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Today’s Top 3
1. FL anglers baiting brushpiles??

Article about stink over brushpiles planted in Kissimmee:

> “I don’t have anything against fishing brushpiles. I do have a problem if they are baiting brushpiles or grasslines. I think that’s cheating.”

> “…they think they’re baiting brushpiles and grasslines. I don’t think that’s happening – I really don’t.”

> …it has become like a virus – anybody who wins is considered fishing brushpiles and cheating. “It’s a mess. It really has hurt all the trails. A lot of guys have just flat quit.”

> “There is nothing specific against baiting or chumming in fresh water,” [biologist] said. “It’s kind of a common practice that’s used for shiner nets, or homeowners will put a little bait off their pier to attract fish.”

> There is suspicion that some fishermen may bait with hog feed pellets, horse feed or soybean cakes, even dog food, a day or two before tournaments to draw more baitfish and bass. But nobody can offer any proof that this takes place.

> [One trail] outlawed baiting in the Camp Mack Team Open…and the Camp Mack One-Man, tournaments that are held on Sundays. “You cannot fish baited fish. I put it in specifically for this year’s two trails.”

> “I decided what I was going to do was periodically pop a polygraph test. Well, I can’t find a polygrapher.”

Would you take a lie-detector test on that last statement? Hahaha!

2. Everstart Pro Angler Randall Tharp.

Description on FLW Cup winner Randall Tharp’s Twitter page. Seems a little out of date…which I called him out on (ha!).

3. He’s never given me a single damn $5 Subway coupon neither…EVER.

– B.A.S.S. shutterbug Jimmy Overstreet talkin’ ’bout his bud Dave Mercer. Also said this ’bout him:

> There was no way I would have fathomed the popularity of Mercer in his homeland of Canada. Canadian fishing freaks would charge the boat ramp as he backed his rig into the water, interrupt our dinners to get an autograph, surround his truck and boat at every stop along the way. They drove circles around his boat watching him do his thing on the water. And they would call his name, Dave, Dave…EH DAVE!

A shot from that fishin’ trip. Overstreet looks kinda…ticked!

Btw that quote’s from the new TheLifeOf website created by some bassin’ dudes like those two’uns, Z, Sanders and…Velvick? Does he still bass-fish??

Site’s odd, just about like what I’d expect – becuz those fellers ain’t right!

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News

1. New MT record smallie?

Here ’tis:

Haha! Here’s the real pic, 6.7 lbs and 22.5″ – caught by a wally fisherman….

2. Bass U offering 25% discount…

…for 2014 classes in NJ and the newly announced Niagara Falls, NY locations. These sessions are awesome and you’re honestly nuts not to go if’n you kin make it.

3. New Bass Pro digital catalog apps.

4. All Star Week voting comes with…

…all kinds of bonuses if you vote for a guy and he wins. Example:

JVD: Win a trip to Lake St Clair with myself by voting me in to All Star Week! Forgot it comes with some gear from G. Loomis and Shimano! As well as up to two nights lodging covered! Tons of other free swag!

5. Ricky Green fundraiser.

One of our sport’s legends needs a lung transplant. Host of big-name dudes – like Zona, Nixon, Cochran, Houston – are donating trips, lots of other folks helping too. Deets:

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Tip of the Day

Ish Monroe: Frog hooksets.

A shorty but a goody:

> The hookset depends on the strike. If it’s a slurp, then I set the hook right away. When they slurp it, by the time you’ve actually seen the slurp, it’s down their throat.

> If it’s an explosion, I wait half a second to make sure the bass has the frog.

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Quote of the Day

It’s less than a world, really, more like a sub-sub-culture or small but avid, odd and insanely addictive niche in the angling world.

– One recent description of Vermont bassin’ fishin’. Could say the same about wally fishin’ ‘cept for that “insanely addictive” part (snicker)….

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Shot of the Day

GREAT shot of a bait – in this case a Livingston Lures Dive Master Jr. (citrus sparkle) – and reel, which is lookin’ kinda steam punk at that magnification.

Shot by a dude named Charles Waldorf from Buffalo, NY – which you may remember used to host an NFL team called the Bills before they became NCAA D3….

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