Bass Edge’s The Edge – Episode 232 – Scott Ashmore
May 15, 2016 at 1:00 AM
Bass Edge Radio presented by MegaWare KeelGuard chats with Major League Fishing ‘Selects’ Angler Scott Ashmore. We discuss Scott’s success in MLF, confidence lures and how to breakdown unfamiliar water quickly.
Make no mistake, there are countless variables in play at that moment—electronics, bad gas and rotten fuel lines, to name a few— and any number of them could have gone wrong just in time to ruin your day on the water. But in 2016, there’s no reason to be blind-sided by the unexpected.
Bill Dance is a legendary fisherman who’s learned a thing or two about the unexpected. Since his television show first debuted on American airwaves in the 1960s, Dance has been fighting fish, falling off of docks and waging war against the wear-and-tear that plagues marine motors.
“More than 90 percent of the gasoline sold in this country contains ethanol,” says Dance. “Ethanol can cause damage to marine fuel systems and ultimately lead to engine failure.”
PICTURE: Andy Brodousky from Wintergreen with a citation largemouth bass caught while fishing with Captain Dale Wilson last week.
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OVERVIEW- Fishing should be good this month! Water temperature will be in the 70’s to low 80’s. Best times will be early morning, late afternoon and at night this month. Fishing the past few weeks has been good! The baitfish will continue to move to the shoreline late at night as they are trying to finish spawning. Most species of fish have spawned. Night time is the best time to try your luck!
Largemouth Bass- Fishing for largemouth bass will be fair this month. Best lures will be jigs, drop shots, deep diving crank baits, top water lures and shaky heads. Most largemouth bass will be caught near shallow coves, stumps, shallow brush piles, secondary points and shallow water docks. Some fish will start to move to their summer patterns. Best depths will be from 2 to 20 feet deep. Most largemouth bass will have spawned by the end of the month. When fishing at night, most bass will be caught on wake type lures such as Thunder sticks fished close to rip rap points. Jigs and Texas rigged plastic worms will also be productive.
Smallmouth Bass- Fishing should be fair. Best areas will be humps, stumps and long main channel points. Best lures will be tubes, jigs, top water lures and medium running crank baits.. Best areas will be in the mid to the lower sections of the lake. Cloudy days with light winds are good times to try your luck! Look for areas with rocks, on points next to deep water. Look for stumps and isolated rocks on flats near deep water. Most smallmouth bass will finish spawning this month.
Striped Bass- Fishing should be good this month. Stripers will be caught in the lower to mid sections of the lake and the large creeks. Best lures will be top water, Red-fins, Thunder Sticks and Zoom flukes fished on 3/8 to 3/4 oz. lead heads. Casting early and late day can be productive. Stripers will surface some during the month of June. Best times to find schooling fish is cloudy days, early morning and later afternoon. The best depths will be from the surface to 40 feet deep. Live bait fished on planner boards will work well this month. Most fish will be suspended and will constantly be on the move. Find the largest concentration of shad. Night fishing will be fair this month. Mid to lower end of the lake seems to work best when night fishing.
Crappie- Fishing for crappie will be fair this month. They will be found 5 to 20 ft. deep. Crappie will be found around docks, brush piles, stumps and fallen tree tops. Small live minnows and 1½ to 2 inch tubes or shad shaped plastic lures fished on 1/32 to 1/16 oz. lead heads will work best to catch crappie this month.
TIP OF THE Month- Night fishing will be best this month. Shad constantly move to the shallow water at night as they continue to spawn. Best time to fish is from 11 pm to 2 am. Most species of fish will feed at night. You can also hear reports about local fishing on the website: THE BASS CAST RADIO SHOW each month. Make sure your running lights are on after dark! Remember to be courteous and obey all the boating laws. TAKE A KID FISHING!
LAKE BARKLEY SET TO HOST NATION’S TOP WEEKEND ANGLERS FOR ANNUAL BFL ALL-AMERICAN
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$120,000 top prize, coveted spot in 2016 Forrest Wood Cup on the line
CADIZ, Ky. (May 26, 2016) – Now in its 33rd year, the FLW Bass Fishing League (BFL) All-American will visit Lake Barkley in Cadiz, Kentucky, June 9-11, and will host the nation’s top 49 boaters and top 49 co-anglers from across the 24-division BFL circuit. Anglers will cast for cash prizes of up to $120,000 in the Boater Division and $60,000 in the Co-angler Division, plus an opportunity to compete for bass fishing’s top prize – the Forrest Wood Cup – Aug. 4-7 on Wheeler Lake in Huntsville, Alabama.
