Facts of Fishing Blog
I Caught A Record Fish……..BURP!!!
November 16th, 2011Alright I don’t care where you fish or what you fish for every angler in the world wants to catch the biggest fish. Maybe your goal is to catch the biggest fish of your life or better yet the biggest fish out of your loyal group of fishing buddies or just imagine the biggest fish [...]
I Like Big Fish But This Is A Little Crazy
November 14th, 2011So you folks all know that I am a big fish freak. The bigger the fish the better. There is nothing I love more than a big nasty fish……but this video is a little over the top!!!
Dave Mercer Announces Winner of Hook, Line and Subway® Contest
October 19th, 2011Hamilton, Ontario – Dave Mercer announced the grand-prize winner of the 2011 Hook, Line & SUBWAY® contest earlier today. The recipient, David Baker, was presented with his prize this morning at the Subway located at 101 Queenston Road in Hamilton. Dave Mercer drove up to the SUBWAY® restaurant with the bass boat, a Skeeter FX20 [...]
Knot Another Loop
October 17th, 2011The other day, while talking to Aaron Martens (or actually while listening to Aaron Martens – dude has some thoughts about just about everything), he mentioned went into his extensive theories on knots. In particular, he uses a lot of braided line with fluorocarbon leaders and likes to join them together with a double uni [...]
No shrimp on the Barbie for you!
October 14th, 2011Reports out of Queensland, Australia have indicated that both commercial and recreational fishermen in the area had been afflicted with mysterious skin boils and lesions. According to one industry rep, somewhere between 20 and 30 percent of local commercial fishermen broke out in what can best be described (by me) as the worst type of [...]
Big Man in the Boat
October 13th, 2011Who knew? Three time All-Pro defensive tackle Vince Wilfork of the New England Patriots, owner of a Super Bowl ring, is an avid angler. At a recent charity event for a teammate’s foundation (www.mattlightfoundation.com – cool outdoor stuff, check ‘em out), the game of the day was sporting clays, but Wilfork spent most of his [...]
Toothy Critters
October 12th, 2011Should I be worried? I’m headed to Brazil in just about a month to chase and hopefully capture big peacock bass. If I want to get really greedy, I’ll let you in on the fact that I’m particularly excited about catching a few on topwater baits. All was going well – I’d gotten my yellow [...]
Are you tow-worthy?
October 4th, 2011Skeet Reese pulls his boat with a Ford F12billion, or something like that, the most jacked up truck this side of your local arena (“You’ll have to pay for the whole seat, but you’ll only need the edge of it!” the monster truck carnies screech.) Ish Monroe also has a truck that’ll scare the powerbait [...]
Let it snow?
October 3rd, 2011I’ve fished tournaments in the snow before, but the coldest I’ve ever been while in a boat was on a day when it WASN’T snowing. It was the first day of the 2008 Bassmaster Classic on South Carolina’s Lake Hartwell. When I think of SOUTH Carolina, it’s warm weather, good fishing and good food that [...]
Calamari Fiesta
September 28th, 2011According to the Los Alamitos Seal Beach Patch (that’s a hard newspaper name to digest), there’s some good news: Humboldt Squid (also hard to digest) have invaded the waters off Huntington Beach, California and are ripe for the picking. The paper tells us that one boat out of Long Beach Marina “encountered the 2-5 lb [...]
What a Hawg? Hog?
September 23rd, 2011If you have any aspirations of being a celebrated TV show host like Dave Mercer, you’ve got to get the vocabulary down pronto. Number one thing to learn – a big bass is a “hawg.” I have no idea if South Carolina angler Wes Covington has any designs on taking over Dave’s show, but he’s [...]
Split Personality
September 22nd, 2011Little Davey Wolak had a big payday at Lake Champlain this past week, earning $125,000 for his efforts. But in many ways it was a joint effort – not only did is the lake split between New York and Vermont (as well as Canada), but Dave’s 80+ pound catch was part smallmouths and part big [...]
Now YOU’RE the Bait!
