Destin DeMarion

After embarking on a journey across the country from February to October, the 2023 Bassmaster Opens EQ season is now in the books.  Nine events of planning, organizing, driving (a lot) and grinding out there on the land and water, have been quite the adventure.  Going into the 2023 Bassmaster Opens Elite Qualifiers (EQ) season, […]

Eight down, one to go.  The Bassmaster EQ season, which spanned from February until October, is almost complete.  We just wrapped up a back to back event swing in Tennessee and Missouri and I arrived home late Sunday evening.  After a couple month hiatus this summer, we headed out to Watts Bar Lake in Kingston,

This one was a hard one for me to write.  For the few days following the event, I racked my brain thinking of how to write this.  I believe in telling the truth always, but I also firmly believe that talking about losing fish is unproductive and focusing on the negative, unchangeable aspects of the

It’s the midway point of the season for the 2023 Bassmaster Opens EQ series.  We recently wrapped up our event at Eufaula Lake (not to be confused with Lake Eufaula, AL) in Oklahoma.  As expected for June in Oklahoma, it was a fairly hot one and filled with Tarantula sized surprises – did you know

TVA: The Tennessee Valley Authority.  This is the organization that controls many of the lakes in Alabama and Tennessee.  The lakes that fall into TVA’s control have some tremendous fishing, but also are apt to change on a dime.  Current generation schedules largely depend on variables that do not include creating the best conditions for

We just wrapped up stop number three of the 2023 Bassmaster Opens EQ season at Buggs Island (aka Kerr Lake) in Clarksville, VA.  Buggs is a place that was famous for big bass decades ago before the Largemouth Bass Virus hit the lake and took its toll.  Back then, twenty to twenty five pound bags

We just wrapped up the second Bassmaster EQ of the 2023 down in Many, LA on the famed waters of Toledo Bend Reservoir.  Toledo Bend spans around 180,000 acres, with tons of “bayous”, grass, submerged timber, bushes, trees and contours that draw the lake’s immense bass population.  In early/mid April, one would expect an absolute

The anticipation for every season is almost always the same.  The unknown of it.  The excitement.  The what ifs.  It’s always fun kicking off a new season as you never truly know what’s in store; good or bad.  This season is especially interesting, as we embarked on a new journey in the first season of