Category: Kevin VanDam
BassBlaster 1/18/13, Clunn: Repeat Your Casts!
Subscribe to the BassBlaster here! Welcome to the BassBlaster, your daily email about all things bassin’. Hey – take a sec to forward this Blaster to a bassin’ bud! *|FACEBOOK:LIKE|* Today’s Top 3 1. According to Rick Clunn, the greatest mistake is not repeating the exact cast you just made to catch a fish. > [...]
BassBlaster 1/4/13: KVD Loves the A-rig
Welcome to the BassBlaster, your daily email about all things bassin’. Take a sec to forward this Blaster to a bassin’ bud, willya? *|FACEBOOK:LIKE|* Today’s Top 3 1. Hotel marketing nearby bassin’ tourneys! Nice! How cool izzat? > Hampton Inn & Suites Scottsboro Hotel offers nearby lodging to participants and fans attending upcoming bass fishing [...]
BassBlaster 10/12/12: Bassin’ Mishap Photos
Welcome to the BassBlaster, your daily email about all things bassin'. Take a sec to forward this Blaster to a bassin' bud, willya? *|FACEBOOK:LIKE|* Today's Top 3 Out hunting all next week but will endeavor to get a Blaster out or two. If you miss your daily dose o' bassin', well…no tears. 1. No [...]
Only KVD Sells Tackle? Nope
Few weeks ago, a post on Wired2Fish.com had this quote in it: “If your name ain’t KVD, you ain’t moving any appreciable product. There ain’t many pros that can sell you much these days.” That’s a piece of bass industry info that’s become conventional wisdom – and like conventional wisdom everywhere, isn’t necessarily right. Also [...]
What Else Do The Pros Know…
…That They’re Not Telling Us? A pretty good number of ord’nary bassers think they can beat the pros or a pro on any given day. That belief is one of the many great things about bassin’ for fishes, but in reality most of those folks must’ve caught one too many fly balls with their noggins. [...]
Why Letting One Go Kills the Bite
You know: You’re on a school, catch one or two, throw ‘em back, and the bite dies. Not a secret. But why? No one knows – til now. And it all boils down to…scary stuff. Seriously. Excerpts from a recent NY Times article: > In the 1930s, Karl von Frisch…theorized that injured fish release a [...]
Last Friday’s Top 5 Bassin’ Quotes
Taken from that day’s BassBlaster email. Interesting stuff, and gotta say we love doing the BassBlaster as much as folks dig receiving it. If you’re not getting it yet, just use the easy sign-up form at right. 1. “(The mystery concept) opened up my eyes as to how many people get information before an event [...]
How Often You Tie On Your Fave Bait?
In the course of doing the tres awesome daily BassBlaster e-newsletter – you have subscribed, yes?! – we ran across this quote from KVD: First of all, it’s wrong to have a favorite bait. You have to use what the conditions dictate. That being said, I have a lot of confidence in certain baits that [...]
Ike, KVD, Cranks, Colors
Gonna hit four things here. 1. You’ve probably heard the well-known saying in the fishing biz, that baits are made to “catch fishermen, not fish.” In other words, if it doesn’t catch your eye in the store, you’re not bringing it home, regardless of whether it catches ‘em or not. 2. Bearing that in mind, [...]
Didya Get Your KVD Fathead Yet?
Don’t get it, the Fathead thing. Definitely get wanting to have a sports hero or rock star or whatever on the wall, when you’re a kid and your own room is your own room. Definitely get the bigger is cooler-looking thing. Don’t get the $90+ price tag. For that amount of cash, I’ll take my [...]
BASS’s Fish Wif KVD Contest
Did you see this yet? Now THAT’S a contest to enter. Whoever wins should challenge KVD to a fish-off and put him in the back o’ the boat….
The MLF: Just Fun or Serious?
Read with interest a piece on Bassin’Fan the other day about Major League Fishing. Why with interest? Because it piqued (not peaked) my interest a bit. I mean, I’m a bassin’ cynic just like you. Seen it all, done a bunch of it, just give me time to fish and some good tourneys to read [...]
What If VanDam, Clunn Laughed At You…
…Just Before Takeoff?! What what that do for your confidence? Well, it happened to a guy named Tim Sainato, a Missoura stick and I believe Table Rock guide at least at one point (can someone check me on that). The whole, amazing story (took place in 2000 maybe?) is too long for here, but bear [...]
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 [...]
And the Winnah of KVD’s Shoes Is…
…Flip ‘N’ Pitch! Come on down! Send your email addy to bubbas AT bassblaster.bassgold.com and we will email you the gifty certificate so you can look all kinds of snazzy in your boat. And stop embarrassing yo’self. Here’s Flip ‘N’ Pitch’s winning entry:
Last Chance to Win KVD’s Shoes
Okay ye shoeless masses, today’s the last day we’re going to post about winning KVD’s Irish Setter fishin’ shoes. And the big weener of this contest will be announced Tuesday, Aug. 9 so git yer deep thoughts in by then. Remember per the original post: How do you win? Tell us below in the comments [...]
Win KVD’s Shoes! (Sweat Not Included)
Does what KVD wears matter to his fishing? Of course it does. Don’t you think he wouldn’t fish near as good if he was strapped into bike shorts and a wife-beater T-shirt? (Was going to say a Speedo but found that image too disturbing….) Anyhow, on his feet KVD wears Irish Setter KVD Fishing Shoes [...]
