Bass

Peek into Bassmaster Classic Fishing Champion Chris Lane’s rod locker prior to derby day, and you’re likely to find a dozen or so Bass Pro Shops CarbonLite fishing rods and matching CarbonLite reels.  But he has a secret...

Gerald Spohrer has been lighting the Bassmaster Elite trail on fire this past season. Despite growing up fishing the Atchafalaya Basin in Louisiana which is devoid of brush piles, once he fished Toledo Bend, he quickly realized that he had to master fishing a brush pile with a worm. Today, it’s his “go-to” lure when breaking down brush piles.

by Pros4- 1Source's Dave Landahl:        Josh Bertrand is no longer an up-and-coming pro bass angler. Nope, he's arrived.

There’s been a lot of buzz lately about the Ned Rig. Manufacturers are bringing out jigs, soft-plastic lures and rods designed specifically for this style of midwest finesse fishing for bass.

Even Bass Pro Shops has its version of the Ned Rig jighead as well as others manufactured by other companies. It also carries the Z-Man line of soft plastics designed specifically for this way of fishing. 

by Pros4- 1Source's Dave Landahl

Fall is just around the corner and so is some of the most explosive bass fishing of the year. While many anglers transition into the hunting mindset, even more stay with fishing, and it's hard to pick a better time of the year to fish than late summer and early fall.

Many recreational boaters leave the water post Labor Day, so that means a lessening of incidental boat traffic pressure on the fish, and certainly fewer folks fishing your hotspots.

Greg Hackney has made his living with a flipping stick in his hand. Sure, he’s well-skilled in a multitude of fishing techniques but given the chance, he’d sooner flip cover or frog it. Hackney is big on efficiency so his game plan is air tight- there’s not time for second-guessing. Given the opportunity, he’d rather be targeting the biggest bass in the nastiest places they live.

No doubt about it - there are some crazy color names out there for fishing lures. Nuclear Chicken. Roadkill. Baby Puke. Discover the science behind how a bass sees color, and learn which colors yield better results.

Greg Hackney is arguably one of the best largemouth anglers in the country. Read his interviews or pull him aside for a quick chat, and you’ll quickly learn that it is always go time.

Some anglers look at the post-spawn as a glass half full. They know that the largemouth will be tired and beat up from the spawning process and believe they won’t be all that active.

Kentucky Lake has to be the best known and most productive ledge fishing lakes in the United States. In 2015 at the Zippo BASSfest at Kentucky Lake presented by A.R.E. Truck Caps, Kevin VanDam nearly caught up to winner to Edwin Evers after putting on a ledge-fishing clinic bringing in 26-10 to the scales on the last day.

by Dave Landahl

Most people believe they know exactly what they would do when certain things happen to them in life. However, when you are asked a question about what you would do, and it's not a basic question, answers vary greatly.

Bassmaster Elite Series fishing pro Ish Monroe shared his answers in this edition of What Would You Do?