Two Summer Lures VanDam Won’t Leave Home Without
  The greatest professional bass angler of all time got his start while casting topwater lures at summertime bass as a young teenager while walking the shoreline of School Section Lake where his grandparents lived in Central Michigan.  Not...

Casey Ashley talks Willie and swimbaits at Texas Fest
  Casey Ashley caught a solid limit amid Thursday’s sweltering heat to sit near the top of the leaderboard. The always easy-going 2015 Bassmaster Classic Champ took a minute prior to Friday’s launch to talk about Lake Travis, Toyota...

Matt Lee and KVD talk Texas Fest on Lake Travis
Two of professional bass fishing’s classiest guys, Matt Lee, who is getting married in 16 days, and Kevin VanDam who has been married for 26 years, gladly took a break from the 95-degree sunshine in Central Texas to sit in the shade and answer...

McClelland and VanDam feel at home on Lake Travis
Tuesday morning marked the start of the second very long hot practice day on Lake Travis for the Toyota Bassmaster Texas Fest benefiting Texas Parks and Wildlife.  Two of pro fishing’s most likeable, accomplished, and even-keeled veteran...

Swindle says Lake Travis is full of fish
Gerald Swindle has no history with Lake Travis. He’d never seen the gorgeous 18,000 acre reservoir along the Colorado River in the Texas Hill Country until arriving for practice on Mother’s Day. But after another long 12-hour day of...

Hackney and Powroznik Preview Bassmaster Elite at Kentucky Lake
  The famous yellow mustard flowers are blooming around the banks at Kentucky Lake this week at the Bassmaster Elite, and that means the bass should be biting.  Straight-shooting veteran anglers Greg Hackney and Jacob Powroznik preview the...

Jordan Lee says Kentucky Lake feels a lot like Grand
  Bassmaster Classic Champion Jordan Lee played a lot of baseball in his younger years growing up around Cullman, Alabama. And right now, the easy-going 26 year old feels a lot like one of former Yankees icon Yogi Berra’s famous quotes,...

KVD's 25th Win at Grand
    Kevin's gear for the win: TKVD705MB >    SHD200PPT >       Alan McGuckin

Casey Ashley off to a ‘rocky’ start at Grand Lake Elite
The limestone, sandstone, and dolomite beds that cradle Grand Lake o’ the Cherokees yielded a disappointing 11-pound limit for Casey Ashley on Day 1 of the Academy Sports + Outdoors Bassmaster Elite.  But the diamond he presented to longtime...

Matt Lee: Misplaced wallet and a lot of caffeine
Carhartt angler Matt Lee began the first day of the Academy Sports + Outdoors Bassmaster Elite at Grand Lake with scrambled eggs, low carb wheat toast, and black coffee in his 5th wheel RV, but soon realized on the dark drive to the Wolf Creek...

Jordan Lee struggling to see spawning bass at Grand Lake
 If back-to-back Bassmaster Classic Champ Jordan Lee notches a Top 12 at the Academy Sports + Outdoors Bassmaster Elite at Grand Lake, there’s about a 38-percent chance he’ll catch his fish from spawning beds.  Yep, after two long days of...

Kevin VanDam likes Coleslaw Spinnerbaits
  As a Michigan native, Kevin VanDam grew up throwing a lot of spinnerbaits featuring painted blades for smallmouth. Some of the willowleaf blades were painted chartreuse, others were painted white, and when burned at a high retrieve speeds,...

Jordan Lee Becomes a Bass Fishing Icon at Age 26
   Jordan Lee has only won two professional bass fishing tournaments in his short 26 years on earth – but both of them are Bassmaster Classic wins – and in doing so, stakes his claim as one of the most iconic anglers in bass fishing...

2 Lures Swindle will use in the Bassmaster Classic
   Team Toyota’s Gerald Swindle is very aware that the Fish Head Spin lure has a legendary reputation on Lake Hartwell, but don’t count on him throwing it. Instead he’ll dance with the girls that got him to his impressive 17th Bassmaster...

Powroznik and “The Paperboy” Preview the Bassmaster Classic
 Quantum pro Jacob Powroznik is a seasoned pro fishing in his fourth Bassmaster Classic, and he made a serious run at winning the Classic here on Lake Hartwell in 2015. Much the opposite, 19-year old Carhartt Bassmaster College Series Champ,...

6 Bassmaster Classic Questions with Casey Ashley
 The Basssmaster Classic returns to Casey Ashley’s home waters of Lake Hartwell this week where he won the 2015 Classic, and the easy-going country boy with a thousand dollar smile was kind enough to invite us into his home for a brief...

Lee Brothers Prepare to Compete in Their First Bassmaster Classic Together
  Seconds after Jordan Lee was crowned Bassmaster Classic Champion inside Houston’s Minute Maid Park, his slightly older professional bass angling brother Matt, rushed from the bleachers to the stage to provide a congratulatory bear hug....

Swindle and VanDam preview first Bassmaster Elite tournament of 2018 at Lake Martin
         Gerald Swindle and Kevin VanDam share longtime sponsors Toyota and Quantum, as well as an amazing 9 Toyota Bassmaster Angler of the Year titles between the two of them, and on the eve of the first Bassmaster Elite Series...

Jordan Lee Still Looking for a 3-pounder at Lake Martin
 The only thing thicker than the humidity of the 61-degree air temps surrounding Lake Martin in the darkness of the final morning of practice for the Bassmaster Elite at Lake Martin presented by Econo Lodge, was the anxiousness of the world’s...

Lee Brothers Choose One Treat Each for Tricking Halloween Largemouth
  During his highly successful Carhartt Bassmaster College Series days at Auburn, Matt Lee once dressed as country music star Brad Paisley for Halloween.  “I had a plaid button-up shirt and carried a guitar around all night – mostly...