Day 1 begins on Santee Cooper
See the Elites head out on the foggy first morning of the 2023 AFTCO Bassmaster Elite at Santee Cooper Lakes!
Comfortable and catching fish
After a disappointing finish at the second Bassmaster Elite Series event of the year, it felt good to make the cut at last week’s Lake Murray event and leave with...
Frustrating fishing for Benton
Drew Benton started in a patch of lily pads where he had located three good fish on beds during practice. But over an hour later, he’s yet to boat a...
Brace for the big ones
Talk has been of tough fishing, but this is Santee. Anglers may not be getting many bites but they are often big when they come. Masayuki Matsushita just boated this...
Bassmaster LIVE Santee Cooper Lakes Elite preview
Get an early preview of this week’s AFTCO Bassmaster Elite at Santee Cooper Lakes with the Bassmaster LIVE team.
Palaniuk LIVE gliding
Brandon Palaniuk won the 2022 Progressive Angler of the Year title. He did this by being disciplined, diverse and ever willing to learn. We just watched BP doing something we...
Postcard perfect start for Pirch
Good Morning from the AFTCO Bassmaster Elite at Santee Cooper! We’re riding today with Sun Devil state native, Clifford Pirch. Pirch has started just off the main lake in an...
Bassmaster LIVE at Santee Cooper
Follow all the action from the 2023 AFTCO Bassmaster Elite at Santee Cooper Lakes on Bassmaster LIVE!
Arey aiming for big bass?
For the first fourteen years of his professional fishing career, Bassmaster Elite Series pro Matt Arey had never won big bass honors in an official tournament. The easy-going North Carolina...
Here we go, again
Day 5 has begun. Wait, no. Day 1 of the AFTCO Bassmaster Elite at Santee Cooper Lakes has begun. Sorry for the confusion. We’re all still a little punch drunk...
