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Wolak’s Mixed Bag Formula

Wake Forest, NC - Brown or green? That’s the question that many tournament anglers face when fishing mixed species lakes holding both smallmouth and largemouth bass. The third FLW Tour Open of the year on Lake Champlain this past September was a perfect example of how a mixed species fishery can play mind games on tournament anglers looking for the top spot on the leader board. Gary Yamamoto opened the tournament with a record setting limit of largemouth weighing over 24-pounds but was unable to maintain that pace throughout the tournament, finishing in 2nd place. Glenn Browne also...

Kaenon – Wolak Wins Champlain FLW Tour Open

Dave Wolak, a champion and Kaenon Polarized wearing angler, recently won the Champlain FLW Tour Open. Wearing Kore, Wolak stood alone as the only one to land 18 pounds on the final day of competition, marking his second victory, including the 2010 Champlain Bassmaster Northern Open, at the same location. Wolak’s first win with FLW, this event added an exclamation point to his career and elevating Wolak as one of the best in the world on mixed-bag, northern venues. “The key for me this week was being able to make the proper adjustments,” said Wolak on his website. “I fished in rain...

Wolak Wallops 19, Beats Yamamoto By 6-Plus-Pounds

Dave Wolak loves being back home. He grew up in Pennsylvania and cut his tournament teeth on key Northeastern fisheries like Seneca, Oneida, the Hudson and of course, Champlain. That experience is important, but it wasn't until he gambled it all and joined the Bassmaster Tour in 2005 that he learned to win the big one. He won his first tour-level event back in 2006 and waited 5 long years to win his next, which he did today at the Champlain FLW Tour Open. He was the only pro to weigh more than 18 pounds on the final day, and his 19-07 limit clinched him a victory at the venue for the second...

Kaenon Hard Kore Special Edition JM10

Introducing the JM10 Special Edition Hard Kore which celebrates Jamie Mitchell’s unprecedented decade of dominance paddling from Molokai to Oahu and his 10 consecutive World Championship wins. The JM10 Hard Kore features a custom combination of matte black frame finish with white logos – as worn by Jamie in his 10th and final Molokai 2 Oahu World Championship title. The JM10 Hard Kore is available with Grey 12 or Copper 12 lenses and is. “From the day Jamie strolled into our Newport Beach offices nine years ago, it was clear to me that Jamie would be something very special," said...

Fish Strong

Dave Wolak is more than just an affable Elite Series pro with multiple titles and nearly a million dollars in B.A.S.S. winnings. He’s also a hardcore fitness enthusiast with a background in physical therapy and a walking billboard for everything we advocate here at FishStrong. Dave is a true angling athlete.  In fact, he’s so hardcore about living the FishStrong lifestyle that even his wife is said to perform multiple sets of 12-15 pull-ups! Most guys can’t even do that! I think FishStrong fans can learn a lot from Dave’s hard-won insight and experience, so I gave him a call. Get...

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Bass Talk Live – July 5th

All Star Series Patterns Offer Variety

GARLAND, Texas – Part of the fun of watching professional anglers in tournaments is not only seeing their execution and focus, but also learning a bit about how they fish. The top 12 pros in the final day of the Bass Pro Shops PAA All Star Series on Lake Ray Hubbard gave a pretty good tutorial on several techniques. One was the shad spawn in marinas. Pitching a white jig about halfway into boat slips and swimming it out past the dock was spot-on for foraging largemouth. Another was playing the wind to their advantage, either in protected areas or out in the teeth of the Texas bluster....