Swim Jig Tackle Tips
Swim jig tackle tips - including rod, and line setups.
Classic Lessons
If you are a bass fisherman, then this should be one of the most important weeks of the year. It’s the Bassmaster Classic week. Competition…
The Road to Becoming a Great Angler
A while back, I was involved in a discussion with a group of anglers. The discussion ended up going a dozen different directions but the…
Tackle Tuesday – One Treble Trap
A silent copper trap made of wood? All of our favorite things in a homemade bait. As evidenced below, it works too. We began converting…
Prespawn Preparation
The video details a systematic approach to locating potential prespawn areas using Google Earth. Important points: This approach will work on any body of water anywhere…
How to Pace & Position When Fishing Shallow Cover
In a recent series, National Championship, I spent some time describing how important it was to work cover a certain way while flipping/pitching. The video above…
Why Your Prefish was Great but Your Derby Day Sucked!
Do you typically "win" prefish? But nobody, including your wife or girlfriend or worse yet, your tournament partner believe that you are really "on th…
Why Big Smallmouth Are Different
Here's why trophy smallmouth are unique and what you can do to increase your odds of catching one.
National Championship? – Final Episode
I had been fortunate that fate had allowed me to be exposed from an early age to bass fishing. Both my grandfather and my father…
National Championship? – Part 6
Tournament Day 2 I could see there wasn’t going to be any way to predict what kind of weight would be needed in this deal. …
National Championship? – Part 5
Confidence is supposed to be an anglers best friend. But what happens when your best friend is nowhere in sight? When you've convinced yourself that…
7 Proven Pre-Spawn Baits for Upland Reservoirs
Upland reservoirs provide some of the earliest pre-spawn opportunities for bass anglers. Here are seven of the most effective categories of baits to get your hands…
National Championship? – Part 4
Practice Day 3 With only one day of practice left, I decided to find more of the “good stuff” that I had discovered the day…