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Today’s Top 5
> Never made a cast all week. Fished vertical on fish I could see on screen. Had to spend quite some time on bigger fish — some took 10+ minutes to catch. Almost like bed fishing sometimes: Leave bait on fish and back off, barely pick bait of bottom — deadstick it for long periods of time and they would finally pick it up.
> The two giant (5.5-lb) Shadow Rap fish were fish I couldn’t catch on a dropshot. I backed off, let that thing sink by the rock and worked it slowly. It was pretty cool, actually.
> The spot itself is a big fish’s dream [do fish dream?]…. There’s a lot of current in this open area, but the money spot is a giant eddy that corrals the bait and provides big slob bass [can there be small slobs?] a deep resting area where they don’t have to fight much flow.
> Patrick attributes the size of his fish to both the quantity and size of the gobies stuffed in this area. The goby bites were abundant, and he even pulled up a few 6+” specimens.
> …as fast as he got there and caught the giant and the 5-lber in the picture…the calm spell was over and that window of opportunity closed.
6-INCH gobies!! Our dropshot baits are too small!?!
Thrift is a local and fished a jillion spots to win it. Here’s the Top 10 baits breakdown:
Senko/worm = 70% (mostly finesse worms)
Jig = 50% (30% used Shooter Jigs, known as the deal on that lake — shocked more guys didn’t use jigs)
Buzzbait = 50% (all but one had a Zoom Horny Toad)
10% each = swimbait, dropshot (Wes Strader used it! Get in your nuke fallout shelter now!), soft jerkbait, walking topwater (and Whopper Plopper), spoon.
Here’s Tracy Adams’ bait selection, which was pretty typical: 1/8-oz shakey head with a Reaction Innovations Flirt Worm (Spanish fly), 7/16-oz jig with a YUM Mighty Craw, buzzbait with a Horny Toad.
> One angler — I’ll not name him — made the decision to continue fishing [during lightning on day 2 at Mille Lacs]. His marshal demanded to go to the bank. The angler complied. The marshal wasn’t seen again. I told the angler straight up, “Your marshal had it right.”
[Not sure who Hack was talkin’ ’bout but here’s a sick shot of Skeet riding the lightning there. That’s an old-school Metallica reference for Z and KVD.]
> If I’m honest with you, I’d say that when I was young I probably would have fished through it, too. We all think we’re invincible when we’re young.
> Nevertheless, fishing in a lightning storm just doesn’t make sense. It’s not worth the risk.
No joke. I’ve done it plenty of times, no good reason for it…except the fish were biting….
News
1. Johnny Crews talks about his season.
Didn’t have a great one. Talks about his upper Miss pattern going away. For sure happens even to the Elitists.
2. Get to know Drew Benton and Adrian Avena.
Barone tour. Good stuff.
3. Ike Live show this Sunday night.
6-10 PM ET, Swindle, DeFoe, Feider, more, at IkeLive.com.
4. OK: Child abuse charity derby on Tenkiller Oct 1.
Two words that should never go together: child abuse.
5. B-Rob strips A-A-Ron, lips a fish.
Check it, from Mon night — lovin’ the bass love from a bass-head:
Chris Pratt on the set of “Magnificent Seven.” Kinda meh about the whole movie star thing….
8. How to get line off your troller prop.
Easiest way I’ve ever seen: #theEliminator
Also check episode 2 of the story of Kistler Rods — always love the faith, family, fishing thing in bassin’. Tell it brother Trey!
Lots o’ stuff!
11. Alien bugs like Shimano Metaniums.
Who wouldn’t, right? Check the size of these Men in Black hoppers:
12. YOLOTek givin’ away a GoPro Hero 5 Black.
13. You see these Yo-Zuri holo finishes yet?
Here’s the 3DS Series Flat Crank in holographic ayu:
14. BassU: Klein on “Key bass fishing situations.”
Headline of the Day
Endangered crayfish found dead
So…guess it’s not endangered anymore?
Not News But Interesting
Fishing BIG Swimbaits in a Small Pond is the name of a vid made by some younger dudes fishing a pond from the bank. Has 416K views, which dwarfs pretty much anything the majors in bassin’ have done. Can anyone tell me why? Not a trick question….
Should mention they’s feeshn SPRO swimmy-baits….
Do I need to say anything else about how great that would be?? Same deal: Fill it out with your email addy (so we know who enters!), then share the link you get fer more points. Good luck mang!
Tip of the Day
This one’s Kentucky Lake, but lake doesn’t matter — still innerestin’ fo sho. Warning that you need 25 mins to watch it all:
Quote of the Day
I spent the night out there with the raccoons and mosquitoes.
– Casey Ashley talkin‘ ’bout gettin’ stuck on that sandbar durin’ the upper Miss Elitist practice. Super-dangerous. Why? Here’s a sign seen all over the roadways of MN:
Shot of the Day
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