Iaconelli Article

Mike Iaconelli Modifies a Bait
Photo description: You can't tell from this picture, but Mike Iaconelli does not encourage bass anglers to play with their tools.

Picture uploaded:2010-05-24 13:44:24
Special thanks to: ESPN Outdoors, BASS and James Overstreet

Mike Iaconelli with Two Clarks Hill Bass
Photo description: In this photo, Mike holds up some of his 25th place day 1 12lb. 2oz. limit from Clarks Hill in the Pride of Georgia BASS tournament.

Picture uploaded:2010-05-24 13:49:29
Special thanks to: ESPN Outdoors, BASS and James Overstreet

Mike Iaconelli is Pretty Jacked About Day 2 on Clarks Hill
Photo description: Mike Iaconelli seems pretty happy in this photo from day 2 of the Pride of Goergia BASS tournament.

Picture uploaded:2010-05-24 13:53:01
Special thanks to: ESPN Outdoors, BASS and James Overstreet

Picture of Mike Iaconelli with 2 Bass
Photo description: Mike had almost 12 lbs. again on day 2 of the Pride of Georgia BASS tournament. Mike was in 14th place after day 2 with 23lbs. 15oz.

Picture uploaded:2010-05-24 13:59:19
Special thanks to: ESPN Outdoors, BASS and James Overstreet

Mike Iaconelli Fishes the Still Waters of Clarks Hill
Photo description: Seemingly all by himself, Iaconelli fishes on day 3 of the Pride of Georgia BASS tournament on Clarks Hill.

Picture uploaded:2010-05-24 14:04:12
Special thanks to: ESPN Outdoors, BASS and James Overstreet

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Mike Iaconelli Talks About Catching Tournament Bass at Clarks Hill
Mike Iaconelli here at Clarks Hill Lake, at the Elite tournament. This was a super tough week. Lakes with blue-back herring are synonymous with tough fishing, once the blue-back are done spawning. That's what we had here this week, so super-tough fishing. I had a decent tournament. The way that I figured out how to catch them was sort of a two-pronged approach this week. Early in the morning, when you had low-light conditions, I would basically fish the flat points with more...

June 1st, 2010
-Mike Iaconelli

Mike Iaconelli Talks About Why He Fishes Molix Spinnerbaits
Hi folks, Mike Iaconelli here, and I want to talk to you about a brand new spinnerbait company I'm working with this year. It's a company out of Italy, called Molix. I know you probably haven't heard of it, but you're going to be hearing a lot about this company called Molix. They make some unbelievable spinnerbaits. I'm real picky when it comes to these blades, when it comes to a wirebait. I finally found a company, that to me, makes more...

April 20th, 2010
-Mike Iaconelli

Mike Iaconelli Talks About Fishing Deep Water at Clear Lake
Mike Iaconelli, here to talk about the second regular BASS event, another one out in California. This one at Clear Lake. Everyone's heard of Clear Lake, what an awesome lake. I really went there expecting to throw a swimbait the entire tournament, and have giant fish following this thing. It really, for me, turned into a deep-water tournament. I found a lot of fish, that were more on the pre-spawn side than on the actual spawn side. In the event, I targeted more...

April 15th, 2010
-Mike Iaconelli

2010 Bassmaster Tournament California Delta Hydrilla Fishing
Hi, Mike Iaconelli, want to talk about the first regular Elite season tournament of the year, California Delta. We showed up, high expectations. What did we get? Cold weather again. Another really, really tough tournament. I found the fish in deep hydrilla, and that's one pattern in the pre-spawn you can always really rely on, is hydrilla. There's hydrilla all over. What I found was, if you could find the right mix of current, clear water, deeper hydrilla and flats nearby. more...

April 13th, 2010
-Mike Iaconelli

Mike Iaconelli on 2010 Bassmaster Classic
I'm Mike Iaconelli, I want to talk to you about the Classic this year, the 2010 Bassmaster Classic on Lay Lake. Probably one of the toughest Classics I've ever fished. Really cold weather, winter-time conditions, muddy water and lethargic fish. I had a pretty good tournament, ended up 6th in that one. Without a doubt, there was one bait that I caught about 80% of my fish on. It was an old school grub. I think a lot of people, over the more...

April 12th, 2010
-Mike Iaconelli

Mike Iaconelli Auctions Goatee for Fishin' with a Mission Charity
How you doing? I'm Mike Iaconelli and I'm here to retire my beard. My lucky goatee here has been around for over a year and a half. It's really helped me in my fishing, in my confidence, but it's time to cut it off. And I want to cut this thing off and this is going to sound a little strange, but we're going to cut it off and sell it. We're going to put it up for auction, it's going to be on my website, more...

November 24th, 2009
-Mike Iaconelli

Berkley Beast and Tru-Tungsten Weights for Largemouth in Cabbage Patches
Last regular season stop on the bass tour, Lake Oneida. You know Lake Oneida, one of my favorite lakes in the country, going into it really excited. I ended up not having a great tournament there but I did catch fish. I caught enough limits to get me to the post season. So let's talk about what I did at Oneida. I got to Oneida and it was really a weird deal because there were roaming smallmouths, schooling smallmouths, I never found those. And then there more...

November 9th, 2009
-Mike Iaconelli

Iaconelli Modifying Two Part Skirt Jigs to Make Finesse Jig on Mississippi River
The next stop was the Mississippi River out of Fort Madison. I'm going to tell you, talk about a tough tournament, you know this was a really tough one. You had high, muddy water, you had fish that were spread out, and you were coming off of a major flood so this was a real tough event. I decided to fish backwaters in this event. You have main river and backwater and I decided to fish backwater, I locked one time up and I found the backwater more...

October 26th, 2009
-Mike Iaconelli

LaserLure Crankbait and Shakey Head with 10" Power Worms on Ledges and Shell Beds
Next stop on the Bass tour was Kentucky Barkley Lake out at Paris, Tenn. This tournament was all about the ledge bite. Post-spawn fish going to summer time pattern, fish moving on the main river ledges and the creek ledges, so fish on the drops. Not any ledges and it's important to realize that certain little spots hold those fish on the ledges. And those little spots were shell beds. Shell and Mussel mounds really were the key areas on those ledges. There were more...

October 16th, 2009
-Mike Iaconelli

The Closer: Bass Anglers Who Close Out Victories
By Paul Streg Certain anglers possess a special ability, an uncanny sense, for closing out victories. New York Yankee Manager Joe Torre walks out to the mound in the bottom of the ninth. He calls upon his trusted relief pitcher, Mariano Rivera, to close the game. Torre's team leads by a single run with two runners on and no one out. Forty thousand opposing fans begin a rhythmic chant in hopes of rattling the seasoned reliever. With a nonchalant poise that defies those in attendance, Rivera takes his place at the mound. He toes the rubber, hunches over, and focuses on more...

March 5th, 2008
-Mike Iaconelli

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