My 2016 Fantasy Fishing season was anything but a fantasy. I made a conscious decision to primarily pick based on history. There were a couple times where I went with my gut, but for whatever...
It won’t be long before we all start looking for our bass in the shallows. (I’m talking about water less than 5 feet deep.) And, some of us will be looking at our electronics for help. Most of that...
You bet there are, so long as you keep a working definition of shallow in mind.Let’s start at the beginning. I have a hard time believing that a bass — largemouth, smallmouth or spot — swims miles...
Yes. It’s a rare day when I’m out bass fishing and I don’t have a balsa crankbait of some kind tied on and ready at hand. Here’s why.Balsa is much more buoyant than plastic. This gives it a unique...
Now’s the time when you can catch bass in water that’s less than 2 feet deep, and one of the best ways to do that is with a topwater bait. Here are the baits I like the best.Without a doubt my...
In the last column we talked about how to handle hot weather and hot water. That might have been written a little early because the weather’s been even hotter after that column was published, and...
Don’t believe everything you read about the big bass moving deep in the summertime. There are plenty of them to be caught shallow. And yes, I know the water’s over 80 degrees in most parts of the...
It’s early summer. Spring is history and summer’s in the future. Where are the big females? What happened to them after they left their beds?I mean, let’s be honest. A lot of the time bass aren’t...
Bill Lowen is known to the bass fishing world as a steady competitor who more-often-than-not brings back a solid catch each day he goes out. As evidence, Lowen has finished “in the money” a...
It’s a short week between events, and we are gathered here today with a tight deadline to get our Fantasy Fishing picks in, so forgive me if I’m a little bit giddy. Baby, it’s much too fast. Like...
MOUNTAIN HOME, Ark. — The format of this tournament really threw a lot of the 108 Bassmaster Elite Series anglers, and Bassmaster Fantasy Fishing players for a loop. Some didn’t like it all, while...
After Day 1 of the Bull Shoals/Norfork Elite Series tournament, I felt like Indiana Jones running from the giant boulder in Raiders of the Lost Ark. I really felt like finally I was going to have a...