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Meet the Elites: Drew Benton
Meet the Elites: Drew Benton
“Stick your hand into the fire and see how much you can take.” That’s Elite Series Pro Drew Benton’s formula for climbing to the highest ranks in professional bass fishing. The 31-year old Florida...
Bassmaster Magazine still funneling fishing info
Bassmaster Magazine still funneling fishing info
Bassmaster Magazine's advanced writing, photography, information, design and features provide information to enhance the bass fishing experience of its readers.
The smell of support
The smell of support
I bought a candle. I think it was the bramble berry scent, whatever that is. I do know that it was the color of my favorite junebug worm, which sealed the deal. The purchase was inspired by my...
Bad luck perspective
Bad luck perspective
Do you hang around people that have bad luck just to make yourself feel better? Wait, let me rephrase; that sounds mean. Do any of your good buddies happen to have a good run of bad luck, which...
Mark Daniels Jr. wins at Oahe
Mark Daniels Jr. wins at Oahe
Mark Daniels Jr. is the champion at the Berkley Bassmaster Elite at Lake Oahe presented by Abu Garcia with 69-9.
MDJ maintains monster lead
MDJ maintains monster lead
Mark Daniels Jr. maintains the lead on Day 3 of Berkley Bassmaster Elite at Lake Oahe presented by Abu Garcia with a three-day total of 56-6.
Learning moment
Learning moment
Three things I’ve learned watching Cliff Pirch this morning:1. He turns the Lowrance on his console to face him while fishing on the front deck. He glances at both his bow unit (transducer at front...
Triple Play
Triple Play
Cliff Pirch just amazed me. Not with a fish catch, but by doing three things at the same time that most anglers struggle with individually. He made a cast, and while it was sinking, opened up a...
The Pirch clinic
The Pirch clinic
Cliff Pirch is on fire. In the last 15 minutes, he has broken off a big smallie and landed three others. One was short, the other two were in the 2- to 2 1/2-pound range.Hooked up again! This one...
Pirch strikes early
Pirch strikes early
We barely sat our boat down after locating Cliff Pirch when he set the hook. It couldn’t have been more than his third cast of the day. He fought the fish for .. ev .. er! I mean, it was a legit...
MDJ takes the lead at Oahe
MDJ takes the lead at Oahe
Mark Daniels Jr. takes the lead with 39-0 on Day 2 of the Berkley Bassmaster Elite at Lake Oahe presented by Abu Garcia.
Fritts takes first at Oahe
Fritts takes first at Oahe
With a total weight of 19-7, Elite David Fritts claimed the Day 1 lead of the Berkley Bassmaster Elite at Lake Oahe presented by Abu Garcia.
Bad break for Lucas
Bad break for Lucas
After watching Bertrand cull up to almost 13 pounds, we decided to slide over to Justin Lucas. He is also fishing deep structure on the main lake. A few minutes after we arrived, he set the hook on...
Bertrand set the hook
Bertrand set the hook
So, after 30 minutes of nothingness, Bertrand set the hook on his third keeper. It looked to be smaller than the first two but it went in the box. A few minutes later he was bowed up on another...
Bobbing for anglers
Bobbing for anglers
We sat bobbing in the middle of Lake Oahe on the south end of the fishery near the dam, waiting for Josh Bertrand to arrive at his starting point after a wind delay this morning.The waves are...
Proudly showing our age
Proudly showing our age
With the publication of this issue, I have officially thumbed through every page of every Bassmaster since its inception in 1968. That’s 448 magazines, which equates to roughly 50,000 pages of...
The dumbest fish in Travis
The dumbest fish in Travis
Just pulled up on Hunter Shryock. “Man, it’s slow!” He hollered at us. “This is like fishing in a bathtub, it’s so clear. I did catch one about 5 pounds, though. Must be the dumbest fish in Travis!...
The dam anglers
The dam anglers
We left mid lake and headed to the dam. There are plenty of guys to follow within sight of the giant wall of rocks. Palaniuk was the first we ran into. Said he just had a batch of schoolers come to...
JVD needs more sun
JVD needs more sun
Just pulled up on JVD, who is skipping floaters. He said he caught some big fish here during practice. However, the sun was much higher. He believes the school he found is likely scattered until...
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