Bass Fishing – How to Fish the Neko Rig
Another great Bass Fishing Technique for high pressured lakes and tough days of fishing. The Neko Rig has been around a long time but isn’t talked about much but it catching fish when it’s hard to catch them any other way.
Bass Anglers Urged To Fight Anti-Bass Movement In California
A new proposal to liberalize limits on largemouth bass and striped bass in the California Delta is a misguided attempt to conceal real threats to salmon fisheries, said B.A.S.S. Conservation Director Gene Gilliland. The California Delta is home to a world-class black bass fishery, has hosted numerous Bassmaster tournaments and is the home water for many touring pro anglers.
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August 4, 2016
Bass Anglers Urged To Fight Anti-Bass Movement In California
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — A new proposal to liberalize limits on largemouth bass and striped bass in the California Delta is a misguided attempt to conceal real threats to salmon fisheries, said B.A.S.S. Conservation Director Gene Gilliland.
Gilliland, a career fisheries biologist and black bass expert, was responding to a notification from the Keep America Fishing organization urging anglers to oppose the California proposals.
“This is another shot by the anti-bass groups in California to eradicate non-native predators from the California Delta,” Gilliland said. “Federal legislation has already been proposed to remove black bass and striped bass, both of which have co-existed with salmon in the Delta for more than 100 years. Now these groups are setting their sights on state regulations. Bass and stripers, both very popular sportfish, are being blamed for the demise of the salmon stocks. But bass are the scapegoat.
“Water management is the issue and liberalizing the limits on stripers and black bass will have little to no effect on the recovery of the endangered species. Fishery experts agree that this is a foolish idea and furthers drive that wedge between angler groups when the real issue is water.”
The California Delta is home to a world-class black bass fishery, has hosted numerous Bassmaster tournaments and is the home water for many touring pro anglers.
“Water managers who care little about the fishery, its economic impact or value for the quality of life it brings to the region want to eradicate all non-native species as a show of good faith towards the salmon anglers,” he said.
He urged B.A.S.S. members and other anglers to sign the Keep America Fishing petition and implore the California Fish & Wildlife Commission to reject the proposed length and bag limit changes on stripers and black bass The Commission meets soon to deliberate the rule change proposal. The petition must be delivered before August 11, he noted.
The petition can be accessed here: https://keepamericafishing.
Strategies Will Be Built Around Tidal Flows As Elite Series Visits Potomac River
Bassmaster Elite Series pros will compete for the coveted $100,000 first-place prize and valuable Toyota Bassmaster Angler of the Year points at the Bassmaster Elite at Potomac River presented by Econo Lodge held out of Charles County, Md., Aug. 11-14.
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August 4, 2016
Strategies Will Be Built Around Tidal Flows As Elite Series Visits Potomac River
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CHARLES COUNTY, Md. — As a longtime saltwater angler from New Jersey, Bassmaster Elite Series rookie Adrian Avena knows how to put together a tournament game plan on a tidal fishery.
In fact, he knows a couple of ways to do it — and he expects to see them both utilized during the Bassmaster Elite at Potomac River presented by Econo Lodge.
The tournament is scheduled for Aug. 11-14, with daily takeoffs set for 6:15 a.m. ET from Smallwood State Park. The 3 p.m. weigh-ins will be held at Smallwood State Park on Thursday and Friday, then at Indian Head Pavilion on the Village Green on Saturday and Sunday.
“The bottom end of the tide is always going to be best time to catch them,” said Avena, who enters the event in second place in the Rookie of the Year standings. “So one of the options is to get into the area where you got the most bites in practice — the place where you found the biggest concentration of bass — and pretty much camp on them and wait for the tide to get right.
“It takes a lot of patience.”
Another option is to “run the tide,” trying hard to stay in places all day long where it’s just right. It’s a gamble, but it can sometimes pay off big.
“There will be some guys that are going to hit a lot of places, hoping to time it just right so they’re catching that low tide everywhere they go,” Avena said. “That can be tough, too. But you can put together some big bags that way.”
Though mid-August is a difficult time to visit most fisheries, Avena said the Potomac has made a real comeback in recent years with the re-emergence of grass along many parts of the river. Barring heavy rains that could make a mess of the fishery, he thinks it could take upwards of 72 pounds to win the four-day event.
That would be impressive for a tournament that almost didn’t happen.
