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Today’s Top 3

1. Do you know a lake’s ‘water type’?

You should because it’s key for patterning and helps people win tournaments – like Brandon Palaniuk and Andre Moore.

> This year BassGold has shown conclusively that “water type” can be most – sometimes even all – of what you need to know when it comes to fishing a lake.

> It’s shown that if you know, for example, any on of the Red River or the upper Mississippi River or the California Delta, you can fish those other rivers.

> Waters of the same type fish way more similarly than many modern anglers now believe. That’s why BassGold is such a powerful tool.

> Brandon knew “upland reservoirs” from his time fishing in Idaho…. Not only did that give him a starting point, that knowledge and approach also gave him a distinct advantage – because he wasn’t looking at Bull Shoals just as Bull Shoals, he was looking at Bull Shoals as an “upland reservoir.”

If you’re a serious angler, or even half serious (lol), read the whole piece here. A lot more there than meets the eye.

2. MN Boundary Waters might be opened up to mining?

Smallie paradise with some bassin’ history – a favorite vacation spot for Ray Scott among others, where Jerry McKinnis torture-tested Bobby Knight, and more. Anyhow:

> The MN House passed the Minnesota Education Investment and Employment Act, a bill sponsored by Rep. Chip Cravaack. The Act authorizes a land swap of some 86,000 acres of school trust land with the federal government.

> It’s believed that the lands inside the Boundary Waters area are sitting on a substantial amount of sulfide and copper.

> Cravaack defends the move by saying that the lands are not able to fulfill their intended purpose of benefitting public education because federal wilderness regulations prevent them from being mined, timbered or sold.

> Opponents of the move say mining in near the wilderness area will have dire impacts on the Boundary Waters area.

3. What it feels like to catch a 5-foot fish…

…in freshwater. This is about that new MI state record muskie – crrrrrazy story. Here’s a pic of it again:

> The muskie came easily to the boat just five minutes after he hooked it. “Then she spooked and jumped out of the water and was gone,” he said. But the trophy was still at the end of his line.

> Off and on over the next 2 hours [!], the fight raged. Seeberger, knowing he had a potential record on his hook, asked one of his buddies to Google the size of a potential record muskie in Michigan. They found it was about 50 inches, he said, so they marked off 50 inches along the side of the boat. If the fish was shorter than that, Seeberger said he intended to release it.

> About 90 minutes into the fight, Seeberger had the fish beside the boat. “Where the 50 inches ended, the head began.”

> As the fish tired, the group was confounded how to land it. From friends in a nearby boat, they borrowed another bass-sized net [and] decided to put the fish into both nets…. They lifted. Both nets broke and the record fish was still free.

> They agreed to take a dock line off the boat and lasso the muskie around its head then quickly cinch the loop. It worked. With the rope around it, all four men reached into the water and wrestled the muskie aboard.

Wow!

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Tip of the Day

Mark Davis on picking a club.

> I like clubs where you fish for a trophy, a plaque or maybe a jacket, as well as end-of-year honors. Some clubs fish for money and don’t have problems. But money changes things and it changes people.

> Maybe that change is small, but it’s still a change. It’s funny what a few dollars will do. I think you’re better off to stay away from it at the club level. There are plenty of other opportunities to fish for money, if that’s what you want to do.

> One thing I would avoid is any club who lets guys fish by themselves. It seems to me that you’re asking for trouble when you do that. Temptation is around when you’re by yourself and there’s always the possibility of unfounded accusations. Either way it can turn out bad.

Speaking of clubs, here’s an artist’s rendering of what happens at a typical bass club meeting:

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Quote of the Day

Don’t fish to your weakness out of desperation and fear.

– Mike Iaconelli, talking about himself. He also said:

> With a tough practice I should have been thinking that I’d be the one angler who would catch 20 pounds. Instead, I let myself believe that I’d be the angler who struggled to catch a limit. That kind of thinking will kill you every time.

> The other thing I did is let a couple of bites in practice throw me off my game plan. You can’t do that. Develop Pattern A, Pattern B, and Pattern C whenever possible, even if they aren’t very good ones. Then work them.

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Shot of the Day

You carve yours yet? (From here.)

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