Pete Robbins

Pete

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Veteran outdoor writer Pete Robbins provides a fan's perspective of B.A.S.S. complemented by an insider's knowledge of the sport. He blogs about fishing travel at www.halfpastfirstcast.com

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Building a winning culture

By Pete Robbins

While I consider myself a loner, an introvert and a rugged individualist, I’ve spent more days and hours in organizational settings than I care to remember.I’ve been in bass clubs, on teams and on...

Fantasy Fishing: Go with your gut in Detroit Rock City

By Pete Robbins

Through eight regular-season Elite Series events, here’s what we know … we don’t know squat.We had a New Yorker win in Alabama, an Australian win in Oklahoma, a Connecticut Yankee win in Georgia...

Fantasy Fishing: Limited history at Tenkiller

By Pete Robbins

Oklahoma, where the wind comes sweepin' down the plainAnd the wavin' wheat, can sure smell sweetWhen the wind comes right behind the rain.That sound you hear, whooshing from Kansas to Texas and...

Fantasy Fishing: Fixate on flippers at Cayuga

By Pete Robbins

All weekend long we had to listen to the Bassmaster LIVE crew questioning the judgment of the pros who pursued largemouth at the St. Lawrence River, but now the shoe’s on the other foot. While...

Fantasy Fishing: Looking for whales at St. Lawrence

By Pete Robbins

George: I got about 50 feet out and then suddenly the great beast appeared before me. I tell ya he was 10 stories high if he was a foot. As if sensing my presence he gave out a big bellow...

Post-Fork, Livesay's living for what’s next

By Pete Robbins

Over the past month, Bassmaster Elite Series rookie Lee Livesay’s Facebook account has been a nonstop parade of Lake Fork beauties. If you’ve followed it closely, you’ve seen one client after...

Fantasy Fishing: Double dip on grass hounds at Big G

By Pete Robbins

Next March, the eyes of the bass fishing world will focus upon Lake Guntersville, a legendary TVA impoundment loaded with grass and big bass. There are 75 Elite Series pros who dream of competing...

Meet the Elites: Chris Groh

By Pete Robbins

Bassmaster Elite Series sophomore Chris Groh’s long hair may represent a fashion decision or a lifestyle choice, but more likely it reflects the fact that he can’t stop moving long enough to get a...

Drew Cook and the rise of the T-shirt guys

By Pete Robbins

If you’ve fished local or regional bass tournaments for any period of time, you know that each circuit develops into its own ecosystem – complete with cliques, anglers to beat and a pecking order....

Fantasy Fishing: Forget finesse specialists at Fork

By Pete Robbins

After the long runs and light weights of Winyah Bay, the Bassmaster Elite Series will pick up the schedule midstream at Lake Fork, a comparatively compact playing field with comparatively monstrous...

Fantasy Fishing: Pick grinders and tidal rats at Winyah Bay

By Pete Robbins

Straight on the heels of Brandon Cobb’s wire-to-wire win at Hartwell, the Elite Series pros need to pick up and head to the coast – not for a beach vacation but rather to make the Bassmaster Elite...

Fantasy Fishing: Find the history at Hartwell

By Pete Robbins

Top-level B.A.S.S. competition returns to Lake Hartwell for the first time since the 2018 Bassmaster Classic, and while Jordan Lee won’t be there for a delayed defense of his crown, there are...

The 2019 Classic – emotion ruled the day

By Pete Robbins

The Bassmaster Classic is always a great event, but each iteration is great in different ways.After months of speculation about the Tennessee River, muted concerns about the departing anglers, and...

Classic: DeFoe bet the over in Knoxville

By Pete Robbins

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – By all conventional tournament metrics, Tennessee pro Ott DeFoe won the 2019 GEICO Bassmaster Classic presented by DICK'S Sporting Goods. His three-day catch of 49 pounds 3...

Wiggins movin'on up

By Pete Robbins

The sun is beating down and Jesse Wiggins has finally removed his heavy clothing. After a short fish he hooked up with something bigger. From our distance, it is hard to tell how big, but we'd...

Wiggins burning fuel

By Pete Robbins

Jesse Wiggins is keeping the Knoxville-area Pilot stations happy this week, burning gas by making long runs. We just followed him for 10 minutes down the river, passing Jacob Wheeler's flotilla...

Moving time

By Pete Robbins

We followed Jesse Wiggins down to Gallagher Creek, but we were a little too slow. Another photographer told us that he caught one on his first cast.As I typed this he landed another, but it didn't...

The culling continues

By Pete Robbins

Wiggins shows no signs of slowing down. He just landed four more back to back to back to back off,the same point.. Two helped, two got unceremoniously dumped back into Fort Loudoun. His culling...

Still chewing for Wiggins

By Pete Robbins

Seventy five yards into the creek, Wiggins hooked up in front of a brushy laydown. He flopped it onto the carpet and then got down to the hard but profitable work of culling. He tossed one...

Wiggins on the move

By Pete Robbins

We've moved to Jesse Wiggins and arrived at his location just as he decided to make a run. We followed him to the mouth of Turkey Creek.

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