Ken Cook on the Chesapeake Bay
On Thursday he caught a limit in about three hours. Exercising traditional competitive angler thought, he left the area with his fish still biting, believing he could take more weight from it another day.
2009 Bassmaster Elite Series, Rookie
VanDam cashed checks in his first 23 Bassmaster events and is the sport's all-time money winner. Gritter is still looking for his first paycheck as an Elite Series angler.
2009 Elite Series Blue Ridge Brawl, Insider’s Look
So far this season, however, our pattern predictions haven't been that accurate. Instead of finding bass in prespawn as expected at the first three events, the pros have encountered bass in all phases of the spawn, including postspawn, and at all depths.
2009 Elite Series Blue Ridge Brawl, AOY
At the season's halfway point, while none of the remaining competitors is conceding anything, some patterns and probabilities are starting to take root with respect to the end-of-year standings.
2009 Elite Series Blue Ridge Brawl, Field of Dreams
Kevin VanDam will scratch and claw to get to the Top 12 every week and on the rare occasions when he doesn't make it to Sunday, heaven help anyone who gets in his way at the next event.
Crew(sine)
On the work bench, mega-RPM high torque power wrenches and a Teflon coated BBQ cooking set (black and very stylish BTW). Metric and mayonnaise, horsepower and horseradish coexist. As I turn, I watch as the ENTIRE service crew walk down the gravel boatyard road to a BBQ shootout with the local food vendors.
2009 Elite Series Blue Ridge Brawl, Day Three, Cut
James Niggemeyer, Jeff Connella and Skeet Reese each acknowledged that it would take a superhuman effort to erase Kevin VanDam's nearly 7-pound lead.
2009 Elite Series Blue Ridge Brawl, Day Three, KVD
If there was a technique Kevin VanDam hasn't quite mastered, most would agree that sight-fishing would be it.
2009 Elite Series Blue Ridge Brawl, Day Three, Notes
Coming out of practice, Steve Kennedy had located both sight fish and swimbait fish. He chose to target the swimbait fish first, but struggled because the cold nights had pushed them down.
2009 Elite Series Blue Ridge Brawl, Day Three, Disappearing
After two days of 100 Elite Series anglers picking over the bedding bass on Smith Mountain Lake, many experienced disappointment when few remained on Day Three.