“My life goal was always to be a professional angler, and when they announced me as the All-American Champion, I knew I could do it,” said Walmart FLW Tour pro Troy Morrow of Eastanollee, Georgia, who was the 2010 All-American champion. “The prize money allowed me to head straight to the FLW Tour. Winning the All-American was a life-changing moment and was the foundation of my career.
“This year, they’re really going to catch them on Barkley,” Morrow said. “There’s going to be a strong shallow bite on both the north and south end of the lake. Individual targets like shallow brush piles, isolated stumps, logs and gravel bars are going to be the name of the game. The bream, which will be bedding, may also have a strong impact on the catch.”
Morrow said that topwater baits will likely dominate the shallow bite, while a wider variety of lures will be used offshore.
“Competitors who go after the offshore bite will be on the north end of the lake where it’s deeper,” said Morrow. “They’ll be reaching for swimbaits, big crankbaits, worms, jigs – even a big spoon. Any of those baits could do some damage. It will just depend on how much the fish have seen leading up to the event.”
The Georgia pro estimated that it will take roughly 20 pounds of bass a day to win the tournament.
“A three-day total right around 61 pounds is a good bet,” said Morrow. “There are a lot of options out there to catch quality limits and the competitors will be able to fish to their strengths.”
Anglers will take off from the Lake Barkley State Resort Park Marina located at 4200 State Park Road in Cadiz at 7 a.m. CDT each morning. Weigh-in will be held at the marina beginning at 3 p.m. on the first two days of competition. Saturday’s final weigh-in will be held in conjunction with the FLW Tour weigh-in at Kentucky Dam Village State Park, located at 7792 U.S. Highway 641 N. in Gilbertsville, Kentucky, beginning at 5:30 p.m.
The 2016 BFL All-American on Lake Barkley is hosted by Cadiz-Trigg County Tourism.
Coverage of the 2016 BFL All-American will premiere in high-definition (HD) on NBC Sports Network (NBCSN) October 5 from 1 p.m.-2 p.m. EDT. The Emmy-nominated “FLW” television show airs on NBCSN, the Pursuit Channel and the World Fishing Network and is broadcast to more than 564 million households worldwide, making it the most widely distributed weekly outdoors-sports television show in the world.
For a full schedule of events, complete details and updated information visit FLWFishing.com. For regular updates, photos, tournament news and more, follow FLW on Facebook at Facebook.com/FLWFishing and on Twitter at Twitter.com/FLWFishing.
WALMART FLW TOUR RETURNS HOME TO KENTUCKY LAKE FOR FIFTH EVENT OF SEASON
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GILBERTSVILLE, Ky. (May 26, 2016) – The fifth tournament of the 21st season of the Walmart FLW Tour, the most competitive circuit in professional bass-fishing, returns to Kentucky Lake June 9-12 with the Walmart FLW Tour at Kentucky Lake presented by Mercury Marine. Hosted by the Kentucky Lake Convention and Visitor’s Bureau, the tournament will feature a full field of the world’s best bass-fishing professionals and co-anglers casting for top awards of up to $125,000 cash in the pro division and up to $25,000 cash in the co-angler division.
The Walmart FLW Tour has visited Kentucky Lake 10 times previously in its 21-year history, with 2016 marking the Tour’s eleventh visit. One angler who is looking forward to the Tour’s return to the world-class largemouth fishery is Boy Scouts of America pro Tom Redington, who won the Costa FLW Series tournament on Kentucky Lake in 2015.
“I think this tournament is setting up to be a whack-fest,” said Redington, a Texas angler who has career earnings of more than $200,000 in FLW competition. “When the fish first start to move out deep to the ledges they’re not hard to catch. They are in huge schools and very easy to trigger – it doesn’t matter what color, what bait or how you fish. I think this tournament is going to fall right in that time frame and we’re going to see some very big fish caught.
“The lake is still running a little bit behind where it normally is this time of year, so that could spread out the field a bit as well,” Redington continued. “There will still be quite a few good fish up shallow, and we know that guys like John Cox and Jay Yelas will find them.”
