Gary Klein is setting up for a big year on the Bassmaster Elite Series trail and the Major League Fishing trail that he, Boyd Duckett and the Outdoor Channel put together for 2012. His wrap ...

    Beginning today and running through the end of April, Eco Pro Tungsten is running a promotion on their Facebook page to give an angler a chance to win tungsten weights for a year. Th ...

B.A.S.S. just announced the 2012 field for the Bassmaster Elite Series. Among the 100 professional anglers are winners of more than 200 Bassmaster tournaments, 17 Bassmaster Classic championships ...

Quantum announced it will sponsor Major League Fishing in 2012.  Quantum already sponsors seven Major League Fishing competitors.   “We proudly support the most accomplished profe ...

    With one made-for-tv event with television coverage from Outdoor Channel under their belts after Amistad, Major League Fishing is creating a buzz among media and anglers. Result ...

MAJOR LEAGUE FISHING Commissioner Don Rucks announced today that the organization has completed filming for what he termed a “successful first event that exceeded our most optimistic expectati ...

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Bobby Lane and Todd Faircloth, two of the most accomplished and popular pro anglers in the U.S., have been added to the prestigious group of competitors scheduled to fish the MAJOR LEAGUE FISHINGTM ...

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    "I have used about every hook made, and the Kumho Hooks are the best I have ever fished," Gary Klein said. It's a strong statement, but after last week's trip to Falcon Lake, the ...

    Major League Fishing  launched today with a press release announcing the partnership between 24 high level pros and the Outdoor Channel. We sat down with one of the leaders ...

The Outdoor Channel and 24 top-tier professional bass anglers have partnered together to create a new fishing tournament circuit called Major League Fishing. This new tournament-fishing endeavor ...

Aaron Martens of Leeds, Ala. holds on to win his third U.S. Open this week on Lake Mead. He had a three-day weight of 33.11. That's low by most professional tournament standards, but you're talk ...

Kumho is a hook company that is making a splash in the US fishing tackle market now that they are under the AnglersSelect umbrella with Eco Pro Tungsten. They have shown to be very innovat ...

    Eco Pro Tungsten Company owner Brian Wagenhoffer announced today that Anglers Select LLC (The parent company of Eco Pro Tungsten) has acquired distribution rights for North America w ...

B.A.S.S. Communications J. Todd Tucker didn’t miss a beat. He launched his campaign the day before fans were invited to begin voting June 21 at www.Bassmaster.com to select the final four ...

  Photo by Alan McGuckin   The time is right. Lets go fishing!   Repel Insect Repellents is running a contest on Facebook for a chance to go fishing with Elite Series pro Gary Kl ...

By B.A.S.S. Communications David Walker, who fished a major circuit for years before leaving it to join the Bassmaster Elite Series this season, says everyone believes he’s won a ma ...

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Photos courtesy of B.A.S.S. Communications If they’re honest about it, most bass pros would have to admit they’ve learned from Denny Brauer. Saturday, the famed pro from Camdenton, ...

Denny Brauer of Camdenton, Mo., called dibs on the Diamond Drive lead Friday with a limit of 19 pounds, 7 ounces of Arkansas River bass. Brauer, who led the first day by only 2 ounces, put mo ...

Photos and story Courtesy of B.A.S.S. Communications Jami Fralick was struggling on Lake Murray until he landed a 6-pound, 9-ounce largemouth, the anchor to his 17-9 bag and the key to the ...

We sat down and put together out pundit picks for this week's Bassmaster Elite Series even on Lake Murray in South Carolina. It's here about a week earlier than the 2008 event in which Fred Roumbani ...

Courtesy of B.A.S.S. Communications Steve Kennedy had been counting down the months ever since the 2011 Pride of Georgia location was announced as West Point Lake more than a year ago. ̶ ...

Courtesy of B.A.S.S. Communications Fishing on West Point Lake turned tougher for many of the Bassmaster Elite Series pros, even some of those who claimed top leaderboard spots in the P ...

    By Terry Brown   Across the Midwest, South Central, and Upper South it has been raining buckets in recent weeks. Rising water means another change in the position of the ...

Photo by Seigo Saito / B.A.S.S. Communications He has led for three days running, amassing 57 pounds and 7 ounces of Toledo Bend bass, so there’s no reason Dean Rojas shouldn’t ...

Photo by Seigo Saito / B.A.S.S. Communications Dean Rojas caught 16 pounds of Toledo Bend bass by 10 a.m. Thursday.   Then he got serious. He went looking for the big spawning bass, and f ...

