Florida angler takes huge lead

With few anglers catching the five-fish limit Thursday on the stingy St. Johns River, Chris Daniels of Panama City, Fla., claimed the first-day lead as the Bassmaster tournament season kicked off the first Bassmaster Southern Open.

For The Birds

November and December are terrible months to be a shad on Kentucky Lake," notes Scott Loxley, a veterinarian and lifelong bass angler from Clarksville, Tenn.

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Brauer: Deep Docks for Summer

In July, when he launches onto a lake that is lined by deep boat docks, pro angler Chad Brauer's anxiety level rises like a thermometer in a midsummer heat wave.

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Deep Structure For Postspawners

Bass Patterns: Deep Structure For Postspawners

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River Jetties for Early Fall

The Arkansas River Navigation Project includes hundreds of miles of jetties and riprap banks.

Louisiana agency plants artificialreefs

 MONROE, La. — Louisiana fisheries biologist Mike Wood watched in the 1990s as the state's premier trophy bass lake crashed after grass carp denuded the reservoir of vegetation, and by...

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Cutting Your Teeth on Blade Baits

If ever there were a lure that seems to be associated with smallmouth bass — but not so much the other black bass — it would have to be the blade bait.

Ray Scott

Bass came of age at 1984 Classic

Joe Mosby is the former Outdoors Editor of the Arkansas Gazette. He held that position for more than 30 years. In that time, he covered 26 Bassmaster Classics from 1974 to 1999.

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Stick it to ’em with swimbaits

Every decade seems to have its hot lure trend.

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What You’re Missing

Sometimes the difference between fishing and catching comes down to information knowing what's going on around you and adapting to it.