of the Anglers Dream circuit in the early 2000's. Taking a break from organizing and fishing the larger circuits, he started a local Wednesday night tournament in center Indiana on White River. After slowing down, raising his son, and enjoying travel with his wife and family, Doug is ready to try on his tournament directors hat again. If you join the ILF circuit this year for the first time, or you're a regular at the ramp, stop and introduce yourself to the new (old) guy.