Category: Elites
BassBlaster 9/25/12: Evers’ Patterns
Welcome to the BassBlaster, your daily email about all things bassin’. Hey – forward this Blaster to a bassin’ bud, willya? *|FACEBOOK:LIKE|* Today’s Top 3 1. Mark Rose long-lined at Wheeler. Interesting stuff from Bassin’Fan: > He spent hours upon hours on the water, idling around and examining his sonar screen to watch how fish [...]
All-Star Tourney: WWYD?
Found the Toyota All-Star tourney pretty durn interesting, here’s why: Everyone fished shallow. Every one of the 12 guys – including Aaron Martens – fished shallow. Shelbyville, I’m talking about, which had shallow and deep fish, not the Decatur bowl which was shallow only. It was only 12 guys and seems like they all “defaulted” [...]
BassBlaster 9/21/12: Before Depthfinders
Welcome to the BassBlaster, your daily email about all things bassin’. Hey – forward this Blaster to a bassin’ bud, willya? *|FACEBOOK:LIKE|* Today’s Top 3 1. All-Star: 12 guys, 1 limit. Say wha? Yep, turns out Edwin Evers was the only guy to weigh five on Shelbyville yesterday. Why? “Some blame a fall turnover. Others [...]
Oneida Elite Fishin’ Sitch: WWYD?
Was in the Z-train boat at Oneida watching Brent Chapman and Randy Howell fish, and also spoke to the rest of the Top 12 at the day 4 launch. All were experiencing the same thing when fishing reaction baits for smallies: lots of follows. The smallmouths were swimming around and nailing the abundant shad (shad-like [...]
Nice Guy Finishes First…Again
Putting aside Boyd Duckett’s win for a sec and Randy Howell’s heartbreak (dang), you all know by now that Brent Chapman won Angler of the Year this weekend. I’m incredibly stoked about that. Fact is, Brent has been a great (I don’t use that word lightly) consistent stick literally for decades, but beyond that, he’s [...]
Today’s BassBlaster 6/28/2012
Welcome to the BassBlaster, your daily email about all things bassin’. Hey — have you forwarded the BassBlaster to a bassin’ bud yet?! *|FACEBOOK:LIKE|* Today’s Top 3 1. The Green Bay conspiracy theory. That’s the title of my BassParade post today. Could that whole mess be even worse than it seems? Couple tidbits from the [...]
The Green Bay Conspiracy Theory
Let me know if I’ve licked one too many toads on this…talkin’ ’bout the whole Green Bay mess. On the one hand we know that whoever is responsible for the nonsense at the Wisconsin DNR has a legit issue. Check it: (I love that DERP pic.) No seriously. SomeONE is responsible for doing the bait [...]
Today’s BassBlaster 6/25/12
Welcome to the BassBlaster, your daily email about all things bassin'. Hey — have you sent the BassBlaster to a bassin' bud yet?! *|FACEBOOK:LIKE|* Today's Top 3 1. One interesting tidbit from Todd Faircloth's win: Shad Walker. As everyone expected, including BassGold.com, Todd Fairthcloth won the Elite Series event on the upper Mississippi River fishing [...]
Who’s Got Their Fingers Xd for Lake Mich?
Re: the whole secret lake thing, which was kinda fun btw. I read somewhere that B.A.S.S. has never held a tournament on Lake Michigan. Technically that’s correct, meaning: Even though the 2000 Bassmaster Classic was held there, the wind blew so it became a mad scramble to find basses of any size anywhere else. And, [...]
What Else Do The Pros Know…
…That They’re Not Telling Us? A pretty good number of ord’nary bassers think they can beat the pros or a pro on any given day. That belief is one of the many great things about bassin’ for fishes, but in reality most of those folks must’ve caught one too many fly balls with their noggins. [...]
Last Friday’s Top 5 Bassin’ Quotes
Taken from that day’s BassBlaster email. Interesting stuff, and gotta say we love doing the BassBlaster as much as folks dig receiving it. If you’re not getting it yet, just use the easy sign-up form at right. 1. “(The mystery concept) opened up my eyes as to how many people get information before an event [...]
How Well Do You Execute Your Frog?
Now that the first Elite Series back-to-back is done, we’ve been putting together the 1st- through 10th-place pattern info for BassGold.com and 6th-10th notes for Bassmaster.com. As part of that, had a long, interesting convo with Cliff Crochet, who finished 7th at the St. Johns. In that tourney he fished two frogs, all day every [...]
You Might Be An Elite Fisherman If…
Scotty Bud is at it again! On the heels of his awesome U-Rig sendup, here’s a Jeff Foxworthy impression – and his Shaw Grigsby is pretty darn good too.
New Elites/Opens: Back to Everyman?
Far as I know, Bobby Murray, Bill Dance, Larry Nixon, Denny Brauer (I could go on at length) weren’t born sucking on silver spoons. That’s one thing that’s made bassin’ great: Anyone can catch fish, and anyone can get famous for doing it. But the sport has gotten away (far away) from that over the [...]
FishingGold: 73 More Patterns, 1,800 Total
Just a quick FYI that we uploaded 73 more patterns into the FishingGold.com database. These include several Elite Series events which brings B.A.S.S. events up to date (meaning from the ’60s up ’til now), all 2011 FLW Tour events to date, and a few PAA and EverStart finishes. This brings the count to just under [...]
Lane Cool With Bent Rod Pattern?
I’m going over the pattern info for the T-Bend Elite Series event, and I run across these quotes on BassFan from 4th-place finisher Chris Lane: “I threw a Carolina rig the first day, but on day 2 at 10:30 I still hadn’t had a bite. I went out to the main lake and saw Kevin [...]
How ‘Bout That Denny-Jonathon Thing?
Loved reading on Bassin’Fan about the conflict between Denny Brauer and “the other VanDam” (Jonathon). Here’s why: 1. Denny gets up on stage after day 3 and says he “won’t be applying for membership in the Jonathon VanDam Fan Club.” That…is…awesome, intimidation at its finest. Denny smelled the win, and wanted that water (more water) [...]
