Scientific Angle

ACTIVE ANGLER

Four years ago, Stetson Blaylock dropped his boat into Tennessee’s Cherokee Lake and blasted off on his first-ever Bassmaster Elite Series outing. A north wind had been battering the Appalachian reservoir during practice, and overnight lows in the 20s still lingered enough to chill Blaylock to the bone.

“That was one of the coldest mornings I’ve ever had,” says Blaylock. “It was kind of a weird day, because it was my first Elite Series