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Today's Top 4
FLW Rayovac at Grand Lake, OK, interestin' pattern:
> Bill Tervin caught his fish on a Reaction Innovations Little Dipper swimbait (sprayed grass) Texas-rigged with a light bullet weight.
> “I was swimming the bait in 1-2', bouncing it off rocks… It would skim across the tops of a lot of the rocks and they would just crush it.”
> Tervin found most of his fish on those transitional banks outside of spawning coves.
Rest of the top 5 fished jigs and cranks.
2. I was flipping with a 5/0 Mister Twister Keeper Hook and the hooks were bending out on me.
– Gary Klein talkin' 'bout his first year fishing B.A.S.S. when he mighta coulda won AOY if that hadn't kept happenin'. More:
> That first year Klein was not only the Rookie of the Year [which didn't exist yet], but he also missed the Angler of the Year award by merely a pound to Roland Martin.
> “The reason I didn’t win the AOY award that year [1979] was because the advancement of equipment wasn’t keeping up with me."
> "Don’t get me wrong, that was the best flipping hook at the time but I was bending hooks on 4- and 5-pounders, any of which would have won me the AOY title. I should have cake-walked the title that year."
3. 21-07 wins Dale Hollow BFL.
Here cuz I'm assuming those were smallies, and if so: stout!
> Winner Mitchell Major: “I started out throwing an umbrella rig because I didn’t want to get beat on it again. But I came to a laydown and picked up a jig and caught a 4-pounder. Then I moved a little way down the bank and did it again.”
> Major said all the fish he weighed in came on a 3/8-ounce D&L Tackle jig in the Cumberland Craw color.
> “Every fish that I weighed in came on the jig. I was catching them on laydown logs in pockets off of Wolf River."
4. Woo really had a big impact on me.
– Elite rookie and FLW vet Jake the Snake Powroznik on Woo Daves…but the article never says what that impact was – hilarious!
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News
Taking "dads" off the nest hurts, etc. Like bass are endangered or somethin'…sheesh.
Thankfully you don't need to beat this guy:
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Tip of the Day
Shaw Grigsby: Fishing the Rage Blade.
Rage Blade = Strike King's new bladed jig. Good, quick tips from Shaw:
Close-up of the Rage Blade:
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Quote of the Day
When I was running back in, one of the blades came off and I had to run the last 9 miles on two blades.
– Table Rock Elie winner Mike McClelland talkin' 'bout his prop on the final day.
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Shot of the Day
Check this "bulbous" (Mercer word) Cali spot. Fer some reason that pic makes me wanna bite into that thing like a freshy fresh cucumber….
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