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Not all bassin’ but funny!
In the T-Bend Elite, from Bassin’Fan:
> …he stumbled on a morning shad spawn and was able to generate a high volume of bites on a jerkbait and a spinnerbait….
> As practice wound down, the forecast showed little in the way of wind and a couple cooler nights…he knew the bedding fish would probably stay put and more were likely on their way.
> “Those cooler night hurt the shad deal, but it kept the bass up there and still coming. I could tell new waves of fish had moved in on day 2.”
> Bed baits: Berkley PowerBait Power Hawg (green-pumpkin and redbug), 1/2-oz Elite Tungsten flipping weight, 4/0 Mustad Denny Brauer Grip Pin Max Flippin’ Hook.
3. I just overthink it – I know so many places on the lake that when I’m on one of my spots I’m already thinking ahead to the next spot, and the next….
– don barone quoting Dennis “TJ” Tietje talkin’ ’bout how hard it can be to fish your home lake [Toledo Bend] in a big derby.
4. Mercer won the Classic?
Be lookin’ like it from this shot:
Money!
5. Z/Sanders go nuts.
Apparently this shot…
…is cuz of these new JM hires:
Love the one lickin’ it!
Nicknamin’
After yesterday’s JK’s BB came out:
> Elite angler Bernie Schultz emailed: I gave Powroznik the “J-Pow” moniker when we roomed together at Seminole. J-Pow, Glenne Browne and I shared a cabin and they liked it so it seemed to stick. Cool!
> BB reader Elton B said this of J-POW: “Big Daddy” is what some call him. He’s a big dude but…is he a daddy?
> BB reader Mike K likes the olden-school wrasslin’-type nickname “Mt. Ida Mauler” for Mark Davis. I kinda like it.
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Elite pro Mark Menendez’s wife Donna recently lost her battle with cancer. She was an awesome person. If you can help Mark and his two young kids, please do so:
Menendez Family Benefit Account
Paducah Bank
PO Box 2600
Paducah, KY 42002
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News
I would LOVE to win that…long as there was a McDonald’s there….
2. Britt Myers on BassEdge radio.
Cuz of drought and cold winter.
4. AL: New bassin’ license plate?
5. Shimano 20% sales increase.
6. Preventing the spread of aquatic invasive species at fishing tournaments.
– Title of an article looking for goats…the scape kinda goats….
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Tip of the Day
Good article, worth a full read:
> For many local anglers, it’s known as “scrubbing†– slowly reeling and dragging a small grub across the rocks in deep water.
> “This time of year I am normally fishing flatter banks,†Eric Olliverson says. “I look for flat pea gravel with scattered big boulders.”
> “This year [at Beaver] was a little different. We caught them earlier in their spawn. This year they were more on the bigger rock, where there was really deep water close to them.â€
> “Any time I had wind, gravel mixed with bigger rock and timber close by, that was the kind of deal where I felt like I could catch some bigger fish. The fish that I was targeting were anywhere from 8 feet all the way down to 30 feet.â€
> Traditionally, scrubbing is done with a grub or small swimbait and a small jighead – think crappie or walleye tackle for smallmouths.
> “This year I switched the bait. It’s a Missile Baits Shockwave.” He uses darter or round-head jigheads ranging from 1/8 to 3/16 oz most of the time. He’ll upsize to 1/4 oz on occasion and only uses 3/8 and 1/2 oz in extreme winds.
> Olliverson parks his boat over deep water and makes an extremely long cast…. The lure usually lands in about 5 feet of water…and then is retrieved down the slope into deeper water.
> The entire presentation takes place on bottom or within a foot of bottom. Once the lure sinks, Olliverson commences with a tedious, slow retrieve with the reel handle barely turning.
> “…about every seven or eight cranks of the reel handle, I’ll just kind of let it fall back to the bottom. As much as I can, I try to maintain bottom contact.”
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New mega-action lizard!
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Quote of the Day
When you are fishing in the South, you see everyone bass fishing either in bass boats, kayaks, aluminum boats or inner tubes….
– FLWer and past Classic champ Luke Clausen. Inner tubes?? Wonder if Luke’s been usin’ Smelly Jelly on his pbuttah sammiches….
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Shot of the Day
Anyone wanna hitchhike to Lake Biwa? Dang do they got some large melons there:
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