Vexus Boats

06/18/2026

A few images from Thursday morning's start to the Major League Fishing event on Oklahoma's Grand Lake. Vexus pros Keith Carson and Jacob Wall are fired-up.

They'll be a lot of fish catches to watch in this one, and most of them will likely be around Grand's shallow, flooded shoreline habitat, using power fishing techniques.

06/18/2026

Keith Carson is so excited to begin Day 1 in the flooded bushes on Grand Lake in his AVX 2100 that his eyes are burnin’!

06/17/2026

Vexus® pro Jacob Wall grew up in Southern Oregon, and fished collegiately for the Oregon Ducks before turning full-time angler and moving to Lake Guntersville, AL.

He’s a deep thinker, a good soul, and a proud new daddy to young daughter, Macie.

We caught up with him on the eve of the Major League Fishing event that begins Thursday on Oklahoma’s Grand Lake to talk high muddy water, food, family, lures and more.

Q: What’s going to be your biggest challenge this week on Grand Lake?

Wall: Adverse conditions. We don’t see this kind of high, muddy, debris filled water on Guntersville very often.

Q: What excites you most about this week?

Wall: I’d say the fact that I feel like I’m a pretty good summer largemouth angler. I feel like I understand how to catch ‘em at this time of year pretty well.

Q: What’s the best thing you’ve had to eat since arriving at Grand Lake?

Wall: Probably this cold, left over, chicken I’m holding that Alan McGuckin from Vexus® grilled and shared with me. I mean, in another day it’s probably gonna be too dry, but right now, it’s really good. (laughs)

Q: What three lures can fans expect you to lean on most this week?

Wall: A deep-diving Strike King 6XD crankbait, the crazy popular, new urchin style bait, and a ChatterBait.

Q: How does an accomplished forward-facing sonar angler like you use that technology in water that’s this high and muddy?

Wall: I don’t use it when it’s this dirty, because you mostly see debris, gar, carp and whatever, but finding groups of bass with it in these conditions is pretty tough.

06/16/2026

Mayflies, snakes, and big bass in the bushes greet Carson at Grand Lake, OK

The parking lot at highly popular Wolf Creek boat ramp on Grand Lake is partially flooded, and Vexus® pro Keith Carson of Florida couldn’t be happier.

The shoreline willow trees and bushes have roughly three extra feet of water on them, and everything from mayflies to snakes and big bass appear equally as grateful as Carson for the newfound aquatic habitat.

Carson is pumped!

The Florida pro says he’s loving these conditions that have been tremendously rare or non-existent on previous trips he’s made here, and thoughts of pitching Berkley craws and creature baits all day is reason to be excited for Thursday’s first day of competition.

Carson favors 40-pound Berkley X5 braided line for such jungle warfare and plans to spend most of his time in a couple major creeks and bays, rather than run all over the 46,000-acre reservoir.

The biggest challenge?

Knowing that the Grand River Dam Authority will likely begin lowering reservoir levels pretty quickly, the 39-year old former commercial painter and UPS driver can only hope there will still be plenty of ‘flooded’ habitat by the derby’s conclusion, and that popular areas where he plans to fish don’t get hammered by other competitors.

What’s in the cooler of his aluminum Vexus® AVX 2100?

You’ll find few pros who harbor more unique food and drink items in their boat coolers than Carson, so we always have fun asking what he is carrying in the hold-ice-for-days cooler of his AVX 2100.

This week is no exception. Homemade cookies, his favorite baker, Shaylee made from flour she milled herself, bananas that carry zero superstition with Carson, and peach flavored Fresca his roommate Anthony Gagliardi got him hooked on, highlight the unique culinary lineup.

This one will be a fun one to watch – they’ll be a lot of 2 to 5-pound largemouth caught, no doubt – and you can be certain Carson will be right up in Northeast Oklahoma’s aquatic jungle with all the other critters, occasionally eating a homemade cookie from Shaylee to fuel his excitement.

06/12/2026

06/11/2026

At Vexus, our trailers are Not “one size fits most” but instead, each one is custom built in our Flippin, AR facility to match the exact boat model it’s carrying to the lake.

06/10/2026

Father’s Day is still about 10 days away, but the son and dad duo of Hunter and Jason Baird started celebrating early by hauling hawgs to the scales at the Big Bass Bash event on Oklahoma’s Grand Lake in the Intensive Care™ Livewells of their VXs21.

Hunter, who works with our sales and marketing teams in Flippin, says football jigs and flutter spoons were keys to their success and joked, “Dad taught me everything I know about bass fishing, except how to use forward facing sonar.”

05/31/2026

🎉🎣 20-year old college engineering major and great young American, Calvin Richard, recently won the prestigious Sturgeon Bay Open in his native Door County, Wisconsin!

He and dad, Scott, are awaiting their 4th DVX to be built in Flippin, but in the meantime, they borrowed their buddy Adam Rasmussen’s Vexus bass boat this weekend, and continued to pound on the smallies!

05/29/2026

💙🧡🎓 Arizona native, Carty Shoen’s parents foestered his teenage bass fishing dreams with a Vexus AVX aluminum. He went on to become a champion college angler for the Auburn Tigers, recently graduated, and is back in the Western USA this weekend competing in the rig that holds a ton of sentimental vibes and trust during this weekend’s Bass Angler Magazine event.

Reminder: College anglers competing in a Vexus, make sure you register for generous Tackle Warehouse bonuses through our Vexus Varsity program at VexusBoats.com.

05/27/2026

How might you expect we’d take a short break after two days of intense sales and marketing planning meetings?

We went fishing together on Bull Shoals!

Four boats battled for bragging rights, and the team of George Liddle & Alan McGuckin won with 5-bass totaling 13 pounds (all on topwater lures) plus a 7-pound freshwater drum.

To their defense, the team of Ryan Patterson & Hunter Baird followed their appetites rather than their competitive spirits and focused on catching the group a bucket full of crappie to eat at a later date.

Fellowship was abundant, along with many wisdom rich conversations, great food, and big grins during our time together last week in Flippin.