During March, new state regulations in Maryland caused B.A.S.S. to consider canceling what would be its first trip to the Potomac since 2007. Under those regulations, tournament competitors would have been allowed to weigh in five bass per day, 12 inches or longer, with only one that measured 15 inches or longer.
B.A.S.S. CEO Bruce Akin said that regulation would not have sufficed for a major tournament trail like the Elite Series.
But an alternative option was eventually proposed that will allow tournament anglers to weigh five bass that measure at least 12 inches. There will be no maximum size limit, but anglers must observe several special rules to ensure safe handling of the fish.
B.A.S.S. Conservation Director Gene Gilliland credited state conservation officials for finding a solution to the impasse.
“The Maryland Department of Natural Resources recognized that a problem with the bass population exists in the Potomac and wanted to act quickly to protect it from further decline,” Gilliland said. “Their first proposals were met with a great deal of opposition from tournament organizations, including B.A.S.S.
“But to their credit, they have been willing to listen to angler concerns and presented new options that allow tournaments to be conducted if they follow what DNR calls ‘Best Management Practices’ for fish care.”
Gilliland added that most of the special requirements are already standard practice for B.A.S.S.
Fish will be redistributed to approved locations via live release boats, equipment will be used during the weigh-in to maximize fish survival and anglers will use non-puncturing clips on their cull tags instead of traditional tags that puncture a fish’s lip.
“Complying with the criteria in Option 2 should not prove difficult for us,” Gilliland said. “Most of these requirements were taken directly from the B.A.S.S. publication, Keeping Bass Alive, and are standard operating procedures at all B.A.S.S. tournaments.”
Pennsylvania angler Dave Lefebre, who had seven career Top 10 finishes on the Potomac while he was with FLW Outdoors, is especially glad the tournament is still on.
“It’s about a six-hour drive from my house, so it’s about the closest tournament for me all year,” he said. “It has something for everybody. If you want to fish offshore, if you want to power fish, if you want to go as shallow as your boat will go, you can make it all work.
“I always kind of have this feeling of panic when I fish the Potomac, because it’s never the same place twice. But that also makes it a really fun place to go.”
Old Town® Predator® XL Minn Kota® Stars in “Early Bite”
Old Town® Predator® XL Minn Kota® Stars in “Early Bite”
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Old Town, Maine (August 4, 2016)— A great mystery lies around every river bend, pushing adventurous anglers farther, the promise of untapped fish, seismic strikes, and parabolic rod bends. How many times have we told ourselves “just one more cast,” only to return home hours later?
This is why we eagerly awake in darkness and launch by early twilight…the early bite.
An all-new Old Town video of the same name, “Early Bite” takes viewers on an early-morning bass hunt in the depths of the wilderness. Miles from civilization, the video follows the journey of one man and his Predator® XL Minn Kota® into virgin waters that require the ultimate in portability to access, and the pinnacle of stealth to fish effectively.
“Experience has taught me that, the more quiet I am, the more fish I catch. The Minn Kota trolling motor provides that. It’s extremely quiet,” says avid angler Bruce Brown.
The Predator XL’s Minn Kota motor console provides a full 45 lbs. of thrust in near-silence. And it’s a welcome upgrade for anglers looking for a hands-free edge against river currents. Built-in USB charge ports and LED charge indicators keep your accessories fully connected to the world and your mind fully focused on what’s truly important—the fishing.
And built-in Minn Kota Digital Maximizer technology keeps you going all day – even in heavy current and cold weather – whether you’re trolling or casting.
“The old saying of the early bird gets the worm rings true out here on the river,” adds Brown. “There’s nothing like hearing the splash of that bait and feeling the pull of that fish first thing in the morning.”
Thanks to the Predator XL Minn Kota, anglers around the country can splash, pull and conquer fish around the nation, no matter how remote the waterway.
Browning And Vereen Claim Bassmaster Junior Championship Title
Beau Browning (middle) and McCoy Vereen (right) of the Anvil Jaw Junior Bassmasters out of Arkansas win the Costa Bassmaster Junior Championship on Carroll County 1,000 Acre Recreational Lake with a two-day total weight of 21 pounds.
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August 3, 2016
Browning And Vereen Claim Bassmaster Junior Championship Title
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HUNTINGDON, Tenn. — Beau Browning and McCoy Vereen remember what it felt like a year ago when they didn’t catch a fish in the Costa Bassmaster Junior Championship.
