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COSTA PARTNERSHIP TO INCLUDE REWARDS PROGRAM FOR FLW ANGLERS
COSTA PARTNERSHIP TO INCLUDE REWARDS PROGRAM FOR FLW ANGLERS
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MINNEAPOLIS (Jan. 28, 2016) – FLW anglers are already seeing the benefits of the company’s partnership with Costa Del Mar. FLW is pleased to announce today the details of the Costa FLW Rewards program, a contingency program designed to support the enthusiasm and brand loyalty of FLW anglers across the country.
Costa will award $200 or a pair of Costa sunglasses (winner’s choice) to the highest finishing pro/boater and $100 or a pair of Costa sunglasses (winner’s choice) to the highest finishing co-angler in each Walmart FLW Tour, Costa FLW Series and FLW Bass Fishing League (BFL) tournament if he or she meets Costa FLW Rewards contingency requirements. The second-highest finishing pro/boater receives a $100 Costa clothing package and the second-highest finishing co-angler receives a $50 Costa clothing package.
To remain qualified in the program, FLW anglers need to own and wear a pair of Costa sunglasses during the tournament and adhere to simple clothing and logo requirements. Costa patches and boat/vehicle decals will be available at FLW tournament registrations.
For more information on the Costa FLW Rewards program, including how to register and program guidelines, visit the Contingency Awards page for FLW tournaments at FLWFishing.com.
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OLD TOWN® Predator® XL MINN KOTA®is a stealthy, stable bass assassin
OLD TOWN® Predator® XL MINN KOTA®is a stealthy, stable bass assassin
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The Marriage of Old Town®and Minn Kota®is bad news for bass
OLD TOWN, MAINE (January 27, 2016): You know the spot. It’s a perfect shoreline brimming with big bass. You could fish there all day. Your next personal best, you know, is waiting in that spot—if only you could get to it. But it’s always been a dream, always been just out of reach: the water too shallow, the brush too thick to slip your boat through, and that old ramp crumbled away decades ago.
You’ve racked your brain for ways to reach that shoreline. Can you try hitting it with a surf fishing outfit? Is it time to finally tie a line to a drone? The true solution makes more sense.
Now there’s a powerful, portable fishing machine built to solve your problem. And it blends portability with the lethality of a professional bass boat. It’s called the Old Town Predator XL Minn Kota, and it’s bad news for bass … but good news for anglers.
The Predator XL Minn Kota pairs a powerful, 45lb thrust saltwater-grade Minn Kota motor with a foot-operated rudder system in a boat designed by the experts at Old Town Canoes & Kayaks. It’s a serious fishing machine, a bass-busting love child wrought from the marriage of two iconic companies: one renowned for reliable hand-made motors, the other for tried-and-true human-powered boats.
The Predator XL Minn Kota is stealthy, stable and supremely quiet. Carrying the torch for Old Town’s Premier Angling Series, Predator XL Minn Kota incorporates all of the pioneering features of the original Predator, including the Element seating system, customizable, sonar-mounting plates, an Exo-Ridge deck and Tri-Hull design for extra stability and tracking.
Minn Kota Motor Console
The “XL” comes from this flagship vessel’s 600 pounds of carrying capacity and its fully enclosed, lift and stow Minn Kota Console system that brings a dual forward and reverse speed dial, battery level indicator, sonar-mounting plates, USB charging port and storage for battery and cables. A simple lift onto the console’s Quick-Stand™ allows it to be easily lifted for storage or to avoid prop collisions. A kick, conversely, sends it snuggly back into its housing.
The combination of these tactical features yields an unprecedented fishing machine, one that’s capable of keeping you hands-free in wind and current out deep, or those particularly tight spots where bass are busting shad close to cover. And its 13-foot long, 36-inch wide design ensures you’ll get there comfortably, with supreme tracking and stability. Combine it with a Humminbird® Helix 5 SI GPS or HELIX 7 SI GPS and you’ll have the same technologies used by pros on 20-foot rigs, but with better access to hard-to-reach waters and optimal stealth.
