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Today’s Top 4
1. Heard of the Platinum Team Trail yet?
Me neither, but it’s $1,000 George Washingtons per team per tournament, 100 teams (TX) and…it’s filled! Plus some of the guys are local and national studs, like: Tommy Biffle, Harold Allen, Jacob Wheeler, Jeff Reynolds and guys who prolly light up the TX circuits.
Dang! Could this format be comin’ to an area near you? Looks like the Bass N Bucks folks are behind it. More at this link on the TFF.
2. She caught the first three back-to-back-to-back.
– Boat captain talkin’ ’bout Brianna Tucker of Decatur Heritage high school, half the winning team in the recent (and first) B.A.S.S. High School Invitational.
Love the idea, love the fact that a girl is out there catchin’ ’em. And she wasn’t the only one:
Only a matter of time before that happens on the Elites…which’ll be cool….
3. Could you, would you fish a Gojira?
Dat be the AJ Lures Lunker Lizard, 6″ of reptilian iguana-lookin’ hellbender (sorta) that AJ woulda coulda maybe shoulda named “Gojira,” Japanese for:
4. DDT replacement might be worse.
Problem is, no one knows…just like DDT back in the day. Scary.
> It’s the new DDT: a class of poisons licensed for widespread use before they had been properly tested, which are now ripping the natural world apart. And it’s another demonstration of the old truth that those who do not learn from history are destined to repeat it.
> It is only now, when neonicotinoids are already the world’s most widely deployed insecticides, that we are beginning to understand how extensive their impacts are.
You get the picture. If true, I’m fo sho not surprised, and still wonder what exactly our gov’t does…or should I say, what it does with all our tax money….
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News
1. Ev Williams Cherry picks Crews…
…or picks Cherry Crews, somethin’ like that. Both Elites are now sportin’ bourbon digs. Here’s your corporate-speak for the day:
> “The consumer demographics are very positive towards bourbon and it engenders real brand loyalty, especially for a non-endemic sponsor such as us.”
She’s right, but…how does she order at McDonald’s??
2. TVA herbicide use exaggerated?
Rumor about major spraying, which was odd considering there’s a little derby coming up at Gville called the Bassin’masters Classic, but maybe this is it – just spraying around day use areas?
3. Skeeter re-ups with B.A.S.S.
Be crazy not to….
4. GA stocking largies in Allatoona.
> In recent years, largemouth fingerlings were stocked into Lake Nottely in north Georgia to reverse declining largemouth abundance. The early results of that study have shown promise for increasing largemouth numbers in a spotted bass-dominated lake. “These findings suggest there may be a chance to improve largemouth abundance in Allatoona through stocking.”
Doesn’t look like any major waters affected.
6. NY: Riverkeeper warns of western NY PCBs.
7. PA wants to take out rusty crays.
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THIS is why you should be using this shaky head:
Tip of the Day
Ron Shuffield: Hunting bluegill-hunting bass.
> One of my favorites is to ease down a bank fishing for wolfpack bass when they’re in the shallows hunting for bedding bream.
> May is the big month for the bream spawn, but some bluegills spawn every month around the time of the full moon for as long as the water stays warm. The beds won’t be very big, and might not be as easy to spot, but they’re there.
> Ease down the bank in a pocket or cove and scan the water as far ahead of you as you can – you need to see the bass before they see you. Look for a few bass traveling together, maybe in water as shallow as a foot.
> A flat-sided propbait such as a Brian’s Prop Bee in baby bream or bull bream works great for this. Cast the lure ahead of the fish’s line of travel approximately 5 to 8 feet. I fish a prop bait fairly fast because the bass are likely to be aggressive.
> In August 2011, Randall Tharp came close to winning the Forrest Wood Cup on Lake Ouachita with that pattern.
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Quote of the Day
FISH ARE LAND CREATURES.
– From Al and Ron Lindner’s new/old book (compilation of OLD stuff) called Catching Fish: The Chronicles that Changed the Face of Angling. Just before that:
> It’s the bottom, under the water, that in one way or another determines where the fish will be.
Sounds “duh!” but they were among the first 2 guys to figure that out.
I’m a-readin’ the book, and it’s…awesome. Seriously. These guys have forgotten more pattern info than 99% of fishermen will ever know. But – all books are supposed to be autographed and mine ain’t. What up with that fellers??
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Shot of the Day
Noooooooooooooooooooo!
Takin’ the dinks out of Falcon…I guess? Legal and all, but…sniff…. (Wait – Beavis, did you just say “butt sniff?”)
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