How-To

Love your engine

learn a few dos and don'ts about how to save money on big motor repairs and avoid lost fishing time.

St. Croix Bassmaster Opens

2011 Bass Pro Shops Bassmaster Opens schedule

2011 Bass Pro Shops Bassmaster Opens, which will conclude with each event's final-day weigh-in at select Bass Pro Shops locations. The popular Open tournament structure will again feature three qualifying series in a Southern, Central and Northern Division.

2011 Classic by the numbers

Now that the field is set, let's look at the 2011 Bassmaster Classic qualifiers as a group. Words tell great stories, but numbers can reveal truths that words only hint at.

Steel’s the deal

Last week was Indian summer here in Ohio. The weather was beautiful, gentle breezes with temperatures in the 70s and all that. As you might expect I played hooky from the office and headed to Lake Erie.

A Purple-Hearted 3-pounder

Harry Potts used a Toyota Tundra to help pull B.A.S.S.'s corporate sponsor boats all across America along the Bassmaster Elite Series trail. Three decades before that, he was in Vietnam.

20 Questions with Ryan Said

Ryan Said finished at the top of the heap in the three-tournament circuit. He's a Chrysler engineer by trade, but is looking for a career change as the 2011 Elite Series season approaches. Here's how he answered our 20 Questions:

20 Questions with Stephen Browning

Stephen Browning has been around professional fishing for nearly 15 years. He has survived many of the incarnations of BASS' top-level tour and has earned nearly $750,000 in the process.

How-To

Shaky head: only the name is new

Many of today's anglers think the shaky head is a new technique, but the technique has been around for half a century, if not longer. Only the name is new.

BASS Reporter’s Notebook

Deb Johnson blogs about B.A.S.S. new ownership, the 2011 Bass Pro Shops Bassmaster Open, Women in the Open, and the 2011 Classic.

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