Other than mom and dad, and perhaps Bassmaster conservation director Gene Gilliland – nobody had a greater responsibility for guiding me to this career I love – as much as my childhood hero, and...
During his highly successful Carhartt Bassmaster College Series days at Auburn, Matt Lee once dressed as country music star Brad Paisley for Halloween.“I had a plaid button-up shirt and carried a...
When you serve up 72 free pizzas, and former Carhartt Bassmaster College Series studs Matt and Jordan Lee are in the house, even an approaching rain-soaked autumn cold front can’t dampen 78 high...
Kevin VanDam loves football, archery season for whitetail deer and thoughts of bass binging on baitfish. And those are just three good reasons the seven-time Toyota Bassmaster Angler of the Year...
The 2017 Toyota Bassmaster Angler of the Year title that Brandon Palaniuk won Sunday at Lake Mille Lacs started with a dream when he was an 8-year-old boy growing up in Idaho. Then it caught speed...
Be honest, if a genie in a bottle offered you an 18-pound limit of bass every time you went fishing, you’d jump on it like a 5-pound smallmouth on a soft shell crawdad.So would I.But for the...
One year ago, the pressure Gerald and LeAnn Swindle felt during Toyota Bassmaster Angler of the Year Championship week on Mille Lacs was on par with a Crimson Tide pass rush.The couple persevered,...
Jordan Lee and Casey Ashley both sit inside the Top 10 of the Toyota Bassmaster Angler of the Year points race, and the two Quantum pros graciously offered their input on everything from fried...
His Tundra’s tire tracks were barely dry on the boat ramp from the end of Tuesday’s extremely long practice day. But at 6:20 a.m. Wednesday, in the dark of pre-dawn, nearly 30 minutes before...
Matt Lee loves to fish a drop shot, but his decision to drop shot a 5” Strike King Z-Too on a straight shank hook for Lake St. Clair smallmouth, was the equivalent of his fiancé Abby choosing to...
Casey Ashley has been saying for years that he doesn’t like smallmouth. But given the fact the 2015 Bassmaster Classic champ sits soundly inside the top five of a Toyota Bassmaster Angler of...
Lake St. Clair is one of America’s all time greatest smallmouth fisheries. But when the Bassmaster Elite Series visited the Detroit area fishery in 2013, Greg Hackney chose to fish for largemouth...
The Advance Auto Parts Bassmaster Elite at Lake St. Clair begins Thursday near Carhartt's longtime headquarters in the Detroit metro.The 128-year-old manufacturer of quality clothing for hard...
There are two things you can count on at Lake St. Clair – the wind will eventually blow hard enough to stir its 430 square miles of water into ocean like proportions – and the smallmouth will...
The goal of every student angler competing in the Carhartt Bassmaster College Series National Championship on Lake Bemidji, is to win the one berth being offered to the 2018 Bassmaster Classic. And...
For a while Thursday at the Carhartt Bassmaster College Series Championship presented by Bass Pro Shops on Lake Bemidji, MN, it looked as though the 5 pound 14 ounce green beast West Georgia...
As competition began Thursday morning at the Carhartt Bassmaster College National Championship presented by Bass Pro Shops, parents and girlfriends walked gently on wet sand where college anglers...
Ryan McLaughlin and Justin St. Onge of Haywood Community College in North Carolina, along with Tyler Rivet and Cameron Naquin of Nicholls State in Louisiana, took time to offer their opinions on...
Louie Dazzo doesn’t mind that the faded black mesh Carhartt hat he’s wearing at this week’s Bassmaster College Series National Championship shows a salty sweat ring -- or that his red boat is...
