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Welcome to the IMA Emailer – May 2011 Issue The IMA EMAILER brings you news from IMA pro staff members across the USA & worldwide. Throughout the country, our best fisheries are all over the map when IMA pro Bill Lowen started his year off by fishing the Bassmaster Lowen started off the year with three straight Elite Series checks. In Florida, Lowen didn’t rely on the dominant sight bite for his Fred Roumbanis, an Oklahoman by way of California, got his year
Fortunately for Fred, the Elite Series started off with two more While much of the field sight fished at the two Elite Series events “I prefer to sight fish but everybody knows the same areas,” he said. But Fred’s strong run didn’t stop in Florida. At Pickwick he finished While the few anglers who finished in front of Fred at Toledo Bend Fred is a master of figuring out how to incorporate different line From early pre-spawn on through the fall, savvy bass anglers always “It has a small profile, but it still weighs a ton,” Lowen said. “Since it came out, I haven’t really thrown any other lipless baits,” FLW Tour pro Michael Murphy says it’s the wide range of depths that Roumbanis agreed with Murphy’s assessment. In ultra-clear water he’ll Last year at the California Delta, Lowen used one of his favorite Another trick is to fish it on heavy line in ultra-shallow water. The best retrieve may involve no trickery at all: Just cast it out With all lipless cranks, it’s unfortunate but largely unavoidable Roumbanis uses an Irod IRC704c, a 7′ fast action rod which he says When it comes to colors, all three use various types of chrome We’ve established that the Rock N Vibe catches bass from coast to In addition to using IMA products at the end of your line, you can We have short and long sleeve shirts available in both white and navy As always, we’d love to hear about the bass that IMA lures produce Each month we’ll pick one winner who will get to choose the apparel Last months’ winner was Loren Spaulding who caught a nice Spotted Each month we’ll pick one winner who will get to choose the apparel
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Don’t sleep on the Shaker
Been doing a bit of fishing lately. One thing has become apparent in this low to mid 50 degree water; the IMA Shaker with it’s flat sides and more subtle action is out producing the new highly touted IMA Square Bill designed by Bill Lowen.
Pictured above is the nicest bass I caught the other day, but put a bunch in the boat on an IMA Shaker thrown on 12lb Fluoro on my brand new Dobyns 684 CB Crankbait Rod, pretty sweet rod for jerkbaits and light wooden baits like the Shaker, Shad Raps and several other baits.
Both great baits, but this time of year, its hard to beat the profile and action of the Shaker, so my advice, while the traditional Square Bills are getting all the headlines right now, if you live up north, stick with the Shaker for a few more weeks. Then when water hits 60 degrees and up, pick that Square Bill up and do work!
As you can see, they were eating the SHAKER!
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Anybody need some free fishing gear?
Been a crazy week, lots of travel and other stuff going on, been neglecting the blog. Congrats to Arizona Pros Dean Rojas & Cliff Pirch for both notching tour level wins earlier today.
Not too long ago, I got a nice shipment of new Akinetix gear in, they make some very affordable and functional polarized fishing sunglasses, including youth & woman’s models, definitely worth checking out. They even have floating shades for those of us that our clumsy.
They also have some nice moisture wicking gear and other gear. So to celebrate spring, I am running a little contest, on my Facebook Page, so just follow this link to enter. You have until Sunday April 24th to get entered. So head over and enter to win some free gear and check out the Akinetix website as well.
The Akinetix Shield sunglasses pictured are what i have been wearing on the water!
Beaver Lake & St. John’s River Fantasy Winners
Just shipped some prizes today. Congrats to Carl Spande of MN for winning the prize for Beaver Lake event. Because Carl is a Facebook Fan of this blog, he brings down a pack of Optimum Double Diamond Swimmers. I think Carl will find these great as a swimbait or large swim jig trailer!
Still waiting to hear from my Harris Chain winner, but Cody Salzmann (Facebook Fan) of IL almost won the whole thing, not quite, but he still wins an IMA Roumba wake bait. I think Cody will find this a super product bait once the bait get shallow for him this spring!.
In other news, check out the great bass Cory Cook has been catching on his IMA Flit jerkbait that he won from an earlier tourney, also a Facebook fan.
Maybe Cory can get his mug in the next pic, ha! Thanks for the pictures Cory! You have set a standard for future winners!
Waiting for ice to melt
We are close to losing all this damn ice and then it will be game on soon enough. In the mean time, been listing some bass fishing goodies on my Bass Fishing eBay Store. I am even starting to thinking about rigging my rods for practice of my first tourney in May already….
Congrats to Edwin Evers, nice come from behind victory at Citrus Slam (St Johns River) by Power Pole today. Gotta feel good to punch his ticket to 2012 Bassmaster Classic, now he can fish stress free. Double E is quickly becoming one of the sport’s elite, it would be cool to have Evers challenge KVD & Skeet for the AOY this year!
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Also, check out this quick video about the IMA Square Bill crankbait featuring Matt Paino from the recent Fred Hall show in Long Beach, CA!
My fellow MN anglers, stay strong, we are almost there!
February Fantasy Fishing Winners
The February prizes are in the mail, and final results from Beaver Lake should be ready soon as well.
