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Today’s Top 3
1. Mercer fished BP’s spot!
Dave Mercer’s job is great not because he’s the Bassin’master emcee, but because after the tournaments are over he runs out to the winning spots with the beeg weener and fishes ’em. Here’s him and BP yesterday, right where BP caught ’em in the derby, with the dang trophy in the boat too!
Allegedly was for Dave Mercer Facts of Feesheen TV show…as far as BP knows, anyhow….
2. What happens to your lower unit…
…when it hits a shoal – click to watch the vid on Shaw Grigsby’s Facebook page:
3. Crack vial rattles – awesome!
> At 8, he used the feathers from his grandmother’s dead parrot to make his first fly…. [Wonder how that parrot got dead….]
> He learned that striped bass feed on lobster and are drawn to them by the sound they make along the ocean floor. Myerson began trying to replicate that sound with a rattle he put in sinkers, at one point using discarded crack cocaine vials he cleaned up at work and filled with bearings and BBs. [First-ever time fish caught on crack vials??]
> He listened to crayfish in his 200-gallon aquarium with a stethoscope…used a sound meter to determine the decibel and frequency, and then tweaked the sound of the rattle to mimic it as much as possible.
> Myerson said he’s received patents for his rattling sinkers and formed a company called Fish Call to sell the products. [Can’t find a link, but…maybe you can just head to your local crack house grab some empty vials….]
Note from Me
Was a blast covering the “young guys” at the St. Lawrence – like Josh “I’m your Vanilla Ice Cream Man, stop me when I’m passin’ by” Bertrand, Kevin “FLW who?” Hawk (HAHA) and Chad “it’s not how you play the game, it’s how good you look doin’ it” Pipkens. They can fish their butts off, and be stylin’. The future of the Elite Series’s lookin’ pretty durn great….
Vanilla Ice Cream Man pic taken by the awesome Garrick Dixon (gallery here):
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News
1. NJ: Bass U coming back to Jersey.
> New Jersey Convention & Exposition Center in Edison, Jan. 11th and 12th. Jersey residents Mike Iaconelli and Pete “The Dean” Gluszek will be heading up a list of B.A.S.S. and FLW Tour pros who will be on hand for 2 days of advanced bass fishing instruction.
2. PA: Bad year class on Susquehanna again.
But the state DEP still says nothing’s wrong!
> The state completed its summer sampling of the spawn class last week. It found the young-of-year population in the main stem of the river to be about 50 percent of the historical median.
> That’s in line with how many young bass survived their first summer in recent years, which is to say, not good. The low number of young fish will mean fewer adult bass continuing the downward population trend for smallmouth in the river.
3. AL: Event to keep locks open Saturday.
> Recreational boaters are being recruited to turn out in force to keep the lock system open on the Alabama River.
> The “Load the Lock†day is scheduled from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, August 17, at the Millers Ferry Lock and Dam on William “Bill†Dannelly Reservoir near Camden, Ala.
> Because the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers bases its lock policy on usage, the organizers of the “Load the Lock†program are trying to raise awareness of the problem and increase the recreational lockages to 500 per year.
4. IN to kill shad in West Boggs Lake.
Next year will drain the lake.
5. PNW: Better stock up on red craws…
…cuz of the Invasion of the Red Swamp Crawdad-dad-daddyo:
> The red swamp crayfish eat tadpoles, bass and trout eggs. They also munch through the plants that line the bottoms of lakes like this one.
> “By basically being an underwater lawnmower, they’re removing the home and cover for a lot of those native fish.”
> Pine Lake might be ground zero for the red swamp crayfish invasion. A biologist discovered them here in 2000, but they’ve since shown up in nine other lakes in Washington, as well in Idaho and in the Willamette River along the Washington-Oregon border.
They cam from…Japan?
6. Paul Rossi new Bass Cat SE rep.
Contests of the Day
1. Win a Trip with Howell, Chapman or Martens.
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THIS is why you should be using this shaky head:
Tip of the Day
> Martens: “I only fish a lure straight out of the package about 30 percent of the time. Most of my changes are usually minor.”
> Martens turns his jig where the skirt hangs over the head. He then shaves the skirt back where all of the strands are the same length. In the water, the jig skirt will have some taper and appear more natural. He wants the skirt to extend about 1/4- to 1/2-inch behind the hook.
> Greg Hackney trims the weed guard on all of his jigs. He uses a small pair of scissors to trim the guard to a 45-degree angle that barley touches the hook. This still keeps the lure weedless yet allows for better hookups.
> Hackney also shapes his jig skirts to resemble the profile of a baitfish. He says his jigs look more like a bream than a crawfish.
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Quote of the Day
With about 9 more degrees and a bunch of bubbles, we’d be fishing in a Jacuzzi!!
– Jay Yelas talkin’ ’bout the water temp on the Red River in the FLW championship. Posted this pic:
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Shot of the Day
The weirdest thing about this shot ain’t the four arms, it’s the two ears…on one side. That’s frickin’ gross, man!
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