The fishing pole — an ordinary mix of resin, fiberglass, thread, and bits of steel — is anything but ordinary once it’s put to use. It can feed a family, calm a restless mind, or spark memories that last a lifetime.
A Secret Smile: Live worms a hidden secret? A Secret Smile: Spent a week in the lovely state of Missouri on one of my favorites, Table Rock Lake.
This lake has been a gentle giant and full of bounty for our yearly family reunion. This year was no different.
Within minutes of launching my boat at the Shell Knob Bridge I had begun the onslaught. Only took 30 minutes and I had 20 fish in my boat using a live worms drop-shotted around the pylons.
I am always learning how to fish. Always. It never fails: anytime I think I am starting to figure out how to bass fish, the bass tell me different. I’m sure we all go through it in one way or another. Is it that we are off our game? Or are the bass learning the rules of the game?
Always learning how to bass fish
Learning Learning is something that anglers should be doing all the time.
Go Eat a Bird!!! Bought a Save Phace now I am glad I did after reading a friends blog.
The story goes like this. Guy has a fast bass boat like a lot of us do. Running loaded down fairly well on a lake with heavy boat traffic that day. The pair were flying down the lake headed off to the next spot. That is when a group of coots surprisingly came out of nowhere. One of the biggest and slowest birds hit the trolling motor with the boat going about 70 miles and hour. Another bird hit the console and then hit the driver directly in the face.
End of a Marathon: Tournament Day Gone Wrong Sure, we’ve all had one of those days. Today was tournament day, and after a long Friday at work, we rolled into Lawrence around 9 PM—just in time to discover it was KU Graduation Weekend.
The scramble for a hotel room First stop? No luck. It quickly became clear we might be spending the night in the truck at the ramp. As luck would have it, the very first hotel we called had an available room.
🎣 Bassmaster Pro James Niggemeyer Saves Man and Toddler in Lake Murray Rescue Dramatic Rescue on Tournament Day On the morning of Thursday, May 12, 2011, Lake Murray was the setting for the first day of the Bassmaster Evan Williams Bourbon Carolina Clash—but for professional angler James Niggemeyer and his Marshal, Russ Sorrells, the focus quickly shifted from fishing to a desperate rescue.
Speeding toward their initial fishing spot, the pair spotted a situation often warned about, but rarely witnessed: a father and his young son struggling in the water, their own vessel still running dangerously close by.
