Topwater Bass Blowups

These videos below have some of the best topwater bass blowups you can find on YouTube. Nothing gets the heart pumping like a Bass breaking the surface and attacking your lure. These videos put good use to … Read the rest

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Fishing pressured water February 21, 2019

I 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. I often competed in 60-boat tournaments on lakes of less than 3,000 acres.

Hunter Shryock

Simplifying online tackle selection February 21, 2019

Growing up in Minnesota, we didn’t have a lot of true “bass tackle shops” nearby. There were plenty of places where you could go and buy sinkers and bobbers and Lindy Rigs, but they were traditional “bait shops” and many did not have the products being used on the Bassmaster tournament trail.

Seth Feider

Opens co-angler profile: Justin Leet February 21, 2019

MANY, La. — Chances are you’ve never heard of Justin Leet, a Basspro.com Bassmaster Opens co-angler from Memphis, Tenn. The chances are very good you will sooner than later.

Craig Lamb

Open: Day 2 cancelled at Toledo Bend February 21, 2019

MANY, La. — Due to potentially dangerous storms in the area, B.A.S.S. officials elected to cancel the second day of competition at the Basspro.com Bassmaster Central Opens tournament underway at Toledo Bend.

Craig Lamb

50 years of B.A.S.S. and Toledo Bend February 21, 2019

MANY, La. — You might say that B.A.S.S. and Toledo Bend Reservoir grew up together as siblings in shaping the history of bass fishing.

Craig Lamb

Fort Loudon, Tellico Lakes will give Classic competitors options February 21, 2019

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — The GEICO Bassmaster Classic presented by DICK'S Sporting Goods brings bass fishing’s grandest event to the spot where one of the nation’s grandest rivers begins.

B.A.S.S. Communications

College: Lander leads Day 1 February 21, 2019

CORNELIUS, N.C. — Every angler entered in the Carhartt Bassmaster College Series tournament presented by Bass Pro Shops would rather the sun shine like it did Thursday afternoon on Lake Norman.

Andrew Canulette

'Hook week' in Daytona February 20, 2019

Mention 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 in mind, there is the Daytona International Tackle Show — what some of us jokingly refer to as “Hook Week.”

Bernie Schultz

Open: Millender leads Day 1 February 20, 2019

MANY, La. — Focusing on early prespawners lead Randy Millender to the Day 1 lead at the season opener of the Basspro.com Bassmaster Central Open on Louisiana’s Toledo Bend Reservoir with a 5-bass limit that weighed 22 pounds, 11 ounces.

David Brown

Meet the Elites: Bill Weidler February 20, 2019

From his very first cast in a Bassmaster event, Bill Weidler was swinging for the fences. He was “Bassmaster Classic or bust.”

Andrew Canulette