| 'Dunkin' Success for Largemouth!
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| | life, then without using your reel, pull
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| | the bait swiftly out of the water using
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| A bright hot, sunny August day calls for
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| | the length of your rod. At the same time
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| a certain pattern to put Largemouth in
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| | the other hand pulls away the line as
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| the live well. That's when 'dunking'
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| | opposed to reeling the line in. To
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| comes into play. A bay or a whole lake
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| | submerge the bait keep your rod tip up
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| for that matter, matted with weeds could
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| | and your bait dangling about mid rod
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| send many of the hearty bass anglers home
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| | length and direct it to the next pocket
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| in frustration, but a true Bass angler
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| | while letting go of the line so that the
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| welcomes the challenge!
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| | bait can work its way down to bottom once
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| Dunking requires simple tools for simple
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| | again. This is done as you're drifting
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| tactics. The first and most important
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| | or using the bow mount to move you about.
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| tool is a long trigger rod. Keep in mind
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| | You can imagine how thankful you'll be
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| that you will be reaching for pockets in
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| | to for purchasing a light strong rod!
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| the weed growth so try to use something
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| | A shore line thick with pencil reeds and
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| lengthy, but light and strong. I am 5'6"
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| | bulrush is prime 'dunkin' area too.
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| and a 6'10" or 7' rod is plenty long
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| | Sometimes pitching and flipping the inner
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| enough for my arms to hold all day. A
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| | pockets of these weeds just isn't enough
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| good choice would be a heavy action
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| | to get the big hogs to take the bait, you
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| Quantum P.T tour edition trigger rod or a
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| | have to get deeper and deeper to get to
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| Shimano Crucial heavy action extra fast
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| | the Bass. Basically extend your arm and
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| rod. Both rods are light and tough and
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| | rod as far as you can reach then
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| you won't tire yourself wrestling with
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| | disengage the reel to drop the bait into
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| them all day. For reel selection, well,
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| | the thick of it. Engage the reel, and
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| for dunking Largemouth I think it really
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| | without reeling in line, use the rod,
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| doesn't matter what type of bait cast
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| | while grasping the line to pull the bait
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| reel you use because, as I will explain,
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| | out and drop once again into the next
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| it's all in the rod, the line and you!
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| | pocket. This method of dunking was
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| The Bass hide in the weeds during sunny
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| | responsible for two of the top 4 finishes
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| hot days and keep themselves nice and
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| | in a tournament that I will never forget.
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| cool under the canopy of weed growth, so
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| | A 4th place finish left my 'butt' awful
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| the more weeds the better. Dunking works
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| | sore from me kicking myself over and over
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| best in relatively shallow water say, 6
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| | again! I was dunking off shore, not in
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| to 8ft. Deeper water can be dunked if
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| | shore for my Bass, but keep in mind that
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| one has arms and a rod long enough. The
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| | dunking alone was responsible for 3 of
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| simple trick to dunking is basically
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| | the 4 top placements.
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| freeing up just enough line from the reel
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| | We all know that logic is a key factor in
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| so as to touch bottom then engaging it
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| | any type of fishing. Who would have
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| while having your free hand and the rod
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| | thought that such an easy method of
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| to do the rest. With your bait on bottom
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| | catching Bass could exist! But believe it
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| and the rod just above the water give
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| | or not the simplicity in dunking for
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| your rod a few tugs to give the bait some
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| | Largemouth is just that, 'logical'!
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