Category: FLW
Pattern of the Week: Beaver Lake, AR
The pattern used to win last weekend’s FLW Tour event on Beaver Lake, AR – an upland reservoir – was remarkable for two reasons. Winner Matt Arey: a) specifically avoided clear water; and b) fished a jig the entire time. Do jigs work on Beaver? Sure. They catch bass. But this time of year on […]
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 […]
60 Uploaded: Updating FLW Tour
BassGold’s patterns database goes back farther than FLW Outdoors’ own web site: we have patterns for the FLW Tour from as far back as 1996. From there BassGold’s FLW Tour patterns went until 1999, then there was a gap until about 2006. Well, we recently completed 2000-2002 for the FLW Tour, plus added a few […]
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? […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
50 Patterns Uploaded for Lake Norman, NC
In prep for this week’s Lake Norman Bassmaster Southern Open, last night we uploaded 50 Lake Norman patterns. Most were FLW Tour patterns from the four consecutive years (2007-10) they fished there in the spring. But we also input more patterns from the 2005 Elite Series tournament as well as some from BFLs, Fishers of […]
90+ Florida Patterns In, Mostly Big O
With the Bassmaster Elite Series swinging through Florida over the next couple of weeks, we made sure to enter the relevant St. Johns River and Okeechobee patterns we didn’t already have in the database. Today’s batch is 90+ patterns – some for the St. Johns, Toho and East Lake Toho, but mostly for Okeechobee. Note […]
More Florida Patterns Uploaded
The next even on the Bassmaster Elite Series schedule is on Florida’s St. Johns River. BassGold already has all the big B.A.S.S. St. Johns tourney patterns in the database, but we went looking around and found some more patterns from other trails. That brings the number of St. Johns patterns entered by BassGold staff to […]
Now BassGold: More, Bigger, Better!
Listen Up Central Pro-Am Fishermen! Wow, that was some couple months! At the end of 2011, FishingGold.com had just over 2,000 tournament patterns in the database, which includes almost every B.A.S.S. tourney from the first one in 1967. As of this month, there’s more than 3,000 – exactly 3,143 at the time of this post […]
45 More Patterns, Now Over 1,900!
Just uploaded 45 patterns – all we could get – from the 2008 FLW Series season, East and West divisions. Here are the waters covered in the latest upload: Wheeler, AL California Delta, CA Okeechobee, FL Clarks Hill, GA Mead, NV Champlain, NY Amistad, TX Falcon, TX Columbia River, WA Note that
