The Big Bass Podcast

11/01/2024

The best fishing editor ever was also the greatest bass angler of his day
🎥 Full episode: New England's Greatest Bass Fisherman | https://youtu.be/HKBfwRSr1Ng

12/12/2023

We legit started trying to book these dudes as soon as we started the podcast! When you listen to this episode you will know why!

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05/12/2023

Join The Big Bass Podcast Live December 5, 2023 at 9PM eastern! Our guest will be former Elite Series angler Byron Velvick!!! See us on our YouTube Channel.

21/11/2023

Today on The Big Bass Podcast Ken and Terry discuss the BEST Trophy Bass Bait of all Time! What say you? Please like and share!

Episode 44Over the course of bass fishing history, several baits have been a force behind catching trophy bass. Over the past 20 years, the swimbait has beco...

03/11/2023

It’s pretty cool when you can research a story that had been forgotten about for 75 years and uncover all of its mystery and set the record straight. Thank you to the Idaho Department of Fish and Game for taking our research and making sure the Idaho state record largemouth is recognized fully!!

Mary Taylor caught the fish 70 years ago, but the record was hidden for years.

29/10/2023

The latest from The Big Bass Podcast!

Episode 42If you look up the Idaho record largemouth bass on that state’s Department of Fish & Game website, you will see that it weighed 10.94 pounds, was c...

25/10/2023

The Big Bass Podcast and IKE LIVE : Mike Iaconelli Webcast? Yikes!

This Saturday October 28th 8pm the Halloween Special!!! Brand NEW Ike Live with special guests #2 Ken Duke and Terry Battisti from the Big Bass Podcast!!! You don’t want to miss this episode! Tons of guests and spooky information being dropped!!

Mike Iaconelli The Big Bass Podcast Bass Fishing Archives

16/08/2023

Ken and Terry will be on Stray Casts tonight at 8 p.m. ET to talk tackle and tournament history! https://youtube.com/

30/07/2023

Join us for another LIVE edition of The Big Bass Podcast. We are joined by former San Diego City Lakes director Jim Brown. Come have your big bass questions, answered by the man who lived at all! https://www.youtube.com/live/PwOl_1wfeXs?feature=share

30/07/2023

Join us LIVE on Tuesday August 1, 2023 at 9:00pm Eastern, 6:00pm Pacific as we host former San Diego Parks Director Jim Brown for a discussion on his experiences at the San Diego Lakes. Jim will also answer your questions regarding anything to do with San Diego bass!

27/06/2023

Today's new video is for the cheeseheads in the crowd, and anyone else interested in state record bass. Ken and Terry dive into the Wisconsin state record largemouth and smallmouth, two records that haven't been broke since 1940 and 1950.

Episode 28Bass live in 49 of the 50 United States, and state records are broken every year or so. But in Wisconsin, the state records for largemouth and smal...

20/06/2023

In today's video, Terry and Ken talk about some 19th Century monsters that no one knows about. Should the World Record Bass have been chosen from one of these fish? Let us know your opinion.

Episode 27Bass fishing and record keeping may have hit their stride in the 20th century, but there were lunker largemouths and sizable smallmouths long befor...

14/06/2023

If you want to listen to the father of swimbait fishing, Allan Cole, tell his story, head on over to our channel and get it from the man himself!!

Episode 26Over the past decade, swimbaits have become part of the vernacular in bass fishing all over the world. That wasn't so only 15 years ago, let alone ...

30/05/2023

The spotted bass record wasn't always in California. As the name might suggest, it all started at Lewis Smith Lake, AL.

Episode 25The history of Alabama spotted bass is the early history of world records. The first five world record spots all came from Alabama and all from Lew...

23/05/2023

Today's The Big Bass Podcast post is all about the rollercoaster ride of the Ohio State Record Largemouth bass! There are 8 records caught between 1955 and 1976 and plenty of controversy over those years! Check it out at the link below!

Episode 24When we started this channel, we promised the viewers this wouldn't be another big bass channel about California, Texas, or Florida. We were going ...

18/05/2023

If you want to listen to Ken and Terry Ramble on for three hours, talking about Big Bass and trying to answer questions from the audience, you might want to check out their first live broadcast!

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Join The Big Bass Podcast live at 9 p.m. ET / 6 p.m. PT on Tuesday, May 16, 2023, for our first live show! Ask Ken and Terry questions about the show, episod...

