Did you hear about the college basketball craziness — federal charges, etc. What if that insanity came to college bassin’? Be something like:

> [Boat company] and [bait company] offers [college bassthlete] through [college bassin’ coach] free baits and a free boat if [bassthlete] goes to [college]. If anyone’s wondering if anything like this happened with the Lee brothers, it did NOT. Did NOT. *cough* lol

> Uncle of [college bassthlete] shops his nephew/niece around to different colleges, and hints he’d like a good-paying job for himself along with the scholarship. [College] offers [bassthlete] free rods/reels/line/baits along with unlimited use of dean’s bassin’ tub, and uncle gets a job sharpening hooks, maintaining outboards and spooling line…for $100K/yr.

> [College bassthlete]’s relative is paid by [fishy character] if [bassthlete] loses a very important derby. [Bassthlete] is observed fishing with dull hooks, hooksetting like a gramma, and helping accidentally hooked fish jump 17 times before getting to the gunnel then boat-flipping it even tho his partner’s waiting with a net.

> [College] admits that [college bassin’ coach] completed class papers for [bassthletes] and also paid [nerds] to do the same. [Bassthletes] GPAs in these classes were 3.5 but much lower in other classes…but they got to spend 5 full days a week on the water! [College president] claims no knowledge of the scandal even though he fished with [bassthletes] at least 1x/week.

> [College booster] provided his private plane for flyovers of [lake] and use of private home and bass boat for [bassthletes] practicing for [tournament]. Booster also paid and flew in [famous Elitist] who won at the lake in [year] to break down the lake for [bassthletes]. Meals catered by [local BBQ joint] owned by [mayor’s nephew] who graduated from [college].

> The NCAA is looking into the disappearance of tournament winning checks and forging of beneficiaries of those checks — note the different handwriting:

Hahaha! Lucky college bassin’ is nothing like that, AND is outside the NCAA — stay out! Other than that, just happy Louisville doesn’t have a bassin’ program….

Startin’ it off with this smallmouth that was caught shortly after exiting a Golden Corral in Vilas County, WI. Believe it was caught by Andrew Ragas with a bait combo put together by is buddy TG Grafton to replicate a cisco — 1/2-oz Freedom Tackle Hydra head with a 4/0 Trokar MagWorm Hook, and 4″ Kalin’s Sizmic Shad:

Put yer bass-stankin’ hands together for SCAD college bassin’ gal Laura Ann Foshee, who cracked these bigs with her grand-pappy on Lake Eufaula, AL with a G Money Elite Swim Jig in (cashflow) and Big Bite Battle Bug (tilapia with Spike It orange claws): #girlpower

If yer wantin’ to catch you some giant Allybama River spots this fall, here’s how Jason Kyser did it — 1/2-oz War Eagle spinnerbait (spot remover), and 1/2-oz Dirty Jigs Football Jig (dirty chartreuse) with a Netbait Paca Slim (gp dipped in chartreuse):

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– Alton Jones talkin’ ’bout he and Al Jr fishing with Prez #43 — or really teaching him how to fish his lake:

– Well, uh, thank you Hack for the TMI about yer skivvies. This obviously is super-important to him so I won’t make fun of it, but will say: Slap yerself out of it man!

You’uns may recall I pointed out that the Lions offensive coordinator has a dang good bassin’ name and wondered if he’s a bass-head:

Well, got this in my inbox:

Say what?? Could that possibly be true? Whelp, turns out yep, Lance Cooter owned Bumblebee and is Jim Bob’s dad. Tho I’m sure Lance took ol’ (or young) Jim Bob a-bassin’, the Google machine turned me up zero references to Jim Bob bassin’…possibly because sports reporters don’t have the knowledge to ask such a question. But Jim Bob did say this, which is a positive bassin’ sign:

Wonder if he knows Ott or Wes Strader?

Thanks much to BB reader Jonathan Edwards. Btw, looks like T-H Marine founder Bill Huntley started Bumblebee?