How I will fish Lake Travis
It’s funny, in a lot of ways I feel like I’m still fishing the Bass Pro Shops Bassmaster Eastern Open on Lake Norman (where I finished 20th). There are plenty...
Iaconelli and Texas Fest Hooking Kids on Fishing
Mike Iaconelli sat eating his traditional sausage, egg and cheese croissant in the dawn’s early light of Day 1 at the Toyota Bassmaster Texas Fest benefiting Texas Parks and Wildlife...
Matt Lee and KVD talk Texas Fest
Two of professional bass fishing’s classiest guys, Matt Lee, who is getting married in 16 days, and Kevin VanDam who has been married for 26 years, gladly took a break...
Bass Basics
The Texas Rig: Part 8, Knots
Selecting the right knot for Texas-rigging can be made simple. However, if you fail to tie a strong knot the chances of the fish of a lifetime making it to...
Terry Scroggins’ peanut pattern
You never know what you’re gonna see when you look inside Terry “Big Show” Scroggins’ Triton bass boat. Sometimes it’s two or three pairs of cheap reading glasses tossed among...
Daily Limit: Wins put Straders’ doubts to rest
After two wins, Wesley Strader and wife, Stephanie, aren’t sweating their move to B.A.S.S. any more. His victories in the third Elite event and in last weekend’s Open washed away...
Podcast: The Jordan Lee Story
Jim and Thomas sit down with back-to-back Bassmaster Classic champ Jordan Lee and his lovely fiance Kristen.
Clear water and hot weather
At the Toyota Bassmaster Texas Fest benefiting Texas Parks and Wildlife Department on Lake Travis, I’m going to face my first seriously hot tournament of the year. Keeping my cool...
The aughts and ESPN
Late in 1999, two topics came up in frequent conversation: the “Y2K” problem, and what to call the decade of 2000-2009. Some feared the global economy would crash because computer...
Fishing Texas
I’m writing this a few days before the Toyota Bassmaster Texas Fest benefiting the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. Regardless of how I do in that event I want to...
