2019 Academy Sports + Outdoors Bassmaster Elite Series Tournament at Lake Guntersville
Back on the water
Laurie Tisdale and I took a break from watching fishermen to watch and photograph a group of volunteers participating in the B.A.S.S. Nation Cleanup of Lake Guntersville. About 40 volunteers picked...
Arey ‘cooking with gas’ now
Matt Arey began the day in second place, only 4 ounces out of the lead. He’s had a painful morning with only two bass weighing a total of 2 3/4...
Bigger bass to come
Hank Cherry is sitting in third place, according to BASSTrakk, putting together another 14 pounds this morning. But he anticipates bigger bass to come. “Yesterday I caught all my big...
Classic champ DeFoe to have heart surgery
As Ott DeFoe won the 2019 GEICO Bassmaster Classic presented by DICK’S Sporting Goods, he began to notice that he was out of breath more often than usual. He was...
Mueller leads Day 1 at Guntersville
SCOTTSBORO, Ala. — More than half the field caught at least 16 pounds of bass during Friday’s opening round of the Academy Sports + Outdoors Bassmaster Elite at Lake Guntersville,...
Lester’s secret weapon
Brandon Lester calls Lake Guntersville his home lake, which is partly true (Tims Ford Reservoir is his true home lake). In any case, the middle Tennessean knows Guntersville really well,...
Somebody’s catching them somewhere
I talked with Mueller as he was prepping to move again. When asked what changed overnight, he chuckled. “Well, it wasn’t that good yesterday,” he said in reference to the...
