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VanDam’s 18 pounds of disappointment
Be honest, if a genie in a bottle offered you an 18-pound limit of bass every time you went fishing, you’d jump on it like a 5-pound smallmouth on a soft shell crawdad.  So would I.  But for the greatest bass angler of all time, bringing...

Oh Deer, Swindle a Bit Distracted as AOY Championship Begins
One year ago, the pressure Gerald and LeAnn Swindle felt during Toyota Bassmaster Angler of the Year Championship week on Mille Lacs was on par with a Crimson Tide pass rush.  The couple persevered, they prayed, they leaned on each other, and...

Swindle talks AOY, knees, guitars, and Mille Lacs
One year ago in mid-September, Gerald Swindle became only the 11th professional bass angler in history to win more than one Toyota Bassmaster Angler of the Year title when he hauled home the coveted trophy to Alabama from Lake Mille Lacs,...

Jordan Lee and Casey Ashley Preview AOY Championship
Jordan Lee and Casey Ashley both sit inside the Top 10 of the Toyota Bassmaster Angler of the Year points race, and the two Quantum pros graciously offered their input on everything from fried catfish to sturgeon, and of course smallmouth bass,...

Matt Lee’s Jumbo Sized Drop Shot Lure
Matt Lee loves to fish a drop shot, but his decision to drop shot a 5” Strike King Z-Too on a straight shank hook for Lake St. Clair smallmouth, was the equivalent of his fiancé Abby choosing to serve 20-ounce rib eye steaks as a bridal...

Jordan Lee with Prism rod
Jordan Lee with the $99 7-foot medium heavy Quantum Prism spinning rod he caught all his pig-sized smallmouth with at the Bassmaster Elite on Lake St. Clair this past weekend.   Jordan and his brother Matt both notched another Top 12.   ...

Casey Is Catching On To Smallmouth
 Casey Ashley has been saying for years that he doesn’t like smallmouth.  But given the fact the 2015 Bassmaster Classic Champ sits soundly inside the Top 5 of a Toyota Bassmaster Angler of the Year points race that’s tighter than the dry...

Hackney Knows He Has to Spin to Win
 Lake St. Clair is one of America’s all time greatest smallmouth fisheries. But when the Bassmaster Elite Series visited the Detroit area fishery in 2013, Greg Hackney chose to fish for largemouth based on the fact smallmouth looked more like...

How Matt Lee Chooses Drop Shot Weights
  Former Carhartt Bassmaster College Bracket Champion Matt Lee racked up his very impressive third Top 12 finish of the Elite Series season at Lake Champlain. Lee’s fat limits were a blend of both smallmouth and largemouth, but his choice of...

Bowling, Wonder Woman, and Dog Naps Occupy Elite Series Pros
 The manner in which pros chose to occupy an unplanned day off, when Thursday’s competition at the Bassmaster Elite Series on Lake Champlain was cancelled due to high wind, was as wide-ranging as the waves that stirred the massive lake on the...

Jordan Lee Previews Lake Champlain
Current Bassmaster Classic Champion Jordan Lee graciously took time in the super-refreshing 52-degree morning air on the final day of practice to preview the Bassmaster Elite at Champlain presented by Dick Cepek Tires & Wheels.      ...

KVD wins St. Lawrence on Speed Freak Spinning
          Alan McGuckin  

KVD wins his 24th B.A.S.S. tourney
          Alan McGuckin  

Lee Brothers Passing Out Diamonds and Looking for St. Lawrence Bronze
   Life is good right now for Matt and Jordan Lee. They’ve both notched Top 12 finishes thus far in 2017 Bassmaster Elite Series tournaments, and they both recently proposed marriage to their long time girlfriends.  Jordan asked for...

VanDam says look for more largemouth on the St. Lawrence
 Much of the talk coming into the Bassmaster Elite on the St. Lawrence River centered on unusually high water on the massive seaway that connects the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean.  However, Kevin VanDam says lofty water levels will only...

Jordan Lee on Sapphire, Diamonds, and Living Rubber
  If life’s goodness were measured in pounds and ounces right now for young Bassmaster Classic Champion Jordan Lee, it’d be the equivalent of a monstrous 27-pound 4-ounce limit of bass.  Since his dramatic come-from-behind Classic win on...

Swindle designs new $99 G-Force rods for Quantum that he’s already using in Elite Series competition
 Gerald Swindle is a tinkerer with a very creative mind for modifying fishing accessories to make them function more efficiently and perform more effectively.  Couple “G-Man’s” mechanical mind with two Toyota Bassmaster Angler of the Year...

New Smoke S3™ Spinning Reels Feature Precisely Aligned Unibody Frame, and the Most Ever Performance Tuned Technology
Using Reel Engine Design 2.0™ – Quantum’s new Smoke S3 series is the product of a whole new way to build a spinning reel in an all aluminum uni-body construction, which keeps all the gears and key components in precise alignment for a...

New Quantum Smoke rods are Built with Premium Components for the Demands of Hard-core Anglers
 Smoke™ has been a Quantum sub-brand synonymous with high-level quality for hard-core anglers, and the new series of 15 Smoke rods very much reflect that theme with their HSX64 top-quality Toray™ graphite blanks, Kigan® aluminum oxide guides...

Quantum Vapor Spinning Reel’s Good Looks are Supported by Reel Engine Design™ for Optimal Smoothness at a very Fair Price
 Born from the same great cosmetic features that became so popular with the launch of a Vapor baitcasting reel in 2016, the brand new spinning version of Vapor is backed by a 3-year warranty, and built with an all aluminum uni-body construction...