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Fishing as a Co-Angler: Benefits, Challenges, and Techniques

April 23, 2023 | Kyle Gelles

One of the key aspects of determining when to fish as a co-angler or a boater lies in setting personal goals. Whether it’s about becoming a better angler, gaining more experience, or optimizing ...

Becoming a Full-Time Professional Tournament Angler

January 16, 2023 | Kyle Gelles

As I make plans for the new year and the upcoming tournament season, I can’t help but reflect on how this journey to becoming a professional tournament angler started. In fact, I would say it is the...

The Lost Angler: Attention to Detail

November 11, 2022 | Kyle Gelles

I’m an average angler who loves to tournament bass fish. I left home to chase my dream of competing full time against the best anglers in the country. Most of the time I have no idea what I’m doin...

3 Shad Spawn Lures that Catch Big Bass

June 10, 2022 | Andrew Buss

The shad spawn is currently unfolding in many parts of the country providing ample and awesome opportunities to catch big bass. Professional bass angler Grae Buck hails from smallmouth country in Penn...

Off Season Preparation for Bass Fishing

January 12, 2022 | Andrew Buss

The term off-season is used commonly in the world of sports. This is the period of time where athletes recuperate from the previous season but also prepare for the upcoming. This term has a place in t...

Grae Buck’s Top 3 Lures for Fall Smallmouth Bass

November 16, 2021 | Andrew Buss

While still in high school, professional bass angler Grae Buck cut his teeth by catching giant smallmouth bass, and by all accounts, is now a master bronzeback angler. The past decade has proven to hi...

3 Lures to Catch Big Fall Bass

November 01, 2021 | Andrew Buss

In the bass fishing community, fall means football season. Not with a pigskin and shiny helmets, but with football-shaped porky pig sized bass. Just like grizzly bears, bass become food obsessed durin...

3 Lures to Catch Late Summer Largemouth

September 01, 2021 | Andrew Buss

“This is the best time of year to go fishing for largemouth bass!” is how professional bass angler Andrew Upshaw describes late summer. Exhausting heat, high humidity, and beads of sweat sliding d...

3 Lures to Catch Late Summer Smallmouth

August 18, 2021 | Andrew Buss

Major League Fishing Tackle Warehouse professional angler Grae Buck doesn’t see the heat of summer as a deterrent to catching big summer smallmouth bass. While the second half of summer can be hot, ...

Catch Summer Largemouth Bass by Skipping Docks

July 21, 2021 | Andrew Buss

Without the necessity of expensive graphs and big boats, some tease that skipping docks is a poor man’s way of fishing, but it is more accurate to say it is a big bass way of fishing. Fishing for bi...