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First off, sorry for the lack of a recap article last week. We took a nice vacation, but we still managed to get the rankings updated – just no story. So, we figured this week […]
Gerald Swindle had little idea how far he trailed the leader and no thoughts of coming close to a win heading into the last day at the Bassmaster Elite Series event at Lake Dardanelle – […]
Knowing when to throw which baits where was the Key to Jacob Wheeler’s win last week on Tennessee’s Lake Chickamauga in Bassmaster’s first-ever BASSfest. He caught most of his biggest fish on a Rapala® DT® […]
The smallmouth bass (Micropterus dolomieu) goes by many nicknames—smallie, bronzeback, brownie, and brown bass, to name a few—which is a sign of its popularity in different parts of the country. It’s the most trout–like bass, […]
Wisconsin is clearly the best destination in the world for giant smallmouth these days. Consider this: in mid-May the state produced an 8.29-pound giant from Green Bay and another giant from an unnamed lake in […]
When Mark Powell decided to go fishing on Chickamauga Lake at 4 a.m. on Monday, May 5, he never expected to hook the biggest largemouth bass ever caught there. But that’s exactly what happened! Powell […]
Jacob Wheeler chose the road less traveled. It led straight to victory Sunday in the inaugural Bassmaster BASSfest event. The 23-year-old from Indianapolis, Ind., amassed 90 pounds, 6 ounces over four days of competition on […]
On Heavily-Pressured Waters, Russ Lane Chooses Worms Instead of Jigs or Crankbaits. When Russ Lane gave up a promising baseball career to become a fulltime professional bass fisherman, he quickly realized he had to change […]
Professional bass anglers are a secretive group when it comes to how they catch their fish. Sure, they’ll go into great detail about what rod, reel and lure they caught them on, but they dance […]
As we work our way through the spawn we start to see post spawn fish show up all over the lake; to me this can be the best time of year for many reasons. I […]
Today starts FROG WEEK on The Bass University TV. Frog fishing is definitely one of the most exciting and heart breaking ways to fish for big bass! New this week on Bass U TV are […]
The Illinois River north of the Alton/St. Louis area is an ever changing situation for the bass angler. What man has not changed weather is likely to modify. The joining to the Kankakee and the […]
Greg Hackney was just looking to cut a check. Well, he cut a big one. Heading into the FLW Tour event at Pickwick, Hackney said he simply wanted to make keep himself in contention to […]
In bass fishing, BASSfest is the new black. June 11-15 in Dayton, Tenn., BASSfest will be the latest innovation in pro fishing. Part competition, part festival, the five-day event will feature 140 of the best […]
Bassmaster Elite Series pro Ott DeFoe got the monkey off his back by finally winning a major tournament on his home waters. The Knoxville, Tenn., competitor clinched his first victory at Douglas Lake by catching […]
As we have moved through time in the last many years I constantly get reminded that the fishing industry has changed drastically; I am not sure it has all been good, but it for sure […]
Consistency has put Ott DeFoe in position to win his first Bassmaster event on his home waters of Douglas Lake. “Every big tournament we’ve had here I have done well, but I have yet to […]
Dewayne Wilson put his custom-built rods to the ultimate test by catching a heavyweight limit and claiming the lead in the Bass Pro Shops Bassmaster Northern Open presented by Allstate at Douglas Lake. Willson, owner […]
Anyone who’s fished a tournament knows there’s more to competing than simply showing up on game day and relying on sheer luck to put fish in the boat. Especially if you want to win. Serious […]
Now is the time to provide your opinion about Florida’s proposed change to largemouth bass management by filling out a new online survey. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) wants to be sure […]
GRINDTV REPORTED FIRST: For nearly four decades, a 22-pound, 4-ounce largemouth bass reeled from Georgia’s Lake Montgomery stood as the highly coveted world record, and as the years passed that 1932 catch became increasingly special. […]
Bassmaster Magazine’s third annual ranking of America’s best bass fisheries has been announced, and there is a new champion. Lake Michigan’s Sturgeon Bay beat out the hottest fisheries in the U.S. to take the No. […]
It is Hack Attack Week on TheBassUniversity.com! Greg Hackney is well known for being one of the best power fishermen on tour. His brand new 45 minute shallow cranking class is a must watch for […]
The modern era of bass fishing was jumpstarted in the late 1960s when a team of professional bass fishermen joined Ray Scott’s B.A.S.S. Seminar Trail and traveled the United States, teaching advanced fishing techniques to […]
Five pounds down after Day 1. Six pounds down after Day 2. No big deal for Jason Christie. Heading into Day 3 of the Elite Series event on Lake Dardanelle, Christie was sitting in 10th […]
