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Today’s Top 5
> His primary spot was a backwater area where he flipped to reeds. The area featured baby blackbirds falling in the water and a mayfly hatch, which triggered bluegill into eating the insects and bass feeding on the sunfish.
> “When I flipped in there, they wouldn’t eat when it got in there,” he noted. “They’d get it as I’d pull it out to the surface, then they’d annihilate it.” [That quote from Bassin’Fan.]
> …his second spot close to the Three Forks Harbor where he fished around current breaks. “I would just flip into those eddies which I knew had fish in them because they had nowhere else to go.”
One key to Skylar’s win was the bestest rootin’est tootin’est bassin’ tub he could find:
Gitcha an actual blackbird bait:
At the Central Open where he finished 3rd. Like others he was flipping wood and grass, but the he told me what he did different was: “Isolation. I never saw another boat. I stayed away from community stuff.”
His baits:
100% for real, and that’s the real name of the bait. As in, “What bait you using?” Other dude: “Danny the Duck.”
Sgt. Osiris is like:
News
1. CA college angler lost at sea.
Sounds like a boating accident. Hope they find him safe and sound. Family’s GoFundMe site is here.
2. How Texoma is looking for Elitists.
Pretty much high (9+’ over normal) and muddy. David Walker:
Bass hard to find, but Johnny Crews had no trouble finding bait:
What Brandon Card plans to fish:
7 pm CST, Hack on at 7:30 live from the Bassin’ Festivus. Tune in here. Zany show of bassin’ zaniness.
What up with this line:
> Mercer, who is well-known and loved within the bass fishing community….
Don’t they know he’s Canadian?? lol, congrats bro
Costa’s are fo sho the best…
…and you can get ’em on TW.
How ’bout that word Mercer! Dave likes to play Scrabble with JO and has all these big words in his vocab like “bulbous” and “indeed.”
Btw Costa started a bass-only Insta page. Very smart — all you multi-species brands take note.
6. NY: Free massages got Elites back to Cayuga??
7. MN: Classic qual Trevor Lo’s rods/reels stolen.
From his boat right outside his house. #sux
8. FLW gets new sponsors.
Polaris, which is of course under the “Tips” section of the FLW website, and Kellogg’s (renewal).
9. Spain: 300K protest game fish eradication.
Including basses. Go get ’em bassin’ hermanos!
10. CO: Catch/kill smallie derby at Ridgway soon.
11. UT asking if Jordanelle should have no size limit.
12. Great Lakes: Cormorants eat mostly baitfish.
So much for the gamefish conspiracy theories.
13. Shimano expands Zodias rod series.
> …the new Zodias rods are constructed for specific lure and situation use. The 7′ ZDS 170M-G and 7′ 6″ ZDS 176M-G crankbaits rods have longer reargrips for long-casting leverage, and include glass composite material within their Hi-Power X blank for the softer action needed. The heavy power, 7″ 5″ ZDS 175H is ideal for braided line applications, especially when launching frogs into heavy grass.
Feast your eyes on this 2000 Bullet with 200hp Merc EFI and all kinds o’ goodies with it. Price is $14,995. Click the pic for more deets.
Also this line from here:
Tip of the Day
Mike’s the famous Cali giant melon hunter. Cool stuff from his website:
> I like to stitch a big worm between 12″ and 16″. Yes, I said 16″! It is a monster of worm, but it catches some big bass.
> I like a rod between 7′ 0″ and 7′ 8″ in a medium-heavy action and any reel that will hold plenty of 15-20 lb line….. I prefer a slow ratio reel like 5.1….
> After you find your big worms invest some time in to getting some good worm hooks. I prefer to use Owner oversize worm hook in 7/0 and 11/0….
> I very rarely use a bullet weight with big worms since the hook has enough weight to help keep the worm head on the bottom. Besides, I like to stitch the nastiest structure I can find so rigging the big worm without a weight…is essential to getting all that plastic through the structure.
> I like to start with a main point and set up in about 10′ of water and toss out to the deep water. The key to success with these giants is to work these big worms as slow as you can, I mean “fall asleep slow.” If you want to catch one of the monster bass in the lake then you need to keep the big worm in the big bass’ house for as long as possible.
> Stitching is an old technique where you hold your rod downward towards the water and hold the line between your fingers and slowly pull the line away from the rod. While stitching you want to pull the line and pause, you should always feel tension on the line, if not you need to pull more line out until you feel some light tension.
A lot more great stuff in that post and on his site. Mike also likes the Lunkerhunt Lunker Frog. Read about it here.
Quote of the Day
I learned a lot about effective colors in muddy water by using the Color-C-Lector in my early days of bass fishing.
– Kevin VanDam talkin’, before he was KVD, in the 1995 book Kevin VanDam’s Bass Strategies by Louie “the Legend” Stout. Rest of the quote:
> One year while fishing Mark Twain Reservoir in Missouri during early spring, the water was about 55 degrees and muddy. I wasn’t catching any fish from a long, flat point in a creek where bass were busting shad. I threw a variety of lures at them without any success.
> Finally I dropped the probe of the Color-C-Lector down to the bottom on the lip of the point [and] it recommended a bright orange color. Fortunately I had an orange crankbait that I used for steelhead fishing, so I tied it on and caught a bass on each of the next 17 casts!
Pat and Bob read that about the Color-C-Lector and were all:
Shot of the Day
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