HeyJaredScience of the Strike
Science of the Strike is focused on taking an analytical, scientific approach to understanding the complex sport of largemouth bass fishing.
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- Aug 16, 2026
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Episode 27: Grass (opens the original)
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Episode 27 is a deep dive on aquatic vegetation — specifically, grass — and why it might be the single most underappreciated variable in a bass fishery. We walk through the main players anglers actually encounter: hydrilla, milfoil, coontail, eelgrass, pondweed, and the rest, what each one looks like, how it grows, and why bass relate to them differently. Then we get into the research on what grass actually does to a system. The studies are striking: fisheries with healthy submerged vegetation c
Episode 26: One Year Recap (opens the original)
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Episode 26 closes out year one. Twenty-five episodes in the books, and rather than let the milestone pass with a montage and a thank-you, we did what the show is supposed to do: we went back through every episode, pulled the highlights worth revisiting, and cited what we consider the primary article behind each one. Consider it a table of contents for the first year of Science of the Strike — a running record of what we learned, what surprised us, what held up, and where the literature pointed u
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