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Well my 2011 FLW season is officially in the history books! My two day total on Pickwick weighed a whopping 20 pounds 4 ounces landed me solidly in 84th place, smashing all hopes of qualifying for the FLW Championship. Ouch!
Joe Thomas Blog

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Below is a new video clip showing off some of the Lucky Craft EPG Series that includes the Pointer 170, 180, and 200. It also includes the very cool looking Flash Minnow 190 Magma. Check it out!

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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.
Joe Thomas Blog

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ICAST and Off to All Star Week
Well, thanks to you – the fans – I’m packing myself up to head to Toyota Truck All Star Week in Montgomery, Ala. I can’t even begin to tell you what a humbling feeling it is to be going because the fans of our sport voted me in; it’s absolutely unbelievable.
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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….
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This is part2 report on the world’s greatest ICAST Fishing Show 2011.
And the Fishing Show is all about introducing upcoming new products with pro staffs and filming. On this 2nd day, Skeet Reese was with us in the morning at the Lucky Craft booth so we filmed him introducing the new Fat Smasher, Smasher 125S, and new colors. Skeet was amazing!! He must be so use to doing this from all the experience he’s had. He introduced every product in one take! Not only that, he included all the features of the lures and didn’t forget to add a little bit of humor for the world to see. The filming went very smoothly! He also gave us a message to his fans in Japan & we will be uploading it on Youtube very shortly, so please stay tuned.
We also filmed our other pro staffs (Kelly Jordan, Gerald Swindle, Brent Ehrler, Casey Ashley, and Cary Bever) introducing new products and this will be up on Youtube as well.

The first day of the Fishing Show ended and in the afternoon they announced the 2011 Best of Show awards. It is divided into categories and Lucky Craft was nominated in the Hard Lure division. The winners for each category were already chosen by the judges who have already observed the actual products. The winner is then chosen simply by the most votes it gets. In result, unfortunately Lucky Craft did not win, but we will hope for next year.

Sandy
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P.S. Next year’s Fishing Show is planned to be held in Florida.

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,
Tak