Champion Boats 210 Elite Review

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The Series leader, Champion’s 210 Elite adds an extra dimension to our legendary ride and handling. Heart-pumping performance! Rated at 300 horses, this 20′ 10″ tournament-level Champion boasts a huge 95″ beam ensuring excellent fishability. New for 2008, this driver’s machine is fine-tuned for superior control with AquaFlex shock mitigating  seating and digital BIOS^TM instrumentation, all backed by smooth SeaStar steering, solid-state digital switching and an in-dash Lowrance LMS-480 locator with GPS. Hardcore fishing features include: cavernous dry storage compartments, an 7′6″ rod locker, 40 gallon divided livewell system with Flow-Rite plumbing and dual Hydro-Air aeration, “hard-wired” FW71FB 24V MotorGuide trolling motor, 2-bank onboard charger, an additional bow-slope mounted Lowrance X-135 with temp and a 10″ jack plate. With its new generation performance-tuned hull you’ve got the ultimate rig to run for the money. Continue Reading >>

Fishing Pressure-Weekends or Weekdays

It’s Wednesday morning at a well-known bass lake as you launch at a practically deserted boat ramp. You glide over slick water to a nearby cove and approach a fallen tree, the most obvious piece of cover along the entire bank. Your first cast of the morning goes astray; your spinnerbait sails 6 feet wide of the tree’s trunk. You briskly wind in with the intention of making a better cast, but a respectable bass pounces on the lure.

You chuckle, release the suicidal fish and lay the next cast right along the trunk. Pow! Bass No. 2 nails your spinnerbait. Throughout the morning, your spinnerbait dances past windfalls, brushpiles, boat docks and other visible targets and coaxes strikes with satisfying regularity. You later head home, reassured that you are one heck of a fisherman, and that your favorite lake supports a bounty of bass. Continue Reading >>

Ranger Z19 Comanche Review

Turn Up The Heat With A Total Performance Legend! Welcome to the advanced engineering and innovative strength of the Ranger Z19 Comanche®! Rated for a maximum of 225 horses, the Z19 serves notice with broad beam muscle and responsive acceleration. Fluid, Sea Star Pro® hydraulic steering centers the helm while a multifunction five gauge performance instrumentation cluster covers the dash. Measuring 19′ 6″ in length, the Z19’s ultra-wide 95″ beam eclipses all other rigs in its class while also delivering an extremely solid fishing platform and a healthy dose of floor, storage, and fishing space. Further equipped with solid state digital ignition and switching, a 24 volt Minn Kota® trolling motor, gas spring lid assists, a Pro Stow® tackle organizer, retractable rod straps, measuring board, and pop-up tie cleats, this is the Z19 Ranger Comanche®. NMMA certified, this total performance package is taking the term, “Best-In-Class” to a whole new level. Continue Reading >>

Bass Cat Puma Review

The Bass Cat Puma and its brother the Puma FTD just might be the best boats in any line up! The “all fiberglass” compression manufacturing, utilizes our trademark vacuum process, which is years ahead of other bass boats construction methods.

The 20′4″ hull with its 94″ beam is rock solid. This hull is very stable, yet agile even in the roughest  waters. The deck layout provides storage from the bow to the console with six (6) compartments. There’s even a place for your net and measuring board, close within reach. It’s trendy modular consoles designed to provide space for a built-in LCR. Plus, conversion to a dual console (DC) is a pretty simple process. This console also sports a custom designed Italian steering wheel with six (6) sides, and a Bass Cat mark in the center cap. Beside the console you will find two cool items. First, lighted handrails, which are, too cool, and added pop up mooring cleats at your fingertips for securing your ride at the dock. Compare the standard features, performance, handling, rough water ride, quality craftsmanship, customer satisfaction, and Bass Cats reputation to any bass boat on the market…bar none. Continue Reading >>

Shaky Head Worm Fishing

Bass and the Dragonfly Pattern

by mike iaconelli

I learned about this pattern many years ago while fishing in the many shallow, weedy, cedar water lakes I grew up fishing. It?s hard to imagine, but in South Jersey, a good portion of the diet of a growing bass in the summertime are dragon flys. I?ve also seen this pattern develop in many other parts of the country, including many northern glacial lakes and the shallow weedy waters in Florida. When I first saw bass leaping 2 to 3 feet out of the water chasing airborne dragon flys, I was amazed. But, I was also determined to come up with ways to catch these actively feeding fish. Continue Reading >>

Bass Boat Manufacturers

Your A-Z Guide to Bass Boat Manufacturers

• Allison Boats
• Alumacraft
  
• Bass Cat
• Blazer Boats
• Bass Hunter
• Bullet Bass Boats
• Champion Boats
• Cresliner
• Fisher Boats
• G3 Boats
• Gambler Boats
• Legend Boats
• Lowe Boats
• Lund
• Nitro Boats
• Norris Craft
• Phoenix Bass Boat
• Ranger
• SeaArk Boats
• Skeeter
• Storm Bass Boats
• Stratos
• Stroker Boats
• Tracker Boats
• Triton Boats
• Xpress Boats

Texas Worm Rig-How To

The “Texas Rigged” plastic worm is the most popular way to fish a plastic worm. It is weedless and can be fished anywhere. You can change the size of the worm, and size of the weight for a variety of different fishing conditions. The Texas rigged worm is truly the ultimate method for catching lots of bass. Below is a detailed step by step instruction for the Texas Worm Rig.

1. Supplies: (1) Bullet weight (sinker), (1) Worm Hook, (1) Worm.
   

   Bullet Weight, Worm Hook, Plastic Worm

2. Insert your line through the bullet weight, pointed end first, tie the worm hook to your line with your favorite fishing knot.
3. Insert the point of the hook straight into the top end of the worm, insert the hook slightly past the barb of the hook, approximately ¼ of an inch. Note: If you are using a curly tail worm, line the hook up with the curl of the tail. This will eliminate line and worm twist.
   

   Insert Hook Into Worm

4. Pull the hook through the worm at the side of the head of the worm.
   

   Slide point of hook thru head of worm

5. Slide the worm up the shank of the hook; twist the hook as you slide the worm so that the point of the hook is facing the side of the worm. Slide the worm so that the eye of the hook will be imbedded into the head of the worm.
   

   Slide the hook all the way thru the worm head

6. Once the hook is embedded into the eye, let worm and hook hang naturally making note of where the bottom of the hook lines up with the worm.
7. Insert the hook point of the hook at the location of the bottom of the hook previously marked. Insert the hook all the way through the worm.
   

   Insert the hook thru the worm

8. Slide the worm back onto the hook so that the point of the hook is slightly imbedded into the worm ands so that the entire rig is straight and weedless.
   

   The rig is complete and weedless

Allison XB-21 BasSport Pro

The BasSport Pro, the result of nine years of research and development, gives the professional fisherman more features, conveniences, and innovations than all other bass boat brands combined. It is available in either a side console or with twin consoles. When it comes to Performance, Efficiency, Comfort, Convenience, Versatility, Durability, and Fishability, the BasSport Pro beats the competition in all categories! Continue Reading >>

Skeeter 22i-Performance Bass Boat

The newly redesigned 22i has been recognized as a Trailer Boats Excellence in Design Award Winner for 2009.  Proof that pushing the envelope pays and you get the rewards.  Skeeter’s product developers took equal parts performance and luxury and distilled them into the agile, responsive, and impressively commanding 22i. Incredibly spacious, wickedly fast, and brimming with intelligent features - this boat turns heads wherever it goes - so prepare to be the center of attention.

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