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Outdoors This Week Interview – April 4, 2009

For those of you that were not able to get to on usaradio.com on Saturday morning, I recorded the interview and making it available via podcast in this post.  The interview is with Rob Doherty, we talk about several topics, including Secret Weapon Recoil Rig, Drop Shot techniques, Fishing up north versus the deep south and Fantasy Fishing.

Give it a listen, there will be no transcript this time.  I am sure most of you did not get up on Saturday, but the good news is I edited this down from over 30 minutes to around 17 minutes.

 
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Catch me on Outdoors this Week tomorrow!

I have been invited to join Rob Doherty on Outdoors this Week tomorrow at 7:30am Central time.  You can listen live at http://usaradio.com/, under the show on Channel 3, click on Tune in Now.

The show starts at 7am, but my segment is between 7:30 & 8am.  We will be talking about the SWL Recoil Rig, Fantasy Fishing and other bass fishing related topics.
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Interview with Kim Bain-Moore

I was recently approached to do an interview with WBT pro and recent Bassmaster Classic qualifier Kim Bain-Moore.  I thought this would be a fun interview, so I teamed up with John Haynes from Bass Fishing the Midwest and the rest is history!  I think you will enjoy, just click on the player.

This interview can also be found on iTunes.
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Below is a sumarized view of the interview for those that do not or cannot listen to the PodCast.  Trust me the text does not do the Audio justice!  I shortend & eliminated a few things from the text, because it was just too much typing.

Bassin Blog: John & I pride ourselves on doing our research about guests, we think we found a nugget that may have been overlooked and not really talked about, we have reason to believe that you fished the most recent Bassmaster Classic on the Red River and are actually the first women to do so, is this correct?

Kim Bain-Moore: (Laugh) Very Clever Fellas. 

BB: Tell Us about the Experience

KB: Absolutely, was the pinnacle of my career.  I have dreamed about the goal since being a little girl and something worked very hard to achieve, it was a dream come true and a bit of an overwhelming experience.  Really great to see all the excitement around the Classic, the media, my family coming in from Australia.  Big year for my sponsors as well, including the 100 year anniversary for Evinrude.

BB: Tell us about what Evinrude is doing to celebrate their anniversary

KB: Good questions, lots going on, lots of interviews spreading the word.  Lots of incentives, go to your dealers to learn about incentives on new E-tec motors.  Had a small incident at the last tournament, a run in that was my own fault.  Had a brand new lower unit installed and I was back in the water in no time, missed no fishing time.  It was AWESOME!

BB: Finished 13th at Neely Henry, any added pressure media or otherwise at that event?

KB: I don’t think I went in to the tournament, feeling any added pressure, just really chomping at the bit to get back out fishing on the WBT.  LASt year I had a 4th place finish at Neely Henry and certainly conditions changed a lot, water was lower and earlier in the season, most of the fish has not pushed back in the creeks as much.  I found myself doing a lot of spotted bass fishing where last year I weighed all largemouth.  I was really proud of my 13th place finish, would have like to have a top 10, have 3 more events for the season.  Next event is at Lake Quachita in Lousiana, should be a better flipping bite.

BB: Of the next events, which are you looking forward to the most?

KB: All of the remaining events, Quachita, Old Hickory & Arkansas River.  I am excited for the challenge; I am used to fishing more lakes.  The river system is new to me, which is what I enjoyed about the Classic on the Red River in Shreveport.  Its important to learn something every time out on he water and this year will definitely be about learning. If I had to pick one, probably say Old Hickory where I have the most experience there, but I am keen about fishing the Quachita as well and do some flipping and bush hawging and get back in the back country and catch a few big ones.

BB: Last year never finished worst then 6th last year, can you repeat as WBT AOY?

KB: Yeah, I think so.  WBT has same system last year where you get to delete your worst finish.  There maybe a little added pressure based on my recent finish to go out and compete and have some high finishes.  I think one mistake I made at Neely Henry, always analyzing my days on the water.  I should have fished for largemouths on the last day instead of the safer smallmouths. The rest of the season I will target the bigger bites and do what I can to get larger weights.

