How-To

The blueprint for fishing laydowns

By nature’s design, blown-over trees become fish-holding structures. Three Elite Series pros detail how to build solid limits of bass from this ­underwater architecture.

Taking fishing other places

I got to spend part of this past week at one of the most beautiful places I've ever seen — Big Cedar Lodge in Ridgedale, Mo., right on the shores of Table Rock Lake.

How-To

Look for bass on ledges right now

It’s time to look for bass on the ledges. By “ledges,” I’m referring to those underwater haunts where a shallow flat falls off into the much deeper old river channel or primary creek channel.

Eye on BASSfest

This tournament will have the strongest field of any B.A.S.S. event in a very, very long time.

Not the finish I was looking for

My expectations were high, but now I’m sitting here writing this blog knowing this tournament was a decision-disaster after a 50th-place finish.

Behind the scenes of ‘100 Best Bass Lakes’

Compiling Bassmaster Magazine’s 100 Best Bass Lakes is a massive undertaking. The 2014 list is the third in this series, and the process of picking and ranking the lakes has become more involved each year.

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