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K-Pink on Clausen DQ, Giant melon patch, Crews’ and Kennedy’s baits

By (mostly Jay)

Posted on May 9, 2016

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K-Pink on the Clausen DQ.

You hear about it? Tough finding it on Bassmaster.com — ‘less you use Google which turned up this Bassmaster blog entry.

How big a deal is it — hmmm, let’s see: Guy makes a 12 cut, doesn’t pass a poly, is DQd, appeals and still goes fishing — that’s fo sho a story. Doesn’t mean it has any villains, just worth reporting on, ‘specially to the bassin’ old ladies chorus.

My 2c has always been that bassin’ should embrace this stuff as okay, just like every other sport does — even TENNIS, for cryin’ out loud — else we look like the world’s biggest vanilla cupcake unicorn gummy bear convention…which for whatever reason some folks want it to look like:

Anyhow here’s an excerpt from K-Pink’s musin’s about it, full scribblin’s here:

> Angler X is staying at Bud’s house on Lake Y, site of the current Elite event. Bud has just finished a Saturday derby on Lake Y when Angler X arrives. Bud has all his rods and baits still rigged and laying on the front deck from the day’s fishing as he and Angler X lean over Buds boat and chat.

> Is Angler X getting info during the off-limits period? Sure, it’s just baits on the deck of the boat, but is it info that no other Elite angler is privy to? Could X have an advantage from seeing the baits? It’s a really, really fine line.

> I’m not a fan of the Live Blog and I never have been. As an angler, you go out there and bust your butt to figure out a pattern, technique or area where you think you can win the tournament. Derby day comes, you whack the poodoo out of them and suddenly everything you figured out is plastered all over the WWW for all 107 of your NOT closest Elite friends to see.

> Trust me, the smart Elite anglers look at every one of the pics and read every word of the blog each and every day. They know the area you fished, what you caught them on, what color Underoos you wore that day. All that stuff is great for dude sitting at his desk eating Cheetos during lunch, but it sucks as an angler.

Patch o’ giant melons!

Kevin “Van” Dame whacked this 10-02 melon on Kissimmee using a black/blue Chatterbait with a Zoom Creepy Crawler trailer:

Rick “Hammer” Harris popped this Alan Henry, TX 12-lb ditch pig with a Yamamoto PsychoDad (gp red flake):

Here’s Cody Meyer and Strike King’s Allan Ranson with giant spots from “the reservoir who can’t be named” in Cali. The best five SPOTTED BASS weighed 33-05!!!! Not too dang bad with the water up now. Caught ’em on a 10XD, a 5″ Ocho and a Dream Shot. Watch ’em ketch ’em on the Strike King Pro Team Journal show at some point.

Mike Brakebill and Chris Rodeno with a couple of several “Delta dawgs” caught on a Roboworm EZ Shad:

Crews’ and Kennedy’s baits.

Johnny and Stevie were 3rd and 4th at Wheeler. Crews had two different areas: One was the main channel in the back of a creek, and one was right off the main river channel. Both areas were near shad spawn areas, but not right in ’em. Here are his baits:

Didn’t want to name the topwaters (but was cool enough to show them), tho used the bigger one in the main lake area. He followed that up with the Zoom Fluke (pearl white) and the 4.25″ Missile Shockwave (fishalicious) on a Gamakatsu weighted hook (3/16-oz).In the back of the creek, he fished the smaller topwater, a SPRO Bronzeye 65 frog (clear chartreuse) and a 1/4-oz Davis Swim Jig with a Missile Twin Turbo trailer (pearl white). The swim-jig he used in grass, and the frog around cover.

Crews told me his many-baits pattern was inspired by the Full Force tune “Temporary Love Thing.”

Steve “the other enigma” Kennedy fished a 3/4-oz D&L Advantage Jig with a Zoom Super Chunk:

He was flipping/swimming it around shoreline cover by spawning shad. “I fished the entire creek,” he texted. The shad “just needed something for the shad to spawn on. Of the 5 I weighed on day 4, 1 was under a dock, 1 was in the grass, 1 was in matted slop in the back of a cut, 1 was on a bluff, and 1 was on a log on a 45-degree bank.” His fish were in 1-20′.More deets on their patterns at BassBlaster.rocks.

Any guesses what this is?

Answer on BB Facebook…after everybody guesses I guess….

Aliens taking over bass brains.

Years of scouring the webz, finally got proof:

But if that makes ’em dumber, I’m down with it.

News

1. IL: UI college basser passes on.

Dang it.

2. Herren vs Tharp vid.

HAHAHA! Okay here’s the real link. In the text my bud Bowman makes a case for growing the sport. My 2c: Won’t happen…for any sport. Those ships have sailed.

But…there is one way feesh’n can grow, been working on it for a while now, not tellin’…yet.

3. Brad Leroy on BassEdge Radio.

4. Learn about the Rapala Scatter Rap Shad Deep.

Get ’em here.5. FLWer Rose gets wiped.

Gets WIPES, I mean. And not Dude Wipes either.

6. FL: Lost bassin’ bro found okay.

7. 2016 B.A.S.S. HS All-Americans.

8. Update on Bass’n Gals.

9. Two WA lakes closed bc of salmon.

Supposedly….

10. Fin Commander…

…cuz we need another fishing brand? Cuz Duck Commander isn’t killin’ it? Cuz…?

11. New Yammy 350 outboard.

No word on whether you can jam a 250 cowling over it….

12. Johnson-Garmin electronics wars settlement.

13. Australia wants to kill all carp.

> $15 million over the next 2.5 years…controlling or killing entirely the species with the release of a carp control virus by the end of 2018.

Tip of the Day

Steve Kennedy’s “tickle bottom” spots.

Not making that up:

> What Kennedy likes best about the football jig is that he can fish it almost as fast as a crankbait and it stays in contact with the bottom throughout the retrieve.

> He has his best luck with the jig when it bumps along over clean, hard bottoms covered with gravel or mussel shells.

> “My wife calls places like that ‘tickle bottom’,” Kennedy said. “When you feel that, prepare to get thumped.”

Tempted to get on the double entendre train but won’t….

Quote of the Day

My attention span must be too short or something.

– Johnny Crews talkin’ to me about his multi-bait selection at Wheeler vs. the other top finishers’ 1 or 2 baits. Right after that he was like, “What protein shake do you drink?”

And I was like, “Yep, maybe that attention span thing is it.” And he was all, “Is that an osprey?”

Shot of the Day

Why you should never get skunked. This near bird meal hit a jerkbait:

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