Les paso el mail que nos envio Patrick Sebile con unas entrevistas a Todd Faircloith y Jeff Kriet que recien compitieron en el BassMaster Classic
Ambos usaron señuelos como los que generosamente me enviaron y recibieron algunos foreros en la antepasada cena de SanicoBass Esta el texto en Ingles. Alguien se avienta la traduccion? ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Patrick Sebile <[email protected]> Date: 2010/2/23 Subject: to All 100224: interviews of Jeff Kriet and Todd Faircloth about the way each used the Flatt Shad during the Bassmaster Classic 2010 To: Caroline Bilodeau <[email protected]> *All,*** * * * * *Here are hereunder interviews of Jeff Kriet and Todd Faircloth about the way each of them used the Flatt Shad as a key bait during the Bassmaster Classic 2010, where Jeff finished 2nd and Todd 3rd.* * * *Don’t hesitate to be in touch with Caroline: she will be able to send you these interview in a good looking PDF probably tomorrow, but I want to make sure you all get these information to be able to use them without delay, if you want to. Caroline our marketing director will be able too to provide you with some pictures. We own booth interviews and pictures rights, and of course gives you our Ok for your own use for promotion and information.* * * *A great achievement for our company, as our two only sponsor anglers present on the Bassmaster Classic World Championship finished 2nd and 3rd – of course, a win is always the best, but surely we can be proud and happy for Jeff and Todd’s accomplishment. Some lures companies where here with up to 10 sponsor anglers without having one finishing so well!* * * *As I am traveling in Europe this week and will be at the Long Beach show in California all next week long, I wont be easy to reach but Caroline will.* * * *Thank you very much for reading!* * * * * *Have a great day,* * * * * * * *Patrick Sebile* * * Bassmaster Classic 2010 Interview with SEBILE Pro-Staffer Jeff Kriet ~ Second Place Finisher Some call it the world championship. Others say it's the Super Bowl of bass fishing. Bar none, it's the most prestigious and respected title to win in our sport. The 40th Bassmaster Classic tournament took place on Lay Lake in Birmingham, Alabama over the weekend of February 19-21, 2010 with 51 of the world's foremost anglers in contention. SEBILE pro-staffers Jeff Kriet and Todd Faircloth, both using the SEBILE Flatt Shad, were in the top three for all three days, fighting fish-by-fish for the championship crown with the #1 world-ranked Kevin VanDam. Adding to the suspense, all three anglers staked out their turf, practically within shouting distance of each other for the entire three days within Beeswax Creek, a side creek arm just a few minutes from the tournament launch ramp. This was a wonderful world championship, with not very easy fishing and a lot of suspense between the top three players who distanced themselves from the rest of the Classic field right from the start. The 2010 Classic proved to be largely a three man competition. The duel between the three only served to make this Classic even more exciting than many past ones. It's true there were other hopefuls like the indomitable Mike Iaconelli and local expert Russ Lane hot on their heels, ready to overtake the top three if any one of them stumbled, but Kriet, Faircloth and VanDam never did. Here now is the Classic story of SEBILE pro-staffer Jeff Kriet from Ardmore, Oklahoma. Jeff fought hard for the crown, moving from third place on day one, taking over first place on day two and ending in second place in the most important tournament of Kriet's twelve plus years fishing as a Bassmaster pro, including 6 times qualifying for the Classic. As the tournament commenced, most of the Classic field was aware that successful fishing would require the use of lipless vibration baits as the bass were pretty lethargic with the unseasonably cold weather in Alabama. Water temps ranged from the low 40's at the start of the event and edged upward to the high 40's in the late afternoon of the final day in Beeswax Creek. Mornings were brutally cold, and many anglers started fishing with gloves on each morning. "I grew up fishing Toledo and Rayburn in Texas and throwing loud rattling baits in the grass and that's what I am used to doing," says Kriet who decided to start day one with what he's had the most comfort throwing for so many years - a very loud, rattling lipless crankbait not made by SEBILE. "One of the issues I faced, the color I felt that I needed to be throwing was a specific red one, a color that I hand-paint myself. I call it Rayburn Red and I have probably weighed in 400 pounds of bass on that color bait in the last ten years," reveals Jeff. "The first day of the tournament I was throwing a rattling bait with a lot more rattles. As the water cleared up and got clearer every day, it cleared enough that the fish got more conditioned to the rattle. That's when the SEBILE Flatt Shad really started to shine. It is a more subtle bait, but it has probably more vibration than the other one I was throwing. Starting on the second day of the Classic, I saw that these fish were getting sick of that loud rattle in my hand-painted rattle bait," observed Jeff who relied increasingly more on the subtle sound of the SEBILE Flatt Shad from that point onward. It is important for people to know that SEBILE respects the fact that anglers will use what they feel most comfortable with in tournament situations. We believe we have the