How-To

New technique for the drop-shot rig

For years, finesse-type tactics and techniques were viewed with a certain degree of suspicion by anglers unaccustomed to light line and small baits. But as the "Western Finesse Wave" has swept the nation, so too has the willingness of power fishermen to adapt their methods to the other side of the ledger.

Environmental groups threaten sportfishing

Editor's note: In an effort to alert anglers to the danger that their freedom to fish will be taken from them, BASSMASTER and several other magazines have agreed to run the following column by Mike Nussman.

How-To

A specialized rig

Indiana's fishing spots are few, and those few are pressured by boaters and low from thisty animals.

Punching grass for hidden bass

The art of flipping is no longer for specialists. Look into most Bassmasters' rod lockers and you're going to find at least one long, stout rod latched to a gutsy reel spooled with heavy-duty line.

Angler catches 9-pound smallmouth

David Lane caught a record breaking smallmouth on Center Hill Lake in Tennessee.

How-To

Tournament Lessons

Sometimes, says Oklahoma pro Kenyon Hill, it's better to zig when everyone else zags, a lesson he learned at the Lake Dardanelle Elite 50 last spring near Russellville, Ark. Randy...

The master and mistress of Texas trophy bass

Bobbie Gayle is back in the fishing news. Bobbie and her husband, Butch, made a significant splash in February 2000. You might say they put Lake O.H. Ivie on the big-bass map.

Lip service for deep largemouths

Finesse soft plastics may produce numbers of schooling fish in deep, clear lakes, and tubes may be the rage when bass are ambushing baitfish around shallow cover. But when you're searching for lazy summer bass on structure, nothing produces quality fish better than big-lipped crankbaits.

Shark Attacks

Scientists explain why therre have bee more shark attacks this year in the Gulf of Mexico.

B.A.S.S. pros hope Santa brings trip to Classic

With Christmas Day rapidly approaching, most CITGO BASSMASTER Tour pros are hurriedly finishing their preparations for the arrival of Dec. 25th. But while most pros will be home for Santa's arrival the tour pros couldn't help but think of where they'd like to be come next July: sweet home Alabama.