Category: Elite Series
How Zaldain Caught ‘Em at T-Bend
Chris Zaldain finished 8th at the recent Bassmaster Elite Series tournament on Toledo Bend Reservoir, using Strike King baits in two different situations. Here’s how he did it. “In 2012 I had a top 12 at Toledo Bend at a similar time of year,” he said. “This time we were a little bit earlier, but […]
Positive Visualization Helps BP Bass-Fish
Brandon Palaniuk knows the mental part of professional tournament bass fishing can be as important as the physical part, so he relies on a technique known as ‘positive visualization’ to carry him through the tough days of competition. It’s something the Yamaha pro learned as a wrestler, and he continued it when he began fishing […]
Why ‘Water Type’ Is Key for Patterning
2 Water Type Lessons This year Brandon Palaniuk won the Bassmaster Elite Series event on Bull Shoals, MO. It was a lake he’d never fished before – so how could he have possibly won a tournament there fishing against some of the best anglers in the world, many of whom had fished that lake before? […]
20+ Patterns: BASS, PAA, NABC
We uploaded about 20 patterns today, some good ones: > 5 patterns from the recent Fort Gibson, OK Bassmaster Open; > 7 patterns from the recent Toyota Bassmaster All-Star in IL (3 from Shelbyville, 4 from Decatur); > 3 from the PAA tourney on the Arkansas River; > 7 North American Bass Circuit finishes. On […]
90+ Patterns Uploaded for Shelbyville, IL
In prep for the Bassmaster All-Star event next week, we chased down and uploaded 90+ tournament patterns for IL’s Lake Shelbyville from a load of different trails (BFL, Red Man, BWS, etc.) which brings the total number of patterns in BassGold to more than 4,100! Shelbyville is an interesting lake. Looking at the winning/placing pattern […]
Now Over 4,000 Patterns!
The number of patterns in the BassGold database just passed 4,000, covering more than 350 lakes. Awesome! That means about 1,500 patterns entered since the start of the year, which shows that more users = more patterns (duh!). We also just uploaded 100 patterns which include: > All of the tournament details from the Collegiate […]
BassGold Nails Two WI Elites!
This is getting more than a little eerie. Then again, data doesn’t lie. BassGold.com predicted the upper Mississippi Elite would be won fishing shallow backwaters with frogs, swim-jigs and tube/grub/craws with a weight that averaged in the mid-teens per day. Todd Faircloth won it with a frog, swim-jig and creature bait, and averaged 15-01 per […]
70+ Patterns Uploaded for Toledo Bend
Toledo Bend, the legendary lake that sites on the Texas-Louisiana border, is the site of this week’s Bassmaster Elite Series event, and in prep for that we uploaded 70 tournament patterns to BassGold.com for the May, June, July timeframe. What does that show? A more thorough analysis is on Bassmaster.com, but here are a few […]
40 Patterns Uploaded, Mostly TN’s Douglas
In prep for Bassmaster Elite Series pros hitting eastern Tennessee’s Douglas Lake next week, we recently seined the web for Douglas patterns. We found a bunch of fishing reports of questionable quality, a few of which we uploaded, and about 40 or so tournament pattern reports. At first blush it looks like you’re cranking or […]
Rook Went Old-School at the Big O
Scott Rook finished 7th at the Elite Series event on Okeechobee, and one reason for that was he went old-school. He was fishing a flat – the details of which are in BassGold – along with a lot of other competitors. One thing he was doing differently was slowly swimming a Zoom Lizard on a […]
Why Carolina-Rig the St. Johns? Current
In the course of gathering patterns for places 1-10 for the first two Elite Series events, on the St. Johns River and Okeechobee, we talked to pro Terry Scroggins. One question we asked was a general one: Why do Carolina rigs show up so much in pattern info for the St. Johns? We asked the […]
34 More Patterns Uploaded: Elites, FLW
We just uploaded another 34 patterns to the BassGold database: the patterns from the Top 10 finishers at the St. Johns River and Okeechobee Elite Series events, and about 20 FLW patterns (FLW Tour, EverStart, TBF) covering Table Rock and Bull Shoals in prep for the upcoming B.A.S.S. events. A few things we noticed, by […]
