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Today’s Top 3
1. IN’s Jacob Wheeler wins FLW Cup.
Who says IN fishermen never win anything? (Lol.) Great job to 21-year-old tour rookie Jacob Wheeler for winning the FLW Cup at Lanier. Weighed 20 fish for 60-01 and…$500K!
Sounds like the tourney played to his IN strengths: tough bite, not a lot of huge fish, bangin’ ’em out…apparently around rocky river banks:
Two main baits were Rapalas: the TriggerX Goo Bug and the X-Rap Prop.
Btw, Jake the Snake led it wire-to-wire and is the youngest FLW Cup winner ever. Stanley Mitchell I think still is the youngest Classic winner ever, also age 21 in 1981.
2. FLW Cup on the Red River next year.
That about sums it up. Will be interesting via BassGold to see if the patterns will look much different than they do at Classic time.
One of the best regional trails in the country – the mostly-MO Central Pro-Am – was just bought by Mike Webb, president of K.A.S.T. (Kids Are Special Too), an anti-drug fishing program. Mike talking:
> “We’ll return to the format that built CPAA – traveling to a different lake for each qualifying event and a championship on a lake the circuit hasn’t visited during the regular season. In 2013, Central Pro-Am will give anglers multi-day events, close to home with a solid payback.â€
> “K.A.S.T. will continue to visit schools, NHRA and NASCAR events, delivering our anti-drug message and reaching more kids than ever before. Eventually we hope to develop the kids’ tournament series we always dreamed of. Now we have the tools to give more kids the opportunity to fish.â€
Need to mention that BassGold.com has about 20 years of Central Pro-Am pattern data, can’t get it anywhere else….
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Tip of the Day
You know how topwaters often work best when you jerk ’em and they barely move? Here’s how to make that happen, from Zell Rowland:
> “When fish are spawning and they’re tucked up in a bush or next to another piece of cover, the longer you can keep your bait around that bush, the better your odds of getting the fish to bite. Out of all the topwater baits in my box, I can keep a propbait around that cover the longest.”
> “To keep the bait around the bush longer, for example, I bend the prop, or props, toward the front of the bait. The more I bend them toward the front, the less distance the bait moves when I snap my rodtip. If I bend them all the way toward the front, I bet I can jerk that bait 15 times and not have it move more than a foot and half.”
> “On the other hand, if I’m fishing in the dead of summer and want to move my bait extremely fast, I take the blades and bend them toward the back of the bait.”
> “The Smithwick Devil’s Horse is absolutely one of the toughest baits to throw on a windy day because the head of the bait is much fatter than the rear. When you cast it you’re usually throwing the lightest end of the bait into the wind.
> “What I do is unscrew the front and rear eyes of the Devil’s Horse, then reverse them. I actually put the line tie in the ‘rear’ and put hook in the ‘front.’ When I cast the bait, the heaviest end goes into the wind first and it will cast forever.”
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Quote of the Day
One of the most nerve-wracking things ever done since I’ve been on Earth.
– The Z-train re: the below
Shot of the Day
Z sizzles it over the plate! Nice motion! (KC Star photo.)
If you were asked to throw the first pitch at your favorite team’s ballpark with everyone watching your parents, buds, kids, etc. – you think you’d be a bit, you know, on edge? Z was too, but he zipped it over, no prob. Good job, mang!
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