2025 - Bass Fishing Archives

Year: 2025

Merry Christmas!

Posted by David Smith | Dec 25, 2025 | Uncategorized |

In light of Christmas, the staff here at Bass Fishing Archives are taking the day off to be with...

Bringing you Christmas Gear

Posted by Bill Sonnett | Dec 24, 2025 | Uncategorized |

This Horton MFG Co. advertisement from May 1917 really shows the Christmas spirit in the eyes of an angler.

Dave Hawk 80 Years on Bass

Posted by Terry Battisti | Dec 23, 2025 | Book Reviews, Tackle History |

My first answer came in Bill Dance’s book, “There He Is,” published in 1973 by B.A.S.S. In that book Dance said it was Hawk who had invented the Texas Rig, then known as the “Slip Sinker” rig.

The Bass Fisherman’s Bible

Posted by Mike Orzell | Dec 22, 2025 | Book Reviews |

Erwin A. Bauer’s book, The Bass Fisherman’s Bible became a hit amongst budding bass anglers in the 1960s because of its breadth

The First In-Fisherman Magazine

Posted by Brian Waldman | Dec 19, 2025 | Short Strikes, The Writers |

I recently added the first published copy of the In-Fisherman magazine to my ever-growing library, and thought I’d take a moment to share it with those readers who perhaps have not seen it.

Bill Plummer SuperFrog Seminar

Posted by Brian Waldman | Dec 18, 2025 | Retro Ads, Throwback Thursday |

Bill Plummer SuperFrog Seminar ad was placed in the Boston Globe in 1961 and titled Catch Bass Anytime! Plummer made the famous SuperFrog.

The Shannon – Another Look

Posted by Terry Battisti | Dec 17, 2025 | Short Strikes, Tackle History |

In the email that Sonnett sent was an attachment of an early W. J. Jameson Co. ad for the Shannon Twin Spinner (1919) and a promotional write up for the Twin Spinner that appeared in the April 1917 issue of the National Sportsman.

Catching Fish with Ron and Al

Posted by Terry Battisti | Dec 16, 2025 | Technique History, The Writers |

Next to that is a piece titled, “Bass in Your Own Backyard, 6 and 7 pounders in your local lakes? It’s no pipedream – and the Lindners are proving it!”