Category: States
Are You Fishing the Ram Mega Bass?
If you live within even a loooooooong drive of Lake Fork, hope your answer to that question is yes. Because if there’s one derby that has all the elements of “worth going to” or even “awesome,” it’s this one. Case you’re unfamiliar: > Conducted by Bass Champs, one of the best regional tournament organizations in [...]
Science: Bass and Warm Water Discharges
A common belief held by many anglers is that most bass tend to hang in and around the warm water discharge areas of thermally heated reservoirs, especially during the cold water periods. While this is probably the case in some reservoirs, it is turning out to not always be the situation in others. Researchers electrofished [...]
Can You Name Your Fish? Many Can’t
As avid bass anglers, about all we have to figure out is the difference between largemouth, smallmouth and spotted bass every now and then - everything else we catch doesn’t matter. However, when you look at fish identification from a research standpoint, especially when you are talking about DNR angler surveys and asking people what fish [...]
BassBlaster 1/21/13: 17-lb largie, 9-lb spot, new F-150
Subscribe to the BassBlaster here! Welcome to the BassBlaster, your daily email about all things bassin’. Hey – take a sec to forward this Blaster to a bassin’ bud! Click here to forward to a bud(s) *|FACEBOOK:LIKE|* Today’s Top 3 1. Friend wins big at CA’s Oroville FLW. “Big” means winning by 4 lbs in [...]
Sandy and Drain Plugs: WWYD?
Case you didn’t know, I live in New Jersey, usually an unremarkable state except for its crazy crowdedness and the TV shows made with folks that really do live here and really do dress and act that way. Anyhow, as you might’ve seen, NJ was one of the ground zeroes for Hurricane Sandy. Everyone around [...]
BB 10/4/12: Best Bass Tag Ever
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. Best bass tag ever. Check out that new KY smallie license plate. Does it get any better than that? Don’t you want one? (Wonder if non-residents can get one….) [...]
BB 10/3/12: Clear Lake Threatened?
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. NY Times: Lots of cheating in tourneys. Yepper, that’s what the rocket scientists there at the NY Times – who incidentally are losing money faster than they can earn [...]
Science Follow-up: Florida Genes Down South
Last week we talked about why Florida strain and F1 hybrid largemouth don’t do well in the northern states. As a follow-up this week, I read a news piece from Auburn University (‘Delta Bass Resistant to Florida Genes’) that was interesting. Turns out that there are some places in the south where they don’t do [...]
Science: Florida Bass Up North
If you live in the northern part of bassin country, you’ve inevitably heard somebody mention how they should just stock some of those Florida strain bass up here to get us some big ones just like they catch down south. Sounds like a good plan, except for the part about how it won’t work.
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 [...]
Plop, Plop, Fizz, Fizz
A bunch of guys over at Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (Randall Myers , John Dennis , Bobby Farquhar , Greg Southard , Dan Foley , and Sul Ross) carried out a great study on Amistad Res. to determine the beneficial, or not so beneficial aspects of “fizzing” your bass. Barotrauma is the technical term, but it’s what [...]
Can the Bassin’ West Be Conquered?
Interesting. The rumored Gary Dobyns-backed “major western circuit” – covered weeks ago on the BassBlaster (have you signed up yet?) – was announced today. Before you form any opinions about that, especially you westerners, watch the vid: If you can get…past…the typos…it’s interesting, ain’t it. The vid makes a good case for a western circuit, [...]
Can’t Get a World Record on an AL Rig
Remember this story? Arkansas fisherman Rodney Ply caught a world record striper (68+) while bass fishing Bull Shoals with a homemade umbrella rig. Luckily for him – but not really – he’d also enrolled in Mustad’s record payout program. That’s called the “Hook-a-Million” contest. Catch a state record fish on a Mustad hook and win [...]
Science: Summer Livewell Info
Hey, it’s that time again. Temps in the 100′s, water warming fast, and you need to keep your bass alive so you don’t lose valuable weight via penalties assessed for dead fish. Well, we’re not going to jump into the fray and post for or against whatever livewell treatment system you use (save it for [...]
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 6/22/12
I think this works! Posting today’s daily BassBlaster email that just went out. Peeps have been wantin’ to comment on items and look up old ones so…. 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. [...]
Stats: There’s gold in them thar…’gills’
Out of state fishing license: $24 A week’s worth of meals at the local podunk bar and grill: $150 Seven days of gas and oil for the boat: $425 Bringing a B.A.S.S. tourney to town: Priceless One of the first arguments bass anglers like to make whenever tourneys are questioned is that they bring a [...]
