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Stoutest of 2015, Elite geek squad, How to get better faster

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Today’s Top 5

Stoutest performance of 2015?

 

Givin’ you three choices, no particular order:

1. Edwin “P-Can” Evers won back to back Elites (well, one BASSFest) — Kentucky Lake then the St. Lawrence.

2. Aaron “I don’t know what enigma stands for” Martens won AOY by 112 points, the biggest margin ever, and along the way won two Elites (Havasu and the Chesapeake) plus I think had three more top 10 finishes.

3. Ray “you can call me Ray” Hanselman won all three of the FLW Texas Ray-o-Starts. Okay not the Elites, but heck it’s Texas and guys like Denny Brauer were fishing those events (Denny gives Ray high praise in this article). Then Ray won the Ever-o-Vac Champeenship on the Ohio River.

#Stoutest? Cast yer vote on Facebook here.

You geeky enough to be an Elite?

 

 

 

Elite Series anglers are the geeks of bass fishing. Not nerds (for the most part), but geeks. No detail is too small to learn about and obsess over. Few things popped up here lately:

1. Johnny-Boy Crews talks about cleaning his rod guides to get more distance on casts. (The “Tinker TIme” in the headline reminds me of this Ozzy tune, with NJ homie Zakk Wylde on the fiddle.)

2. KVD is getting neurotic about the deets of lines, hooksets and more in order to lose one less fish per derby:

> Elite pros’ hooking/landing ratio is becoming more critical than ever. A 2-lb improvement in your weigh-in bag can move you up 20 spots at a tournament. That can make the difference in qualifying for the Bassmaster Classic.

> Every Elite angler can look back at the previous year and say, “I wish I had back this moment in time,” and in many cases, it involved a lost fish.

3. Check out the electronics on Greg Hackney’s boat:

That’s more gear than a dang nuclear sub! And Elites not only read every word of the manuals, they relentlessly pick the brains of the electronics tech guys to get everything they can out of their units.

Btw, does Hackney look like a Major League pitcher (manager?) here or what:

Terminator bass.

 

 

 

Check this 12-15 FL tub o lard…held sketchily by a biologist:

> It was first tagged in the fall of 2010 (weighing 6 to 8 pounds) and caught and released by an angler in 2011. In over four years it gained 5-7 pounds, which is better than the average growth rate for a trophy-sized fish.

> This bass was involved in three different studies and has been subject to electrofishing twice, tagged twice and caught by an angler.

Dang! She’ll be bahk….

A few more pics here.

Btw Terminator baits still exist, still work great. Check out their new Walking Frog.

Ultimately, Asian carp could account for as much as 34% of the overall fish weight in Lake Erie.

 

 

Scientists. Ruh-Roh Raggy. That fo sho would be bad…and may happen. Pretty much the only pollution we can’t fix is biological pollution.

On the other hand, nothing mentioned about gobies:

> …their arrival will likely increase food competition, since they will need to eat the tiny plants and animals native fish currently depend on. In addition to walleye, fish that could take the hardest hit include rainbow trout, gizzard shad and emerald shiners….

Sons of Fishes vid, what we learned.

 

 

 

Cool idea, though feels to me like it goes a bit too long. What we learned:

> Chapman and Velvick can look like gangstahs.
> Scott Martin can’t…which is weird since his dad Roland is the ultimate bass gangstah.

> Bill Dance can act! Though I guess not surprising.

My picks for guys most able to pull off the bass gansta look: Hackney, Brauer, Klein, Cherry, Elias, Powroznik, the Lane bros (already in a gang in FL), Kriet as long as he stays quiet, Swindle if his beard ain’t too neat, Zona, Overstreet, Bowman and Mercer with a beard. Steve Wright too — he would be the guy that sneaks up behind you with a knife.

And of course Shaw Grigsby and Randy Howell (lol).

 

News

 

1. New YUM Baby Christie Critter.

3.5″ size only available at Bass Pro. The CC’s a sick bait. Click the pic to see the vid.

2. Costa title-sponsors FLW Series.

This means it is no longer the Ray-o-Start or Ever-Vac….

3. Sunline supporting Collegiate Series.

4. NC: Norman up, shallow bass stupid.

That’s the only way I like ’em. The dumber the better!

5. ID: New C&R records.

Every state should do this (CA!!!).

6. Cabela’s exploring sale.

Doesn’t mean anything yet.

7. Bass Champs gets Lowrance.

8. YUM Christie Critter “review.”

Git it here on TackleWarehouse.com.

9. Gas prices should stay down in 2016.

Because of this, B.A.S.S. announced that the Toyota AOY event will be in the Northwest Territories in November…also because the waves were too small the last couple years…. (Have to apologize to my mom for all that sarcasm — sorry ma!)

Know this for sure: Gas prices will stay down ’til they go up.

10. NH lead jig/sinker ban effective June.

Guess it’s okay for ice fishing?

11. Ranger/Stratos promotions.

Buy one get one free! (Not really.)

Hey BassBlaster forwarders!
If you’re forwarding every Blaster to other bass crackheads, tx much — or you can email me the addys and we’ll take care of it! We’ll never send spam, sell the list or anything else crazy….

Tip of the Day

You know, aside from spying on VanDam:

> “If you play golf, you can hire a club pro to give you advice about your swing and go out and hit hundreds of balls a day, but most bass fishermen get their only coaching when they’re starting out as kids. That can lead to some very slow development.”

> “A guide can take hours and hours off your learning curve…. What you’re looking for is a teaching guide who understands that you’re not looking to go out on the water that day and catch a lot of fish. You want to learn something new so you can go out all by yourself and catch them later.”

> “When you’re trying to learn a new bass fishing technique, tough fishing is one of your biggest enemies. I used to go to private ponds and even to Mexico to practice as much as I could. You can get more bites there in a day than you might get in six months on tougher waters, and more bites mean more opportunities to learn and greater confidence.”

Wow I never knew that. Wonder what other secrets Denny is holding onto. I have to call him.

Quote of the Day

It’s do or die, like bungee jumping without the cord. I’m gonna fish for a living and that’s that!

– 16-yr-old son of BB reader David L. from IN. Kid has the right attitude, that’s for sure. Just don’t let him get a credit card….

His dad said:

> He and his partner won the Indiana State High School Championship on Patoka Lake. Pretty cool. He was jacked about fishing before that, but afterwards he seems like a different person. I’ve fished a few events with him — he doesn’t eat or drink. Heck, I almost have to force him to take time to use the bathroom! Nuts.

Sounds about right. On fishing days, the only things I’ve seen the Elites pass are…buoys. [Drum hit.]

Shot of the Day

 

Lake Biwa, Japan largie. Looks like that shot was taken right outta the Brandon Palaniuk GoProfessional handbook.

Random

Been groovin’ to this Lynch Mob tune “Slow Drag” — like fishin’ the Ohio River (lol). Makes me want to:

Be throwin’ these

Only the best…

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Jay Kumar is the guy who created BassFan.com, co-hosted Loudmouth Bass with Zona, was a B.A.S.S. senior writer and a whole lot more in bassin’. His BassBlaster is a daily-ish roundup of the best in bassin’, and is the #2 daily read on any given day in the wide world o’ bass. Get the Blaster on an app too:

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