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The 1975 Bassmaster Classic was a family affair. Bill and Gregory Ward became the first father and son and Don and Tom Mann became the first brothers to compete against each other in the same Classic.
Denny Brauer, Cliff Craft, Tim Horton and Ish Monroe are the only anglers to have finished last in more than one Bassmaster Classic. Brauer is the only one in that group that has also won a Classic.
On Aug. 8, 1998 Denny Brauer won the Bassmaster Classic on North Carolina's High Rock Lake.
The first solunar tables were published in 1936 by John Alden Knight.
In March 11, 1971, Bryan Kerchal (the only amateur to win the Bassmaster Classic) was born ΓÇö exactly four years to the day after Ray Scott comes up with the idea for the modern bass tournament.
Actor Gary Burghoff played "Radar" O'Reilly on M*A*S*H. His son, Miles, is an aspiring bass pro and goes by the nickname "Sonar."
In 1909, Ole Evinrude introduced a 1.5-horsepower "coffee grinder," which became the first commercially successful outboard motor in history.
Harry & Charlie debuted in the July/August 1971 issue of Bassmaster Magazine with "Harry & Charlie Go Nite Fishin'."
The smallmouth bass is the official fish of just one state: Tennessee.
Lee Sisson, who designed many of the classic Bagley Bait Company crankbaits of the 1970s and '80s, played college football with Terry Bradshaw and Phil Robertson ("Duck Dynasty").
Swimbaits are not new. John Kreisser was awarded a patent for the first one 107 years ago today.
In 1962 Rapala lures got a marketing boost when Life magazine ran an article on Lauri Rapala. It was the all-time best-selling issue of the magazine ... it also covered the death of Marilyn Monroe.
The spinning reel was invented in France.
On April 9, 1993, Japan's Norio Tanabe became the first international angler to win a B.A.S.S. event ΓÇö the Kentucky Invitational on Kentucky Lake.
The first bass boat was designed and built by Holmes Thurmond, founder of Skeeter Boats, in 1948.
California produced 19 of the lunkers on the Bassmaster Top 25 largemouth bass list.
The black basses (like the largemouth, smallmouth and spotted bass) are not true "bass" at all but the largest members of the sunfish family.
Before they became Zebco and started making fishing reels, the Zero Hour Bomb Company made timing devices and detonators for well drilling.
The technique known as "pitching" was invented by James A. Henshall in the 19th century.
Tommy Biffle holds the record of most second-place finishes with three. Unfortunately, he is still chasing his first Forrest Wood Cup victory.
Michael Bennett and David Fritts are the only two anglers to have an FLW Tour event win and a Forrest Wood Cup victory in the same season. Bennett did it in 2008 by winning the seasonΓÇÖs second tour stop at Lewis Smith Lake. Fritts won two events the same season he won the championship. He won at Lake Eufaula and Kentucky Lake in 1997.
In 2001, the Forrest Wood Cup was scheduled to be held at Lake Champlain in New York, Sept. 12-15. Out of respect to the victims of 9/11, the tournament was canceled. The $450,000 purse was divided among the 100 contestants.
No angler has yet to win two Forrest Wood Cups or follow up an angler of the year title with a Forrest Wood Cup victory. David Dudley came closest when he finished second in AOY points and won the Forrest Wood Cup in 2003.
The smallmouth bass is the official fish of just one state: Tennessee.
Before founding B.A.S.S. in 1968, Ray Scott was an Alabama insurance agent.
In order to rally his sales teams, Carl Kiekhaefer (1906-1983), former owner of Mercury Marine, would light bonfires under the competition's motors.
Largemouth bass were first imported from the U.S. to Japan in the 1920s.
In 1957, Lowrance introduced the Fish-Lo-K-Tor (also known as the "little green box") -- the first transistorized, portable sonar for the recreational market. It retailed for $150.
The name Bass Anglers Sportsman Society was conceived in 1967 by Bob Steber, outdoor editor of the Nashville Tennessean.
Early Bomber lures were carved from discarded cedar power poles in the 1940s.
The first swimbait was the K&K Animated Minnow, designed by John D. Kreisser of Cincinnati, Ohio. He applied for a patent on the lure in 1906.
Bass can feed without seeing their prey through a sophisticated internal sonar system located in their lateral line.
"Multiplier" baitcasting reels (with gear ratios greater than 1:1) have been around nearly 200 years.
In July 1986, B.A.S.S. founder Ray Scott sold the company to a group of investors. He stayed on as president for 13 more years.
On May 18, 1933, FDR created the Tennessee Valley Authority, igniting America's dam-building era and ushering in more bass waters than just about anything else before or since.
The first spinnerbait was the Shannon Twin Spinner, introduced by the William J. Jamison Company in 1915.
The first outboard motor was made by Ole Evenrudstuen (better known as Evinrude) in 1907.
Bass are one of the most sought after of all game fish. Its appeal spans cultures, age groups and genders.
I will try to offer informative information about bass fishing on your favorite bass lake in the state of Wisconsin.
Bass are aggressive feeders and agile enough to chase down and catch their favorite foods. When aggressive they will strike at anything that enters their domain. If it moves and they can get it into their mouth, Bass will attempt to eat it.
Bass fishing encompasses all of the fishing associated with the North American gamefish called the black bass, and are part of the sunfish family. The most common black bass species caught are largemouth, smallmouth, and spotted. Bass fishing is a multi-billion dollar industry, and has been one of the fastest growing and changing sports in the last century.
Bass fishing is the most common game fishing, and the top freshwater sport United States. Black bass are found in almost any source of freshwater, including lakes, reservoirs, rivers, ponds, creeks, and streams.
Largemouth and Smallmouth bass are the two types of fish that are most common in the bass-fishing world. The distinction between the two is that the back of the mouth of the former extends past the eye, whereas the latter only goes to the middle of the eye. Largemouth are typically a bigger fish, and tend to make shorter but stronger escape runs when hooked, while Smallmouth are considered to be the hardest fighting and most aggressive black bass. Black bass are able to smell as well as see their prey, and it is important to take this into account when fishing.
