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Dude, that’s pretty crazy. You’ve been catching fish on that thing for as long as I can remember! I don’t think I have any baits that old that I’ve caught any fish on. (Probably because I fish mostly sinking soft baits but… ) It might be able to be repaired but, it’s cool to retire it too. Hope your new one lasts another 15 years and catches just as many fish!

Been a little while since I’ve been able to post anything (sorry fellas). Boats been down and we’re waiting to get it repaired but Collin (cd7) and I were asked to go on The Bass Report podcast with Joel Ede and Ryan Cook and we had a blast! Lots of swimbait talk so if you guys are interested go check out The Bass Report, Episode 82 on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. If you enjoy it and you can do it then think about supporting them through their Patreon as well. I’ll put the link below, not sure if that’s allowed or not so Mods feel free to take it down if needed. Tight lines boys! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-bass-report/id1544023855?i=1000552686307

I’ve been fishing tournaments for a long time and have had good success. I’ve found that bass fisherman (not all, and usually not the good ones) are kinda like schoolyard bullies. They’re gonna see if they can scare you or intimidate you into doing what they want. You need to stand up and give it right back to him. He obviously doesn’t think of you as a friend, he thinks of you as his pet and he wants you to obey. Have confidence and put him right back where he belongs. He sounds like a blowhard who wants to make a scene. I also agree with what Brian said above, try to find your own areas and really get them dialed in and then go out there and freakin bury everyone with a giant bag. LOL! Nothing better!

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I’m amazed at how many people have trouble catching fish on 8” hudds. I must be in the minority because I’ve caught the vast majority of my swimbait fish on that bait. In fact, softbaits in general have accounted for probably 99% of my swimbait fish. It’s the one type of bait that remains consistent whether it’s tough or great, heavy pressure or no pressure. Used to catch fish pretty good on the 250 but it’s been really hard the last couple years. Really any hard swimbait. Anything that doesn’t look, feel and move extremely naturally like a big softbait has been challenging to get bit on for me.

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I used two different apps. I used an app called MovStash for the blur. I used an app called Videoshop for the speed adjustment. It takes a little bit but, once you get it, it’s not hard and can be done pretty quick.

Not necessarily in this color all of the time but some variation of an original 8” Hudd. After literally hundreds of fish on it, there will always be one on the boat (more like 15 of them but you get the idea. LOL!).

Here’s a C2C video of my recent PB spot. 7-4 on the Brecknell.

So awesome. That fish is huge. It’s not even filled out and it’s still over 10. Giant dude!

Meant to post this one a couple weeks ago when I caught it but just didn’t get around to it. Like I mentioned in my last post, we’ve been on the big spots pretty good lately and I was able to stick this one on an 8” hudd. We had a certain area dialed in pretty good for a couple months before I caught this one but we decided to just go and make a couple casts on it just to see if we got bit and then we would leave it alone until our next tournament. Well, I got bit and this was the result. 6lb 9oz spotted bass. This is my 3rd biggest spotted bass. It was a tank.

Collin (cd7) and I had a pretty ridiculous day on Saturday. We fished a NewJen team tournament at Pine Flat lake and we put the wood to ‘em. We’ve had some good finishes this year at that lake with a 2nd and a 1st place finish over the past 2 months. We’ve been able to catch a couple big swimbait fish each tourney so far and we had a good thing going. Well, Saturday came and the full moon came with it. The lake is ultra tough right now with most guys weighing in less than 10 lb limits, but the big spots were hunting trout and we made all the right moves. We ended up with 5 fish for 24.59 and they were all spotted bass and they were all on big swimbaits. Biggest was 7.09 but we had a 6.2, 5.5, 4.5 and a small 1.5 (yes even the 1.5 came on a big swimbait). Just for reference, second place only had 12.18 lbs. but they did have a 7.87 largemouth so they stole the big fish honors from us. LOL! As far as we can tell, it’s the biggest limit in a tourney at this lake since 2007 and most likely the biggest limit of all spotted bass. Fun day all around.