Columnists

Yes, there is a winning mindset

Ish Monroe

Winning at the highest levels is about your head. It’s a mindset, a way of thinking about competition. Confidence plays a part, but I’m convinced it’s only one part of...

My Cherokee challenges

Jason Christie

When the new season’s schedule is announced, we want to do well at all of them. But I think we all put stars by a few where you think your...

Story vs. score

Don Barone

The moment that you don't see in every sporting event, captured.

Cherokee: Black ice and hot coffee

Jesse Tacoronte

It started with the coffee, a 32-ounce piping-hot thermos full of what I thought was a morning wakeup call by the Cherokee Lake boat ramp. But I never really got...

Tanner and the Magic Lure

Bernie Schultz

I have a longtime friend named David Tanner. He’s a great guy. He was there when I fished my first club tournament, back in the 1970s. In a lot of...

Where do they spawn?

Greg Hackney

Last time Kristi Geeslin Leverett from Goldthwaite, Texas, posted an interesting question about finding prespawn bass. The answer to that question starts with finding the spawning areas. You can’t find...

Tough conditions? Deal with it

Kevin VanDam

I have to admit I have the jitters as I compile this blog prior to the start of the Bassmaster Elite on Cherokee Lake. Although this is the start of...

Rain, wind and cold

John Crews

Fishing is an outdoor sport. Sometimes the weather is perfect. More often, however, it’s tough in one way or another. After everything’s said and done we’re at the mercy of...

It hurts me not being at Cherokee this week

Sam George

I’m young, but I’m not stupid. I understand that things don’t just happen because you want them to – and sometimes you can put everything you’ve got into something and...

Setting the momentum

Alton Jones

Even at this stage in my career, there’s still a feeling of anxiety for the first event of a new season. Momentum in our sport is a very powerful thing...

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