The truth about ice fishing

Wintertime fishing in Michigan and other northern states means it’s time to go ice fishing! I imagine our southern brothers are rolling their eyes and scratching their heads. I always...

A Christmas tale: My first reel, part 2

Editor’s note: Read part 1. “…Christmas, Christmas time is near…” Dateline: 1958 Christmas: Buffalo, N.Y. “Christmas is a bridge. We need bridges as the river of time flows past. Today’s...

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Lipless rattling lures often overlooked in winter

Keith Urban’s “’Til Summer Comes Around” blared through the Tundra’s speakers as we passed leafless pecan trees and whitetail meadows frozen in winter’s lifeless shades of gray and brown on...

Huntin’ and makin’ lures

I’ve been deer hunting for the past week or so here in Texas. I love it. I went in with six or seven other guys, and we leased six thousand...

Teammate makes a ‘Classic’ sacrifice

The last thing Wendell Anderson remembers before hitting the cold water of Lake Malone was that his fishing partner, Matthew Robertson, had a bass on his line and that he...

Special time of year

Over the past few years on Bassmaster Radio, we’ve done a Christmas Special featuring Bassmaster Elite Series pros and their fondest memories of Christmas. Of course, from a spiritual standpoint,...

Big Bass Big Stage Big Dreams

Meet the Elites: Caleb Sumrall

Ask Caleb Sumrall about lessons garnered through his years of fishing local events in Southern Louisiana and he’ll tell you he learned to take a confident, peaceful approach to competition....

My Christmas focus

Christmas is a time of getting together with friends and family. While I’ll be doing plenty of that this year’s going to see me and my wife, Leslie, shifting our...

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