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1. NINTH tidal win for MD dude.
Last weekend's Ray-o-Start on the Jimmy James River, won by Bryan Schmitt with 52-12. His ninth win (Ray-os and BFLs) including 5 on the Chesapeake Bay and 3 on the Potomac.
Won the James on a spot, which is like most tidal fisheries – except the Delaware River! Dig it:
> Running far south…Schmitt set up shop on a 100-yard stretch of bank along a bend in the river. “What I was looking for was…pads and grass.
> "When I came here, I saw that the northern end is industrial and rocky and it can’t hold the numbers of big ones. I thought ‘If I were a bass, I’d live in these pads and grass with 6 feet of water off the end of it.”
> During the morning bite, Schmitt caught his fish on a 5-inch 6th Sense Swimbait (shad crush)….
> The rest of each day, he scratched around for bites and finished his daily limits with smaller keepers on a Strike King KVD 1.5 squarebill crankbait (sexy shad).
2. I don't hesitate…all the time.
– Elite/FLW pro Jacob "J-Pow" Powroznik when asked whether he's ever been asked to autograph "women's breasts." Have to ask: why this is a good question, and…are there any other kinds??
Btw Jacob hates that nickname…hence its inclusion here hahaha! Other responses in that article to that same question:
> Ike: "I've signed a handful of female breasts." [A…handful??]
> Arizona pro Dean Rojas was guarded in his answer when asked what's strangest thing he's ever been asked to sign. "A personal piece of…uh…a protrusion."
> James Niggemeyer said he politely refused when a bikini-clad woman once asked him to sign her chest. "I said, 'No, I can't do that.' I thought I'd honor her more by not signing her."
James that's awesome dude!
You know we've hit the big time when bassin' is compared to rattlesnakin' – in Sports Illustrated:
> The Rattlesnake Derby is like a bass-fishing tournament, except you really don't want a bite.
> Picture the Rattlesnake Derby as sort of a county fair grafted onto a giant flea market next to a carnival midway, all of it operating contemporaneous to and under the auspices of what amounts to a potentially deadly bass-fishing tournament.
> It's like a bass-fishing tournament in that there are cash awards for the hunters who bring in, alive, the longest snake and the most snakes and the most (ugh) pounds of snakes.
My fave line:
> "Whatever you do, don't get bit."
No thanks dude! This shotgun be cool tho:
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Tip of the Day
Greg Hackney: Figuring out grass.
Short version, when I asked him yesterday about how he figures out lots of grass so easily:
> Typically when you're fishing grass, if you find school grouped together, they will relate to the outside edge.
> It's like a needle in a haystack, but when you find them they'll be in bunches. Whereas in the grassbeds it'll be one here and one there.
> I just start looking on the outside edge this time of year, and if that doesn't work I'll move up [shallower].
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Quote of the Day
Straight. Bass. Homie.
– New bassin' catch [hee-hee] phrase by bassin' fanatic and guy who caught a couple passes, Randy Moss. Diggin' it!
Shot of the Day
Zona gettin' a NICE double on a donkey rig on Lake Ontario. Still waitin' on my invite…!
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