Like to heave big baits while searching for big bass? The Abu Garcia Revo Beast, winner of the best new freshwater reel award at ICAST 2014, is packed ...
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Like to heave big baits while searching for big bass? The Abu Garcia Revo Beast, winner of the best new freshwater reel award at ICAST 2014, is packed ...
Two veteran competitors, a successful entrepreneur and a prolific writer comprise the 2015 class of inductees for the Bass Fishing Hall of Fame.
Professional ...
PRADCO Outdoor Brands, the parent company of YUM, Booyah, Rebel and other lure manufacturers, announced today that it's acquired Mississippi-based Bandit ...
Cliff Pace, the 2013 Bassmaster Classic champion who missed the entire 2014 Elite Series season while recovering from a broken leg, will return to tournament ...
The Bass Federation, FLW and the Student Angler Federation announced recently that the Grand Lake Association and Grove, Okla., will host the TBF Federation ...
The advent and growing popularity of remote-operated drones or quad-copters this year has prompted both FLW and B.A.S.S. to revise their "fly over" ...
The Outdoor Wire published a story today on the world's most expensive antique lures. You probably don't have any of these sitting in a tackle box in ...
The long delay at the Elite Series Angler of the Championship poured more fuel on the age-old debate about whether bass tournaments belong on the Great ...
With one Bassmaster Southern Open remaining, Miles Burghoff still has faint hopes of qualifying for the 2015 Classic and Elite Series. If those don't ...
News organization Reuters reported Monday that Platinum Equity is seeking a buyer for Ranger Boats.
Reuters cited three sources in its report, which ...
Now that the dust has settled and the waves have calmed after the Angler of the Year Championship at Lake Michigan concluded on Monday, the field for ...
PAA President Matt Reed has announced that the PAA Tournament Series event on Douglas Lake in Dandridge, Tenn., scheduled for this week, has been postponed. ...
Industry rep Alan McGuckin has been in Escanaba, Mich., since last week at the Bassmaster Elite Series Angler of the Year Championship. The competition ...
Ott DeFoe left Escanaba, Mich., on Sunday and will not compete Monday in the final round of the Elite Series Angler of the Year Championship due to a ...
Another round of windy weather, this time out of the north, has forced B.A.S.S. to cancel competition at the Elite Series Angler of the Year Championship ...
Jimmy Johnson caught a 13-13 bag on Saturday to win the win the Mississippi River Central Rayovac with a 3-day total of 45-07. Johnson led the tournament ...
Late last fall, I took my daughter down to the shoreline of Lake Erie in Hamburg, N.Y. The weather man here in Buffalo said the winds were going to ...
With a small craft advisory still in effect for the Bay de Noc area of Lake Michigan, B.A.S.S. officials have cancelled day 2 of the Elite Series Angler ...
Jimmy Johnson retained his lead on Friday at the Mississippi River Central Rayovac, but the margin was reduced from 4 pounds to 2 1/2 as he weighed an ...
Professional Anglers Association (PAA) president Matt Reed announced today that the winner of next week's PAA Tournament Series event at Douglas Lake ...
Industry rep Alan McGuckin passed along this piece today about Elite Series pro Casey Ashley's love-hate relationship with smallmouth bass.
Pro ...
After initially shortening day 2 of the Angler of the Year Championship at Lake Michigan due to a threatening weather forecast, B.A.S.S. just announced ...
Jimmy Johnson caught a massive bag of smallmouths that averaged 4 pounds apiece en route to grabbing the day-1 lead at the Mississippi River Central Rayovac, ...
Fan attending the Bassmaster Elite Series Angler of the Year Championship this week will have the opportunity to enhance their bass fishing skills at ...
The conviction and sentencing of two bass-tournament cheaters in Alabama this week has prompted Joe Balog to pen his latest column on the topic that everyone ...
Top-ranked bass angler Jason Christie recently installed a ceiling-mounted LEER Locker and filled it full of many expected items such spools of Sunline, ...
BassFan has learned that Ken Duke, a senior editor of B.A.S.S. publications, will leave the organization at the end of this month to become managing editor ...
Two Alabama men charged with cheating in a bass tournament at Lake Guntersville earlier this year were found guilty and sentenced Monday to 30 days in ...
David Gregg, a two-time Bassmaster Classic qualifier who competed on both major circuits, died over the weekend at age 67 after reportedly falling ill ...
Mud Hole Custom Tackle is seeking photos of custom-built bass rods for its 2015 Calendar Contest. The deadline is Oct. 1.
“Because Mud Hole provides ...
Trisha Blake, president of FLW's marketing division, and Kathy Fennel, who heads up the organization's operations division, are among 17 people in the ...
