Today we crowned our 2011 Ultimate Match Fishing Champion! One Pro Angler is now $50,000 richer. As usual, production of the the final match took much longer than the preliminary matches. We didn’t wrap the shoot and the season till 8 PM!
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My co-host Fish Fishburne is over the top as he displays the UMF Championship Belt!
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We completed our third quarter final UMF match today on Mullett Lake. The new Evinrude powered Rangers are performing flawlessly and the weather and fishing continue to be great! Our crew is doing an outstanding job even though the production days are long.
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Joe Thomas’ TV Show “Real in the Outdoors”. This time, Joe and Brent are co-starring in this film.

We were able to do lots of running and aerial footage from a helicopter before our Ultimate Match Fishing this morning. It was a perfect, crystal clear morning. The footage looks fantastic. Oh yeah, the match was pretty awesome too. I love Mullet Lake and the Indian River, Michigan area!
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MIYAKE MA~~~N!!!　I wish somebody would make a theme song for this…

I received some pictures from saltwater pro angler, Ben. His son caught a huge Calico Bass with the Flash Minnow 190! Wow!!

Today was the our first Ultimate Match Fishing quarter final match on Mullett Lake in Indian River, Michigan. The lake lived up to its reputation as a stellar smallmouth fishery, with several big smallies caught by each angler.
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This film shows Japan’s mountain stream Trout fishing. You will see many plants and forest you won’t normally see in America. You will see a different type of fishing area in this film.

The 2011 ICAST Show is just 2 more weeks away! I would like to introduce this year’s new products! Our preparation is moving forward to completion. I hope everyone is looking forward to the show.

This week I went to San Pedro to catch some Barracuda with my fishing buddies “K” & “S”. The weather was nice and sunny with no winds. Hoping the Barracudas are up in the surface, we started fishing. After arriving to our fishing spot, I immediately cast a PT100DD!! Then surprisingly after a couple casts, I got the very first bite out of all the passengers!! I pulled up the Barracuda and it was definitely a good start for me. I then changed lures to this year’s new product, the FM120DD and caught another one. On this early morning, I continued to catch some in a deeper area. I did get some short bites, but it felt nice to get some catches.

After the sun came up, I changed lures to surface lures (FM110 & FM130), but couldn’t get any bites. We then moved to a different location… At this point, the people who were using live baits seemed to be getting no bites. After changing locations, I started off using the FM130, but got nothing! Again, I decided to change lures to aim at a deeper range and decreased the size to a BIGUP. I then caught a keeper size Calico Bass! Then, after couple more castings, I kept catching more Calico Bass!! Once that slowed down, I decided to go on the other side of the boat and change lures to the Staysee 90!! From here, I came across a Barracuda boil for the first time and started catching them like crazy. Within an hour, I caught over 20 (including small size fishes) Barracuda. And every time I pulled one up, I continued changing lures and colors as well.

Since there were other fishermen on the boat, we alternated throwing in lures and jigs at boils and I got to share an area with 2 other people. I sometimes moved to the other side of the boat, but didn’t get anything and that made me realize how important those fish boils are.

In this fishing trip, unlike my last Barracuda fishing experience (at Santa Monica Bay – large size Barracuda was caught), the fishes weren’t as big. The main technique for Barracuda fishing in the west coast is to use jigs in the surface area while fast retrieving and you wait for a bite. However, instead of using a jig, I used a lure. And in result, with my very own lure tactics by slightly going at a deeper range from the surface while slow retrieving, it seemed to work better for me!! The “Metallic Sardine” color was a must, but green and white color lures seemed to work pretty good also!

On this fishing trip, I caught 15 legal size Barracuda and 2 legal size Calico Bass.

Sandy
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