The beauty of belonging
Dave Precht“Psychologists say we can’t be mentally healthy if we don’t have a sense of belonging and being accepted by others.” In the late 1980s and ’90s, when I was editor...
A new look at our lakes
Keith CombsThe 2019 Bassmster Elite Series schedule includes several fisheries that we’ve visited previously. Some of them, like the St. Johns River and the St. Lawrence River, have hosted multiple great...
What the polar vortex will do to bass, part 2
Mark MenendezThe basic idea in my last column was that there’s not too much to worry about when it comes to the bass themselves. The situation with their environment is a...
Simplifying online tackle selection
Seth FeiderGrowing up in Minnesota, we didn’t have a lot of true “bass tackle shops” nearby. There were plenty of places where you could go and buy sinkers and bobbers and...
Fishing pressured water
Hunter ShryockI grew up learning how to catch pressured bass from Ohio’s small inland reservoirs. These lakes have little in common with the fabulous smallmouth fishing in Lake Erie’s Western Basin....
‘Hook week’ in Daytona
Bernie SchultzMention Daytona to any gearhead, and two monumental events immediately come to mind — Bike Week and Race Week. But for fishing tackle collectors with a different set of gears...
Winter fishing made easy in East Tennessee
Bill DanceWinter fishing can be slow but there is one new technique that can be very effective and entertaining. With the vast improvement in fishing electronics, a relatively new technique has...
What Lanier meant to me
Paul MuellerIf you want to know what professional bass fishing is about, look no further than the first two weeks of my 2019 Bassmaster Elite Series season. Fishing is like a...
It’s time for shallow cranking
Jake WhitakerThe bass are beginning to move toward their spawning areas in the South, and they will be doing so throughout the rest of the country in the coming weeks and...
Stay off the ice
Thom AbrahamNow that the first two events of the Bassmaster Elite Season are in the books, I feel compelled to share some cold weather fishing thoughts. And by “cold weather” I...
