Kevin VanDam travels 30,000 miles a year in his Toyota Tundra. The radio is always on – but rarely does music play. Instead, VanDam is almost constantly tuned to the NASCAR channel on...
We found James Hatch and Dean Jackson less than two miles east of the Ingalls Harbor take-off. These Gainesville, Florida boys are frustrated that their Gators got beat by the Hurricanes yesterday ...
Lake Wheeler is behaving in typical "dog days of summer" fashion - when the farmers are on the porch drinking lemonade waiting on a few cool nights, things are darn tough on Wheeler. This...
Outlaw country music singer Waylon Jennings once said that Nashville tried to destroy him by making him dress, sing and do everything a certain way. “I just went about my business and did...
The brightest thing at the boat ramp today during a rain threatened pre-dawn launch was a pair of blaze orange socks Gerald Swindle gifted to Fletcher Shryock. Actually, they were only a shade...
His syrupy-thick Southern accent is a bit out of place in the lobster-laden land surrounding New Hampshire Motor Speedway, but Bassmaster Elite Series pro angler Terry “Big Show”...
It’s Day One of competition at the Bassmaster Elite Series Diet Mountain Dew Mississippi River Rumble in La Crosse, Wis. The sun sets late and rises early. The days are long. And for 29-year...
Shaw Grigsby hollered “Oh crap!” and leaped from the front deck of his boat as though his Simms fishing pants were on fire. Fresh off another long day of battling the Alabama River...
Tommy Biffle finds his favorite music on a SiriusXM satellite radio station called “The Highway.” Found on Channel 59, they spin the latest country music. But it was TLC’s rhythm...
If you think Sexy Shad is Kevin VanDam’s favorite crankbait color, you’d be right … but only a third of the time. “Sexy shad is awfully good in a lot of situations, but I...
The story of former B.A.S.S. Nation Champion turned top Bassmaster Elite Series pro Brandon Palaniuk using his Toyota Tundra for sleeping quarters has been well documented. What you may not have...
One hundred pros came to Bull Shoals, fifty of them are leaving with a paycheck. The difference between empty handed, and at least $10,000, was adaptation. Adapt or fail. The confidence and...
Justin Larson was proudly discussing his and teammate Adam Saldaña’s recent conference regional victory as members of “The Wheelchair Spurs,” as 7-time Toyota Bassmaster...
Chip Porche' is a 25-year-old Bassmaster Elite Series rookie from Oklahoma, who after 12 years of preparation, goal setting and obsessive dreaming, carried his first bass to the scales...
Notice the green? That's the color of Sandy Hook Elementary. Dozens of anglers are honoring the memory of the lost at Sandy Hook during the first Elite event. Read more about it in Don...