BassNJake

So much for MLF bashing 5 fish tourneys like they did. I guess those tourneys dont seem too bad now that they are making you money. Here's how it now looks

Good luck!! The BASS elites will be there this week, maybe some clues can be gained there. The live coverage starts tomorrow.

This is happening this week. Get your picks in!!

I liked the thread you had on here showing the sharpness of the hooks before and after. That sharpener does a great job

Both Buy and make my own lures

The added traffic has not had an impact on my catches. My frustration at people who litter has grown exponentially, though. Bud light seems to be the beverage of choice for the littering type. I swear I've picked up over a hundred cans or bottles in the water and at the ramp I normally use. Covid didn't stop the littering and now masks are a common item to see in the water.

I somehow found out about the studies of Bass by Dr Bennett on Ridge lake in Illinois. Very interesting in what they were able to determine in the controlled conditions of an outdoor pond. Here's a link to the Sports Illustrated article https://vault.si.com/vault/1963/08/19/this-is-the-fish-you-cant-catch-too-many-of And a bit of info related to bass and bluegill populations in a pond I know TLDR: in Summary "As the bluegills go up, the bass go down," Dr. Bennett says most fishery biologists believed that the largemouth population depended on the number of other fish, usually bluegill sunfish, on which the bass could prey for sustenance. The normal ratio was considered to be three or four bluegills for every one bass, and it was thought that if the bluegill population dropped, the bass would suffer accordingly. But studies at Ridge Lake showed these assumptions to be invalid. Dr. Bennett discovered this in the following way. Up until 1943, Ridge Lake contained only largemouths. A drainage census of the lake that year revealed that each acre averaged 48.2 pounds of bass, just about what the lake should produce. In 1944, Dr. Bennett stocked the lake with 129 bluegills, and when he drained the lake the next year in 1945, the bass poundage had dipped to 39.6 pounds per acre, while the bluegills averaged 8.4 pounds per acre. He returned both bass and bluegills to the lake and, two years later, he drained the lake again. This time the bass poundage had slumped to 31.5 pounds per acre, while the bluegill poundage had jumped to a startling 193.3 pounds. All told, at the time of this census—this was in 1947, only three years after the stocking of the 129 bluegills—Ridge Lake contained the astonishing total of 67,700 bluegills. Dr. Bennett removed 66,000 of these permanently, returning only 1,700. As a result, the largemouth population once again started to increase. The reason for the bluegill population explosion, Dr. Bennett explains, is that largemouths are not solely piscivorous, as biologists thought, but omnivorous. Only half their diet is made up of fish. Thus the bluegills were able to increase rapidly, and as they did they not only ravaged the small bass coming off nests as fry but also competed successfully with them for such food as crayfish and other crustaceans (Daphnia, Chydorus, Bosmina, Diaptomus and Cyclops), nymphs (damselflies and dragonflies) and frogs. "As the bluegills go up, the bass go down," Dr. Bennett says

Chasing tournaments all over I slept in rest areas, truck stops, parking lots and most often at boat ramps. I've always had SUV's and I'd put the seat down and blow up a cheap swimming float to sleep on. I attached Christmas type bells to the boat cover with safety pins inside and out as a warning system. I always mapped out at least 2 places to try and go as I did get kicked out of parking lots a couple times. I always tried to park under the lights when I could. I agree having a good night sleep was better for my fishing the next day than pulling the all nighter driving and filling myself up with caffeine.

I watched a lot of guys growing up and read a bunch of magazines I think the 2 guys I learned the most from were Al Linder/Infisherman and Rick Clunn My dad would get the Infisherman magazines and we would watch the shows He also had the Rick Clunn's World Championship Bass Fishing book. I must have read that thing a hundred times and did a couple book reports on it too!! I have helped my dad move twice now and have not come across that book again ☹️

With the year this screwed up, it's gotta be the Browns year!! Unless they "stink" it up #Odell Beckham ?

