Grinding through the postspawn
Immediately after the bass finish spawning, they always go into a two-week funk. It seems like every one of them have lockjaw. The bass have yet to gang up on...
Handling the Elite heat
This week’s Bassmaster Elite Series stop on the Sabine River may well turn out to be one of the year’s hottest events. Living in South Florida, that’s nothing new to...
Forward-facing sonar and wary fish
Let me begin by saying I’m not a forward-facing sonar expert, and there are other Bassmaster Elite Series pros better with it than I am. But I have had some...
Former Elite Morgenthaler and Snowden enter the coaching ranks
When some bass pros retire from Bassmaster Elite Series competition, they want to leave it all behind. Not Chad Morgenthaler and Brian Snowden – they’re still looking to pay it...
Iaconelli’s three favorite lures for terribly tough fisheries
Team Toyota’s Mike Iaconelli began his competitive fishing career in the early 1990s on the Delaware River where catching a 9-pound limit made you look like a superstar. So, the...
Shad spawn feast or famine
I was onto to the shad spawn even before I began fishing professionally. It happens year after year, and it’s very predictable. It develops immediately after the bass are getting...
Brandon Palaniuk’s line choices for the Tokyo Rig
Watch Brandon Palaniuk explain how to rig the Tokyo Rig, and how to choose Seaguar line to maximize the potential of the rig
Fighting the postspawn funk
Of all the stages a bass goes through, the postspawn is probably the most challenging for anglers. You can still find plenty of fish, but a lot of times, it’s...
Backstory of the Bassmaster Classic winning technique
Ladson, S.C. – Thirteen hundred miles north of the Tennessee River; twenty years before Jeff Gustafson won the recent Bassmaster Classic— long before live sonar screens rewrote the rules of angling engagement—...
Why buzzbaits make Swindle smile
Bass fishing’s funniest man, Gerald Swindle, doesn’t draw smiley faces on all his tackle boxes, but he inked one on his buzzbait box for several good reasons. Along with skipping...