September 15th, 2011Yes, you can quote the old Jaws script on this one – we ARE going to need a bigger boat. If you’re an adrenaline junkie, an adventure traveler of the first order or just a regular old nut with money to burn, you may be interested in traveling to Roatan, an island off the coast [...]
This one will register
September 13th, 2011Over the years, less-than-scrupulous angler wannabes have developed all sorts of ways to cheat in tournaments. Fortunately, many if not most of them have been caught. When they are caught, justice is often swift – rumor has it that the criminals would typically prefer to deal with law enforcement authorities than with an angry mob [...]
Kids Day At Ontario Place Is Back!!!
September 9th, 2011It’s Back!!! Facts of Fishing Kid’s Day is back at Ontario Place on Saturday, September 17th, 2011! This year is going to be the best year ever for this event! Not only will the first 400 kids receive a free gift bag full of great stuff from great sponsors such as Shimano, Subway, Toyota, Yamaha, [...]
What’s the minimum length?
September 9th, 2011Here’s a hot tip for multi-species action – if you’re bored with bass, weary from walleye or too pretty for perch, check out Lake Ida near Alexandria, Minnesota. While fishing there over the July 4th holiday weekend, Beth Krohn hooked into something that just didn’t feel right. Turned out it was a prosthetic leg. Might’ve [...]
LaCrosse Sticks Out
September 8th, 2011Of the eight tournaments on next year’s Bassmaster Elite Series schedule, the summer derby in La Crosse, Wisconsin is the one that most intrigues me. If early reports are true, and I have every reason to believe that they are, this has the potential to be one of the fishiest and closely-battled tournaments in BASS [...]
Swimming in Options
September 8th, 2011Last Tuesday’s blog entry, entitled “Mo’ Money” got more reader response than anything I’ve written for Facts of Fishing since I first started here in February. I’m guessing….no, strike that, I’m CERTAIN…that it was because of the accompanying pic, which featured a rather shapely female rear end. Of course, this led to predictable comments and [...]
B.A.S.S. Announces 2012 Bassmaster Elite Series Schedule
August 30th, 2011Please leave a comment and let me know what you guys think of the new Bassmaster Elite Series locations. Hey now that a few events are in the north are you going to make the trip and see my other job (me emceeing the Bassmasters) and as a bonus you also get to see some [...]
The Shark Cowboy!
August 26th, 2011OK, so YouTube has introduced us all to a whole bunch of folks around the world that partake in a whole bunch of crazy talents, pastimes, hobbies & stunts! Well, here is another one. Erik “The Shark Cowboy” Jacobs and, as his name clearly states, he is a SHARK COWBOY and a pretty famous one. [...]
Mo’ Money
August 23rd, 2011If you’re a top-flight tournament professional, you probably have a jersey festooned with sponsors’ logos. Thanks to a generous diet, some of the pros have more advertising real estate than others, if you know what I’m saying. But what do you do if you don’t have that much fabric to sell? That’s a problem that [...]
Holy Duck-A Pike Eats A Duck!
August 18th, 2011
More Cat Scratch Fever
August 17th, 2011British angler Chris Grimmer recently landed this freakshow albino catfish which reportedly weighed 194 pounds and was just about 8 feet long. What the heck kind of stinkbait do you need to reel in that kind of whiskery whiteness? He caught it near Barcelona, Spain. Too bad no one knew the potential that existed there [...]
What Would You Do for KVD’s Klondike Bar?
August 17th, 2011Last month Bassmaster reported that during the course of a competition day on Wheeler KVD lost a rod/reel combo overboard. When he left the spot, four spectators jumped in trying to retrieve a piece of angling memorabilia. I thought about this because lately there have been a lot of newsworthy scenes from baseball games played on the [...]
Wanting to go Fishing with Dave?
August 16th, 2011All right. As much as I wish I could take everyone fishing, I just can’t. That’s why I’m so excited about this contest. BOATsmart! Canada has actually set it up so I can take at least one of you fishing! And hey, keep in mind the nice thing about fishing with me is that no [...]
