It’s been a crazy three days. It’s like I can’t tell anybody and everybody enough. I’ve already been to my son’s grade school class and talked to them. That was a big deal...
Getting off to a good start is important every year, but never more so than in 2020. The way the schedule breaks down will make it difficult to make up ground later in the...
This week I’m traveling to Chickamauga Lake to check things out before it goes off limits. I don’t do early visits to most of the lakes we fish because I’ve been to them so...
This time I want to talk a little about hooks. But not so much about what model or design of hook to use and not about which company makes the best ones. Instead, I want to...
OK, so here’s something my wife, Jaclyn, and I have become more involved with over time. It’s called The Warrior’s Journey. It’s an internet-based Christian organization...
I’m really enthused about next year’s schedule. It’s kind of a big bass deal, and that’s just the way I like it. With the exception of coaching my son’s basketball team and...
Picking the right bait is critical. But, like you read last time, I don’t think or fish like most of the other guys. My standards for a good jerkbait are different. I’m not...
Over the years I’ve developed a reputation — true and well deserved — as a guy who picks up a jerkbait when I need or want a keeper bass. The reason I do that is nothing...
Summer is darn near over, for the most part anyway. That means most of the reservoirs around the country have falling water levels as the managers draw them down towards...
One of the people I’ve most admired in my life passed away recently. Her name was Doris Parsons. She owned Tackle Town in Maiden, N.C., one of the premier custom fishing...
Fishing the Bassmaster Elite Series, and the tournaments I fished before I qualified, has been a real opportunity. I’ve been blessed to see this country up close and to...
It seems like we’ve had nothing but rain for weeks. Where I live here in North Carolina the lakes are swelled up to over capacity, homeowners are having problems with water...
An untapped resource in our industry is what some call non-endemic sponsors. There are thousands to choose from, and many of them will give anglers additional sponsor...
A shad spawn is a magnet that draws bass and anglers alike. Most anglers understand that and fish them. The thing is, though, they only fish them just before and just after...