News Stories & Fishing Articles

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Southern Fishing News announced today that the Fishing with the Steve D brand of lures has signed on as the newest sponsor.

Southern Fishing News publisher and editor, Ron McDonald, says that the combined numbers of the Internet bass fishing website and social pages jumped from 37,186 this past February to almost 495,000 in May.

By Jason Duran

Eufaula AL-In recent weeks Lake Eufaula has seen pressure from some of the best pros in the sport. The lake has produced huge weights time and time again.

By Jason Duran  Photos By Chris Brown

(June 22, 2020) It was a much different Alabama River when the Alabama Bass Trail South Division began to check in for blast off. Overnight the water levels dropped significantly… almost 4 feet.

Alabama Bass Trail Northern Division

By Jason Duran

The team of Chris Brittain and Eric Springer was first in line when the scales opened at Ingalls Harbor.  They dropped 21.84 pounds on the scales setting the bar high for the other 224 teams. At the close of the scales, no team came within three pounds of them. They took home the win and $10,000 on Wheeler Lake.

The team of Chris Brittain and Eric Springer was first in line when the scales opened. ABT photo

The final day of the 2020 BoatUS Collegiate Bass Fishing Championship presented by Bass Pro Shops, June 11, 2020, provided tons of suspense for the collegiate bass fishing community.

PICKWICK LAKE (June 10, 2020) – Day 1 is in the books for the 2020 BoatUS Collegiate Bass Fishing Championship presented by Bass Pro Shops on Pickwick Lake.  The action began bright and early this morning at 5:30 AM and the anglers went right to work on catching keeper size fish.  

FLORENCE, AL (6/9/2020) – Entering the final event of the season for the Association of Collegiate Anglers, the BoatUS Collegiate Bass Fishing Championship presented by Bass Pro Shops on Pickwick Lake, each team in the Top 5 for the Bass Pro Shops School of the Year presented by Abu Garcia mathematically has a chance at being crowned college fishing’s best team. 

Project to Give View to Life of Professional Anglers on Tour

Boasting one of the premier pro staff teams in the sport of professional bass fishing, Lew’s and Strike King announce Kings of Bass. The new series, filmed and produced by Tyler Anderson of Tyler’s Reel Fishing, will be an Instagram TV series that will highlight the lives of professional anglers on tour.