Bass fishing tips from Bassmaster Elite anglers and other bass fishing experts. Learn about fishing tackle, rods, reels and techniques to help you catch more bass.
Top Tackle: Choosing a style of Topwater with Randy Howell
In this Top Tackle video, Randy Howell goes through two popular styles of topwater lures and how he opts to choose one or the other.
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Love those tubes for smallmouth
It’s such a simple lure; you tie one knot and start casting.
Mercury Move of the Tournament: Tucker Smith
Bassmaster Elite Tucker Smith scored a Top 10 finish at Lake St. Clair by leveraging a pattern-within-a-pattern that paid off big. Watch him share the details.
Day on the lake: Alex Redwine
DOTL Challenge: Put a Progressive Bassmaster Elite Series pro on a small lake he’s never seen before. Give him seven hours to locate and catch bass while we log his every move.
Make it happen with late mayflies
It’s one of the most dependable patterns in bass fishing, but don’t let the name fool you — mayfly action extends well past the year’s fifth month. In fact, parts...
Top 100: Norsetter profiles the upper Mississippi River
Bassmaster Elite Kyle Norsetter uses the One Boat Network and its app to leverage features like LakeMaster Mapping with VX technology for seamless integration to catch more and bigger bass.
When a micro jig beats a drop shot
After the Bassmaster Elite Series tournament at Lake St. Clair, I spent five days in Iowa working with Berkley and filming content for them and some of my other sponsors....
Top Tackle: Breaking down different types of vegetation
In this Top Tackle video, Buddy Gross runs down a few types of vegetation anglers often encounter on the water. Each has a unique purpose in an ecosystem and different...
Top 100: Smith breaks down Lake St. Clair
Bassmaster Elite Tucker Smith breaks down the lay of the lake at St. Clair. Learn how Humminbird LakeMaster Mapping technology enables him to find subtle bottom contours attractive to smallmouth...
Brandon Palaniuk’s waypoint management tips
Watch how Brandon Palaniuk simplifies and streamlines his fishing areas using Humminbird’s new waypoint management system for seamless integration across all his electronics.
My three-step tournament preparation process
I had planned to go straight from working at ICAST to the Bassmaster Open on the Upper Chesapeake River. That changed after my son, Vegas, qualified for the Bassmaster Junior...
How Jocumsen finds offshore bass
Watch how Carl Jocumsen quickly found an offshore school of 4-pound largemouth using Humminbird’s new waypoint management system and MEGA 360 technology. And he even did it without forward-facing sonar.
My triple threat for dog days bass
July, August and September can be brutally tough for fishing, especially when the temperature sizzles in the middle part of the country and the South. I brave the heat and...
How Bill Lowen targets big shallow water bass
Watch how Bassmaster Elite Series pro Bill Lowen uses the Minn Kota Raptor shallow water anchor to target specific big bass, as he did to win an Elite tournament.