Humminird HELIX 7 SI GPS
“The Predator XL will set a whole new bar in what consumers expect from a fishing kayak,” said David Hadden, Brand Director for Johnson Outdoors Watercraft. “With the Predator XL Minn Kota, we wanted to bridge the gap between fishing kayaks and bass boats and shallow water skiffs. The game changer is the combination of the new Minn Kota motor and foot-controlled rudder system, which allows you truly hands-free fishing. Now you can work the shoreline like a tournament BASS angler, moving and casting at every dock, stump or hanging tree limb without taking your hands off the rod to reposition your boat. We guarantee you will fish more and catch more fish!
Fishing more. Catching more fish. That’s really what it’s all about, and with the Old Town Predator XL Minn Kota, Old Town has created one of the most enjoyable and effective watercraft for the job.
Like its predecessors, the Predator XL will accept aftermarket options from angler’s favorite vendors like Scotty™, YakAttack, Ram, Cannon® and more, allowing users to truly customize the craft.
Key specs for the Predator XL Minn Kota include:
- Length: 13’ 2”
- Width: 36”
- Weight: 92 – 117 lbs
- Carrying Capacity: 600 lbs
MSRP: $2,999
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Smith Mountain Lake Fishing Report February 2016 by Captain Dale Wilson
SMITH MOUNTAIN LAKE FISHING REPORT
February 2016
DALE WILSON’S
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PHONE NO: 540-297-5650 / 540-874-4950
www.captaindalewilson.com
Picture: Charles Burks from Lynchburg, Va. with a citation striper caught a few days ago while fishing with Captain Dale at Smith Mtn. lake.
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OVERVIEW- Fishing should be fair this month! Water temperature will be in the 40’s. Best times will be early morning and late afternoon. Fishing the past few weeks has been fair to good! Most of the baitfish has moved toward the main channels of both rivers and the major creeks. The snowy cold weather has caused fishing patterns to change. The majority of the stripers have moved below Indian creek. Still be aware of the floating debris!!!
Largemouth Bass- Fishing for largemouth bass will be fair this month. Best lures will be jigs, spinner baits, jigging spoons, blade baits, deep diving crank baits, jerk baits and Alabama rigs. Most largemouth bass will be caught near creek channels, rock piles, deep brush piles, ledges and deep water docks. Best depths will be from 5 to 45 feet deep. Look for stained water and shad movements to help catch bass this month.
Bass will feed on crawfish on warm days.
Smallmouth Bass- Fishing should be fair. Best areas will be humps, ledges and main channel points. Best lures will be floating –fly-rigs, blade baits, jerk baits, tubes, jigs and spoons. Best areas will be in the mid to the lower sections of the lake. Most smallmouth bass will be suspended this month around ledges with schools of baitfish. Cloudy days with light winds are good times to try your luck! Look for areas with rocks on ledges next to deep water.
Striped Bass- Fishing should be good this month. Stripers will be caught in the mid and upper sections of the lake and the large creeks. Best lures will be swim baits, Alabama rigs, jigging spoons and Zoom flukes fished on 3/8 to 3/4 oz. lead heads. Casting early and late day can be productive. The best depths will be from the surface to 60 feet deep. Live bait fished on planner boards will work fair this month. Most fish will be suspended and will constantly be on the move. Find the largest concentration of shad. Vertical jigging with spoons will work good this month.
Crappie- Fishing for crappie will be slow this month. They will be found 10 to 20 ft. deep. Crappie will be suspended around docks, brush piles and fallen tree tops near creek channels. Small live minnows and 1½ to 2 inch tubes or shad shaped plastic lures fished on 1/16 to 1/8 oz. lead heads will work best to catch crappie this month.
TIP OF THE Month- You should always fish with a partner in the cold months! Wear your life jacket!!! Winter can be a great time to catch stripers, bass and crappie. Remember shad constantly move as the water temps fall. 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!
