No BassBlaster July 5 — next one will be July 7. Tx for reading, have a great long weekend, hope you catch ’em and…pics or it didn’t happen!
Bassin’ biz folks — last call for setting up ICAST meets, lemme know….
Today’s Top 5
Short version sounds like (from here): Brown’s dad built the water-moving apparatus that messed everything up in the first place because for political interests. Brown wants to mess it up some more for his ag buds, who have banded together and are…
> …petitioning the state Fish and Game Commission — appointed by the governor — to reduce minimum size limits and increase daily catch limits. For black bass, allowable sizes would be reduced to 8″ from 12 and the daily creel limit upped to 10 from five.
> The [ag] coalition calls it an important step toward restoring salmon and smelt, which would stabilize water deliveries for irrigation and cities.
> Nonsense, says Peter Moyle, a veteran delta fish biologist at the UC Davis for Watershed Sciences. “The same thing has been affecting all fisheries. They need a functioning estuary.”
Which of course they sorta have now but will have less if Brown and his funders get their way. Sounds like it’s gonna be a fight for our Cali bass bros.
Not sure if any of this is related to the whole legal wacky tabacky thing out there, but the governor was handed some fish pics and was asked to point at a pic of a largie — he pointed at this:
> “I’d catch ’em on the bladed jig in the morning. Most of them I caught on the 3/4-oz Jackhammer (green pumpkin) with a 4” Yamamoto Zako trailer (green pumpkin).
[The Jackhammer is Japan-only. The Zako is a new-for-ICAST bait. “Zako” apparently means “small fish” in Japanese. He also fished this bait combo at the Winyah Bay Elite where he finished 2nd.]
> “I cast out to the end of where the grass was, counted it down 3-5 seconds, then slow-rolled it. When I hit a piece of grass, I’d pop it out of there.
> “Most of the fish I caught dropshotting a hand-poured worm (motor oil brown) or V&M Trickster Worm (gp), rigged on a 3/8-oz Elite tungsten sinker and 2/0 Trokar Drop Shot Hook [8-9″ leader].
> [The motor oil color:] “The last time we went up there, a buddy of mine gave me a bag of those worms. He said, ‘I don’t know what is about this color, but they just like it there.’ He’s right. He’s just a buddy of mine and makes them for himself — he doesn’t sell them.
- There’s enough bass fishermen in Montana for a tournament?? lol
- Takes three mules hauling you up switchbacks to even get to Dworshak…so I hear.
News
…for little gal with leukemia. Fish it if you can. GoFundMe site is here.
In case you didn’t know already.
3. Scotty Rook predicted KVD would win again.
Talking the first win this year, not the second. Longtime running bud of KVD’s.
4. TX: How to book a trip with Matt Reed.
Right here. If anyone can get you on some, he can.
5. TX: 3 more lakes have zebra mussels.
Livingston, Eagle Mountain and Worth. Gitcha finesse ready TX bass-heads!
6. FL: Disney World limits fishing.
7. AR: Bull-Norfork Elite derby underwhelms.
Economic impact to local area. I’m betting because it was held on two lakes…and for all we know might still be underway?
8. IL: Illini Team Trail has new owners.
9. FL: Okeechobee being blamed…
…for all kinds of water-quality issues in FL. The real problem is [insert your opposite political party here].
10. ME: Dude making repros of old baits.
Like this’n…
12. Sneak peek at the new Bill Lewis Stutter Step!
From an ICAST invite:
> …unique and repea actions like wag the tail, wobble wake, turn-around twitch, and its namesake stutter step.
…to the 39 they already have. Newbies = Clent Davis, Brett Hite, Davy Hite, Chris Lane, Shane Linenberger, Justin Lucas, Jacob Powroznik and Terry Scroggins.
Comes from Tide and Pampers, sounds like he doesn’t fish, good luck mang!
16. Michelin new NPAA sponsor.
Wish that happened 1 month ago cuz I just bought four! #memberdiscount
Tip of the Day
Some good ones, especially the bubble-trail thing:
> …it’s important to know how deep your lures run, and also the angle they dive and how far into the retrieve they reach their maximum depths. “I spent hours throwing lures over rocks in varying depths of water. That way I got the feedback of a rock to know that the lure was reaching its depth, and I could make minute changes with the boat to know when each lure reached its maximum depth.”
> “I make a waypoint on the structure that I want to hit, and then after making a few casts and finding the angle I want to hit the structure on I make another waypoint to mark where the boat needs to be positioned. After making those waypoints, I pick a landmark on the shore in front of me, and one on the bank behind me, so I can keep myself in line at a glance.”
> “I’d say that 95% of the time a bait needs to hit the bottom or the structure in order create strikes. So I pick crankbaits that will dive a little deeper than the bottom I’m fishing…so I feel confident that I will hit the bottom whenever I throw the lure in those depths.”
> “If I’m idling over an area and I find a piece of structure that I want to throw to, I idle past it before standing up to make a cast. The prop of my Yamaha leaves a bubble trail on the surface, so if I cast back to that bubble trail and retrieve my lure through it, I can speed up the process of finding the right line to cast on. That little trick alone can speed up the fish-locating process a bunch.”
Quote of the Day
Seems like they always come easier when it’s not a tournament day.
– Paul “kneel, reel and A-rig” Elias talkin’. Dude that’s so weird cuz KVD was telling me the EXACT same thing the other…no wait, no he wasn’t.
HAHAHA! Seriously tho, that’s totally true — why is that? Do the fish know something on derby day? Is it all the pinging like battleships looking for a sub? Or are the fish smarter than we think??
Shot of the Day
Random
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