News Stories & Fishing Articles

Decatur Makes Top Ten PFAS Contaminated Water List

This is a “Top Ten” list no city wants to be on.

Area of west of Decatur, AL. Google Earth photo.

Top 5 Teams in the Final Rankings for the 2022-23 Season

The  Bass Pro Shops School of the Year presented by Abu Garcia

The 2022-23 season for the Bass Pro Shops School of the Year presented by Abu was a historic one. College fishing’s only all-encompassing National Rankings system saw hundreds of college bass fishing teams from across the country compete in an epic number of points qualifying tournaments as the ACA awarded the most points ever in a single season this year.

Fishing In Plane Sight

This personalized adventure for you and your friends flies you into the pristine Canadian backcountry for a fishing experience you’ll never forget.

Allen Hayes and Danny Bishop win ABT Wheeler Lake with 23.23

By Jason Duran

The final stop of the ABT 2023 regular season was held at Wheeler Lake in Decatur, Al with 225 teams from the north division competing for the top prize of $10,000.

Allen Hayes and Danny Bishop. ABT photo

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Top Baits For Bass In The Grass

One of the surefire ways to put yourself around bass is to fish around the grass. They love the stuff and there’s always a percentage of the population living near the green stuff.

Seaguar Pro Mark Daniels Jr is a big proponent of TactX braid for punching grass and throwing frogs.

Enter The Georgia Bass Slam

“No doubt the Black Bass is the appointed successor to the Lordly Trout…that he will eventually become the leading game fish of America is my oft-expressed opinion and firm belief.” —Dr. James A. Henshall, Book of the Black Bass, 1881

Although writing primarily about the largemouth bass, Dr. Henshall’s prediction written over 125 years ago has literally been fulfilled. Today, black bass are the most sought-after species in North America, with Georgia as one of the premier destinations.

Shoals Youth Angler Winners Bring In Over One Hundred Pounds Of Bass

The Shoals Youth Bassmasters, a Northwest Alabama youth club, fished their second tournament of 2023 on a cooperative Wilson Lake out of the Lock Six ramp on June 10. Fifty-eight young anglers brought bags of bass to the scales at 11:00 AM.

In My Humble Opinion…

Triple-Time Duty from EGO® Fishing

The new Kryptek FISH/WEIGH-IN COOLER functions to keep fish lively for weigh-in, put fish on ice, and is a triple threat multiuse cooler.