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BassGold Preview: Oakley BBT at Douglas
We’ve been previewing the awesome Oakley Big Bass Tour events all year – previews on the Oakley BBT website here. This time we’re also posting the preview here. Enjoy! Douglas Lake, TN – Oct. 19-20 Two great things about this time of year at Douglas Lake are: It’s the fall, so the bass should be […]
BassGold Preview: Oakley BBT at Guntersville
We’ve been previewing the awesome Oakley Big Bass Tour events all year – previews on the Oakley BBT website here. This time we’re also posting the preview here. Enjoy, and if you’re fishing Gville this weekend, go get ’em! Lake Guntersville, AL – Oct. 12-13 Who wouldn’t want to be fishing Guntersville this weekend: big […]
2 Shallow Tactics for Summer
Bassmaster Elite Series pro Terry Scroggins likes to fish shallow in summer. When it comes to mats, most people go right for the thickest stuff. But Scroggins finds plenty of fish hiding near the outskirts of mats. “Those are great ambush points and it’s cover that often gets overlooked because they’re small isolated patches, usually […]
Summer Riverine Reservoir Tips
In the context of the upcoming FLW Cup on the Red River, we asked three pro anglers from Texas who have a lot of experience on the Red River what they thought about the winning tactics and the challenges the FLW competitors will face. Here’s what B.A.S.S. anglers Alton Jones and Matt Reed, and B.A.S.S./FLW […]
Kelly Jordon: Following Summer Bass
In the hot months of summer, Kelly Jordon follows fish from shallow to deep during the day, a technique he learned during years of guiding at Lake Fork, TX. “The key to following bass in summer is fishing an area that has some type of route, like an old roadbed, a treeline or a creek […]
The Finer Points of Punching Mats
Two bass fishing tactics are commonly used to pull big bass from massive grass mats: Throwing a frog for those fish willing to smash through the “roof,” and punching through the grass for those holding below. If bass aren’t hitting the top, the choice is already made. Put up your dukes and start punchin’. Endless […]
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 […]