right baits but Jeff was fighting for a large title and we believe he thought the high pitch rattling bait was good at a certain time, after which he turned to a Flatt Shad to utilize the lower pitch of this bait - which actually travels further and can be more effective than rattles, even if this is something people are not used to yet - the non-rattling lipless vibration bait known as the SEBILE Flatt Shad! And the swimming action of the Flatt Shad simply moves a massive amount of water and this is a huge attraction to the fish too. It thumps a lot - which attracts fish in stained or muddy water, and it also works in clear water where anglers often have confidence to go with the more translucent Flatt Shad colors in clear water. The SEBILE Flatt Shads do not have rattles in them to make noise. They do have weights to provide for stability and action, but the intent is not for the weights to make noise per se. What the Flatt Shads do is vibrate and move a lot or water. So you can think of a it more as a vibration that the Flatt Shad emits versus a rattling noise. "I think when a guy absolutely needs to make sure he throws the Flatt Shad is on the second or third day of a tournament or anytime that a bunch of other fishermen are throwing rattling lipless crankbaits, that's when the Flatt Shad really, really shines," according to Jeff. The water in Beeswax Creek for the Classic was far from clear. Day one presented the dirtiest and darkest water conditions when Jeff felt the need to use the loud rattling bait painted in his Rayburn Red color. "As the water cleared up some on day two, I caught some on the straight white Flatt Shad (Q2 White Lady). I also threw the Holo Greenie (D9), one of my favorite SEBILE colors. Late in the final day three, the water got even clearer, and I put on the translucent Blood Red Amber which emits a goldish shad-like flash in stained water," says Jeff. "I was fishing the depth contour lines, kind of the outside break line for a big flat with a couple of ridges that ran out off the flat, and I was following the contour. I was trying to keep my boat out in 5-1/2 to 6 foot, and most of the fish I was catching were anywhere from probably three foot on out to the boat. I was always trying to fish the Flatt Shad within coontail grass, and most of the better fish were on the edge of the grass on the sides of those ridges where the depth broke. Some of them were moving up onto the flat, but all the big ones seemed to be hanging on the edges." The Flatt Shad model he chose for the shallow 3-6 foot depths that Jeff fished during the Classic was the Flatt Shad 66 SK, half-ounce sinking version. "The way I caught them, I wasn't just throwing it out and reeling with it. I was throwing it out and letting it sink to the bottom. Then I was fishing it almost like a jig. I was trying to let the bait hang in the grass, and then I really didn't even want to jerk it out of the grass. I just wanted to pull it out of the grass and let it fall back in. That was the big deal to generate strikes," reveals Kriet. "The way I was doing it is probably different than most other guys. I was keeping my rod probably at ten o'clock. If I was winding it in normally, I would have my rod almost pointed at the water, but the way I was worming it, because the water was so cold, winding wasn't the deal for me. So I would keep my rod up fairly high and at times raise it to almost twelve o'clock and then I would lower the rod and let the bait fall." "The best is when you can just ease it on through that grass and pull it through clean. When I got hung in the grass, I can feel the Flatt Shad stop vibrating, and any time your bait quits vibrating, you either have a fish or you've got grass hung on your bait. If there's grass on the bait, no fish is going to hit it like that, so that's when I snap my rod a couple times to try to tear the grass off the bait, and then once I have snapped it and get that grass off it, I can immediately feel the bait go back to emitting its normal, clean vibration again, and that's when I immediately let the Flatt Shad fall right back down." "When I feel that grass, and it's bogging down and I know I am balling the grass, I'll put my rod in a little lower position and put a little slack in my line and pop it real quick a couple of times and generally, that will pop it free, and that is what you want, when you tear it out of the grass, you want it to come clean. What you do not want to do is just pull straight and steady. All that does, that just balls more grass on it, but if you put a little slack in your line and pop it, and put a little slack in your line immediately after that first pop, all that grass will kind of fall off during that little slack moment, and the second pop gets it clean again. That's when you get a lot of bites too." "It's like when a car gets stuck in the mud, and you put a tow rope on to help pull it out, you have to kind of start out with a slack line, you pop it out and the line ends up slack again. Now, don't go trying to jerk a stuck pick-up truck out of a ditch based on that simple allegory, but do try it when your Flatt Shad hangs in grass. It works!" "I was throwing the Flatt Shad on 15 lb test fluorocarbon line. Fluorocarbon has a little less stretch, and I was throwing on a medium heavy rod which helps pop it loose." "The deal for me in the Classic was, the bigger fish seemed like they bit it one of two ways. They would either just slack line it. They'd just take it in and it'd throw