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Today’s Top 5
Congrats to Britt Myers’ who’s been swinging at fish for 10 years on the Elites and brought one home this weekend. Here’s the bait he was using:
> “To be honest, I’d just left the Open the week before and they were biting [that color combo] really good there. So I was just rolling with it and it happened to work out.”
> “The first day I fished around Dave Lefebre – I fished behind him, he fished behind me. He was like, ‘Dude I’ve watched you catch 30 and I didn’t catch any.’ I kind of got lucky I had the bait dialed in.”
> “The last several years I’ve really figured out you can’t just catch them on every bait. You might get one here and there, but certain baits, if you can find them, just trigger those fish to bite. This was probably like what Rick Clunn did in Florida.”
Read the rest of what he did on BassBlaster.rocks, including his last-minute Fluke decision that won him the derby.
Said he listens to Remember The Name by Fort Minor to get pumped. Dude I hope you got more than 20% skill and 15% concentration!
Brett Hite weighed 2 fish on day 4 and lost by 4 oz. Ouch. Ouchyness. This:
He fished one pond/flat up from Britt, basically the same way: ditches with hydrilla and wood at low tide, but Brett (not Britt) hit mats along the “hard edge” at high tide. He used a Japan-only Evergreen Jackhammer bladed jig with a new, not-yet-named 4″ Yamamoto trailer that’ll come out later this year. He designed both baits, and here they are:
Gotta give a shout out to Kelly Jordon for 3rd, great to see him up top again.
You might think Britt won cuz of the Zoom Fluke for a limit bite on a tough day 4, but nope it was the Tyson bite:
Check it:
But they do like to put beatin’s on fish. In fact, after this shot was taken the B Gang went out in the alley to throw down with this fish gang:
News
1. VA: Bassin’ brother still missing on Gaston.
Hoping….
2. Bill Lowen’s swim-jig setup for Winyah (vid).
Can’t believe he never told me that! And dude, you hide it well…lol.
In case there’s any doubt, Keith Combs will be there.
6. Triton replacing some 21 TrX hulls.
10. Contest weeners.
Vinny D. from TX won the Yum/Booyah stuff, Frank M. from MI and Danny C. from Winnipeg, Canadia won the two Rapala ones. More giveaways coming yo!
Tip of the Day
> “It is probably the most effective grass fishing reaction lure I have ever used. Everyone knows how great a lipless crankbait is around grass, but this is better.”
> “I reel it up to the grass and try to keep it at a pace that allows it to hit the grass without bogging down in it. If it bogs down, I’m going too slow, if I’m not touching it, I’m reeling too fast. I can also control the depth by raising and lowering the rod tip.”
> He said he skips the Chatterbait around docks, which is something not easily done with crankbaits — if at all — and the uses it around wood, but said it will snag if he tries to crawl it through the branches. He prefers to power-reel it in brush and laydowns.
Quote of the Day
Absolutely not.
– Britt Myers answerin’ my question about whether he’d ever given up hope of winning in his 10 years fighting fish on the Elites. More:
> “Every tournament I leave — even if I finish 70th, 80th or just had a horrific tournament and I’m depressed — when I leave that town and I’m on my way to the next [tourney], I’m the guy who gets goose bumps thinking about the next one…that it may be my time.”
Also said during the tournament he felt juicy:
> “I had one of those weeks when things [just go right]. It was one of those ‘meant to be’ weeks. After day 2 I was telling myself — it was a 2-hour ride [to the Cooper River], so you had a lot of time to think about your day as you’re driving — ‘things are happening, Britt. When this happens, people win tournaments.’ Then I’d tell myself, ‘Quit thinking like that and keep going.”
How weird would it be if he called himself a different name? Anyhow, a couple examples of the stars aligning:
> “The first day we had a delay, and that worked in my favor. For a lot of guys deciding whether to make that run, that was a deciding factor.
> “Those short days helped us manage our fish for 4 days. If we’d been there 7 hours each day, there would’ve been no fish left after day 2 or 3 for sure.”
Shot of the Day
Crazy huh? Nice fish but that brim is almost inside out man! lol That’s an 8″ Bull Shad swimbait btw.
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