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Today’s Top 5
1. MLF sells a lot of frogs.

– Ish Monroe on Bassin’Fan, talkin’ ’bout Major League Fishin’. Way it’s put in the article makes it sound like “more than B.A.S.S.,” ‘sept that don’t compute….

2. Is a bigger West done?

From the same Ish article:

> “Nowadays, if you want to be a bass pro from California, you pack up and leave. From like ’96 to about 2005, there was a bunch of money (in tournament prizes) out west.”

> “Most people don’t know it, but John Murray made more money fishing tournaments than anybody [nationally] by staying local.”

> “But now, it’s different. Now you pack up and go fish FLW or the three B.A.S.S. Open divisions.”

What happened here?? Gary Dobyns and some buds tried to resurrect the scene last year, but word is were torpedoed. Rise up Cali bassin’ bros – we need you!

3. Fat Free Spiny Turtle.

Not a new Bomber or Japanese bait, but a turtle caught on a Bomber Fat Free Shad. He ate it!

Guess this means Bomber can say their baits will catch ANYTHING. (Tx to Dynamic’s Mr. Guck for the shot….)

4. They have been known to mistake a man’s testicles for its favorite foods – hence the skinny dipping warning.

– Story about swimmers in Scandinavia being warned about the Pacu, a…uh…nut-eating fish.

> The nature of this discovery may tempt people to joke about Scandinavian nuts and Swedish meatballs. However…there is also a history of attacks upon people including two fishermen from New Guinea who were attacked by pacu and bled to death due to severe injuries to their genital area.

Can’t make this stuff up….

5. When cats getting Tyson ~!

– Bing translation of a Facebook congrats message in Japanese to Seigo Saito, for this shot of the G-man he took getting on the Bassin’ Times cover:

Somehow I doubt that translation is accurate. Maybe Bing should be renamed…Bong?

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News

1. This place is notorious for having fish pull up to one stump or tree and in five casts someone could catch 16 pounds.

– Red River expert Homer Humphreys on this week’s FLW Cup there. Dang straight.

2. Frickin’ great: snakeheads carrying LMBV.

Largemouth bass virus – snakies are carriers like other fish but don’t get the disease like bass do. Hope the lower Potomac doesn’t get slammed….

3. 34K were at St. Lawrence Elite…

…town population less than 1K.

4. IL: McKendree U signs 11 to fishing team.

“Signs” sounds so big-time – I like it.

5. WI: Bass tourney on Chequamegon Bay.

Sept. 13-15.

6. NM: Bass stocked in Ute, others.

This guy wants to know: “What is a Ute?”

HAHA! Anyone get that one?

7. Yammie re-ups with B.A.S.S.

Through 2016, on the heels of its subsidiary, Skeeter, doing the same….

8. TX: Vid game arteest digs bass.

> He told me that the people he works with now crack up about the fact that one of the reasons he loves living in Texas is the the existence of bass. “My whole life I’ve loved fishing. So, it sounds ridiculous as to why it’s one of the reasons why I like living here, but it is.”

It sounds ridonkulous?? How about drawing spacemen and monsters as an adult??

Contests of the Day

1. Win a Trip with Howell, Chapman or Martens.

2. Win a trip with Z.

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Tip of the Day

Tide tips.

> Fish are generally most active on moving water, as the incoming and outgoing tides displace forage.

> Rising tides bring cooler, more oxygenated water, which perk up the bass. Falling water decreases habitat range and concentrates the baitfish and crawdads. These outgoing tides also pull the water through the natural filtration of shoreline grass. The result is cleaner water where baitfish gather.

> Once the tide starts falling, lower water reveals the gaps and holes in hydrilla beds where bass will settle.

> “Areas that have stronger current contact on incoming or outgoing tides are the higher percentage areas,” says California bass pro Ken Mah.

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Quote of the Day

I know she’s living under those weeds somewhere.

– John Murray, 12th at the St. Lawrence Elite, tellin’ me on day 3 why he fished for largies, and why he was having trouble giving it up for what were turning out to be heavier smallies. The “she” was a 7-pounder he saw spawning in the pre-fish.

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Shot of the Day

A 7-lb HOWG caught by the A-Mart in practice for the St. Lawrence Reever Elite. Dig the socks/sandals combo – Aaron will have zero adjustment period when he retires to Florida….

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