Bassmaster Winter Boat Giveaway Winner Plans To Do More Fishing
Jan. 26, 2016
Bassmaster Winter Boat Giveaway Winner Plans To Do More Fishing
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — After losing out in a boat giveaway sponsored by an insurance company, Dennis Inman searched online for another contest to win a boat.
“I found this contest (the Bassmaster Winter Boat Giveaway), and I started entering it,” said Inman, a 62-year-old disabled retiree who last worked at a plywood plant. “I tried to enter it every day.”
His strategy of entering often paid off for Inman as he won the contest’s grand prize package of a Triton 179 TrX bass boat and Yamaha F115LB outboard and prop, Triton single axle trailer, MotorGuideX3 45-pound thrust/45-inch 12-volt trolling motor, Lowrance Mark 5 dash mount depthfinder valued at $25,095.
Winning the second prize boat package valued at $17,395 was Matthew Wilt of Camas, Wash. He received a Triton 17 TX bass boat and Mercury 60 ELPT outboard motor, Triton single axle trailer, Motorguide X3 45-pound thrust 12-volt trolling motor and Lowrance 3X depthfinder.
Inman has entered prize drawings such as the Publishers Clearinghouse Sweepstakes, a DeWalt Tools motorcycle giveaway and some boat contests on a whim before but he has never won. So he was a little skeptical when he was notified by B.A.S.S. that he won the boat giveaway.
“I figured it was a scam when I first got the email, but it was true,” he said. “I was real excited then. I have wanted a boat for quite a while, but with the finances and all I just couldn’t get one.”
When Inman told his wife Sandi that he won the boat, she was also skeptical. “She said, ‘Right. sure you did’,” Inman recalled. However, her reaction turned to shock when he proved to her he really did win the contest.
Inman recalls when he was a boy fishing with his dad at a creek near their home. “We would mostly sit out on the creek bank and set out poles and catch catfish,” he said. In his younger days, Inman owned some small aluminum boats and frequently fished for “anything.”
The Texas retiree mainly fishes for bass now since he lives about 30 miles from Sam Rayburn Reservoir and close to the same distance from Toledo Bend Lake, two of the best bass fisheries in Texas. “I’ve got a friend who has a boat, and I go with him occasionally,” he said.
Now that he has a brand new Triton boat, Inman intends to return the favor to his friend and take him fishing. “I plan to do more fishing now,” said Inman, who also plans on taking his two sons fishing. “My wife has been after me to take her, too.”
He also intends to keep entering contests for anything that strikes his fancy — perhaps including a new truck to tow his new boat.
St. Croix Rod: A Matter of Destiny…
Destiny Plays a Role in New Union
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St. Croix Rod unites with Lindner’s Angling Edge to put the best rods in the best hands
Park Falls, WI (January 25, 2016) – Believe in destiny? You might say it was destiny that led basketball immortal LeBron James back to his home state of Cleveland and the Cavaliers. Leveraging another sports analogy, perhaps it was destiny (or a curse) that put Brett Favre in a purple sweater taking snaps across the river. (Packer fans would say that destiny caused the green and gold hall of famer to throw that ill-fated interception in the NFC Championship game, as a Viking. Ouch…)
Destiny finds its way into the sportfishing arena, too. The most recent example being the pairing of legacy rod builder St. Croix Rod and the journeymen fishing educators at Lindner’s Angling Edge. Both Midwest based. Both tops in their game. Both influencing fishing successes from coast to coast.
Why did it take so long? Sometimes, destiny takes its own sweet time…
Angling Edge Host Al Lindner
“We couldn’t be happier,” said St. Croix’s beaming VP of Brand Management, Jeff Schluter. “If you fish, you know the Lindners and their historical importance to the sport. I dare say no other group of fishing minds has left more fingerprints on freshwater fishing.
