Ok, most anglers don’t have the opportunity or luxury to fish every day as the pro’s do and for the most part only get to go on the week ends or when they have the opportunity. That being the case lets set the scene. It’s Wednesday evening and your talking to a couple of your fishing buddies about the upcoming weekend and of course the most important question always rises. “Where you goin...
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I spend most of my waking days on the water. Each year it usually accounts to over 280 days out on the big pond. Whether it is with clients, pre fishing for a tournament, fishing a tournament, or just simply “play” fishing out on the water, I’m searching, learning, and refining my techniques and YES I do spend many of my days “off” just play fishing…..Don’t you?
Anyway, almost dail...
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Is it the anticipation that sends your blood pressure over the roof, prior to the strike? Or the explosiveness of the strike itself that just captivates the minds of all anglers. Whether your preference is salt or fresh almost any angler will attest that “Top Water” if it can be done, would be the number one choice. Oh, and did I tell you that it really doesn’t matter what species your pursu...
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I’m a firm believer that kids who are exposed to fishing grow up to become good stewards of our natural resources. Unfortunately, the long-standing tradition of a father teaching his son to fish has diminished because of parents’ loss of interest and today’s hectic lifestyles. And because kids have so many recreational choices – many of which are less wholesome – fishing is losing popul...
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Hi, my name is Jonny Schultz and I am a 16-year old junior angler from Little Rock, Arkansas. I have been very fortunate to work with Plano for the past seven years, and have grown to rely on their tackle systems to give me an edge over my competition. I have fished the Junior Bassmasters for eight years, and began fishing the Bassmaster Weekend Series in 2011.
When you are fishing a tournament ...
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Article by Glen Walker, Plano Field Staffer
Here a wacky rigged Senko is shown on my drop shot rig.
Since my move to Minnesota in 2009, I’ve had to become familiar with different tactics to be successful in tournaments on the lakes that I fish. A technique that has become one of my go to lures these past summers in tournaments, regardless if I was fishing shallow, deep, lake or river, is the...
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When you take a group of the best from any sport it’s the small things that can determine the outcome. In NASCAR it can be a three second faster pit stop, in football it could be the extra effort that gains the inch needed for a first down. In fishing, it could be the one extra cast you get from being organized.
Unlike many other sports there are no time outs in fishing. If you can’t find that...
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Waterproof StowAway 3740
There’s no doubting that the way I fish today is a great deal different than when I was a kid. In the days of my youth, my grandfather and father would take me out in a small aluminum rowboat on both the inland lakes and Lake Michigan in Michigan’s southwestern Lower Peninsula; before they saved up enough money for an outboard motor, they would have me row spot to sp...
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The fact that professional bass angler Kevin VanDam won the 2011 Bassmaster Classic on the Louisiana Delta left everybody scratching their heads … everybody except VanDam. The fishing phenomenon from Kalamazoo, Mich. enters every bass tournament expecting to win and it seems he really is in contention in most events to do just that.
Over his career along the BASS trail alone, VanDam has recorde...
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We’ve all seen the news about the downturn in the economic sector and unemployment. No where has that been more visible than in my home town, just outside of Detroit, Michigan. But the double digit unemployment rates this winter have led to one surprising revival: EVERYONE is ice fishing again. Since I began fishing Lake St. Clair, at no time has there been such a dramatic increase in participa...
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