Unless I'm tourney fishing or fishing Chickamauga, I'm fishing for topwater strikes. Large or small I'm chasing the most exciting blow-up. At my lake they they drop it about 20 feet Once they start sucking water out it will pull a lot of the fish into the main channel So I'll vary the location I'm fishing but I'm still fishing topwater most of the time There will come a time in late fall where I put a spinning rod in my hand and chase schools of fish with my sonar This lasts about 4 months until the topwater bite begins

Threw alot of buzzbaits and had really good success with them. One year I went a couple weeks without getting a buzzbait bite and was fishing a hump that has a large flat on top Saw a few fish following but not committing so I tried what I consider the finesse buzzbait, the toad Smallie after smallie crushed that toad like they wanted to murder it I had one hit right at the boat and I about fell off the other side half startled It's been my lure of choice since then and love using it to skip under docks and laydowns If it rains, if there's a little chop or if I'm on a big fish lake; I'm breaking out the buzzbait

I have one as well and its a nada, nope, nothing lure for me. Not many people that I have spoken with have had much luck with it either. With all the successful topwater options that do work, not sure I'll give it any more chances

I live near one of the clearest lakes around here Norris lake. I would say 6-8 feet in clarity, but I wouldn't really call it clear. However, when I lived in Ohio I was used to water being gin clear and being able to see every pebble in 15 feet.

A lot of people experience line twist when running straight flouro on spinning reels. The braid reduces the line twist and flouro is more effective (less visible) in clearer water in my experience

After hearing Mike's side of things, nothing has changed for me. It wasn't until after Dudleys youtube video did anything happen to the cost of the tow. Seems like Mike knew that his only chance to get unstuck was Tom's son Jed. So if he had to pay a little higher cost so be it. Mike said afterwards he offered up to $750, but Tom said no. Hearing they also did the same thing to Dean Rojas further cements this as an ongoing scam for me.

I hate their site, so hard to navigate. Do you know which podcast it was a part of or the date?

This is like waiting for the Browns to be good.

WOW!! What a finish .... Rusty Salewske is your first-ever Tackle Warehouse TITLE presented by Toyota champion. In stunning fashion, Salewske boated a 4-pound, 14-ounce kicker with just 12 minutes left to fish to overtake Bradford Beavers by 8 ounces, who held the lead all of Period 3 It was a rough day on the water as you saw a lot of water coming over the front decks in the big waves

I'm glad it wasn't any worse, but that still looks pretty freakin bad.

The top 10 will fish tomorrow for the FLW Pro Circuit TITLE belt and $200,000 The weights will zero and they are calling for 15-20 MPH winds out of the northeast on Sturgeon Bay Gonna be a bumpy ride!! 1. Spencer Shuffield ­– Hot Springs, Ark. 2. Joey Cifuentes ­– Clinton, Ark. 3. Grae Buck – Green Lane, Pa. 4. Bradford Beavers ­– Summerville, S.C. 5. Casey Scanlon – Eldon, Mo. 6. Rusty Salewske – Alpine, Calif. 7. Kyle Hall ­– Granbury, Texas 8. Kurt Mitchell ­– Milford, Del. 9. Evan Barnes – Hot Springs, Ark. 10. John Cox ­– DeBary, Fla.

Seems like Tom was in on the whole deal, based on Dudley's account.

In one of the small trails I fished in Ohio, the rule was if the anchor was deployed and trolling motor was out of the water another competitor could not fish within 50 yards of you.*(before the days of spot lock)* This was explained as someone fishing a specific spot as opposed to fishing an area. Some idiot got mad because someone else decided to use the anchor rule and beat him to the spot. So the idiot didn't fish the area but made several passes back and forth through the area chopping up weeds and muddied the whole area up. Idiot was disqualified on the unsportsmanlike rules. Tourney directors have a hard job and I am always grateful for the time and effort they put in.

John Cox led group B with over 66 pounds of smallies. Pretty good considering: Florida pro John Cox rolled into Sturgeon Bay around 10:30 p.m. Monday night following a 9-hour drive from a tournament on Lake St. Clair in Michigan. The Florida pro showed up at takeoff at 6:10 a.m. on Tuesday, picked up his STAT unit and official, and backed his boat into the water at Sawyer Park for his first-ever look at Sturgeon Bay.