Elites coming to my backyard again

[TnRiver46]

33 minutes ago, scaleface said:

I'm not seeing the red baits thrown today . Mostly chartreuse and shad colors .

I think the fish got sick of them! Gussy just had another fish jump out of his hands, still landed it, and it was 17.9 inches! He had to let it go, still searching for the 5th. 
 

he got #5, it’s all over but the crying. He won the derby wire to wire in the same 200-300 yards without casting . Total domination. 20 smallies over 18”, that spot reloaded every single day. Since it’s no secret and gussy has wrapped up the blue trophy, I’ll post pics of two fish I caught on the same spot. I’m sure they were posted here when it happened also

 

and they said it couldn’t be won on purely smallmouth. Don’t tell that to a Canadian!!! 

[TnRiver46]

Water color contrast???

[TnRiver46]

Gussy pulling a Timmy Horton and heading in early. I don’t know if he’s ordering pizza though 

[Finessegenics]

6 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

Gussy pulling a Timmy Horton and heading in early. I don’t know if he’s ordering pizza though 

I wanted to see him try catching them another way just cause!!! Would have been cool if he was able to get a few fish on a deep crank or really anything else. To my knowledge he’s been using a minnow bait on a jighead the whole tournament. Simple but effective 

[Way north bass guy]

Now that the proper live is online this afternoon, I can see all the action I want ( although most of Gussy’s stuff is replays). 
Thanks for all the updates @TnRiver46, you should be on there all the time doing live action updates. 

[TnRiver46]

43 minutes ago, Finessegenics said:

I wanted to see him try catching them another way just cause!!! Would have been cool if he was able to get a few fish on a deep crank or really anything else. To my knowledge he’s been using a minnow bait on a jighead the whole tournament. Simple but effective 

Yes sir. They call it damiki fishing down here, it dominated the elite event on Cherokee in ‘17 also. For whatever reason they don’t like drop shot as much as dropping the damiki. Zona says it’s a walleye or lake trout ice fishing method so of course gussy knows it inside and out 

 

34 minutes ago, Way north bass guy said:

Now that the proper live is online this afternoon, I can see all the action I want ( although most of Gussy’s stuff is replays). 
Thanks for all the updates @TnRiver46, you should be on there all the time doing live action updates. 

We’re gonna need a faster boat! 

[Finessegenics]

11 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

Yes sir. They call it damiki fishing down here, it dominated the elite event on Cherokee in ‘17 also. For whatever reason they don’t like drop shot as much as dropping the damiki. Zona says it’s a walleye or lake trout ice fishing method so of course gussy knows it inside and out 

 

We’re gonna need a faster boat! 

I think Damiki involves ‘tightlining’ and suspending the bait somewhere in the water column. I could be wrong though. Gussy looks like he’s just fishing it on bottom. I’m pretty sure everywhere in walleye country they just call that “jigging”. Up here in Canada we also just call it jigging. But I didn’t use that term because I didn’t wanna confuse it with typical bass jig fishing. If you tell people here that you caught them on a jig without any other context, they’re likely to think you’re talking about a ball head jig with a plastic. 

Edited February 28, 2021 by Finessegenics
clearing things up lol

[throttleplate]

2 hours ago, scaleface said:

I'm not seeing the red baits thrown today . Mostly chartreuse and shad colors .

i watched this morning on tv and seen a angler catching bass using a square bill looking lure in chartruesse in real super muddy lookin water.

Everything i read suggests using dark colors in muddy water so whats up with this color lure?

2 hours ago, scaleface said:

I'm not seeing the red baits thrown today . Mostly chartreuse and shad colors .

i watched this morning on tv and seen a angler catching bass using a square bill looking lure in chartruesse in real super muddy lookin water.

Everything i read suggests using dark colors in muddy water so whats up with this color lure?

[12poundbass]

I haven’t seen much Live this weekend. I did turn it on just before noon today. One question......

 

What in the h e l l did John Cox do to his hair? ?

[scaleface]

5 minutes ago, throttleplate said:

i watched this morning on tv and seen a angler catching bass using a square bill looking lure in chartruesse in real super muddy lookin water.

Everything i read suggests using dark colors in muddy water so whats up with this color lure?

Chartreuse and white are good colors for muddy water . 

[MIbassyaker]

28 minutes ago, Finessegenics said:

I think Damiki involves ‘tightlining’ and suspending the bait somewhere in the water column. I could be wrong though. Gussy looks like he’s just fishing it on bottom. I’m pretty sure everywhere in walleye country they just call that “jigging”. Up here in Canada we also just call it jigging. But I didn’t use that term because I didn’t wanna confuse it with typical bass jig fishing. If you tell people here that you caught them on a jig without any other context, they’re likely to think you’re talking about a ball head jig with a plastic. 

 

Yup, exactly the same here.  "Jigging" or "jig", unless you're talking to somebody with specific shared understanding of bass jargon, means fishing a jighead with a plastic body, hair/feathers, tipped with live bait, or some combination of the three.   And generally in open water, either on the bottom or  suspended.

[TnRiver46]

3 hours ago, Finessegenics said:

I think Damiki involves ‘tightlining’ and suspending the bait somewhere in the water column. I could be wrong though. Gussy looks like he’s just fishing it on bottom. I’m pretty sure everywhere in walleye country they just call that “jigging”. Up here in Canada we also just call it jigging. But I didn’t use that term because I didn’t wanna confuse it with typical bass jig fishing. If you tell people here that you caught them on a jig without any other context, they’re likely to think you’re talking about a ball head jig with a plastic. 

At weigh in he called it something like moping hahah 

[scaleface]

It appeared  to me like he would  lift  the jig off the bottom , hold it still and drift with the current   through the targeted rocky area . 

[TnRiver46]

26 minutes ago, scaleface said:

It appeared  to me like he would  lift  the jig off the bottom , hold it still and drift with the current   through the targeted rocky area . 

Sounds about right, the less action the better 

[BassNJake]

23 hours ago, Way north bass guy said:

It’d sure be nice to see him on live for even a minute. Not sure what’s going on with their coverage this year, but it’s like it’s being run by kids. Haven’t seen him on there at all this morning, and he’s the dang leader! 

BASS decided to screw all the loyal fans of BASS live and sold out to FOX

So now they get exclusive coverage of the morning shows.

 

I complained so much to the text number they blocked me

1 hour ago, scaleface said:

It appeared  to me like he would  lift  the jig off the bottom , hold it still and drift with the current   through the targeted rocky area . 

Thats the damiki presentation down here.

The fish suspend off of the bottom alot when its cold and they wont chase anything

They could suspend 6inches but you wont get bit fishing anything on the bottom

 

My best luck is letting it drop and holding it right above them

Less movement the better

Problem is the boredom and almost doing a header into the drink when you doze off

[BassNJake]

@TnRiver46 Awesome job with the reports!!

I used up all my likes on this one thread

[TnRiver46]

4 minutes ago, BassNJake said:

@TnRiver46 Awesome job with the reports!!

I used up all my likes on this one thread

Haha thanks buddy! I can’t get enough of it when I know where they are all fishing. I’ll be watching pickwick fairly close too. Me like smallies 

[MIbassyaker]

Huh. "Moping".  I found this, with Gussy and Jim Lindner for Angling Edge -- he specifically says it's not jigging, although it does look like the same thing as the damiki presentation:

 

[TnRiver46]

1 hour ago, MIbassyaker said:

Huh. "Moping".  I found this, with Gussy and Jim Lindner for Angling Edge -- he specifically says it's not jigging, although it does look like the same thing as the damiki presentation:

 

He indeed mentioned the linders in his speech