10. Last chance to win a couple boats!
Randy “flattop” Howell is raffling off his fully-rigged 2018 boat away here…
….and bass pastor Chris Wells is raffling off his rigged Nitro Z-18 here:
Believe Randy’s drawing is THIS SATURDAY Nov 15, and Chris’ is DEC 1.
11. Forrest Wood is still goin’ strong.
Here’s Forrest with his grandson and Vexus boats dude Keith Daffron doing my 2nd-favorite outdoors thing:
Reminds me: Lucky the Lab and I banged one yesterday, only one we saw. Finally found it hiding in a creek under an old ladder. In a creek! Nicknamed him “chicken,” Lucky ate him when we got home….
12. TX: Sounds like Amistad fish need stable water.
I say they need to stock rainbow trout….
13. Do day 1 leaders have a psychological advantage…
…over the competition? Some guys like to say they’re only fishing against the fish, but that ain’t really true. Good Basin’Fan post.
Btw guys like KVD (pick one), A-Mart (Champlain 2017) and Jo-Lee (#Classickillah) don’t care one bit who’s leading….
14. SC: Couple shout-outs from the ABA AFT Champeenship.
Stopped after 2 days due to weather:
> Winner was NC’s Lance Eckford who bagged a big 18.70 to win with 26.92…so a slightly better day than day 1. Fished a white buzzbait with a King Thumper swimbait [never heard of it — anyone?].
> One of the patterns for 2nd-place finisher SC’s Russell Clark was fishing in 50-55′! Wonder if he had to shake off some halibuts….
15. Here’s what you need to vid yerself all day…
…which is required if you have an Insta account (lol). Various options tested by the folks at YOLOtek and:
> 1st place is: PowerStick-53″ Gen2 powered GoPro boat mount, GoPro Hero 5 Black, 256gb SD card.
> 2nd place is: PowerStick-53″Gen2 powered GoPro boat mount, GoPro Hero 7 Black, 256gb SD card.
But a lotta options work, includin’ with the excellent Garmin Virb. Check the whole deal here.
16. Check the name of this South African trail.
The “Small Craft Bass League.” And “anglers fish from small craft fitted with electric sneaker motors and kickboats.”
Sneaker…motors?
17. Kistler Mag 2 Rods $50 off!
Sounds like on the Kistler website only. Those Magnesium 2s are sick rods.
18. FL: Crazy amount of manatee deaths this year but…
…fewer by boats:
> …at least 741 manatees have died so far this year in Florida, the highest number in the past 5 years, and 262 more deaths than the 5-year average up to this point of the year.
> …as many as 193 may have been from red tide…. Boats accounted for 14% of the deaths, lower than the usual 20% killed by watercraft.
Also said the higher #s might be due to more manatees, which is good. But the red tide thing down there is nuts.
If you didn’t know, manatees come from cross-breeding shar pei dogs and crescent rolls: