(Editor's note: B.A.S.S. issued the following press release Sunday evening after Aaron Martens wrapped up the Angler of the Year title ahead of next ...
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(Editor's note: B.A.S.S. issued the following press release Sunday evening after Aaron Martens wrapped up the Angler of the Year title ahead of next ...
Chicago resident David Matual caught a 22-06 sack on Saturday to win the Lake Erie Northern Rayovac with a 3-day total of 65-00.
“I’m shaking, I don’t ...
John Murray thinks Bradley Cooper would be a good fit to play him in a movie about his life. Murray's also a big fan of Cheerios and the Thousand Islands ...
The Berkley Experience Trailer is at the Bassmaster Elite Series event at Michigan's Lake St. Clair today through Sunday (Aug. 28-30). The trailer, now ...
Stetson Blaylock planted a good number of new brush piles for last week's Forrest Wood Cup since it's one of his favorite ways to catch bass at Lake Ouachita ...
Editor's note: Industry rep Alan McGuckin is in Detroit for the Elite Series event this week at Lake St. Clair. He passed along this brief story about ...
In this week's edition of Balog's Bass War, Joe Balog checks in on some of the happenings at last week's Forrest Wood Cup at Arkansas' Lake Ouachita. ...
David Dudley has compiled a pretty strong record at Lake Ouachita over the years. In five events at the Arkansas lake, including this year’s Forrest Wood ...
Wesley Strader didn’t qualify for the 2007 Forrest Wood Cup at Lake Ouachita. In 2011, when the Cup returned to Ouachita, he finished 22nd.
This year, ...
Official practice for the Lake St. Clair Bassmaster Elite Series got under way on Monday, but powerful winds kept many anglers from seeing as much of ...
Here are a few post-Forrest Wood Cup thoughts and observations while waiting to fly home from Little Rock.
> Byron Velvick is well suited for the ...
Brad Knight said the Forrest Wood Cup made an impromptu visit to the Bass Pro Shops store in Little Rock, Ark., today after he stopped to get a new pair ...
Shad Schenck announced Friday after weighing his fish on day 2 at the Forrest Wood Cup that he will not return to the FLW Tour in 2016. The 43-year-old ...
FLW and the Huntsville/Madison County Convention and Visitors Bureau (CVB) announced today that Huntsville, Ala., will be hosting the 2016 Forrest Wood ...
Saturday started a little soggy, but eventually cleared up as the Top 20 anglers took to the waters of Lake Ouachita with their sights set on qualifying ...
You'll never believe what Cliff Prince's first rod and reel combo consisted of. He also thinks Kevin VanDam can be quite the thespian.
Check out more ...
The Berkley Experience Trailer will be at Scheels All Sports in Kansas City, Mo. this Friday through Sunday (Aug. 21-23). The trailer, now in its 10th ...
BassFan editor Todd Ceisner is in Hot Springs, Ark., this week to cover the Forrest Wood Cup at Lake Ouachita. He'll be on the water each day as the tournament ...
It's Joe Balog's opinion that the top anglers in professional fishing are taking the sport to a competitive level that's never been seen before. As evidence ...
Quantum is beefing up its offerings at the more budget-friendly price points with the new rods and reels it introduced at ICAST this summer.
To learn ...
Spencer Grace and Jeff Keene had strong first days and solid third days, but day-2 struggles held both back at the Lake Dardanelle Central Rayovac last ...
Brent Ehrler isn't too proud to admit that he "fished scared" on day 3 at the Chesapeake Bay Bassmaster Elite Series.
"In a tournament ...
James Elam was one of 10 anglers who failed to catch a keeper on day 1 of the Chesapeake Bay Bassmaster Elite Series. On day 2, all but one of his 106 ...
There’s no real way to measure just how many hours or days Mark Davis has spent casting a line at Lake Ouachita.
“A lot,” Davis said Tuesday from ...
While practicing Monday for this week's Forrest Wood Cup, reigning FLW Tour Angler of the Year Scott Martin made a pretty unique discovery. While idling ...
Jason Lieblong caught a tournament-best 19-10 stringer on day 1 of the Lake Dardanelle Central Rayovac Series and never relinquished the lead as he captured ...
Jay Yelas spent part of the first day of official practice for the Forrest Wood Cup going through some areas he fished during the 2011 Cup at Lake Ouachita. ...
Jason Lieblong of Conway, Arkansas, weighed a 12-02 sack on Saturday to win the Lake Dardanelle Central Rayovac in Arkansas with a 3-day total of 46-03.
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B.A.S.S. announced today that Toledo Bend Reservoir on the Louisiana-Texas border will be one of the stops on the 2016 Bassmaster Elite Series. The organization ...
FLW will sign an agreement with Mexico that will result in the organization sanctioning tournaments in that country. The ceremony will take place Aug. ...
Jason Lieblong held onto his lead at the Lake Dardanelle Central Rayovac in Arkansas on Friday, but his advantage was reduced to 14 ounces with 1 day ...
Kevin Short recently announced he's retiring from Elite Series competition after this season. We caught up with him earlier this year and subjected him ...