Redington said that tournament anglers fishing offshore on the ledges would be throwing swimbaits, deep-diving crankbaits, big worms, jigs, spoons and hairjigs. He predicts that shallow-water specialists will be targeting bream beds, shad spawns and flipping willows, with jigs, spinnerbaits and topwater baits all expected to play a role.
“This tournament isn’t so much about the bait as it is timing,” Redington said. “If you get on a school at the right place at the right time, you can throw whatever bait you’re comfortable with and catch fish.
“I expect the winning angler to be right around 86 or 87 pounds,” Redington went on to say. “Someone is going to catch a 25-pound stringer and back it up with a few 20-pound limits. Kentucky Lake is always a great tournament-fishing environment.”
Anglers will take off from Kentucky Dam State Park located at 7792 U.S. Highway 641 N. in Gilbertsville at 6:30 a.m. CDT each day of competition. Thursday and Friday’s weigh-ins will be held at the State Park beginning at 3 p.m. Saturday and Sunday’s final weigh-ins will also be held at the State Park, but will begin at 4 p.m.
Fans will also be treated to the FLW Expo on Saturday and Sunday from noon to 4 p.m. at Kentucky Dam State Park prior to the final weigh-ins. The Expo includes a 100-yard Lew’s Casting Lane, the opportunity to interact with professional anglers, enjoy interactive games, activities and giveaways provided by FLW sponsors, and learn more about the sport of fishing and other outdoor activities. All activities are free and open to the public.
As part of the FLW Tour’s community outreach initiative, FLW Tour anglers will visit children at iKids Childhood Enrichment Center, located at 1471 U.S. Highway 68 W., in Benton on Wednesday, June 8, from 9-10 a.m. to introduce students to fishing and outdoor activities in their community. During the presentations the pro anglers will reinforce how science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) relate to outdoor activities as well as boating safety. The presentation will promote the sport of fishing and outdoor recreation and give youth the information they need to “Get Outdoors. Go Fish!”
Also for youth, the FLW Foundation’s Unified Fishing Derby will be held at Kentucky Dam State Park on Saturday, June 11, from 9:30-11:30 a.m. The event is hosted by FLW Foundation pro Cody Kelley along with other FLW Tour anglers, and is free and open to area youth 18 years of age and younger and Special Olympics athletes. Event goodie bags will be awarded to the first 50 participants who sign up. Rods and reels are available for use, but youth are encouraged to bring their own if they own one. All bait is donated by the DMF Bait Company.
Coverage of the Kentucky Lake tournament will premiere in high-definition (HD) on NBC Sports Network (NBCSN) September 28 from 1 p.m.-2 p.m. EST. The Emmy-nominated “FLW” television show airs on NBCSN, the Pursuit Channel and the World Fishing Network and is broadcast to more than 564 million households worldwide, making it the most widely distributed weekly outdoors-sports television show in the world.
In FLW Tour competition, anglers are also vying for valuable points in hopes of qualifying for the 2016 Forrest Wood Cup, the world championship of bass fishing. The 2016 Forrest Wood Cup will be on Wheeler Lake in Huntsville, Alabama, Aug. 4-7 and is hosted by the Huntsville/Madison County Convention & Visitors Bureau.
For complete details and updated information visit FLWFishing.com. For regular updates, photos, tournament news and more, follow us on Facebook at Facebook.com/FLWFishing and on Twitter at Twitter.com/FLWFishing.
More than 190 competitors will take on the Arkansas River during the first Bass Pro Shops Bassmaster Central Open held out of Muskogee, Okla., June 2-4.
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Shad Spawn Could Be Key To Success At Arkansas River Open
MUSKOGEE, Okla. — Several areas on the Arkansas River are likely to produce bass during the Bass Pro Shops Bassmaster Central Open June 2-4, but the best spots could be wherever the competitors find spawning shad.
Talala, Okla., angler Terry Butcher predicts the timing could be right for the shad spawn to occur during competition.
“We really haven’t had (the shad spawn) here yet,” said Butcher, who finished second in the 2013 Bassmaster Central Open on the Arkansas River. “The water got up to around 70 to 72 degrees a couple of weeks ago, but we have had some cool weather since then, and the water went back down to the upper 60s again. That’s odd for this time of year. I look for the water temperature to be about right for a shad spawn then.”
