Former Bassmaster Elite Series competitor Chip Porché began fishing Lake Tenkiller with his dad at age 8. He now works for Tulsa-based Dynamic Sponsorships and continues to fish Tenkiller regularly...
Three days before Tyler Rivet had to make one of the longest drives of his young life to a bass fishing tournament, he hurried over to Walker Toyota in Alexandria, Louisiana, and bought a brand new...
Pro angler Chad Pipkens, the man with the spikey hair and a primary sponsorship from Douglas J Salons wouldn’t recommend breaking your collarbone to launch a streak of top tournament finishes and...
Jay Yelas won the 2002 Bassmaster Classic and Matt Arey has won $1 million in his relatively short pro angling career. They are two of the Elite Series’ true class acts both on and off the water....
North Carolina pro Shane Lineberger had a really bad taste in his mouth the last time he competed in a Bassmaster Elite Series event on the St. Lawrence in 2017.Literally.Lineberger vividly...
Florida pro Cliff Prince is the kind of guy you’d love to have as your neighbor or fishing buddy. Always kind-spirited, helpful and quick with a laugh, he’s qualified for two Bassmaster...
Team Toyota’s Brandon Lester is a good husband and daddy with a typically grateful outlook.But the bag of homemade chocolate chip cookies I gave him from my mom’s kitchen seemed to be his biggest...
Cole Sands and Conner Dimauro took the lead at the Carhartt Bassmaster College Championship with a 24-pound limit that included a 7 pound 15 ounce Chickamauga green piggy.Sands already has two...
Riley Welch’s family trains standard-bred horses for the racing communities in Chicago and Indianapolis, but this week at the Carhartt Bassmaster College Series championship on Lake Chickamauga,...
Kent State’s Tanner Ward, Arkansas Tech’s Austin Phillips, and Eastern Kentucky’s Josh Boone shared an honest perspective about what it will take for their teams to do well this week on largemouth...
Lee Mattox of the University of Alabama cried tears of joy when he learned he had squeaked into his fifth straight Carhartt Bassmaster College Series National Championship, and his young life to...
Carhartt Bassmaster College Series anglers Zeke Gossett and Hayden Bartee, from Jacksonville State in Alabama, are only 22 years old, and yet they’ve been successful fishing partners longer than...
Carhartt Bassmaster College Series National Championship week kicked-off Monday with the first official practice day and an evening full of chargrilled grub at Dayton Boat Dock. But the side...
Team Toyota pro angler Brandon Lester considers himself a “No Shoes Nation” kind of guy. Lester lives on the Alabama-Tennessee border, but loves to spend a couple free weeks in the summertime six...
Team Toyota’s Matt Arey had just slapped 21 pounds of Guntersville bass on the scales to take the tournament lead, yet he seemed equally as thrilled when a buddy handed him a giant, freshly...
It wasn’t long ago that Upstate New York native Jamie “The Hammer” Hartman resigned his job as a truck driver, put all his belongings in storage, and hit the road in a Toyota Tundra with his bass...
Guntersville is truly one of America’s all-time great big bass factories, and it’s played host to B.A.S.S. events with about the same frequency Vegas hosts prize fights. And when the Elite Series...
Matt Arey and Scott Canterbury have won more than $2 million in their veteran pro angling careers -- including an impressive collection of tour-level tournaments. The two comical class acts are now...
Brandon Lester hesitates to call Guntersville his home lake, but it’s only 80 minutes south of he and wife Kimberly’s home. And he pretty much cut his tournament angling teeth on Guntersville,...
While South Carolina pro Brandon Cobb was racing to a record setting win at the Toyota Bassmaster Texas Fest event on Lake Fork, his bride Amy was back home in South Carolina cancelling the...