“Modern day, technology-driven fishing wouldn’t be where it is today without the brilliance and influence of Ron, Al and Jim Lindner and Angling Edge.”
Speaking of technology, it’s St. Croix’s middle name. The Wisconsin-based company has built its reputation on continuously redefining what it means for a rod to be state-of-the-art. Proprietary technologies like Integrated Poly Curve® (IPC®), Advanced Reinforcing Technology™ (ART™) and Fortified Resin System (FRS) cause St. Croix to rise like cream above a broth of rod makers.
Angling Edge Host Jim Lindner
Al Lindner speaks: “This is exciting. Fishing with ‘The Best Rods on Earth’. St. Croix gets it. They engineer rods not only for every species of fish that swims, but also every technique used to catch them. If I’m fishing smallmouth bass on tube jigs, St. Croix has a rod to do just that. They do the homework so you don’t need to test dozens of lengths and actions to find the perfect fit.
“In my book, that’s customer service.”
Expect to see the Lindner’s Angling Edge brandishing a wide assortment of St. Croix rods – Legend Elite® Musky and Mojo Musky on their legendary predator fish hunts; the award-winning Legend Xtreme® for bass and walleyes; Avid X for rod-to-fish combat with smallmouth and largemouth bass; and a wealth of other rod series’, each intelligently selected for the task at hand.
Lindner’s Angling Edge airs on several premium outdoors networks, including Fox Sports, Outdoor Channel, World Fishing Network (WFN), Pursuit Channel and numbers of local and regional networks. Visit the Lindner’s Angling Edge website for a complete listing.
Destiny? There’s no question. It was only a matter of time before The Best Rods on Earth were in the hands of the best sticks in freshwater fishing, Lindner’s Angling Edge.
Angling Edge Host Jeremy Smith
PITT WINS FLW BASS FISHING LEAGUE COWBOY DIVISION OPENER ON TOLEDO BEND LAKE
PITT WINS FLW BASS FISHING LEAGUE COWBOY DIVISION OPENER ON TOLEDO BEND LAKE
McDonough wins co-angler title
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MANY, La. (Jan. 25, 2016) – Local angler Cody Pitt of Many, Louisiana, weighed a five-bass limit totaling 24 pounds, 5 ounces, Saturday to win the first FLW Bass Fishing League (BFL) Cowboy Division tournament of 2016 on Toledo Bend Lake. For his victory, Pitt earned $4,872.
“I focused on two areas in Tennessee Bay about a mile south of the takeoff ramp,” said Pitt, who earned the win fishing in the first FLW tournament of his career. “Half of the bass I dialed in on were in the backs of ditches and on the sides of humps near flats, and the other half were still out deep in their winter patterns.
“All of the keepers I caught were from big schools – sometimes with 50 or more fish in them,” Pitt continued. “They were feeding heavily on shad so I knew that was a pattern I needed to follow.”
The Louisiana pro said he used two baits to catch his winning stringer – a white Sworming Hornet Fish Head Spin rigged with a Sight Flash-colored Keitech Swimbait and a sexy shad-colored Strike King 10XD crankbait.
“Three of the fish that I weighed in came on the Fish Head Spin while the other two preferred the crankbait,” said Pitt. “I fished each one fairly slow along the bottom, occasionally bouncing the 10XD.”
Pitt said he ended up catching nearly 25 keepers throughout his day.
“Everything I brought in was found with the help of my Lowrance electronics,” said Pitt. “I couldn’t have won this tournament without them.”
The top 10 boaters finished the tournament in:
1st: Cody Pitt, Many, La., five bass, 24-5, $4,872
2nd: Dusty Anders, Pineville, La., five bass, 24-0, $2,436
3rd: Darold Gleason, Leesville, La., five bass, 23-2, $2,358
4th: Dylan Poche, Natchez, La., five bass, 22-8, $1,137
5th: Nick Lebrun, Bossier City, La., five bass, 21-8, $974
6th: Wade Hudgens, Longview, Texas, five bass, 21-4, $893
7th: Keith Hawkins, Missouri City, Texas, five bass, 20-15, $812
8th: Lane McGaha, Dubach, La., five bass, 20-4, $731
9th: Jason Bonds, Lufkin, Texas, five bass, 19-2, $609 + $300 Evinrude bonus
9th: Anthony Sharp, Silsbee, Texas, five bass, 19-2, $609
Complete results can be found at FLWFishing.com.
