Fishing Ahead with Greg Vinson

by Dan O'Sullivan

It’s early spring and the bass should be spawning, but they aren’t quite in the areas you’d expect them to be. You think you know where they live; but, it’s spring, and your gut tells you they should be near the spawn. But, the conditions aren’t quite right, the water’s not quite warm enough, you’re on the tail end of a front, and the full moon is a little more than a week away with a forecasted warming trend coming.

While practicing for your upcoming tournament, you follow you textbook learning, and you backtrack until you find the fish staging in an area outside of the spawning cove. They are good ones, the kind that make you bite your lip when someone asks about your practice for the team tournament you’re fishing next week. You’re absolutely dialed in – you think.

Welcome to the homepage of professional angler, Greg Vinson

Greg is a full-time professional angler on Bassmaster Elite Series, Bassmaster Opens and PAA Tours. In addition to tournament fishing, Greg co-hosts the outdoors show, Sportzblitz Outdoors, writes a monthly fishing article for Lake Magazine, and participates in various events to promote fishing and provide professional insight in the forms of tips and techniques. Greg is also a member of the Professional Anglers Association (PAA) and Association of BASS Professionals (ABP). Greg has been featured on the Bassmaster Elite Series TV show on ESPN2, and on Bassmaster.com in addition to many other television shows and publications.

Greg recently finished second in the 2012 Bassmaster Classic, the world championship of bass fishing. Greg has had multiple top 10 finishes in Bassmaster competition. For his complete profile, check out the link below:

Bassmaster Profile

VINSON'S CLASSIC GOAL IS NOW A REALITY

“I hope that my inexperience on the Delta actually works to an advantage.”

Story by Matt Pangrac

Posted - January 5th, 11:15pm CST

Wetumpka, AL - Last April, The BASS ZONE ran a feature story on Alabama’s Greg Vinson, who was in the midst of his sophomore season on the Bassmaster Elite Series. At the time, Vinson had just completed the California Swing to open the 2010 season and sat in 9th place in the Toyota Trucks Angler Of the Year standings.

The accomplishment was even more impressive when Vinson admitted that leading up to the 2010 season, he was unsure if he would even be able to fish on the Elite Series and had seriously contemplated pulling out for the 2010 season. To view the initial story, CLICK HERE.

In that April interview, Vinson told The BASS ZONE that he wanted to “keep a conservative goal and shoot for Top 20 finishes and make the Classic.” After lurking around the Top 12 in the TTAOY standings for the better part of the 2010 season, Vinson achieved his goal and finished the year in 30th place in the TTAOY standings to qualify for the first Classic of his career.