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 ...

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 ...

Photo courtesy of Rob Russow / B.A.S.S. Communications 1. You have qualified for the Elites before and have again done it as the Northern Opens points champion. Are you making the step to the E ...

B.A.S.S. LLC announced the 2012 schedule today for a three-division Bass Pro Shops Bassmaster Open circuit that will hit nine bass fisheries in nine different states. Timing on the fisheries ...

Photo courtesy of BASS Communications Wagoner, Okla., Elite Series pro Tommy Biffle built on his 9-pound, 15-ounce lead with a five-fish stringer weighing 11-8 for a three-day total of 45-13, g ...

Bassmaster Elite Series pro Tommy Biffle came to the scales with the second largest five-fish limit of the day, good enough to put the Wagoner, Okla., angler into a commanding lead in the Bass P ...

Low water levels on the Arkansas River are providing distinct advantages to the anglers who can get shallow, as the top two anglers in the Bass Pro Shops Central Open on the Arkansas River uti ...

Lucky 7 plus one marks the 2012 Bassmaster Elite Series schedule. It’s the seventh year of the world’s premier competitive bass fishing circuit, and with it come seven premium venues for ...

Neely Henry Lake was pretty doggone good to Ranger Boats pro Todd Auten.   The quiet veteran from South Carolina came here two years ago and won a storm-shortened PAA Tournament Series e ...

By PAA Communications Gary Yamamoto never had dropped a boat into Neely Henry Lake until last Monday morning, the first day of practice for the Bass Pro Shops PAA Tournament Series presente ...

Yamaha pro Russ Lane knew things were getting close, but as with any lure design the prototypes required another little tweak … and another … and another … His new SPRO Big ...

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 ...

Photos courtesy of FishPAA.com / Be sure to check out their photo galleries! Heading into the second event of this year’s PAA Bass Pro Shops Tournament Series Presented by Carrot Stix, s ...

Tournament leader Stacey King hoped to extend his pound and a half lead on Mark Menendez on day two of the PAA event on Table Rock Lake. King’s 15.41-pound catch kept him in first heading i ...

Bradley Roy of Lancaster, Ky., injected new life into his sagging season Saturday at the Bassmaster Elite Series season finale by bringing in 17 pounds, 10 ounces, and jumping four places into t ...

By Alan McGuckin In much the same way that geese and ducks are intuitively called north each autumn, yesterday, top pros Tommy Biffle and Greg Hackney were instinctually called from Lake Whee ...

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 ...

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 ...

B.A.S.S. Communications Four sporadic morning hours on a topwater bite were enough to carry Casey Ashley of Donalds, S.C., from the runner-up spot to the top Saturday in the Evan Williams Bourb ...

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 ...

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 ...

We sat down and made our picks for the Pickwick Lake Bassmaster Elite Series. Factoring in the grass, staging prespawn bass and warming trends this week, the bass should be looking to chomp come t ...

Paul Marks of Georgia captured the PAA Tournament Series title on Lake Lanier with a three-day total of 44.44 pounds. (PAA: Chris Dutton) Ranger pro Paul Marks of Cumming , G ...

Paul Marks of Cumming , Ga., brought in four bass weighing 15.91 pounds to push his two-day total to 30.52 for the lead on Lake Lanier in the season-opening PAA Tournament Series presented by ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

  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 ...

  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. ...

Tommy Biffle You've had a remarkable year fishing shallow rocks with your new Bottom Buggin' technique. Does the Delta offer much in the way of rock piles for this type of fishing? If not, ho ...

    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- ...

Fifty top professional bass fishermen will attack Lake Ray Hubbard in April in the inaugural Bass Pro Shops PAA All Star Series tournament.   The no-entry fee tournament will be April 21-23 a ...

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 Alan McGuckin Many of you believe Greg Hackney already has everything you want for Christmas. With an FLW Championship title, $2 million dollars in tournament prize money, a shirt full of ...

Few fishing prognostics would have predicted pro bass angler Tommy Biffle to have a chance at claiming the Angler of the Year (AOY) title at the Professional Anglers Association's (PAA) final even ...

American National pro Shane Long figured his 20 years of experience on Table Rock Lake and the “four swimmers and a 5-pounder” he caught Saturday would be enough to clinch the PAA Ba ...

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 ...

