Andrew Upshaw scored 2 big wins in his tournament career in 2019, he won a pro circuit event on Charokee Lake and a FLW Series Championship on Lake Cumberland. In both events he targeted primarily smallmouth bass, but he employed a different approach for his Cherokee Lake win in the spring and

James Watson loves the post spawn and summer seasons for bass fishing. Admittedly, pre spawn is not his strongest season, but he has some bass fishing tips for that time too. In this bass fishing educational & instructional seminar class video, James shares lots of fishing tips for selecting locations

Jeff Gustafson (aka Gussy) is a Bassmaster Elite Series tournament with a couple of unique characteristics: he fishes from a Lund aluminum bass boat and he's from Ontario, Canada. Jeff fished in the Bassmaster Classic back in March on Lake Guntersville, and recently finished 12th at the St. Lawrence River where

John Murray started as a West coast angler and moved to TVA lakes in Tennessee. Through his tournament bass fishing career, he's fished all over the country and found that crankbaits will catch them anywhere, but not always the same crankbaits, same colors, same angles or same retrieves. Check out

In this episode of The Bass University Live, hosted by Pete Gluszek, Greg Dipalma and Rizz, the topic is spawning smallmouth. Bassmaster Elite Series tournament anglers Chad Pipkens and Garrett Paquette, along with the hosts all have extensive experience, especially in northern fisheries, locating and catching smallmouth bass on beds.

Ryan Salzman is an FLW bass fishing tournament pro and a full-time guide on Lake Guntersville in Alabama. Ryan is also the owner of True Bass Swimbaits. In this video, Ryan sits down with Pete Gluszek at the 2020 Bassmaster Classic to talk

7-Time Forrest Wood Cup qualifier Stetson Blaylock joined The Bass University in Tulsa, OK in early 2020 to talk about fishing wacky rigs. Unlike many pros, Stetson Blaylock admits that most of his winnings have come on a spinning rod, and his love of fishing a wacky rig is part

David Dudley is one of the winningest bass tournament anglers of all time, with over $4m in earnings, 9 pro level wins and 3 FLW AOY titles. In this bass fishing seminar, David shares his approach to simple color selection, and notes the handful of exceptions. Lurn about David's color

Lake Champlain BUcket List Episode 1 & Lake Champlain BUcket List Episode 2 focused a lot on Mike Iaconelli and Pete Gluszek's history with Champlain and what makes it such a great bass fishery. In this episode, we're going

Mike Iaconelli and Pete Gluszek are back in the Adirondack Mountains in this second episode of The BUcket List on Lake Champlain. Mike shares how some of his bass fishing career highlights and life-changing moments came on Lake Champlain. Iaconelli was fishing his second professional tournament against the biggest names in

This is the first episode of Bass University's "BUcket List", a list of bass fisheries that are special, even compared to other top fisheries. Bass University instructors and tournament champions Mike Iaconelli and Pete Gluszek have both fished a number of the best bass fishing locations in the world, but

Major League Fishing Bass Pro Tour rookie and $3m FLW winner Bryan Thrift joined The Bass University in Kokomo, IN in the winter of 2020. Previously, Bryan conducted a seminar on Skipping Baits. In this video, Thrift wants to share some other tricks for fishing

In this on the water bass fishing video, learn how to fish a magnum shaky head worm. Pete Gluszek is not known for wanting to throw small/slow finesse techniques, and for good reason, covering water with bigger profile baits often catches bigger fish. Particularly in a 5 biggest bass tournament,

In this 3-hour recorded live show from September 11th, 2019, Pete Gluszek and co-host Greg DiPalma welcome the top 2 finishers from the Bassmaster Open on Oneida. The winner was last month's live in-studio co-host Grae Buck, and the second place finisher was Dean Silvester, a Australian bass angler dedicated

Bassmaster Elite Series pro and The Bass University's top smallmouth instructor, Seth Feider, is here to discuss some stops on the 2019 Bassmaster Elite Series tour and the Tokyo Rig. 4:17 Introduction to the Tokyo rig hook types and why Seth Feider fishes it 6:23

Fishing for shallow smallmouth bass in the Summer is one of Bassmaster Elite Series Pro Seth Feider's favorite ways to catch bass. Seth explains that most anglers know to fish for smallmouth in the spring during the prespawn and spawning periods, but the bass that stay shallow throughout the summer

JT Kenney was in Columbus, OH to teach a class for The Bass University on fishing large expanses of water. Most students who attended this class were geographically near Lake Erie or Kentucky Lake. If you live near a large lake, like these, this is a great seminar for you.

Pete Gluszek is the Dean of The Bass University, and in 2019, he was in Columbus, OH to teach a bass fishing class seminar titled "Fishing on the Edge", which is also the title of another angler's autobiography. In this class, Pete talks about the best times to fish edges,

A squarebill crankbait wins a lot of tournaments! They differ from traditional round-lipped diving crankbaits, for instance, most other crankbaits, if tossed into a laydown, are not coming back to you. So, while the squarebill is known for catching fish out of shoreline cover, Mark Zona is here to share

If you're interested in swinging head / wobble head fishing, you'll want to check out this on the water bass fishing class with Mark Zona. Zona throws a Strike King Tour Grade Tungsten Swing Football Head most of the

Back-to-back Bassmaster Classic Champion Jordan Lee offers up his take on finesse bass fishing and covers 3 of his favorite finesse bass fishing techniques. Here's what you'll learn in this bass fishing educational training video seminar: 0:29 The Neko Rig - Jordan's go-to power finesse fishing technique. Learn what

MLF Bass Pro Tour angler Jeff Kriet is one of our most popular instructors at the Bass University. His video classes on fishing a floating worm and winning winter fishing tournaments are some of our most popular releases from 2018.

Jamie Hartman is back with The Bass University to talk about fishing finesse jigs. A finesse jig is a very versatile bait that catches a lot of fish. Whether it's a smallmouth, largemouth or spotted bass, they will all bite a finesse jig. If you're looking for a great alternative

Recently Paul Mueller smashed some smallmouth he located with his Garmin units. Now he's out in the cold and clear water fishing for largemouth. The current water temperature is 48 degrees, but Paul doesn't believe that's too cold