BassBlaster

Funniest bait commercial, record TX bass, KVD’s secret

By (mostly Jay)

Posted on March 3, 2014

Welcome to Jay Kumar's BassBlaster, your daily-ish email of the best o' bassin'!

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Today's Top 5

1. Funniest bait commercial ever.

For the new Rapala Scatter Raps. Noise at about 0:06 cracks me up every dang time!

2. Record Guadalupe bass.

> Pending state record and world record (IGFA) Guadalupe bass caught by Bryan Townsend while fly fishing on the Colorado River. Ffish weighed 3.71 lbs., beating the previous record of 3.69 lbs. set in 1983 from Lake Travis.

> The Guadalupe bass is only found in Texas and is the official State Fish of Texas.

Purdy…small. But a record. Kinda like ketchin' the world record newt.

3. I've been shinin' on this thing for 40 years like it was Aladdin's lamp.

– First Bassin'Master Classic winner Bobby Murray talkin' 'bout his Classic trophy, which he donated to the Bass Fishing Hall of Fame at this year's Classic.

Didn't have a photo but will use this'n from a local bowling league:

HAHAHA! Just kiddin' fellers!

4. CA 15-pounder.

Dean Jamieson, Lower Otay Rez, 15.5-lbs, 29.5" long, 23" girth.

> Lower Otay has received a steady stream of planted rainbow trout…about 400 pounds of trout stocked every couple weeks this winter. Those rainbows average 1/2 lb in size, not a whole lot bigger than popular trout imitating swimbaits, and perfect size for big bass food.

Trout snax worx.

5. KVD's fishin' secret: giant hands!

Take that, Shaq:

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Help the Menedezes.

Mark Menendez isn't fishing the Elites again this year because his wife Donna's is battling cancer again. Here's a way to help them, please do if you can.

Menendez Family Benefit Account
Paducah Bank
PO Box 2600
Paducah, KY 42002
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News

1. K Short rockin' a GroPro? Be lookin' like it. Sweet. POV cameras are changin' bassin' coverage, love it. 2. James Niggemeyer in a Ranger. 3. Yelas giving away Lew's reel. 4. Bertand gets Maxxis trailer tires. 5. Four now runnin' Yammies. Terry Scroggins, Grant Goldbeck, Kenyon Hill, Michael Simonton. 6. Elite rookie lands rods. Joey Sancho gets Rapsody Rods of NY. 7. MI: Adrian first MI college… …wif bassin' team. 8. CA: 'Yak angler's body recovered. At Sutherland. RIP fishin' brother. 9. Biologist figgers way to kill zebras? > He discovered a bacterium, Pseudomonas fluorescens strain CL145A, that kills the mussels but appears to have little or no effect on other organisms. Suuuuuuuuuuure. *|FACEBOOK:PROFILE:152313681470315|*

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Tip of the Day

Brett Hite: Chatterbait gear tips.

> "…braided line and graphite rods will work for a Chatterbait [but] fluorocarbon and a heavy-action glass composite rod are the perfect combination.”

> “Remember, the bait’s magic is its unique ability to deflect or snap out of grass – that’s what triggers the reaction bite. Glass composite rods possess a more elastic action that loads up and stores energy in the rod when pulling into a clump of grass or banging into cover. Fluorocarbon provides more stretch than braid, enhancing this elasticity.”

> When the bait pops free, the stored energy causes the bait to jettison off the grass in a slower, more forgiving manner, thereby extending the reaction bite period.

> Hite’s favorite Chatterbait combo is 20-pound test Sunline Super FC Sniper fluorocarbon on a 7-foot, 3-inch heavy-action Evergreen Heracles Leopard rod, which is a glass composite, teamed with a Shimano Chronarch CI4+ reel. "The Chronarch is a 6.2:1 ratio, which is the perfect reel ratio for reeling and snapping Chatterbaits through the grass.”

> If you are worn out after throwing a Chatterbait all day, then you are fishing it correctly.

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Quote of the Day

I think the thing that done it was eating Vienna sausages.

– 12-year-old from LA who caught a 114-lbs catfish over the weekend, a new state record. He didn't fish with the Vie-ennas, they're just his lucky snack. That's a future bassin' angler!