Environmental groups threaten to ban fishing

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, president and CEO of the American Sportfishing Association (ASA).

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.

How-To

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.