GOT YOU TOTALLY COVERED ON HATS
Here’s the nifty little hat collection the author has accumulated in 10 years working at B.A.S.S. – and a bunch of others have been culled out. That and Stacy McClelland tossing 100 of husband Mike’s hats on the floor with the idea of cleaning house led to asking a number of pros about their caps.
What came of it was a five-part series that left out little info about hats, except maybe how Alton Jones wore a camo hat to help him not spook fish while sight fishing in Florida.
If you’re snowed in, or ate too much Christmas ham and don’t want to move much, put on a cap, hunker down and get to reading. There is some interesting info, like how Edwin Evers’ hats end up in plalces like Guatemala.
First there was a general story on Elites and their relationships with hats. Next we see how picky pros really are about the hats they wear, and how certain ones they keep hold special memories.
Hats are also a source of revenue for pro anglers as they have long filled the bill as their No. 1 advertising space. Next we looked the dynamics between Mike and Stacy McClelland and how she sorted through a pile of his hats while he was away.
The final thought looked into how some superstitious anglers work hard to find “catching hats” and others espousing more protective hats. Of course there’s photo galleries, the first a “Brief history of fishing hats,” while the second gives a fashionista’s fun critique of Elite caps in “Hat Couture.”
CLIFT STILL PINCHING HIMSELF
Securing the final Classic berth just hasn’t really sunk in with the Bassmaster Team Championship Fish-off winner, Scott Clift.
“No, I think it’s going to take a while,” Clift said a couple weeks ago. “It’s still kind of like, ‘No, this ain’t real. This can’t be happening.’ It’s just still like, ‘Oh my gosh! I’m going to the Classic.’ ”
Clift is from Dadeville, Mo., a town of 234 just south of Stockton Lake. He is in close proximity to a half dozen other lakes where tournament bass fishing is huge, and he’s heard from many in the region congratulating him on the dream they all hold.
“We fish against guys on Stockton, Table Rock, Lake of the Ozarks, Bull Shoals, Grand Lake and everybody has been so supportive with texts or stuff on Facebook,” he said. “It’s been amazing.”
Just how Clift reached the Classic is amazing. He tosses tons of credit on his brother-in-law Ashley Medley, and admits things just fell their way on Kentucky Lake in the Toyota Bonus Bucks Bassmaster Team Championship Classic Fish-Off.
“We didn’t have a lot of time to practice and really hadn’t done a lot of homework,” Clift said. “Had been on it before but hadn’t been on that end. We just found some biting fish. They were moving. They ended up kind of coming to us the way we needed them to. It might have hurt other people.
“The fish were changing, and once we kind of found out what they were on, it was pretty obvious where they were going to go and what they were going to do. It just worked into our wheelhouse.”
Sometimes, that’s how you get into the Classic.
Thanks Mike Suchan for your contribution via Source link !
