1. LA: Little fishin’ dude just wants Christmas cards.
8-yr-old boy has an inoperable brain tumor. Send a card to:
Drake Quibodeaux
2412 Hwy 388
Vinton, LA 70668
2. Mark Rose talks the Neddy Flanders Rig.
Uh-oh heeeeeeeere we go on the BPT! Mark’s a ledge hammer, so to see this makes me a little…nauseous? Fearful? Sad?
3. Wes Strader thinks the Neko rig will make him better.
> “If I got that one down, I think I’d be even more competitive than I am.”
He saw Brent Ehrler at the ramp the other day and was like:
Here’s a total Neko rundown vid with Brent.
4. TN: Pros doing classes at church again.
Ott “er” DeFoe (Jan. 3)
Brad Burkhart (Jan. 10)
Brandon Card (Jan. 17)
Brian Ooten (Jan. 24)
Jake Lee (Jan. 31) [no relation to Ozzy’s former guit-player]
John Carroll (Feb. 7)
John Murray (Feb. 21)
All classes Thursday nights at 6:30 pm — at Grace Point Fellowship, 130 VFW Road, Kingsport, TN 37663.
5. Kick some bass!
B.A.S.S. writer Robert Montgomery’s bassin’ book is on fie-ya at amazon.com yo! Kindle version too.
6. I missed this: BPT winning weight is final day only.
I think I’m reading this right?
> Tournament champion will not be determined by cumulative weight, but by weight caught on final day, reminiscent of how the Forrest Wood Cup champion was determined between 1996-2000.
Believe FLW did it after that? The bracket-style deal where weights were zeroed on day 3 then again on day 4, and regular-season derbies where weights were zeroed after the first 2 days.
Back then the pros and fans hated the zeroing out, which is why FLW scrapped it. Wonder if peeps feel differently now.
7. TX: State record meanmouth now official.
Cody Morrison caught it at Ray Roberts in Oct on a chart/white spinnerbait, weighed 6.01 lbs — supposed to be a spot/smallie hybrid:
8. MI: Registration for bass derbies opens Jan 1.
9. NY: Mercury, PCBs falling in Onondaga Lake smallies.
However vape use is on the rise…hahaha! Okay vapes ain’t funny….
10. DC: Will EPA rollback of some Clean Water Act stuff be bad?
Depends who you listen to….
11. WI: NPAA conference is Jan 4-6.
12. If you’ve ever been involved in high school bassin’…
…but not as a HS angler, take this survey.
13. AFTCO’s got women’s bassin’ apparel.
Will leave the ladies to judge it, but looks like the stuff the gals in my house wear so…. Check it on aftco.com — I can’t link it.
14. Canadian use of Asian Carp for bait is happening.
The company that published this is also figuring out how to live-transport KY/TN Asian carp to Asian markets:
> …recent approval from the Department of Fisheries in Canada allowing Live Stor America to import Asian Carp into Canada for lobster/snow crab bait. This invasive species product must be frozen and cut in pieces.
> The bait industry on the east coast of Canada uses hundreds of millions of lbs of bait per year, and the existing lobster/snow crab biomass of herring and mackerel are in decline due to overfishing and warming water temperatures….