Having rods designed by pros who are well versed at certain techniques is not new to bass fishing but we like when companies make rods that fit the bill for several different techniques in a genre ...

No one would argue the fact that David Dudley is one of the top anglers in all of professional bass fishing. He's been on a terror the last couple of years. Winning tournaments and angler of the ...

In his first BFL All-American appearance, Brian Maloney of Osage Beach, Mo., went wire-to-wire to win the Walmart BFL All-American presented by Chevy with five bass weighing 13 pounds, 6 ounces. ...

FLW Communications National Guard pro Scott Martin hasn’t had a big fish in his weigh bag since the first day of competition at the Walmart FLW Tour on the Potomac River presented by the ...

Brian Maloney of Osage Beach, Mo., maintained his lead at the Walmart BFL All-American presented by Chevy, with five bass weighing 14 pounds, 10 ounces for a two-day total of 10 bass weighing 29 ...

FLW Communications Bright skies and not much of a breeze greeted anglers on the second day of competition. National Guard pro Scott Martin of Clewiston, Fla., remained in the lead after day two ...

Several reports have surfaced in Arkansas about a record striped bass that was not granted record status because the anglers, according to the AGFC did not follow proper protocol to have the f ...

RULES OF THE WATER from Wired2Fish Tomorrow is the start of National Boating Safety week and from now until the end of summer, there will be a dramatic increase in the number of folks boating ...

Veteran professional angler Donna Newberry put her years of angling skills into good practice on Arkansas’ Lake Dardanelle as she coaxed a five-bass limit weighing 12.08 pounds to take the ...

Brian Maloney of Osage Beach, Mo., took the early lead at the Walmart BFL All-American presented by Chevy, with five bass that weighed 15 pounds, 4 ounces. He has a narrow 4-ounce lead over se ...

FLW Communications The Potomac River, described by several of the world’s best bass anglers in the country as one of the top-10 fisheries in the country, really showed her true colors T ...

One thing we love about professional fishing is the noticeable and visible connection to family. Here is one of the best examples we've seen in a while of family support in bass fishing. Way to go m ...

By Alan McGuckin She was baking cinnamon rolls when I phoned in an attempt to find the heart behind yet another of the gestures that makes professional bass fishing intangibly special. T ...

Photo by C.Seward /NewsObserver.com We came across a story of a H. Reid Jones of Raleigh, N.C., who has been documenting his bass fishing catches for more than 37 years. He's documented m ...

Berkley released two new shapes for bass fishing in their Havoc line of soft plastic baits. The new Rocket Craw and Subwoofer should be available shortly to bass fishing anglers everywhere ...

Caron Rejzer and Wyatt Blevins, collegiate anglers from Virginia Tech University, became the first of two teams to qualify for the 2012 Ranger Cup Team of the Year finals with their fifth-place ...

April 30 marked the end of the 26th season of Texas Parks and Wildlife Department’s ShareLunker program. Thirteen largemouth bass weighing 13 pounds or more were entered into the progra ...

FLW announced today that Typhoon® Polarized Optics has reached an agreement to become the latest corporation to join the team of sponsors for the 2012 FLW season. Through its sponsors ...

Coming into day three at the Walmart FLW Tour Major on Beaver Lake presented by Straight Talk the largest stringer that had been weighed in for the tournament was a nice 16-pound, 3-ounce ba ...

A full field of the best bass-fishing professionals from all across the United States, Canada, Spain and Japan opened the Walmart FLW Tour Major on Beaver Lake presented by Straight Talk on ...

Photo by Seigo Saito /B.A.S.S. Communications From the get-go of the recent Bassmaster Elite Series TroKar Quest at Bull Shoals Lake, Arkansas, Brandon Palaniuk had the big bass bite dialed in ...

Bassmaster magazine, the official publication for members of B.A.S.S., recently published an article with their take on the 100 Best Bass Fishing Lakes in the U.S.  The list was compiled ...

      By Terry Brown One of the most universally used baits for prespawn, spawn and post spawn bass fishing is the spinnerbait. It is a very versatile tool that not only can be ...

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FLW and Motorsports Designs, headquartered in High Point N.C., have reached an agreement for an associate sponsorship for the 2012 FLW season. Motorsports Designs offers customers high-qual ...

The CBS Morning Show best described Hank Parker when introducing him as "the rod-n-reel answer to Michael Jordan, in popularity and talent." A member of both the Bass Fishing and Legends of the Ou ...

FLW, the world’s premier tournament-fishing organization, announced today that it will continue its partnership with Pringles® for the upcoming 2012 season.   Professiona ...

