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Today’s Top 5
1. ‘Nother win for Strike King 6XD.
This bait continues to tear up the top tiers of bassin’. This time on the FLW Tour, Lake Eufaula, AL, Randy Haynes:
> Haynes said roughly half his keepers came on Strike King 6XDs and 5XDs in citrus shad. The other half came on a variety of swimbaits, and a few fell victim to a Strike King football jig or Carolina-rigged creature bait.
> The key water depth was 6-15′ and often the fish would suspend off the front of the bars. While most offshore fishermen targeted brush and timber, Haynes fished hard rock. It was his belief that the shad were spawning on the tops of the rock ledges….
2. Lake MI: 25.72-lb smallie limit!
Happened May 4 in am Angler’s Dream tournament out of East Chicago Marina. Austin Powers Mike Myers and David Adams fished “The Ponds” at Lake Street off Gary, IN with a Poor Boy Erie Darter (Steiger ice) – full pattern deets in BassGold.
Nice fellas!
3. THIS is one of the best smallie baits ever??
According to OutdoorLife.com it is. I ain’t buying. First of all, that fish spins when you retrieve it – or at least the ones I had a long time ago did. Second, if you want big smallies, it’s like this:
That’s Broncos DT Kevin Vickerson. He don’t want no mini-cupcake!
4. What won the fly-fishin’ derby on Fork.
This weekend. Grab yo’sef a chicken and some Spike-It bass-heads!
5. 2-day fish with Z plus $1K cash!
Didja enter yet? All ya have to do is upload a pic of your boat to EagleOne.com/boatshow. (Here’s the Faceybook page.)
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Didja check out the awesome StrikeBack spinnerbait yet?
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News
A good sign!
Yelas, Nixon, now Duckett. Sounds like Yamamoto is getting more aggressive?
3. MS: Eagle Lake gets 120K FL-strain largies.
4. CO: Tiger muskies being intro’d…
…to get rid of smallies.
5. No evidence DEET repels (haha) fish?
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Tip of the Day
KVD: Getting bites with yo-yoing water levels.
> Cover water quickly, fishing fast while constantly analyzing what is going on. When you get a bite, determine how the fish was positioned, what it was relating to (depth, specific structure, and cover), current flow, how close the fish was to a creek channel or far it was from deep water.
> The fish may move deeper or shallower throughout the day. If you aren’t making that precise cast you might as well miss them by a mile.
> I prefer reactionary bites because they enable me to trigger a strike from a neutral fish and still cover water. I’ll use squarebill crankbaits, stickbaits, spinnerbaits and poppers – baits that have erratic action and you can work quickly.
> In dirty water, the fish will hang tighter to cover and near the bank. That’s when I like baits that have more vibration and displace water – like spinnerbaits, crankbaits and bladed swim jigs, such as the Strike King Pure Poison.
> Clear water is a bit more challenging, but the bass will move farther to get a bait, so I use erratic lures I can fish higher in the water column, such as topwaters and jerkbaits that can pull fish away from their cover.
> It’s easy to get frustrated while trying to figure out bass under these conditions, but keep with it. Hit main lake points, secondary points and sides of pockets, and systematically determine exactly what the fish are setting up on. Take notice of the types of banks and how they’re relating to the creeks, and then look for more of that after you catch a fish or two.
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Quote of the Day
…a socially acceptable addiction.
– What Elite pro Petey Ponds calls bass fishin’. Dang straight! Just not so sure it’s “spouse-ally acceptable”….
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Shot of the Day
Anyone you know trickin’ out their bassin’ tub to look like this-here?
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