BASS today announced the schedule for its 2011 Bassmaster Opens. Here's the scoop.
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BASS today announced the schedule for its 2011 Bassmaster Opens. Here's the scoop.
Editor's note: Industry veteran Alan McGuckin spent a day in the boat with Mike Iaconelli this week at the Toyota Texas Bass Classic practice. He penned ...
Pinnacle Fishing today announced the addition of John Crews to its pro staff. The deal was described as multiyear and Crews will now use Pinnacle Tournament ...
Vicious Fishing today named Chris Armstrong its new national sales manager. Armstrong, a 27-year industry veteran, was most recently with Bandit until ...
BassFans may remember that Terry Baksay had to pull out of the Guntersville FLW Tour event in June of this year. He felt too ill to compete. At the time, ...
More good news for the FLW Walleye Tour. Not only will next year's Tour return to a four-event televised format with a no-entry-fee championship, but ...
Triton Boats was recently sold to Project Boat Holdings, which also owns Ranger and Stratos. The two largest boat competitors were thus merged under a ...
Two brief notes about Kota Kiriyama's upcoming American Dream tournament at Lake Wheeler.
PowerPole stepped up to sponsor the event and a PowerPole ...
Tim Horton's Fishing For Kids event pairs anglers with special-needs kids for a day of fishing on Alabama's Lake Pickwick out of McFarland Park. The program ...
A record catfish, the walleye champ, a giant gator and the UK going Ike are included in this week's Facts of Fishing FYI with Dave Mercer. To see it, ...
Newly crowned Western FLW Series Angler of the Year (AOY) Brent Ehrler (pictured) heads a list of 10 circuit competitors who've achieved berths in the ...
Several new entries were published today in the ongoing Abu Garcia For Life! contest – two from BassFans in Iowa and one from Arkansas. To get a look ...
There's less than a week left in Seaguar's promotion for its TATSU fluorocarbon line. BassFans who purchase TATSU by Sept. 30 receive a free Seaguar hat, ...
The Bass University today announced its much-anticipated list of speakers for the upcoming season.
"We are very excited about our speaker list ...
A bit of good news for Midwest anglers: Central Pro-Am announced that Ranger Boats has returned as a sponsor.
Ranger sponsored Central Pro-Ams for ...
Here at BassFan, we love stories that tell about an angler's first big fish, and how that led to a lifetime passion. There's a good piece over on Bassmaster.com ...
BASS today announced details of its 2010 Junior Bassmaster World Championship (JBWC). Commonly referred to as the "Jr. Classic," the JBWC used ...
Mercury today extended its status as an official engine sponsor of BASS. BASS will thus continue with a multi-engine sponsorship that also includes Yamaha.
Mercury ...
Yesterday was day 1 of the Roosevelt Western FLW Series. Sure, this remote lake north of Phoenix, Ariz. is no Delta or Clear Lake, but after a devastating ...
The whole sport is in sort of a holding pattern right now. The McKinnis, Logan and Copeland purchase of BASS is moving along, McKinnis tells BassFan, ...
This week's Facts of Fishing FYI is pretty interesting. Seems some anti-use folks are saying "Shame on Shimano." But host Dave Mercer says "Celebrate ...
Miles Burghoff has submitted his latest Sonar Soundoff piece, and it's all about his BFL Super Tournament win at Lake Okeechobee. He views it as a big ...
Indiana veteran Chip Harrison qualified to fish the 2011 Bassmaster Elite Series via his 7th-place finish in the Northern Open points, but he's in no ...
Ish Monroe wants BassFans to know that a new clothing company's up and running. He's heavily involved with Team Bass Adx and he said the clothing items ...
Angling Technologies announced today that it recently signed Bassmaster Elite Series Rookie of the Year Bradley Roy of Kentucky to an endorsement contract ...
Mark Rose won this week's Chickamauga Eastern FLW Tour with a 14-plus-pound average per day. He edged runner-up Wesley Strader by 2 1/2 pounds.
The ...
Michigan FLW Tour pro Nate Wellman slammed a comparatively massive 22-15 on the final day and easily won the Chesapeake Bassmaster Northern Open by more ...
Sure, your favorite braided line is great for topwaters and jerkbaits and the like, but here's betting you turn to fluorocarbon for deeper presentations. ...
Perhaps the most unique tournament offered this year is Kota Kiriyama's American Dream. The winner gets a cultural-exchange trip with Kota to Japan to ...