    By Terry Brown A few years ago I took a trip to Sam Rayburn Lake near Jasper, Texas. I dropped by the local tackle store to purchase a fishing license, and as always, just like ...

Courtesy of B.A.S.S. Communications If only it were lonelier at the top. Leading by 7 pounds, 9 ounces on Friday, Alton Jones hung on Saturday at the Power-Pole Citrus Slam with a 60-10 tot ...

Photo by Gary Tramontina / B.A.S.S. Communications Tweet Alton Jones has a plan, and he’s sticking to it. After all, it’s taken the pro from Waco, Texas, into the le ...

By Alan McGuckin Shaw Grigsby loves reading his bible, and he loves flinging arrows from his compound bow at nuisance wild pigs. He loves spending time with his young grandson, and he loves ...

Photos by Seigo Saito / B.A.S.S. Shaw Grigsby sacked 18 pounds, 12 ounces Saturday for an even tighter hold on the lead in the Sunshine Showdown. But even his 11-10 cushion might not be enoug ...

Florida’s Shaw Grigsby is considered one of the greatest, if not the greatest, sight fisherman of all time when bass are on their spawning beds – and he’s more than living ...

Friday, March 11th Wired2Fish TV Triple Play on Versus 1. In the 6:00pm CST time slot during “Quest for the One”.  Elite Series Anglers Mike McClelland and Gary Kle ...

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Photo by B.A.S.S. Communications If it worked once, repeat. That’s Pat Golden’s plan when he gets back on Florida’s Harris Chain of Lakes on Friday to defend his slim lead ...

McGuckin photo     Gary Klein just competed in his 29th Bassmaster Classic spanning 5 decades and finished 10th. He is a pros pro and lives fishing. Today on Weighing In Radio with ...

Tonight on Versus we have another Wired2Fish TV tip: “Sirius Cold Fronts” Elite Series Pros Gary Klein & Mike McClelland share their knowledge on how weather affects bass when ...

           B.A.S.S. Communications photo The Bassmaster Classic was filled with firsts. Kevin VanDam was the first angler to win more 5 million dol ...

  Kevin VanDam, often described as the best angler in the world, said he simply got lucky Saturday when he hauled 22 1/2 pounds out of the Louisiana Delta on a day when other Bassmas ...

It’s a number that’s simply hard to imagine. Yet, it’s true. It’s real. And as mind-boggling as it is, Gary Klein is about to compete in a Bassmaster Classic for the 29th ...

Constantly congenial Shaw Grigsby hasn’t had the smoothest week. He ran over a submerged obstacle in the New Orleans Delta and tore-up his outboard prop.  The mishap might have put th ...

  Dalton Bobo just missed winning the 1997 Classic / PAA photo   By Terry Brown   This week, the Bassmaster Classic is in New Orleans and will crown a new Champion for 2011. ...

Wired2Fish pro Gary Klein talks about customizing jigs in this video from Boss Outdoors. The Fishboss.com website supplies everything a guy needs to make his own jigs, spinnerbaits, buzzbaits, punch ...

    B.A.S.S. Elite Series pro Gary Klein will be wearing Browning Eyewear in 2011. Browning Eyewear has developed high quality "elite" eyewear at a reasonable price.   "I have bee ...

    Power-Pole Anchoring Systems will be well represented at the Bassmaster Classic and on the Elite Series tour this year. Forty-one out of the 50 Classic anglers will be running Power- ...

Thanks to the recently launched BoatUS Angler “Weigh-to-Win” program, several Bassmaster Classic competitors will have the chance to get a little richer beyond the fruitful $500,000 ...

If you liked our mini-tip shows on ESPN2 last year, you'll be happy to learn that we're back for more this year on Versus. Our shows will air during other ...

    Elite Series pro Gary Klein has joined Eco Pro Tungsten for 2011.   "I am truly excited about getting involved with Tim Norman and Eco Pro Tungsten"  said Klein. " ...

The field of competitors for the 2011 Bassmaster Elite Series has been set. The 101 most talented anglers in bass fishing will be competing for the coveted 2011 Toyota Tundra Bassmaster Angler o ...

  By Terry Brown   Choosing the right jig trailer is part science and part art. Each particular jig whether a football, swimming, flipping, pitching or finesse style takes the righ ...

    Bass anglers are a talented lot. Most have skills with a rod and reel that most of us only wish we had. Others have talents outside fishing that elevate their personalities ...

VanDam knows him well. So does 29-time Bassmaster Classic qualifier, Gary Klein. He’s sort of like a long lost Uncle to Gerald Swindle, and he once guided Dean Rojas to shelter from a br ...

