Banks Lake Pre-Fishing Strategies
Spring Transition Time There is a tremendous amount of change that happens between the beginning of April and the middle to end of April. There…
Category: Declassified
A look at previous tournament experiences and what can be learned from them.
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…
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…
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…
A National Championship?
A first-hand account of what and what not to do when fishing a big tournament on a lake you've never seen before.
Lebsack and Lesher Prevail at Banks Lake
Steve Lebsack and Blake Lesher recently won a Northwest Bass event at Banks Lake. Conditions were tough as the lake had just recently come off of being…
Declassified: Banks Lake Prespawn – Part 2
I'm using the jig as a means to deliver the trailer. The jig itself is not the main component. It is the host that the trailer is using to hitch a r…
Declassified: Banks Lake Prespawn – Part 1
Being a retired tournament angler, I thought it might be of some interest to begin to share a tell-all series on lessons learned from past tournaments…