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SHO time at Yamaha

Ken Duke, Senior Editor, BASS Publications

"This changes everything."

Story | Conversation | November 19, 2009

Teach your jig to swim, part 2

Ken Duke, Senior Editor, BASS Publications

If you're like most bass anglers, you've cast jigs, flipped jigs, pitched jigs, hopped jigs, crawled jigs and even jigged jigs, but the only time you ever swam a jig was when you sprinted it back to the boat to make another pitch, flip or cast.

Story | Conversation | September 23, 2009

Teach your jig to swim, part 1

Ken Duke, Senior Editor, BASS Publications

If you're like most bass anglers, you've cast jigs, flipped jigs, pitched jigs, hopped jigs, crawled jigs and even jigged jigs, but the only time you ever swam a jig was when you sprinted it back to the boat to make another pitch, flip or cast.

Story | Conversation | September 16, 2009

The candidates narrow

Ken Duke, Senior Editor, BASS Publications

A couple of weeks ago, we posted a story about the anglers competing in the postseason entitled, "Anyone Can Win!"

Story | Conversation | September 14, 2009

Insiders get Backstage Pass

Ken Duke, Senior Editor, BASS Publications

If you're an Insider — or even if you're just giving our premium Web site a free test drive for a month — we think you're going to love what we have in store for you at BASS' very first postseason.

Story | Conversation | September 09, 2009

Follies, frauds and hoaxes

Ken Duke, Senior Editor, BASS Publications

In the 77 years since George Perry set the bar at 22 pounds, 4 ounces, dozens of anglers have laid claim to a largemouth bass that weighed more. None have been able to substantiate their claims; some haven't even tried.

Story | Conversation | September 08, 2009

Anyone can win!

Ken Duke, Senior Editor, BASS Publications

After eight "regular season" Bassmaster Elite Series events, we're now down to the postseason — two events that will determine the Toyota Tundra Bassmaster Angler of the Year and all of the prize money that goes with it.

Story | Conversation | September 01, 2009

Follies, frauds and hoaxes

Ken Duke, Senior Editor, BASS Publications

Throw seven figures at something and you're bound to create some interest. That's the way it's been for the world record largemouth bass ever since the mid-1970s when someone decided that a new record would be worth more than $1 million.

Story | Conversation | August 27, 2009

5 tips to better deep water bass fishing

Ken Duke, Senior Editor, BASS Publications

If you're like most bass anglers, you probably consider yourself pretty adept at fishing down to 10 feet or so, maybe a little deeper if you throw a lot of big crankbaits or live near a highland reservoir.

Story | Conversation | July 02, 2009

Holiest of Holies

Ken Duke, Senior Editor, BASS Publications

In the world of bass fishing, there's no bigger tournament than the Bassmaster Classic, no more important species than the largemouth and no greater catch than the all-tackle world record.

Story | Conversation | August 14, 2009

The Record BP (Before Perry)

Ken Duke, Senior Editor, BASS Publications

It seems that George Washington Perry has always been on top of the hill when it comes to big bass. But if you look back — way back — you'll find that there were giant largemouths even before the first "official" world record holder.

Story | Conversation | August 07, 2009

Hackney and Ike Shine with FLW

Ken Duke, Senior Editor, BASS Publications

Elite Angler Greg Hackney made the most of his rematch with the Three Rivers that run through Pittsburgh, Pa.

Story | Conversation | August 04, 2009

Wanna bet?

Ken Duke, Senior Editor, BASS Publications

This is not a gambling site. The odds you are about to see are for entertainment purposes only.

Story | Conversation | July 31, 2009

What happens next?

Ken Duke, Senior Editor, BASS Publications

Now that a potential new world record largemouth bass has been landed — and in Japan of all places! — what needs to happen to seal the deal and get the fish entered in the record books?

Story | Conversation | July 29, 2009

A Little History for Sale

Ken Duke, Senior Editor, BASS Publications

Thirty-two years ago, an Iowa couple fishing in Central Florida caught a two-person limit of 20 bass that weighed 148.23 pounds. At the time, Dick and Elaine Hengl claimed it as a record for a single day catch made exclusively on artificial lures.

Story | Conversation | July 28, 2009