Next week is ICAST week! For me it's a full week so not sure if there'll be a BB, but should be plenty o' social media stuff. If there is a Blaster – which I'll for sure try to make happen – it'll be shorter but heavier.
Stuff I'm watching at the St. Lawrence:
- Seth Feider – Don't think he'd be the 1st 'stache AOY, not sure if the first mullet or the first MNer cuz for some reason Bassmaster.com AOY race standings only go back to 2016. Bryan Brasher says Seth could be the most consistent AOY ever...he has a stout 55-point lead over Patty McWalters. Believe no AOY Champeenship this year so....
- Canadians – Will the Johnston bros get in a fight already? Is Gussy still mopin' or does he feel better? 😂 Will Dave Mercer casually put his hand or foot on the scales for 'em?? (Just messin'....)
- Will Live sonar factor at all? Will Floggin' be the deal? MaxScent? Dropshot vs Ned? River vs lake?
Lotta stuff going down....
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"It's a funny thing about some lakes. It's like you and the lake just click."
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Austin Felix's 5th-place Champlain baits.
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Haven't gotten bait info from the 2 'stachy dudes yet, will catch up with 'em soon. Here's Mr. Plaid Flannel's stuff:
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> "I fished isolated pieces of cover from 4' to 30' all over the lake. Ran 125 miles each day. Few casts on a spot and I was rolling. Think brushpile fishing except for smallmouths. Single rocks, docks, mooring buoys, marker cans, that kind of stuff."
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Ever seen a Drotto boat latch?
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If it works like it looks like it does, pretty dang cool! Props to Target Walleye's Brett McComas for the heads:
Launching
> Since the Drotto boat latch keeps the boat secure to the trailer, you may remove your straps and chain at the dry waters edge. Proceed to back your boat down into the water. Once you are in a good depth to launch the boat, simply pull the lever.
> Pulling the lever will open the jaws on the drotto boat latch and release the boat into the water. The mechanism also stays open awaiting your return. With the jaws remaining open after launch it allows for easy loading and no resetting before loading again.
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Putting it on the trailer
> ...the boat is brought into the trailer at just above idle speed. When the front end of the boat comes into contact with the over 8" wide Drotto boat latch, the latch helps guide the boat into the center of the mechanism.
> Once guided to the center of the latch, the bow eye slides up into the jaws of the latch. When the bow eye contacts the jaws, the jaws automatically lock onto the bow eye. Once locked it secures the boat to the trailer. Now that the boat is secure to the trailer, the boat can be pulled forward into the dry area [where you] hook up your straps and chains for safe travel.
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Pretty cool eh? I'd like to buy a bunch for peeps I see at the ramps lol.
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Here's you some INSANE weather 🤯
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Okay we're all weather nerds at least a little so – check this screencap of western Canada weather:
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> Between 3pm June 30 and 6am July 1 (Pacific Time), the North American Lightning Detection Network detected 710,117 total lightning events [in that area of Canada].
> This is about 5% of Canada's annual lightning in just 0.2% of the year!
Okay if my math's right, that's 15 hours = 47,333 strikes per hour = 788 per minute = 13 per second!!?? 🤯 🤯
Because of the heatwave?? Something else? Some folks said it looks sketchy, whatever that means. I have no knowledge of that stuff, but it sure as heck looks like it was an insane period of time. A couple folks died in fires that all that lightning seemed to have started...🙏
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Brown camo = smallmouth colorin's:
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Less than 7':
> "I'm mainly searching for sand or any transition where it goes from rock to sand. I'll also look for little inside grass edges with rock or sand in front of it. These are areas that the fish can follow back and forth to feed.
> "The more sun, the better. If you can have a little ripple on the water as well, it can be phenomenal – it's like every fish in the area gets up (shallow) and starts looking around. You can still catch them when it's cloudy, but it seems like you have to cover more water to find them and they're not as grouped up.
> "You're stalking these fish and it's just like guys fishing the saltwater flats. Smallmouth are usually pretty easy to see in the sand since a lot of them are really dark-colored. Once I see a fish, I cast ahead of them in the direction they're heading. Sometimes they eat it right away and other times it takes a few casts to get them to bite."
3. Is this a description of David Dudley or the bait?? 😂
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Posted on his IG, looks multi-purpose??
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🤔 🤣 He found it wrapped on his prop on Champlain....
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Glad to hear it.
...with a bucktooth and fangs:
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...not just 1, which we all know already:
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Crazy! Pretty sure if that was 2 bass-heads at a buffet, that food would not hit the floor! 😂
Dang, maybe KVD and Evers are wrong and Johnny really is a good dude? 😁 Just messin' fellas!
Of all the Sevile baits, seems like the Magic Swimmer – which I have not fished – is the one that really caught on with bass-heads. And since Pure Fishing owns Sebile, they are rolling this one out as a Berkley bait now. Here's the original on the TW – bettin' the Berkley version will have better colors....
Saguaro got 21,500, Canyon Lake got 21,600 and Apache got 85,000. Props to the Midweek Bass Club for helping.
Cool! Congrats to 'em.
Had been a MLB pitching prospect, props to Bassin'Fan for the heads.
We have a few high-level baseballers in bassin' – believe Russ Lane threw some heat...and occasionally revisits the screwball...🤣 No idea what that means but love the word Russ!
