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Big bass baits are small.
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Hack Attack talkin’ on the Bassin’masters:
> These lures aren’t really all that big. They just look big because most everything else we throw is small. I’m with Strike King so I’ll talk about their lures….
> If you look at a Strike King 3XD, 5XD, 6XD, 8XD or 10XD, it’ll look big. But a 3XD is only 3.25″ long and the biggest model, the 10XD, is only 6″ long. Bass eat forage that big all the time.
> So get the size thing out of your head. It doesn’t count for anything.
Huh. How Hack comes up with this stuff:
HAHAHA! For real, tho: This kind of stuff makes me wonder why Rick Clunn doesn’t have a blog. He’s got mega-insight no one else has. And Denny, Elias, etc for that matter. Get on it Kumar! Hey, shut up…myself….
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The goal is to catch fish, not joyride at 70 mph around the reservoir.
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Hahaha! Right? That’s college kid John Garrett talkin’ about savin’ gas $$ in a very cool “bassin’ on a budget” post. Heck yeah! The Kumars roll a budget too, mang….
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Cali Delta FLW Series baits.
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Beeg weener was Hunter Schlander, took it home by a big 7 lbs. Looks like his whole town came out:
Cranked riprap on high tide. Check how small the window was:
Looks like a max of 8′ of water between the riprap and the hydrilla. He cranked a Lucky Craft BDS4 (mad craw) with those crazy-looking Trapper hooks. Here’s a breakdown of what the entire top 10 fished:
Crankbait = 50% — All were crawfish or bluegill patterns. Callin’ out Andy Scholz (7th) for using a Luhr-Jensen Speed Trap — one of the best cooler-water cranks EVER imo — that he had custom-painted:
Senkos and like baits = 50% — Most were shades of green pumpkin.
Dropshot = 30% — All Roboworm, at least 2 of 3 were margarita mutilator which is this color, held by Beau Joudrey (3rd):
Vibe jig = 30%
Swim-jig = 20%
Jig, Swimbait, Spinnerbait, Punch shot = 10%
Also:
> Believe this is the first semi-major tourney high finish on the Yamamoto Sanshouo — Bub Tosh Jr. (cool name! for some reason reminds me of a reggae artist) finished 4th punch-shotting it (3/8-oz weight, 4/0 hook). Says the Sanshouo is a good bluegill imitator:
> Plastics dominated the top 5.
> Lovin’ the name of the host: Sugar Barge RV Resort and Marina, which may or may not be owned by this dude:
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What complete confidence looks like.
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Check FLWer Mike Surman practicing on the upper Mississippi River at La Crosse:
Hey Mike, so you don’t get spotted next time, wear you some North Korean camo, man, it’s the best:
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Both available on eBay for $140 total, not including shipping — deal! lol
Seriously: Who would mount these bass, and why. Maybe Bizarro Supe?
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Didja miss…
Sorry we had server issues last week. Looks like the website is fine now so make sure you saw:
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Tip of the Day
Ran across these, thought they were interesting so:
Paul Elias: Why crank deep
> “…the heaviest bass often prefer a crankbait. Paul Elias has experienced this many times. One instance happened during a postspawn tournament at Lake Guntersville.
> Elias had found a school of bass on a roadbed in 22′. He could catch 2-lbers at will on a jig or a Carolina rig, but nothing bigger. A Mann’s 30+…got fewer bites, but it duped 3- to 5-lbers. “You’re usually going to get bigger bites anytime you throw a big crankbait like a Mann’s 30+….”
KVD: Longer rods
> …longer rods move a lot more line when setting the hook. If you’re setting the hook with a 9′ rod, you’re going to have a lot more power than you do with 7-footers.
> But that can cause problems if there aren’t some adjustments made in the rod action — anglers may be breaking their line more frequently on hooksets with longer rods.
> So, if you’re accustomed to using 6-lb line on 7′ rods, you need more taper in the rod to absorb the shock of the hookset or you need to step up in line size.
Hack: Deadening crankbait action
[Considering how much time and $ is spent on getting the exact right crank action, this fascinates me.]
> “I like to run oversize hooks on my crankbaits to cut down on the action if I want it to run tighter — deadening the action a little. I do this in clear water, heavy fishing pressure, cold water or around a school of pressured fish.”
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Quote of the Day
He was like taking a largemouth bass and throwing it in the middle of a coral reef.
– Alabama offensive line coach Mario Cristobal talkin’ ’bout a player with a serious motor, and showin’ he fer sher ain’t no bass-head…since, you know, a largie in saltwater would expire pretty quick.
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