slack in your line when that happened - or I'd be pulling that bait and it would start to load up just like it was in grass, and I'd lean back, not sure whether it was grass or not, and then I'd actually have one. That was really how the bigger fish came. Most of the smaller fish would thump it; I'd pull it out of the grass and I'd feel them just thump it. Whenever I wasn't sure, I'd just lean into the rod, just start reeling and lean back. Even the small ones that bit it good, that's what I'd do, just reel hard and lean. If you get to jerking to make the hookset with a bait like that, you'll miss a lot of hits, actually pull it away from them if you jerk on them. The hooks are so good on the Flatt Shad, you don't need to do that. It's best to just lean into them while cranking the reel handle pretty hard." "Especially early in the morning, it was so cold, the fish were almost buried down in the mud and the grass, they didn't want to bite at all. They were in a bad mood and it was a very tough, grinding tournament. I had key angles on the sides of these ridges, and I caught about 75% of my fish when I threw on these same angles. I would make 70 or 80 throws on that same angle for every bite I got. One thing the everyday angler doesn't realize is that the presentation angle always matters whether deep or shallow, the angle you pull the bait past the fish does a lot to determine whether it will bite. There is always a key angle to your cover or structure. I never caught a fish in three days if I was off the angle nor did I catch one in three days throwing on top of the ridge. I always caught them by throwing across it from the side, whether I was coming from the deeper water up on top or when it fell off, back down the edge." "The ridges I was concentrating on were only about a 1/2 to a foot difference in depth on the outside edges of these ridges, just a real subtle change, but on these ridges there were some stumps and the grass on top of the ridge was sparser. There was thicker coontail grass on the sides, but it seems like, for the fish I was catching, that the best sections for me were the edges where you had scattered, patchy grass seemed to be the deal." "One reason I was working the bait the way I was, worming it through the grass, was to make contact with those stumps and when I'd hit a stump, I'd just raise the rod, and I would crawl the bait over the stump and as soon as I got over the stump, I'd let the bait fall back down in front of that stump. That's how a lot of the bites came." "The thing about SEBILE baits that I like the most is that most SEBILE baits have several different applications, there are lots of different ways to fish them, and the Flatt Shad proved very versatile to do everything I needed from it during the Classic." Here at SEBILE, we are very glad that our lipless crankbait, the Flatt Shad has helped our pro-staffer Jeff Kriet to get second place and runner-up in the most important tournament of his career - the Bassmaster Classic world championship 2010! Congratulations, Jeff! ------------------------------ Bassmaster Classic 2010 Interview with SEBILE Pro-Staffer Todd Faircloth ~ Third Place Finisher A lanky, laconic Texan from Jasper, SEBILE pro staffer Todd Faircloth shares much with us in a concise manner, wasting nary a word to teach us exactly how he achieved his formidable third place finish in the 2010 Bassmaster Classic. Please enjoy learning how you too can perfect a classic performance of your own by following Todd's sage advice on ripping the grass with SEBILE's lipless Flatt Shad crankbait. "I caught probably 75% of my fish at the 2010 Bassmaster Classic on Lay Lake in Alabama on the SEBILE Flatt Shad. I was throwing it in coontail grass that was growing in water depths up to the five foot range and just fishing flats and anywhere that the grass was a little bit thicker, it seemed like it was better for me," explains Todd. "One of the differences between a SEBILE Flatt Shad and a lot of other lipless crankbaits is you can fish the Flatt Shad a lot, lot slower in the grass as opposed to a traditional lipless crankbait. I think that slowness was one of the real keys for me in the Classic, especially the last two days when the intense angling pressure really got to those fish." "I was fishing the Flatt Shad real slow. I was almost pumping it like you would work a worm through the grass. I'd pump it out of the grass, let it sink back down, and that thing has a little swerving action when it starts to nose down again that triggered all the bites for me whenever I would pump it out of the grass and let it fall. That's when I caught all my fish." "The Flatt Shad was definitely a difference-maker for me. I was fishing behind a bunch of different people, some of the best anglers in the world, and that SEBILE bait is not near as noisy as other conventional lipless baits. It has got a tight sound (vibration) to it, and I think that was another thing that helped me is the fact that, number one, I could fish it so slow and two, it has a more natural sound to it as well." "I used two colors, the Holo Greenie (D9) which is a shad with a green back. The blue-backed Sea Chrome (SC) color seemed to work best for me on the final day of the Classic," recalls Todd. "Red is also definitely a really good color in the south region of the country in the springtime, particularly if the water is a stained to off-colored clarity. In practice I was catching them on a red color, but it just seemed like I had better luck