Scott Canterbury has been an established FLW pro for the past eight years, but he still hopes to someday fish the Bassmaster Classic. The Alabamian aims to accomplish this via the Bassmaster Opens...
Connecticut’s Terry Baksay competed in his first Bassmaster tournament, the Hudson River Invitational, in 1984. He was 25 years old then and hopelessly hooked on bass fishing. Today, Baksay...
Sunshine State angler Patrick Pierce attended the University of Florida to become a fisheries biologist. His real goal was to have a job that would keep him close to bass fishing waters.
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Editor's note: Adrian Avena finished this year's Bass Pro Shop's Northern Opens with 561 points and took first place in the 2015 Northern Opens standings. Avena landed in the Top 20 of...
WAGONER, Okla. — Bassmaster Elite Series pro Tommy Biffle of Wagoner, Okla., was the favorite to win the Bass Pro Shops Bassmaster Central Open presented by Allstate at Fort Gibson Lake....
WAGONER, Okla. — Consistency is everything in the sport of tournament bass fishing. If you slam a heavy limit one day and bomb the next, you have no chance of winning a multi-day Bassmaster...
At every Bass Pro Shops Bassmaster Open that I have covered or competed in this year, countless anglers have lamented on the weigh-in stage that they lost good fish right at the boat. I...
Bass fishermen who don't compete in multi-day tournaments like the Bass Pro Shops Bassmaster Opens often second-guess the players who put up their money and step into the fray. The...
WAGONER, Okla. — When hometown angler Tommy Biffle of Wagoner, Okla., snatched the lead with 17 pounds, 10 ounces of largemouth bass Thursday, it appeared that the Bass Pro Shops...
Three 2015 Bassmaster Elite Series anglers roll by during the launch: Kevin Short, Fred Roumbanis and Stephen Browning. Opens angler Luke Clausen is ready to roll as well.
Music greets the early arrivers to the Fort Gibson launch. Luke Clausen talks bow hunting before takeoff, then everyone pauses for the national anthem.
Jay Brainard is one of the most fearless anglers to ever set his sights on becoming a Bassmaster Elite Series pro. His first career, which he began at age 17, was protecting bull riders from bulls...
Tennessee’s Grayson Smith has made money in all five of the Bassmaster Open tournaments he has competed in. If he never fishes another Open, Smith will end his career with a batting average...
If you read my personal account of the James River Northern Open last month, James River Jinx, you know that an outboard problem foiled that tournament for me. I thought I had fixed the malady the...
