Big Bite Baits and the Illinois B.A.S.S. Nation kick off soft bait recycling program
In 2022, Big Bite Baits teamed up with Jill Wijangco, Conservation Director of the Illinois B.A.S.S. Nation, to create a soft plastic recycling program. This program was based on a vision...
Update on the 2022 AFTCO and B.A.S.S. Conservation Grant
AFTCO’s conservation grant has awarded more than $60,000 to conservation projects around the nation in the last four years. And 2022 is no different with the recent change from $20,000 a year...
Bassmaster’s The Lake Y Project: Episode 8
See how the fish in Lake Y fared after thousands of bluegill were added, but then flooding conditions occurred.
Applications open for 2023 scholarships honoring former B.A.S.S. Conservation Director Noreen Clough
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Applications are now being accepted for the 2023 Noreen Clough Memorial Scholarship for Females in Fisheries. In memory of the late Noreen Clough, the long-time U.S. Fish...
Christmas trees to be made into fish habitats at Lake Martin
Alexander City, Ala. — Alabama Power [apcshorelines.com], Lake Martin Resource Association [lmra.info], and Lake Martin Tourism Association [explorelakemartin.com] are teaming up to help create new fish habitats in Lake Martin. Dec. 26-Jan. 8,...
Wildlife Forever unveils access enhancement guidebook to prevent aquatic invasive species
White Bear Lake, Minn. — Wildlife Forever announces a new, innovative approach to aquatic invasive species (AIS) prevention designed to evaluate watercraft accesses and integrate tools to help boaters and...
Iaconelli buys trout for Tulsa anglers
Thanks to a generous donation from Team Toyota’s Mike Iaconelli and The Ike Foundation, Santa’s sleigh showed up with several hundred extra trout at Veterans Park Pond in Tulsa’s southern...
The Great Lakes miracle smallmouth — what we learned
Back around 1990 there was a non-native species of fish found in the Great Lakes. That little fish had fisheries biologists screaming gloom and doom for the Great Lakes fisheries...
New York B.A.S.S. Nation making improvements in home state
If enthusiasm is contagious, the New York B.A.S.S. Nation (NYBN) youth and high school program’s new Environmental Stewardship Initiative (ESI) should be a rousing success. “We’ve designed our program to...
AFTCO aids B.A.S.S. Nation habitat projects
Whether it’s water willow in Kansas, eelgrass in Virginia or man-made habitat in the lakes of the Midwest, the fishing landscape across the country has improved due to the good...