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Today’s Top 3

1. Combs wins Elite, SK 6XD wins again.

Keith Combs held off Ricky Clunn to win the Falcon Elite…by 6 pounds (111-05 vs 110-06), interesting in that Clunn only weighed 3 fish day 1…yet still finished with over 100 lbs. The “only” other 100+ sack was John-Boy Crews, who finished with 103-13.

You know that already, and you may know that the Strike King 6XD – which won 2 Elites and one Open last year – won this derby too. Deets:

> His winning lure was a Strike King 6XD (chartreuse/blue back). He caught all but three of his fish on the 6XD: One he hooked on a Strike King Game Hawg, and two on a 10″ worm (plum).

> He ran a series of main lake rockpiles on ledges peaking at 6′ and dropping to about 20′.

> “I was setting my casts in 6-8′ and working my bait aggressively. I think that was the key. It was a reaction deal. I could see them on my [electronics], but just getting one to bite was hard. I would cast shallow and burn them back to the boat.”

Congrats Keith.

2. Dee Thomas 2nd on CA Delta.

If you don’t know who Dee is, he’s credited as inventing a little-known bassin’ technique called…flippin’. He finished 2nd with a 17-year-old fishin’ pardner at an American Bass team tournament on the Delta – not flippin’, but crankin’, and using a Senko and a swimbait. Awesome!

How awesome would it have been to have Dee and Clunn win on the same weekend. Guess 2nds aren’t bad….

3. You fishin’ the best big-bass derby ever?

A Dodge Ram truck and checks given out every hour, plus checks every hour down to 15th, plus fishing on Lake Fork!

Hope you’re goin’ there April 7, lemme know how much fun it is…or maybe don’t tell me (sniffle).

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Tip of the Day

Hackney: End your day early.

That’s your tourney day, believe it or not:

> Many times speeding-up and changing lures isn’t the answer to start catching bass when you haven’t been catching them. For me, it’s just the opposite. I sit down, mentally go to another place and time, evaluate my day of fishing as though it’s already ended and try to decide what I should have done that I haven’t done.

> I come out of that mental journey and have a better idea of the way I need to fish and the lures to use in those last few moments of competition.

> I came up with this technique when I thought about the number of times I’d been driving from the boat ramp back to the hotel and started critiquing myself saying, “Greg, all you needed to do was make that one little change, and you could have started catching the bass. But you didn’t make that change.”

> So rather than waiting until I’m driving back to the motel and am unable to make that change, once I come up with that answer in the boat, I generally can change the way I’m fishing and perform much better.

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Quote of the Day

It sucks to be less than 40 millimeters in size.

– Biologist referring to the size when Erie smallies lose to gobies. Above 40mm it’s the other way around.

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Shot of the Day

We now know about blue crawdads. This largie look blue(ish) to you? Dude who caught it claimed it was. Never seen one other than green or black myself…you?

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