Lewisville Bassmaster Open Patterns In

Posted on February 28, 2012 by admin

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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First Lake Fork Patterns, Plus More TX

Posted on February 27, 2012 by admin

We’ve had a couple of requests for Lake Fork patterns so we found some and they’re now in, over 40. Most are from the PAA’s spring team tourneys there and Media Bass events, plus some Sealy Outdoors big bass derbies.

After looking at the Fork data we’re not real sure why there’s a lot of interest – Fork’s slot makes weights in most 1-day tourneys low, and everyone knows for the big ones you have to crank deep…though that’s not necessarily the case in the 1-fish big bass derbies. Continue reading →

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B.A.S.S. Partners With BassGold

Posted on February 23, 2012 by admin

Just posted on the B.A.S.S. website today:

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Today B.A.S.S. announced a partnership with BassGold.com to bring BassGold’s unparalleled fishing pattern service to B.A.S.S. members.

BassGold.com is a subscription-based website which has taken 50 years of reported tournament winning pattern information and turned it into searchable data. Anglers can search more than 3,000 (and counting) winning and high-placing tournament patterns – including nearly all B.A.S.S. events from the 1960s up until now – by water body or water type, and see pattern information displayed in ways they’ve never seen it before. Continue reading →

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Details on Oldham’s Falcon Pattern

Posted on February 21, 2012 by admin

Jan. 14, 2012 wasn’t a magical day on Texas’ Lake Falcon. To hear Terry Oldham tell it, the conditions weren’t the greatest. Still, he and partner Jamie Buitron weighed 5 fish for 45.52 pounds to win the Bass Champs team tourney there.

A crazy huge weight, but was it unusual? Not for that tournament. Theirs was one of four bags over 40, and another almost 30 teams weighed more than 30. Do some simple division to get to per-fish weights and your head starts to spin.

Anyhow, while the Bass Champs website is excellent as far as regional trails go, it’s doesn’t have super-detailed pattern info. So BassGold’s Jay Kumar chased down Terry to get some more information about that awesome tournament day. Continue reading →

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Bass Champs 2012 In, Falcon Deets Coming

Posted on February 15, 2012 by admin

Texas’ Bass Champs team trail is one of the best regional trails in the country. It does a great job with tournaments and tournament reporting. Because it publishes tournament pattern summaries and is popular, we pay close attention to it here at BassGold.

As of today, all 2012 Bass Champs tournaments though Feb. 11 (Amistad) are uploaded, and the database also has all Bass Champs tournaments from 2006 through 2008: 2009-2011 will be in soon.

Note that Jay recently spent some time on the phone with Terry Oldham talking about Continue reading →

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Now BassGold: More, Bigger, Better!

Posted on February 10, 2012 by admin

Listen Up Central Pro-Am Fishermen!

Wow, that was some couple months!

At the end of 2011, FishingGold.com had just over 2,000 tournament patterns in the database, which includes almost every B.A.S.S. tourney from the first one in 1967. As of this month, there’s more than 3,000 – exactly 3,143 at the time of this post – and we’re now called BassGold.com (more about the name change in a future post).

Where the heck else can you easily browse 3,000+ patterns plus see the graphs, upload your own patterns and more cool stuff?! Nowhere!

Central Pro-Am

Many of the 1,000 new patterns – all checked and edited by hardcore bassers – cover 20 Continue reading →

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MANY More Patterns Coming

Posted on November 30, 2011 by admin

Just a brief update in case you think we’re sitting on our tails and not updating the database of winning/placing patterns. We are and have been in the midst of a HUGE data entry/cleaning effort, but are beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel.

Look for a massive 500 to 1,000 patterns uploaded no later than January, focusing on the MO-AR-OK region.

This is a ton of historical data and FishingGold is once again the only place you’ll be able to get it.

Once that giant slug of data is entered, we’ll be hard at inputting data from other regions of the country…so let us know what you want!

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57 More Patterns, All MO and OK

Posted on August 16, 2011 by admin

FishingGold.com now has 57 more patterns in the database, bringing the totals to more than 2,050 winning and placing patterns on 200 waters.

We’ve had quite a few requests for Missouri waters, so that’s what we’re focusing on for a bit (not exclusively). This time the uploaded patterns are all from Heartland Trails Elite and Team events, and cover the following waters: Continue reading →

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FishingGold! Now 2,010 Patterns on 200 Waters

Posted on August 8, 2011 by admin

After the latest upload of winning and placing patterns to the FishingGold! database, you can now search 2,010 patterns on 200 water bodies! Two…thousand…plus…patterns. That’s pretty dang outstanding, ain’t it! We know FishingGold! members agree.

The latest upload was almost entirely American Bass Anglers (ABA) American Fishing Tour finishes, more than 100 winning (mostly) patterns from a raft of 2011 and 2010 tourneys Continue reading →

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What Tourneys/Waters Do You Want in FishingGold?

Posted on July 29, 2011 by admin

We’re about to upload (hopefully next week) 100 ABA winning patterns, bringing the total searchable patterns in FishingGold! to more than 2,000. Two thousand! Wow!

Anyhow, many of the ABA patterns are for lakes/waters that are not fished by the national, pro-level trails. Waters like… Continue reading →

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