Tournament Startegies-Start Early-Stay Late

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A few years ago I was practicing for a local end of year championship “buddy” tournament. It was a two day event starting on Saturday and ending on Sunday. I was practicing on a Friday with no luck. The water on the south end of the lake was dirty and something just didn’t feel right.

It was chain of lakes and I decided to completely change my approach and travel to a different lake altogether. Continue Reading >>

Bass Tournament Strategy-Don’t get Discourage-Take a Backwards Approach

Instead of focusing on what is not working focus on the fact that you just eliminated what is not working!!

It has happened to all of us. We are practicing for a tournament or anxious for tournament day to arrive after finding all those fish the day or weekend before. We arrive shaking, nervous and anxious to get the day started, can’t even barely make the first cast. We start fishing and nothing… 15 minutes go by nothing…then an 1/2 hour….then an hour. Last weekend or the day before they were chasing bait, hitting top water eating an occasional crank bait… now nothing. Continue Reading >>

Bass Fishing and our Environment-Keep it Green

Fish Green

Bass fisherman and outdoor enthusiast alike share an important role in conserving our environment. Conservation is an important step in keeping our outdoors, wildlife and ourselves healthy and happy. There has been a lot of discussion lately on green living, and other environment issues. While we can not control all of the issues surrounding a more green and healthy living we can take a few steps to insure we are doing our part to help conserve our most natural of resources, water and the outdoors.

• Practice catch and release, even for that once and a lifetime largemouth bass. Take a picture, or better yet a video, measure and release. There are plenty of taxidermists that will produce a fiberglass replica. Continue Reading >>
  

Fantasy Largemouth Bass Fishing- $10 million in Cash and Prizes

We have all heard of Fantasy Football, but what about Fantasy Bass Fishing. That’s right for the tech savy, internet surfing Bass Fisherman there is Fantasy Bass Fishing. The two most popular are from FLW Outdoors and BASS and it is no laughing matter.

The FLW Fantasy Fishing program recently announced that it is increasing its prize pool from $7.3 million in the 2008 schedule to  Continue Reading >>

Tournament Tips and Strategies-Slow Down on Practice Days

With the modern day bass boats being equipped with 200 plus outboards, we all tend to travel 70+ mph to get from one spot to another. While it is perfectly acceptable on tournament days-consider slowing down on your practice and fun fishing days. About 2 years ago I was practicing for a local tournament on my home lake and wash checking a drop off which had  some small schooling fish which I found the previous weekend. I had my fish finder on along with the depth and fish alarm. After verifying the fish were still there I decide to go to another area. While I was running to my next “hole” I past an area Continue Reading >>

Bassmaster Classic for 2009 is Set

BASS

Roughly three months away from the 2009 Bassmaster Classic, the full field of 51 anglers was finalized Saturday with David Williams of Maiden, N.C., winning the Toyota Tundra Bassmaster Weekend Series Championship Operated by American Bass Anglers and scoring the final Classic berth. The 39th edition of the Classic will be held Feb. 20-22 on the Red River out of Shreveport-Bossier City, La.

The field is highlighted by Kim Bain-Moore, the first female to compete in a Bassmaster Classic. Bain earned her berth by capturing the Toyota Tundra Women’s Bassmaster Angler of the Year title on the strength of a banner performance on the Women’s Bassmaster Tour presented by Academy Sports & Outdoors.

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Ranger Boats “Factory Team” Promotion

Ranger Boat buyers can receive up to $2,000 in benefits with qualifying purchase

Ranger Boats Promotion

FLIPPIN, AR (December 19, 2008) If you’ve ever dreamed of being part of The Fishing Team and would like to enjoy some of the perks that go along with it, the Ranger Boats “Factory Team” promotion brings great deals along with promotional support and special offers just in time for boat show season.
The “Factory Team” promotion gives buyers of qualified Ranger boats some of the perks that professional anglers enjoy by providing equipment and incentives valued at up to $2,000 with each purchase. Whether buyers are anxious to start living the fishing lifestyle as a seasoned tournament angler or a Ranger loyalist, the “Factory Team” promotion gives boaters and anglers (fresh- and saltwater, alike) everything they need to make the most of boating, pleasure fishing and tournament fishing in 2009.
With the purchase of a qualifying Ranger boat from a participating Ranger dealer between December 15, 2008 and March 15, 2009, buyers can receive a combination of the following items: Continue Reading >>

Fishing the Spawn-Part 3 in a Series Sight Fishing

Catching Bass on Bed-”Sight Fishing”

Let’s start with the ethical stuff first. Spawning bass are in the process of keeping our natural resource stocked with fresh bass to help insure our sport will be alive for a very long time. There is a moral debate as to whether or not fish should be caught of the bed.  I will leave it up to the reader to decide.

• If fishing for fun treat the fish carefully, catch them, take a photo and put back in same spot as quickly as possible.
• If fishing a tournament, at a minimum treat the fish more carefully than otherwise, if you are culling fish try to cull at the spawn site where the fish were caught, if it is a local bass tournament and you are allowed, try to take your catch back to the area where they were caught.

For those anglers who have never tried to catch fish on bed, it is not as easy as it sounds. It requires a great deal of patience and dedication. But once mastered watching that lunker Continue Reading >>

Out of the Box Tournament Strategies

Tournament Anglers seem to love to travel as far as they can to their latest and greatest spot holding fish. We love to race at 70 plus mph to get the adrenaline pumping to start the day. It’s happened to all of us; found a group of fish on practice day only to get to the area on the morning of the tournament and nothing. What Happened? Did the fish go to another county overnight.  Did they eat everything in site the day before. I think they are still there laughing at us. Continue Reading >>

Seawall-Bass Structure???

Fishing the Seawall

If you fish in a populated residential area you most likely have canals or shorelines with various forms of seawalls. I live on a lake in South Florida which comprises of a network of residential canals and main lakes.The majority of the canals have various forms of sea walls and docks. While many anglers concentrate on the docks and the cover along the docks and seawalls such as lilly pads, grass, and submerged grasses which grow 2 to 3 feet away from the actual seawall. I concentrate on Continue Reading >>