It’s buffet season here on the Bassmaster Elite Series. As we approach the third event of the season, it is going to be a pick-your-poison type tournament. The guys who like to fish docks with...
Coming into this season I was like a parent trying to find their way through a field of LEGOs in a dark room. A lot of new names, faces, talent, hometowns, strengths and so on … a lot to learn....
Wow! What a way to kick off the year for the Bassmaster Elite Series. Not only did a legend of the sport, Rick Clunn, go back-to-back on the St. Johns River, but the sheer number of 20- to 30-pound...
Like the opening day of dove season, the first Cowboys game of season, like the first scoop of ice cream after you started your New Year's resolution, for the avid bass angler, the most long...
It’s hard to believe that we are already near the end of the 2018 season. There have been more curveballs this season than basically any other season I can recall. With canceled events, date...
Adversity causes some men to break — others to break records. That’s going to be the story as the 2018 regular season comes to a close. With the cancelation of the Chesapeake Bay, that will...
It’s been about three years since the Elites fished the last event on the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland. Not much has changed since then except a few names, faces and the launch location. If you have...
No matter what Thomas Allen says…Before each event, I take a few key points into consideration. Criteria 1: I look at history; how have they done at a particular venue in the past? Criteria 2: What...
The grass is always greener on the other side. The problem with the grass over there is that it looks exactly like the grass over here. It takes a sharp fisherman to be able to put the puzzle...
It’s hard to believe we are almost half way through the regular Bassmaster Elite Series season for 2018. I’m proud to say that after a dismal start, I’m getting close to the top 20 percent....
The area around Austin, Texas, is known for a lot of things. Great music, outstanding food, weird people (they have their own slogan: Keep Austin Weird) and great bass fishing. However the next...
Kentucky Lake is known for its ledge fishing, but from the reports I’ve been seeing, there have been a lot of great bags being caught up shallow. The spawn is still in full swing in that part of...
We’re coming into my favorite part of the year when the bass are in all phases of the spawn. At Grand, there are fish staging to come up, there are fish on beds and there are some guarding fry, all...
We are officially headed to the second stop of the 2018 Bassmaster Elite Series season. Lake Martin went just “OK” for me. I ended with a little over the thousand-point mark.The 2018 GEICO...
Babe Ruth. Michael Jordan. And Tom Brady? Maybe it's too soon to bring Brady up? There are names in every sport that seem to live on forever. In the world of bass fishing, there are a handful of...
Welcome, everyone, back to the 2018 season of Bassmaster Fantasy Fishing. I ended last year with a solid run and somehow managed to sneak into the top 10 percent. I've got do better this year....
Fantasy Fishing for me this year has been a bit like eating at IHOP at 3 a.m. You always expect it to be awesome when you get in, but you almost always end up disappointed. Maybe the service was...
Depending on which Fantasy Fishing advice you have listened to or ignored from me this year, you might be doing pretty well. There have been plenty of times where I kicked myself for not making a...
With a pretty good Fantasy Fishing finish on the St. Lawrence River, I’m slowly working my way up into the top 10 percent. Our next stop on Lake Champlain July 27-30 should be another crazy fun...
As a southern, Texas angler, you might expect that I am an authority on smallmouth bass. It might surprise you that I can count the number of smallmouth bass that I have caught on about a hand and...
