In the final analysis, it was the most intense Toyota Bassmaster Angler of the Year race in Bassmaster Elite Series history. And not just at the top, where Scott Canterbury didn’t clinch the AOY...
Amazingly, on the final day of the 2019 Elite Series season, there’s a way that each of the four Toyota Bassmaster AOY contenders can be crowned Angler of the Year at the final weigh-in. The...
On the surface, tournament bass fishing appears to be an individual sport. But every angler has an unofficial team of fellow competitors that he works with during practice and, occasionally, during...
Jeff Gustafson can make himself a couple of thousand dollars more with a higher finish today, but he doesn't have much at stake. He came into the AOY Championship ranked 30th in points, with a...
Chris Zaldain has seemed dead in the water most of today. The one angler who had the best chance to catch AOY leader Scott Canterbury needed something to give a boost to his good, but not great,...
Seth Feider is culling 4-pounders, by tenths of a pound. At 12:15 p.m. he probably clinched the tournament championship, if he hadn't before, when he culled a 4.45-pounder with a 4.56-pounder....
It should come as no surprise to anyone who has followed the 2019 Bassmaster Elite Series that the Toyota Angler of the Year race, like everything else this season, has come down to the final day...
Lake Tenkiller was almost a season-killer for Skylar Hamilton. The postponed and relocated final Elite Series tournament saw the 24-year-old Hamilton drop out of the AOY top 42 standings after he...
Mechanical failures have marred Cory Johnston's first two days of the AOY Championship. On Day 1, it was an outboard motor failure. On Day 2, it was a trolling motor failure."I had no trolling...
"Bassmaster LIVE" today included a 40-minute segment we'll call "The Seth Feider Show." It began at 12:21 p.m. when Feider landed a 4-pound, 5-ounce smallmouth bass. That fish was followed by three...
DETROIT, Mich. — Canadian fishing brothers Cory and Chris Johnston have always pooled their tournament winnings and split them 50-50. If Cory were to win the Toyota Bassmaster Angler of the Year...
Keith Combs is in the process of completing a solid season on the Elite Series - again. The Huntington, Texas, pro uncharacteristically finished 43rd in the AOY standings last year and missed...
Jamie Hartman has had a whale of a time fishing the Bassmaster Elite Series this season, especially considering he's coming off a medical hardship season due to a back injury. His winnings so far...
Cliff Prince is continuing a rally that started at the St. Lawrence River in August and has him on the verge of clinching a Bassmaster Classic berth. After placing 9th yesterday with 21-3, Prince...
Greg DiPalma was the only angler in the 50-man Toyota Bassmaster Angler of the Year Championship who didn't weigh-in a bass yesterday. So when DiPalma landed a 3-pound, 12-ounce bass at 7:42 today,...
There's nothing quite like an early autumn tournament on one of the Great Lakes to put some extra wiggle in the fickle finger of fishing fate. The swing between good luck and bad luck becomes wider...
As the rain started pelting down on Stetson Blaylock, and he was thinking about moving closer to the check-in site at Metro Park,he hooked up with yet another big smallmouth bass. However, Blaylock...
If you glanced at the BASSTrakk leaderboard at 12:15 p.m., you saw Seth Feider in first place with 23-4 and Chris Zaldain in a three-way tie for second with 20-0, unofficially. And speaking of...
DETROIT, Mich. — It’s both the best of times and the worst of times for Toyota Bassmaster Angler of the Year leader Scott Canterbury. Over the next three days he has the best chance to win the...
It's an Elite Series three-ring circus on Lake St. Clair the next three days. The year-end Toyota Bassmaster Angler of the Year Championship not only wraps up a) the Angler of the Year title, and b...
