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> …during the tournament the bass transitioned from a prespawn phase to a spawning phase. “The first 2 days, the fish were down deeper in that 5- to 8-foot zone. That’s when the compact pitching jig was best. But the last 2 days they seemed to have moved up shallower on the laydowns and on little ledges and shelves in the rock to bed. I really think it turned into a full-blown spawn — and that’s when the bulkier flipping jig seemed to be better.”
> [Canterbury used 3 jigs.] One was a 3/8-oz Dirty Jigs Luke Clausen Casting Jig (Canterbury craw) teamed with a NetBait Paca Slim (green pumpkin). The other two were 1/2- and 5/8-oz Dirty Jigs Scott Canterbury Flippin’ Jigs (Canterbury craw and chocolate thunder) trimmed with various chunks and trailers including a NetBait Paca Chunk.
Can’t get the Clausen jig in the Canterbury color on TackleWarehouse, but you can on the Dirty Jigs site. Here’s the swim jig in the Canterbury color (left) and the Clausen color, which I include because I think it’s a cool color:
So one weekend we had the Weenee Bay Elite, and just after that the Beaver FLW, both dink-fests. Britt Myers won the Elite with 56-03, and Canterbury won with 62-07.
Almost the same # of anglers in both derbies (30+) boated less than 15 lbs in 2 days.
Bear in mind that Weenee was a huge tidal fishery that should’ve had bigger fish than the notoriously small-fish Beaver, a highland reservoir.
Told my man Prince about the weights and he was like:
Then he was all:
Analyzed wif info from here:
Jigs = 60% of top 10, including JT Kenney using the Nichols Impact Flipping Jig in the color “JT’s The Best Color Ever” — including here because I had to see what that was:
> I had been pre-fishing all day..One of my last stops I ran across the drum. Honestly calling it in didn’t even cross my mind until I was at home. Spend all day and a bunch of money to have a [bad] practice and your last stop you find 16#s in a drum. P*ssed off, I pulled it, dumped them, is what it is.
Vid here. Two funniest things about this:
1. The fish aren’t even big!
2. The “treat the bass nicely” comments in the post…and for that matter everywhere. Call me old school, but back in the day we used bass to hammer nails at construction jobs then threw them back in the water and they swam away fine.
Always wonder: How the heck does someone launch a boat with a giant blue barrel on it and nobody sees anything?? Not like you can put that in the rod box.
> …he cranked two crankbaits: a 6th Sense Crush 50X squarebill, which runs 4 to 6 feet deep, and a Crush Mini 25X, which runs 2 to 4 feet deep [both bluegill]…on 10-lb Sunline FC Sniper fluorocarbon.
> Birge cranked in and around the multitude of points in the Wolf Creek area. “I would position my boat out on the points and cast as far as I could back into the drains, paralleling the sides of the points. I wanted to bring the crankbait down the side of the drain, hitting that key 2- to 6-foot zone. A lot of those points were gravel on top, but turned to chunkier rock as they fell off the sides into the drains — that was the primary strike zone I was trying to hit. My crankbait would grind the bottom — gravel and chunk rock — the entire time.”
Breakin’ down the whole top 10 (from here):
- Plastics = 40%
- Cranks = 20% — the Triple-A giant Russell Cecil also used 6th Sense cranks, the Movement 80x and the Flat 75X
- Spinnerbaits = 20%
- Swimbait and lizard = 10% each
BassGold tip for ya: Since Beaver and Grand are both highland reservoirs, they will fish very similarly. Would be true even if they were across the country from one another.
News
1. NC: Man missing on Falls Lake.
Appears the boat hit something, both people fell out, one recovered.
2. VA: Body of missing basser found at Gaston.
Dang. RIP bassin’ brother.
3. Keith Combs giving away Strike King stuff.
4. Drawing to fish with Faircloth.
> “They’ve set me up to teach classes and are hooking high school teams up with great pricing….”
6. LA: Elite testimonies May 7.
> Randy Howell, Brent Chapman, Alton Jones and Cliff Crochet will be at Siloam Baptist Church in Many May 7 at 6:30 p.m. for a ‘Meet the Elite’ event.
#reelfaith
7. Lester will fish with spinning rod this week.
Thought they were just for crappie but guess not?
8. Watch Scotty Ashmore talk about MLF win.
Scotty is good people.
11. MD: Elites are fishing the Potomac.
After all MD’s nonsense, B.A.S.S. got the permit and will have to handle naturally reproducing fish like fine china from the Ming Dynasty.
12. George Bush Sr. gets world’s biggest Rapala.
Check it:
Believe it’s the battery with the gold top….
15. WI Smallmouth Alliance auction TONIGHT.
16. Do you motor glow? Would you?
Blue Water LED — I think it’s pretty rad:
18. Tackle Warehouse 10% off tax stimulus yo!
Sale ends today:
Tip of the Day
Quote of the Day
…this young 45-year-old game as far as the history of sports, we are but out of diapers. We have yet to take the training wheels off.
– don barone givin’ some perspective on where pro bassin’ is I guess on the timeline of major sports. Interestin’. Not sure if he meant “butt” with two Ts…. Also said:
> …this game we play and cover has to be like all other games played and that means we need a no dog in the fight Commissioner to be the Solomon of these games and it can’t be anyone who handles the fish or the money.
Shot of the Day
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