BB: You mentioned flipping, If you could only carry 1 color RI Sweet Beaver in your Legend Boat, what color would it be & why?

KB: I would have to say California 420, just seems to go to a variety of lakes and systems and catch fish.  Dark watermelon & watermelon red, which is a consistent color for most anglers.  I have had a lot of success at Old Hickory, Lewisville and the WBT Championship, its just a good all around color.  But its kind of like starbursts, I will start with Strawberry but will eventually work my way through the whole pack.

BB: In the past you fished some FLW Tour & Series events, Western Open, any plans to get back into those events on top or in place of the WBT?

KB: I certainly wanted to fish many events to learn about different techniques and bodies of water.  Now that I am fishing the WBT, my husband Andre fishes other events as well.  In 2009, he would support me on the WBT & I would support him at other events, its been a great time on the WBT.  For me its about enjoying time on the water and maintaining time for family.

BB:  Please comment on how you think the co-angler works for the WBT compared to how the Elite Series has went to the Marshall Program.

KB:  With the WBT it a great moment for ladies to get out and fish & learn about different lakes & techniques.  It builds their confidence to then move to the pro side.  Then they just need to get a boat and whack an Evinrude E-Tec on the back and get going.  Large part of my success was the support of my family and confidence and good equipment.

BB: Are you seeing sponsors showing increased interest in women fishinig?

KB:  Certainly, the biggest example was at the Classic.  The shear numbers of women and children coming up to me and showing an interest in getting out on the water with their families, husbands, boyfriend was amazing.  Truly overwhelming, I signed autographs for over 5 hours straight, until I had to leave for a TV engagement.  I had people try to follow me into the bathrooms for autographs.  It was just exciting seeing that passion and enthusiasm, which shows positive things for the future of the sport.  If course statistically I did not have the best classic, but its not always about the fishing catching.  Over all people were excited about me being there and coming up to me it should help grow the sport.

BB: In 2004 you fished a Walleye tournament in Walker, MN, what brought you to that tournament?

KB: Good research guys, especially for me being Australian, learning about different species is a passion for me. Trying different things help you learn things you can adapt back to bass fishing.  Part of my success get out there and try different style, at Leech lake as a co-angler I learned to back reel which is a skill I use for big smallmouth and spotted bass on light line.

BB: You have some experience with Lake Norman, you caught your biggest stringer in 2008 FLW Tour competition there, can you help John & I with our Fantasy Fishing picks?

KB: Bryan Thrift is a local and Alvin Shaw who is a local and good friend of mine from the FLW Tour.

BB:  Kim, thank you very much we appreciate your time.  You are not only a great bass angler but a great ambassador for the sport; We will watch you the rest of the year on the WBT.  Good Luck at Lake Quachita.

KB: Thanks Rich!  Thanks John!

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Top 10 Bass Fishing Blogs that you should check out!

If you’re into your fishing, you’ll be online most of the time looking for fishing tips and advice as well! There are so many different ways to do things, sometimes someone else’s way is better than yours. That is why it is important to have a read of different blogs! And that is why you’ve stumbled across my site. I was invited by Blogs.com to be featured guest and to create a Top 10 outdoor/fishing related blog list.  They do a lot of different lists like this.  I naturally gravitated to a list of Bass Fishing blogs, so here is my 10 favorite blogs that are not my own – see Blogs.com feature here.

Rich Lindgren’s Top 10 Bass Fishing Blogs

Bass East Blog

BassEast is a relatively young blog, but has great content. There are several young bass anglers co-authoring this blog and it’s linked to many other video and audio features that add to the Bass East conglomerate.

Bass Pundit

When I started blogging, Bass Pundit was one of the only other games in town. He has kept a good thing going and mainly sticks to fishing and bass related topics. I like to think of us as co-pioneers in bass fishing blogging– we were there before it was cool to have a bass blog.

Boyd Duckett :: Bassmaster

Boyd Duckett is a Bassmaster Classic champion and Elite Series tour pro. He does a good job of finding time to blog with his hectic schedule.

