By his own count, Mike Long of San Diego County, Calif., has caught hundreds of bass weighing more than 10 pounds, dozens in the teens, 82 over 15 pounds and one weighing more than 20. That last...
This is my 353rd column for Bassmaster Magazine, and by far the hardest I’ve had to write.Like almost all my previous columns, I’ve procrastinated in writing it until I’m snug against a deadline....
No doubt you’ve heard an older person wonder out loud, “Where has the time gone?” And often in response, someone answers, sarcastically, “Time flies when you’re having fun.”In the sense that...
Not long ago, Caleb Sumrall stopped to chat with Jamie Hartman along the grassline Hartman was working. When finding out that Hartman planned to fish ahead of him, where Sumrall also...
Hartman’s frog paid off again, this time with a little better bass that might’ve gone close to 3. Apparently, he does not need 2 1/2 pounders because he merely showed it to his live camera and...
About 10 minutes after Hartman switched to a frog, he scored his first bite on that surface lure. It looked to be a giant fish, but only because it came to the boat with 3 or 4 pounds of grass...
It was a wild ride to catch up with him but I finally found Jamie Hartman, the current leader, fishing beneath a bridge that spans the upper end of the lake.The main lake channel where he...
Championship Monday is overcast and breezy and most of the anglers in the Top 10 seem to like the conditions.Our first stop of the day is near Kelly Jaye, who soon caught his first keeper...
Kelley Jaye says he has figured out a workaround to deal with his injured hand. His right hand is full of novocaine and isn’t doing what he needs it to.He is holding the rod between two fingers...
Kelley Jaye is back in the game. Bowman and I followed Hank Cherry past the launch ramp at Goose Pond, headed for deeper water, when Jaye raised away from the dock and toward the same destination....
We have swapped ends of the lake, and it was a mistake. After getting enough for a great photo gallery on Drew Benton, Steve Bowman and I decided to head back up to the Goose Pond area and get some...
Drew Benton has found a big school of little bass. He is catching one after another and only one was big enough to cull another small fish.I wondered out loud why he is staying on these undersize...
Drew Benton’s fourth move has resulted in his fourth keeper of the morning. Unfortunately they are the wrong size. The four skinny bass total 5 lbs. 4 oz., according to his last track.Fish number...
I stand corrected. In my last post, I said that Benton had boated three keepers. They would be keepers in most tournaments, but the minimum size on Lake Guntersville is 15 inches. He threw two back...
Master photographer Steve Bowman and I are assigned to cover Drew Benton, who is fourth on this third day of competition in the Academy Sports + Outdoors Bassmaster Elite Series Tournament at Lake...
Laurie Tisdale and I took a break from watching fishermen to watch and photograph a group of volunteers participating in the B.A.S.S. Nation Cleanup of Lake Guntersville.About 40 volunteers...
On his third stop of the morning, Chris Johnston idled slowly over a piece of structure, studying his depthfinder to locate a school of bass. He stopped and turned the boat around, and quickly...