“It was tough,” Vereen said. “We had a long ride home. But we left knowing that we wanted a chance to redeem ourselves.”
Mission accomplished.
Browning and Vereen, fishing again for Arkansas’ Anvil Jaw Junior Bassmasters team in the 2016 Costa Bassmaster Junior Championship, stormed to nearly a 7-pound lead after the first day of competition on Tuesday, by virtue of a five-bass limit that totaled 14 pounds, 9 ounces. They followed with another impressive performance on Wednesday — a 6-7 sack of five bass that was decreased by 2-3 because of penalties.
Still, it was enough for a 21-0 two-day total and victory in the crown jewel of junior bass fishing. The boys, both 14-years-old, each won a championship trophy, and will split a $2,000 scholarship for their performance on Carroll County 1,000 Acre Recreation Lake.
“We’ve been thinking throughout the year about what we were going to do when we got back,” Browning said. “It feels great to come this far and win.”
The final day of fishing was not without a bit of drama, however. For starters, the boys didn’t have an early run on bass like they did on Tuesday, when they caught a limit within 30 minutes of launching. The brutal Tennessee heat bore down early on Wednesday and made the bite difficult for just about all of the 29 competing teams.
And to top off the early slack bite, the Arkansas team self-reported a rules violation by having too many fish on board at one time.
Bassmaster Elite Series pro Stephen Browning (Beau’s father and the team’s coach for the tournament), said there were five bass in the livewell, when a sixth keeper was caught. While Browning was measuring the fish, both boys began fishing again, which is not allowed.
The elder Browning informed the team of the violation, then called tournament officials, who docked them 2 pounds for the oversight. Another of their five fish expired before weigh-in, which knocked them down another 3 ounces.
“It’s like ‘dadgummit,’” Stephen Browning said. “Two pounds is a lot of weight. I mean, it’s a lot of weight; especially in a close tournament like this. We said, ‘We made the mistake boys. Let’s own up to it and keep grinding away.’”
And so they did. A 5-6 lunker was the big bass of the day, and the 5-10 bass the team weighed on Tuesday was the big bass of the tournament. Knowing that the lake can produce some big bags — last year’s winners boated 28 pounds on the final day of fishing — placed even more pressure on Browning and Vereen to perform.
The boys caught the majority of their bass on magnum shaky head worms in the red bug color in 10 to 15 feet of water. They said fishing on Carroll County 1,000 Acre Recreational Lake was similar to what they encounter back home in Hot Springs in August.
“Summer fishing is slow,” Beau said. “You have to fish slow, and you have to just grind it out pretty much. That’s what we fish around the house, but coming here, the practice was still well-needed.”
The New Hampshire duo of Jack Armstrong and Logan Daniels took the lead early on Wednesday. New Hampshire finished with 15-13 overall, and placed second in the championship.
Cameron Meadows and Austin Hubbard of Oklahoma had the big bag on Wednesday (10-7) and finished third overall with 12-10. Both teams collected trophies, while the New Hampshire team will split a $1,000 scholarship, as well.
Samuel Ambrose and Trevor Albanese of West Virginia also caught 12-10, but fell to fourth place overall on the heaviest-bag tiebreaker. Team Louisiana’s Hanson Chaney and Jackson Landry finished fifth with a two-day total of 9-7.
Anglers competing in the Costa Bassmaster Junior Championship could range in age from 7 to 14 years old. Each team was accompanied by a coach who could offer advice on the water, but not catch the fish.
The junior anglers are considered the future of the sport. Championship teams from 28 states, and another from Canada, took part in the title tournament.
