The Inside Line

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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The other day I had to move about a dozen or so rods out of the way so that I could find a space for the three big boxes of Yamamoto plastics I’d just received. Seven hundred bucks worth of green …

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When fishing is a grind and every bite matters, finesse tactics can save the day. Today when we think finesse, the Ned Rig, the Drop Shot, and perhaps the Neko Rig come to mind. And rightly …

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We spend so much time learning to manipulate bass lures – to make topwaters skitter, to make frogs walk, and to make gliders glide – that it’s easy to lose sight of the fact that a …

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My first encounter with the Yamamoto Senko came many years ago. I was fishing as a AAA at a Clear Lake WON Bass Pro-Am Tournament and at this time, the Senko was just taking off on the West Coast …

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Some of you may not be old enough to recall that before The Inside Line became an online publication, it was actually a glossy, full-color magazine, and before that it was a professional-style n …

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