Schmitt stays on top heading into Championship Sunday
PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. — To hear Bryan Schmitt talk there isn’t a single bass left in Lake Champlain. They’re all gone. Just vanished. But don’t buy any of it for a...
A smallmouth sticker from the ‘Bass Chaplain’
Chris Wells doesn’t have to be out here. He could just as easily stay home and pastor a church full-time in South Carolina. Instead, he combines a passion for our...
Fantasy Fishing
Fantasy Fishing: Go with what you know
I’m not even going to sugar coat it; my last two Rapala Bassmaster Fantasy Fishing events have been awful. By far they were my worst two finishes of the year....
Fantasy Fishing
Fantasy Fishing: So much on the line
The Bassmaster Elite Series is headed back to the St. Lawrence River. This has become almost a yearly occurrence for a decade, but yet again the playing field will be...
Fantasy Fishing
Fantasy Fishing: Pick gold medalists in bronze
Unlike 2020, when the Bassmaster Elite Series campaign dragged on past Halloween and into deer season, 2021 is hardly half over, and we’re already staring the finish line in the...
Fantasy Fishing
Fantasy Fishing: Don’t count out power fisherman
Wow! The squad absolutely blew out the doors last week on Lake Champlain. If fans thought the fish catching there was amazing — which it most certainly was — this...
Fantasy Fishing
Champlain’s best Fantasy picks
The Guaranteed Rate Bassmaster Elite at Lake Champlain was a fish catching fest. After Day 1 of competition, if an angler caught just over 15 pounds, they would be in...
Schmitt is a true pro — and that’s the truth
Before this week, I had not had the opportunity to talk much with Maryland pro Bryan Schmitt. But after interviewing him three straight days during the Guaranteed Rate Bassmaster Elite...
Zaldain playing hurt
After dropping 19-pounds of Lake Champlain smallmouth on the scales to sit in 3rd place after Day 2 at the Guaranteed Rate Bassmaster Elite, you’d never know that Chris Zaldain...
Schmitt smashes the competition on Day 2
PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. — Bryan Schmitt has insisted two days in a row that big smallmouth will be the key this week if he wins the Guaranteed Rate Bassmaster Elite at...