STANDINGS BOATER DAY 2
Carroll County 1,000 Acre – Recreational Lake – Huntingdon, TN
8/2/2016 – 8/3/2016
Junior Bassmaster Championship
Today’s Activity
# Fish Lbs – Oz
Accumulative
Name # Live # Fish # Live Lbs – Oz
1 Beau Browning – McCoy Vereen AR – Anvil Jaw Jr Bassmasters 5 4 6- 7 10 7 21- 0
2 Jack Armstrong – Logan Daniels NH – NH Jr Bass Masters 4 4 7-14 9 9 15-13
3 Cameron Meadows – Austin Hubbard OK – OKC Jr Bassmasters 4 4 10- 7 6 6 12-10
4 Samuel Ambrose – Trevor Albanese WV – Berkeley Springs Jr Fishing Club 5 4 8- 4 10 9 12-10
5 Hanson Chaney – Jackson Landry LA – Jr Southwest Bassmasters 5 5 4-12 10 10 9- 7
6 Bennett Bauer – Hunter White NC – Southfork Jr Bassmasters 4 3 5- 3 9 8 9- 5
7 Rein Golubjatnikov – Garrett Lawton NY – Rochester Jr Bassmasters 5 5 4- 9 9 9 8- 1
8 Miller Dowling – Chandlar Hollingsworth AL – West Alabama Jr Bass 4 4 3-13 9 8 7- 8
9 Bradlee Parish – Tyler Guin MS – Monroe County Youth Bassmasters 3 3 2- 7 8 8 7- 1
10 Gavin Enders – Cadin Sheesley PA – Susquehanna Valley Fishing Team 4 4 3- 5 8 8 6-14
11 Andrew Lavoie – Matthew Lavoie RI – RI Jr Bassmasters 3 3 2- 9 8 8 6-12
12 Remington Barkley – Nathan Elsey Michigan – Junior MI Bass Anglers 2 2 1-12 7 6 6- 8
13 Jake Rossi – Charles Jones OH – SS Minnows 4 3 3- 1 6 5 5-11
14 Chris Mussat – Matthew Piho ON – Hamilton Jr Bassmasters 2 1 1- 7 7 6 5- 7
15 Kurtis Swanson – Chaney Weick KY – Bottomline Jr Club 3 3 2-12 6 6 5- 7
16 Ryder Mains – Daniel Gutgesell KS – Kickback Jr Bass Club 4 2 3- 0 7 5 5- 6
17 Dylan Draper – Luis Flores IL – Off the Hook 5 4 3-13 6 5 4-11
18 Roger Weigle Jr – Jeffrey Worthy Jr FL – Lakeland Jr Bassmasters 1 1 0-15 5 5 4- 9
19 Hayden Hedrick – Cale Carr VA – 2 1 2- 0 5 4 4- 7
20 Reece Keeney – Bryce Moder WI – Waupaca Jr Bass Busters 3 3 2- 7 5 5 3-15
21 Noah Jones – Manning Feldner SC – Conway Middle School 4 4 3-14 5 5 3-11
22 Cullen Behen – Bode Meader ME – Mainely Jr Bass 1 1 1- 3 3 3 3- 1
23 Ty Keller – Clayton Capilla CO – Denver Jr Bassmasters 1 1 0-15 3 2 2-10
24 Jake Schiavi – Lorin Valenti CT – Bass Lightning 2 2 1-10 3 3 2- 9
25 Brayden Stotler – Ezra Elkins IN – Southside Anglers 0 0 0- 0 3 3 2- 7
26 Jameson Peterson – Jordan Bryant TX – East Texas Youth Bass Club 2 1 1-10 2 1 1-10
27 Joseph Gorman – Bryan Oelrich MN – Bassinators 1 1 0-13 2 2 1- 8
28 Bentley Fletcher – Tristin Wilcox IA – Cedar Rapids Jr Bassmasters 1 1 0-12 2 2 1- 7
29 Lanie Birdsong – Hunter Davis GA – Bainbridge Basscats 1 1 0-13 3 3 1- 4
Name City,State Lbs-Oz
BIG BASS
Day
1 Beau Browning – McCoy Vereen Hot Springs, AR 5-10
2 Beau Browning – McCoy Vereen Hot Springs, AR 5- 6
Day # Live Lbs-Oz # Limits
TOTALS
# Fish
1 91 86 90-14 10
2 85 75 92- 7 5
Bass Fishing – The Advantage to using Braided Line to a Fluorocarbon Leader
I’m thinking about changing my bass fishing setups to braided main line and use fluorocarbon leaders. Here is why.
Kansas State Anglers Win 2016 Carhartt Bassmaster College Series National Championship
Kansas State Anglers Win 2016 Carhartt Bassmaster College Series National Championship
Humminbird® technologies help young Wildcats take top spot at Bassmaster College Final on Kentucky’s Green River Lake
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RACINE, WI (August 3, 2016): This past weekend, 89 college teams competed in the 2016 Carhartt Bassmaster College Series National Championship on Green River Lake, Kentucky.