The fall incentive season is underway, and Yamaha today announced the newest version of it's Why Wait? Buy Now! promotion.
The promotion provides ...
Dave Mercer covers topics like when not to show your tweets, a giant koi and a man-eating fish. Click below to watch.
Seaguar today announced a new promotion for its TATSU fluorocarbon line. Here's the scoop.
For a limited time, BassFans who purchase TATSU receive ...
The Toyota Texas Bass Classic (TTBC) today announced the field of anglers that will compete in this year's event, scheduled for Oct. 1-3 at Lake Conroe. ...
BassFan founder Jay Kumar sold his company in 2007 and then went incognito for a few years. But he's back in fishing with a new blog-style site that takes ...
Miles "Sonar" Burghoff, a University of Central Florida student and aspiring pro angler who writes a regular column for BassFan, notched the ...
Feeling overwhelmed by all the different shapes and styles of worms out there? Larry Nixon still keeps things pretty simple, and today on the Catch More ...
Two items of interest in the battle to keep destructive Asian carp out of the Great Lakes.
President Obama recently appointed former Indiana DNR chief ...
Take a look at Shin Fukae's list of favorites and you'll find things like the following - baby back ribs, Lakes Champlain and Okeechobee, his Toyota Sequoia, ...
The PAA Tournament Series event at Lake Tawakoni is still a go, but its status is uncertain due to severe weather in the Dallas area. The event is scheduled ...
Early Times today announced the winner of its Reel in a Million contest.
Michael Skidmore of Chicago, Ill. was chosen randomly from among more than ...
Hot on the heels of BASS's Skeeter announcement, Yamaha (parent company of Skeeter) also announced a renewed BASS sponsorship. The Yamaha deal, like Skeeter, ...
A tournament cheater, a fake shark, a guy who'd caught 1,000 species of fish and a would-be whale-eater are featured on this week's Facts of Fishing FYI ...
Lake Tawakoni in Texas, site of this week's PAA Tournament Series event, is low. The field has thus been pretty jammed up around any shallow cover available.
Change ...
Both Sunline and Takahiro Omori launched new sites today.
In the case of Japan-based Sunline, this is a new site dedicated to the U.S. Market. For ...
Florida FLW Tour pro Glenn Browne, the winner at this year's event at Ft. Loudoun-Tellico, notified BassFan today that he's inked a deal with E21 Fishing, ...
BASS announced today that Skeeter Boats will continue its sponsorship of the organization under a new multi-year deal. Skeeter will serve as an official ...
The BASS sale isn't final yet, but already, a community in Alabama is reaching out to the McKinnis, Logan and Copeland group.
According to the ...
Berkley has introduced a lizard to its highly successful lineup of Crazy Legs baits. The 10 appendages combined with the PowerBait scent should make it ...
In the wake of the disqualifications of Jim Gildea (the 7th-place finisher on the pro side) and co-angler Pete DeMoya at the recent Champlain Eastern ...
Edwin Evers wants to shout out to BassFans and let them know he'll make in-store appearances at several Bass Pro Shops locations this weekend. Here's ...
Three industry giants now find themselves in a potential court battle that involves braided superlines and scent-dispersal plastics.
Pure Fishing, ...
Another tournament cheater has been caught, this one in Florida. Cedric Jerome Perry was arrested Monday night and reportedly confessed to catching fish ...
After what seemed to be long, bitter negotiations, Time Warner and Disney-ESPN reached an agreement late yesterday. That means there'll be no interruption ...
Alabama Bassmaster Elite Series pro Russ Lane has signed an endorsement deal with Boomerang Tool Company of Mountain View, Calif., makers of the BTC line ...
A quartet of tour-level pros have teamed up to offer 4-day, on-the-water bass fishing class at Oklahoma's Grand Lake in October.
Bassmaster Elite Series ...
It's a familiar refrain: "These bass tournaments are hurting the fishing on my lake." We hear it all too often, and the din usually sounds from ...
In this day and age, it's typical to hear about various fires between networks and cable providers. There was the Comcast-Versus battle that eventually ...
Mark Zona wants BassFans to know his new show is in production for a January debut, and you can catch up with him at his new site – ...
The website for The Bass University – the seminar series conducted by pro anglers Mike Iaconelli and Pete Gluszek and featuring instruction by a host ...
By John Johnson BassFan Senior Editor
A look at the ages of the anglers who comprise the current Top 10 on the Bassmaster Opens Elite Qualifiers Division
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