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I hope this newsletter finds all of you doing well and with live wells full of BIG BASS!! We are going to ramp up our newsletter again. Lyndi, our long time family friend and former Dobyns do-it-all employee has agreed to help me with our newsletter. I’m sure some of you guys will remember working with Lyndi in the past. Please welcome her back and drop hints that she’d love to move to Texas!! Really, it’s great having Lyndi doing our newsletter again.
We haven’t had a newsletter in a while so I’m not sure where to start. Paul Mueller is fishing very well, so is Drew Cook and Fred Roumbanis. The General, Larry Nixon, is back at it after a year off getting a new shoulder. Welcome back Larry Nixon!!! We added another strong angler in Josh Jones and he’s been in forest fire mode the last few months with an Angler of The Year title, 3 recent wins, and throw in TWO Texas Share A Lunkers at 15.40 lbs and 13.20 lbs. No one is fishing hotter than Josh is right now. It was by pure accident that Josh made a trip to O.H. Ivie Lake a couple of weeks ago and invited me down. While we were fishing, Josh got a call from the Share A Lunker biologists and they were coming to O.H. Ivie to release his 15.40 bass he caught a couple of months before. They spawned her in a controlled environment and 98% of her eggs made fingerlings to be restocked in Texas waters. It was great getting to visit with these biologists and ask them a hundred questions. They were great guys and what a learning lesson for me on how Texas does things for their black bass fisheries. I wish some of the states would learn from the Texas programs that are a huge success by the way. Getting to watch a 15-pound fish released back into her home waters was really a great experience. We did catch a bunch of fish, mostly on Super Spooks with ferocious blowups and most were in the 2.5- to 5-pound range. We didn’t get any giants but the highlight was releasing that 15-pound girl. Click Here To Watch The Release and be sure to give Josh Jones Fishing a follow on Facebook to see all the great photos and videos of Josh's trophy catches.
We have many things in the works, one being a long 14-foot Crappie rod. The Garmin Livescope is changing fishing really fast and a light 14-foot rod will be a huge plus. We’ll be launching some combos later this year as well. We’ve simply gotten so many requests for good combos in both spinning and casting, that I finally bit the bullet and made them. These will not be out until late this year.
We’ve also made some casting rods for this new BFS craze. I’ll save some of you from having to Google BFS as I did when I first heard it. It stands for Bait Finesse System. These are casting rods and reels that throw the tiniest baits down to 1/16oz. Sounds crazy? It’s very popular and growing fast. There’s even a company called Bait Finesse Empire that sells almost nothing but BFS products. I made two rods to start with for this new way of catching bass and trout with casting gear. I made a 7-footer and a 7’ 4” model. They are flying out the door, so much so that I’m already expanding the line with more models. The rods are in the Sierra series and are called Ultimate Finesse Casting. So if you want to use 2- to 4-pound test on a bait caster, now’s the time.
Welcome back Lyndi and good fishing to all!!!!!!
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Rich Lindgren of Hellabass talks tournament history, Dobyns Rods, New Releases, Baits & anything else Bass Fishing with the MAN Gary Dobyns! West Coast Legend! History of Dobyns Rods, new Sobi & Bucca Signature Kaden rods. Dobyns Reels coming out in the future and so much more.
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Allen High School Takes State Championship |
Congratulations to the Allen High School Eagles who took the Texas High School BASS Association State Championship. Team Schoening/Semper took 1st with a total weight of 30.23 lbs followed by Inderman/Duncan at 3rd Place with 29.75lbs, and Weibust/Aebi at 4th Place with 29.52lbs.
Congratulations Eagles!
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Fresh Air, Great Scenery, Fishing Rods & Good Friends |
Northern California Guide and Dobyns Pro Staffer Don Brown and friends Bill Boyce and Chad Geirlich took a trip to the Upper Klamath in Oregon recently. The guys caught and released over 75 wild rainbow trout in two days along with many bass and crappie. Looks like a great trip guys! |
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Rod Spotlight - DC 610-4C |
Champion Dock Skipper
We’ve had the DC 610-4C for just over a year. It’s proved to be one of our most versatile rods and everyone has their own use for it. I designed this rod as a Dock Skipping Special and after many requests, I built it. This rod is 6’ 10” and rated as a 4 power heavy action model. It’s slightly more powerful than any of our other 4 powers and a bit faster too. It’d rate easy as a 4.5 power but has a great tip for skipping jigs up under docks. If you get a chance, check one out.
