Why You Need To Invest In a Great Baitcasting Reel!

Casting reels are one of the most important parts of bass fishing. The price tags seems to get higher and higher but the quality of these reels is amazing!  Sure, there are cheaper reels out there but buying a great reel really is a wise investment. Check out Mike "IKE" Iaconelli at the Abu Garica booth as he tells you why you need to buy the best reels you can afford.

ICAST 2013 The New Rapala Scatter Countdown jerkbait with Mike Iaconell...

While at ICAST 2013 in the Rapala booth we find Mike "IKE"Iaconelli. Listen as he explains why the new Scatter Rap Countdown Rapala is an amazing bait for cool and cold water.

Free Lures from Molix

Molix USA will be have a lure giveaway. Monday they will be giving away a Randy Howell autographed crankbait. Join them on FaceBook to get a chance to win. 

2012 TOP BASS CLASSIC Day 1 Top Ten

Under high winds and relentless rain, the top 75 teams battled it out on Balsam lake. Here is the unofficial Top Ten. Full results will be available early Sunday. 

1) 18.82 Williams & Jacobs (BF 5.19 LBS)
2) 17.59 Culbert & Jacobs
3) 16.68 Pilkey & Martin
4) 15.64 Bullock & Carlyle
5) 15.50 Barton & Scott
6) 15.26 Colucci & Maglio
7) 14.43 Jojos & Tekada
8) 14.42 Dean. & Cocks
9) 14.18 Burns & MacDonald
10) 14.10 Figueira & Gonzales

In the Angler of the year race Mike Williams has leap frogged past Spiro Agouras by less than half a pound.

2012 TOP BASS CLASSIC Day 1: Mike Williams and Duane Jacobs Lead!

Mike Williams and Duane Jacobs take lead in the 2012 TOP BASS Classic with 18.82lbs.
Mike's big fish 5.19lbs

Horrific wind and rain pounded the anglers and TOP BASS staff. Official results will be delayed.

PHOTO: Lures and Tours

2012 Bass Elite Oneida Lake Day 1: Ike Take Lead with 20lbs.

By Deb Johnson

AUG 23, 2012

BASS PRESS RELEASE

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — If Michael Iaconelli didn’t believe in magic before the Ramada Championship began, he sure sounded as if he did when the day was done.

“Magic” was the word he used over and over as he described his day of building a 20-pound, 3-ounce weight Thursday to put him in the lead at the Bassmaster Elite Series season finale on Oneida Lake.

Ike Loves New York!
(Photo: Seigo Saito BASS)

“It was one of those magic days, when everything fell into place,” Iaconelli said on stage as he weighed the day’s largest bass, a 5-5 largemouth. 

Iaconelli of Pittsgrove, N.J., stacked up a decent lead.  He was 3 pounds, 7 ounces, ahead of Brent Chapman of Lake Quivira, Kan., in second place with 16-12. Iaconelli had 5 pounds on the pro in 12th place.

Chapman — the top contender for the 2012 Toyota Tundra Bassmaster Angler of the Year crown to be determined at Oneida — inched ahead of J Todd Tucker of Moultrie, Ga., with 16-6. Tied for fourth at 15-15 were Clark Reehm of Shreveport, La., and David Walker of Sevierville, Tenn. Randy Howell of Springville, Ala., was sixth with 15-12.

2012 BASS Northern Open Cayuga: Gluszek Swept Tournament

By Ken Duke

BASS Press release

AUG 18, 2012

Seneca Falls, N.Y. — New Jersey’s Pete Gluszek hasn’t fished a Bassmaster Classic since 1999, but he’ll be back in 2013 after winning the Bass Pro Shops Northern Open on New York’s Cayuga Lake. Gluszek went wire-to-wire at the event, posted the best catches in the field on each of the first two days and a finishing with a three day total of 56 pounds, 1 ounce. It was good enough to outdistance second-place finisher Stephen Browning of Arkansas by 4-12.

Victory!
(Photos: James Overstreet BASS)

Gluszek fished two patterns to catch his bass — starting deep and finishing shallow, contrary to conventional bass fishing wisdom.

“Early in the morning I was flipping and pitching milfoil in 10 to 16 feet of water,” Gluszek said. “I was using a black 5-inch Yamamoto Senko behind a 1/2-ounce Round Valley tungsten sinker. Later in the day, as the sun came up, lots of bass were moving shallower and I caught them by skipping a weightless black Senko underneath boat docks.”

Gluszek focused his attentions on a 15-mile stretch of water in the central part of Cayuga Lake. He made the switch from his deep pattern to his shallow water pattern at about 11:00 each morning.

For the win, Gluszek earned $4,800 in cash and a Triton/Mercury boat and motor package worth more than $45,000, but the automatic berth in the 2013 Bassmaster Classic on Oklahoma’s Grand Lake has him excited, too. He last fished the championship in 1999 when he finished 31st on the Louisiana Delta.

2012 Northern Open Cayuga Day 2: Gluszek Grabs Day 2 Lead

By Ken Duke

Bass Press Release

AUG 17, 2012

Seneca Falls, N.Y. — Conditions on New York’s Cayuga Lake were different today — overcast and cooler than yesterday — but not different enough to shake the first round leader in the Bass Pro Shops Northern Open. For the second straight day, New Jersey’s Pete Gluszek, a two-time Bassmaster Classic qualifier, brought in the heaviest catch of the round. His Day 2 limit weighing 20 pounds, 14 ounces gives him a 4-7 lead over Brian Bylotas (35-11) of Pennsylvania. Arkansas Elite Series pro Stephen Browning is third with 35-7.

Pete game plan is working overtime.
(Photos: James Overstreet BASS)

“Everything changed today for me,” Gluszek said. “I had to change up the depths I was fishing and used completely different methods today. The areas that were red hot yesterday were cold today.”