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Hey can you help the Burghoffs? Miles "Sonar" Burghoff's infant daughter Rylee is with her family at St Jude's in Memphis for treatment. Here's their GoFundMe with their story and an opportunity to donate. All you prayer warriors, please send 'em! 💪🙏✝️ Lift 'em up!
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If your email program cuts off the bottom of the email click "View this email in your browser" up top to see the whole thing. Sorry bout that – email programs keep changing stuff.
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2nd-5th Toledo Bend BPT baits
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Top 10 baits breakdown from 2 Okeechobee derbees
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From the Open and Toyota. Tourneys were a week apart ('Yota was first). Fyi the top 10's baits from the Open are here and from the Toyota are here:
TX-rigged stick worm or worm = 9 (outta 20) – Most were stick worms with a worm weight.
Topwater = 7 – Frog 5 (SPRO Bronzeye Poppin' Frog 3, Gambler Poppin Frog 2), Prop baits 2 (Rapala X-Rap Prop)
Bladed jig = 6 – All were Z-Man JackHammers
Jerkbait = 4 – Bill Lewis Scope Stik, SPRO McStick 110, 6th Sense Provoke, Megabass Vision 110
Flip plastics = 3
Damiki rig = 3 – Keitech Fat 2 (3.3, 2.8), Strike King Z-Too
Wacky rig = 3 – Senko, 5" Strike King Fat Baby Finesse Worm, Z-Man Bang StickZ
Lipless crank = 3 – Ark LP58, BOOYAH One Knocker, Rat-L-Trap, Azuma Shaker Z
Swim-jig = 2
Jig = 2
1 each = Neko rig, Dropshot, Swimming/Speed worm, Swimbait (Berkley PowerBait Gilly)
Shout-outs
1. When FL's Robert Camp (8th in the Yota) fished a West Volusia Custom Baits prop bait, he followed it up with the Gilly:
> "I would throw it in there and I'll run it and then kill it. I try to make it look like a bream that's dying. I'll run it a little bit so it gets that waggle, and then drop it down."
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2. NC's Bo Collins mostly fished lipless baits:
> "There's a big flat and there were a ton of boats in there fishing. A lot of people were throwing a [lipless], but they were throwing chrome. I would watch for an area that didn't have any boats on it for 30 minutes or so, and I would switch to a copper color and that is usually when I could get my bigger bites."
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3. You know that Scott Martin won the Open wire to wire. Well the guy who won the Okeechobee Toyota also is from FL and also won it wire to wire...👇 Jessie Mizell:
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FFS did not figure in NPFL and WON Bass wins?
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Lol true! Anyhow, seems the latest bassin' tech DID NOT factor much or at all (they don't really say but doesn't look like it) in 2 wins last weekend – here's the deets:
NPFL
Here's how GA's Will Harkins did the deal at Logan Martin, AL:
Baitwrx Top Performers
> ...caught the majority of his bass on 1 main bait – a Strike King KVD 1.5 Silent Crankbait in a red color.
> ...a Legacy Tackle Company Custom 3/8-oz Finesse Jig was responsible for a couple key catches when he needed to slow down his approach around brushpiles.
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Btw, tour-level guys in the top 10 were Buddy Gross (5th), Kyle Welcher (7th) and Joseph Webster (9th).
WON Bass
Sounds like the guys had every kind of precipitation – snow, hail, rain. CA's Nick Wood won it with 47.42 over 3 days:
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> His 1st-day pattern involved a 7" hitch-colored Line Thru Osprey Swimbait.... He also targeted deeper fish with a Float 'n Fly rig...1/8-oz SPRO Fly in "baby bass" color on an 8' leader.
> As the water muddied on days 2 and 3, Wood turned to targeting boulders with either a white/chart 3/8-oz D&M Lures Chatterbait tipped with a chartreuse 5.8 Keitech swimbait, or a 1/2-oz white/chart D&M spinnerbait with double willowleaf blades.
Not sure if Will used FFS around the brushpiles or Nick used it around the boulders – hope they get into those deets next time. But overall they look like non-FFS wins to me.
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Top 5 BEST things about FFS?
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Funny deal: This vid points out 5 good things about FFS – because there are some good things! But so far it has WAY fewer views on YT than normal for the top 5s. Bet if it was the Top 5 Things to Hate about FFS it'd be YUGE! 😆 Sad man – and yep the social platforms do favor the controversial stuff.
Anyhow here we go – the rundown for the SeaFoamWorks.com Top 5 of the Week in Bass Fishing, Episode 77!
1. It's making us smarter
2. It saves time
3. Helps get more bites
4. New baits! And stuff
5. More excitement
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"Education is the state's alternative solution to an outright ban of soft-plastic bait."
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- From a post on BangorDailyNews.com (Maine) titled: "Rubber worms may be bad news for Maine fishery." This is in a state that has already banned lead tackle and last year tried to sneak in a bass tournament ban for part of the state. More disturbing nonsense from that post:
> The only state law people break when they allow soft-plastic bait to land at the bottoms of lakes and ponds is littering.
> Biologists estimate that only 2% of the state's fish are carrying synthetic bait in their stomachs, but the opportunity for the problem to increase is there as more people take up the sport....
