The next world record
Seventy years is a long time for anything. Especially for a sporting record that has taken on countless challenges from all comers and endured.
Pro angler going back to school
Bassmaster Tour angler Pete Gluszek teaches kids, at their schools and cubscouts, about bass fishing.
35 greatest threats to fishing
Like those of us born in the baby boom generation, fishing has aged. We can see its vulnerabilities, even as we assess our own.
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The high points of drawdowns
As an avid bass angler, Mike Hulon knows from personal experience the extraordinary fishing that arises during that low water period.
Living waters
Surging water from the Gulf of Mexico is washing away bass fisheries as it destroys wetlands along Louisiana's coast.
Living waters
In a classic struggle between preservation and conservation, the Florida Everglades' outstanding bass fishery may be lost.
Water Wars
With hurricanes Frances and Jeanne dumping 18 inches of rain on the Kissimmee Chain of Lakes, Lake Tohopekaliga not only refilled quicker than expected following a drawdown, but rose 1 1/2 feet above regulated high pool.
Water Wars
Four months later, resource managers still are assessing damage done to fisheries by the four hurricanes that assaulted Florida this past fall. Early indications are that bass and other fish species fared much better than did the people and property in the Sunshine State, with billions of dollars in damage to homes, buildings, roads and utilities.
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Product Review:
For two days we struggled. From morning to evening, bass chased tiny forage all around us but wouldn't strike lures that typically work so well at Lake El Salto.
Remembering Don Butler
The meeting of the Tulsa Bass Club on Jan. 5, 1968, was getting unruly as Ray Scott was giving a boisterous pep talk to the members about his idea to start an organized society for bass fishermen. Understandably, the idea was met with skepticism because Scott was talking big: He would make bass fishing a professional sport like golf and make anglers wealthy through his tournaments.