> A dry-down happens on Lake Jackson every 25 years on average. It is a natural phenomenon.
Rocky Youngwirth >> KY, TN, MS and AL
Dean Corbisier >> CA, OR, AZ, NV and UT
Doesn't sound like it helps with running or fishing, just with stuff like maintenance and engine hours...but I only skimmed the deal....
Called "Kimple Boats," which I gotta say sounds like "pimple" to me?? Seems like they are available in Europe:
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19. AL: Zebras now "established" in Holt Lake.
AL DNR will now stock gobies and smallmouths...kidding. At aonmag com, can't link it....
> ...lure characteristics (lure type, size, and number of hooks) had a significant influence on fish injury and handling time, whereas angler experience did not. Specifically, lures with more hook points resulted in shallower hooking depths but longer dehooking times.
Uh yep! This is the part that stood out to me:
> When choosing a lure, there may be a tradeoff between minimizing the physiological stress associated with handling and air exposure, and reducing the chances of injury and deep hooking.
Say what?? #1, these are FISH we're talkin 'bout. Fish! And we all do our best with the dehooking deal. #2 we are choosing lures to CATCH fish however we dang well please, not treat 'em like puppies! My 2c.
Oooooookay? Rumor is they enacted that deal after a dinner of wild 'shrooms...🤪 lol!
In SD bassin' news:
> ...the commission proposed to change the definition of fishing tournaments so that youth events with participants under the age of 18 (currently it's 17) would not be considered a tournament.
New Stuff
1. Check the Berkley Gilly soft swimbait.
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Innerestin'. Word is Ike Mike-a-nelly had a big hand in this bait tho that shot uses a non-Ike pro hand model...😁 Hope to let you know how it works in person but for now:
> ...infusion of the bait with the famed PowerBait flavor that makes fish hold on longer for more hooksets.
> ...designed the bait so the hollow head section is soft enough to collapse during strikes and keep the bait swimming upright regardless of how it's rigged. TX-rigged sideways, on a jighead or even a dropshot....
> The tabs built into the tail section give the bait a remarkably lifelike motion in the water....
For both the regular and deep, looks like the colors are already on TW:
> These colors were hand-picked by our pro staff....
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Steez Custom HMKL Minnow, MSRP = $25.99, designed by Kazuma Izumi:
- Circuit board carbon-fiber bill
- Weight transfer system
- SaqSas swivels on the hook split rings that allows the hooks to spin freely
- 6 colors, 4" long, 4/7-oz in weight
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On BassBlaster.rocks right now...
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More of a "guideline" of what depth to start at in the summer. Interesting. On the one hand I could say he doesn't really prove it in the post, on the other hand he's Edwin Evers so he's already proven it! Excerpts from the MLF post:
> One of the most important decisions bass anglers have to make in the summer is how deep to start their fishing. ...as a general rule, [shallow is] not where you're going to get the most or the biggest bites. For that, you're going to have to go deeper – but how much deeper?
> ...I've come to realize that it's something I've been doing instinctively for a long time. My general rule starts by determining how much visibility there is in the water. For that, I'll drop a white or bright lure over the side and watch it as it sinks. When I lose sight of that lure, I check the depth. Then, I multiply the depth times 5, and that's my basic starting point.
> For example, if I lose sight of my white swimbait at about 2' deep, I'll plan to start my fishing at about the 10' mark. It doesn't mean that 10' is the magic depth or that I'm going to load the boat by fishing at 10', but it gives me a place to start and – more times than not – I can catch 1 or 2 around that depth and then fine-tune things.
> I use this guideline only for largemouth – not for smallmouth or spotted bass, which tend to hold quite a bit deeper. ...it really doesn't work very well in FL. Finally, there's a limit to how deep we can go in summer, and that limit is the thermocline....
> Thermocline: "I'm looking for the depth at which suspended things start to disappear...will be a depth at which you stop seeing fish and suspended particles in the water. That depth marks the thermocline.
> The thermocline is important because you don't want to fish below it...at least not more than a couple of feet below it. There's not going to be much bass life down there. I mention this because of my 5x guideline. If you can see 10' deep on your lake, the 5x guideline says you should start at 50' but if the thermocline is at 25' start there instead.
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"...I remember one day I caught a 5-lb bass, and I'll never forget my grandfather looking at me and the smile on his face...."
- Heck yeah! Thomas Rhett talkin' 'bout the #1 thing in the world, BASS FEESHN! Can't link it, at outsideonline com.
Think I've heard every Rhett tune about 100x in the truck because my daughter's a huge fan. Some good stuff fo sho. My 2 faves are "Look what God gave her" because I feel like it's about my daughter, especially these lines:
Look what God gave her, how perfect He made her
...I know she's got haters, but it ain't her fault, nah
Look what God gave her
Ah man makes me tear up. Girls are MEAN to each other man, dang...
...kinda like Tommy Sanders is to Mike Suchan or Boyd Duckett is to errrrrrrrybody (HAHAHA just messin' fellers!). Other Rhett tune I dig is "Center Point Road" because of the loping beat.
Anyone know Rhett please lmk – like to get him to talk bassin' and maybe get my girl some encouragement....
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What happens when you get too many Gamma rays? Y'all know this one:
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But you might not know that FL is closer to the equator and therefore the sun so you get this:
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RARE land shark sighting in FL:
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