Arkansas native Jason Lieblong keyed on areas that had current on them today and bagged a 19-10 limit, anchored by a 5-07 kicker, to take the day-1 lead ...
(Editor's note: Here's another short feature from veteran industry rep Alan McGuckin).
Practice reports from most pros indicated that perhaps ...
Fifth-year FLW Tour pro Jason Meninger will be fishing for a cause at next week's Forrest Wood Cup at Lake Ouachita in Arkansas. As he has done throughout ...
In this week's edition of Balog's Bass War, Joe Balog discusses the trend among hard-core anglers of choosing quieter modes of on-water transportation ...
When facing the conditions he's faced this week during practice for the Chesapeake Bay Elite Series, Kevin VanDam shifts into the only gear he knows – ...
Alan McGuckin, an industry rep who's on the scene at the Chesapeake Bay Elite Series, caught up with reigning Bassmaster Classic champ Casey Ashley ...
Rick Pierce, president of Bass Cat boats, is in Asia this week as the company works to expand its international market. On Monday he got the opportunity ...
The Berkley Experience Trailer will be in Cecil County, Md. this Friday through Sunday (Aug. 14-16) for the Bassmaster Elite Series event at the Chesapeake ...
FLW Tour Angler of the Year Scott Martin has announced he's aligned with Dr. Dan's, a skin care products company that is making a push into the fishing ...
At ICAST this year, tackle storage company Flambeau introduced several new options for anglers and boaters to store not only their fishing tackle, but ...
Industry rep Alan McGuckin is on the scene at the Chesapeake Bay Elite Series this week. He passed along the following story about the people behind ...
Dave Mercer is well known among BassFans as the emcee of the Bassmaster Elite Series, but as the host of the "Facts of Fishing" television series, ...
Randy Howell desperately wanted to win at Oneida Lake after losing a 2012 Bassmaster Elite Series tournament here by 6 ounces to Boyd Duckett. Settling ...
Kraig Kettlekamp faces daily pressure as a salesman in the medical industry. Saturday, he faces closing a deal that requires defending his lead at the ...
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources on Friday announced an additional rule change designed to attract national bass fishing tournaments to Mille ...
Zach Birge, fresh off a Rookie of the Year campaign on the FLW Tour, didn't want to sit around home for the next 2 weeks, tinkering with tackle or his ...
FLW Tour angler Scott Canterbury has adopted a multi-pronged approach to effectively picking apart creek mouths.
Learn more about how he does it in ...
The home lake advantage doesn’t apply to Kraig Kettelkamp, but the western New Yorker applied local logic to his lead at the Oneida Lake Bassmaster Northern ...
In this week's edition of Balog's Bass War, Joe Balog addresses the incident at last week's St. Lawrence River Bassmaster Elite Series that caused veteran ...
FLW has partnered with the Chattanooga Bass Association, Fish Dayton and the Hydrilla Hawgs to host the #NoogaStrong Memorial Bass Tournament on Lake ...
Mark Menendez’s encounter with an angry landowner during the St. Lawrence River Elite Series that resulted in Menendez filing a formal complaint with ...
Three-time FLW Tour Angler of the Year Clark Wendlandt is conducting a Facebook auction for a fishing trip with him on either Decker Lake or Lake Austin ...
The Mad Hueys, title sponsor of Australian Bassmaster Elite Series rookie Carl Jocumsen, have produced a video in which Jocumsen describes some of the ...
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources announced today that a regulation change will allow anglers to cull bass measuring less than 18 inches at ...
The Berkley Experience Trailer will at the Bassmaster Elite Series event at the Bass Pro Shops in Hanover, Md. this Friday through Sunday (Aug. 7-9). ...
Wedding bells bring wedding bills, so the $2,500 in contingency bonuses Brandon Card earned for his 4th-place finish at the St. Lawrence River Elite Series ...
Mark Menendez is back home in Kentucky now, but said Tuesday he’s been in regular contact with investigators from the New York State Department of Environmental ...
Aaron Martens thinks, that in another couple weeks, the smallmouth fishing in the St. Lawrence River will be markedly better than it was for last week’s ...
When it comes to smallmouth fishing, Matt Herren is like many of his Elite Series counterparts who hail from the South – he loves to fish for them, but ...
Elite Series pro Mark Menendez has filed a complaint with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, alleging a landowner along the ...
Glenn Browne had electrical issues on his boat today and switched boats before making a cast, but still make it look easy at the Lake Champlain Northern ...
> Industry rep Alan McGuckin shared the following piece about Greg Hackney's shallow-water game plan at the St. Lawrence River this week.
In a tournament ...
By Dustin Wilks Special to BassFan
(Editor's note: "Catching Bass with Dustin Wilks" airs four times per week on the Sportsman Channel – 6
By B.A.S.S. Communications Staff
PALATKA, Fla. — Cory Johnston fished a full tournament. But with all due respect to nine other competitors, he could’ve
By B.A.S.S. Communications Staff PALATKA, Fla. — With less competition, but more company, Cory Johnston leveraged late-day heroics to extend his lead