Catching Up with John Hale
Catching Up with John Hale looks into Hale’s long-standing relationship with Lonnie Stanley and his career fishing the Bassmaster Trail.
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Author: Pete Robbins
How Stanley Jigs Was Born
How Stanley Jigs Was Born is a look back at Lonnie Stanley and the birth of Stanley Jigs. This article was originally published in 2015.
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Smallmouth Magazine
By the 1980s, some smallmouth aficionados decided that their needs weren’t being fully met and out of that need came Smallmouth, Inc.
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Texas Trophies, Then and Now
In early 2021, Lake OH Ivie near San Angelo went on a trophy tear reminiscent of that experienced at some of the SoCal lakes in the late 80s and early 90s.
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B.A.S.S.’s First Woman Angler
Her first day partner, Homer Humphreys, told the Orlando Sentinel that ”[s]he was a fantastic partner. She was the most aggressive lady I’ve ever fished with – more aggressive than most men are – when it came to keeping her lure in the water
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From Marilyn Monroe to Ott Defoe
Lauri Rapala, inventor of the Original Floater, began making his lures in the 1930s, and as they evolved the Finnish lures became popular throughout Europe, particularly after the Summer Olympics were held in Helsinki in 1952.
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Failed Electronics, Again
This unit could be connected to any brand of depthfinder and would then “announce the depth at regular intervals.”
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Ads from the Past – Heavy Cover Specialist
The Japanese reel manufacturer, Shimano, introduced the Bantam Brush Buster baitcasting reel, which noted on its hood that it was “Designed Exclusively for Flipping.”
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Breaking Though – OT Fears
Into this fray came Oklahoman OT Fears III, who’d left a Federal job two years earlier to pursue a career in bass fishing. He’d fished nearly three dozen B.A.S.S. events by the time of the 1987 All-American, including two Classics
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Board Game or Bored Game
One early attempt to capitalize on this possibility was a board game called “Lunker,” introduced in 1977 and endorsed by Rick Clunn, who’d won the Bassmaster Classic in both 1976 and 1977.
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