A wet spring has kept the river level high and the water murky, but Butcher believes the fishery will be in good shape during the Open.
“We have had a lot of rain around, so the water has been pretty high,” Butcher said. “It looks like there is going to be current. The area lakes around here are a little bit above normal, so there will be some good water flow in the river.”
The last three Central Opens at Muskogee were held in September when the river is usually low with little current. The river usually “fishes small” then, but Opens competitors will have more options to fish in June with the higher water level and more flow.
“With the water flow, the (main) river is going to be a little more of a player, but I think the weedbeds are going to play a big role too,” Butcher said. “I think the guys will probably scatter out pretty well between the Afton, Three Forks and Kerr pools. The bite should be relatively good in all three pools this time of year.”
Locking through to the Robert S. Kerr pool will be most tempting to the Opens contestants because it usually contains bigger fish, according to Butcher.
“Kerr is going to be good, but the guys who go down there are going to be taking a gamble on the barges and limits on time,” he said. “The tournament will probably be won down there.”
Fishing a spinnerbait or buzzbait around spawning shad on the main river should be a productive pattern during the Open. Butcher usually finds spawning shad along channel bends where the current sweeps into bluffs or riprap banks.
Postspawn bass will also be caught in the backwater vegetation on a “typical river arsenal” of lures, according to Butcher.
“A frog like the Booyah Pad Crasher is going to be a good bait,” he said. The Oklahoma angler also catches bass in the backwaters with a square bill crankbait and a Texas rigged creature bait in black-and-blue or Cajun neon colors.
The winning weight for the last three September Opens averaged around 42 pounds; Butcher expects the winner of this Open to have a higher total since the first week of June is traditionally a good time to fish the river.
“I think the river is going to fish pretty well,” he said. “I have heard that fishing has been pretty good this spring. It has been taking more than 20 pounds to win most of the one-day events.”
The two-time Bassmaster Classic qualifier predicts an angler will need 13 1/2 pounds a day to make the Top 12 cut, and the winner will probably catch 15 to 16 pounds a day.
Anglers will take off each day at 6 a.m. at Three Forks Harbor. Weigh-ins will be held at 2 p.m. at Three Forks Harbor the first two days, with the final weigh-in on Saturday taking place at the Bass Pro Shops in Broken Arrow, Okla., at 3 p.m.
The local host for the event is the Muskogee Chamber of Commerce.
Behind the TTBC Win: Matt Herren Talks Money Bass Patterns
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Humminbird®/Minn Kota® pro Matt Herren stays flexible, wins first big tournament in nine years
Racine, WI (May 25, 2016): In the past 14 years Alabama-based BASS Elite pro Matt Herren has qualified for five Bassmaster Classics and six FLW Cups, but hasn’t taken first since the 2007 Wal-Mart FLW Series BP Eastern on Arkansas’ Lake Dardanelle.
“It’s been a grind. I’ve had a string of seconds and thirds. Just wasn’t my time until now,” says the battle-weary Herren.
But everything fell into place for the Alabama-based pro at the 2016 Toyota Texas Bass Classic (TTBC) on Lake Ray Roberts this past weekend, where Herren demonstrated flexibility despite changing water levels and weather conditions. On Day 1 Herren weighed 19-8; 15-0 on Day 2; and 17-4 on Day 3. He edged out second place finisher Bryan Thrift by a mere eight ounces and took home $100,000.
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“I won’t lie, it was a tough tournament. It was difficult to stay consistent, which was the key to winning. Guys had 12 and 13 pound days mixed in with 19 pound bags.”
He continues: “Practice was cloudy and windy, and there was a lot of frontal stuff going on. Wasn’t until the afternoon of practice Day 2 that I started figuring out what the bass were doing. We finally got a little sun and that’s when the fish showed up. I had three or four bites that afternoon, and I was really focused on what’s going to happen. I knew conditions were changing rapidly and the key to winning would be staying flexible,” says Herren.
Bark at the Moon
Based on water temperature and moon phase, Herren had a good idea bass would be shallow. In his words, it was simply a matter of figuring out “where, when and how.”
