Ways to Follow Classic Action

Defending Bassmaster Classic Champion Kevin VanDam

Even if you can't swing a weekend trip to Shreveport, you can follow the Bassmaster Classic action about as closely as you'd like -- and as your own time allows. For starters, there's Classic Live Blog, which I've already mentioned a couple of times. It's already going strong and will only pick up intensity as the competition draws nearer. Lots of voices; lots of locations; lots of perspectives...

If that's not enough, go Facebook and Twitter and do a little searching for your favorite pros, Bassmaster and for some of the media sources that cover professional bass fishing. Pros like Timmy Horton (@TimmyHortonBass) tweet from their phones and give you a sense of everything from weather conditions to how they feel about practice days... Meanwhile, Bassmaster and various fishing news sources provide a continual flow of information.

I won't say that following all the stuff online is better than being there. That's not true. But you legitimately can get a broader picture of everything going on from your living room than you can from walking around any given spot at the Classic. Of course, if you want the best of both worlds, hop in the truck and head for Shreveport and bring a smart phone that's set up for all the same cool stuff. Then while you're sitting in the auditorium waiting for each day's weigh-in to begin, you can catch up on all that other cool stuff!