Relocating Bass After Heavy Rains
Louisiana pro Jeff Connella knows that the ability to locate fish quickly is the primary difference between top-flight Elite Series pros and many of their weekend angler counterparts.
Howell: The jig-and-worm
When it comes to thinking "outside the box," Bassmaster Elite Series anglers are on the cutting edge. Always looking for a competitive advantage, many pros spend hours cutting, melting, splicing and combining popular baits in an effort to discover a new way to put more bass in the boat.
Knowing When to Quit Early
One of the oldest clichés in the tournament fisherman's book is "start early and stay late." When it comes to practicing for Elite Series events, it's one that veteran Alabama pro Tim Horton usually adheres to.
Sight Fishing When They’re Not Bedding
The first thing everyone thinks of when you say sight fishing is spawning, says Elite Series pro, Shaw Grigsby. In clear water situations you can sight fish all year long.
Pinpointing Productive Grass
It might be one of the first bass fishing axioms an angler learns: "Where there's grass, there's bass." Unfortunately, as Elite Series pro Greg Hackney points out, not all grass mats are created equal. In fact, if you're not fishing the most productive areas of a particular mat, you might as well be throwing rocks.
Fishing new waters
You've planned a vacation to a body of water you don't know well. Going to a large, unfamiliar lake can be intimidating, but my system will help you figure out a lake in a short period of time.
Day on the Lake LIVE: Bobby Lane
In this episode of Day on the Lake LIVE, Elite Series pro Bobby Lane fishes a private phosphate pit in central Florida and answers viewer questions in real time.
Miserable weather and the 2011 Classic
I'll tell you that it never gets too nasty to go fishing, but it has come darn close this past week. The weather has been miserable.
KVD: Dissecting offshore humps
Watching Kevin VanDam fish during the postspawn and summer months on lakes like Kentucky and Guntersville, it would appear to the untrained eye that the Michigan pro is lost, helplessly flailing at open water.
