June is topwater time
If you love a topwater bite, there’s no better time to be fishing than right now. Topwater baits also do well in the fall when bass go on the feed, but you absolutely can’t beat the postspawn to...
Lane’s downsizing lure tactics
The thing about extremes is that their self-imposed limitations can impede consistency. That’s particularly true for anglers that let their specialty turn a race horse into a one-trick pony. Not...
Hot Spots: Buggs Island
Also known as Kerr Lake if you live in North Carolina, Buggs Island Reservoir has flown under the radar in the national bass tournament scene over the last two decades....
Grinding through the postspawn
Immediately after the bass finish spawning, they always go into a two-week funk. It seems like every one of them have lockjaw. The bass have yet to gang up on...
Handling the Elite heat
This week’s Bassmaster Elite Series stop on the Sabine River may well turn out to be one of the year’s hottest events. Living in South Florida, that’s nothing new to...
Forward-facing sonar and wary fish
Let me begin by saying I’m not a forward-facing sonar expert, and there are other Bassmaster Elite Series pros better with it than I am. But I have had some...
Former Elite Morgenthaler and Snowden enter the coaching ranks
When some bass pros retire from Bassmaster Elite Series competition, they want to leave it all behind. Not Chad Morgenthaler and Brian Snowden – they’re still looking to pay it...
Iaconelli’s three favorite lures for terribly tough fisheries
Team Toyota’s Mike Iaconelli began his competitive fishing career in the early 1990s on the Delaware River where catching a 9-pound limit made you look like a superstar. So, the...
Shad spawn feast or famine
I was onto to the shad spawn even before I began fishing professionally. It happens year after year, and it’s very predictable. It develops immediately after the bass are getting...
