Rojas’ frog savvy

Yesterday, Dean Rojas taught us yet another frog fishing tactic on Bassmaster LIVE. That tactic is flipping and pitching a frog over heavy vegetation. “A lot of other guys that...

Ike plugging away

Ike just keeps plugging away. He’s run from Dardanelle Bay up river to Keener Cove and hitting a long line of grass. He was here on Day 1 along with...

KVD’s lure arsenal

Photographer Garrick Dixon and myself gathered details for the Lures of the Top 12 gallery. Most of the anglers already had both sides of their casting decks loaded with piles...

Davis has a limit

Mark Davis hasn’t had any trouble catching fish this morning, but most of them have been either white bass or small black bass, according to photographer Seigo Saito. Davis is...

Ike covering ground

Iaconelli is covering some ground today and will likely continue that trend. He’s running a typical Lake Dardanelle pattern for this time of year, hitting water lillies on the bank...

Topwater time!

The rain is tapering off and the competition is underway. Overcast, calm conditions have set this morning up for a prime topwater bite. Before takeoff I recorded the lure details...

The river is rising, of course

Many here were awakened by a cell phone flash flood warning early this morning, if they weren’t already up and at ’em on the final day at Lake Dardanelle. As...

Davis: 3.5-pounder on second cast

Tournament leader Mark Davis is off to a hot start, according to photographer Seigo Saito. Davis got a blow-up on his first cast with a topwater bait this morning, then...

Day 4 headline

The headline for this day happened long before the 6:15 a.m. start of Day 4. At 2:30 a.m. the National Weather Service activated the Emergency Alert System (EAS) for Russellville...

Ike gets a math coach

When BASSTrakk showed Mike Iaconelli with 18 pounds, 4 ounces late yesterday afternoon, then he actually weighed 18-14, jaws dropped all across America. Had “Big Eyes” Ike, who always over-estimates...