Articles by Ned Kehde

Since Kevin VanDam began fishing the national tournament trails in 1990, he’s won 12 major events including 3 Bassmaster Classics, banked $3.36 million in prize money, and taken 5 Angler of the Year...View article

For decades, anglers fishing a variety of waterways across the nation have caught untold numbers of suspended blue catfish on trotlines and juglines. Since the 1990s, chummers and punchbait aficionados...View article

Larry Nixon of Bee Branch, Arkansas, ranks among the top tournament bass anglers of all time. In his storied career, the former guide...View article

Since 2004, Shinichi Fukae of Osaka, Japan, has spent many March and April days on Beaver Lake in Arkansas in pursuit of largemouth, smallmouth, spotted, and meanmouth bass, competing against hundreds...View article

When a wicked cold front wreaks havoc with the bass bite, savvy anglers find that fishing manmade brushpiles can thwart some of these climatic effects that make fish elusive. Knowing the location of...View article

Since 2004, Shinichi Fukae of Osaka, Japan, has spent many March and April days on Beaver Lake in Arkansas in pursuit of largemouth, smallmouth, spotted, and meanmouth bass, competing against hundreds...View article

By his early teenage years, Aaron Martens had become enthralled with the idea of participating in bass tournaments and becoming a professional bass angler, which his mother Carol encouraged as his tournament...View article

Tim Hughes’ custom-painted lures have the aura of fine china. An admiring observer noted that the details on Hughes’ work ranged from flamboyant to exquisite to microscopically subtle. Another called...View article

Since its construction over 70 years ago, Lake of the Ozarks, Missouri, has been an epicenter of bass fishing. For more than 50 years, it has been home to one of the premier fishing families of North...View article

Rick Clunn has been fishing for largemouth bass for four decades. Across the years this angler from Ava, Missouri, has developed such a refined metaphysical understanding of his quarry that some observers...View article

Across the continent, savvy anglers recognize the potential of plying the tepid waters that flow from power plants. In Minnesota, for example, anglers venture to the “Hot Pond” at Lake Pokegama...View article

The smallmouth bass population at Table Rock Lake, Missouri, has blossomed in the last decade. By 2006, anglers had caught and released 6-pounders, good numbers of 5-pounders, and scads of 3s and 4s....View article

Anglers who fish natural lakes or lowland impoundments usually lack the opportunity to fish riprap for crappies. Elsewhere, plentiful crappies await those who master specialized tactics for probing...View article

Shortly after the 2007 season ended for professional anglers of the Bassmaster Elite and FLW Tours, I sat with Rick Clunn, Brian Snowden, Edwin Evers, Tim Horton, and Tommy Martin at Table Rock Lake...View article

Years ago, no catfish angler worried about fishing in 114 feet of water. Probing depths of 100 feet or more was too difficult to even contemplate. But after Phil King of Corinth, Mississippi, and Stacey...View article