By Sight or Sound, Mays Topwater Potential Shines
Thursday, May 20, 2021
Photo: MLF/Garrick Dixon
Veteran pro Kelly Jordon says that a topwater bite will often hold out all day in May.
By Lynn Burkhead
OSG Senior Digital Editor A stress test on the old ticker. Thats a good way to describe my most recent bass outing on a favorite water body in north Texas.
In a spring where everything seems off and a bit delayed in my vicinity, the bite on this fishery wasnt happening the other day. Heavy rain a few days earlier, overcast skies, a bit of a northeasterly breeze you know the old fishing adage that fish bite least when the wind is out of the east and cooler-than-normal water conditions for mid-May left me considering an early exit.
WADDINGTON â A $30,000 contribution set aside last year for the Bassmaster Elite Series has been preliminarily approved by St. Lawrence County lawmakers.
The Board of Legislatorsâ Services Committee on Monday night voted to authorize the fund release for the now staple north country event, set to bring qualifying professional bass anglers to the St. Lawrence River at Waddingtonâs Whittaker Park from July 15 to 18.
The series tournament was first held in Waddington in 2013, again in 2015, and every year since 2017 â though last yearâs St. Lawrence River tournament was moved to Clayton a few days before its July 23 start.
The prior weekendâs Bassmaster Elite tournament on Cayuga Lake was canceled, complicating St. Lawrence Countyâs COVID-19 testing expectations for anglers arriving in New York without having the testing buffer of the preceding tournament.
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Gleasons sentimental Tiny Torpedo
Monday, May 17, 2021 (Editor s note: Here s another short feature from Alan McGuckin at Dynamic Sponsorships.)
Sometimes cousins are more like brothers. Thats certainly the case with Bassmaster Elite Series pro Darold Gleason and his younger cousin Jared Burns, and a nearly 30-year-old Tiny Torpedo topwater lure on the dashboard of Gleasons Toyota Tundra serves as a daily reminder of that bond.
I grew up mostly fishing in ponds, and this Tiny Torpedo was one of the first artificial lures I ever used as a teenager, remembers Gleason, winner of the 2019 Central Open on Toledo Bend. Jared is six years younger than me, so as I got older and started fishing from a bass boat, I gave him this exact Tiny Torpedo to use in his pond fishing.