American National pro Shane Long of Missouri leaped into the lead with 16.78 pounds Friday for a two-day total of 29.28 going into the final day on Table Rock in the PAA Bass Pro Shops Tournament Seri ...

Kicker Fish pro Chris Brasher of Texas caught a five-bass limit weighing 19.27 pounds Thursday, including the day’s big bass of 7.11 pounds, to grab the lead on Table Rock Lake in the PAA Bass P ...

Photos by Alan McGuckin   Gary Klein – “Even though I had 16 pounds on Day 1, I’ll still tell you this is a tough fishery. I had very few bites -- but they were the ...

By Alan McGuckin Gary Klein – “I lived on this lake for three years back in the early 1990’s. It’s a completely different lake now. It was full of aquatic vegetati ...

Photo and Story by Alan McGuckin It was a golfer at Lake Conroe’s classy La Torretta Resort that provided Terry “Big Show” Scroggins the first clue to get away from the bank, an ...

Photo and story by Alan McGuckin He’s qualified for 29 Bassmaster Classics. He’s won two Toyota Tundra Bassmaster Angler of the Year titles. He’s also watched a lot of amateur spi ...

  The Toyota Texas Bass Classic is set to kick off on Lake Conroe Oct 1-3. The three day event will feature the best pros from FLW Outdoors, B.A.S.S. and the PAA. This year's field p ...

Photo Courtesy of PAA Keith Combs watched another angler fishing in front of him down the same bank of Lake Tawakoni, both of them working the same shoreline in a rotation found in several places ...

Photo courtesy of E. Greene Some guys are known as great flippers and pitchers. Denny B ...

Photos by Tammy CookAt this point, the only thing hotter than Kevin VanDam is Alabama in late July.  The Kalamazoo, Mich., veteran closed in typical fashion on the Alabama River Saturday, scoring ...

Photo by Seigo Saito/ BASS Communications   KVD just captured his impressive sixth AOY title and his third in a row. Just like last year, he won the last event of the Trophy Chase format and be ...

BASS photo As usual, Kevin VanDam of Kalamazoo, Mich., did what he had to do and took his familiar position at the top of the leaderboard but Skeet Reese of Auburn, Calif., did just enough too, pos ...

    Six months went by pretty fast, and it all boils down to one weekend to determine the BASS Elite Angler of the Year. One two-day event on the Alabama River, near Montgomery, and the ...

By Alan McGuckin You could chew on the humidity. He was sweating. I was sweating. In Wetumpka, Ala. that afternoon, anyone not sitting atop a bag of ice or inside the air conditioned ...

Photos courtesy of BASS Communications Heading into this week, Russ Lane of Prattville, Ala., just wanted to win a few boats.  He didn’t see any plausible scenario where he could overt ...

Photo by Seigo Saito / BASS Communications Dodging a serious bullet, Skeet Reese of Auburn, Calif., extended his lead—albeit by .5 points -- in the Toyota Tundra Bassmaster Angler of the Year sta ...

Photo by Alan McGuckin Our buddy, Big Bite Baits pro Russ Lane of Alabama was calm and anxious for the tournament to start when we talked to him last week at ICAST. He was confident he knew what ...

By Alan McGuckin Hebrews 4:9 is a challenge for those of us that follow the pro bass fishing tour for a living. This past Sunday was Father's Day -- heightening the challenge.  Gary Kle ...

    After an eight-event regular season stretching from California to Georgia, a bevy of Bassmaster Elite Series anglers were able to cash in on the fruits of their labor Sunday in the f ...

  BASS photo   After narrowly missing out on his second Toyota Tundra Bassmaster Angler of the Year in 2009, Skeet Reese of Auburn, California, is leaving little to chance in 2010 with a ...

Courtesy of BASS Communications While the AutoZone Sooner Run was the official name of the Bassmaster Elite Series regular-season finale, it could, and perhaps should, have been titled the Tomm ...

BASS COMMUNICATIONS With the final day of the AutoZone Sooner Run looming, Tommy Biffle of Wagoner, Okla., is finally ready to dig deep into his bag of tricks and unlock his much-discussed ...

Biffle continues to lead after two days of competition in the Bassmaster Elite Series tournament on Ft. Gibson Lake in Oklahoma. The lake is litterally in Biffle's backyard and he seems to have the fi ...

      Alan McGuckin, of Dynamic Sponsorships, sent this note into Wired2Fish about his buddy's days in the boat with his and our angling heroes Denny Brauer and Gary Klein. Nice st ...

By BASS Comunications Kevin VanDam’s Kentucky Lake domination is beginning to get a bit ridiculous.  Despite a rough start – VanDam failed to connect on consecutive 5-pounders ...