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Today’s Top 3

1. This might be my favorite bass T-shirt…ever.

Is that not awesome? What do you think, Ace?

2. Kentucky/Barkley lakes won’t reach summer pool?

When’s the l;ast time that happened?

> Drawdown toward winter pool begins July 1 so for the first time in anyone’s memory the lakes will not hit summer pool. The summer pool level is 359’. The lakes are sitting at 357.5 and have been for some time now. It would take a lot of water coming into the Tennessee River watershed to bump the lakes up to summer pool.

> With the extra foot and a half of shoreline exposed, grasses and woody plants can thrive. The extra growth will provide habitat for fish next spring when and if the water level returns to normal.

> The downside is that vital habitat for spawning and for protection of young game fish is limited this year. It will take two or three years before we know the full impact of the low levels on fish populations.

3. New U of Tulsa QB would rather fish than play ball.

Not sure if that’s a good or bad thing come game time but pretty cool!

> Cody Green is a fisherman who plays football, and if the new starting quarterback for the University of Tulsa Golden Hurricane plays the game anything like he fishes, the team has gained tenacity in its Nebraska transfer.

>  Playing professional football is his dream, but…when the time comes for him to walk off the field, he plans to get on the water as a competitive angler and fishing guide.

> Football or fishing? “Fishing.”

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Tip of the Day

KVD on the jig-worm, aka shakey-head.

> “When you’ve got a lot of pressure, or maybe you’ve caught some fish off a spot with a crankbait or spinnerbait, this is my clean-up bait,” he said. “For me, it’s the very best (clean-up bait) there is.

> “I just have confidence in it. You can throw a Carolina rig with a finesse bait and catch four or five, then not get a bite. Then you throw a Shakey head in and get four more.”

> He noted its use is limited to hard-bottom areas.

> “I do like to fish fast, but I don’t like to cast the worm out and reel it back. I can shake it along in 3 or 4 feet, or make short hops, or basically drag it along in 5 or 6 feet. I get a lot of bites that way, and it allows me to cover water quicker. And it works in 2 feet to 30 feet.”

> Color: “90% of the time it’s watermelon, watermelon/red, green-pumpkin – basically the greens and the browns. If I’m in Florida or stained water, I’ll go to junebug.”

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Quote of the Day

It was a frog fishing freak show with some crazy footage. I haven’t seen topwater tournament footage this crazy since Dusty Pines won on 1000 Islands using a rat – a show I watched on VHS no less than 300 times when I was a kid.

– Dave Mercer on the footage he saw coming into the War Room at the upper Mississippi Elite. Can’t wait to see it!

 

Shot of the Day

How ’bout this fattie! Culled from here, hope to see some this week from the 100 yards the Elites are allowed to fish in Green Bay….

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