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Kelly Ripa

I am prefishing for someone who has a tournament on the 25th at Cachuma and I think that "sometimes" two heads are better than one and us locals sometimes miss things because we are catching fish when there is a totally different pattern than what work in years past. Anybody? I will launch...

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I like my buzzbait to crawl almost subsurface. To achive this I add a trailer either a 5 inch grub or zoom split tail worm along with a Red gamie trailer hook. I use a dbl. buzz and hold my rod tip way high.

Kelly Ripa

I have two...one is the old style shimano extra heavy that I spoon with the other is an extra heavy Loomis that I spoon and throw ALL my spook type lures as I cannot make the bait swim as well because I am a wimp....I mean because that's the way it is..I am?

Kelly Ripa

KETCHUP...damn

kids

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Funny when I hit the carp in the river in laughlin..(sp) just below Lake Mojave the whole freak'n river changed course as those carp got the hell out of dodge...Geeez it was funny. I guess because I am not using the red stuff to deep it hasn't made a difference....What about the red flake in your wo...

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I just did my own research on dropshot at Clear Lake and it was inconclusive. I think I might have been the better angler in the boat ( soph. in High school was the competition ) and I had him using red hooks also. However, on many occasions I have done better than most with my cranks by removing th...

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Kelly Ripa

I just blew my fishing money for awhile and I'm beating on some buddys right now to fish the Nutcase event. I have gotten several offers to split the costs but I want to do it my way I guess. Thank you all for your generous offers and I'll try to get back to you all as soon as possible ...I see ther...

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Best place for dinner in Lakeport is Park Place hands down. Unfortunately for me we left the lake and drove home the day the weather turned nice ( Monday ) of course. If your still up there head down towards Rodmans slough and hang a left at the last house on the point and start fishing your way bac...

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You guys must have been down south. In the Lakeport area we pounded out 60 fish days on dropshot and frogs. It was cold as hell and I only burned 12 gallons of gas in 4 yes 4 days of fishing! My batteries took the brunt on this trip! I caught some really nice fish on a spro frog and the rest were on...

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No ya don't Ray....Hey buddy where is our 21.5 picture...prolly come out while I'm fishing Clear Lake! Good job at the Fed at Pyramid....Two hours and I'm gone fishing

Rip

Kelly Ripa

142 hits and no replies! I don't think there is any interest so I guess I'll have to either pony up the bucks or for go the trip

Kelly Ripa

I just put 13 pound sunline defier on a spinning reel and have not had a bit of problem. I know your not supposed to throw a ripbait this way but I cannot accomplish the wicked rip I like any other way. I spooled my blade rod with the other half of this line and I've not had any line treat me as wel...

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Dual Battery Charger charges only your trolling motor batteries. The engines alternator charges the crank battery everytime you run the big motor just like your car. Yes, the power switch on the console and fish finders and everything else EXCEPT the trolling motor run off of your crank battery. The...

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Okay I THINK two SoCal guys made the Clear Lake Nutcase event at Clear Lake in August of last year. With Gas and whatnot costing more than we can afford should we split it in half and have a SoCal nutcase event based on the same rules etc. down here so we ( Nutcase'z :P ) can have a social event tha...

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True, but since we are assuming name recognition is helping sales I think it would be neglegable. Loomis Bronzeback...I guess I can only catch a smallmouth with it?...Can I get a custom wrap with a F the East on it

...Sounds like you'll sell a bunch of those right off

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I really like the sound of Lefty's idea...Gary Dobyns Western Signature Rods. Would I buy one.....Let's see this is THE rod Gary uses to " insert your technique here " and he's handed us all our heads with it...Yup, I'm in!

Kelly Ripa

peanut butter and jelly....I just couldn't pick up my dropshot

Kelly Ripa

As long as that's all there packing I'm okay with it

Kelly Ripa

Hey Jim, You and I know you can't sight fish in any way, shape, or form at Cachuma right now but the guys are looking for and not finding bed fish along those tullie edges. Here is the trick for finding some of the better fish. Isolated tullies! For an unknown reason the fish are NOT relating to woo...

Kelly Ripa

That was me you were going to P.M. Right?

Kelly Ripa

How is the Horny Toad Bite

..Coming up in a week from SoCal any advice on eliminating some of my tackle or some of the water would help.

Kelly Ripa

Not like some of us

Thanks for the PM's guys.

Kelly Ripa

If I needed to come to this site to get some satisfaction on a broken rod it would be a done deal.....I haven't owned a phenix since 92...the mighty ( and they WERE ) have come down a peg. Customer satisfaction and service is what it was/is all about. As the old sticks go south just replace them ......

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But stay away from Sears! I used to rent my batteries just like everyone else however the last time I brought in my batteries they would not exchange one because when they hooked both batteries up and tested them for 45 minutes while I waited they simply handed me to slips of paper. One said one bat...

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I don't like batteries that are iffy and now I don't even think about them as they just flat out deliver the goods when you want it.

Kelly Ripa

Fishing legend in his own mind Joke Kremer has signed a deal with medical manufacturing conglomerate Johnson & Johnsons Pepto-Bismal's division for an undisclosed amount and time period! Pepto's marketing manager Ivan t. Aclue had this to say about the deal. The company has a new oral/gastro ant...

