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Mexican 20 pounder, Ditch melons of the week, Only black topwaters

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Mexican 20-lber!

Buenas tardes hermanos de perca americana! Nos comparten esta imagen desde la presa el Azúcar. Comales Tamaulipas. Municipio de Camargo.

First sentence I believe is “Good afternoon largemouth bass brothers!” Here’s Google translate on the second one: “We share this image from the dam the sugar. Comales Tamaulipas. Municipality of camargo.”

Dam the sugar! Dam it! Okay back to the fish: 9.5 kg = 20.94 lbs. No info on how it was caught, but lots of comments (in Spanish) on the post about wishing it was released. Mexican record maybe?

Ditch melons of the week.

Here’s NJ homeboy Ray Noreika with 10.8 lbs of green love — melonius! Buff backpacked all day, caught this one on what I’d call finesse gear: 7″ black Power Worm, 3/0 Gamakatsu EWG hook, 1/8-oz tungsten, 8-lb Trilene XT. What he said about the line: “Light line in overfished water in Florida is the way to go.” Okay mang!

Dude named Buddy Evans ketched this 10.10 buttuh melon somewhere in Alabamie with a SpoolTek swimbait. If you’re not familar, a SpoolTek actually has a small spool of wire in there which allows the bait to separate from the hook, which is supposed to equal fewer thrown baits. Bigger in saltwater right now, gettin’ knowed in bassin’:
Check 9-year-old Chloe with 7 lbs of Guntersville large caught on a Heddon Torpedo (baby bass) she got from her bro for good luck on the trip. How cool is that. Wish my kids were that nice to each other….
Black topwaters all you need?

Not sure how I feel about the only black or white topwater thing. Works, but I feel like the fish see those colors all the time. Plus vegetation bass sorta roll like this:

I mean, does color really matter? Not sure, but then there’s stories like Kermit Crowder’s recent Potomac BFL Super Tournament win:

> “I spent both days of the event fishing grass beds near Aquia Creek. I caught most of my larger bass in the morning each day. The incoming tide in the afternoon made for a tough bite.

> “I used a black Spro Dean Rojas Bronzeye Frog 65 on day 1. I threw it for an hour or two, then the bite slowed down. I picked up a wacky-rigged Yamamoto Senko and fished it the rest of the day. I only had five keepers by the time I weighed in.”

> On the second day of competition, Crowder…returned to the grass beds but had trouble getting the fish to bite the frog. “I picked up a black Lobina Rico and casted to the edge of the grass. On my third cast I caught a 5-lber. I also used a black Rebel Pop-R to round out my limit.”

Love the fact that he knew the fish were there, just caught ’em different ways.

Rod Flexin yo!

“Rod Flexin” is a bassin’ rap tune by a dude who calls himself Hi Speed Chase, from the album “Awh Shucks” dropping in October. It all about BroNeck (like a redneck but a bro).

G got it…

…Combs threw down a bassin’ gang sign…
…and Ike went beyond the flexin:
Meme of the week.

Overstreet posted it — got to wonderin’ if that’s a shot of him as a youngster:

Zackly!

News

1. Clent Davis got an ouchie.

In upper Mississippi River practice. Betting that treble feather wasn’t red before that:

2. Casey Ashley got his Pokemon!Bet that’s what caused this since there’s a big-time Poke derby goin’ on ‘tween some Elitists:

Gotta keep your head up man! lol kidding. BUT more’n a few Elites gettin’ themselves in rough spots to find bass upper Miss basses. A hunt for the hard-to-find heavier (than smallies) largemoufs. Stay tuned.3. Fletch is done answerin’ that question.

Apparently he was sick of people asking him why he dresses like that, so he bought this T-shirt:

Okay not really but Fletch really IS stylin’ yo! Here’s his brother looking like an alien bass-head:
Vacation house maybe? Word is Randy’s thinkin’ ’bout sellin’ this brand spankin’ new Merc Fury 4 Blade to get him some deck furniture:
5. FLW Cup runner-up “Drop the” Mike Neal on BassEdge Radio.

6. WI: What won the recent upper Miss BFL.

Mark Brueggen had 3 small and two large to win it by 2 oz (top 5 were within 1 lb) with 15-11:

> “I started off the day in the middle of Pool No. 9 targeting largemouth in weeds. I was in the backwaters and the water was running high.” …used a black and purple-colored Kureiji swim-jig to catch four keepers.

> “As the day progressed, I switched patterns to target smallmouth. I ran to a shell bed and used a green-pumpkin-orange Kureiji football-head jig and a Carolina-rigged Zoom Lizard. I dragged them until a fish came up to the surface for a minnow, and then I threw a Heddon Zara Spook to it.”

From what I understand, swim-jigs, C-rigged lizzies and top-walkers are a constant recipe up yonder. Don’t DQ me Trip!

7. TX: Fish kill at Falcon?

Sounds like a contractor may not have cared…and maybe the TPWD too?

8. 2017 Bassmaster Opens schedule.

Aaaaand once again you can either wade thru 1,027 slides on Bassmaster.com, or see it in list form on Bassin’Fan.

Southerns look good, Centrals good except for Sabine (my 2c) and Northerns have one northern water so basically two more Southerns there. Not banging on B.A.S.S. for the Northerns schedule, I’m sure they have good reasons, but maybe a name change is in order like…ACC Opens?

9. TX: Lake Naconiche turnin’ out some howgs.

10. WV: Build starts on $1.2mm Mon River ramp.

11. Git this Ranger at Angler’s Port Marine.

Here’s a 2011 Ranger Z521 with a 250hp Yammy SHO at only 86 hours and ALL the fixins. They take trades, have other brands too, reach ’em at 660-438-4600.

12. Cool piece on Melinda Hays of Costa.On the Bassin’Fan. Talks about her route through the biz, and how the folks at Strike King inspired how she does biz.

13. Cool product: YOLOtek AquaStickPOWER.

No words needed except it charges on the stick too:

14. FL: Sign the petition to help Everglades fishermen.A big deal, seen it myself. Takes about 5 seconds. Help your FL brothers.

 

New ad agency for Berkley Gulp! is named…Yamamoto.

Doh!

Re: Elite schedule: Lake St. Clair is in MI, not NY. Typing too fast, I guess, sorry!

Tip of the Day

Most bass-heads color-match their jigs and trailers. But some don’t, like Elitist Jason Christie and FLWer Terry Bolton. Here’s Terry talking about why he does it. Interesting stuff:

Check that Terminator Jig and Zoom Salty Pro Chunk on TW.

Quote of the Day

 

I knew it was going to be a tough day when I backlashed the toilet paper.

 

– Jimmy Houston, as quoted in this TFF thread about favorite fishing quotes. Never thought of calling it a backlash…

Shot of the Day

Sweet shot of a Lunkerhunt frog (type unknown, but I’m going with the original Lunker Frog) getting tossed around by a dancing largie:

Random


Do trout look dead all the time? Check that eyeball:
Use the best!
Git on these yo!

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