Carl’s “BassAckwards” Fishing Blog

Team BassAckwards is doing a good job of covering their Minnesota tournament fishing endeavors and mixing in some other relevant bass fishing topics.

Hardkore Fishing

Hardkore Fishing is blog from a tournament angler in New York. He has had a very good thing going talking about tournaments, product reviews and relevant fishing topics. It’s been awhile since he has posted however, and it worries me when good bloggers don’t write for awhile. Many good blogs go by the wayside that way.

I am a bass fisherman

This Louisiana bass blog was started out of spite, when the author was wronged by a popular bass forum. He has done a great job re-channeling his inner outdoorsman onto the pages.

JoshDouglasFishing.com Blog

Josh Douglas mainly blogs about his tournament success and challenges, mixes in fun fishing, guide trips, and some tips & techniques. Too bad he doesn’t allow commenting.

Minnesota Bass Fishing

I only recently started reading Jason’s blog but so far he’s got great info on his tournaments and shares thoughts on sponsorships and more.

Rattletrap Ramblings

Rattletrap Ramblings is all about bass fishing in Florida and the author’s campaign to move up the bass fishing tournament food chain and become a Pro Bass Angler.

Wired Angler

Wired Angler is a California-based blog. It’s a great place to learn about swimbaits and fishing the big bass waters out west.

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Don’t Judge

You may or may not have noticed the new Twitter feed on the left sidebar of my Blog.  Before you judge, I never though I would actually Tweet either, but I started looking into it and basically it seemed like a cool way to have a mini-blog update tool.  So my main reason to have the Twitter Feed on the Bassin’ Blog is so that I can give more short & quick updates using that.  Its also really easy to do from my phone.  I still kind of feel like a Twit for adding it, but what the heck….

I hope to give quicker tournament results and other bass fishing notes via this new feature.  So if you are not a subscriber (we are at 88 email subscribers), when you stop in to check the blog for new entires, glance at the Twitter feed as well.  If you are using Twitter, you can follow me there as well at – http://twitter.com/HellaBass

I will have my Lake Dardanelle picks for Bass Fantasy Fishing posted as well before Wednesday.

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2009 Bassmaster Classic Champion – Skeet Reese – Video

This is actually video 4 of 4 in his post classic follow up, this one talks more about the area and the mental game of approaching his 10th classic vs. his first classic.

The other 3 videos are good as well, you should be able to pull them up in this window after this video is over. 
Video #1 – Focuses on the Win itself and talks baits a bit
Video #2 – Touches on the keys to the area he fished, the presentations he used
Video #3 – Skeet breaks down in detail the Lucky Craft Redemption Spinnerbait

Enjoy your weekend, check back next week for Fantasy Fishing Picks for both tours.

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How to Follow the Bassmasters Classic Online this Weekend

First off and foremost, BassZone.com is doing some unprecedented live coverage right now.  The biggest thing they have going is LIve Video updates at the top of every hour and a Feedback area here – http://www.basszone.com/2009webcast/main.htm

I am not kidding this BassZONE.com stuff is awesome, they have really stepped it up for this year’s Classic!!!!

Bassmaster.com has interesting stuff.  The best thing they have going is a LIVE Blog update powered by BassTrakk.  Keep refreshing the Blog all day – http://sports.espn.go.com/outdoors/tournaments/classic/news/story?id=3916699Also they have a webcams here, the RiverCam is up all the time, not much happening and kind of fuzzy this morning – http://sports.espn.go.com/outdoors/tournaments/live/index

Also, check the ESPN photo gallery pages, as they will get updated throughout the day.  Also jump on Bassmaster.com at 4pm Central every day for Live Leaderboards, Audio & Video of the weigh-ins.  Plus the will have live web updates under their Hooked Up series:
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Live updates from the ExpoCam (all times Eastern):

Friday, 2/20: 1:00 p.m., 2:30 p.m, 3:15 p.m., 4:00 p.m.

Saturday, 2/21: 12:15 p.m., 12:30 p.m., 1:00 p.m., 1:30 p.m., 2:00 p.m., 2:30 p.m., 3:00 p.m.

