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Today's Top 5
1. Mercer tops 100K.
Facebook fans, that is, first individual in bassin' (all of fishin'?) to do that, I believe. Cool.
This proves that Mercer isn't just all about Labatts and hockey…I think. With all those fans he prolly won't ever have to buy himself a Subway sammich again.
Pic of Mercer in Canada before he shaved his dome courtesy of Mrs. Mercer:
2. Pink the new red?
Word is:
> The reports coming in are that pink is the magic color on Sam Rayburn Reservoir right now. Some are going for the solid pink RT95, but most are leaning towards this RT264 Candy Craw. It has just enough pink along the upper-back of the craw pattern to do the trick.
Btw Rat-L-Trap has a 'Trap-only derby in Rayburn this weekend. Git there bassin' peeps!
3. Who's Jacopo Gallelli?
Eye-talian dude fishin' the Opens, steps OUT with this vid:
Now THAT's how you do it. Wishin' Jac "veni, vidi, vici" – but you're runnin' with the big dogs now, fratello.
4. THIS Why Not.
The Gambler Why Not that did so well on Okeechobee this weekend wasn't the one that looked like a Beaver, but the new one which looks like this:
Tx to the many Blaster readers who caught that.
Btw, here are dates of free Gambler tourneys comin' up.
5. Zona on ice: 4' of solid fish!
Zona be lovin' any kinda fish'n, even hard water. Texted me this:
> “Was on a lake in north Indiana yesterday chasing perch and no lie – found a wintering hole and it seemed every bass in the lake was in a 3-acre circle. Don't know how many we caught – I'd say 60."
> "My flasher said 12' but it was 16' – 4' of solid fish – serious!”
> “Bait wasn't key but the Humminbird is everything doing that. I called every fish before it bit.”
Btw you ice-heads – seen the Ice Force IceBlaster yet??
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News
> Lake Fork produced its third Toyota ShareLunker of the season Sunday night. Randall Claybourne of Tulsa, OK was fishing by himself in 15' in the east arm of the lake when the 13.86-lb bass took his jig-and-craw lure about 11:20 p.m.
> The fish was 25" long and 21" in girth.
Don't Randy look like an older Mercer?
2. MI: Adrian College adds bassin' team.
3. MN: Maybe more in works for Mille Lacs.
New fish chief, wants to help walleyed pikes, hopefully without hurting bass.
Doh!
Screwed up yesterday when I used "Jap" as short for Japanese – because the word "Japanese" was too long for the headline, like we use U.S. or Can. That's a derogatory term, many apologies, not intended. Am sometimes an idjit….
Contest of the Day
You can be as cool as BP…sorta.
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Randy Haynes finished 3rd at the FLW Series on Okeechobee using 66-lb Toray braid. Awesome stuff….
Tip of the Day
Pete Ponds: Findin' winter basses.
> When the water gets cold, the bass do not go totally lethargic and they do not stay in one place for the entire winter. They move with the weather, especially when everything warms up under a bright sun.
> To find these fish, you need to start looking along creek channels and in the larger sloughs. You’re looking for flat areas alongside the channel or on the north side of the slough. The better places will be about 5 feet deep with plenty of sunshine.
> Deeper water will sometimes produce if the water is clear enough for the sunlight to penetrate deep.
> Don’t worry about structure or cover. Barren flats often out-produce those with grass, rock or wood.
> Make a fairly long cast and bring your lure back with a steady, medium-speed retrieve. Think suspended bass when you’re doing this because that’s really what they’re doing.
> Every so often snap your rod tip up over your head as hard as you can. You want your lure to move up, and to do so fast. That’s what will usually trigger a strike, if you can call it that.
> I like a 1/2-ounce Rat-L-Trap — traditional or the Pro Trap model — color optional….
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Quote of the Day
I LOVE ZOOM!!!
– Gerald Swindle clarifyin' his new Booyah sponsorship.
> I'll be fishing Booyah jigs spinnerbaits, buzzbaits and hard baits. Ed Chambers at Zoom believed in me from the start and I will never forget that. I'm still ZOOM all the way!!!
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Shot of the Day
Guess if you can't fish….
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