Pro Tips

High-Stakes Fishing Tips from Nutt and Kung show how preparation, scoring awareness, and local conditions shaped 2026 wins.

USA Fly Fishing gold at the 2026 world championship shows how depth, venue skill, scoring control, and team data shaped the win.

Fishing tournament tips for heat, timing, fish care, data use, and shifting species patterns in modern competitive angling.

Bass fishing after heavy rain should start with one question before lure color, blade size or retrieve speed enters the conversation: Is the water still getting worse, or has it started recovering? That distinction can separate water that looks muddy but is becoming fishable from fresh runoff that is still changing by the hour. A…

Fall fishing techniques change as water cools, oxygen spreads and forage shifts, affecting bass, trout and local tournament choices.

You can waste half a day on a new lake without ever making a truly bad cast. The problem is usually that the casts were made in the wrong part of the lake. To find bass in a lake you have never fished, start by locating three things before obsessing over lure color: food, a…

Bass fishing bite windows can turn a lifeless point into the best spot on the lake without the bass moving very far at all. Colby Bryant’s Day 2 surge at Norfork Lake is a sharp reminder that anglers sometimes abandon good water because they mistake inactivity for absence. That distinction becomes especially important during the…

The best fall bass lures are not automatically the baits stacked in the “fall” section of your tackle box. September can deliver cool mornings while the lake underneath still behaves like summer, leaving bass scattered from inches of water to deep structure and forcing anglers to change presentations throughout the day. Norfork Lake is demonstrating…

A tough bass fishing strategy sometimes begins with doing something that feels completely wrong: leaving water where you already caught big fish. Luke Kerstetter did exactly that at Watts Bar Lake, and his decision to explore places he had never fished became one of the most useful lessons from a difficult September tournament. Experienced anglers…