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Today’s Top 3
1. Oneida Open winner never looked at water!

Kidding. Seriously though, largies figured in an Oneida win…again. Don’t know about local derbies, but for national and regional derbies, you gotta have largies. This time 90% of the bass NY’s Jim Bianchi weighed (52-07 total) were green.

> “I brought up some fish that had weeds with them, and in the weeds there were hundreds of microscopic crayfish. Either the bass there were eating their parents, or else the baitfish were there eating them.”

> Bianchi relied on a one-two punch of presentations to keep them active – a traditional flipping jig and a finesse plastic on a dropshot rig.

> “They would bite in spurts. For a while they’d eat a jig, and then they wouldn’t eat it right. They’d just mouth it. Usually that meant you had to finesse them. Other times you could snap it and get them to react.”

2. That fish is the Medusa, brother: You stare at her once, she’ll turn your heart straight to stone.

– Dude obsessed with the WR largie, which he says he’s seen. Not the one below…bigger. Also said:

> ”I’ve sat on that fish for a week straight, 7 days in a row, 12 hours a day, in 15 feet of water – I know how big she is. She’d swim through the hole in that tractor tire, and the second her tail disappeared on one end, her nose would stick out the other end.”

> “I measured that tire: it’s 36 inches. I don’t know how big she is, but I’ll call her 34 inches. No, to be cool, I’ll call her 32 inches. However long she is, she’s the world record.”

Where? Lake Mission Viejo, south of LA, CA. Sounds like a good candidate for an underwater webcam….

3. Canadians get toboggans for trophies!

Hahaha! Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship, Rainy Lake:

> Jeff “Gussy” Gustafson and John Petersonweighed an impressive 55.42 pounds over the three-day tournament and finished 1st after five consecutive years in the top 10, including three 3rd-place spots.

> …the weather was as fierce as the competition. A hundred teams plied calm waters on Day One but rode out Day Two and Three in cold-front conditions, culminating in a more than ten degree drop in water temperature and northerly gusts reaching 40 mph.

Won on Northland spinnerbaits. They di’int need no dropshots!

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News

1. TN: 2012 Dale Hollow smallie kill not a big deal.

Not 60% or whatever of the pop, but about 250 fish related to the drought.

2. AR: Proposed bass reg changes.

> Remove the 12-inch minimum length limit on spotted or Kentucky bass in Beaver Lake. Biologists report the lake has large numbers of small spotted bass.

> Remove the slot limit and reduced creel limit on largemouth bass on Lake Columbia, near Magnolia. The current rule is a protected 16- to 18-inch slot limit and a daily limit of eight fish.

> Remove the catch and release rule on largemouth bass in Lake Hindsville in Madison County. Bass have rebounded in this lake after an extensive renovation 5 years ago, although most of the fish are fairly small.

> Remove the 13-inch minimum length limit on largemouth bass on four small lakes in Felsenthal National Wildlife Refuge. Refuge biologists report the ponds are overcrowded with small and stunted bass.

3. Livingston Lures sponsors ABA.

4. WA: More on Badger Lake.

> “The bass in Badger are an invading population that’s growing rapidly. We’ve been boosting their growth by stocking 80,000 calorie-rich meals of delicious soft-fin trout the bass just love. But if we stopped managing for trout, the lake will tip to a different balance – the bass won’t grow as well on the prickly-finned sunfish.

> “We are perched on the very top quality of Badger’s bass fishery. From here it’s all downhill. Then we’ll be back in the cycle where bass fishermen will want another lake.”

5. PA: River folks want Lehigh Dam removal…

…for migratory shad.

6. MA: $100K a year of shad into Charles.

7. AK: Record heat killing fish.

Stock bass!

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Tip of the Day

Mayfly hatch tips.

> “I like to go down the bank with my trolling motor on about 75 percent and throw the frog into any bushes or trees that have mayflies in them. After I shake trees for about 100 yards, I’ll idle back to where I started and begin fishing.”

> “It’s important to be pretty quick when you’re doing this. It doesn’t take a school of bream very long to eat all the mayflies, so you’ve got to be fishing while the bream are still popping the surface.”

> “If you can find a combination of a channel swing and a fresh mayfly hatch with 4 or 5 feet of water underneath, you’re in the juice. The deep water gives big bass a perfect ambush point and if you can excite the bream, the bass are going to move into the shallow water to eat whether they’re hungry or not.”

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Quote of the Day

I’ll have 18 rods ready with all kinds of baits – I’ll be ready to fish everything from topwater to 20-30 feet of water.

– Edwin Evers talkin’ ’bout his St. Lawrence River practice, which starts today. Not 17, not 19 – 18.

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Shot of the Day

Mark Menedez sent in these shots of him having a time with the Strike King 10XD. Said:  “The first picture is a near 5 and a 4-lber. The next picture, which was the next cast, is a pair of near 4-lbers with one having a bad day! The 10XD was a sexy blueback color on 15lb Seaguar InvizX. I was casting a Lew’s BB1 on a Team Lew’s 7′ 6″ crankbait rod. It was a 60 fish day!”

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