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I often wonder what a poor ol' tournament directors job is really like? I think if it was presented to me as you have explained then the area would not be off limits. I know Ray was only trying to do the right thing HOWEVER: You don't penalize someone for doing their homework! I cannot see the foul ...

Kelly Ripa

The bonfire that would have come from the removed post would not have served in anyones interest. You done good

Kelly Ripa

May of 97' I had just gotten a new powerhead on my 200 Black Max. I had to put time on the engine and went up to Cachuma to start the process. The lake was positively Blue green with an unusal algae bloom and the wind was howling. I drove around for an hour and had to fish as it was driveing me nuts...

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9 out of 10 it's the transducer. I had the same thing happen...she was fine and then she wasn't. It was actually the power cable in that case which we found out by hooking it up to one at Doug Chessmore's fix-it shop for electronics here in Santa Barbara. ...I no longer have an in line fuse on my el...

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Thanks for all your input Don! I miss you already at Swimbait Nation but your right. Nothing like some hate mail from guys who want us to shut up about stuff. I didn't get The Santa Barbara Bass Clubs Big Mouth award by sitting on my hands. I too have met or coached a few guys from these and other s...

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So Ray when you told the little woman you wanted 69 did she ask: Why you wanted Schezuaun Beef?

...So it's agreed! Bring it to the West

Kelly Ripa

Lets see...I'm going to Clear lake in two weeks....Mission fish 3:16 5 and 6 inch all white and Hitch, M.S. Slammer { last years big fish at Clear Lake at 9 pounds }, Huddleston Hitch [ Brown trout ] ROF 5 and 12, Osprey Hitch and white, Castaic shad, Rago Rat, and Mattlures Bluegill. Don't want to ...

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Did we forget Luke Clauusen. He seems to making the left coast look pretty talented as of late...Arron I will place higher than Dobyns only because he has gone the long road out of California and done so well. Yelas is from California { Cachuma } and Jared Lintner is becoming a force to be reckoned ...

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I thought the tr-20 looked like a better deal

Kelly Ripa

I will get the number of a guy at Clear Lake { last name is Tarply}who knows everything about boat motors and is way cheap. His is a mobile workshop so he works his miracles where you are. Since your located on Earth I can't tell ya whether your in his range or not however he will give you the dope ...

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Cachuma at Night!

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Ouch! Damn! so close...I feel for ya bro! Maybe I'll let you slap me up side the head again at Clear Lake in July just so you'll be back on top of your game again. Sorry it wasn't in the cards but I'm sure it wasn't from lack of effort :mrgreen: That is a hell effort on it's own and is stand up test...

Kelly Ripa

I've only been in seclusion for 3 weeks wow....Looks like Clear Lake might cost me a few pennies....Oh well

Kelly Ripa

I'll fish as a non boater and commit for the series...If not I would think on honor that we could all just go fishing and forgo prefish for the true level field. We all have our safety nets on these waters { folks who give us inside dope on different lakes} and even if an angler was for warned I've ...

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I go to the California Dept of water Resources website and then I found the Cachuma three letter code which is CCH and your in. I can't tell you about water clarity as I'm being held hostage by an aerospace company :twisted: 75 hours a week 21 days in a row with a sunday off and then 3 more weeks un...

Kelly Ripa

I see today on my cachuma website that they have kept the lake rising everday until 3 days ago and now it's just sitting there. I hope the early June gloom goes away

Kelly Ripa

I guess there is room for a few tubes :lol: . I think they are very versatile and if I had the docks of Clear Lake to skip/pitch/flip at all the time they would be more promonent in my bag of tricks :cry: So Mark did you actually admit to using an Ika? I thought you guys were all sworn to secracey a...

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The last weekend of July at Clear Lake at the Konocti Vista....Last year was better than fishing El Salto in Mexico and just as Hot :oops:...Last year we had a 11 year old in 2nd or 3 third. place and he had big fish too! I hope you and your son can make it....With the new cost of gas I'm borderline...

Kelly Ripa

I have to admit that a few years back I narrowly missed getting my butt beat by Ray L. during a Cachuma tournament, Ray let me know that morning he was on a tube bite and the location of those fish. I was surprised and I didn't have a tube in my boat. I still don't. I try to avoid plastics but they ...

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I will do it but it is rare and the circumstances must be extinuating. Last years Nutcase event dropshot figured very heavily and had 3 in the top five competitors dropshoting Clear Lake.The drop shot can be your friend just don't try to get Ray on board and besides what would gator know...Zing! Ray...

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Well I guess I won't be giving you any money in three weeks. I wish you the best and give my best to Sandy McGeoch when ever you see him on the water and try to take it easy on him as he and Jesse James are still learn'n the ropes

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Kelly Ripa

Cool...I wanted to talk swimbait/Clear Lake as I'm up there from May 23 thru the holiday.....Looks like Cachuma was her usual self last weekend...what a cruel mistress she can be and yet my favorite

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I wasn't after Ron C. for results...It was 7 in the morning on Sunday, I was at work the whole weekend and wondered if anyone had heard anything that's all

....I'll check the website thanks sTony

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