Wired2fish

Host Team USA took home the win at the 20th Black Bass Fishing World Championship on Lake Hamilton, Arkansas, completing a dominant performance across three days of fishing. Legendary bass angler Kevin VanDam and teammate three-time Redcrest Champion Dustin Connell captured the individual pair title.

For most bass fishermen, catching a 10-pound bass is a lifetime achievement. But for 80-year-old Larry Walker of Irving, Texas, it’s a number he has hit 218 times. And he isn’t finished yet. Larry Walker, 80, of Irving, Texas, gives a thumbs up with one of two double-digit bass he caught Sept. 8 while fishing J.B. Thomas with Slaunched Guide Service. On Sept.

Everyone knows traditional braided fishing line floats. Fluorocarbon tends to sink. And mono is mostly slow sinking. It’s just something you get used to over time. But then I got to try out the Sunline Almight braided sinking line, pulled straight from the Japanese Domestic Market (JDM), but available in the U.S. While standard polyethylene braid floats on top of the water with a specific gravity of around 0.97, Almight achieves a specific gravity of 1.48.

PRADCO Outdoor Brands, the fishing and hunting heavyweight behind powerhouses like Great Lakes Finesse, Bomber, Cotton Cordell, Heddon, and YUM, is officially making a splash into the watersports arena. The EBSCO Industries subsidiary has acquired Kent Outdoors, bringing a massive lineup of water and marine safety brands under its wing, including Hyperlite, BOTE, Connelly, Liquid Force, and Onyx. Founded in 1944 and headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, EBSCO Industries, Inc.

Making six figures just by catching fish probably sounds like an impossible dream. And, sure, it’s pretty hard to do — but, as one Pacific Northwest angler recently proved, it’s not impossible. Especially if you’re really, really good at catching northern pikeminnows. That anonymous angler just turned a summer of grinding on the Columbia and Snake rivers into a $132,960 payday by catching 13,062 northern pikeminnows.

For many anglers, the end of fishing season means putting the rods away, winterizing the boat, and waiting for spring. But if you’re thinking about buying a fishing boat, the offseason may actually be the best time to start shopping. While spring and summer bring warmer weather and plenty of boats to marinas and dealerships, they also bring plenty of buyers. The market changes in the offseason.

If you’ve ever spent more time trying to get your boat electronics talking to each other than actually fishing, Minn Kota says that’s about to change. Today, Minn Kota introduced what it calls the biggest expansion in the brand’s history: a new, integrated fishing system that brings trolling motors, fish finders, navigation, sonar, mapping and shallow-water anchors together under the Minn Kota name.

Many fishermen, by nature, are tinkerers. They start finding moderate success on a certain lure and think, “I could make this bait even better.” And then they start tinkering. That’s how some of the greatest fishing lures of our time were invented. Let’s dive in and take a look. When Gary Yamamoto fished the Bassmaster series in the mid-1990s, a plastic jerkbait called The Slug-Go was all the craze. It was effective, to a degree. But Yamamoto thought the concept needed improvement.

Small-town residents near eastern Iowa’s Lake Macbride are still talking about the near-record black crappie caught in late August. After all, it isn’t every day that a fish that big — 3.5 pounds and 18.5 inches long — is seen in these parts. Cooper Hoffman, 23, caught that fish while trolling a crankbait on a rainy late-summer day. And fishermen in the area have been buzzing about it ever since.

There are so many options these days when deciding what electronics to put on your boat. From numerous brands to different screen sizes to varying technologies, the options can be overwhelming. LIVE sonar is the hot commodity for sure, with now-traditional forward-facing sonar (FFS) views like Garmin LiveScope 2, Humminbird Mega LIVE 2, and Lowrance Active Target 2. But the vertical view of these only tells part of the story: Each also has the capability to run LIVE sonar horizontally now.