Benny Hull — The Ol’ Stump Bumper

The thermometer outside my kitchen window wasn’t much more than a little red stub this morning. My old hound dog’s water bowl in the garage held a solid chunk of ice. By the time I tugged the stiff cover off my boat, hooked up the trailer, and slid into my rig, I was shivering so violently that I had trouble fitting the key in the ignition. Ears stung and wooden fingers were stiff from cold. I cranked the heater on full blast, but several excruciating minutes passed before the warm blast thawed out my hands and limbered up my knees.

Am I nuts? Maybe I should leave the lake to Old Man Winter on these chilly morning. He clearly likes to have the water all to his own in January. Why do I scrape the thick frost off my windshield, load up the boat, and risk slipping on an icy ramp this time of year?

Only two things can get me out of the house and on the water in January: a good chance at the biggest fish of the year and memories of spectacular mid-winter fishing trips of years past. So tempting are these that the short hours of winter daylight find me on the Tennessee River below Watts Bar, Nickajack, or Chickamauga dams or on the headwaters of TVA impoundments two or three days a week. [Read More]

When a man who has spent over sixty years behind a fishing reel tells you he’s throwing the greatest lure in the world, it pays to listen. Benny Hull says hands down, the BoJoLe Flutter Spoon will outfish any other lure when fishing the flats, weedlines, or boils for feeding gamefish. Its fluttering, erratic action, size, and appearance mimic shad to trigger strikes from trophy rockfish, smallmouth, and largemouth bass, speckled sea trout, redfish, snook, musky, and northern pike. [Read More]

A lifetime of fishing experience and knowledge condensed into a half-hour video. Why pay hundreds of dollars and travel miles to listen to a professional angler offer a few tips and techniques? With this DVD, you’ll absorb tactics that Benny Hull honed over six decades and that have put him in the world record book eight times. Pull up a chair, invite the Ol Stump Bumper into your den, and learn the tackle, baits, lures, and techniques that produce bragging-size hybrid and striped bass. [Read More]

In seven easy-to-learn segments, this outstanding instructional DVD lays out the techniques, equipment, and patterns that catch big smallmouth bass year-round, including the current catch-and-release world record smallmouth. Fishing Hall of Fame member Benny Hull shares with you proven strategies he has perfected in over 23 years of trophy smallmouth fishing. All that knowledge has gone into the production of this 192-minute DVD. Join Benny on some of the most exciting fishing trips you have ever seen. His tips & techniques are sure to make you a better smallmouth angler year-round. [Read More.]