Chris Lane reflects on the season
It was a week that was. This year’s postseason was marked by high wind, big waves, cold weather, delays and lots of fun fishing for big smallmouth bass.
Gear
Hot Product Press: Smith Optics’ Dragstrip
With the proper lenses, the Dragstrip allow you to see more accurate colors so you can distinguish things below the water’s surface faster and more accurately.
Hackney officially bass fishing’s best angler
Over nine events, Hackney out-practiced, out-strategized, out-fished and ultimately outlasted the other 107 Bassmaster Elite Series anglers who started the season.
Find the gobies, find the bass
Most of the St. Lawrence smallmouth will be feeding heavily on gobies hanging around rockpiles, shoals and drops in depths of 20 to 50 feet.
Hackney: Before the first cast
As Hackney stood on the front deck of his boat waiting in the darkness of pre-dawn inside the harbor at Escanaba’s Ludington Park, a bevvy of thoughts ran through his mind.
The Escanaba Wind
The Escanaba Wind may have cancelled three days of the AOY Championship, but it also brought a gift: time.
Latest Industry News
The delay: It’s good, it’s bad
One less day of fishing means one less day to make up ground on the guy(s) in front of you.
Bowman on weather
There is a running joke among the editors of all things Bassmaster (website, television, magazine) when it comes to an Elite event that the weather is always a story. It’s...
Angler Of The Year Championship competition will resume Monday
Competition for the Angler of the Year was postponed again Sunday because of strong north winds.
Ken’s Escanaba diary
The park where they'll hold the weigh-ins and Bassmaster University looks great. Homes across the street look like Norman Rockwell paintings.
