Jason Christie! 🤯 YUM Baits posted that Jason has won 1 in every 12 B.A.S.S. events he's fished. That's crazy #stout – and winning every other tournamen ain't bad either??
Heard a rumor that the folks who schedule Bass Pro Tour events are being hired by all the western states to increase their snow pack this year...😁 Dang they've had some weather! Lookit this shot from Justin Lucas:
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That look like a place you wanna fish?? (Don't answer Great Lakes peeps...😁)
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Did Jason Christie just win another tournament??
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> "The first 2 days I caught most of my fish off docks and off isolated stumps [with the spinnerbait and jig]...I never caught one deeper than 12". A lot of the targets up there [Hiwassee] are pretty shallow. ...pretty much the same rotation [each day].
> "The 3rd day...the water cleared up a little and all my bites started coming on stretches of bank with rock on it or a little deeper water, almost like a few spawners moved up. I caught a big one early and caught a 6-lber on my last stop and almost my last cast. That fish did a lot of things – it gave me the weight to be in contention on the last day, and also gave me a lot of confidence on day 4 to be able to run some new water on shallow rock....
> "Day 4...a lot of those things were going on in my mind. Whenever you have those really cold days, typically right out of the gate they bite, then it's going to get tough...slick calm. Then there's a little bit of a bite in the afternoon. So I knew that my decision where to start was gonna be crucial.
> "I was running – where do I start, what hasn't been fished the most. I had 3-4 different ideas, then I hit a [serious] fog bank and it really made my decision for me. Rather than starting on the place I really wanted to, I'll just start here, fish 30-45 minutes and wait for this fog to lift.
> "I started on a stretch of [creek] bank I hadn't even fished but it was perfect. The water temperature had dropped 7-8 degrees. It had rock, isolated docks and was 200-300 yards long. I got a few bites, caught a couple keepers and ended up spending 2-2.5 hours in there fishing some of the key stretches.
> "It was just a tougher fishing day. I still caught a good amount of fish, but all were pretty much the same size – 2-2.25 lb males. When I pulled up my trolling motor I really had zero hope of winning. Who thought 15-12 on Chickamauga the last day...no matter what the conditions are, someone will catch a 5 or 7. I was just fortunate everyone in the top 10 had pretty tough day."
Baits
> 1/2-oz bladed jig (shad), same rod/reel/line as the spinnerbait. Used on days 3-4 when the water cleared up.
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Electronics
> "It played 2 ways. One was I was running a lot of skinny water. On the [Garmin] mapping we have the option to set the lake level. So when I got to Chickamauga, I put in negative 3...shifts the mapping. So I was able to find those little depressions and stuff in the creeks, where the water was a little deeper and the fish felt a little safer to spawn.
> "My little hidey hole was isolated stumps. In practice I could see 'em...the lake came up, the wind got stronger and I couldn't see the stumps. I had to use LiveScope some the first day and a lot the 2nd day to see the stumps."
Shout-outs
> "One thing I failed to mention on stage was I caught lot of my fish this week going down ugly do-nothing banks. I wear Costa Tuna Alley blue mirror glasses, and I caught several fish this week...I would see something dark. Sometimes it would be an isolated rock in a foot or 18" of water, a log, a dark spot – I caught a lot of fish last week just off those things that you wouldn't be able to see without glasses."
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3 Qs and 4 pics with the world's most 🔥🔥🔥 fisherman.
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1. What's going on?? You been eatin' horseshoes and rabbit foots for breakfast or what?
> "You know I think I'm just in a good place right now, as far as life. Life's good, I'm comfortable with fishing, I'm qualified for the Classic – and I think I am a little lucky right now. When I'm fishing, nothing is going through my mind other than fishing."
2. What else can we expect to see from you this season? Maybe solving the Fermi paradox or new discoveries in astrophysics or the Milky Way galaxy?
> "As far as the rest of the season, dude you're just gonna see the same thing from me. I don't know about winning, but I believe whenever this kinda thing happens – it happened in 2013 – you get all you can while you can, and that's what I'm gonna try to do the rest of the year. Just try to get everything I can.