At the end of the three days, Kansas State University anglers Kyle Alsop and Taylor Bivins emerged victorious, weighing-in over 10 pounds each day for a cumulative weight of 36-4. Besides winning $2,500 for their college bass team, the duo was awarded two HELIX 10 SI GPS combo units by Bassmaster College Series Official Sponsor, Humminbird.
The two also advance to compete individually in the Carhartt Bassmaster College Series Classic Bracket tournament on Kentucky Lake this Thursday, Friday and Saturday, August 4-6. The winner of that event will receive a berth in the 2017 GEICO Bassmaster Classic March 24-26, 2017, in Houston, TX.
Photo courtesy of B.A.S.S.
“We knew it was going to be a tough tournament. We didn’t have a lot of bites, but we had the right ones,” said Kyle Alsop, a Senior Mechanical Engineering major at KSU.
“We used the Side Imaging on our Humminbird 1199ci SI GPS unit to mark brush piles during practice. We started fishing and ‘Boom!’ we got bit. Wasn’t long before we got another bite. Some of the brush piles were smaller, so we had to work 20-30 piles in between bites. Being able to idle down a stretch of bank or point and really pick out the little details with Side Imaging played a huge part in our success.”
Alsop and Bivins set their Side Imaging to look 65 feet right and left, using the Amber palette in the sun and blue when it was overcast.
“Our biggest concern during practice was not having enough sun during the tournament, which we needed to concentrate the fish in and around the piles. When it was overcast, Down Imaging was helpful to pick out the suspended fish above and around brush. They weren’t really tight to the cover most of the time,” said Alsop.
Both agreed that their best spot was the first 60-yard brush pile they fished on Day One, which extended from eight to 20 feet deep, right off a channel swing.
Photo courtesy of B.A.S.S.
“We did look around the ledges, shallow, etc. but decided we should focus on brush and just grind it out. We caught two keepers on that first spot, including the 6-13, which I caught Carolina-rigging a green pumpkin Zoom Brush Hog on Sunline fluoro. Then Taylor caught a fish pushing four pounds on a green pumpkin Big Bite Baits Super Stick and Big Bite Fintwist Shaky Head.”
Recently-graduated KSU Wildlife and Outdoor Enterprise Management major Taylor Bivins said fishing “painfully slow” was a big part of their win.
“I wasn’t fishing a shaky head in the traditional sense of hopping, twitching and shaking the bait. I was dragging it. We knew the fish were there, but they wanted it slow…really slow.”
With two big fish in the boat, the duo’s slow-mo brush pattern was cemented and they prayed the pattern would hold, which it did. On day two they only had three bites, but caught all three. Similarly, on the last day, they had four or five good bites and put three keepers in the box.
“We rotated on the three key spots the entire tournament where we had bites during practice and days one and two,” said Alsop.
Photo courtesy of B.A.S.S.
Bivins added: “The Humminbird electronics were key to find the right brush. The brush piles had to be 50 – 60 feet long and a deep break, like the stretches on main lake points that ran from 10 to 20 feet deep.”
As of Monday morning, the duo was already pre-fishing for the Carhartt Bassmaster College Series Classic Bracket on Kentucky Lake, which they think is going to play out similar to the Green River Lake event.
“These critical tournaments can come down to finding the details. We’ve been doing a lot of graphing with our Humminbird and have found some fish, but still have more work to do,” said Alsop.
Bivins added: “We have to compete against a lot of great anglers. It’ll take a limit to win, and probably fishing slow, but that’s not an issue for me. Sometimes it’s about slowing down and picking apart an area to get a limit in the boat.”
Both anglers are excited to install their new ICAST-winning Humminbird HELIX 10 SI GPS combos following the Bracket tournament. Alsop will continue to compete locally in Kansas, while Bivins takes a job at Southern Botanical in Dallas, Texas.
“Being new to the Dallas area, I’m excited to use Humminbird’s AutoChart® Live to help me figure out lakes like Ray Hubbard a lot faster,” said Bivins.
Finding the right structure and cover quickly is one thing, but you can bet both Alsop and Bivins will continue big fish hunting with patience and poise – a display of wisdom well beyond their limited years.
Indeed, sometimes slow and steady does win the race.
Photo courtesy of B.A.S.S.
Arkansas Team Takes The Lead In Bassmaster Junior Championship
McCoy Vereen (left) and Beau Browning of the Anvil Jaw Junior Bassmasters out of Arkansas lead Day 1 of the Costa Bassmaster Junior Championship on Carroll County 1,000 Acre Recreational Lake with 14 pounds, 9 ounces.
