Steve Bowman

Steve

Bowman

Biography

Steve Bowman is a veteran outdoor writer, covering B.A.S.S. for almost three decades. He’s currently the editor/manager for tournament coverage on Bassmaster.com.

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Monti making moves

By Steve Bowman

After 3 1/2 hours Kyle Monti has made his first move of the day. He didn’t go far, possibly a half mile or so. Thankfully it’s more out of the wind than where he’s been sitting all morning. It...

Monti has a largemouth

By Steve Bowman

We can see Kyle Monti clearly having angst over one of the fish in his well. We are watching body language to come to our conclusion. But after a conversation with Trip Weldon on another...

Monti with another keeper

By Steve Bowman

Kyle Monti has his third keeper. This one more in line with his first keeper this morning. Monti was dragging his wobble-head jig across his sand bar when he noticed something on his graph. He...

Monti on a roll

By Steve Bowman

Kyle Monti has added his second keeper of the day and the tit for tat game he had Chris Zaldain have started is now in the other court. Monti’s fish appeared to be a spotted bass. It was not...

Monti with keeper no. 1

By Steve Bowman

Kyle Monti has his first keeper of the day. It was not a giant. But it’s a solid start. That fish looked to be in the 2-pound range, which will be more than enough to put Monti back in the...

Intense day on Lake Tenkiller

By Steve Bowman

We got to cover Todd Auten for a few minutes. He’s had a good day. Feels good about his chances tomorrow. He’s spending the rest of his day practicing. During his practice stroll through a...

Our timing is off

By Steve Bowman

They say timing is everything in bass fishing. It’s that way covering this crazy sport too.We set on Kyle Monti earlier. Watched him finish his limit. Build a good stringer.Then we decided to run...

Monti with a limit

By Steve Bowman

Kyle Monti has finished his limit. Again it looked small. It may have been a spotted bass. But it went into the well. Prior to catching that fish BassTrakk had him just 1 pound, 1 ounce out of...

Monti snags keeper no. 4

By Steve Bowman

Kyle Monti has just landed his fourth keeper. His wading thru the dinks is working. That fish is somewhere in the neighborhood of 1 1/2 pounds. That should give him enough weight to slip up to...

Monti searching for a monster

By Steve Bowman

Kyle Monti has not added any fish to his livewell, but he’s been steadily reeling in fish. All of them are short. In the last 20 minutes, he’s hooked up a half dozen times. We can only guess...

Moving on to Monti

By Steve Bowman

We’ve pulled off Chris Zaldain to watch Kyle Monti for a bit. Monti is in his sophomore season on the Elites and still working to get his feet under him. He’s currently out of next week’s AOY...

Zaldian making AOY race tighter

By Steve Bowman

Chris Zaldain just added a third keeper in the box. It wasn’t big so it was probably a spotted bass.It’s not enough for him to retake the unofficial BASSTrakk lead. But it gets much closer. With...

Bumpy pond today

By Steve Bowman

Starting to get really bumpy on this little pond. Not Great Lakes bumpy, but 2- to 3-feet bumpy in places.On clear water lakes in the south that’s a good thing this time of year. It will likely...

2nd keeper for Zaldain

By Steve Bowman

Chris Zaldain just added his second keeper to the well. After a lengthy measuring he plopped what appeared to be a largemouth into his well.Given that it’s 16 inches we expect it to be close to 2...

Zaldain's three-act show

By Steve Bowman

Chris Zaldain just put on a three-act show wrapped around one 4-pound plus smallmouth.From the hookset to the fight Zaldain was vintage excitement. It took what seemed like forever but was only a...

No fish catches yet

By Steve Bowman

Day 3 of this event is showing us a third set of weather conditions and it’s anybody’s guess whether it helps or hurts.We are sitting on Chris Zaldain basically on the main lake. Unlike any day...

Jesse Tacoronte has made it on the board with a solid largemouth.We were a long way off so it’s only a guess. But it appeared to be in. 2 1/2 pound range. It’s a good start.This day, like yesterday...

A completely different day

By Steve Bowman

Today is a completely different day than yesterday or any day in some time.There’s a south wind blowing and a good ripple on the water. It’s spitting rain on and off. And the temperature is in the...

Huff with a limit

By Steve Bowman

Mike Huff has just finished his limit. Maybe.He caught one in the 1 1/2- to 2-pound range. And spent a couple of minutes measuring it. It would touch on one side and be short on the other. He put...

Classic jitters

By Steve Bowman

If Mike Huff can stick around the top of the standings in this event it could lock him into his first Classic.I asked him if he was thinking about it.He quickly replied, “I don’t want to think...

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