Bass fishermen are fond of referring to “timing” as a key piece of a puzzle when breaking down a potential winning pattern. It also becomes a wonderful excuse when you don’t catch them.[…]
When the scales settled Saturday (Feb. 26) during the first daily weigh-in of the 2011 Celebrity Pro Bass Challenge, only two-tenths of a pound separated first and second place. And Patterson’s Gary Blanco headed into the final day with a scant lead.
The weigh-in was held outside of Academy Sports and Outdoors on Siegen Lane in Baton Rouge.
Twenty-four hours later, following the second day’s weigh-in, Blanco’s name remained at the top of the leader board. With that honor, the event’s $10,000 first-place prize money went into his pocket – and Blanco had set a record for the event.[…]
Mark Tucker must have felt some sense of redemption.
After plying his fishing skills on the Elite Series for the past 10 years, he opted out of an 11th season at the 11th hour, choosing instead to give the Opens a try.[…]
Despite less-than-ideal conditions, Mark Tucker of St. Louis topped his Day 1 catch that increased his lead and put him in position to win on Lewisville Lake.[…]
Mark Tucker’s decade on the Bassmaster Elite Series served him well Thursday, and the veteran angler discovered a way to put together 16 pounds, 10 ounces during the first 2011 stop of the Central Bassmaster Open on Texas’ Lake Lewisville.[…]
The Louisiana Saltwater Series will soon return to the Gulf Coast for the tournament’s second year. Hosted by the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF), the series is dedicated to catch-and-release saltwater angling through a series of agency-sponsored fishing tournaments.[…]
Well, the 2011 Bassmaster Classic has played out, and I for one will go on record saying that I was wrong. If someone would have told me that Lake Cataouatche would stand up to the pressure of the top anglers in the world, as well as the local hands, during the first pretty-weather weekend of the year, I would have laughed.[…]
It’s hard to tell who exactly was the star of the 2011 Bassmaster Classic.[…]
It’s hard to tell who exactly was the star of the 2011 Bassmaster Classic.
Was it Kevin VanDam, the now four-time Classic winner, who threw 69 pounds of bass on the scales to crush the dreams of 49 other anglers?[…]
The final day of the 2011 Bassmaster Classic is set to begin on schedule, a departure from the past two days that were delayed due to dense fog at the launch site of Bayou Segnette State Park.
“There’s no fog in sight,” Luling’s Bruce McDonald said while sitting in the boat of competitor Terry Scroggins waiting for the blast-off. “It’s beautiful. It’s completely different than the other days.”[…]
After an almost three-hour fog delay, B.A.S.S. officials told the Bassmaster Classic anglers to crank up their boats and prepare to blast off at 9:45 a.m., LouisianaSportsman.com has learned.[…]
This year, tens of thousands of LSU fans went crazy watching the Tigers humble the Alabama Crimson Tide on the gridiron of Tiger Stadium.[…]
LouisianaSportsman.com users Frank Morrow and Jeffrey Anderson won the final monthly Nikon Deer of the Year and Trail Cam contests, earning them Official Sportsman Gear prize packages and berths in the grand prize voting session that begins tomorrow (Feb. 21).[…]
Kevin VanDam went into the second day of the 2011 Bassmaster Classic in third place, but he had the No. 1 and No. 2 anglers fishing around him in Lake Cataouatche’s Tank Pond – and he expected the pressure from local anglers to have an impact on the catches.[…]
The 2011 Bassmaster Classic finally got under way at 8:10 this morning (Feb. 18) after thick fog forced B.A.S.S. officials to implement a delay of just more than an hour.[…]
Kevin VanDam went into the second day of the 2011 Bassmaster Classic in third place, but he had the No. 1 and No. 2 anglers fishing around him in Lake Cataouatche’s Tank Pond – and he expected the pressure from local anglers to have an impact on the catches.
And that turned out to be the case – for everyone in the Tank Pond but KVD.[…]