The Inside Line

After a disappointing result at Santee Cooper, I was anxious to get things rolling at Lay Lake in Alabama — stop No. 5 on the Bassmaster Elite Series. My only previous experience on …

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It had been years since the Elite Series visited Lake Murray in South Carolina, and I wasn’t sure what to expect. I assumed some fish would still be spawning, while others would be schooling. The …

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Considered one of the best bass lakes in the country, Okeechobee is capable of producing serious weights… provided the weather cooperates. All of us knew that going in. What we weren&rsqu …

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My non-fishing brother and his non-fishing family went to Japan over New Year’s, and as a thank you for watching their (assumedly non-fishing) Portuguese Water Dog while they were gone, they brou …

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In a lot of ways, 2022 was an unsettling year for me on the fishing front. We had a few exceptional trips, but others that were merely good when we expected them to be great. Even on our November tri …

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After 30 years of semi-serious bass fishing, the major lessons don’t come that often anymore. Nor do new techniques – every once in a while a capital-G-game-changer like the drop shot or the Senk …

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