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Today’s Top 3
May have to go back to daily soon. A lot goin’ on!
1. That is the biggest line of bull hockey I have ever heard!
– Paul Elias talking about a strange Wyoming sport…okay, not really…talking about peeps who say the A-rig is bad.
More fightin’ words from Paul’s great opinion piece on Bassin’Fan:
> All of these [A-rig] wins required figuring out a pattern and executing it professionally to come out on top. You do not just tie on an umbrella rig and start throwing it around anywhere and catch tournament-winning fish.
> We (my peers) are supposed to be big-time professional bass fishermen, but for the past 40 years we’ve been fishing right past all of these big schools of huge bass and did not even know it. Now a man named Andy Poss figures out how to catch these fish and some anglers think it is a travesty. I guess these fish are just supposed to swim around in the lake and never be caught.
> For the most part, the ones against the Alabama Rig are flippers or bank-beaters, or have something personal at stake like a commission on a bait that is not selling because it competes with the Alabama Rig at the time of year when it is best.
> I personally do not care for catching fish off the bed, but if I’m going to be a competitive professional angler, I have got to do it at certain times of the year or I will not be able to compete. I have come to realize that bed-fishing is a technique also.
And yes, there is a hockey team called the bulls:
That was what Cameron Cole and Lyle Gossett weighed on day 1 of American Bass Association’s recent Clear Lake, CA derby (bed-fished with jigs and swimbaits). Biggest that day was an 8.75, so that was basically five 8-lbers! They weighed a little over half that on day 2 but ended up winning it – by 5.5 lbs.
No fish pic because none published, even on the Facebook page. Lame! Instead will give you this pic of a 3-fish limit (yep, 3) caught at the Bass Champs derby at Ray Roberts, TX. The 3 weighed 21.72.
…using a bobber and some crappie jigs. Ha! Not really.
> Dudley Salers of Brandon, Miss., weighed a five-bass limit totaling 20 pounds, 3 ounces to win the Walmart Bass Fishing League Mississippi Division event on Ross Barnett, MS.
> According to Salers, a self-described “72-year-old southern guy,†the tournament set up perfectly for him….
That “southern guy” comment: awesome. Way to go Mr. Salers!
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Didja check out the awesome StrikeBack spinnerbait yet?
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News
1. Dobyns-backed western circuit dead.
(Not just Gary-backed, but he was the face.) Don’t know if I’m late to this party, but apparently it died at or shortly after the end of 2012.
Word is that a well-known tourney circuit pressured at least some sponsors to back out. I, like you, am totally shocked…. Bummer it didn’t work out. The West needs help, and it ain’t comin’ from the East.
2. First-ever Xpress Boats owners derby…
…June 15, Lake Ouchita, AR.
What an awesome T-shirt this has gotta be!
4. College championship registration open til April 30.
5. Susquehanna smallie catch down by 80%!!!!
> A report released Thursday by the Chesapeake Bay Foundation says [smallmouths], particularly those in the lower Susquehanna River, have been struck by a perfect storm of pollution, parasites, disease and endocrine disruptors that are changing the sex of males.
> The catch rates of adult bass fell 80Â percent between 2001 and 2005 in some areas of the Susquehanna River, the report said, citing a study by the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission.
> Smallmouth bass are troubled throughout the watershed. Fish with lesions were found in the north and south branches of the Shenandoah River, the south branch of the Potomac River, the Monocacy River and the Cowpasture River.
Hello PA DEP! Stop playing golf or whatever, and get out there and do something!
6. Power-Pole new Bass U sponsor.
7. Shimano reels get most WRs.
Because they’re, no doubt, the best….
> In tracking both line class, all-tackle and junior category IGFA record catches during 2012, the use of Shimano reels leads the way with 178 saltwater records and 65 freshwater records. Shimano rods also took top honors with 75 saltwater records.
8. B.A.S.S. owners, Precht beat up on reds.
9. #1 glass boat builder is…Carolina Skiff.
Who woulda thunk it….
Headline of the Day
Use soft plastic lures for hard strikes
First line: “In the ponds or in the river, you have to have a soft plastic bait in order to score on largemouth bass.”
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Tip of the Day
Staying with the old-school tube thang:
> When bass are suspended in deep grass, Oklahoma pro Jeff Kriet turns his tube into a jigging bait.
> He rigs the lure with a 1/4- or 1/8-ounce jighead that has a light wire hook. He casts it into the deep grass, lets it go to the bottom and starts ripping it free.
> “That’s a good way to catch fish that aren’t real active,” he describes. “If your graph is marking schools of shad over grass and you can’t get bass to bite other lures, this will catch them.”
> Kriet fishes 3 1/2- to 4-inch tubes with the jig hook exposed. White and watermelon are his favorite colors for this technique.
> When the tube catches in the grass, he jerks, forcing the bait to pop, then lets it fall back on slack line. The sudden change of direction causes the bass to react and most strikes occur as the bait falls.
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Quote of the Day
Bloody, oil-oozing baitfish are as tantalizing and tasty to big cats as a juicy grape plucked from the vine.
– From info about some new catfish scent.
So…catfish love “juicy grapes plucked from the vine”??? Have a hard time believing that, since I’m have to assume no one’s ever fished for cats with fresh grapes.
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Shot of the Day
A 15-10 caught by this here dude in a Charlotte County, FL pond. As amazing as that fish is, consider this: It would have to be 10 POUNDS HEAVIER to be a world record. Dang!!
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