> The fish affected by plastic bait increases to 5% in waters that are primarily bass fisheries....
> "If you let people know it is littering and could have an impact on fish, most people want to do the right thing for the environment. Fishermen gladly protect the fishery," Latti said [ME DNR guy].
Let me get this straight: A bass can jump and throw off a worm, and if a ME warden sees the guy leave without picking up the already-sunk worm, the fisherman can get a ticket for littering?? Crazy.
Anyone know if any other states are kicking this around?
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1. Check the bait Randall Tharp caught this boss hawg on.
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That's 10-03 of weighed Big O Open grass melon! If you thought Randall caught it on a Neko rig and spinning rod, you're right! 🤣 Not even sure he knows what that is...lol. Here's what he said about it:
> "I really like to catch them punching here, but the lake just didn't set up (for that). I figured the tournament was going to be caught winding and that's what I did.
> "I caught every fish on a 1/2-oz gold ChatterBait JackHammer. The key to it for me was a new Zoom trailer called a Shimmer Shad. It looks like a golden shiner. They smoked that thing."
Here 'tis – looks like that Shimmer Shad ain't for sale yet:
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Congrats to Hinton C! LA Sportsman says he was fishing a YUM YUMbrella Flash Mob Jr:
> ...rigged with two 1/8-oz jigheads on the bottom two wires, a 3/16-oz jighead on the middle wire and the upper two wires...3.3" Googan swimbaits, white/silver flake.
> ...around cypress trees along a hydrilla line. He saw a huge bass rise, mouth wide open, to take the lure.
14. FL won't spray the Kissimmee Chain this year?
15. OH: New marina going in at South Bass Island.
Renovation of DeRivera Park B Dock in Put-in-Bay, will cost over $2 mil total, does not say when it will be complete. Not sure about OH, but in NJ and PA stat construction projects apparently never end....
16. Cool short Hook n Look vid showing fluoro underwater.
Seaguar Tatsu – it really is invisible!
17. Big Humminbird deals going on til Mar 31. 👀
Instant savings:
• $500 instant savings on select MEGA Live Imaging products (MEGA Live Imaging, MEGA Live Hand Control Universal, MEGA Live TargetLock, MEGA Live TargetLock Adapter Kits)
I believe those ^ are reflected on TW....
Mail-in rebates:
• Buy a Helix 5, get $40 back
• Buy a Helix 7 G4, get $100 back
• Buy a Helix 7 G4N, get $200 back
• Buy a Helix 9 to 15 G4N, get $500 back
• Buy a Solix 10, 12, or 15, get $500 back
• Buy a select MEGA 360 Imaging product, get $400 back (MEGA 360 Ultrex, MEGA 360 Fortrex, MEGA 360 Universal, MEGA 360 No Mount)
18. Trey Kistler loses mind, announces $49 rods.
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Some deets:
> 3 models: 7' M spinning rod, 7' LMH casting, 7' 3" MH casting
> 100% carbon Kistler Carbon 7 blanks
> $49.95-$69.95
I think this is for real but word is Trey was last seen running into the woods waving his shirt over his head yelling, "I see you Squatchie! I see you!" 👀 🤣
Okay, very cool that Kyrios is the Greek word for Lord – the Lord Jesus. Nice Trey!
19. How 'bout this "wisteria" color Skeeter?
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Hit the angles when cold-water crankin'
From a Lurenet.com post:
> Often bass will attack a lure in the exact spot the same lure has been through 2-3 times when it comes from a different direction.
> Begin with the angle that makes sense, based on wind and current and the visible configuration of the cover. [Then] cross key spots from 2 or 3 angles and pay careful attention to the angle and the location every time a fish attacks.
> If you aren't dealing with significant current or wind, the most efficient way to work all the angles and pattern the fish might be to work and entire stretch of bank in one direction, angling most casts forward, and then turn around and work the same stretch with the boat moving the other way.
> However, when either wind or current is sweeping a bank significantly...maintain one boat direction and angle plenty of casts both forward and backward.
One reason I ran this tip is because LOOKIT THESE BAITS! 😍
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Those are Norman Middle Ns in "red swamp craw," "Table Rock craw" and "orange belly craw" – not on TW, can only get 'em here. That bait runs 7-9' and is a good colder water/pre-spawn crank.
I gotta get that yellow one...or maybe all of 'em!
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"The biggest mistake I see anglers doing as they get in this sport is chasing information."
- Freddy Boom Boom talking 100% solid. The rest:
> Sure they may get a lead that might do them good in an event, but that is short-lived. You must spend time on the water and really understand everything, from conditions to bass behaviors, or you will not last in this sport.
> There is no substitute for time on the water. Ultimately you'll make way better spur of the moment decisions. Create instincts and wisdom over information.
This is something some folks didn't understand about BassGold.com. They would ask stuff like, "Is last week's BFL in there?" They didn't understand that having decades of data that basically cover all possible conditions (kinda a data version of Fred's instincts) is WAY better than what happened last week or last year, meaning in 1 tournament.
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Is this a tub or what! Another pic shows the scale saying 6.28 which if kgs = 13.85 lbs! Man what a fat-tay – and is that an old-fashioned beauty mole on her? 😁 Posted on IG by @deps_official via @takeru.tomimoto:
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