Photo by Andrew Canulette/Bassmaster
August 2, 2016
Arkansas Team Takes The Lead In Bassmaster Junior Championship
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HUNTINGDON, Tenn. — Beau Browning and McCoy Vereen came into last year’s inaugural Costa Bassmaster Junior Championship with high hopes, but they didn’t catch a single legal-size bass in two days of competition.
Fast-forward a year, and things have changed drastically.
The 14-year-old Arkansas junior anglers nearly doubled up the total of their nearest competing team on the first day of the 2016 Costa Bassmaster Junior Championship on Carroll County 1,000 Acre Recreational Lake in western Tennessee. Browning and Vereen, who fish with the Anvil Jaw team out of Hot Springs, Ark., had a five-bass limit weighing 14 pounds, 9 ounces.
That haul gave the Arkansas team a stranglehold on the Day 1 lead; well in front of second-place team — the New Hampshire Junior Bassmasters — whose Jack Armstrong and Logan Daniels caught five fish that totaled 7-15. Only three of the other 29 teams competing in the junior championship are within 10 pounds of the Arkansas duo.
Fishing teams from Michigan (4-12), Louisiana (4-11), and Mississippi (4-10) round out the Top 5 squads after the first day. In all, 28 state champion teams (and another from Canada,) are fishing for the national title. Competition ends Wednesday. Anglers must be 14 years old or younger to compete in the junior championship.
Browning and Vereen, who both will soon enter the ninth grade, located their fish early in the morning when skies were overcast and the temperature had yet to climb above 90 degrees. They had a limit in the livewell within 30 minutes of the 6 a.m. launch, but the bite slowed as fishing pressure increased.
“We got out to our spot pretty close to the ramp, and we had a good solid limit in 30 minutes,” Browning said. “But by the time everyone had taken off, we had five boats on top of us. We ended up catching a 6-pounder, which bumped us up there. That gave us momentum. But fishing slowed down from there. It got hot, and we started struggling a bit.”
The duo lost another lunker bass a while later, but boated a 5-pounder in the afternoon that has them feeling good going into the final round.
The boys are captained/coached by Bassmaster Elite Series pro Stephen Browning, who is Beau’s father. Though coaches are able to talk with their young charges during junior competitions, the elder Browning indicated that Tuesday’s success was all a result of Beau’s and McCoy’s skills, and their resiliency.
“They learned a lot from last year,” Stephen Browning said. “When they left here, they knew more about the lake. It helped them prepare mentally. This is not one of those lakes where you’re going to run out and catch a huge bag. It’s a mental thing. They kept their heads down, and they hooked into a couple big ones. Them keeping it together was the most rewarding thing for me to see.”
The leaders know they’ll probably have to produce another decent limit on Wednesday to win the Costa Bassmaster Junior Championship. Last year, the Oklahoma team boated 28 pounds on Carroll County 1,000 Acre Recreational Lake on the final day to storm past the field.
“We’ll have to do the same thing we did today or better tomorrow,” Beau said. “Hopefully we can get a win.”
The second day of the Costa Bassmaster Junior Championship will begin with a 6 a.m. launch from Carroll County 1,000 Acre Recreation Lake in Huntingdon, Tenn. The weigh-in is scheduled to start at 1:45 p.m. in downtown Huntingdon.
