Just one Blaster this week — Merry Christmas yo! Hope you and your fam have Merriness, and you get to make a few casts, or spend some time in a stand, or hunt up birds with a dog (while, in my case, my wife gets mad at me for bailing for a few hours on Christmas eve…lol). Very thankful for the good Lord and you.
Case you’re wondering, looks like the Sea of Galilee just needs some gobies and smallies — the structure is there already:
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Today’s Top 4
– Rick Clunn perspective on getting help:
> “Most anglers try to get help. That’s not a new phenomenon. It’s been that way since I started…though the rules have changed to try and prevent it.
> “I resented all these guys getting help. Looking back, that worked in my favor because the help then was pretty lousy. The precision of it was not very good.
> “Nowadays, it’s really changed. You can go to a lake anywhere, and it’s like you’ve got drug suppliers everywhere, giving you quality dope. With GPS, they’re giving you precision.
> “It hurts my heart that these young anglers on the Elite Series are doing that. But I also understand. They’re desperate. So many of them are credit-carded to the max. They’re just trying to survive. They’re forced into it. And these guys aren’t cheating. They are living within the rules.
> [A few times this season] “I got the help, and I refused to use it. I was so embarrassed to do it, even when I was by myself in practice and nobody was watching and nobody would know. I embarrassed myself. It’s weird. Maybe I can’t make it right in my mind.”
The fans can’t either, sensei. Article is worth a full read. Glad guys are outing this stuff.
Cliff Crochet rolls a hair bit different:
Dang man! More interesting parking jobs:
Power-Poles down or…?
Someone had to go pretty bad I guess:
Lol. Far as I know everyone on those boats was okay, hope so.
Keith Combs posted this — do you see it? Click it, go to Facebook, let me know.
> Here’s a cool screenshot taken last week from my ONIX 10. If you look closely you can see a void in the shad on both the SI and the DI. If you look a little closer you’ll see there’s a big largemouth causing that void!
Stuff I won’t get
1. New boat. Want aluminum so I can tow it with a kid-mover.
2. G. Loomis NRX and Shimano Core — but since the Core is gone (eBay maybe?), I guess an Aldebaran. NOTHING would make me enjoy bassin’ more than fishing this combo, which I did briefly one summer. Wow was it awesome.
3. A flatscreen-sized depthfinder, not brand-loyal.
4. A llama or alpaca. Would be funny to have a weird-looking outdoor pet that spits on people. (Ike, don’t copy me man!)
Stuff I might get
1. Under Armour rain gear. Looks cool (oops sorry, looks “dope”), hear it works great, need some new rain gear anyhow.
2. New K2 tumbler. Awesome…but dang it not available til January.
3. One dumpster dive at Tackle Warehouse. More fun than hunting for arrowheads I bet.
4. A goat call. No idea if those calls exist, but goats sound funny mang!
Let me know what you get fer bassin’ Christmas on Facebook or Instagram. Love to see the goods….
News
You know who hoses people? Hosers:
2. Cliff Prince gets Fitzy Rods.
3. Get to know new Elite Brett Preuett.
4. Dove returning to FLW Tour.
Didn’t requalify for Elites. Good deets about Elite requalification in that article.
5. Mercer’s Facts of Feeshn 2016 trailer.
His trailers are always good:
6. K-Pink’s weird break-in thing.
> I break in a new boat on Bull Shoals and have a horrible tournament year. Done it twice. Probably won’t try that again. I break in a new boat on the Arkansas River and have a good year in the derbies. Can’t figure it.
He meant “figger,” but you knew that.
7. Northeast smallies sexually confused.
Sounds funny but this is bad:
> US Geological Survey researchers say…they’ve found that a full 85% of male smallmouth bass and 27% of male largemouth bass tested in waters in or near 19 National Wildlife Refuges in the Northeast U.S. were intersex.
Drugs and chemicals have been doing this to fish, reptiles and even mammals for years. Scary and weird.
8. CA: Coming rain may help reservoirs.
9. Vikes’ Robison does another hookset sack dance…
…but I can’t find any video of it (anyone?), not even on Vikings.com. (Who runs that site, a wide receiver?) Here’s a shot of the sack — look at Jay Cutler’s face…. #mama
Here’s a vid on B-Rob, a diehard basser and good dude. If you’re not a fan, you might be after watching that.
10. ID: New bass boat company?
Not sure if peeps are jacking with me but this is what I got:
11. T-H offering Atlas contingency program again.
12. Jackall Gantarel Jr. coming soon.
New release special color is “Black Impact:” #sweet
Worth every penny. Ask fer it for Christmas.
14. WA/OR: Fagerstrom on the warmwater debacle…
…in those states, meaning they’re trying to eradicate bass and other warmwater fish. Stan Fagerstrom is a legendary outdoor writer in those parts.
15. VA: New Shenendoah U bassin’ team.
16. AL: TBF Jr Championship at Goose Pond.
17. Rapala DT Hi-Def finishes.
Bassmaster.com “review.” Sweet finishes, like this one:
Get ’em here on TackleWarehouse.com.
18. Vid: Largie eats duckling.
Sorry peta, stuff eats stuff.
19. BAM’s Lassagne makes Nation state team.
Even a blind squirrel…lol sorry Mark, congrats man.
20. First Lew’s Speeding Fishing AOY.
MO’s Dennis Berhorst had 1,355 points in the BFL Ozark Division — which is by far the easiest BFL division (hahaha!). Got him a $1,000 Lew’s gift cert. Nice.
21. TX: Bass consumption advisory.
Tell your meat-huntin’ amigos….
Win Stuff
1. Scroggins giving away frog rig.
Includin’ froggies — Booyah Pad Crashers of course.
2. Help Shimano get 50K Instagram followers…
…get a shot at winning a Shimano visit. @shimanofish
3. T-H Marine still giving away stuff.
Top prize is an Atlas Jack Plate!
Tip of the Day
Shot this with him on Grand. What you can’t see is the jig in the water — amazing how a black/blue trailer pops behind a green-pumpkin jig. The crawfish silhouette really sticks out.
Believe that jig and trailer was a Booyah Finance Jig with a Yum Craw Papi trailer.
Quote of the Day
We all wear jerseys that display the logos of the companies and organizations that support us. What if there was a requirement for politicians to…wear an official jersey displaying logos for all of the lobbyists, companies, and other organizations from whom they have accepted donations or they are promoting.
– Tail-kickin’ idea from Alton Jones. Politicos would have to wear robes to fit all those “special interests” on there.
Here’s a good observation from the 1800s, by Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville who spent a lot of his life studying the US:
> “The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money.”
It’s happening, but we’re enduring. God bless the USA. We need it.
Shot of the Day
BB reader Rooster busted this formally dressed largie on the Chesapeake:
Random
Diggin’ this tune, Gary Clark Jr., “The Healing.” New kind of blues, first time I’ve heard anything like it — blues with a pinch of rap and gospel. Very cool.
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