Tri-State Bass Anglers Association

Catching Suspended Fish
By Boyd Duckett In recent years on the BASS Elite Series Tour, we've been to places like California and south Texas where throwing big, bulky swimbaits is the norm. Sure, big fish are caught that way, but those baits don't help me when I go back home to Alabama or some ...

The FLW Tour’s Finest
[audio:http://media.libsyn.com/media/bassfeed/BassFeed_Episode_058.mp3] Michael Bennett frog fished his way to a $1 million win in the Forrest Wood Cup with the same Snag Proof frog that won Fred Roumbanis a Bassmaster Elite victory on the same body of water earlier in the season. And while Fred was happy to share his frogs and ...

Fishing The Grass
By Jay Yelas After the warmth of summer, there's no doubt that your favorite fishing hole has some vegetation built up in it. In summer, when the water warms, the different aquatic vegetations are able to bloom. And if you are a bass angler, there's nothing that makes you happier than ...

Jerkbait Fishing for Fall
By Scott Suggs There are many ways to target bass during the late summer and the fall transition. Recently, I've been spending a lot of time acquainting myself with the Berkley Gulp! 5-inch Jerk Shad. While this bait isn't the newest bait on the market, I've been trying to work it ...

Rojas, Roberson, Jones
Dean Rojas finally scratched his seven-year itch with a Bassmaster Elite win on Lake Oneida. Flying in the face of conventional Oneida wisdom, Rojas fished a frog (imagine that!) to catch a winning weight of largemouth bass...even as most of his peers serached the deeps for smallmouth bass. He's here ...

Bennet New FLW Millionaire
Team Duracell pro Michael Bennett of Lincoln, Calif., caught a two-day total of nine bass weighing 24 pounds, 15 ounces to win $1 million in the Forrest Wood Cup presented by BP and Castrol on Lake Murray on Sunday. Bennett is the youngest champion in the history of the Forrest ...

Bennett Still In Charge
There is an interesting fishing battle setting up in South Carolina at the Forrest Wood Cup and the winner of that battle is going to get a million dollars on Sunday afternoon. After Saturday’s weigh-in, the 2008 Forrest Wood Cup has boiled down primarily to a two-horse race between Duracell pro ...

Bennett Junk Fishes For Lead
The 2008 Forrest Wood Cup on Lake Murray is quickly turning into professional bass fishing’s version of Junkyard Wars. All afternoon the words “junk-fishing” have been the primary vernacular to describe the type of fishing that seems to be allowing pros to climb to the top of the leader board. Essentially, ...

Rose Hits The Mother Lode
Mark Rose of Marion, Ark., crossed the stage with a five-bass limit weighing 20 pounds, 2 ounces to lead day one of the $2 million Forrest Wood Cup presented by BP and Castrol on Lake Murray. Rose now holds a 2-pound, 13-ounce lead in the tournament featuring 77 pros and ...

2009 Classic & Elite Fields
With the 2008 Bassmaster Elite Series season in the books, the brunt of the qualifying spots for both the 2009 Bassmaster Classic and Bassmaster Elite Series have been determined. Heading into the final Elite event of the season on New York’s Oneida Lake, many anglers were in precarious position in ...