Junior Bassmaster Championship
8/2/2016 – 8/3/2016
Carroll County 1,000 Acre – Recreational Lake – Huntingdon, TN
STANDINGS BOATER DAY 1
Today’s Activity
# Fish Lbs – Oz
Accumulative
Name # Live # Fish # Live Lbs – Oz
1 Beau Browning – McCoy Vereen AR – Anvil Jaw Jr Bassmasters 5 3 14- 9 5 3 14- 9
2 Jack Armstrong – Logan Daniels NH – NH Jr Bass Masters 5 5 7-15 5 5 7-15
3 Remington Barkley – Nathan Elsey Michigan – Junior MI Bass Anglers 5 4 4-12 5 4 4-12
4 Hanson Chaney – Jackson Landry LA – Jr Southwest Bassmasters 5 5 4-11 5 5 4-11
5 Bradlee Parish – Tyler Guin MS – Monroe County Youth Bassmasters 5 5 4-10 5 5 4-10
6 Samuel Ambrose – Trevor Albanese WV – Berkeley Springs Jr Fishing Club 5 5 4- 6 5 5 4- 6
7 Andrew Lavoie – Matthew Lavoie RI – RI Jr Bassmasters 5 5 4- 3 5 5 4- 3
8 Bennett Bauer – Hunter White NC – Southfork Jr Bassmasters 5 5 4- 2 5 5 4- 2
9 Chris Mussat – Matthew Piho ON – Hamilton Jr Bassmasters 5 5 4- 0 5 5 4- 0
10 Miller Dowling – Chandlar Hollingsworth AL – West Alabama Jr Bass 5 4 3-11 5 4 3-11
11 Roger Weigle Jr – Jeffrey Worthy Jr FL – Lakeland Jr Bassmasters 4 4 3-10 4 4 3-10
12 Gavin Enders – Cadin Sheesley PA – Susquehanna Valley Fishing Team 4 4 3- 9 4 4 3- 9
13 Rein Golubjatnikov – Garrett Lawton NY – Rochester Jr Bassmasters 4 4 3- 8 4 4 3- 8
14 Kurtis Swanson – Chaney Weick KY – Bottomline Jr Club 3 3 2-11 3 3 2-11
15 Jake Rossi – Charles Jones OH – SS Minnows 2 2 2-10 2 2 2-10
16 Hayden Hedrick – Cale Carr VA – 3 3 2- 7 3 3 2- 7
16 Brayden Stotler – Ezra Elkins IN – Southside Anglers 3 3 2- 7 3 3 2- 7
18 Ryder Mains – Daniel Gutgesell KS – Kickback Jr Bass Club 3 3 2- 6 3 3 2- 6
19 Cameron Meadows – Austin Hubbard OK – OKC Jr Bassmasters 2 2 2- 3 2 2 2- 3
20 Cullen Behen – Bode Meader ME – Mainely Jr Bass 2 2 1-14 2 2 1-14
21 Ty Keller – Clayton Capilla CO – Denver Jr Bassmasters 2 1 1-11 2 1 1-11
22 Reece Keeney – Bryce Moder WI – Waupaca Jr Bass Busters 2 2 1- 8 2 2 1- 8
23 Jake Schiavi – Lorin Valenti CT – Bass Lightning 1 1 0-15 1 1 0-15
24 Dylan Draper – Luis Flores IL – Off the Hook 1 1 0-14 1 1 0-14
25 Bentley Fletcher – Tristin Wilcox IA – Cedar Rapids Jr Bassmasters 1 1 0-11 1 1 0-11
25 Joseph Gorman – Bryan Oelrich MN – Bassinators 1 1 0-11 1 1 0-11
27 Lanie Birdsong – Hunter Davis GA – Bainbridge Basscats 2 2 0- 7 2 2 0- 7
28 Jameson Peterson – Jordan Bryant TX – East Texas Youth Bass Club 0 0 0- 0 0 0 0- 0
29 Noah Jones – Manning Feldner SC – Conway Middle School 1 1 -0- 3 1 1 -0- 3
Name City,State Lbs-Oz
BIG BASS
Day
1 Beau Browning – McCoy Vereen Hot Springs, AR 5-10
Day # Live Lbs-Oz # Limits
TOTALS
# Fish
1 91 86 90-14 10
2 0 0 0- 0 0
BUTCHER HOLLOW ANNUAL BASS TOURNAMENT October 22,2016 SML Penhook Ramp
BUTCHER HOLLOW ANNUAL BASS TOURNAMENT
Guaranteed $ 1,000.00 first place.
$ 90.00 entry $ 10.00 big fish pot Big fish pot split 50/50 big smallmouth and big largemouth
October, 22,2016 Smith mt. Lake
(penhook ramp) Safe light till 3:00 pm
Kayak Bass Fishing with Flukemaster…Gators and Missing a GIANT!
I headed down to Bienville Plantation to do some kayak bass fishing with my buddy Gene Jensen (Flukemaster) and my girlfriend Kristie. The trip was during the full moon, it was super hot and the gators were out in full force.
This trip was awesome and I missed a GIANT bass early on and watched several really big bass swim by through the hydrilla that we couldn’t get to eat. I can’t wait to go back because this place and fish it when the weather is a little better and I have more time to dissect the fishery.