“You’d think May in Texas would have bass in post-spawn and moving out. But we had a full moon, and on the first day of practice the water temperature was 68 degrees, so I knew there would be bluegills and shad spawning; tail-end of the crawfish spawn, too. So, the primary food sources were shallow, despite falling water and everything else. Bass only have two things in their lives that are a must: they’re gonna spawn and they’re gonna eat. Knowing that 90% of their food source is in 10’ or less makes it easy lock in depth zones.”
At that point, the tournament began to set up perfectly for the shallow-water ace.
“Everybody thinks shallow is 2’ deep, but to me it’s 15’ to the bank. I love fishing visible patterns like wood and rock. If I can see something and duplicate it, you’re stepping right into my wheelhouse. It’s like being a fast ball hitter standing at the plate – don’t throw me a fast ball ‘cause I’m gonna hit it,” laughs Herren.
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Matt on Mapping
But Herren’s visual style of fishing is more than just chunk and winding or flipping to cover.
“When I say ‘see something’ that also means being able to dial in on a particular place or contour on my Humminbird Lakemaster mapping, which could be a certain contour along a channel or whatever. So, it’s visual with my eyes above water, and it’s visual on my mapping. I’m using my mapping all the time, even shallow. I look at contours, breaks, inside turns, outside turns, and all kinds of stuff. The Lakemaster Depth Highlight feature allows me to eliminate 90% of the water on a lake from the get-go, speeding up my pre-fishing a hundred-fold.”
Case in point, how Herren locked in his plan on Lake Ray Roberts.
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“One of the keys to winning the TTBC was recognizing that the lake was falling drastically. The lake started out 2’ high, but by Day 3 was only 6 inches high, so I had to go into my Humminbird ONIX and HELIX units and adjust the Water Level Offset feature, which redrew the entire map for me. I realized the fish were pulling out of the shallow brush and the willows and into what they call ‘drains’ in Texas—what we’d call creeks everywhere else. The bigger bass started to leave the willows in the 2’-4’ drains and pull out to the 7’-8’ original creekbeds on flats. Lakemaster had every single drain marked, and I could go straight to them, pinpoint the salt cedars, and that’s right where the bigger bass were.”
Developing a Pattern
In terms of developing a pattern, Herren says all he needs is a first bite and a confirmation bite. After that, he studies contours on his HELIX 10 SI GPS, asking himself questions: Is it a main creek? A pocket? Main lake? Then he sets his sights at duplicating those bites by seeking out similar structure, contours and cover.
“Let me put it to you this way: the main difference between pro and college football is the speed of the game. Same thing at the level I fish. Just look at how fast these guys can take one or two bites and turn it into a 20 pound limit. We ask ourselves the ‘why’ questions after every bite. My computer is constantly analyzing information, and I’m using my eyes, my electronics, every tool I have available, and it’s a constant equation, analyzing, calculating, spitting out information to instantly readjust,” says Herren.
Based on his Ray Roberts calculations, that meant employing two primary presentations: flipping 5/8 oz. Santone M-Series jigs and Reactions Innovations Twerk trailers (both in watermelon red) in willows and salt cedars on Day 1 and 2, and running shad-colored PH Custom Lures 2.0 cranks along rip-rap on Day 3.
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Boat Control: This Ain’t Russian Roulette
But to make every cast count, he says boat control was critical, especially in the willows and cedars.
“The wind was really pushing the willows around. Add tight quarters and the fact I was I trying to pitch 20’ back into a spot the size of a coffee cup, and boat control really comes into play. All I had to do was tap the Minn Kota Talon foot switch twice and lock that boat down to make absolutely precise presentations. And that’s the difference in catching them or not. This ain’t Russian roulette. Those bass are sitting in specific places, and I’ve got to be able to put my bait right there. Without the Minn Kota Fortrex 112 to put the boat there and the Talon shallow water anchors to lock it down, none of that happens. I typically log about 200 hours on my outboard engine so there’s probably ten times that on my trolling motor at the end of the year. That’s incredible. No internal failures. No cable failures. Nothing. And I’m rough on it. You could plant acres on the fields I’ve tilled up in two feet of water this year.”
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But it was Herren’s ability to adapt that ultimately won the 2016 TTBC.
“My primary cedar pattern died on Day 3. It got cloudy and the wind changed direction, which really messed with me. But I made the key decision early to go with what was happening and fish some different water. Instead of wasting the morning, I did something else. Turned out a smart decision because I caught 16 pounds by 10 am cranking bridge points.”
