Skeet’s Beat – Wilderness

We just got back from a week of camping at a lake a couple hours from our house. The lake is called Union Valley Reservoir, and it is up at almost 5000 feet elevation and lake, the area and the scenery was...

Being Heroes and Spreading Joy

8/22/2011 - Story by Dan O'Sullivan - photos by Dan O'Sullivan, B.A.S.S. / Seigo Saito and B.A.S.S. Forgive me for a moment while I depart from the usual content style of Advanced Angler to write from my...

Deep Cranking with the Crews Missile

8/21/2011 - Story and Photos by Dan O'Sullivan Crankbaits are fish catchers. More importantly, crankbaits are fish locators. There may be no better tool for quickly locating biting bass than a lipped diving...

James Niggemeyer – August

It’s the middle of August and it seems like the last month has just flown by. I went to ICAST – lots of exciting things at the show! Worked with Strike King and Ardent Reels; Ardent introduced...

Dave Lefebre – Dead Fish Disagreement

For what it’s worth… I really think the dead fish penalty should go away, and not just because it has cost me personally thousands of dollars and an AOY title. I absolutely commend Ray Scott for...

Every Rico Has a Story – Brewer Splashdown

8/18/2011 - Story and Photos Courtesy of Jody Only It is true every Rico has a story and I, myself have seen the “Every Rico has a Story” contest before; but always had the image of needing to tell the...

John Murray – Farm, Fair, Family and Smallies

After ICAST and the U.S. Open I basically just spent as much time as I could hanging out in Illinois with Amy and T.J. and Amy’s family. While we were there, we went to see TJ’s cousins and had...

Skeet’s Beat – FLW Cup and Late Night Eggs

I just got back from the Forrest Wood Cup at Lake Ouachita in Arkansas. I went there for a day to work for Stratos in their booth at the FLW Outdoors Expo for a day. I flew into Little Rock on Friday and met...

Choosing Reel Speeds the KVD Way

8/15/2011 - Story and Photos by Alan McGuckin - Dynamic “Slow it down. Don’t reel so fast. You’ll get a lot more bites. This water is really stained,” emphasized VanDam to a weekend warrior along for...

FLW Cup In-Depth – Champion Scott Martin

8/15/2011 - Story by Dan O'Sullivan - photos by Tom Leogrande / Advanced Angler The 2011 Forrest Wood Cup is in the books, and as most of you know by now, Scott Martin from Clewiston, Fla. claimed victory in...

Jay Yelas – Cup Practice Finished

I have spent the last 3 days practicing for the Forrest Wood Cup on Lake Ouachita in Hot Springs, AR. There is a heavy emphasis on the "hot" in Hot Springs. Daytime highs of 104 with a heat index over 110....

Beyond the Pond – Miyu Fukae

8/9/2011 - Story by Jody Only - photos courtesy of Shin and Miyu Fukae “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” ~ French Writer and Nobel Prize winner Andre...