I am the ultimate skeptic. As an outdoor writer, I felt this was a crucial part of the job description. If I didn’t look at a new technique, a theory or lure with a critical eye, then who would?

Unlike North America, the majority of anglers in literally hundreds of bass fishing locations across South-western Europe do not necessarily have the means to fish on large bodies of water, so to speak. With the high cost in boat ownership and differences in the region’s geographic makeup whereby bass is neither abundant nor widespread in Europe, anglers of this part of the world end up with shoreline fishing as their only option. Toulouse, south-west France, is a good example. Instead of big water fisheries, the urban ponds, small lakes and canals within the city limits, forms the core of the region’s growing bass fishing industry.

ICAST 2014 annonces "BEST OF SHOW" awards last night in Orlando Florida. After the dust settles the SPRO Corp walks away with the Best of Show in the hard bait catagory for their cutting edge BBZ-1 Rat bait.

Here is a quick how to on replacing the BBZ-1 Rat tail to either a soft or hard tail option. 

In this video I show you the basic rod, reel, line setup I put together for using the new SPRO BBZ-1 Rat. These are just my guidelines and you are welcome to use what you feel is right.

Join me as I have some fun in a few lakes here in Cali during the day fishing the new SPRO BBZ-1 Rat baits. Do not be afraid to use this bait everywhere. One of the best waking and walking baits you will ever use with an unbelievable hookup top catch ratio.

Mike Jones is at it again! Just when you thought he finally disappeared, he returns as a suspense writer.

Hey everyone, I wanted to share some awesome news from SPRO regarding our new lure, the BBZ-1 Rat.

Was lucky to have had Bobby's wife film both of us recently at the Fred Hall Show in Long Beach, Ca back in March and had a ton of people ask me to put it up on theBBZtv. This is the first day of the show (Wednesday) and we talked for about an hour.