The Inside Line

I suppose the news of KVD’s semi-retirement should not have surprised any of us. What does he have left to prove? Why does he need to continue hauling a boat around the country, staying in crappy …

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I have a lot of bass fishing memorabilia in my home office, some of it theoretically valuable on the open market, some of it valuable only to me. Of course, it includes lots of lures – one signed …

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As you read this, the 2023 Bassmaster Elite Series is about to begin. And in my opinion, it’s a great schedule. Nearly every venue is guaranteed to produce big winning weights — some may even ecl …

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Just six weeks until the Bassmaster Classic, the second time the big show will be held in Knoxville, and while there’s lots of fishing to go before the competitors launch their boats, at the same …

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For a remarkably lengthy period of time, no one held a candle to Kevin VanDam on the water. You could have him fishing a puddle of parking lot antifreeze, and put someone else on the best lake in …

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No More Mr. Nice Guy? Larry Nixon is back at BASS, a development whose evolution was perhaps the worst-kept secret in the history of professional fishing. That’s saying something, because for …

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