Aaron Martens said he caught a 7-pound smallmouth today as practice got under way for the Elite Series Angler of the Year Championship at Lake Michigan. ...
Former Bassmaster Elite Series pro Mark Tyler cashed in his home-water advantage to win the Arkansas River Bassmaster Central Open out of Muskogee, Okla. ...
Mark Tyler's strategy of relying on past history and “winging it” is giving the former Bassmaster Elite Series pro an edge at the Central Open finale ...
David Dudley is an active guy – the kind who rarely lazes around the house on days he's not fishing or tending to his Virginia farm.
His active lifestyle ...
Clayton Coppin, a Wagoner, Okla. resident who got into the Arkansas River Bassmaster Central Open off the waiting list and didn't practice for the event, ...
The lipless crankbait and grass fishing go together like peanut butter and jelly.
In the latest Bass University TV program, FLW Tour pro Scott Martin ...
Gator Guards, makers of the KeelShield, announced this week it is expanding its school sponsorship and tournament rewards program that started in 2010.
Clubs ...
Gator Guards, the makers of KeelShield, announced today the company has become an official sponsor of angler Clay Dyer.
Dyer, a professional bass ...
Lowrance announced today it reached a three-year agreement to form an exclusive partnership with Skeeter Performance Fishing Boats. Lowrance HDS Gen2 ...
Arizona Bassmaster Elite Series pro Clifford Pirch became the third angler to win the WON Bass U.S. Open three times on Wednesday as he caught an 8.19-pound ...
Joe Balog was in great position to win the Lake St. Clair Bassmaster Northern Open last week before encountering major mechanical issues at take-off on ...
The 29th season of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) Toyota ShareLunker program will begin Oct. 1.
Anyone legally catching a 13-pound ...
Clifford Pirch weighed a bag on day 2 of the WON Bass U.S. Open that was less than half the size of the one he brought in the previous day, but he nonetheless ...
BRP announced today the “Choose to Extend the Season Fall Sales Event” for its Evinrude outboard engine brand.
During the promotion, which runs Nov. ...
Chris Blair and Kevin Allen caught a 20.36-pound bag to win the recent SPRO Open at Lake Guntersville in Alabama, earning the top prize of $10,000 by ...
Bassmaster Elite Series angler Clifford Pirch laid a strong foundation for his third career WON Bass U.S. Open title on Monday as he weighed a 15.47 sack ...
College bass fishing has grown by leaps and bounds over the past few years, and now a group of students at the University of Tennessee is hoping to expand ...
Bass anglers looking to add a cap or tonneau cover to their truck this month are in luck – LEER is offering a special discount to America’s bass anglers. ...
The Minn Kota Ulterra has eliminated the physical work involved with deploying and stowing your trolling motor. That's right – Minn Kota has introduced ...
Chad Pipkens picked the right day to have the best day of his life fishing Lake Erie.
The 31-year-old Holt, Mich., angler, who has fished lakes St. ...
Greg Hackney, winner of the recent Bassmaster Elite Series event at Cayuga Lake and the leader in the Toyota Tundra B.A.S.S. Angler of the Year (AOY) ...
A pro field of 165 anglers – the largest in several years – will compete in the 32nd WON Bass U.S. Open at Nevada's Lake Mead. The event runs Monday through ...
Joe Balog caught a tournament-best 25-02 today and held onto the lead at the Lake St. Clair Bassmaster Northern Open.
Balog, who has 47-10 through ...
FLW Outdoors announced today that it has moved the Lake Chickamauga FLW Tour event, originally scheduled for June 4-7, 2015, back a week to alleviate ...
Joe Balog sacked 22-08 today fishing his home waters of Lake St. Clair and opened the final Bassmaster Northern Open with a 4-ounce lead over fellow local ...
A couple weeks ago, B.A.S.S. announced a portion of its 2015 Elite Series schedule, highlighted by a western swing to Arizona and California. Today, ...
Joe Balog has no doubt that Kevin VanDam will rebound from his sub-par 2014 season and add to his already phenomenal list of accomplishments, but he believes ...
Major League Fishing announced today that it recently completed the filming of the General Tire Summit Cup, a 6-day competition in the Waterville, Me. ...
By B.A.S.S. Communications Staff
PALATKA, Fla. — Cory Johnston knew he was playing a high-stakes game, but the Canadian pro believed the potential payoff
By B.A.S.S. Communications Staff
PALATKA, Fla. — A little bit of water can make big things happen. Leveraging that logic, Caleb Sumrall sacked up a massive
By B.A.S.S. Communications Staff
PALATKA, Fla. — John Cox grew up on Florida’s east coast, so he is intimately familiar with nearly every section of the