Fishing pressured water
Hunter ShryockI grew up learning how to catch pressured bass from Ohio’s small inland reservoirs. These lakes have little in common with the fabulous smallmouth fishing in Lake Erie’s Western Basin....
‘Hook week’ in Daytona
Bernie SchultzMention Daytona to any gearhead, and two monumental events immediately come to mind — Bike Week and Race Week. But for fishing tackle collectors with a different set of gears...
Winter fishing made easy in East Tennessee
Bill DanceWinter fishing can be slow but there is one new technique that can be very effective and entertaining. With the vast improvement in fishing electronics, a relatively new technique has...
What Lanier meant to me
Paul MuellerIf you want to know what professional bass fishing is about, look no further than the first two weeks of my 2019 Bassmaster Elite Series season. Fishing is like a...
It’s time for shallow cranking
Jake WhitakerThe bass are beginning to move toward their spawning areas in the South, and they will be doing so throughout the rest of the country in the coming weeks and...
Stay off the ice
Thom AbrahamNow that the first two events of the Bassmaster Elite Season are in the books, I feel compelled to share some cold weather fishing thoughts. And by “cold weather” I...
6 tips to make bass fishing more fun
Bill LowenNot every bass angler is a serious tournament competitor. I suspect many just want to have a day out with Mother Nature, away from it all, or they fish club...
The importance of focus
John CrewsFocus is a subject you don’t hear much about except when a professional bass tournament is on the line. The truth is, though, that it’s much more important to the...
The plumber and the respectful
Don Barone“I grew up on a working man’s wage…” Dateline: The Banks Of Lake Lanier “Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts.”– Confucius I grew up...
How I’ll fish Lake Lanier
Brandon LesterStop no. 2 on the 2019 Bassmaster Elite Seriess is Lake Lanier in Georgia. This place fishes a lot like Smith Lake in Alabama so that’s what I’ve been trying...
