> “…181 boats in it, we were boat 161. Basically all we did was fish offshore grass. They killed almost all the hydrilla in Harris and Eustis, but there’s still some eelgrass patches. That’s basically where we caught ’em.

> “We used 2 different baits: a 1/2-oz Red Eye Shad (chrome sexy shad) and a bladed jig (1/2-oz, white with black scale) that I make myself…prototype trailer (4″ long, white, spade tail, very erratic, “I probably will come out with it at some point, there’s nothing on the market like it”). I felt [the trailer] was key — they’d never seen it before because you can’t buy ’em.

> “…from 4′ to 8’…pretty much ripping it out of the grass. It was crazy throwing a cranking rod…with 15-lb line, and 8- and 9-lbers are burying up in the grass. It was pretty intense. Just a day you never forget about.”

> “Glenn and I used to fish team tournaments together before both of us turned pro. He actually taught me how to flip. When we teamed up, he taught me how to flip, and I taught him how to fish offshore structure.

> “I thought it’d be really cool — because he was so well-known as a flipper — if it was nothing but a flipping tournament.

> “Most tournaments down here anymore you have 30-40 boats, so a tournament that has 181 boats in it shows you the friends and support Glenn had. It was a very cool event.”

> “I don’t know why it’s so good. A lot of companies have made a lot of different baits to put on a Hardhead or something like a Hardhead, but I don’t know of any that can out-catch it. Maybe it’s the design and action — it has a real good swimming action….”

> “The tail’s concave. It kind of catches the water when it’s going down and makes it glide around.

> “The inside of the Bug is hollow. That makes it soft, but also makes it so you can put scent in it, a rattle in it, or a piece of earplug foam in it to make it float and fish it like a Carolina rig. I put scent in that hollow cavity all the time — the scent stays in there. I don’t put a rattle in it a whole lot because they’re usually biting it.”

> “Throw it as far as you can throw it.

> “They like it better when you’re reeling it pretty quick. I tell everyone, ‘The faster you can reel it and keep it on the bottom, the better they like it.’ …one of the easiest baits in the world to fish — throw it out there and reel it back. The fish will pick it up and swim with it a long ways before they ever drop it. So it’s a real easy bait for anybody to fish.

> “…if you reel it slow then you get hung up more. If you reel fast, it hits those rocks and ricochets and bounces.

> “It’s really good-looking as it’s running along the bottom. When that head hits something, the Bug just hops up.”

> To be honest, some of my best wintering holes were found by watching panfishermen during the late season. On our lakes, bass like to live where the perch, bluegill and crappie school.

> “I’m throwing my football jig around, and I broke it off with 3 minutes to go. So I said ‘I guess I’m going to throw a crankbait for 3 minutes.’ I threw it and threw it, and I said ‘one more cast,’ and I knew I hit [the brushpile] good. It came over that brush, and it just ate it.

> “My co-angler netted it, and it came off in the net. I threw it in the livewell, pulled my small fish out. The crankbait is still in the net on the floor. I strapped the rods down, pulled the trolling motor up and checked in at 2:29:36. You cannot make that up!”