米時間 ２０１６年６月２３〜２６日にニューヨーク州で開催されたバスマスターシリーズ「カユーガ レイク戦」にて１１位にランクイン。獲得賞金は約１２０万円。キャッチした魚の数は４日間で６７lb-８oz (３０.３kb)の２０尾。ラージマウス換算で約３７cmを２０尾となる。彼のYOUTUBEチャンネルに使用したタックルとパターンがアップされているので要点紹介です。英文も起こしておきますので参考までに

天候に合わせた”強いパターン”と”弱いパターン”

ハイ！日本のみなさん元気にしていたかな？マイクアイコネリです。今日は先日のニューヨークアップステートにて開催されたバスマスター・カユーガレイク戦のパターンを紹介するよ。結論からいうと沢山の魚、沢山のデカバスが釣れた。試合期間は全４日間で行われ初日と最終日が曇天強風。そして試合２日目と３日目が無風のフラットなコンディションだったんだ。

私が４日間で用意したテクニックは２パターン。まずは初日と最終日の強風日パターンを紹介するよ。強風日は大きなブレードの付いたホワイトスピナーベイト５/８オンスを使用した。トレーラーにはシャッドテールをセット。これをグラスエリアにてスローロールで使用したんだ。特に朝方にキャッチした魚は大きかったよ。これらのキッカーフィッシュが後でポイントに繋がった。ロッドは７フィートのミディアムアクションを使用。

そしてスピナーベイトを巻いていたグラスエリア周辺には穴が空いており、所々に岩が絡んでいたんだ。そんな場所には３/４オンスのテキサスリグで撃っていき、リアクションストライクを狙っていったよ。ワームはデビルズスピア（ウォータメロン/赤ラメ）をセット。キャストしてボトムで２回 跳ねさせて聞いていくんだ。ロッドは７６のミディアムヘビーを使用。ラインはフロロの２０ポンド。

次に２日目と３日目のパターンを紹介するよ。この日は快晴フラットな天気でね。極端にバイトが遠かったんだ。それ故に用意したのがスピニングタックル。これに６.５インチのストレートワーム(ウォーターメロン/銀ラメ)７グラムのダウンショットをセットして昨日と同じ場所を撃っていったんだ。そして周辺の２.１〜３.０メートルラインに魚がスクーリングで浮いていた。そんな魚にはフレンチフライテクニック(バックスライド)で狙い撃っていったよ。このテクニックは過去に紹介してあるから参照してみてくれ。[参照] ロッドは７６ミディアムアクション。ラインはPE１号にリーダーは８ポンドのフロロを使用。

今回の試合は４日間とも攻めるポイントは同じだったよ。ただ天候や風の吹き始めなどの状況変化に合わせて２本のタックルを織り交ぜながら試合展開を築いていったんだ。結局は１１位だったけどいい試合だったよ。みんなも”Power”と”Finesse”を使い分けてみてくれ。

Hey tackle warehouse fans IKE is here I want to wrap up the B.A.S.S. elite event on Cayuga Lake and upstate New York. what a tournament lots of fish caught lots of big bass and over four days. we saw different conditions. we saw the first and last day with windy conditions cloud cover and then the second and third day flat calm.

I use two different techniques. over four days to help me get a top 12th. i want to talk to you a little bit about the baits and the techniques that I use. you know let’s talk about the windy days days 1 in 4 for me. it was power fishing all the way the fish were active they were biting you didn’t have to slow down and have to finesse and I relied on to presentations know..

the first one was a spinnerbait. spinnerbaits a great win debate and i used a bait that I’m really love when the conditions get like that it’s a bait by molix it’s called a vet inator spinnerbait and i used a big size use the 5/8 oz spinnerbait just put on a berkley powerbait it’s a Power Program trailer on it and I slow roll it through the grass. especially early in the morning. I caught a couple key kicker fish on that bait but the bait that got a lot of the work.

When I was fishing around grass and grass that had some kind of change in it. it was a hole in the grass a point in the grass. where rock mixed in with the grass any time. I got around those conditions. I pitched a real heavy creature bait and i use the Berkeley havoc devil spear that’s that color called watermelon magic red flake. i used a 3/4 oz VMC tungsten weight and a 4/0 vmc heavy-duty flipping hook you know basically i’d let this thing fall in there next to the grass let it hit the bottom hop it twice make another cast could cover a lot of water and elicit a reaction strike.

When it was cloudy windy those two baits did the damage but when it got calm and slick and sunny that stuff didn’t work the spinnerbait didn’t work the big flip and bait didn’t work and…

I had to go to finesse techniques and that was key and spinning rod finesse techniques really saved the day for me. on days 2 and 3 and i use two different techniques you know…

The first one is you know really a tried-and-true technique. when it gets tough and it’s a drop shot and i used a drop shot rig with a debate that I love it’s a berkeley havoc bottom hopper I use the six and a half inch green pumpkin magic which is the green punk with the silver flake and i did the same thing I did with the flippin bait which is I pitch it into the holes into the grass clumps. i used a 1/4 oz VMC tungsten drop shot weight and I used a to ott vmc regular gauge flipping hook and then the other technique.

This is the one that really shine because nobody was doing. it was this little french fry technique and you’ve heard me talk about it before and it really played a big part in this event and it’s a berkeley havoc backslide and just a little four-inch watermelon seed color french fry and I’d fish that thing on a to ott LightWire vmc hook but because the water depth was 7 to 10 foot instead of fishing it just out of the pack all I would do is get a little insert nail vmc makes one called an neck rig wait and I would take that and…

I’d just jam it into the tale that bait. and I basically do the same thing I throw it into the holes I throw into the sandy spots between the weed clumps and that thing falling backwards all those slick calm days really was a trigger for those fish cloudy and windy power-efficient slicking call finesse fishing

Reel quick on the rods on the spinnerbait. i use a night series 7 foot medium action power rod on the flip and rod i used a 7″6′ medium heavy like series abu garcia on both of my use the mg x extreme great real and then

On the spinning stuff man, this is the real deal for me because I was fishing around heavy grass I used to 76 medium spinning rod like series Abu rod and this is a long rod it’s got some more backbone when I hope those fish in that grass I could get them out no problem. if you look of course I used braids in this event to a floor leader I went with the 10-pound berkley trilene braid to eight pound berkley trilene wonder sent fluorocarbon killer combination with finesse rods.

On the spinner bait and on the flippin rod. i use 20 pound berkley trilene water man for sure for me it was playing conditions power fishing when it’s windy finesse fishing when it’s calm and that’s what helped me get a top 12 here Cayuga Lake see you later Mike Canelli for tackle warehouse.