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2009: The Year in Review
Ken Duke, Senior Editor, BASS PublicationsFour stories dominated the news in the world of bass fishing this year. One is still pending, two involved the usual suspects and the last looms over the industry like a dark cloud...
Story | Conversation | December 18, 2009Classic déjà vu
Ken Duke, BASS member since 1976I've been doing a little number crunching and analysis of Bassmaster Classics past in an effort to learn whatever that might teach me. I wanted to know what previous Classic-water experience might be worth .
Story | Conversation | December 16, 2009
Let's go bowling
Ken Duke, BASS member since 1976What if BASS had a series of heads-up tournaments involving the top names in the sport? We could set them up just like bowl games and listen in as the pundits and talk radio callers take us to task for our selections!
Story | Conversation | December 09, 2009
Greatest Angler Debate redux, part 1
Ken Duke, BASS member since 1976A couple of years ago, ESPN conducted what was called "The Greatest Angler Debate." Some folks at BASS nominated 35 bass pros from the earliest days of professional fishing right up to the end of 2004.
Story | Conversation | November 25, 2009
The great beat down
Ken Duke, BASS member since 1976One of the great things about working for BASS is that we have so much of the history of our great sport — not all of it, mind you, but a lot.
Story | Conversation | November 18, 2009
More than a fish
Ken Duke, BASS member since 1976Do you know the story of Leroy Brown? No, not the Leroy Brown in the Jim Croce song from the early 1970s. I'm talking about Tom Mann's Leroy Brown — the fish.
Story | Conversation | November 04, 2009
BASSography
Ken Duke, Senior Editor, BASS PublicationsThe Hula Popper, Jitterbug and Hawaiian Wiggler are just a few of the classic bass lures that Fred Arbogast designed, built and sold.
Story | Conversation | November 03, 2009Where have you gone, Harold Hays?
Ken Duke, BASS member since 1976Did you know that 26 men won the very first BASS tournament they ever fished? Talk about starting off on the right foot! That's as good as it gets.
Story | Conversation | October 21, 2009
Outliers
Ken Duke, BASS member since 1976A couple of months ago I read Malcolm Gladwell's book Outliers. At the risk of oversimplifying it, it's about the unusual or unexpected factors in life that set up one person for success and another for failure.
Story | Conversation | October 14, 2009
Notes from backstage
Ken Duke, BASS member since 1976I hope that everyone reading this took a look at the postseason coverage on BASS Insider and Bassmaster.com. A lot of work from a lot of people went into it, and I thought it was pretty successful.
Story | Conversation | October 07, 2009
The best without a major title
Ken Duke, BASS member since 1976I want to find the best angler who has never won a major championship — either a Bassmaster Classic or a Toyota Tundra Bassmaster Angler of the Year award.
Story | Conversation | September 23, 2009
Teach your jig to swim, part 2
Ken Duke, Senior Editor, BASS PublicationsIf 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, 2009Sure thing transition bass
Ken Duke, Senior Editor, BASS PublicationsThere are few sure things in life, much less in bass fishing. One day you catch them shallow; the next day they're deep. September is particularly vexing. The bass are in transition, just like the weather.
Story | Conversation | September 21, 2009Slow down for transition bass
Ken Duke, Senior Editor, BASS PublicationsIt's the best of times; it's the worst of times. The fishing's easy; the fishing's hard. Bass are everywhere; bass are nowhere to be found.
Story | Conversation | September 18, 2009The best without a major title
Ken Duke, BASS member since 1976I want to find the best angler who has never won a major championship — either a Bassmaster Classic or a Toyota Tundra Bassmaster Angler of the Year award.
Story | Conversation | September 17, 2009
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