The little fish dilemma
Every once in a while you run across a fishery like we saw at Lake Travis – lots and lots of small bass interspersed with some really big ones. As...
Nation: All in the family
LAKEPORT, Calif. – The majority of the field fishing the 2018 Academy Sports + Outdoors B.A.S.S. Nation Western Regional presented by Magellan Outdoors traveled hundreds of miles to California’s Clear...
Nation: Team Arizona wins
LAKEPORT, Calif. — Anglers began blasting off at 5:30 a.m. PDT from the Konocti Vista Resort Marina, for the second round of competition of the 2018 Academy Sports + Outdoors...
Chico State takes College lead
LAKEPORT, Calif. — Carson Leber and Tyler Bounds continued a hot streak on Clear Lake today, moving from fifth place into the lead at the Carhartt College Western Tour presented...
Simplifying finesse fishing, part 1
Fifteen or 20 years ago, the idea of finesse fishing for bass was considered to be a complex form of fishing that involved a lot tediousness. First, there were a...
Bassmaster Magazine’s first cover boy passes at age 86
Bassmaster Magazine, volume one, issue one—his face was on it. The sheepish grin peeking out of from under an orange-brimmed hat belonged to Jimmy Holt. Presumably, he’d hoisted the three-fish...
Nation: Trout states
LAKEPORT, CALIF. – Some may wonder how the two top teams, after the first round of competition at the 2018 Academy Sports + Outdoors B.A.S.S. Nation Western Regional presented by Magellan...
Nation: Coale leads Day 1
LAKEPORT, Calif. — As expected following a difficult practice for most competitors, the majority of Clear Lake’s big bass seemed to have a case of lockjaw during the first day...
College: NSU takes Day 1
LAKEPORT, Calif. — Some days the game plan goes better than expected, and that sums up the day of Caleb Gibson and Tyler Winn, students at Northeastern State University who...
You can’t spell ‘wink’ without ‘win’
The episode of The Bassmasters featuring Kevin VanDam’s win at Grand Lake is incredible, not just because it’s his record-setting 25th B.A.S.S. victory. It’s not just because he gives a...
