A game of catch

Bassmaster Classic champion Kevin VanDam joined reigning Daytona 500 champion Jamie McMurray inside the Daytona International Speedway on June 22.

Go to the dark side (for summer lunkers)

The metabolic rates of bass change during the months of extreme heat, and the bottom line is it is more comfortable for them to feed at night because they expend less energy.

BASS announces 2011 Bassmaster Elite Series schedule

BASS unveiled the 2011 Bassmaster Elite Series regular season schedule Wednesday. The season will kick off near BASS headquarters with consecutive events in Florida and will end in Alabama, BASS' birthplace.

Wishes

As you guys know, I love to fish docks. It's my favorite way to fish. Fort Gibson was my wish, my favorite way to fish — or so I thought.

BASS Reporter’s Notebook

Deb Johnson highlights Bradley Roy has the 2010 Rookie of the Year, Bassmaster Classic, Elite Series, Opens, Guy Eaker, Stephen Browning, and Tommy Biffle

Fort Gibson Lake: How They Did It

Elite anglers talk about fishing the 2010 Sooner Run tournament. Tommy Biffle, Pat Golden and Matt Herren give specifics on how to Fort Gibson Lake.

How-To

Flipping and pitching tips for the heat of summer

In the next two lessons we'll cover a couple of the more popular warm weather flipping and pitching patterns that we encounter as bass anglers. The first one we'll talk about is pitching to suspended bass in standing timber on channels. The second will be flipping and pitching summertime docks.

Competitors divided: Fort Gibson

Due to the flood waters that engulfed Oklahoma City impacting the fast-rising Arkansas River, the AutoZone Sooner Run was moved 16 miles north to Fort Gibson Lake beginning on Wednesday's final day of practice.

The race begins

As anglers launched at Fort Gibson's Sequoyah Bay for the first day of the AutoZone Sooner Run on Thursday morning, Toyota Tundra Bassmaster Angler of the Year points leader Skeet Reese was concerned with finding the fish needed to win the tournament.

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