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FLW winner fished 13 baits at same time!, 100 lbs wins at TN lake!

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Today’s Top 3

1. 100 lbs to win Chickamauga FLW!

This spring TN’s Chickamauga lake was giving up big limits and the occasional DD fish. This weekend AL’s Casey Martin won the FLW Tour derby there with 103-03 – that’s crazy! I mean, we’re not talking Falcon or Okeechobee here, this is a lake in TENNESSEE!

Here’s the 8-05 anchor to Martin’s day 4 30-01 limit:

2. 13 BAITS AT ONCE!!!

Martin won that FLW derby with an A-rig – interestin’ ‘cuz conventional thinking has been that the A-rig ain’t all that past May, after the immediate post-spawn. Not only that:

> Martin caught most of his fish this week on a Picasso Bait Ball Extreme tipped with either Gene Larew Sweet Swimmers or Zoom Swimmin Super Fluke Juniors (albino) on top and either Strike King Shadalicious (blue gizzard color) or Basstrix swimbaits on bottom. While Martin had 13 swimbaits connected to his rig, only the bigger three on bottom had hooks, per Tennessee rules.

13 baits?? Don’t know where you are on A-rigs in derbies, but to me fishin’ 13 baits at once does not in any way sound like what tournament fishing is sposed to be.

3. Would you, could you eat it in a boat?

That’s Randy Howell in the process of winning the recent James River Open. So much for that whole “bananas in boats are bad” thang….

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News

1. Z reveals new Shimano Chronarch CI4+

On the fly brake adjustments? Casting with less effort? Gotta try it…next week…!

2. TX: Zebra mussels found in Bridgeport.

Gobies are next….

3. Johnson Outdoors buys DrDepth.

A Swedish bottom-mapping software company – that’s lake (and sea) bottoms, you pervs. Very interesting. JO owns Humminbird and Lakemaster. I’m smellin’ these depthfinder companies goin’ for all the marbles….

4. Okeechobee lightning kills B.A.S.S. member.

RIP bassin’ brother.

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Tip of the Day

Fishing pre-rigged swimbaits.

> While pre-rigged swimbaits are great tools for catching bass from offshore structure, they typically work best when used as a follow-up lure when a school of bass is active and you need a big bite. “I’ll throw a crankbait and get ’em fired up,” Brent Ehrler says. “But then when they start to slow down, I’ll throw the swimbait and often catch the biggest fish of the bunch.”

> Kevin Snider of Elizabethtown, Ky., agrees. He uses a pre-rigged swimbait once he’s pulled a fish or two from a spot. He notes that the technique has to be employed carefully, calling it a “double-edged sword:” It might get you a big bite or two, but it also sometimes “gets the school screwed up and scatters them.”

> AL pro and Coosa River expert Kyle Mabrey notes that internally weighted swimbaits are deadly on the spotted bass lakes near his home and on largemouth reservoirs around the country. In both cases, the determining factor in their use involves the current.

> “For spotted bass, I usually slow-roll it along the bottom, but you have to let what you see on your graph dictate how you retrieve it,” he says. “At Pickwick last year I was seeing the bass suspended up off the bottom. That happens when there’s an absence of current. It causes them to suspend. Yet when the current is ripping hard you need to keep the swimbait in contact with the bottom, so it’s best to barely turn the handle.”

> In some instances, a dragging presentation, done either by lifting the rod tip or slowly sweeping it sideways, is required to keep contact with the bottom the entire time. Other times you can slowly retrieve it and occasionally pause to allow the swimbait to fall to bottom.

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Quote of the Day

Imagine attending a tournament in which the spectators show up in droves not to see their favorite angler, but to witness fish the size of 8th graders emerging from livewells….

– From a blurb on some new catfishin’ products. Read that and pictured slimy kids coming out of livewells, like some Aliens movie. No bueno.

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Shot of the Day

Three beauts!

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