Gleason caught the biggest bass of the tournament in the pro division, a largemouth weighing 9 pounds, 7 ounces and earned the day’s Big Bass award of $735.
Bryan McDonough of Katy, Texas, weighed in five bass totaling 16 pounds, 13 ounces Saturday to earn $2,398 and win the co-angler division.
The top 10 co-anglers were:
1st: Bryan McDonough, Katy, Texas, five bass, 16-13, $2,398
2nd: Derek Allen, Ponchatoula, La., five bass, 15-6, $1,199
3rd: Randall Bellard, Denham Springs, La., five bass, 15-4, $795
4th: Cody Canerday, Welsh, La., five bass, 14-10, $560
5th: Chaz York, Vidor, Texas, five bass, 14-9, $480
6th: Nick Whittemore, Austin, Texas, five bass, 14-2, $440
7th: Jerry Riddle, Summit, Miss., five bass, 13-11, $400
8th: Larry Becker, Waskom, Texas, three bass, 13-10, $360
9th: Kerry Barnett, Waldron, Ark., five bass, 13-4, $320
10th: Marcus Newton, Angleton, Texas, three bass, 12-14, $280
Logan Buss of Dallas, Texas, caught the biggest bass of the tournament in the co-angler division, a fish weighing 7 pounds, 5 ounces and earned the day’s Big Bass award of $357.
The top 50 boaters and 50 co-anglers based on point standings will qualify for the Oct. 27-29 Regional Championship on Lake Dardanelle in Russellville, Arkansas. Boaters will compete for a top award of a Ranger Z518C with a 200-horsepower Evinrude or Mercury outboard and $20,000, while co-anglers will fish for a new Ranger Z518C with a 200-horsepower Evinrude or Mercury outboard.
The BFL is a 24-division circuit devoted to weekend anglers, with 120 tournaments throughout the season, five in each division. The top 50 boaters and co-anglers from each division qualify for a regional tournament and are competing to finish in the top six, which then qualifies them for one of the longest-running championships in all of competitive bass fishing – the BFL All-American. Top winners in the BFL can move up to the Costa FLW Series or even the Walmart FLW Tour.
For regular updates, photos, tournament news and more, follow the BFL on Facebook at Facebook.com/FLWFishing and on Twitter at Twitter.com/FLWFishing.
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2016 HillCity Bass Masters Schedule & Rules, Release & More
OK Guys Here it is the 2016 Schedule!
Hill City Bass Massmaster
April 2nd: Holliday Lake 7am-3pm
April 23rd: Mill Creek Lake 7am-3pm
May 7th: Leesville Lake 7am-3pm
May 21st: Bannister Lake 7am-3pm
June 4th: Leesville Lake 6am-2pm
June 25th: James River at Monican Park 6am-2pm (Classic)
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$50.00 Entry fee & This includes your $10.00 for Lunker
Plus a $5.00 per angler one time fee added in 2016
100% Payback at this years Classic!!
Must fish 3/5 to Qualify for the classic or you can buy your way in.
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100% Payback at this years Classic!!
Must fish 3/5 to Qualify for the classic or you can buy your way in.
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Rules
Release
100% Payback at this years Classic!!
Must fish 3/5 to Qualify for the classic or you can buy your way in.
Click the link bellow to Download & Print them out
Rules
Release
Must fish 3/5 to Qualify for the classic or you can buy your way in.
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Rules
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Must fish 3/5 to Qualify for the classic or you can buy your way in.
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Rules
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