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.
PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. — The distance from Shin Fukae’s native homeland to Lake Champlain is 6,530 miles. Not one mile of it stood between the Japanese pro and a dream he set out to reach 10...
PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. — Lake Champlain is one of many Northeast bass fisheries with thriving populations of largemouth and smallmouth. That begs the following question.
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PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. — In the late 1990s B.A.S.S. acquired a small fleet of live release boats for its livery of tournament equipment. The boats crisscrossed the country making stops at events...
DANDRIDGE, Tenn. — You don’t always get to play to your angling strength when going for the win in a bass tournament. Sometimes it takes digging deep into the bottom of the tacklebox...
DAYTON, Tenn. — It’s rare when Kevin VanDam can’t sleep on the night before a Bassmaster event. The Bassmaster Classic? Sure. Anyone loses a few winks when the world title is on...