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Where Have All the Kids Gone?

When I look around today, and drive by the city pool, school playgrounds, sandlots and youth baseball complexes, a question often pops in my head. Where have all the kids gone? Yes, I know it’s 2023 and I understand it’s a different time...

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A Black Eye for Fishing

Over the years, every sport has been given a “black eye.” No matter what sport it is, people are always looking for some form of illegal or unethical issues that they can bring to light. Recently, professional basketball had the...

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Pre-Fishing Can Be Frustrating

Preparation is the key to doing well on any tournament trail. But in the tournament bass fishing world, it can also test an angler’s patience. Anglers spend hours and days pre-fishing for schools of quality fish that will help put them either in...

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A Bandit in the Night

Over my years of traveling all over the south from one tournament to another, I’ve had a few funny and sometimes difficult encounters. Most of the time it’s something mechanical like a flat tire, a wheel bearing going out on my boat...

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Oh, the Shame of Zeroing

It doesn’t matter how good you think you are or how many tournaments you have won, there will come a time where you just can’t figure the fish out and you come to the scales with nothing. This is the number one fear amongst all anglers who...

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Put Up or Shut Up

Today I’m writing this article based on my personal experience as a tournament angler. Over the years, I’ve come across a lot of anglers who have always talked about how they should be fishing tournaments because they “ALWAYS”...

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How the Pro Anglers Relax

 So, you think you want to be a professional bass fisherman? Well, we’ve already covered this once, but today we’ll look at what and how some of the greatest anglers in the world spend their off season or down time. After being on the...

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Educating Today’s Young Anglers

Last week we focused on some of the fishing etiquette issues pertaining to today’s up and coming anglers. We looked at “cutting off another angler” and “asking for permission to share a spot.” Today, we’ll continue...

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Educating Our Younger Generation of Anglers

 When you take a look at the landscape of both high school and college fishing, it’s obvious that up and coming anglers of today are not being taught the ethics or etiquette of bass fishing…the unwritten rules of the water! Young...

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Controversy Again on the Red River

It never fails, if there’s a bass tournament on the Red River, there will usually be some kind of issue or controversy. But for some reason, with most events on the Red, crybabies seem to come out of nowhere and want to complain about something...

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