Summer 2020
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GEAR RATIO
BREAKDOWN
with Brett Hite By Tyler Brinks
T
hey are America’s favorite gamefish because they
are found just about everywhere and generally
bite just about anything. If Arizona’s Brett Hite had to choose, he would much rather catch bass the way he
“Those two baits have been doing really good. I normally use the 125 size but noticed a lot of the shad were smaller lately, so the 105 has been great the past few weeks,” Hite shared during his time on the water. He prefers a high-speed
likes. For him, that’s power fishing.
reel when fishing this bait and was using the 7.1:1 Daiwa
He loves to flip, pitch, throw topwater, and of course,
Tatula Elite reel.
throw the ChatterBait. Hite is the undisputed king of the
“The
vibrating jig and has won piles of money with it.
Tatula Elite
For all of his favorite techniques, he keeps it pretty
was designed
simple when it comes to the gear he uses; but does adjust it for long casts
based on the situation.
and that bait
casts a long
TOPWATER SEASON
way, to begin with, so it
In the tournament hiatus this year, Hite was tearing up really lets
the bass with a topwater bait on the Arizona lakes. He was you bomb it
catching them on both the Evergreen Shower Blows SB-105 out there,”
and SB-125 pencil popper.
he said. “I like
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