Had a great day on Shasta today, weighed 9-8 lbs and sit in 20th place. These spotted bass are so fun to catch, just my style 30-60 feet deep on dropshots! My co-angler, Tobey finished in 4th, so we had a fun day. Goin back out tomorrow and hoping for a big bite to move [...]

Well, it’s been a long 11 days as Amy left for a ragnar race in Florida, and her sister Lynn’s babyshower in Illinois, but TJ and I made out alive! Amy’s back, and now I’m getting ready for the ISE show in Sacramento ( for River2Sea), and the FLW tournament at Shasta. Should be a [...]

Happy New Year!!! I’m really looking forward to 2012, and a better schedule for the BASS Elites. Since it’s winter, I’d like to turn you on to a couple great little drop shot baits. I’ve been using two little Wave plastics, the 3.5 tiki monkey and tiki dropper. The monkey is a great crawdad imitator, [...]

Fished a midweek tournament yesterday at Lake Pleasant, with my old team partner, Larry Mantle. We started out shallow with cranks and Alabama rigs, catching two good ones and losing another. We then moved out to my favorite deep spots trying to fill out a limit. We only caught two more in 5 hours, and [...]

Hope everyone had a great Christmas!! For a great recap and pictures of our Brazil trip, check out the Dec 27 article on Advanced Angler.com

Made it back from 10 days in Brazil, peacock fishing! The first thing I’d say is, it’s a very safe and exciting trip. I was worried about travel, bugs and diseases, and I never got 1 mosquito bite deep in the Amazon. Fishing wise, they said it was slow because of high water, but I [...]

I’m packing right now for a dream trip of a lifetime to the Amazon and huge peacock bass! I cut it close, my visa just showed up, two days before we leave, but it made it. Skeet Reese masterminded this trip with Roy Halliday of the Phillies. I know world champ Chris Carpenter, of the [...]

Spent the last 3 days working the FLW college regional as a camera boat. Had a great time watching these young guys attack Saguaro lake. It was tough on most of them, but a few figured it out. What a tremendous opportunity, that the National Guard sponsors! What a great group of guys, their enthusiasm [...]