In both leagues, our winners also won league prizes, so the Bassin’ Blog prize slid down to next finishers. Congrats to Jeremy White as he was the best picker in all the lands for the Bassmaster Classic, he will enjoy a $1000 gift card to
BassPro from BASS. So he didn’t feel to bad seeing his prize go to the next in line, so our Classic prize winner was Kenneth Grover of Decatur, AL. Kenneth did not seem to be a fan of the Bassin’ Blog on Facebook so he will get some left over finesse worms from last year.
Glynn Brown was the best from our group for Lake Okeechobee on the FLW side, but he did so well, he got a nice Walmart gift card, so once again, to spread the wealth, the prize slides down. Cory Cook of Carrolton, KY won an IMA Flit Jerkbait because he was a fan on facebook. Thanks to IMA Lures for helping out with this week’s prizes!
So hopefully lesson learned, it pays to become a Fan on Facebook to get the bigger prizes!
Still time to join my leagues and compete for prizes at each event!
IMA Newlestter – February 2011
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Welcome to the IMA Emailer – February 2011 Issue The IMA EMAILER brings you news from IMA pro staff members across the USA & worldwide. Depending on where in the country you live, February may be the start But don’t give up hope! Good things come to those who wait. We’re
February may be the shortest month on the calendar, but for Bill What’s New Orleans, you ask? Where have you been? It’s the Bassmaster The Square Bill combines the “hunting” action of the handmade baits Many pundits say that this Classic will be won flipping or with a “Without a doubt they’re going to be in my gameplan,” he said. “It ima’ Line of baits will be found on the deck of Classic Qualifier Bill Lowen The nice thing about the shallow-diving Square Bill is that it does Here’s hoping for a big performance from Bill in New Orleans. If IMA Pro Fred Roumbanis can’t decide whether he wants to be a In addition to the eight regular season Bassmaster Elite Series We caught up with him as he drove to Florida’s Lake Okeechobee for He did have a chance to experiment with the Square Bill and the “It’s really an awesome crankbait,” he continued. “It’s super-buoyant (Fred spent his off season fine tuning his skills with the Flit 120 , suspending jerkbait) Looking down the eight-event Elite Series schedule in particular, He’s also extremely excited to head back to Lake Murray in May. The We also caught up with legendary Northern California guide and “These fish haven’t been able to eat,” he said. “They’re wanting to In between seminars and preparation to run a tournament circuit, Pringle added that it’s an ideal bait for his guide service. It’s not While the Square Bill comes in 9 dynamic color patterns, Pringle Come see us at the Classic, where you can pick up the Square Bills In addition to using IMA products at the end of your line, you can We have short and long sleeve shirts available in both white and navy As always, we’d love to hear about the bass that IMA lures produce Each month we’ll pick one winner who will get to choose the apparel
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First Outing of 2011
January almost slipped away without a fishing trip, but I got out with one of my bass buddies a couple days ago to chase some winter time river smallmouth bass. Part of my drive to get out and so some fishing, was the fact that I had this new Ima Lures Square Billed Crankbait . You are probably saying, who cares, I got lots of crankbaits.
Well, this crankbait is brand new and not being released for a few more weeks at the Bassmaster Classic in New Orleans, but I managed to get my hands on one a few weeks back and have been wanting to get it in the water so bad to check it out. Largely driven by curiosity and because I have done very well on the Ima Shaker crankbait as well. Square bill cranks are versatile lures, but let’s face it, 25 degree air temps and near freezing water temps are not what most people would call ideal for these style baits. This area that I fish, I catch almost all my fish slow dragging a 3″ Green Pumpkin tube on a 1/9oz head. So my intentions of bringing this bait along was more along the lines of checking out the action, seeing how it deflected off rocks and cover, if I caught a fish, that would have been a bonus.
I rigged up the Chartreuse Shad (Sexy Shad) Square Bill on 15lb fluorocarbon, mainly because I was a little worried about losing it. Fishing a crankbait from shore up hill in a snaggy & rocky environment is a recipe for getting hung up. On my first cast, I noticed a nice strong vibration that felt good and then it got shallow enough, that I could feel it pounding the rocks and deflecting and searching around. On my 2nd cast, I just started to feel those rocks and BAM, fish on! Rewarded with a nice chunky smallmouth. Pretty cool, was it a fluke?
I used the bait off & on the rest of the 4 hours we fished. The other productive baits for me, was a 1/8oz Tube Jig and 3″ tube and a Zappu Inchi Wacky Jig head with small green pumpkin worm. Both of these finesse lures produced fish on a tough bite, but then again so did Bill Lowen’s signature crankbait. I ended up smallmouth on the Square Bill out of the 21 total. The average size of the crank fish were larger and the strikes were violent, which a nice change of pace to the wet leafy bite of a tube bite. I think this is a testament to the strike triggering action of this new bait; I can only imagine what it will bring when spring is here and its actually typical square bill conditions.
Few other things that stand out, I only had 8 bites and hooked 7 of them solidly. This tells me they were eating the bait and the hooks are sharp and well balanced with the bait. I also snagged a double digit carp in the back, not really babying it, I quickly got the fish in and the hooks held up great, strong & sharp! Lastly, never once did I get hung for even a second, even with constant bumping and grinding in shallow rocks and wood in a current situation, this is a 4 wheel drive crankbait. I envy what Bill Lowen will be able to do with this bait at this year’s Bassmaster Classic on the Louisiana Delta. So post Classic, keep an eye out, these should start showing up in your favorite online stores real soon!
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