> "Being qualified for the Classic gives me the ability to go fishing and just have fun. I've spent years fishing when it wasn't as fun as people think it is, just because you have things going through your head...right now there's nothing there. So you'll see me at every event having fun – fishing free and having a good time."
3. Is your OK fishing upbringing somehow giving you an advantage so far this year?
> "We are in mid-April and literally last week I was fishing for spawners while it was snowing. That is my favorite time of year to fish, when these fish are pre-spawn, I have a bunch of clothes on and it's cold. I love that. lt gives me the ability to go down the bank with a spinnerbait and big jig. I wish all events were that time of year.
> "The Classic set up just like Grand Lake. Last week Chickamauga fished a lot like the AR River. Being that way, yeah I think where I was raised – we have a lot of diversity. Clear to dirty, shallow to deep, so absolutely: Where I grew up and the people I fished against influenced the 2 trophies for sure."
How does Jason get so close to this heron, casting toward it, and the heron doesn't move? Are his presentations so soft that the bird doesn't get scared or...does Jason speak bird?
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Jason probably played in the mud as a kid cuz he's still at it:
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Wonder if he's so in the zone he doesn't know he's run up against that log? And is it me or is there some kinda geometry/Pythagorean triangles lesson here??
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One of the random pics B.A.S.S. likes to include – what is this guy trolling for?
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2nd-5th Chickamauga baits.
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Wasn't able to get On Em's (4th) yet:
2nd: Brock Mosley
> 1/2-oz Angler Assets Spinnerbait (sexy shad), 15-lb P-Line Tactical Fluoro, Sixgill Hamarr Series Reel (6.3), 7' 1" Ark Invoker Rod.
> 3' or less, fishing wood – stumps or laydowns – and pea gravel and clay banks.
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3rd: Jacob Foutz
> "Fished all the isolated wood and rock I could find in any creeks."
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5th: Caleb Kuphall
> "Fished docks on the lower end of Chick with a big influence put on the inside walkway spaces in shallower water, 2-3'. Had one grass spot near Dayton that I weighed my biggest fish from the 1st day. Caught my last fish on Sunday off a tree I found in practice also near Dayton."
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"There's no way we can fish down that population even with the best technology in the world."
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> "If there's a possibility of any changes due to...LiveScope maybe reducing the number of trophy fish and there would be ways to adjust regulations if there was interest in trophy crappie....
> "Fishing guide Kyle Miers isn't worried about overfishing. He says just because you can see the fish, doesn't mean you can catch them. The fish are getting smarter and it's making fishing harder...."
Bunch o' folks think this is like the A-Rig in a way: Fish will be easier to catch for a while, then they will adjust. Plus they're talkin' crappies which are dumber than bass so that's a good sign....
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Asked him if they help you see things formerly invisible on electronics and maybe see into the future but he hasn't answered me yet...😁
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Either way – Rick or "kinda looks like Rick" – is still grindin' which blows my mind. Amazing.
Never had a thought that Rob might be animatronic, but after seein' Matt's impression ^ I think it could be a possibility. Love it when Matt does the funny.
Dang son!
> Johnny Morris, founder and CEO of Bass Pro Shops, is ranked #424 on Forbes' "World's Billionaires List" for 2022. According to the magazine, Morris' net worth is $6.3 bil, as of Friday. His ranking is up from #705 on last year's billionaires list, when the magazine put his net worth at $4.1 bil.
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8. Will Rapala be getting into more categories?
From an interview with the CEO of Rapala VMC – can't link it but it's at angling-international com:
> ...our flagship brand Rapala has significant unrealized potential in both existing and new categories.
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On BassBlaster.rocks right now...
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> "It's a presentation that spotted bass [all bass too?] love and fish don't really see a lot."
And don't just think deep:
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Hey – anyone use Spearpoint hooks? If so pls drop me a note and tell me how you like 'em.
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"I have a weird feeling that I should be there."
Cooper said in that post:
> "Every tournament I have won, it is like I black out."
Hopefully he means after the fishing part else he will actually be someone who fishes "unconscious" and "lights out." 😁 Or maybe he's a Scorps fan:
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😂 Throwin' it way back to metalmania!
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