The winner of the NBAD Tournament is…Martin Kasick and Joey Herman of Missouri, with 33.21 lbs! Pro Dennis Bacon, of MO and Ron Stanford of OK finished second at 27.88 lbs, and J. Armstrong and DJ Jorgenson, both of TX, finished a respectable 3rd place with 21.35 lbs.
These guys are not “Let’s cross our fingers” [...]

We can pick up a basketball easily and shoot it thru the hoop, but the dynamics of fishing is totally different. Not anybody can just go out and return with a bucket full of flapping fish.
The bottom line is, if you net a lot of fish day in and day out, you’re either very good, [...]

In the early 70’s, a core group of Deaf guys from the Texas and Louisiana, with love for outdoors and fishing decided to start a fishing club; it started out as a family gathering sort of event which evolved into the more official National Bass Association for the Deaf. When the boating organization started in [...]

During the 31st NBAD tournament, the Deaf Bass fishermen go as pairs in the boat to help regulate the rules as they go out to find their prize of the highest calling-Bass! The NBAD event is a team tournament where a team of two contestants will fish together during the NBAD Tournament. Everyday they have [...]

National Bass Association for the Deaf has a family with many close kin who are members as well, even competitive.
But we was intrigued by the fact that many members are brothers and sisters duos, and even entire families including all of their kids! Here comes into the picture the Ketchum clan family of Little Rock, [...]

As the early risers the Deaf Bass fishermen are, they usually get up around 4 am to start preparing for the day, revving up the boat engines which rumbles loudly, and by 6 am they are either already inspected or among the convoy of boats heading left and right to their prime fishing “hot spots” [...]

The 31st annual National Bass Association of the Deaf (NBAD) Tournament at Table Rock Lake in Missouri opened their event with a general meeting, which runs from June 11-15th, 2006.

The Bass fishermen swapped stories and traded barbs about who caught the biggest fish, who is the record-holder that is about to lose it, and the [...]