Central Open has pennant race pressure

SHREVEPORT/BOSSIER CITY, La. — Pressure builds every year, like a Major League Baseball pennant race, when the Bass Pro Shops Bassmaster Opens Series schedule continues after the conclusion of the...

Six young anglers set to take over

If you want to know what makes Gerald Swindle’s AOY title so impressive, don’t look to the other anglers in the top five. Yes, he beat out a quartet of...

Feider resurrects fishing career

ONAMIA, Minn. — Sometimes you have to fail before you can succeed. Nobody has exemplified that better than Seth Feider over the past month. “I was hopeless,” said Feider, describing how...

Become a weather watcher

Weather is critical to a bass angler. It controls where the fish are likely to be found and, in some cases, if we can even get to them or fish...

The highs and lows of 2016

Without a doubt, 2016 ranks among the most memorable of the Bassmaster Elite Series seasons … for many reasons. Not only did it provide many exciting moments, there were some...

Schmitt does it

PLATTSBURGH, N.Y.—Bryan Schmitt fed Lake Champlain bass a steady diet of a crayfish imitator this week to win the Bass Pro Shops Bassmaster Northern Open finale. Fishing in only his...

Swindle’s PMA is catching

PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. — On the eve the second day of the Bass Pro Shops Northern Open #3, Sam George got an unexpected phone call wishing him good luck. The caller...

Monroe to fish Classic

PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. — Sometimes victory is bittersweet and comes with a price. Moments after Bryan Schmitt hoisted a tournament-winning trophy, Ish Monroe relished in his win. Schmitt won the Bass...

Notes from the Northern Open

PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. —Three Northern Opens anglers received berths to the 2017 GEICO Bassmaster Classic presented by GoPro. Leading the list is Charlie Hartley, a former Elite Series pro who qualified...

Elite season over…now back to work

We just wrapped up the 2016 season with an unbelievable event at Mille Lacs Lake. Man, what a fishery! That place is remarkable. It is loaded with giant smallmouth and is...