Written by Andy Whitcomb “Bawn-bawn, Beenaba Bawn-bawn, Beenaba, Bawn, bawn, bawwwn.”

Written by Andy Whitcomb Well, it is just about time for a big road trip to what has been called the Super Bowl of bass fishing tournaments, the BassMaster Classic.  I’ll be in an old truck.  It worked for Scott Brown. Okay, my truck does not have 200,000 miles on it but it does have that [...]

Written by Andy Whitcomb “We don’t need no stinking waders.” I admire my friend John’s bravado. And perhaps we could have gotten away with it last September when we first started to plan this fishing trip near downtown Tulsa. But high water conditions led to rescheduling until late January was upon us and we knew [...]

Written by Andy Whitcomb “What, is he stupid?  Didn’t he read the reports?” My wife’s cousin, Jeremy, was not very sympathetic when he learned I was steelhead fishing in Elk Creek, a tributary of Lake Erie near Girard, Pennsylvania. I knew the risks.  The reports coming back from www.fisherie.com were not good.  24-hours earlier, the [...]

Written by Andy Whitcomb I prefer to have a little elbowroom when I am fishing. That shoulder-to-shoulder stuff gets old in a hurry. But sometimes, especially when traveling to unfamiliar waters, you have to take what you can get. There was a brief window of fishing opportunity recently in Kansas. A meager couple of diversionary [...]

Written by Andy Whitcomb Recently, I returned from a little vacation at Hilton Head, South Carolina. Shared a time-share condo with the in-laws. Yeah, I know. Anyway, it had been 3 years since this unsalted dog had dropped a line in saltwater. I remembered the guy at the marina telling me that I’d only catch [...]