Sunday, 2/22: 11:45 p.m., 12:15 p.m., 12:30 p.m., 12:45 p.m., 1:15 p.m., 1:30 p.m., 1:45 p.m., 3:15 p.m.

Sounds like Kelly Jordan registered the first limit of the tournament at about 9lbs at about 10am EST.  Below is an excerpt from the Live Classic Blog:

10:05 a.m. ET
Bryan Schmidt didn’t last long on top of the leaderboard. That’s not to say he won’t jump back in there, but Kelly Jordon is the new official leader.

Jordon has five fish that weigh around 8 pounds, 13 ounces. And he’s currently fishing within sight of the take-off in Port Lake. He’s not alone, either. Bernie Schultz, Waine Pittman and Fred Roumbanis are in sight as well.

I followed Jordon on the official practice day, and he promised me he would be able to catch a limit in the area, possibly some bigger ones before moving on.

At the time, he was planning on casting a small crankbait around shallow cover and then every once in a while casting a drop bait way back and over log jams. It’s an exciting way to fish. Right now it looks like it’s working for him.

He has the first limit and he’s not burned a tea cup of gas. Maybe a recession-style pattern could win this thing.

Clunn, who started the morning in Port Lake, has moved down river to the Clark’s Marina area. Across the river there are about 12 anglers stacked up in what is known as Bobo’s Hole. That name comes from Dalton Bobo’s win in the Federation Nation Championship several years ago.

You may recall, Bobo almost won the Classic that year as a Federation Nation angler, losing by a few ounces to Dion Hibdon. Bobo would have won if not for a dead-fish penalty.

Regardless, that Federation Nation championship was one of the first big tourneys in this area. The spot he won has become a community hole and several of these guys are trying to take advantage of it, including Wirth, Aaron Martens and Randy Howell, who are in the top 10 at the moment.

Unofficial standings are:

Kelly Jordon: 8-13

Aaron Martens: 6-5

Bryan Schmidt: 6-0

Kevin Wirth: 4-12

Mike McClelland: 4-5

Skeet Reese: 4-0

Randy Howell: 3-14

Terry Scroggins: 3-8

Edwin Evers: 3-0

Timmy Horton: 3-0

I will stayed tunes in as best i can, if something really exciting happens, I will likely blog about it, bonus blog entries, usually one a day is my limit, but heck it’s Classic week!

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New Place to watch Fishing Shows

Found a new website through my Google Ads on this page, its called MyOutdoorTV.com.  From what I can tell, you can watch all kind of outdoor TV shows that may or may not be on your local cable or satellite package, plus you can watch them On Demand on your computer, you can even skip through the commercials, although they would prefer you don’t

This is my attempt to embed an interesting show from Fishers of Men outdoors where they throw heavy jigs into Lake Minnetonka milfoil

So this is a trial to see how it works to some degree, hope you like it!  Looks like it works to some degree, but the frame is a little small, so you may want to head to the site to watch it.

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New Cure for Winter Bass Fishing Blues

I just picked up a new bass fishing game for the Nintendo Wii.  Its the new Rapala Fishing Frenzy game.  I thought this would help me get through another long winter.  Check out the trailer for the game….

Also, I got a few screen shots for you to look at….
Rapala's Fishing Frenzy Boxshot 
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I have not had time to actually play it, but I did open the box, its nice that it comes with an adapter to fit the existing Wii controller, so you do not have to actually buy a specific controller for this game, a big plus in my book.

As soon as things slow down and cool off outside, I will fire it up and give a full review!!!!

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Interesting Bass Fishing Videos

Ran across a few video news stories that I though were kind of cool, so I though I would share.

This first one is an interview with FLW champion Michael Bennet


The next one is an interview with $1million Fantasy Fishing Champ Michael Thompson


Feel free to grab & embed these videos for your website or blog if you would like!!

Also, we have finally hit 75 email subscribers, thanks to all of you.  Tomorrow morningI head to Wabasha to start practicing for the MN State Tournament of Champions on the river, should be fun.  I hope to find some blog time in the evenings next week!

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