Gerald Swindle is certainly one of the top presenters at the Bass University. He's a successful tournament angler with a couple of Bassmaster angler of the year titles. Gerald also knows what it's like to have the wheels come off, get completely sidetracked and railroad an entire tournament. In this

John Cox loves sight fishing! In fact, he says it's his favorite part of bass fishing. In this bass fishing class seminar video, John Cox talks about the entire season for sight fishing, which is more than just when fish are locked on beds. Cox talks about the 3 stages

John Soukup from The Bass Tank won the very first NPFL tournament on Lake Eufaula last week. In this winner's circle interview, John shares why he targeted certain areas, what cover he was marking in practice, the baits he used to catch his tournament-winning fish and how he used forward-facing

Bobby Lane famously finished second in the tournament that brought national attention to the original Chatterbait. Bryan Thrift weighed in a couple of toads on the final day to inch out a win and make the Chatterbait a household name. Bobby Lane hated the bladed jig before that tournament, but

Professional tournament bass angler Kevin VanDam (KVD), takes The Bass University TV on the water to talk about how he gets the most out of his Humminbird sonar electronics. In this bass fishing on the water class video, Kevin locates some prime areas using his Lakemaster maps,

John Cox was hesitant to embrace cranking. After some bad experiences, he'd swarn off the technique, until he was introduced to the Berkley Frittside Crankbait & Berkley Warpig Lipless Crankbait. After catching big bass like gangbusters on them, John went down to

There's an often-overlooked soft plastic lure that is highly versatile, catches lots of fish, and makes a great search bait. It's called a swim worm, like the Netbait Big Bopper Paddle Tail Worm, and it's easy to rig and can be fished 3

Lots of anglers love the fast rise of balsa squarebill crankbaits. In this on the water bass fishing class video, Bryan Thrift talks about why he loves fishing a wide-bodied plastic squarebill with no rattles. Learn why plastic is a great choice for clear water, why a fast rise is

In this on the water bass fishing class, professional bass tournament angler Mike "Ike" Iaconelli talks about one of his favorite techniques, fishing matted vegetation (or any other type of heavy matted floating cover). Iaconelli starts by talking about punching components, which include, but are not limited to:

Bryan Thrift is back on the water talking about the lure that got him his first professional bass tournament win, the chatterbait. Bryan has 2 models of the current Z-Man chatterbaits that he uses most of the time. In this video, he talks about how he uses these 2 models

Bobby Lane is known for flipping heavy cover with big tungsten weights, but in any given day, there are lots of flipping and pitching targets that do and don't require heavy punching weights. Even within a stretch of water you intend to punch in your day on the water, there

When the Alabama rig (or umbrella rig) first came out, you needed special equipment to bomb out that big chandelier, adorned with 5-6" swimbaits. Over the years, bass have become accustomed to seeing this multi-bait rig, and time has proven that the Alabama rig is not a "one-size-fits-all" chunk and

2X Bassmaster Classic champion tournament bass fishing champion Jordan Lee returns to The Bass University in Gadsden, AL in the winter to talk about finesse swimbait fishing. This technique will catch largemouth, but it's outstanding for spotted bass and smallmouth. In this bass fishing master class video seminar, Jordan Lee

Kevin VanDam takes Bass University students out on the water to discuss and demonstrate how to crank grass for bass. Lots of anglers will avoid fishing grass with crankbaits because it's easy to get the bait fouled up and vegetation balled up on your lure. Kevin VanDam shares that there

Ott Defoe is known for winning tournaments fishing in the river, including accessing some hard-to-reach places with a jet boat. There are several variables to consider when fishing for bass in a river system. Lots of rivers have navigational hazards, and flow rates and rain can change the depth quickly, which

Peter Gluszek, the Dean of The Bass University, is on the water with a flipping stick and some big tungsten weights, ready to punch through some grass mats. In this on the water class, Pete will take you around to different types of grass you might encounter. Pete uses mostly

Jason Christie's first approach to tournament practice is to try flipping and pitching. If he can find concentrations of fish that will bite that presentation, he's got a good chance to getting tournament-winning fish. You won't always catch a lot of fish flipping and pitching, but, sometimes just a few bites

Gerald Swindle is one of the more interesting characters in professional bass fishing, and this is one of his most interesting seminars, and it's certainly the most entertaining lipless crankbait bass fishing class you'll ever watch. Gerald talks about everything from reaching your personal limits to crapping beside the golf

James Watson is know for fishing the Whopper Plopper and spoon jacking, he's not really known for fishing grass, for good reason, they don't have any where he's from. Fortunately, James travels the country as a tourning bass tournament professional, and in this bass fishing class seminar, JMFW shares what

Pete Gluszek loves to fish Senkos! Lots of companies make soft plastic stick baits, other popular choices are the Berkley Powerbait Maxscent The General Worm, Missile Baits "The 48" Worm and Yum Dinger. These rigging techniques will

Sometimes there's not a clear-cut answer to when to fish one lure over the other, but, as Pete Gluszek shares in this on the water video, you can't fish what you don't have. Many anglers have put their spinnerbaits away, in favor of chatterbaits (or vibrating jigs), but hat could

Brett Hite won over $250,000 in bass fishing tournaments over a few weeks fishing a chatterbait (or vibrating jig) and has won over $400,000 total. In this bass fishing class seminar video, which was recorded in Florida, Brett Hite shares some of the tips on what he looks for in

In this remastered electronics bass fishing seminar class video, Greg Hackney shares how electronics are just as important in shallow water as anywhere else on the lake. Sure, you can put your rod in the water to see how deep it is, but your electronics can tell you so much

In this on the water bass fishing video class, "The Dean" of The Bass University Pete Gluszek, is out fishing over matted vegetation with 2 highly-effective summer fishing lures, a hollow body frog and a buzz toad. While these 2 baits are both