Joe Sills

Sills

Biography

Joe Sills is an outdoor writer and enthusiast from Memphis, TN. He is the Digital Editor of FishingTackleRetailer.com and an occasional contributor to Bassmaster.com. You can find him on Twitter and Instagram: @joesills

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Insider's guide to Knoxville

By Joe Sills

From gourmet dining to dive bars, this year’s Bassmaster Classic host city packs a dizzying array of activities to fill your Classic weekend.

Can the Marathon Man catch 3,000 fish in 24 hours?

By Joe Sills

Guinness World Record holder hopes to raise money for children in need by breaking the record for most fish ever caught in a day.

Bassmaster Magazine’s first cover boy passes at age 86

By Joe Sills

Bassmaster Magazine, volume one, issue one—his face was on it. The sheepish grin peeking out of from under an orange-brimmed hat belonged to Jimmy Holt. Presumably, he’d hoisted the three-fish...

The mysterious Kenichi Gomez

By Joe Sills

Before Steph Curry, there was Denny Brauer—a wide, smiling face in the cereal aisle. Brauer, before Curry, had his face on the Wheaties box. But he was no point guard. Denny Brauer was a bass...

AOY action over, but Mille Lacs is just heating up

By Joe Sills

A thousand miles and over a week removed from Gerald Swindle’s 2016 Bassmaster AOY Championship at Minnesota’s Lake Mille Lacs, another Elite Series competitor is back on the water. Far south, on...

Heads up for Vinson

By Joe Sills

Pro holds second despite head trauma

Vinson fights through concussion for Classic

By Joe Sills

TULSA, Okla. — Less than a week ago, Bassmaster Elite Series pro Greg Vinson was strapped in the back of an ambulance with paramedics watching his every move. “I don’t remember falling,” he says. ...

The king of the West moves to the East

By Joe Sills

John Murray took one last glance into the Arizona sun. He filled his lungs with a great breath of the dry desert air atop his favorite hiking peak. Murray, the 51-year-old Bassmaster Elite Series...

Menendez harasser pleads guilty

By Joe Sills

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — “He was doing doughnuts off of my port side,” said Mark Menendez. “At one point, he’s coming straight at me, idling pretty fast and he slams the boat...

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