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We’re into the River Fishing Events

The Alabama River and Mississippi River each fish differently

By Takahiro Omori

Yamaha Pro Staff

The last Bassmaster Eltie Series event on the Alabama River was kind of a weird tournament for me. Going into the event I felt pretty confident that I could find some nice fish and do well but it was tough to find the right fish in those conditions.

Take Care Of Your Outboard, And It’ll Take Care Of You

Even if you don’t put a lot of hours on your motor you should bring it in for maintenance at least once a year

By Ozzie Fischer

Yamaha Pro Staff

It had been such a cold March that I hadn’t been fishing for kingfish in Southwest Florida, but Yamaha Pro Staff member Bill Platt had contacted me from Texas and said he was going to be picking up his new boat with triple 300 h.p. Yamaha V6 4.2 liter four stroke outboards, so we decided to get together and break it in by fishing a kingfish tournament out of Sarasota. It’s been an odd year of fishing with such a late winter so I shouldn’t have been surprised that it was a weird tournament from the start.

Weight Impacts Performance

I try to balance my load to get peak performance from my boat and motor

By Alton Jones

Yamaha Pro Staff

During our last round of tournaments we came off a two back-to-back event stretch and those are always demanding from a fishing and physical standpoint. They were two completely different types of waterways—one was a reservoir on West Point Lake in La Grange, Georgia and the other was a river system on the Alabama River in Montgomery, Alabama, so I really had to have completely different mindsets for each event.

Conditions Change, You Have To Trust Your Instincts

Late-season cold fronts completely changed the fishing in the last two Elite Series events

By Ish Monroe

Yamaha Pro Staff

The last two events on the Elite Series Tour have been tough for everyone, as fronts passed through the area and completely changed the fishing between the practice days and tournament days. That means everyone had to adapt, throw what they learned during the practice days out the window and try to find the fish.

Tournament Luck is Hard to Beat

Thirty seconds after putting out a lure we caught a tournament winning fish

By Bill Platt

Yamaha Pro Staff

A couple of weeks ago I went down to South Florida to pick up my new 36 Invincible with triple 300 h.p. Yamaha 4.2 liter four strokes. It’s always nice to get a new boat and motors, and I was really looking forward to it, but had to wait while the electronics went in and the boat got wrapped, which took an extra week.

From Sandals to Snow Boots

One week I’m fishing in flip flops and the next I’m doing all I can to keep warm

By Bobby Lane

Yamaha Pro Staff

It seems like every tournament we’ve had for the Elite Series this year has some kind of weather fluke thrown in. At the Bassmaster Classic is was 30 degrees, and a month later at Falcon Lake it was 104 degrees. That pattern didn’t change last week for the Elite Series Event in Bull Shoals, Arkansas.

Coined By A General

Everyone had fun at the Warriors On The Water Military Appreciation Bass Fishing Tournament

By Mark Menendez

Yamaha Pro Staff

I’ve been on the road a lot lately, first in Venice, Louisiana where I went fishing with some old friends in the boat business. I ran into the guys from the Venice Marina at an event in Alabama and they invited me down, and it turned into kind of an old friend reunion.

Versatility from the Newest 200 H.P. Yamaha Four Stroke

The 200 h.p. 2.8 liter Yamaha In-Line four cylinder four stroke outboard has a wide range of boating applications

By Capt. Rick Murphy

Yamaha Pro Staff

I can’t tell you how excited I am about the introduction of the new 200 h.p. 2.8 liter Yamaha In-Line four cylinder four stroke outboard. There are just so many applications for this motor, from offshore center consoles to larger flats boats and bay boats, and even to pontoon boats and cruisers. It’s just an incredibly versatile motor.

The Fishing Season is Just Getting Started

It’s time to get your boat ready to fish

I just got back from Houston, Texas and the 2013 South West International In-Water Boat Show where everybody was talking about the new Yamaha Helm Master System. Everything really is bigger in Texas, and you never know who you’re talking to whether they came there to buy a bay boat or a big sportfishing boat.

I was able to test ride in the new 24 foot Yellowfin Bay Boat with the 300 h.p. Yamaha four stroke outboard. The mileage on that boat was just incredible. We were running 40 mph and burning 3.3 miles per gallon.

Weird Weather Has Made Fishing Tough

Despite freezing and hot temperatures, the fishing has been good

By Russ Lane

Yamaha Pro Staff

It’s been a weird year so far for me. It started with the Classic where it was freezing cold, then yesterday I was in Texas where it was 104 degrees, and last night I got to Tennessee where it’s been snowing.

I went into the Bassmaster Classic^® hoping to win, and probably pushed myself too hard beforehand. I had a bad cold and tried to push through it and ended up catching pneumonia during the event. I continued to try to power through the health issues and all that did was get me to the emergency room three times that week.