    Stan Sloan was an early pioneer in bass fishing and was one of the first guys to fish B.A.S.S. In fact, he won the first Bassmaster Classic on his bait.     He was an inn ...

The National Guard FLW College Fishing National Championship on Lake Murray is a team event. Twenty-five teams from across the country competed in 20 qualifying events and five conference champ ...

More than 377 teams descended on Mountain Home, Ark. and Norfork Lake for the 25th Bass Cat Owners Invitational bass fishing tournament. Most found the lake stingy thanks to rapidly changing con ...

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The Bass Federation (TBF), in partnership with FLW, the Bluegrass State Games and Murray State University has announced that the 2012 Student Angler Federation (SAF) Kentucky High School Fi ...

Photo courtesy of FLW Robbie Dodson of Harrison, Ark., weighed a five-bass limit totaling 14 pounds, 13 ounces Friday to win the EverStart Series Central Division event on Bull Shoals wit ...

NewsOk.com reported Saturday that the the state record for smallmouth bass had been broken on Lake Lawtonka this weekend. We confirmed with the angler Ryan Wasser of Pocasset, Okla., that h ...

Photo Courtesy of FLW Brent Long of Cornelius, N.C., has remained steady in his approach to fishing for three days against pros from all across the United States, Canada, Spain and Japan as t ...

A 19-year-old rookie FLW Tour angler, fishing just his second tour event shocked the crowd today with a great catch and a 2-pound, 4-ounce lead over the rest of the star-studded and legendary fi ...

Photo courtesy of FLW Professional bass anglers from all across the United States, Canada, Spain and Japan began their four-day battle for a top cash award of up to $125,000 on Thursday at Tabl ...

    The Professional Anglers Association television show Fish PAA TV has announced an agreement with the Pursuit Channel to air their program beginning this past Monday, March 26, and ru ...

Familiar names in Federation Nation event this week: As the pros in the Bassmaster Elite Series left Lake Okeechobee last Sunday, amateur anglers in the Cabela’s B.A.S.S. Federation Nation ...

When collegiate anglers rolled into Allen, Texas and nearby Lake Lavon last week, the fishery was a virtual unknown to just about all of them, but the Arkansas Tech team of Reagan Moore, Evan Ba ...

The Major League Lessons webisode invites viewers to “climb inside the minds” of Major League Fishing anglers during and after their quest to capture the Challenge Cup title.   ...

Major League Fishing, the partnership between 24 of the world’s top anglers and Outdoor Channel, America’s Leader In Outdoor TV, today announced Scotts – the world’s lead ...

Fox News picked up a story about the South Carolina folks trying to get High School Bass Fishing sanctioned as a sport, following in the footsteps of other states like Illinois and Kentucky. T ...

Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries The Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries (VDGIF) State Record Fish Committee has certified a new state record, a spotted bass weig ...

By Alan McGuckin As a brand new Bassmaster Elite Series season was minutes from kicking-off, a glowing light from within a bass boat’s dry storage compartment served as a small beacon i ...

Evinrude announced today that tournament anglers on the FLW Walleye Tour and the Bass Fishing League (BFL) who power their boats with an Evinrude E-TEC outboard engine will be eligible for co ...

Professional Angler Marty Stone has agreed to terms with iRod Fishing, makers of the Genesis I, Genesis II and Air line of rods.  Initially there are three Marty Stone designed rods with addi ...

    High performance synthetic lubricant manufacturer Royal Purple ® recently announced their partnership with Bassmaster Elite Series angler Greg Vinson. Greg is a full-time profe ...

  Bass anglers everywhere can now officially be jealous of Matt Landry of Houston, Texas. Landry won B.A.S.S.’s “Fish With KVD” sweepstakes and will share a boat and fish w ...

Tom Monsoor finished the 2011 season ranked sixth in the Kellogg’s Angler of the Year standings in Walmart FLW Tour Major competition. He’s starting 2012 right where he left off and i ...

Photo courtesy of FLW It was more of the same Friday at the Walmart FLW Tour Major on Lake Hartwell presented by Folgers as a full field of pros from all across the United States, Canada, Sp ...

Photo courtesy of FLW The methods may have varied, but the results were similar — less than 3 pounds separated first place from 10th in the opening day of the FLW Tour event on Lake Hartwell. I ...

    Governor Robert Bentley today announced the launch of the Alabama Bass Trail, a new statewide tourism, conservation, and education initiative. The Alabama Bass Trail, which feature ...

    Owning a piece of bass fishing history is a cool deal. The 2012 Bassmaster Classic is in the books and Alabama's Chris Lane represented the sport at the highest level with his stickt ...

