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Lake WaynokaI had a chance to take my nephew, Joey, fishing this week on the lake where I learned to fish, “Lake Waynoka” where my mom and dad live. We had a great time and even caught a few nice bass. The one thing that is always consistent at the lake is my mom’s meals…. Awesome! Good To Be Home
It was a long, hot two weeks in Montgomery; down in L.A. – Lower Alabama! Comments Off on Good To Be Home
M’s First Fishing ExperienceThe world’s greatest fishing show, the ICAST 2011 has ended and now back to my usual fishing report. This week, I went fishing with our new Lucky Craft employee “M” and it was her very first fishing experience. We went to El Dorado East Regional Park near our office to challenge on her very first Bass fishing. Since it was M’s first time, I had her practice on making knots prior to our fishing day, and now we are ready to start!! The field is big so it was a perfect place to practice casting. Although there are many accidents in casting so you really need to check behind you before you throw! I mentioned this to M in the beginning and had her work on over casting for the day since it is the easiest for beginners. Since she practices OO, the casting technique is very similar to OO and just the position of the rod before throwing needs to be modified a little… M surprised me with her skills. After practicing couple casts, within an hour she quickly learned the technique and moved on to actual fishing. I had M use her favorite lure (Skeet Reese – Redemption Spinnerbait) and go around the entire pond. Unfortunately there were no catches today. As for me, I used lures that I normally don’t use such as the Sammy and Fat Smasher Mini. I continued to practice using topwater baits, but caught nothing also. From now on there will be more reports on fishing with M and I would like to patiently brush up my skills also.
El Dorado East Regional Park
Sandy P.S. Next time I am planning on going boat fishing with M. Comments Off on M’s First Fishing Experience
Casey Ashley Blog
I’m in the middle of the Bassmaster All-Star Series heading into the second and deciding leg of the event. The first event at Jordan just wrapped up and I ended up atop the leaderboard. It was neat to finish in first place, but it really didn’t mean anything other than I’d be going up against Skeet Reese in the first round of the finals. What a great reward for winning an event, haha. I had never been to Jordan so I had to stick to my guns and stay shallow. Thankfully there was no current so the shallow bite was much better. With two days of practice I found one single creek and fished it as hard as I could in order to produce enough weight to win the event. It was just a creek with docks on a flat that provided shade for the fish. It was a pretty neat way to catch them. Looking ahead to the Alabama River I’m pretty much in the same position I was last week. I’ve never seen the playing field. I hear the river is much clearer than in years past so hopefully history won’t mean much in this event and it will come down to who finds the bass during this tournament and doesn’t rely on previous knowledge. Before the All-Star series I attended ICAST in Las Vegas. The trip marked the first time I had ever been to Las Vegas. It’s pretty crazy out there. Some of the coolest things I got to see at the show were actually from my sponsors. Costa Del Mar created some new glasses geared toward women. In fact the product is so neat that the media awarded it best new sunglasses. Lucky Craft released the Smasher series of baits and those are going to be huge. I mean Lucky Craft really thought the bait out well and designed it to catch a lot of fish all across the country. I expect this bait to shine during the bluegill spawn or anywhere bass feed mostly on brim. Personally, I’ve been really happy with the way my music has been received by the fans. I’ll be able to work on my music much more during the offseason because right now my focus is solely on winning the All-Star event. I’m going to get back to work, but I’ll keep everyone updated. Thanks for reading! Pickwick Day One
Well I can tell you first hand it us no fun getting pounded on the first day of a tournament! Pickwick did its job, putting out lots of great limits of bass, but I had to struggle to catch a limit weighing 9 pounds. Comments Off on Pickwick Day One
Slim Pickings at Pickwick?
Today was my final day of practice for the FLW on Pickwick Lake. This weeks practice was like banging my head against a wall at times. Many of the key main river spots are getting hammered by our competitors. You would never think a lake this big would fish so small! Hoping for an early starting number…. Comments Off on Slim Pickings at Pickwick?
Off Season
Takahiro Omori Blog: For most B.A.S.S. guys this begins their offseason, but for me I’m just in the middle of mine. I’m all done with Elite Series and finished 32nd overall qualifying me for the 2012 Bassmaster Classic. Anytime you make the Classic you’ve had a pretty good season and I am just excited to get a shot at another title. I’m never one to be idle, so I try to fish every major tournament I can. Right now I have at least three more and I hope a fourth. The three I know for sure are the upcoming PAA event on Lake Neely Henry in Alabama and the last two FLW Open events on Lake Champlain and Lake Guntersville, respectively. The fourth I’m hoping to qualify for is the Toyota Texas Bass Classic on Lake Conroe. To qualify for that I need to finish in the top 15 in the PAA points, with one event left I’m in 12th place and I need a good finish to secure my spot. Looking ahead to the last two FLW Opens I am already excited for Lake Champlain. Everyone knows I like to target largemouth because I believe they are much easier to pattern than spots or smallmouth and because usually they will weigh more, but Champlain is a whole different ballgame and the rules are much different. Champlain is one place where you can weigh in 20 pounds of either largemouth or smallmouth on any given day; I can’t think of another place where that rings true. That time of year the big smallmouth also start moving up onto the flats with the largemouth so each cast could produce a five pounder of either species. I’m already excited. I plan to target fish using the larger Lucky Craft Slender Pointer in the 112 and 127 size in any color that resembles the yellow perch. Similar to the trout in California and the gizzard shad in the south, the yellow perch is the preferred meal of Champlain bass trying to get big in a hurry. The only thing I’m not excited for is the three days of driving each way from my home near Lake Fork. Speaking of Lake Fork, I’ve been fishing it quite a bit right now. Usually we don’t have this time of year off from the Elites, but the way the events were scheduled allows me some valuable time on the water working on one of my weaknesses: Deep water. The last couple of trips out to Lake Fork have been spectacular due in large part to the Lucky Craft D20 and LC 3.5XD. The fish are really predictable in the 20 foot range. They are stacked up on deep humps and can be caught one after another with either the D20 or 3.5XD. It’s exciting to get more comfortable with the deeper water. Just wait, you will love the new 3.5XD its awesome and the colors are just what you would expect from Lucky Craft, brilliant. I hope that you follow my upcoming tournaments and I’ll report back soon. Until next time, Comments Off on Off Season
Long Day of Practice
Put in 12 hours pounding the ledges on Pickwick today. Found several schools of fish. I think some of the key spots will get pretty crowded during the tournament. We have three more practice days. I’ll need all of them I’m sure! Comments Off on Long Day of Practice
Bassmaster Mag – World Record Interview #1James Hall, editor of Bassmaster Magazine, just posted an exclusive interview with Manabu Kurita. James is at Lake Biwa in Japan and interviews Kurita about his potential world record catch. Watch this on THEDAILYCRANK.COM Comments Off on Bassmaster Mag – World Record Interview #1
Stories From The Front DeckFeatures Lucky Craft pro Brent Ehrler talking about a specific fish that cost him the 2004 US Open win. It was shot from the front deck of Brent’s boat at Lake Castaic, California. Watch this on THEDAILYCRANK.COM |