While Herren now assumes the TTBC mantle, everyone involved in the Fourth Annual Toyota Texas Bass Classic emerged a winner. Proceeds raised from the TTBC help underwrite Texas Parks & Wildlife Department youth fishing, Community Fishing Lakes (CFL) and other fisheries projects throughout the state. To date, the tournament has donated $2.25 million to the TPWD. To learn more, visit http://www.toyotatexasfest.
Photo courtesy of Gabe Roux
FISHING LEAGUE WORLDWIDE TO GIVE AWAY QUAKER STATE® DESIGNED, JIMMY HOUSTON-INSPIRED 50TH ANNIVERSARY TRUCK
$60,000 Truck Customized by Tommy Pike Customs Will Be Awarded to FLW Fan
MINNEAPOLIS (May 25, 2016) – FLW, announced today that they have partnered with premier sponsor Quaker State® to give away a Jimmy Houston-inspired Quaker State Truck customized by Tommy Pike Customs. The truck winner will be selected on Oct. 31, 2016 and the sweepstakes is open to all FLW fans who are 21 years of age or older that sign up before the drawing date.
In commemoration of Jimmy Houston’s 50 years as a tournament angler, Quaker State in conjunction with Tommy Pike Customs of Greenville, South Carolina, customized a 2015 RAM 1500 truck that will be on display at all 2016 Walmart FLW Tour events. One lucky FLW member will now be the lucky recipient of the truck this fall.
“It is an honor to have Quaker State and Tommy Pike customize this truck to recognize my 50th year on the water,” said Houston, longtime host of “Jimmy Houston Outdoors” and affectionately known as “America’s Favorite Fisherman”. “This is one incredible rig and we are excited to give it away to a Jimmy Houston fan in October.”
Visit www.flwfishing.com or www.facebook.com/flwfishing to access the entry form and enter the sweepstakes. All requested information on the entry form must be completed to enter and to be eligible to win. When you have registered and your registration is received and recorded you will automatically receive one entry into the Sweepstakes. Limit one entry per person and/or email address during the entire Promotion Period.
For regular updates, photos, tournament news and more, follow us on Facebook at Facebook.com/FLWFishing and on Twitter at Twitter.com/FLWFishing. For more information about Quaker State, visit QuakerState.com, and for details about Tommy Pike Customs visit TommyPikeCustoms.com.
About FLW
FLW is the world’s largest tournament-fishing organization, providing anglers of all skill levels the opportunity to compete for millions in prize money in 2016 across five tournament circuits. Headquartered in Benton, Kentucky, with offices in Minneapolis, FLW conducts more than 235 bass-fishing tournaments annually across the United States and sanctions tournaments in Canada, China, Mexico and South Korea. FLW tournament fishing can be seen on the Emmy-nominated “FLW” television show, broadcast to more than 564 million households worldwide, while FLW Bass Fishing magazine delivers cutting-edge tips from top pros. For more information visit FLWFishing.com and follow FLW at Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube and Periscope: @FLWFishing.
About Quaker State
Quaker State® motor oil has a 70-year history as a leader in consumer automotive products and vehicle care. Quaker State is among the industry’s most innovative motor oil brands and offers a full line of products to meet every type of vehicle engine need. Quaker State is one of the first brands to develop high mileage engine motor oil. Quaker State is now the preferred service fill for Hyundai vehicles at Assurance Car Care Express service centers nationwide. For more information about the full line of Quaker State products, visit www.quakerstate.com.
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With so many choices, here is why straight-tail worms should never be overlooked in bass fishing.
In the current day and age of bass fishing, it is easy to get overwhelmed with different baits, rods, reels, electronics, boats and every other variable can spin you out before you ever even get on the water. In the world of complex, it can regularly pay-off to simplify your fishing approach with a simple worm.
Straight-tail worms like the Zoom Trick Worm have stood the test of time while helping anglers keep things simple and catch more bass. Toyota pro Gerald Swindle will be the first to tell you how simple, yet versatile fishing a straight-tail worm can be.
“It is the most versatile bait in the boat,” Swindle said. “You can rig it about a 500 ways, and fish it in any depth, or any body of water. A Trick Worm just flat out catches fish everywhere I have fished.”