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Borofka's Taking On The Texas Bite |
Dobyns Pro Staffers Jason and Tara Borofka recently relocated to the great state of Texas. They’re longtime friends of Gary and he’s stoked to have them as neighbors located less than an hour from the Dobyns Rods warehouse. The big bass in Texas might not be as happy about the move. Great catches from the Borofka’s. |
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Dobyns Pros' Top Rods For Lake Eufaula - MLF Pro Circuit |
Three Dobyns Rods Pros give us their go to rod choices for success at the recent MLF Pro Circuit event at Lake Eufaula in Alabama. The water was dropping and bass were in all stages of the spawn. Clark Reehm, Ryan Salzman and Bradford Beavers all ran different patterns that ranged from inches to 20' deep. Docks, grass, shad spawn, fry guarders and brushpiles were all key players.
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BFS Fishing With Bait Finesse Empire |
By now you've likely heard that BFS fishing is taking America by storm, but what is BFS you may ask? Bait Finesse System, known as BFS, is the art of using light to ultralight casting rods and specialized casting reels to finesse fish light lines that would normally be relegated to spinning tackle. This offers the advantage of better accuracy in casting, better control over the fish once hooked, eliminating line twist caused by spinning reels, and it's just a heck of a lot of fun. BFS originated in Japan where fishing in highly pressured waters in the norm, and the approach has been perfected and expanded upon over the last 10 years there to encompass many different fishing conditions.
Bait Finesse Empire is a brand-new tackle retailer dedicated to spreading the love of Bait Finesse Fishing in the USA. We're the first and only tackle shop in the US that focuses solely on BFS style fishing and we're proud to partner with Dobyns Rods to offer the Sierra Ultra Finesse Casting Series alongside a wide variety of enthusiast level finesse tackle from around the world for the American finesse angler. From JDM reels and unique lures not sold elsewhere in the USA, to the tried-and-true finesse tackle used in the US currently, our aim is to provide a one-stop shop for all things bait finesse for the American angler. We're a brand-new business, but growing quickly, so check us out and leave us some feedback on what you would like to see added as we continue to grow BFS in the USA.
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Rod & Rigs - Dial In Your Postspawn Particulars |
By Gary Dobyns
The postspawn can be a fickle time of year. You can catch some really big fish, but you can also strike out a lot because they’re in such a delicate transitional stage.
Even though you’re still going to have some late spawners and a few prespawners this time of year, the vast majority of the fish are postspawn. They’ll be pulling out of the spawning areas and if there’s any type of cover, they’ll stage up in areas where they can rest and regain their strength.
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Paul Mueller Takes 2nd At Neely Henry Lake |
Congratulations to Dobyns Pro Staffer Paul Mueller on taking 2nd at Neely Henry Lake with the 2021 Whataburger Bassmaster Elite Tour.
Paul had a total weight of 56.3 lbs and took home the Phoenix Boats Big Bass of the event with a 6.6lb kicker.
Congratulations Paul!
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Bull Shad Special
Mike Bucca has been a personal friend and staffer for about 20 years. Mike has built up his company over the years and has some of the greatest swimbaits in the market. They range from 4” to 11” baits. Mike asked me to build a rod that would cover most all of his swimbaits. So the Mike Bucca Bull Shad rod was made. She’s 8’3” long with a 14” handle, rated for 2-8oz baits. We call her the Bull Shad Special or MB 836SB and she’s proven to be a very versatile swimbait rod. The Bull Shad rod is just a tad slower than our Champion SB rods and in our rating systems she comes in at about a 6.5 power. A bit more powerful than the popular DC 806 HSB but not as stout as the DC 807 Mag HSB. The rod is black with a red logo and accents, similar to our newer Kaden series. Mike had final say-so on this model and had input all the way through the project.
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Meet Josh Jones Of Sapulpa, The Hottest Angler In America |
By Ed Godfrey
Josh Jones must be the hottest fisherman in America. Who else can boast of catching a 15-pound bass and winning a national crappie fishing championship in the span of a month?
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Austin Wilson Wins Apex Cup On Lake Almanor |
A key adjustment improved Austin Wilson’s efficiency and enabled the pro from Citrus Heights, Calif. to catch a 5-bass limit of 17.13 pounds and win the inaugural APEX Cup on Lake Almanor presented by Bridgford Outdoors.
While his day included a brief stop near the dam, Wilson spent most of his time in the mid-lake region. Here, he targeted 4- to 8-foot flats with bigger chunk rock and stumps.
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