Laurie Tisdale, art director for Bassmaster Magazine, is the photographer on our team today as we cover Chris Johnston of Ontario.Johnson is one of three Canadian anglers who joined the Elite...
Chris Johnston’s second stop of the day is paying off. Shortly after tying on a finesse rig, he has boated two keepers. The latest one is a little heavier than the first, perhaps 2 1/2 pounds. That...
Chris Johnston has already slipped eight notches down the leaderboard this morning, but he does not seem in any hurry to catch a fish.Johnston was fourth at the end of the weigh-in yesterday but he...
Chris Johnston, who is in second place with 19-12, according to BASSTrakk, is hitting structure spots along the lake, looking for schools of keepers. He has spent almost as much time riding and...
We watched Tyler Rivet work all around the pocket where we found him, and although he missed a couple of what appeared to be strikes, he did not add to his total of 18-14. He remains in second...
Laurie and I finally found Tyler Rivet, just in time for him to climb into second so far with a limit weighing 17-14. He’s not moving much at all. He’s just spraying casts in every direction...
We got a late start this morning, and it has taken a while to get close to some of the Elite anglers. We have been looking for Tyler Rivet, who is currently in third place and not far from our...
For someone who fishes by the seat of his pants — who never goes into a tournament with a strategy all mapped out — it’s almost surprising that Brandon Cobb of Greenwood, S.C., has been laser...
The 1971 Bassmaster Classic at Lake Mead, Nevada, is remembered as the first world championship of bass fishing — the inaugural running of what has become the Super Bowl of Bass Fishing.What is...
In the mid-1990s, David Fritts was revered throughout central North Carolina as the King of the Yadkin. He was known nationally as the crankbait guru who won the 1993 Bassmaster Classic on Logan...
Clifford Pirch has a new mindset for the 2019 Bassmaster Elite Series season. He’s excited about the smaller field, the big-bass fisheries on the schedule and the wider gap between entry fees and...
Misti Lewis Satterfield swept her hand toward a parking lot in front of Knoxville’s Jacob Building.“This is where the anglers’ boats will be lined up,” she said.Satterfield and I were planning...
James Biggs could’ve slept in and still won the TNT Fireworks B.A.S.S. Nation Central Regional on Lake Guntersville, but instead the Euless, Texas boater caught a five-bass limit of 19 pounds, 9...
You learn a lot about people when you spend a day in the boat with them, and most of what you learn is good.Ernest Hemingway apparently didn’t relish the idea of a fishing buddy.Reportedly, he said...
“Psychologists say we can’t be mentally healthy if we don’t have a sense of belonging and being accepted by others.”In the late 1980s and ’90s, when I was editor of this fine publication, I...
While most of the rest of the field is fishing deep structure with finesse baits, Brandon Card is burning the bank with a small Yo-Zuri crankbait.When we pulled up to him for a second visit today...