Ott Defoe is a check-cashing machine. He’s a former Rookie of the Year on the BASS Elite Series. He’s a two-time winner on the minors-level. But up until this weekend, he’d never held a big trophy. That changed up in LaCrosse, Wis., as Defoe held on to his lead – thanks to some help from
Randall Tharp
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Lucas Docks Out the Potomac
Normally, when someone says they’re on a dock pattern, they’re hitting dozens if not hundreds of docks in a day. Justin Lucas just needed one to win the BASS Elite Series event on the Potomac River. It was a long parking dock adjacent to a water treatment plant on the upper end of the river.
Tharp Triumphs at Bull Shoals, Norfork
Four days. Two lakes. One champion. The Bassmaster Elite at Bull Shoals/Norfork event took pros on two lakes across four days, which certainly complicated how most anglers prepared. Randall Tharp did the opposite; simplifying things by looking for one pattern that would work on both lakes. Heck, he really only used one lure – a
Hartwell’s (possible) heroes
We’re only three days from the 45th Bassmaster Classic. So how’s your fantasy team looking? This year might be one of the toughest for fantasy fisherman. There is little history on Lake Hartwell for most of the field, since the only other BASS event there was the 2008 Classic won by Alton Jones. And Jones
Catching up before the final push
After five straight months of Major events, July finally allowed the top pros to take a breather. We took a breath, too … well, at least from the articles. Rest assured, we added every tournament result we could into our database in the last month (so keep checking your rankings Minor, Regional, Women and College