Steve vonBrandt was sponsored by major manufacturers which included Gary Yamamoto Custom Baits, Okuma, Delaware Tackle, TTI-Blakemore, and Ambush Lures. Steve was the owner of a bass fishing guide service in Wilmington, Delaware, Anglers Radio, and Delaware Tackle, a high end wholesale and retail bass fishing tackle store. He was a tournament angler, bass fishing guide, and freelance outdoor writer. He has over 40 years of fishing experience in the Northeast and five years of experience in California. He fished local tournaments in Delaware and Maryland and on the Redman Trail before it became the BFL, (part of the FLW tour), until 2005. His current website is Northeast Bass Fishing For Trophy Bass. He competed in and won the Delaware State Sportfishing Tournament multiple times and registered two species that were just a few ounces shy of the state record, one of which was a largemouth bass caught in 1999 and registered in the Bassmaster Lunker Club at 10.16 pounds, just 5 ounces off the Delaware State Record. This bass also appeared in a feature article by the \"News Journal\" (Gannett Publications), and in all of Bass Pro Shops and Redhead Master catalogs for 2003. He has worked with Operation Bass in assisting with Red Man Tournaments before they were the BFL, and competed in and won, several different tournaments both local, regional, and national. He is the 1998 Big Bass World Champ/De. He has been published by numerous magazines, including Bass\'n, Bassmaster, North American Fisherman, and \"THE FISHERMAN\". He was a featured writer for \"Big Fish Tackle\" and \"Delaware Valley Outdoors\" radio and tv, as well as numerous other sites on the web. He appeared with his brother on several local tv shows produced by \"Delaware Valley Outdoors\". He was profiled for fishing achievements in the \"News Journal,\" and by the \"Middletown Transcript\" in 2001. He is also a contributor the the \"N.A.F.C.\" series of hardback books, and is currently in the process of publishing his own book, \"Bass Fishing The Northeast\". He produced bass fishing videos featuring the Potomac and Sassafras rivers. He was interviewed for an article on \"Fishing Opportunites in Delaware\" by Delaware Today magazine, which appeared in the May 2006 issue. Steve was inducted into the N.A.F.C. \"Hall of Fame\" in June 2003, and was a regular guest on radio talk shows, such as Alex Langers, \"Outdoors This Week\", and produced and appeared on his own radio show for many years called \"Beyond Bass Basics\" on Anglers Radio.He is he Owner and CEO of The Bass College at http://thebasscollege.com
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Learn how to not only catch numbers of bass, but big bass, from a variety of cover and different types of water throughout the country. A variety of different baits and techniques are discussed in detail.
Manabu Kurita has now been approved by the IGFA as the new co record holder along with George Perry, for the world record largemouth bass title.
Bass fishing with frogs is one of the most exciting types of topwater fishing but many anglers have a hard time with this technique. In the following article I will offer the tips that will produce more and bigger bass.
When it comes to fishing crankbaits, there are always a million questions, with just about as many answers. Some of the common questions of what kind, what colors, when and where to use them, are going to be answered in this guide. There will always be new products and new ideas that may or may not work, but hopefully the following guide will give you the answers to most of the questions that are constantly being asked by the beginner to the advanced angler.

