Benny Hull — The Ol’ Stump Bumper

When air temps reach the mid-80’s to 90’s and water is up in the 80’s, knowledgeable anglers know it’s time to start looking for bass in their deep hangouts. Knowing that is one thing… finding the haunts that hold big bass is something else.

Or major river impoundments all summer long you’ll see bass boats patrolling the first drop off into the channel, one eye on water skiers and the other on their Sonar, scanning the contours for telltale blips marking fish. Rarely, if ever, will I see fishing boats positioned out over the mother lode. I’m talking about deep mid-channel ridges and humps. Before the rivers were impounded, these were mid-stream islands. Now, far from shore and deep below the surface, they’re largely ignored.

When fishing this pattern, look for ridges parallel to the riverbed, 15 to 18 feet deep on the tops with sharp drop-offs going down another 30 to 40 feet. Idle slowly along the edges and check your Sonar for fish down about half-way. Those could be big cats, stripers, or bass… you never know. [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.]