16/05/2023

Here it is!! Hayes Part 3, the conclusion of one of the biggest controversies in sport fishing history!

https://youtu.be/OSXAFjv6uHU

Episode 23David Hayes caught a giant smallmouth bass from Dale Hollow Lake in the summer of 1955. It reigned as the world record for more than 40 years. Then...

09/05/2023

Today we have Part 2, The Disqualification, of the David Hayes World Record Smallmouth controversy on The Big Bass Podcast! Check out this unbelievable story!

https://youtu.be/p_cXQgkad8A

Episode 22David Hayes caught a world record smallmouth bass from Dale Hollow Lake in the summer of 1955. In the mid-1990s, an outdoor writer and educator nam...

02/05/2023

Today we begin the 3-part series on David L. Hayes and the World Record Smallmouth. We hope you will take some time to check this out!

https://youtu.be/4fzscI-shTA

Episode 21David Hayes caught a world record smallmouth bass from Dale Hollow Lake in the summer of 1955. It remained the world record until 1996, when it was...

28/04/2023

Here's our latest YouTube video featuring biologist Steven Bardin talking about how to find the best body of water to catch your Personal Best!

https://youtu.be/8e3lFeCzD4k

Episode 20On this episode of The Big Bass Podcast, we welcome back Steven Bardin, fisheries biologist for Major League Fishing and owner of Pro Lake Manageme...

19/04/2023

This week's video is about David Zimmerlee's 20-15 bass caught out of Lake Miramar in San Diego back in 1973. With us, Jim Brown talks about the fish and the man who caught it.

https://youtu.be/CUMbtPUSxV0

Episode 19After George Perry’s 22-pound largemouth bass from Georgia in 1932, the quest for record bass was dormant for more than 40 years. Then a beginning ...

11/04/2023

Big Bass can be a relative term. Especially when it comes to losing a fish in a tournament. Here are some memories of the Ones That Got Away from some of the most recognized anglers in the sport. Bill Dance S***t Reese Fishing Shaw Grigsby Fan Page Jeff Gustafson

https://youtu.be/7g_XHkV9GjM

Episode 18No show about big bass would be complete without stories of the ones that got away. After all, it’s the ones that got away that help to make the on...

29/03/2023

The latest video on The Big bass Podcast! A little April Fools' Joke for those of you who follow the quest for the World Record bass!

https://youtu.be/5C8MomzLl0s

Episode 16In the March-April 1997 issue of Sporting Classics magazine, the editor decided to play an April Fools' joke on his readership. An article in that ...

22/03/2023

Today's The Big Bass Podcast is all about the BIGGEST BASS ever weighed in a Bassmaster Classic. Featuring the big bass record holder, Preston Clark.

https://youtu.be/nAKZAABGB9U

Episode 15The Bassmaster Classic is the biggest, brightest stage in competitive fishing, and every tournament angler dreams of holding up a giant bass as he ...

14/03/2023

In light of the Bassmaster Classic coming up next week, we're looking at the Top 5 Biggest Bass ever weighed in a Classic. Today we have 5 through 2 with special guest, Ott DeFoe. Click on the link and check it out!

https://youtu.be/JFo9D3TFMvw

Episode 14The Bassmaster Classic is the biggest, brightest stage in competitive fishing, and every tournament angler dreams of holding up a giant bass as he ...

09/03/2023

Yesterday we posted a new video about a bass that was caught at Lake Chatuge on the North Carolina/Georgia border. If caught in North Carolina, it would have been a record, if caught in Georgia, it wasn't. This video gives a great breakdown of this controversial fish.

https://youtu.be/Ou3nWh34YXs

Episode 13The McMinn County Bassmasters tournament did not start well for David Presley. His outboard wouldn’t start. By the time he and his partner started ...

06/03/2023

Forgot to post the link to the latest podcast last week. We hope you enjoy!

https://youtu.be/moOjE9ALsas

Episode 12California was long thought to be the state that would produce the world record largemouth bass. First, it was the San Diego lakes that profited fr...

15/02/2023

Our latest podcast talks about the worth of the world record fish. It may not be worth what everyone thinks it is.

https://youtu.be/tVZjhITAClk

Episode 10We dream of fame and glory if we’re fortunate enough to catch a world-record bass, but we want riches, too, and for decades we’ve been told that ca...