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Friday, October 10, 2025
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Bill Dance“Celebrate Bass Fishing Week” kicks off on Monday with the start of the Bass Fishing Hall of Fame’s annual online auction - https://one.bidpal.net/bassfishinghof22 - all leading up to induction of the 2022 class at the Hall’s annual plaque unveiling ceremony and dinner gala at the Wonders of Wildlife Museum & Aquarium on Oct. 6.
The online auction and live auction during the induction dinner will include a large selection of bucket list trips with Hall of Fame inductees, plenty of other fishing and hunting experiences, unique fishing art items and memorabilia, tournament jerseys from leading professional bass anglers, fishing tackle, and much more.
You can click on the link above to preview some of the auction items but the preview will shut off sometime Sunday before reopening Monday for the live auction. The online auction can be accessed by bass fishing enthusiasts throughout the U.S. and Canada on their smartphones, tablets and computers.
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By Alan McGuckin
Kevin VanDam
Trophy presentations are certainly nothing new to Kevin VanDam. But when Bass Pro Shops founder Johnny Morris asked “KVD” to join him in victory lane to present the winner’s trophy recently at NASCAR’s Bass Pro Shops Night Race at Bristol Motor Speedway, the longtime Toyota angler was a bit astonished.
Longshot driver Christopher Buescher won the race, and not only did VanDam help with the trophy presentation, but he may very well have won the award for the guy who had the most fun at the iconic half-mile track on the Tennessee-Virginia border.
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By Louie Stout
The St. Joseph River bass population remains stable and the future looks pretty good, says Elkhart/South Bend Aquatic Biologist Dar Deegan.
In fact, he noted, the river experienced a really good bass spawn – both largemouth and smallmouth - last year.
“Maybe the best I’ve seen since I’ve been here,” Deegan said. “We also had a good one in 2018, despite the record flood we had in late winter that year.”
The introductions of non-native gizzard shad and explosion in the bluegill population have provided plenty of forage and zebra mussels have cleared the river allowing for plant growth.