![Tommy Sanders, host of Bassmaster TV, is celebrating his 25th year of working on shows for the ESPN networks.](http://www.bassmaster.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/1_MG_3319.jpg)
![Sanders poses last week with Kevin VanDam and producer Mike McKinnis at the Bass Pro Shops shoot for Opening Day.](http://www.bassmaster.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/2-joTSMMKVD.jpg)
![Jimmy Houston discusses his segment with Sanders, whose 25 years with JM Associates has seen him interview most every luminary in the outdoors world.](http://www.bassmaster.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/3-0jojhouston.jpg)
![A bit gray but still smooth on the mic, Sanders gets a touchup before taping a segment.](http://www.bassmaster.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/4-sandersmakeup.jpg)
![Sanders interviews B.A.S.S. co-owner Don Logan at last year's Classic in Birmingham, Ala.](http://www.bassmaster.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/5-dontommy.jpg)
![David Walker greets Sanders at the 2014 Classic registration.](http://www.bassmaster.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/6-IMG_5485.jpg)
![Mark Davis and Sanders discuss topics of conversation before going on camera.](http://www.bassmaster.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/7-tsdavis.jpg)
![Sanders, known as a fastidious researcher, gets the dialogue started between Shaw Grigsby and Mark Zona.](http://www.bassmaster.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/8-tsshaw.jpg)
![Sanders and Mark Zona react to an outrageous statement by actor Grayson Russell, a guest on 'Hooked Up.'](http://www.bassmaster.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/9-IMG_7879.jpg)
![Sanders works while Zona works the crowd in 2007 at Clarks Hill.](http://www.bassmaster.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/10-CLARKS-HILL-2007-IMG_8542.jpg)
![Co-workers say Sanders gets into a zone as he prepares his next comments.](http://www.bassmaster.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/11-IMG_8539.jpg)
![Sanders always points the dialogue in the right direction.](http://www.bassmaster.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/12-IMG_8546.jpg)
![Sanders and Zona get photographer James Overstreet out of the boat for an interview.](http://www.bassmaster.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/13-tommy-hooked-up-kentucky-lake-06.jpg)
![Sanders and Zona pose with Skeet Reese in the JM studio after Reese's Classic victory in 2009.](http://www.bassmaster.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/14-skeetclassic.jpg)
![Here Sanders leads a Classic Fantasy draft with Zona, Jerry McKinnis and James Overstreet.](http://www.bassmaster.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/15_MG_0499.jpg)
![Sanders and Zona pose on the set in 2007.](http://www.bassmaster.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/16-2007set.jpg)
![Sanders was hired fulltime at JM in 1990 to do the wraparound segments on the ESPN Outdoors block. Here he shoots a segment from Bar Harbor, Maine.](http://www.bassmaster.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/17-scan0037-1.jpg)
![The ESPN Outdoors crew went on location to produce the wraparounds, like Nevada's Pyramid Lake.](http://www.bassmaster.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/18-pyramid.jpg)
![Sanders, getting deep into Acadia National Park, Maine, for a shoot, said it his two- to three-minute segments that ran between the outdoor program was like a mini-show on the area.](http://www.bassmaster.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/19-scan0033.jpg)
![While Sanders said the crew was great and it was magnicient to be able to work in locales like the mountains near Flagstaff, Ariz., the travel became ardous.](http://www.bassmaster.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/20-scan0045.jpg)
![Tommy Sanders is referred to by coworkers as the consummate broadcast professional.](http://www.bassmaster.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/21-Tommy20Sanders2028533x80029.jpg)
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