    We are very fortunate in fishing today that we have the best equipment. We have the best electronics, the best rods and reels, and the best in baits. We also have the best in li ...

  Tommy Biffle is known for flipping and ptiching but recently has added "bottom buggin" to his arsenal as well with the new Gene Larew Biffle Bug and Hard Head weighted hook. We ran a  " ...

  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 ...

    Power Tackle pro Keith Combs of Texas has a two-day total of 38.04 pounds and maintained his lead Friday in the the PAA Bass Pro Shops Tournament Series presented by Carrot Stix ...

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 ...

    Thanks to everyone who participated in the Gene Larew Hard Head Contest. The Hard Head and Biffle Bug information is available on the Gene Larew website. You can buy them by clicking ...

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 ...

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 ...

      Just a few weeks after it appeared that he might not qualify for the BASS Elite Series postseason, Ranger Pro Tommy Biffle is heading into the homestretch of July as one of t ...

Chalk up another one to experience and persistence for ol’ hardhead Tommy Biffle. You have to fish out in deeper water in summer, people say. You can’t catch them shallow because it&# ...

Tommy Biffle notched another win today with an impressive comeback. He weighed the biggest limit of the tournament to capture the victory with a three-day weight of 36.18 pounds of bass. He had a ...

Bobby Lane certainly wasn’t ready to throw in the towel, but he knew something had to give with only about an hour of fishing remaining before his check-in time. The Spiderwire pro from Fl ...

    Day two is in the books at the Professional Anglers Association lid lifter at Lake Cherokee in Tennessee. Florida's Bobby Lane took the lead and has about a four pound cushion over s ...

What many thought would be a tournament featuring the skills of offshore anglers has turned into a shallow-water chess match where every bite is critical. The opening event of the PAA Bass Pro Sh ...

  Below are the top 5 from the PAA Tournament  at Lake Cherokee. More detailed info to follow.   1. Bradley Hallman 15.57 2. Bobby Lane 15.32 3. Harold Allen 14.12 4. David ...

By Alan McGuckin, Dynamic Sponsorships Johann Wolfgang von Goethe has absolutely nothing in common with Tommy Biffle.  However, the 18th Century German philosopher nailed Biffle’s st ...

    Today on Weighing In with Terry Brown BASS Elite pro Tommy Biffle talks about his win at Ft.Gibson and the new technique he brought to the table called "Bottom Bugging". His namesa ...

  Dollohan photo   When Gary Dollohan sent us a picture of Tommy Biffle's winning rig of the Gene Larew Biffle Bug and a specialized jointed football head it got us thinking. A company in ...

    Mercury angler Tommy Biffle felt so good about his chances he mowed his lawn Wednesday, went to work Thursday on Lake Fort Gibson near Muskogee, Okla., and handily wrapped up the $10 ...

    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 ...

BASS Communications If this is how Tommy Biffle performs when the Wagoner, Okla., veteran is just “goofing around”, the other 46 Bassmaster Elite Series anglers that qualified for t ...

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 ...

    By Gary Dollahon, Dollahon PR   Without a doubt, Tommy Biffle got home field advantage when this week's BASS Elite Series event was changed to Ft. Gibson Lake, which is lite ...

  On Wednesday, 92 Bassmaster Elite Series anglers scoured Fort Gibson Lake, looking to glean any bit of knowledge from the Oklahoma fishery during the truncated one-day practice period. The 9 ...

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 ...

Photo by Seigo Saito / BASS Communications It was more a question of when, not if, five-time Toyota Tundra Bassmaster Angler of the Year Kevin VanDam was going to make a late-season charge.  ...

  Photo and story courtesy BASS Communications EVANS, Ga. – The stars were perfectly aligned for Jason Williamson heading into the final day of the Pride of Georgia on Clarks Hill Lake.&n ...

With Clarks Hill churning out a tough-as-nails bite this week; it’s no surprise that a local angler would be in the catbird’s seat as the Pride of Georgia winds down.  Enter J ...

Photo by Seigo Saito / BASS Communications Clarks Hill Lake has confounded, confused and discombobulated the Bassmaster Elite Series field this week at the Pride of Georgia, the sixth Bassmaster ...

Photo courtesy of BASS Communications Kriet Celebrates Birthday in Style with Lead at Clarks Hill Lake   Getting in contention at Elite Series tournaments has not been a problem for Jeff ...