There’s nothing that goes together with post spawn fish better than fishing a big worm on drops, edges and points. It’s been a fishing fact for many years when the bass move off the beds […]
Continuing coverage by B.A.S.S.: One day after Chris Lane’s bass boat was destroyed by fire, there are more questions than answers concerning the cause. “The fire marshal is trying to figure out the cause of […]
Patience certainly does have its virtues. Just ask Greg Hackney, the new leader in the Bassmaster Elite Series at Lake Dardanelle. After landing a 4-pound largemouth soon after competition began Friday, Hackney stuck it out […]
Early spring can be a great time for “cranking” up some bass in the Ozark’s deep clear water reservoirs. Deep running crankbaits will produce largemouth, smallmouth and Kentucky spotted bass, along with some occasional white […]
“Steady” was the first word John Crews came up with when asked about his first day of competition in the May 15-18 Bassmaster Elite at Lake Dardanelle. “One good one here, one good one there, […]
If you are among the 750,000-plus Florida bass anglers, now is the time to provide your opinion about Florida’s proposed change to largemouth bass conservation by filling out a new online survey. The change being […]
B.A.S.S. 1st Posted in 2008: Bright green lily pads with stark white flowers make for memorable backgrounds in artists’ renderings of leaping largemouth. But consistently catching oversized bass from pads isn’t easy, nor is it […]
It might be time to rename the Toyota Texas Bass Classic the “Keith Combs Charity Tournament.” Heading into last weekend, Combs had already won two TTBCs and finished third and fourth the other two times […]
Hey there fish-fans. Today I want to talk about something that anyone who has ever fished a tournament can relate to, and that is losing. As anglers, and as competitors, we of course want to […]
The world championship of bass fishing, the Toyota Texas Bass Classic was decided by a world record-breaking performance from two-time winner and defending TTBC Champion Keith Combs of Huntington, Texas. Combs broke the tour-level world […]
Marinij.com REPORTED: On a late winter’s day in the Sierra Nevada foothills, Novato angler Keith Bryan was passing the afternoon casting a lure from a boat drifting near the bank of New Melones Reservoir. Bryan, […]
B.A.S.S. has introduced its newest interactive app, Bassmaster News, to help fans stay connected to all things bass fishing, all the time.The Bassmaster News app is a daily news feed that brings the user up-to-the-minute […]
Swim jigs have a reputation for catching big bass out of heavy cover. There is no telling how many tournaments have been won or giant bass caught on a swim jig. Of all the swim […]
When it comes to weather and its affect on how the fish respond nothing changes the bite more than a few degrees of water temperature increase in the early spring time. This year with all […]
For families who are looking to expand their outdoor adventures beyond the neighborhood park and pool, Bass Pro Shops free workshops and activities at their Go Outdoors event are the perfect place to learn the […]
The only knock on him was that he’d never won a major event. Well, that knock is gone. After a near disastrous Day 3 at the Elite Series event at Toledo Bend, Powroznik rebounded with […]
Following an early warming that brought many of the bass out of deeper waters, cooler temperatures and high winds lately have slowed the bass spawn tremendously this year. Though a few spotted bass were able […]
Jacob Powroznik delivered that punch Sunday in the form of two good-sized bass in the last hours of competition of the four-day Evan Williams Bourbon Bassmaster Elite at Toledo Bend. “I’m speechless. That doesn’t happen […]
Toledo Bend Reservoir produced a little something extra — lagniappe in Louisiana French-speak — for Dean Rojas on Saturday. Actually, that something extra was very large: a 7-pound, 2-ounce largemouth bass. And it proved to […]
Some places are preordained to be visited by anglers and their families. Edgar Evins State Park is one of those places. This beautiful state park is located on the shores of Center Hill Lake. The […]
Jared Lintner went to extremes Thursday, the first day of the May 1-4 Evan Williams Bourbon Bassmaster Elite at Toledo Bend out of Many, La. He was especially extreme in his choice of fishing lines […]
Bass Pro Shops, the primary sponsor of Richard Childress Racing’s No. 3 Chevrolet SS driven by Austin Dillon in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, will pay tribute to the National Rifle Association’s members and the […]
A change in his practice methods for the Bass Pro Shops Central Open #2 presented by Allstate on the Red River is paying off for Gerald Spohrer. Last year the Gonzalez, La., angler ran the […]
April is a time of transition for bass anglers across the country. Except for those located in the Deep South, bass across most of the country will be moving out of their winter haunts and […]
Chances are good that chartreuse is one of the primary colors in your tackle box. It’s a standard for spinnerbaits. As a dip, it sweetens the tails of soft plastics. On crankbaits and topwaters, it […]
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