DiPalma lands 51-point bass

Greg DiPalma was the only angler in the 50-man Toyota Bassmaster Angler of the Year Championship who didn’t weigh-in a bass yesterday. So when DiPalma landed a 3-pound, 12-ounce bass...

Zaldain dialing it in

Chris Zaldain leads the Toyota Bassmaster Angler of the Year rankings in what is shaping up to be a tight race to the finish. Zaldain expressed great confidence in what...

The fickle finger of fishing fate

There’s nothing quite like an early autumn tournament on one of the Great Lakes to put some extra wiggle in the fickle finger of fishing fate. The swing between good...

Blaylock: “What am I doing!”

As the rain started pelting down on Stetson Blaylock, and he was thinking about moving closer to the check-in site at Metro Park,he hooked up with yet another big smallmouth...

Hudnall’s big move

BASSTrakk shows Derek Hudnall in second place with 23 pounds. His location is uncertain (the BASSTrakk map shows him in the Mojave Desert). What we do know is the weights...

Here comes Feider

Seth Feider has done what he does best. And that is not being intimidated by wind and waves. He has jumped into the lead with 23 pounds, 4 ounces. In...

Zaldain ups his game

Chris Zaldain left his starting spot with two smallies in the boat for about 5 1/2 pounds, and I headed in to work up the photo gallery (which will be...

Not just the “lake”

With so much focus on the main lake there might be other fishable water in play. Why is that? The early reports we have seen from the water. Mark Zona...

Zaldain has been “sharpened” most

Chris Zaldain has had more days of Elite Series competition over the last three tournaments than his other Angler of the Year competitors. And he thinks that’s important. “I’m hot...

The drum that became a bass

Brandon Lester catches his share of freshwater drum from the smallmouth-fish waters of the Tennessee River. Just now, what he thought was a drum became a big, fat smallmouth. And...