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A huge thanks to BASS photographer Siego Saito for the picture of this year’s winner. Jason Christie made a tough confession. And the Dry Creek, Okla., professional angler decided to unleash it all in front of the crowd at Elizabeth City’s Waterside Park. “In the last three times my wife didn’t show
Bassmaster Elite Series
As the field fought for a spot in the top 50 that advanced into today’s fishing in the Bassmaster Elite Series out of Elizabeth City, they battled ungodly heat and fish reluctant to venture away from shady cover. In Friday’s session, they also saw wind-driven waters that had dropped slightly overnig
Bassmaster Elite Series
As the field fought for a spot in the top 50 that advances to Saturday’s fishing, they also battled ungodly heat and fish reluctant to venture away from shady cover. Heading into today’s second day of the Bassmaster Elite Series stop in Elizabeth City to fish the Pasquotank River and surrounding wat
Bassmaster Elite Series
Things are going to be a little different this weekend when the top bass fishing anglers in the world converge on Elizabeth City for the seventh stop in the Bassmaster Elite Series. It’s the series second stop in northeastern North Carolina in two years. This time around, it will be later in the yea
Bassmaster Elite Series
Kyle Welcher used to sit on a hard chair at professional card tables, sweating is out has he played Texas hold-em’ for broke. But he made a shift to a different sport six years ago that basically is gambling in a wet world full of largemouth bass. Good for him, because he doesn’t see it like much of
Bassmaster Elite Series
(BASS courtesy photo of Bassmaster Elite Series weigh-in featuring leader Kyle Welcher (M) and tournament director (L) Lisa Talmadge and announcer (R) Dave Mercer) Say hello to Causeway Kyle. He’s arguably the best bass fisherman to ever work the waters around Elizabeth City. At least he has been th
Bassmaster Elite Series
BASS courtesy photo of angler Kyle Welcher surrounded by tournament director Lisa Talmadge (L) and weigh-in announcer Dave Mercer (R) Kyle Welcher is shooting for one thing. Everyone else is looking at something else. After two days of fishing in the Bassmaster Elite Series stop on the Pasquotank Ri
Bassmaster Elite Series
They came to the microphone singing the praises of the people they’d met in northeastern North Carolina. They proceeded to talk about an amazing fishery that had taken its toll on most of the field in the Bassmaster Elite Series stop on the Pasquotank River in Elizabeth City. Most of the 99 anglers
Bassmaster Elite Series
A bright spring sun had already broken free of the horizon east of Elizabeth City- cypress tree silhouettes framing the brightness. Winds pushed in a sharp chill off the calm brackish, tannin-stained water. Steam rose from dozens of coffee cups as a crowd formed at Waterfront Park – there to watch m
Bassmaster Elite Series
Big trucks pulling trailers loaded with some of the fanciest bass boats you’ll ever see – the crafts ladened with enough electronics to sink most vessels. The decks are loaded with what seems to be dozens or rod and reels – plastic worms, jugs, spinnerbaits, topwater plugs and floating frogs cover t