July Fourth and ICAST – 2019 is half gone
Where has the year gone? It seems like the year has flown by already. Two very important events to me will happen in the coming days, July the Fourth and...
Matt Herren
Guntersville magic
This week is the 2019 Academy Sports + Outdoors Bassmaster Elite Series at Guntersville, and while I was working on tackle it hit me just how important Guntersville is to...
Fantasy Fishing: Double dip on grass hounds at Big G
Next March, the eyes of the bass fishing world will focus upon Lake Guntersville, a legendary TVA impoundment loaded with grass and big bass. There are 75 Elite Series pros...
This Field of Dreams
Before I get too far ahead of myself, while I was fishing the Toyota Bassmaster Texas Fest at Lake Fork, my son Jacob and his fiancé Alita welcomed their daughter...
Big Bass Big Stage Big Dreams
Meet the Elites: Matt Herren
Winning a Bassmaster Classic is undeniably the ultimate goal of any professional bass angler. Believe it or not, winning the sport’s most coveted title never entered Matt Herren’s mind when...
Radio: Cory Johnston, Herren and more
Thomas Allen, Cory Johnston and Matt Herren
The best spawns of the year
I’m sittin’ here thinking about fishing the Toyota Bassmaster Texas Fest at Lake Fork, and I realized, it’s about my favorite time of the year to fish. Most of the...
Fantasy Fishing: Forget finesse specialists at Fork
After the long runs and light weights of Winyah Bay, the Bassmaster Elite Series will pick up the schedule midstream at Lake Fork, a comparatively compact playing field with comparatively...
Fantasy Fishing: The Lake Fork factor
As it’s been said, it’s been several years since the Bassmaster Elite Series has crested the 100-pound mark of four days of accumulative weight. It’s time for it to happen...
How-To
Grass bed subtleties
Elite pro Matt Herren has logged many hours and thousands of casts into, over and around shallow, emergent grass beds. From the cheap seats, it might all appear rather vanilla,...
