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Today's Top 3
1. Hank Cherry smiles?
For a while seemed like Hank Cherry would Tommy Biffle-esque in photos:
Biffle:
Cherry after winning an Open last year:
Cherry after winning ROY this year:
But then Hank wins the All-Star this weekend and finally shows some toofs:
Beat KVD, Edwin Evers and current Classic champ Cliff Pace. Stout fo sho. Congrats man!
2. Cherry didn't fish a jerkbait!
Kid you not – like saying Biffle didn't fish a Hard Head/Biffle Bug:
> Sunday on White Lake, Cherry stuck to a pattern of throwing a swimbait off long points, the same pattern that produced for him on Muskegon for two days….
> “I was around a lot of bait and a lot of fish." Most of them took a Damiki swimbait rigged on a 1/4-ounce jighead with a 4/0 hook, all in various shad finishes.
> His key spot was an underwater sandbar that created a “huge current break,” which set up as a perfect spot for smallmouth bass chasing baitfish. “The shad were there in bunches around that breakline. That’s all it was."
Aw…the smilin', the bait selection…Cherry is gettin' all growed up (**sniff**).
Guess the rumor about few/no gobies in St. Clair was true, next will be Erie sounds like.
> "It's the characteristic population explosion that we often see with non-native species like the round goby. Once the population explodes, it will often decline and sometimes even crash, and that is where we are now."
> In 1996, there were two gobies per hectare (roughly 2.471 acres). In 2001, there were 2,500 gobies per hectare, and this year there were 47 gobies per hectare.
Btw, gobies are also taking over some European waters, and guess it's now cool to be seen sniffin' gobies:
WTHeck??
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News
College "kid" – his brother beat him last year to fish the Classic – guess Jordan had the fire to do it himself this year. Some kind of crazy college fishing dynasty happening in the Lee family. Congrats!
Also this year's class of inductees is: Rayo Breckenridge (RIP), Penny Berryman (RIP), Doug Hannon (RIP) and Blake Honeycutt (still with us).
3. TX: TTBC on Conroe this weekend.
Mercer, you emceein' this any more?
4. TX: Truman cove closed for zebras…
…mussel treatment. Good luck with that. Pretty much is this:
5. IN: West Boggs Creek to be drained.
6. AL Shad might get endangered listing.
A big deal? Don't know but check this map – looks potentially worrisome:
7. Some ponds resistant to frog virus.
Also, crayfish can carry the virus.
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Tip of the Day
Larry Nixon: finding backwater bass.
> "It’s important to go through a process of elimination every single day. I spent over 18 hours this year on the Red River just eliminating dead water. It’s always hard work catching backwater bass.”
> “If you make notes, or waypoints, of everywhere you catch a bass, you’ll be able to paint a picture pretty quickly. You’ve got to keep your eyes glued to your graph because you might find a small side-ditch that intersects with a primary ditch to create a point. Before you know it, you’ve ‘accidentally’ found an area that gets hit by current, holds baitfish and plays host to really big bass.”
> His method is fairly simple. If there is vegetation in the area, he starts by targeting it before moving on to secondary cover such as wood or pad stems. In areas void of vegetation, he targets wood cover adjacent to break lines.
> “You’ve got to fish the tar out of everything you see,” Nixon said. “Like I said, backwaters are extremely spot-specific, so you have to eliminate every piece of cover individually.”
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Quote of the Day
If we’re off 6 inches, that could be a big deal.
– Eric Lopez, B.A.S.S. head of special ops, talkin' 'bout the kill zone the fact that if the bassin' roadies don't lay out the Elite expos on the money, it could be…a big deal.
For perspective, I asked the boys at KISS about it and they said 6" is 1" shorter than this:
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Shot of the Day
Few of my fave shots from the All-Star:
Hank throws a bass at the camera guy:
KVD tryin' to smile but knowin' he ain't won it:
No explanation needed:
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