    A “performance for the ages” is what viewers of the Major League Fishing Challenge Cup fourth webisode will see.   That’s the assessment of Major ...

A new site launched, BassFishingArchives.com. This new venture, developed by outdoor writer Terry Battisti with assistance from his colleagues, will cover the history of bass fishing and tournam ...

Chris Lane was invited to ESPN headquarters in Bristol, Conn., to appear Friday in a round of interviews — “the car wash,” as it’s known at ESPN. He will be interviewed on Mike ...

FLW, the world’s premier tournament-fishing organization, announced today that it has reached an agreement with Choice Hotels International, Inc., one of the world’s largest lodgin ...

Lowrance has been signed as a 2012 sponsor of Major League Fishing, adding to the league’s list of companies supporting the first-year partnership involving 24 of the world’s best ...

The Association of Collegiate Anglers has announced that Pinnacle will join the 2012 BoatUS Collegiate Bass Fishing Championship Series as a series sponsor. Pinnacle, a leader in high-quality ...

Bassmaster Elite Series angler J. Todd Tucker is again donning the Big Green Egg wrap on his truck and Phoenix boat and logo and colors his tournament bass fishing jersey for 2012. The angler's featur ...

The new Texas Team Trail added new sponsor Mercury to it's lineup for the inaugural season.  With large purses and sponsor bonuses, the new Texas Team Trail is touting the highest team payout ...

Photo by Gary Tramontina / B.A.S.S. Communications Chris Lane of Guntersville, Ala. took the lead on day two of the bass fishing championship on the Red River thanks to the biggest limit of t ...

Today was the media day of the Bassmaster Classic in Shreveport, La., where we the media get to cram into a little room with all the pros fishing the tournament and try to make the rounds to tal ...

Anheuser-Busch and Major League Fishing today announced that Busch Beer will serve as a primary sponsor of Major league Fishing, continuing the brand’s long-standing support of outdoor spo ...

In conjunction with the TBF High School fishing program and the groundwork laid by the IHSA, the Kentucky High School Athletic Association sanctioned bass fishing as a varsity sport in school ...

FLW, the world’s leading tournament-fishing organization, announced today that Fatheadz Eyewear will join the sponsorship lineup for the 2012 season. Fatheadz Eyewear is the leading eye ...

We took a ride out to the Red River this morning to see the conditions for ourselves and visit with the pros briefly before they went through the dry-run of their day one launch as they went ...

By Alan McGuckinWednesday will be the last shot Bassmaster Classic competitors get to figure out the Red River prior to the first official day of competition on Friday.  But right now, the feelin ...

Early frustration followed by an entertaining comeback effort by Mike Iaconelli are among Elimination Round highlights from the second webisode of Major League Fishing’s Challenge Cup. The ...

By Alan McGuckin Gerald Swindle says it could be worse. Flood warnings that resulted from torrential downpours in Shreveport’s Red River region this past Saturday morning have not ...

FLW announced today that it has added Grime Boss, a heavy-duty hand cleaning wipe distributed by Nice-Pak Products, Inc., to its sponsorship lineup for the 2012 season. Grime Boss will rece ...

Bassmaster Elite Series and Classic angler Todd Faircloth has been on the Red River practicing and breaking in his newly wrapped Skeeter for the 2012 bass fishing tournament season. Faircloth is ...

Dynamic Sponsorships, marketing partner in the outdoor recreation industry for Bushnell, BoatU.S. Angler, Toyota Trucks, and The Zebco Brands has hired Jon James as Field Promotions Manager. ...

We got a note from Russ Lane that he's launched his new website to follow him on tour this year. He also got his new jerseys and is getting his boat wrap and truck wrap ready for the 2012 season ...

    Elite Series pro Kevin Short is a grinder, a river rat and one of the most dedicated anglers on the pro trails. He works hard in the fishing part and works equally hard in ...

Two well-known names in bass fishing - Mark Davis and Lew's - have teamed in a new relationship.  The 48-year-old Mount Ida, Ark. angler has been a regular on B.A.S.S. tournament leader ...

HydroWave, a manufacturer of electronic fishing equipment that emits fish-feeding sounds underwater, has made a lot of noise since entering the sport fishing market just a year ago. The company anno ...

The Virginia Tech Bass Fishing Team is hosting their first annual Smith Mountain Lake Open. It will be held March 4 in conjunction with Angler’s Choice Marine. “We are excited to ...

    By Terry Brown   This past weekend I had the opportunity to preview the first installment of Major League Fishing, and to say I was impressed would be an understatement. ...