Category: Personalities
You’re On One Basser’s Thanks List
Alright already. Every year around now my wife asks me what I’m thankful for, and gotta admit I don’t think about it much – til we go around the table and it’s my turn. But this year, for some reason, I am. So here’s a list. 1. Bassin’ Folks (You) While back, in the BassFan [...]
BassBlaster 10/26/12: Learn Boo-Shakin’
Welcome to the BassBlaster, your daily email about all things bassin’. Take a sec to forward this Blaster to a bassin’ bud, willya? Deal alert: Get a free Spook with every Lurenet.com order placed by the end of Halloween. More deets here. *|FACEBOOK:LIKE|* Today’s Top 3 1. Mortgage payments come monthly, but tournament winnings come [...]
No Effort: New Loomis GLX Love
[Part 4 of a series.] I’ve been told on more than one occasion by pros, rod people and everyday fishermen like you and me that so-and-so rod is “just as good as a Loomis.” I’m always willing to put that to the test. Don’t mean bunsen burners, graphs and that kinda testing. Just mean tying [...]
New Calcutta: We Can Crank Again
[Part 2 of a series.] When it comes to rods and reels, I’m more of a rod guy. Don’t know why. Also like amps more than guitars, if that helps. But it’s for that very reason that I’m going to tackle the new Shimano Calcutta D first in these “get the new Calcutta and Loomis [...]
BassBlaster 9/18/12: Funniest Jimmy Houston Vid?
Welcome to the BassBlaster, your daily email about all things bassin’. Hey – forward this Blaster to a bassin’ bud, willya? *|FACEBOOK:LIKE|* Today’s Top 3 1. Funniest Jimmy Houston vid ever? The most-watched bass fishin’ vid on YouTube is: Bill Dance’s bloopers. ‘Course. But check out this vid. Not bloopers, but darn good! 2. What [...]
What ‘Certified Bad-Ass’ Means
When I saw that graphic – the G. Loomis “Certified Bad-Ass” one – I thought it was great. Great that: > Bassin’ has gotten to that point where it can be cool or whatever it wants, and doesn’t just have to be conservative – though it can be that too because it can be whatever [...]
BassBlaster 8/8/12: Ztrain vs. Cook
Publishing this on a delay, get it hot in your inbox by signing up here. Welcome to the BassBlaster, your daily email about all things bassin’. Hey — didja forward the BB to a bassin’ bud yet? *|FACEBOOK:LIKE|* Today’s Top 3 1. Can the bassin’ West be conquered? That’s the question I asked today in [...]
Bassin’ Back In the Saddle Again?
Have you heard – you would have already if you were a BassBlaster subscriber (sign up here) – that our own Mark Zona will be throwing out the first pitch at a White Sox game? Yep, I was surprised too: the White Sox are still around! No seriously, how cool is that? And does it [...]
Who Is This Guy?
Ran across this pic of Billy Westmoreland the other day, of “Them Ol’ Brown Fish”/Tennessee smallmouths fame. (Heck yeah I have a copy of that book, and was on pins and needles the first time I fished Dale Hollow.) Billy’s on the right – who’s that on the left? Y’all know who he is, older [...]
Why Doesn’t Jarrett Have a Dang Boat Deal?
Was talking to a father of a kid on my son’s soccer team the other day, the only other diehard basser within miles, seems like. We’re talking about this year’s Classic, he asks me a question I get fairly often: Are the pros good guys or…? Won’t give you my short + long answer here, [...]
Forrest’s Last Fish-Netting Mistake
An outdoor scribblin’ compadre of mine, John Neporadny Jr., once (maybe more than once?) interviewed Forrest Wood about a couple different subjects. One story Forrest told was this one, one of my favorites: A long time ago Nina and I were prefishing for a tournament on Lake Okeechobee, and we had an 8-pound bass in [...]
Mark Zona Is Not THAT Handsome
[This is our first guest post of the week, by Scotty ‘Bud’ Melvin, program director for 92.5 ZUU, Kalamazoo’s "Real Rock Station" – and it's proof that there really is something in the water in Michigan. Scotty, get your DJ to play 'Unchained' when I (Jay) school Z on the water this summer.] Some people [...]
Ever Do The Tacklebox Weigh-In?
Was surfing the new lurenet.com site (home for the Yum, Booyha, Bomber, Rebel, etc. brands) – you heard about it right? lol – and ran across this, from the one and only Bobby Murray: Competitors in the first Bassmaster Classic were limited to just 10 pounds of tackle. Nowadays a single Stowaway can weigh more [...]
Nate-gate: Is There A ‘Something Else’ Or…?
AAAAAAAAAAAAA! Nate-gate won’t die! Been trying not…to…write…about this again, but dang. Writing because Ray Scott and Bassin’Fan’s Johnny Johnson recently issued opinions on the Wellman matter, both on BassFan. If you didn’t read ‘em, they’re good. Ray said it’s all about the polygraph, and JJ saidtourney rules need to be enforced to the letter. Stack [...]
Science: Computers in Bass Fishing
Computer programs for locating and catching bass aren’t new. In fact, I still have Bassmaster magazines sitting at home from the ’80s that had Bill Dance and Roland Martin promoting the greatest thing since sliced bread in bass fishing success. It was called ‘Basstronics’ and was a simple input database about the size of a [...]
More: Bassin’ Athletes, Is It a Sport
To follow up on my post yesterday about whether bassin’ pros are athletes, two more thoughts. First one is this, which may be a) an argument that pro bassers aren’t athletes and b) the real reason
Who You Got in the BASS Legends Tourney?
In case you haven’t seen the announcement, on July 31 the following four teams of “legends” (they fo’ sho’ are) are going to duke it out on “a private lake near Montgomery” (one of Ray Scott’s private lunker ponds maybe?) as part of the B.A.S.S. All-Star Week. Here they are:
