How-To

Hooks 101

When it gets down to the nitty-gritty, you can have every aspect of fishing covered the right rod and reel, good line, an effective lure and a solid pattern that will give your thumb the sandpaper look of a grizzled veteran but without the proper hook, and a sharp one at that, you're not going to catch many fish. It's as simple as that! Trying to land a fish without a good hook is like trying to cut a steak with a butter knife.

Lures for stream bass

You've probably got an awesome place to fish for bass within an easy bike ride of your house and you don't need a boat to fish it! Thousands of streams crisscross America, and many of them contain excellent populations of bass.

Bass out of water

If sharks had feet, they would wear out a lot of shoes.

Sometimes they get away

He would go on to become one of the world's most famous bass anglers and one of the most popular television fishing personalities. Before that, though, Bill Dance was a young newlywed fishing Pickwick Lake in Alabama. He used a paddle to maneuver his johnboat along the side of a bluff, where hungry smallmouth bass chased shad.

How-To

Finding fishing holes

From Alaska to Florida and Maine to New Mexico, fishing holes of all kinds are waiting for you. All you have to do is know how to find them, and if they're on private property, know how to gain permission to fish them.

Boyd Duckett takes Bassmaster Legends

Doyd Duckett scored his second BASS in 2007 victory by winning the Bassmaster Legends.

Duckett turns “fish whisperer”

Boyd Duckett pulled off the win at the Bassmaster Legends tournament, after Dean Rojas lead the way for three days.

The pain of one man

The leader for three days of the Bassmaster Legends, Dean Rojas, ends the tournament in fourth place.

Anybody’s ballgame

Dean Rojas in the lead heading into the final day of the Bassmaster Elite Series Legends tournament.

Clouds and rain

Rain was a welcome sight at the Bassmaster Elite Series Legends tournament.