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Today's Top 3
Sorry for being out o' touch this week. Parts of NJ are like a mini-Katrina. More on that and my drain plug/drowned boat decision here if'n your interested.
1. It will blow your mind when you see what we are about to unleash with the lures I have designed. What you think is standard will now be obsolete.
– David Dudley, super guy and fisherman, on signing with Booyah Baits and the forthcoming Dudley-designed baits Booyah will produce.
2. All the while she's kicking my butt while I'm telling her that's really not going to work.
That shouldn't be fished that way. Why are you casting over there? And then there's "that's such a pretty color" and while I'm laughing she buys some and gets second place and big fish and the check. With that pretty color.
3. When I fished the Top 100s, I paid $1,500 to fish for a hundred grand, and now they want 5 grand to fish for that same amount. That doesn't make sense to me.
– Chris Daves, son of legendary pro Woo Daves, on why he's not taking the offer to fish the Elites next year. He also said: "If I tried it and went out and had a bad year, I'd be in trouble."
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News
1. BassGold discount offer expiring soon.
Works out to less than $2 a month!
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Tip of the Day
> An easy first tweak, says Jimmy Mason, is scraping the paint off of the bait. "Many manufacturers use a metallic or heavy paint and sometimes scraping the paint off a bait like the old Long-A will allow it to sit higher in the water."
> Mason also likes to change out the stock hooks on his big baits. They often have big heavy saltwater hooks on them, which he'll replace with thinner Mustad Triple Grip hooks. This weight reduction will also float the bait a little higher.
> He's also heard of guys drilling a hole in a bait to get the bb's out of it and then epoxying the hole back with filler to take further weight off the bait.
> The final tweak we found interesting was boiling the baits to make them expand slightly. The expansion makes them a bit more buoyant as well. Mason cautioned however to never boil them more than 30 seconds as the bait can warp and even crack, and to let it cool naturally to avoid both.
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Quote of the Day
I think it will be people getting over the hump and recognizing that we are not going away.
– LBAA angler and current Lady Bass Classic champ Cheryl Bowden on getting the word out about the Lady Bass Anglers.
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Shot of the Day
As seen in an Arkansas Halloween parade. First Boo Shakin', and now: Boo Dance.
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