If waiting on a world record announcement rings your bell, then that’s what you’re probably going to get Friday–bells and whistles. That’s because the International Game Fish Association will hold a live press conference at 10:30 a.m. our time, to finally let us know its ruling on the Manabu Kurita catch. (more…)
You don’t have to tell me. I know you’ve been hoarding Megabait spoons since the company went out of business and your collection of custom-painted ice jigs is the coolest in three states.
But not every day is the same out on the water. With an extra layer of clothes and a lot of adrenalin going, we don’t always sense the changes in conditions. But down there, those marks on the color graph–those are living creatures that are facing another winter day of survival.
True, some days they are hot to go, rising up in the water column to catch your bait as it falls. Other days they like that slide-and-glide look from Norway. And then there are a lot of other days, when bellied down in the mud or silt, they need a real good reason to get up and move even a foot or two. (more…)
I hate being right all the time, but it took the masterminding of Tom Leogrande (with some help from golf, he says) to come up with the bass circuit known as the California Bass Championship or CBC–that confirms what I’ve been saying for years and years.
Yep, I had almost quit pronouncing that the western region cannot deliver a large enough of a pool of competitive anglers to field a full-fledged pro circuit. BASS didn’t learn. FLW thought they knew better, but by the second leg of this year’s National Guard, they will be tapping out (more…)