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That's a seven-figure bag of bass. Congrats, Matt! Matt Robertson just made $1.25 million catching bass. The Kentucky pro found a good stretch of water below Old Hickory Dam, where the current kept smallmouth feeding and a swimbait on a jighead did the work. He opened the tournament with a 20-pound bag, caught enough to make the final, and had the good sense to leave his fish alone until they counted again. Now he's the inaugural World Bass Enterprises The Champions winner, with the largest first-place check in professional bass fishing history. Not bad money for knowing where to throw a jighead.

The Champions field is down to 15, and $1.25 million is on the line. Now the weights reset to zero for Saturday's final.

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“Nothing could have prepared me for the grandeur of those waters.” Tom Skerritt, who played Reverend Maclean in the 1992 film “A River Runs Through It,” has died at 93. Three decades after filming in Montana, he returned to the Gallatin River to help document the threats facing the waters that had captivated him. Skerritt also served on the board of American Rivers and supported river conservation efforts in Montana. Rest in peace, Tom Skerritt. 1933–2026.

Bull closed in on us from 170 to 100 yards in 90 seconds & the crew was ready… shouldering a Ridgeline FFT in 300 PRC to down our Alaskan moose in 3 shots, this Alaska DIY hunt delivered.

Corey Heim takes the No. 67 Blue Blade to P11 at the end of Stage 2.

Back to the hunt ⚡️⚡️

Heim Time ⌚️⌚️⌚️

Blue Blade ⚡️@23XIRacing No. 67

Charlotte brought the bank. No. 67 brought the bill. ⛵️🐟

They don't call sandhill cranes the ribeye of the sky for nothing. #FSAlaskaCrane

The field just lit up. ⚡️ Meet Blue Blade, the Field & Stream 23XI Racing No. 67 Corey Heim will drive at Charlotte this weekend. Sailfish on the doors. F&S on the quarter panels. #LetsBall @TractorSupply @ChiefsBroadway

The turkey woods lost one of the very best. Col. Tom Kelly, author of “The Tenth Legion” and longtime Field & Stream contributor, has died at 99. This spring, the gobblers will sound off without him. We’ll miss you, Colonel.

Riley Green’s freezer is doing just fine.

The Sitka bounty. If you’re lucky, you leave with a full cooler and enough fish to get you through Thanksgiving. 📍 Cast Alaska Lodge

He used the last decade working his way up from deckhand to Sitka fishing lodge owner. “Let’s go fishing. I just want to take people fishing.” — Captain Mike Allen That’s Mike front and center, halibut in hand. He first came to Sitka to fish at 12. Eleven working seasons later, he now owns & operates Cast Alaska.

We were all kids with a worm and a hook once.