Category: States
More Evidence for Goldfish Baits
Ever hear of “alternate methods” fish records? Me neither, until now: Missouri’s 20-year-old Dylan Gilmore just set the new “alternate methods” largie record with a 9-02 caught on a…trotline. Yep. A largie was fooled by a dang catfish rig – wait: we now know what the Missouri Rig will be! – which you would’ve known [...]
IGFA To Make $1 Mil Ruling on AL Rigs
Here’s a good story. Involves a bass fisherman, Bull Shoals Lake (MO), official fish record-keepers the International Game Fish Association, the Missouri DNR, $100,000 and $1 million. Excerpts from here and here: > Rodney Ply of Diamond City has lived on and fished Bull Shoals Lake his entire life. His once-in-a lifetime catch came earlier [...]
When Is Strolling Trolling?
Jeremy Starks used a fishing method called “strolling” or “long-lining” to win the Douglas Lake Elite last weekend. This is where you basically cast out your bait, then get on the small motor and move away from the bait until most or all of the line is off the reel, then begin your retrieve. This [...]
Where Are You Representin?
Check out these pics. Yep, was driving at the time. Sitting there at a light, spacing out…you know how it goes. Then something in my brain fires “bass” at me. Now understand, after being a fisherman my whole life and heavily involved in the bassin’ world the last 20 or so years, that happens a [...]
Martin, Stanley Going In TX Hall of Fame
If anyone needs proof about just how awesome bassin’ folks are, all you need to do is think about is not the bassers who are in the various fishing halls of fame, but all the people – some who you probably know – who could and maybe should be in one. In this case we’re [...]
Science: Going ‘CSI’ on State Records?
I’m guessing it’s not just me, but it sure seems like a lot of state record bass have been falling the past 6 months; largemouth, smallmouth and spots. Two in Oklahoma alone. I was reading an article this weekend which mentioned one of the big advances in fishery science, the ability to analyze the DNA of a particular [...]
Bed Fish: Ever Wear Out the Males?
We’ve been poring over some Okeechobee pattern info here for patterns we recently posted to BassGold.com (bringing the total to over 3,400 btw). Anyhow, noticed the following which I thought was cool. In the January 2010 FLW Series derby on the Big O, Georgia pro J. Todd Tucker – who finished 4th – said the [...]
Should Record Catchers Get Polygraph?
Bear with me here, quick striper story first. Have you ever heard the story of the guy who caught the world record striped bass? Talking the one before the new record caught last year. Guy caught it in a storm off the NJ coast with one witness – and pretty much everyone else disbelieved him. [...]
Oddball Classic Colors?
Waded through a bunch o’ pattern info from the Top 11 at the Classic (all now in BassGold.com, some deets coming on Bassmaster.com or maybe already there), and these two color-related items stuck out for me. Ott DeFoe said – I believe to Bassin’Fan – that a key of the custom-colored crank he fished with [...]
Line Hum a Factor in Cranking?
Been going over some BassGold data for Lake Fork (a popular request), saw in an article on the PAA tourney there in 2008 iwhere Kelly Jordon – who headed the winning team – said this about using 12-pound fluorocarbon to crank Fork’s heavy timber: Any heavier and they wouldn’t bite it. You can still get [...]
VA PSA: Support the Hokies
The Virginia Tech Bass Fishing Team will be having its first Smith Mountain Lake Open, a team-tourney fundraiser for the team to help with travel expenses and whatever else college kids buy (wink, wink). Okay, kidding about that last part…. It’ll be held this weekend on the Red River. No wait, that’s another tourney. Seriously, [...]
Two Cali Trails Ban AL Rig Becuz…
Can’t believe how many stories I’m seeing, hearing about the Alabama Rig. The way people are talking, maybe it makes sense that B.A.S.S. banned it from the Elites. Sounds like the whole country could be one big Alabama Rig trail. Probably not, but that’s the amount o’ buzz. But the Elites aren’t alone in their [...]
Here’s Oldham’s Tilapia Color for Falcon
Didja hear about the Bass Champs derby on Falcon last month where 45.52 pounds won it (5 fish) – and 43.80 was 2nd? If not, yep, you’re reading right. A 9+ average – guys were culling 7-pounders! Must…go…to…Falcon…. The winning team of Jaime Buitron and Terry Oldham used two baits to catch that huge string: [...]
Current Red River Conditions?
Since I’m fishing the Classic this year (yeah right)…. Okay, since I’m replacing Tommy Sanders this year as co-host (yeah right)…. Seriously now – doin’ some bassin’ analysis for the Classic, looking for any sites or folks (guides, whoever) who are on or around the Red River enough to be current on the conditions down [...]
Crazy College Carp Caper
What does an NFL pass rush look like if you’re Eli Manning? (Go Giants!) Looks like what these crazy Illinois “yoots” found out in their quest to rid a river of some Asian carps. Don’t try this at home!
Science: Extreme Rigging
We’ve touched on the subject of fishery regulations before, and the argument that has been made that many of those regs are antiquated, and have either been arbitrarily set, or are more in place to create equality of harvest among anglers, kind of a social/ethics type thing. For example, back in 1974, the average daily [...]
RIP Jimmy McMillan
Damn. Didn’t know Jimmy McMillan, but I’m choked up about his passing. Because I sorta did know him, just like I sorta know all of you. A bass fisherman, a hard-working family man, just an all-around good guy. He died recently – here are the deets if you didn’t seem ‘em on Bassin’Fan. Think this [...]
Make Your Next Jig Look Like This?
I am not a bait-builder. That’s on my “if I had more time I’d…” list. Specifically, I’d love to spend some time really analyzing and understanding jigs/trailers. Seems doable, but maybe I’m being naive. I’d probably save a whole lot of time by just sneaking around the Eakinses house with a spy camera. Anyhow, back [...]
Mann’s Gets AL Rig: WWYD?
What would you do? After a year of tinkering with the Alabama Rig, Andy and Tammy Poss of Muscle Shoals, Ala. – which, to quote Ronnie Van Zant, “has got the swampers” and “they’ve been known to pick a song or two” – decided at possibly the height of its popularity to hand over the [...]
What If VanDam, Clunn Laughed At You…
…Just Before Takeoff?! What what that do for your confidence? Well, it happened to a guy named Tim Sainato, a Missoura stick and I believe Table Rock guide at least at one point (can someone check me on that). The whole, amazing story (took place in 2000 maybe?) is too long for here, but bear [...]
8K Fish = 66K Dollars
It’s that time again. The time to award, reward or mental-ward – whatever you want to call it – those folks in the Pacific Northwest who grind out cash year after year by catching and killing northern pikeminnows, formerly called squawfish. As we’ve said here before, Bonneville Power Administration (our tax $ at work!) provides [...]
Science: Big Baits – Big Bass?
Admit it. We’ve all read the articles about big bass and why you should use large baits to target them. Yet, as an example, the Texas state record largemouth bass of 18.18, which has stood for nearly 20 years, was caught on a dang crappie minnow. Further more, Texas Share-Lunker data shows that more giant [...]
Get the Wife In, Eat Shrimp Cocktail?
Ran across this ditty in the Charleston, WV Daily Mail, a newsroom where everyone is related to one another and they’re all named White (vid below – ever see that movie?). Seriously, it’s about a gal who joined a bassin’ club – eventually [couple peanut-gallery comments in these here brackets]: > When Lisa Harless started [...]
