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Finally gettin’ some fall weather here in the Jerz. Hope the fish are fattinin’ up where you live and you get on ’em this weekend!
Today’s Top 4
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Excellin’ melons of the week!
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Leadin’ ‘er off with @zmcfishing’s new 11.5-lb PB he whacked, smacked and jacked with a Strike King spinnerbait…possibly a Premier Plus CO/willow?
Wasn’t Taylor Odom’s birthday but he smacked this friggin’ GI-ANT 11.42 anyhow at the ABA derby on Pickwick Lake using a bait he wouldn’t name but the color rhymes with “lexi lad.” Also was a-feeshn 17-lb Seaguar InvizX fluoro on a Shimano Metanium (7.4) and a 7′ MH Heavy Sack Custom Rod — #stout dude!
Feast your bassin’ eyes on what may be the new MT record brownie, a 7.51 caught by Mike Dominick on Fort Peck Rez. Said, “Fish was 21 inches long with a 19-inch girth — it looked like a ball!” I bet!
Mike dropshotted that cannon-ball melon with a Sniper Lures Bolt worm (gp pepper copper) — never heard of it, but Mike said it’s a “hand-poured dropshot bait made in Washington State by Dan Johnson — one of the top smallie baits in the West.”
Here’s another round mound o’ brown, no weight given:
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Finally outin’ the Jackall Kaera Frog.
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While back said I’d reveal what frog Elitist Jared Lintner was using when I was in his boat like this-here:
Well, plum forgot about it mang! Til I saw that FLWer Alex “I ain’t Mark” Davis won the recent Guntersville BFL on a black one. THEN I remembered that I forgot…so here you go:
Jared hadn’t had that frog long, and in the vid talks about giving it a run on Clear Lake, CA and other waters. Called him today and he said:
> “I fished it on Clear Lake, my home lake — I’ve yet to lose a bass on it. Since the river [where that vid was shot], I’ve probably caught 30-40 bass on it and I haven’t lost one yet. [I said, “That sounds crazy man” — he said, “I know dude!”] I’ve missed a couple, or they missed it. But once get them hooked, I don’t lose them.”
Asked him what he digs about it now that he’s fished it more:
> “I still like that it’s compact and has that weight to it. So in a mat it compresses that mat down, and it’s a little over 1/2-oz — so when a fish blows up on it, it’s not blowing the frog out of its mouth. I just feel like they get it better.” [He also mentioned loving the hooks.]
Fishes it with Sunline FX2 braid, a Shimano Curado K reel (7.2) and a brand new 7′ 4″ G. Loomis IMX Pro frog rod he helped them design, which is already on Tackle Warehouse. Actually 2 frog rods — one for open water, one for cover, which is the one he was using — the 7′ 4″ Mag Hvy Frog 885. “Dude it’s right,” he said.
Check the frog on “where you’d love to have a shoppin’ spree:”
Very much digging the different kinds of frogs n topwaters that keep coming out. Can’t wait to see more. And believe it or not I think we haven’t even scratched the surface of how n when to fish ’em…tho Dean, Ish and those cats might have….
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Non-moving water for cold-water bass?
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From a fly-fishing thang about river smallmouths but could apply to lakes? Maybe spots and largies too?
> For these cold-water smallmouth you want the laziest water, which makes a lot of sense because in the winter there’s higher oxygen levels in the dead water than there is in the fast water — it’s the opposite of what you would think of in the summer as oxygenated water.
> The first person to tell me about that oxygen phenomena…always used to talk about super cold-weather trout fishing on the Muskegon and fishing in pretty much frog water and catching tons of trout.
> What we’d find that time of year was…the bass would be in these dead couch-water areas, usually on structure, usually on wood.
Huh. “Couch-water” sounds like time for a salt-impregnated nacho cheese Dorito bait….
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Kennedy don’t need no wimp baits mang!
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Not only that, he doesn’t need more than 2 baits:
> “I’m not fishing little baits — I’m fishing big baits and looking for reaction bites. When you fish the way I fished most of the season, you have big days and you have bad days. That’s just part of it.
> “The first half of the year I threw a flipping jig that I was swimming quite a bit. Once we got around those smallmouth, I picked up that swimbait.”
Here again was the largie deal:
And his “Crazy Ivan” swim it and kill it technique:
> “It’s just a reaction strike. I’m holding the rod tip high and swimming it toward me, then when I drop [the bait] it changes direction and triggers the bite. The way I like to describe it is like the movie ‘The Hunt for Red October,’ when they talk about the ‘crazy Ivan’ — you swim it along, the bass follow behind it, and when you drop it they have to eat it or they’ll run into it.
> “That 3/4 allows me to use heavier line and get the same bite. With the 5/8-oz I needed to use 17-lb line or so to generate the same bites. Now I can use 25 and don’t have to worry about breaking them off when I set hook.”
Have asked him for a pic of that swimbait…waiting for it….
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News
1. What powder Kriet’s using for his frowgs.
Dang some folks really wanted to know what powder Jeff Kriet uses to keep his frogs — and possibly himself — fresh. Was expecting something manly like gunpowder or black powder, but he said, “Talc or baby powder.”
Also said his legs have been perfect since the beginning of the season. I THINK he means his frogs’ legs, but not sure?
2. More info on those Hack Attack spinnerbaits.
Mentioned ’em in the last Blaster. Hack says: “As far as I know the HackAttack Select went on the market at Academy on Jan 1, 2017. They are offered in 10+ different blade configurations, painted and unpainted blades.”
There you go, inquirin’ bass-minds!
I think he stole my boat?
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Tip of the Day
How to fish the Storm Cover Pop around cover.
Interesting cuz:
> Many bassers have used Pop-Rs and those-type baits for making short pitches to cover, but more bass-heads do NOT fish ’em thataway and don’t know how to do it.
> The Cover Pop was made for that purpose, but of course also can do its thang in open water. Question I’ve had is: HOW was it made to do that? Read on. Brandon Palaniuk:
> “It’s made to create a lot of commotion without moving out of the strike zone. It creates a lot of horizontal movement without moving forward.
> “Where the line-tie is located, it allows the bait to do what I call a ‘windshield wiper’ action” instead of making a Z pattern. …the cup of the bait, the top actually overhangs — it has an overbite. That allows the bait, when it does its little windshield-wiper move, to come down and hit the water, make a little ‘ploop’ and then pivot back over on its tail and then do the same thing the other way. It sounds like a little baitfish, a little bream, eating on the surface.”
Ott DeFoe:
> “You can throw it up to a piece of cover and twitch the rod tip really hard and make the bait walk back and forth without covering a lot of distance.
> “It doesn’t get more exciting than making a little short cast right at the heart of a bush, or a stump, twitchin’ that bait just a few times, seeing that bass ease up under it and suck that bait in.”
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Quote of the Day
His slump was a career for most Elite Series anglers.
– Zona talkin’ ’bout the mighty KVD, specifically when he went 49 derbies without winning one…and then won a bunch (again).
Couple more $$$ quotes from that good Bassin’Fan interview ’bout KVD turnin’ the big 5-0:
> “…there are a lot of guys who are out there that I wouldn’t say are extremely athletic…” [lol too funny!]
> “To watch (Jacob) Powroznik throw a wacky worm, I can’t do that.” [What the…KVD can’t do something??]
VanDam also said his elbow is hurting him.
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Shot of the Day
These “someone else’s arm with a fish” shots crack me up man! Here’s my question on this one: Did that little fish really need to be in the pic?? Lol congrats to that bass-head on his win at a Conroe, TX derby:
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