Potomac River Bass Tournament Day 1 FLW Costa Series!
Well it is time for the first day of the FLW Costa Series on the Potomac River! After a tough week of practice I noticed that the bass bite was way off! I struggled finding anything good until the last day of practice. I came across a nice grass bed full of nice size bass and I am hoping that these fish will still be there come tournament day! It is not going to be easy based on what I have experienced and what other anglers are saying! Are we going to see a 20 pound bag of bass? We shall see! Looking forward to this one! Just trying to make the top 10 cut and when AOY if possible. I have my work cut out for me. You can't win a bass tournament on the first day but you certainly can loss one so lets try and get this done!
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I recently attended the New England Fishing Expo in Massachusetts. It was a very successful show. Full of a lot of great companies and vendors and the crowds were amazing! I got to meet a lot of subscribers to the channel and had a blast doing daily seminars talking bass fishing! The weather was brutal and cabin fever set in! My buddy JP and I where itching to catch a bass and having an aquarium at the expo full of bass was so tempting! We eventually could not take it anymore and decided to sneak in late at night and toss a bait or two around and see if we could catch a few fish! No fish were harmed during the filming of this episode!
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Nomad Design has three styles of Lipless Crankbaits that I have been using recently.
One of the Lipless baits are called the Swimtrex Max which is a great bait for grass or searching around hard cover for bass. It has a great vibration and just like all of Nomads baits they are well made and durable. They also make a Swimtrex which is a great bait for hoping off the bottom. The fall action on this bait is incredible and I will be able to use this well into the fall months and also anytime I need to slow down my retrieve. The other Lipless Crankbait that Nomad Designs make is called the Swimtrex. This is a very unusual bait that is soft bodies and has a tail. This bait give off some great action and I caught well over 50 fish on this bait in just one day. I'll be using the Nomad Design baits a lot in the future and look forward to trying all of their products at some point.
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After 2 days of not the greatest practice I am not sure how it could get any worse for me! Well shortly after check in for the FLW BFL my engine would not turn over! I was stuck with just my trolling motor and the worry that my AOY chances will be destroyed! Pretty slow start and the feeling of failure setting in I was able to pull off a decent limit and hopefully hold on to the points race here on Lake Champlain!
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In this video I head back to my hometown of Winneconne, WI and do some fishing with old friends. This is just a video of my buddies I grew up fishing with and some of our off the water adventures. I will have videos of every day I was out there and we do end up catching some pretty good fish! I fished the Winneconne area, from Lake Poygan to Lake Winnebago and also fish up in Door County Wisconsin. This time of a year is a great time to fish because a lot of these giant smallmouth bass are shallow and easy to catch. There are a lot of fun and if we good weather it can make for some incredible days on the water!
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In this video I go over some tips and techniques you can start to use to help improve your Drop Shotting game and put some big bass in the boat. I love to Drop Shot and it is one of my favorite ways to fish. Drop Shotting is so versatile and can be used in so many ways. From shallow bass fishing all the way out to 60 plus feet of water. I fish a drop shot often and I am always trying to find a way to incorporate that technique into a certain situation. The hook up ratio is great with a drop shot, you can use many different types of baits and soft plastics, you can mimic baitfish, gobys and crayfish easily with the drop shot. This video has some shots of the baits I use underwater so you can see what they look like when being drop shotted and I go over a few time tested soft plastics that I carry with me whenever I am going to be drop shotting.
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This video is my final practice days leading up to the Wisco Single Series Tournament on the Bay of Green Bay. I invited a friend of the channel Shawn to come along and practice with me for a day. The goal was to locate more remaining fish on beds and find a few more 4 plus pound fish. We used a flogger to sight fish and help us know when our bait was in the strike zone.
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So I wanted to share with you some tips when it comes to fishing a bass tournament with a non boater/boater type of format. There is certainly a lot of tournaments across the country that have this style. From the ABA series, BASS OPENS and the FLW BFL and COSTA SERIES events. It is a great way for a new angler who is just starting out and wants to explore tournament fishing all the way to the guy who already owns a boat himself but would much rather hang out in the back of the boat and make new friends!
Of course there is also a wide range of boaters and different personalities which can lead to some interesting stories as well as some great memories! I hope you enjoy the video please like and share this video on your social media! Thanks!
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Catching trophy smallmouth bass on a consistent basis can be a challenge. So many techniques and so many different patterns can sometimes make it confusing where to start when targeting smallmouth bass.
Each Tuesday join Travis Manson as he interviews guests who are at the top of their game when it comes to catching smallmouth bass.Season 1 Episode 2 Travis talks with Jeff Gustafson who lives in Canada and fishes on the Bassmaster Elites Series. He is one of the top smallmouth anglers in North America and shares some great information when it comes to catching smallmouth bass on a consistent basis. This is a great interview if you are looking at becoming a better smallmouth angler!
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So I love fishing the St Lawrence River and when the owner of Gajo Baits William Clute invited me up to fish the Berkley B1 of of Salaberry-de-Valleyfield Quebec I said sure why not! This was my first International Bass Tournament....Ok I know it is just a hope across the river but still pretty cool. I have fished the St Lawrence before with WIll but never this time of year it was always early Spring or real late Fall.
It took us some time and it took me a bit of time to adjust to fishing such strong current on the St Lawrence River but I think we might be alright with a few of the patterns we found.
This part of the St Lawrence River actually widens and forms what they call a lake. Lake St Francis or Franny as it is often referred too. It runs from the locks near Cornwall Ontario all the way to Valley Field Quebec.
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