on the shad colors as the water cleared day by day. There were a lot of shad present in Beeswax Creek during the Classic. Besides, I like to use a more natural color in clear or clearing water as opposed to stained, murky or darkening water." "I caught all my fish on 16 lb fluorocarbon line, a 7'2" medium action rod and a fast 7:1 gear ratio reel. What's real important for using a lipless bait is using a real fast reel. That way when you get bogged down in the grass, you have that quick reel where you may pick up line real quick and free your bait from that grass." "The best advice I can give you for ripping the grass with a lipless Flatt Shad is to use a fast reel, and use at least a 7' rod or even go up as far as a 7'6" rod. I like to use a long rod, a fast reel and just hold your rod at about the ten o'clock position. Just reel the bait, in the Flatt Shad's case that can be very slowly such as I found best in the Classic or it may be moderate to fast in other situations. Just reel until you come into contact with the grass, and whenever you tick the grass, you simultaneously kind of lift your rod tip as you crank the reel. What you want to do is you want to come into contact with the grass, but you want to keep your bait right on top of that grass. The fish usually aren't down in the grass, but sitting right on top of it. You just want to make contact with the grass but pop your lure free whenever and as soon as you hit the grass, and a longer rod and fast reel both help you do that so you keep from getting bogged down in the grass." "I was using the 1/2 ounce model Flatt Shad 66 SK during the Classic, and I was just fishing grass. It seemed like the thicker grass that I found out the further off the bank, the better. These were pre-spawn fish just staging and coming up and I was fishing next to a big spawning cove, and it was just a textbook pre-spawn type situation," describes Faircloth. "They were out on the flats, and there were small, subtle points every so often, which was where I caught them. The little points were really just built-up bank, no special bottom composition nor cover on them. The biggest key deal for me was just the coontail grass. There was not a whole lot of coontail on Lay Lake at this time except in Beeswax Creek. The one particular area I was in had a bunch of it, and I think that was the biggest reason why there were so many fish in there. Coontail is not found all over the country, mainly in the south is where you find it. It's kind of like milfoil yet a little different in that coontail normally doesn't grow real deep like hydrilla does or milfoil can. Coontail tends to be a shallower-growing grass. Most of my fish were between 2 to 5 foot of water depth, and the coontail the fish were in ranged from a 1/2 to a foot off the bottom, it wasn't very tall. Some places it may have been as tall as two feet, and the taller the better it seemed like. It was just patches of grass. It wasn't like I was following a defined grass line, it was just patches of grass," reveals Todd. "I had this one other thing also, and that was a natural drain coming down off the land. It was just like where a little spring branch would come in, and that held some fish for the duration of the Classic. That's pretty much it in terms of the areas where I was catching them." "If you are fishing real thick grass, and you find that you're having a hard time from keeping the bait from bogging down, the only other thing I would suggest, would be a braided line. A braided line will definitely help you keep the bait on top of the grass, and it will also help you rip free of the grass a lot easier. You need to go to a little bit softer action rod whenever you go to a braided line because you have no stretch there and you'll tend to lose a few more fish if you don't go to a softer action rod using braid. The grass wasn't real, real thick at the Classic, and that was reason why I used fluorocarbon there as I was deliberately trying to keep my bait down in the sparse patches, and fluorocarbon helped me do that because the grass wasn't so tall and fluorocarbon sinks. Braid has a floating quality to it. In the summer when the grass gets much thicker, you bet I'll be using braid then." To sum things up for you, I think a lipless crankbait such as the Flatt Shad is one of the most productive baits you can fish in a pre-spawn situation, given that there is grass present. It is a great bait for covering water, and a lot of times when the fish are cold and sluggish like the ones I caught during the Classic, it takes a reaction bait to provoke a strike, and that's exactly what I was doing at the Classic with the Flatt Shad." "The trebles that come on the Flatt Shad from the factory are the highest quality hook, second to none. So you don't have to change them out. They're the perfect size. I may have lost one fish total is all in the Classic, and I'm not even sure it was a bass, I didn't get to see it. As long as you stay with a soft action rod and keep the fish down so it doesn't jump, you're good." And there you have it, a Classic explanation of how to rip the grass with SEBILE's lipless Flatt Shad from Todd Faircloth, third place in the world championship of bass fishing, the 2010 Bassmaster Classic. Congratulations, Todd, and thank you for putting on a Flatt Shad clinic at the Bassmaster Classic for all the world to enjoy! -- Dago Luna [email protected] http://basschannel.tv http://zonadepesca.com
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