Category Archives: States

40 Patterns Uploaded, Mostly TN’s Douglas

In prep for Bassmaster Elite Series pros hitting eastern Tennessee’s Douglas Lake next week, we recently seined the web for Douglas patterns. We found a bunch of fishing reports of questionable quality, a few of which we uploaded, and about … Continue reading

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Rook Went Old-School at the Big O

Scott Rook finished 7th at the Elite Series event on Okeechobee, and one reason for that was he went old-school. He was fishing a flat – the details of which are in BassGold – along with a lot of other … Continue reading

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Why Carolina-Rig the St. Johns? Current

In the course of gathering patterns for places 1-10 for the first two Elite Series events, on the St. Johns River and Okeechobee, we talked to pro Terry Scroggins. One question we asked was a general one: Why do Carolina … Continue reading

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34 More Patterns Uploaded: Elites, FLW

We just uploaded another 34 patterns to the BassGold database: the patterns from the Top 10 finishers at the St. Johns River and Okeechobee Elite Series events, and about 20 FLW patterns (FLW Tour, EverStart, TBF) covering Table Rock and … Continue reading

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Ish’s Ikeechobee Weight Not Off the Charts

[Not sure if this was published on Bassmaster.com or not, so we're running it here.] by Jay Kumar When Mark Zona was at the Okeechobee Elite Series event, he asked me what I felt the winning weight would be based … Continue reading

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Classic Analysis: Red River Pools

In compiling the 1st- to 11th-place patterns from this year’s Bassmaster Classic on the Red River, we made sure to ask which pool(s) the guys fished in. Why? To inform the database, and thus to better-inform BassGold members. In the … Continue reading

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90+ Florida Patterns In, Mostly Big O

With the Bassmaster Elite Series swinging through Florida over the next couple of weeks, we made sure to enter the relevant St. Johns River and Okeechobee patterns we didn’t already have in the database. Today’s batch is 90+ patterns – … Continue reading

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Classic Patterns for 1st-11th Uploaded

It’s now common for the major bass fishing news sites to have pattern details for tour-level events for the 1st- through 5th-place finishers. But for at least the Bassmaster Elite Series, BassGold (and Bassmaster.com) will have pattern details for 1st … Continue reading

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More Florida Patterns Uploaded

The next even on the Bassmaster Elite Series schedule is on Florida’s St. Johns River. BassGold already has all the big B.A.S.S. St. Johns tourney patterns in the database, but we went looking around and found some more patterns from … Continue reading

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Lewisville Bassmaster Open Patterns In

The Top 3 patterns from the recent Lewisville (TX) Bassmaster Open – the icy one! – are now in the BassGold database. This was the tournament won by Brent Chapman in a fish-off.

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