Plan a fall fishing vacation in Chattanooga

Chattanooga is a favorite fall travel destination for many reasons, and a bass fishing trip to lakes Chickamauga and Nickajack are only two of them. The surrounding mountains of east...

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Cumberland hosts College Series regular season finale

RUSSELL COUNTY, Ky. — The 2020 Carhartt Bassmaster College Series presented by Bass Pro Shops regular season wraps up on Kentucky’s Lake Cumberland Oct. 1-3 and will serve as the final opportunity...

Open: Walters leads Day 2

ANDERSON, S.C. — Knowing which changes to make and when moved Patrick Walters into the Day 2 lead of the Basspro.com Bassmaster Eastern Open on Lake Hartwell with a two-day...

Fantasy Fishing: Balancing savvy and sentiment

As the Bassmaster Elite Series heads to Lake Guntersville, I can’t help but be reminded of the last time we were there. In March, as the collective eyes of the...

Converting lookers into biters is key

Yesterday, second-place pro Bobby Stanfill described his day as “torture.” We asked him how he justified that statement, given his strong performance and he said it was a case of...

Dealing with fall transition

This is the time of year when fishing can get tough. It’s early fall, and the fish tend to scatter. I saw that first hand last week when I visited...

Largemouth make big Day 1 showing

Some fisheries are defined by a particular black bass species, even when others share the pond. Go to Lake Erie, you’re after beastly smallmouth. Amistad, it’s chunky largemouth. Shasta —...

The Opens experience

Carl Jocumsen arrived in the U.S. nine years ago with a suitcase, rod tube, tacklebox and a dream. That was to become the first Australian to qualify for the Bassmaster...

Open: Hahner leads Day 1

ANDERSON, S.C. — When the window of opportunity opened, Cody Hahner of Wausau, Wis., seized the moment and nabbed a pair of big largemouth bass to anchor a limit of...