Drug Take-Back Bill Will Help Fish

When unused drugs are flushed down the toilet or thrown into the trash they often find their way into our waterways and the environment.

Ken Cook on the Chesapeake Bay

On Thursday he caught a limit in about three hours. Exercising traditional competitive angler thought, he left the area with his fish still biting, believing he could take more weight from it another day.

2009 Bassmaster Elite Series, Rookie

VanDam cashed checks in his first 23 Bassmaster events and is the sport's all-time money winner. Gritter is still looking for his first paycheck as an Elite Series angler.

2009 Elite Series Blue Ridge Brawl, Insider’s Look

So far this season, however, our pattern predictions haven't been that accurate. Instead of finding bass in prespawn as expected at the first three events, the pros have encountered bass in all phases of the spawn, including postspawn, and at all depths.

2009 Elite Series Blue Ridge Brawl, AOY

At the season's halfway point, while none of the remaining competitors is conceding anything, some patterns and probabilities are starting to take root with respect to the end-of-year standings.

Crew(sine)

On the work bench, mega-RPM high torque power wrenches and a Teflon coated BBQ cooking set (black and very stylish BTW). Metric and mayonnaise, horsepower and horseradish coexist. As I turn, I watch as the ENTIRE service crew walk down the gravel boatyard road to a BBQ shootout with the local food vendors.

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