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Ish Monroe: Always Use Go-To/Confidence/Fun Baits
Yamaha pro Ish Monroe, who fishes both the Bassmaster Elite Series and FLW Tour, often doesn’t have time for pre-tournament practice, so he relies on his four confidence baits. “At every lake I fish, I tie on a topwater frog, a squarebill crankbait, a spinnerbait,and a flipping rod with a plastic creature bait. Then I [...]
Browning’s Red River Winning Pattern Deets
Stephen Browning won the Red River Bassmaster Central Open this past weekend, but the reporting on the tournament didn’t have enough deets to satisfy our curiosity so we called him and documented his pattern for posterity. Some of the deets are here, in brief, all will shortly be in BassGold! Stephen fished backwaters in the [...]
Deets on Bone’s Winning Flash Mob Jr.
This month Pat Bone became the first angler in B.A.S.S. history to win a tournament using an umbrella rig – in this case a YUMbrella Flash Mob Jr. at the Douglas Lake, TN Open. Bassmaster.com and BassFan.com had some of the deets on Bone’s winning pattern and rig, but not all. BassGold has ‘em all, [...]
How to Catch Erie’s Spring Smallies
By Corky Cramer You’ve likely heard chatter about smallmouth bass growth rates in Lake Erie’s eastern basin and the big numbers of oversized bronzebacks caught-and-released by anglers each spring. Most of it’s true – it’s something you need to experience, and that fabulous springtime smallmouth bite is about to start. Here’s how locals take advantage [...]
47 Patterns in for Clear Lake, CA
With a Carhartt Bassmaster College Series tournament next week on Clear Lake, CA and the B.A.S.S. Nation Western Divisional happening right after that on the same lake, we put together a pattern preview for Bassmaster.com using BassGold. But first, we noticed a bunch of Clear Lake patterns weren’t in the BassGold database yet – notably [...]
MegaStrike’s Uhrig: Diving With Bass
by Bobby Uhrig, MegaStrike I’ve been a serious bass fishermen longer than I can remember. Fished everywhere I could, tried every lure I could, read and watched everything I could. But at some point that wasn’t enough for me. I had this feeling that if I could learn more about what bass do in their [...]
Top 25 Classic Patterns Uploaded
Jay documented the patterns of the Top 25 finishers at the Bassmaster Classic on Grand Lake for Bassmaster.com. All of them, plus a few tidbits no one reported on but he found out there, are now in BassGold.com. Another way to say it: Before the Classic we could find only one February pattern for Grand [...]
BassGold Nails Classic Winning Pattern Again!
For the second year in a row, BassGold.com’s bass patterning tool predicted the Bassmaster Classic winning and high-placing patterns and weights. BassGold, a B.A.S.S. partner, is a revolutionary bass patterning web app that provides pattern recommendations using thousands of bass tournament patterns. Even though BassGold didn’t have patterns specific to February on Grand Lake – [...]
MegaStrike sponsors BassGold
BassGold announced that MegaStrike has become BassGold.com’s newest sponsor. BassGold, a B.A.S.S. partner, is a revolutionary bass patterning web app that provides pattern and weight recommendations using thousands of actual bass tournament patterns. “I’ve known [MegaStrike CEO] Bobby Uhrig for a long time,” said BassGold CEO Jay Kumar. “He’s a good fisherman, a long-time B.A.S.S. [...]
A-Rig Definitely Had An Impact
by Jay Kumar [You may have seen this article on Bassmaster.com too.] What was the impact of the hottest rig in bass fishing in 2012 – the umbrella rig, aka the Alabama Rig? The answer depends on how you look at it. First of all, the umbrella rig single-handedly blew up – in a good [...]
2010 Bass Champs Patterns Uploaded!
Just uploaded 70+ patterns from TX’s Bass Champs circuit for 2010. That means BassGold has all available Bass Champs patterns from 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and part of 2012 – or almost 300 patterns for the Bass Champs circuit alone. We’re hoping to get all remaining Bass Champs patterns – plus more – input [...]
