Gear

Lowrance announces software update for HDS Gen3 and Elite-TI displays

TULSA, Okla. – Lowrance recently announced the release of new software updates for HDS Gen3, Elite-5 Ti and 7 Ti displays that include significant sonar enhancements, new Navionics functionality and...

Horton hangs on

OKEECHOBEE, Fla. — After losing a 9-pound bass to start his morning, Tim Horton of Muscle Shoals, Ala., kept his composure and weighed 15 pounds, 11 ounces to keep a...

Your boat, your way

Anyone who reads the columns and articles on this site gets lots of information about how to pack tackle and how to pack that tackle in your boat. It’s good...

Tommy Biffle: Game face

“Well, we all have a face…” Dateline: A steak joint “The human face is, after all, nothing more nor less than a mask.”– Agatha Christie The face of this morning...

Five easy ways to increase your catch

It won’t be long and most of you will be heading out to your favorite lake or river to go fishing. Here are five easy and inexpensive ways you can...

Perfect storm brewing?

OKEECHOBEE, Fla. — There’s a bass fishing perfect storm brewing on Lake Okeechobee. That’s the only logical explanation for why this 467,000-acre monster of a lake is producing like it...

Horton takes lead

OKEECHOBEE, Fla. — After weighing the second limit of the tournament that crested 30 pounds, Tim Horton of Muscle Shoals, Ala., took control on Day 2 of the A.R.E. Truck...

Jordan Lee not hunkering down at Okeechobee

Jordan Lee might have been resting on his haunches while tying on baits prior to Day 3 of the Bassmaster Elite on Lake Okeechobee. But that’s where the hunkering down...

Being there: Elite No. 2

“I’ve looked under chairs…” Dateline: Lake Okeechobee “I like to watch.”Chance The GardenerBeing There (1979) The role of a storyteller is to whisper into your ear stories you would never...

Okeechobee full of surprises

OKEECHOBEE, Fla. — Yes, there is considerably less clear water and aquatic vegetation in Lake Okeechobee than the last time the Bassmaster Elite Series came here in 2012. But one...