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Think offshore in June

By David Fritts

It’s been a weird spring. Rolling heat waves and heavy rains have messed things up, really bad in most parts of the country. The bass in most of the places I know about are late and the water’s...

Time to catch your personal best

By Keith Combs

The spawn is over throughout most of the country, but there’s still plenty of time left to catch your personal best bass this year. I’ve made it a hallmark of my career to try to target the biggest...

Sweatpants Mike, Scratchy and the Weasel

By Chris Groh

A huge part of my fishing education took place off the water, in the aisles of a tackle shop called Triangle Sports in Antioch, Ill. It started off as a cheap babysitter for my mom – she’d go...

Diversity delivers Elite excitement and there's more to see

By Mark Zona

This year’s Bassmaster Elite Series has been a true enjoyment for me. When I look at the production of those lakes we’ve gone to and the stellar champions they’ve produced, it’s made this one...

Elite wives amaze me

By Bryan Brasher

My neck’s been bothering me a little bit lately.I wish I could say it was from a vicious hook set or from dragging a big whitetail deer out of the woods.But it’s actually from trying to do...

This Field of Dreams

By Matt Herren

Before I get too far ahead of myself, while I was fishing the Toyota Bassmaster Texas Fest at Lake Fork, my son Jacob and his fiancé Alita welcomed their daughter Avery into the world. She is mine...

LIVE gets livelier

By James Hall

If I didn’t work for B.A.S.S., I probably would have been fired last year. See, I have an addiction. During Elite Series events, I simply can’t turn off Bassmaster LIVE. As a matter of fact, I...

A look at non-endemic sponsors

By Hank Cherry

An untapped resource in our industry is what some call non-endemic sponsors. There are thousands to choose from, and many of them will give anglers additional sponsor income and boost the sport of...

Culling the bite

By Drew Benton

Culling the bite from smaller bass to bigger bass is something that most of us try to do, at least some of the time. But, I can tell you as a professional bass angler that it’s also one of the...

Disappointed with myself

By Jason Williamson

If I said I was disappointed with my performance at the 2019 Toyota Bassmaster Texas Fest benefiting Texas Parks & Wildlife Department tournament, I’d be putting lipstick on a pig. It was worse...

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