The Rise of Technology in Tournament Bass Fishing Ever since forward-facing sonar turned the sport of professional bass fishing up on its transom, tournament-fishing leagues have become more vigilant about the amount of technology flowing into bass tournaments. With the acceleration of Artificial Intelligence and the development of apps that
Bass are conditioned creatures. Many times, their desire to feed is stimulated by some larger change in their environment. As an angler, if you can predict or detect that change ahead of time, you can be at the right place at the right time to take advantage of that stimulus.
The month of December is the final transition from the last of the fall season into true winter. Up until this point, water temperatures have been steadily declining from the 70s into the 60s. Now, more intense fronts of winter will squash water temperatures into the low 50s and over
Current is one of the last great secrets in bass fishing. Current is mysterious, ambiguous, and hard to quantify, yet it plays such a strong role in bass behavior, especially in power-generating reservoirs. Most reservoirs in a power-producing chain of lakes have both an outflow and an inflow dam. To
Deep Dive continues to make waves in their quest to be the best app in the fishing business by adding yet another valuable tool to their pro suite of real-time fishing conditions for lakes across the country. This time, they have effectively addressed an angler’s incessant need to know
For much of the United States, November means quickly falling water temperatures. It’s a transition time between summer and winter. Bass have snapped out of their sluggish summer mood, and shad are on the move. With that, November is the time to become a little more shad-centric in your
Autumn is underway across the U.S., and that means lakes, particularly reservoirs, are changing fast. As vibrant leaves float on the breeze, water temperatures are dropping, bait is migrating, thermoclines are collapsing, and drawdowns are exposing bare banks. In terms of fishing conditions, the lake you are fishing today
How many times has the wind caught you off guard? Everything was fine in the morning, but by afternoon, you found yourself in a real bind. As anglers, we have all been there. The hour-long run in the morning only took 53 minutes across smooth, glossy waters against a beautiful
Two-time Bassmaster Classic winner Jordan Lee is known for utilizing current conditions instead of milking a bunch of historical areas on a lake. He remembers when keeping up with such current conditions required a lot of time and resources. “We used to put sticks in the ground at the waterline,
After Jordan Lee won his second Bassmaster Classic in 2018 at the age of 26, I asked him a question that had perplexed me about his back-to-back world titles. “How does a guy your age go to Conroe and Hartwell, (the sites of his two Classic wins) and beat a