Keeping your bass boat alive, part 1
Owning a tournament-worthy rig on a tight budget is possible; the first step is selecting the right boat and motor.
Tackle with Aaron Martens
Master Series on Tackle with Aaron Martens Lesson 4: Doing right by your reels
Niggemeyer: The One that Got Away
Niggemeyer was fishing a team tournament out in California on Castaic Lake. We were fishing soft jerkbaits around flooded trees, just twitching them. The bass were really chewing, too. I saw a fish come out of a bush and just engulf my bait.
Frugal Angler: Spinnerbait
Russ Lane gives tips on buying spinnerbait for fishing on different types of water.
The Mysterious Mudbug
Ken Cook, a former fisheries biologist and a Bassmaster Classic champion tells us about crawfish and crawfish lures.
How to deal with temperature changes
One of the first lessons I ever learned about bass fishing is that bass can and will change temperaments very quickly and unexpectedly.
Finessing your French fry
One lure, the plastic French fry, often gets overlooked when we talk about finesse fishing, but believe me, this bait has some amazing potential when you rig it a certain way and start casting it with a spinning rod and light fluorocarbon line.
An unlikely champ
Elwood Lumpkins was given less than a 50 percent chance to survive an operation that was the result of a botched weight-loss surgery from 2003 one of 24 surgeries Lumpkins has undergone in the past four years.
