http://www.bigbasscountry.com Everything you need to know before your fishing trip to Lake Fork. Tue, 27 May 2008 19:00:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en My friend Kevin Webster posted an article today about the money fishermen spend annually. The article applies to NY state, but there are some national stats in there I found. I had not idea these figures were this high. See the article. Freshwater anglers annually take about 21 million fishing trips ... http://www.bigbasscountry.com/2008/04/07/fishermen-spend-lots-of-money/ The dates for the event this year are April 18-20. Trace Adkins will be performing, fresh off of his runner-up effort on Donald Trump's Celebrity Apprentice. Last year the Toyota Texas Big Bass Classic was nice. There was lots of food and things to buy and plenty of booths to visit. ... http://www.bigbasscountry.com/2008/04/01/toyota-big-bass-splash-on-lake-fork-april-18-20-2008/ Here's a little change of pace. I am visiting friends in Florida and we went out and got on some nice Spanish Mackerel. We had a great time, caught some fish and made it through some pretty rough water. These Mackerel are real fighters. Thanks to my good friend Alan Hamilton ... http://www.bigbasscountry.com/2008/03/13/catching-spanish-mackerel-in-punta-gorda-florida/ It was too nice to stay home today, so I grabbed Judi and we headed for the lake. Inspired by the comments to this post, I had to go fishing. We got out around 3 and headed to Birch Creek. There were a good many boats out today. We got one ... http://www.bigbasscountry.com/2008/02/11/quick-trip-to-fork-sunday-210/ To bigbasscountry.com In your youtube videos i see you throwing hard lures a lot. I am coming down to lake fork for the second year in a row now. Last time we were there we didn't have much luck throwing soft plastic and spinner baits. We are coming again this year ... http://www.bigbasscountry.com/2008/02/01/lake-fork/ I found a site that shows the different models of GPS units for boats and shows different places to get them and shows the different prices that merchants have. It is Boatronic.com. The site covers the major brands of GPS graph units and even handheld GPS units. It lays out all ... http://www.bigbasscountry.com/2007/11/17/site-for-boat-electronics-price-comparisons/ Well the last tourny of the year has passed for me. This one was quite the ride, literally. The first day we headed out to our first spot bouncing from wave to wave. That was a treat. I never heard my motor come out of the water before. Once we got ... http://www.bigbasscountry.com/2007/10/17/berkley-tournament/ I went to visit my friend Jim Dax and we fished his private pond. Jim has 90 acres just outside of Winnsboro, Texas with a 5 acre pond on it. He has it stocked with Florida Bass. They aren't huge, but they are plentiful. We caught dozens of fish in ... http://www.bigbasscountry.com/2007/10/16/bass-fishing-on-a-private-pond/ Okay, so I've started looking for deeper spots on the lake to fish but several fishing reports suggest using jigging spoons, tail spinners, and assorted swim baits. The closest things I have used in the past were slabs for striper fishing, Little George baits for sand bass, and swim baits ... http://www.bigbasscountry.com/2007/09/04/jigging-spoons-tail-spinners-swim-baits/ The McDonald's Big Bass Splash is September 14,15 & 16 on Lake Fork this year. As usual, it is based out of Lake Fork Marina. This is a fun tournament because of the hourly weigh-ins. It adds a different element of strategy other than just fishing hard for the tournament times ... http://www.bigbasscountry.com/2007/08/26/the-mcdonalds-big-bass-splash-is-just-around-the-corner/