Craig Lamb

Craig

Lamb

Biography

Forty years ago, Craig Lamb went to his first B.A.S.S. tournament as a starstruck teenager. As a grownup, he reports about the people, places and news of the tournament trail.

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Bro Series: Benton, Cook and Mullins

By Craig Lamb

Something clicks early on when touring pros choose to become running mates, and this especially true for Elite bros Drew Cook, Drew Benton and David Mullins.

Service yard saviors: Cheryl Spencer

By Craig Lamb

Cheryl Spencer easily qualifies as the extreme multitasker of tournament support techs. With Lowrance for 15 years, her formal title is senior tournament support tech and pro team manager. The...

Meet the Elites: Jamie Hartman

By Craig Lamb

Editor's note: This article was written at the beginning of the Bassmaster Elite Series season, before Hartman won the Elite event on Guntersville.Jamie Hartman recognized early on there would be...

Meet the Elites: Jay Yelas

By Craig Lamb

Sixteen consecutive Bassmaster Classics and a Bassmaster Angler of the Year title rank Jay Yelas as one of the all-time greats in the sport of bass fishing. During his storied B.A.S.S. career,...

Hartman's lure lineup

By Craig Lamb

On Sunday Jaime Hartman came out of nowhere to make it in Championship Sunday. And he’s done it again, already having caught 20 pounds. Here’s his lure lineup.The lure arsenal features a 3/4-ounce...

Getting Zaldaingerous

By Craig Lamb

On Saturday, Chris Zaldain planned to fish shallow and then go deep later in the day. Instead, he started deep and stayed deep. All day long. Deep is a relative term on Guntersville. The common...

Zaldain upgrading

By Craig Lamb

BASSTrakk shows Chris Zaldain back in the lead. He told me this morning that he needed at least a five-pounder to offset the base weight of his previous days’ limits filled with bass in the 2- 3...

TVA flips the switch

By Craig Lamb

The ledge guys are in a holding pattern awaiting the daily discharge from Lake Guntersville Dam by the Tennessee Valley Authority. When the switch gets flipped to begin the generation, the ledges...

When interviewing Matt Herren you always knows where he stands on a topic. It’s all black and white. Herren is doing what he wants to do, ignoring the prevailing offshore pattern.“I’m doing my deal...

BASSCam: Start of Day 3

By Craig Lamb

The Elites explain their semi final Sunday plans.

BassCam: Day 2 top five

By Craig Lamb

Catch up the Day 2 leaders.

Lester's secret weapon

By Craig Lamb

Brandon Lester calls Lake Guntersville his home lake, which is partly true (Tims Ford Reservoir is his true home lake). In any case, the middle Tennessean knows Guntersville really well, having...

The current situation

By Craig Lamb

For everyone—and especially the offshore anglers—comes good news from the Tennessee Valley Authority. Today’s generation schedule calls for two or more generators to run, with more in store for...

Jocumsen loves the pressure

By Craig Lamb

Carl Jocumsen might be the only angler fishing today that actually likes the increased fishing pressure brought on by the weekend. BASSTrakk shows that he just moved into third place."The boat...

Zaldain sums up the day

By Craig Lamb

This morning on the dock I asked Chris Zaldain if he thought the shallow water bite would improve, based on the pressure the offshore areas would receive from weekend anglers. Here is what he had...

Getting grassy on Guntersville

By Craig Lamb

SCOTTSBORO, Ala.— Come to Lake Guntersville in late June and you expect to find the bass fishing on fire out on its famous channel ledges along the Tennessee River. That is not the case, at least...

BassCam: Day 1 Top 5

By Craig Lamb

Day 1 from the dock

By Craig Lamb

See more videos over on BassCam!

Meet the Elites: Hank Cherry

By Craig Lamb

For Hank Cherry, now in his seventh Bassmaster Elite Series season, the turning point came before he even made it to the big time.

Dialing in electronics

By Craig Lamb

Using today’s high-tech electronics makes it easy to locate the textbook offshore habitat favored by largemouth on current-driven fisheries during the hot summer months.Irregularities in the bottom...

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