Tuesday morning marked the start of the second very long hot practice day on Lake Travis for the Toyota Bassmaster Texas Fest benefiting Texas Parks and Wildlife.Two of pro fishing’s most likeable,...
Gerald Swindle has no history with Lake Travis. He’d never seen the gorgeous 18,000 acre reservoir along the Colorado River in the Texas Hill Country until arriving for practice on Mother’s Day.But...
After 176 B.A.S.S. tournaments, Greg Hackney has invented a new fishing term probably unfamiliar to even the most avid anglers. He calls it “plinking” - a word normally applied to shooting a .22...
Given the massive number of miles he planned to pilot his Triton, there’s a good chance that by the time you’re reading this, Gerald Swindle will have arrived at his first fishing spot Sunday...
The famous yellow mustard flowers are blooming around the banks at Kentucky Lake this week at the Bassmaster Elite, and that means the bass should be biting.Straight-shooting veteran anglers Greg...
Beneath Gerald Swindle’s world-class humor is a heart topped-off by two ears that listen closely to the stories of others -- including the life stories of his ride-along marshals in Basssmaster...
The limestone, sandstone, and dolomite beds that cradle Grand Lake o’ the Cherokees yielded a disappointing 11-pound limit for Casey Ashley on Day 1 of the Academy Sports + Outdoors Bassmaster...
Longtime Toyota Bonus Bucks participant and frequent Grand Lake o’ the Cherokees angler Mike McClelland, along with 2-time Toyota Bassmaster Angler of the Year Gerald Swindle, graciously took time...
Carhartt angler Matt Lee began the first day of the Academy Sports + Outdoors Bassmaster Elite at Grand Lake with scrambled eggs, low carb wheat toast and black coffee in his fifth wheel RV, but...
If back-to-back Bassmaster Classic Champ Jordan Lee notches a Top 12 at the Academy Sports + Outdoors Bassmaster Elite at Grand Lake, there’s about a 38-percent chance he’ll catch his fish from...
Don’t be shocked if Florida pro Terry “Big Show” Scroggins makes a splash at the 2018 Academy Sports + Outdoors Bassmaster Elite at Grand Lake. Actually … a “double splash” … the nickname Scroggins...
As a Michigan native, Kevin VanDam grew up throwing a lot of spinnerbaits featuring painted blades for smallmouth. Some of the willowleaf blades were painted chartreuse, others were painted white,...
Carhartt angler Jordan Lee winning back-to-back Bassmaster Classics wasn’t the only great story to come forth from the 2018 Bassmaster Classic. In addition to Lee’s win, a cooperative effort...
In my little universe, April is as much about soft plastic lizards as the Easter Bunny and the Masters at Augusta National. In fact, while the Chinese Zodiac calendar spotlights 2018 as the “Year...
Sometimes it seems like Jordan Lee’s mind-boggling success at age 26 is as much a product of purely gifted fishing intuition as it is overly analytical strategy.However his choice of tow-vehicles...
A song from country music star, Josh Turner might be among the last things you’d expect Quantum angler Matt Lee to be thinking about minutes from backing down the boat ramp during his first...
The 2018 GEICO Basssmaster Classic presented by DICK'S Sporting Goods returns to Casey Ashley’s home waters of Lake Hartwell this week where he won the 2015 Classic, and the easy-going country boy...