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Kelly Ripa

I killed one of my Tatula reels the other day. It friggin seized mid-cast and wasted my 40 pound braid at least my bait was still floating around while I cut all of the braid down to the knot off it.. I have never felt such a mess in my life. I don't know how long I've had it but it no longer has a ...

Kelly Ripa

I took 6 and 4 year old brothers along with their Grandpa( my age :wink: ) to a spot I know at Casitas and turned them lose with dropshots on snoopy poles.Using only plastics they had Two big redear and maybe 50 -60 5-6" bass in 3 hours. They had fun and will probably never forget the boat ride...

Kelly Ripa

Him and Arron Martens

Kelly Ripa

90 hours x 9 trips no legal fish. Go scratch your itch and let us know how it works out.Just last year I had you on a flipping bite. Let us know how it works out.

Kelly Ripa

Lake level will go up 1 1/2 inches is my prediction

Kelly Ripa

When this happened at Cachuma their weren't dead fish all over. They just flat disappeared for 10 years. The panfish had a heyday without the predators for years as they were(seemingly) not affected.Here I have seen up to 3 pound trout dead on the bank and on the surface lately. Did a ten try to eat...

Kelly Ripa

What is truly needed is to have DFG electro shock the old girl to see just wtf happened here. I suppose it's possible that everyone fishing here is barking up the wrong tree but in the back of my mind I keep hearing the old " Even a blind squirrel finds a nut once in a while. adage But in reali...

Kelly Ripa

After today I have 80 hours in for zero fish.....I swear I'm this close to figuring out something though.

Kelly Ripa

Being of Italian and Irish decent I have learned from the voices in my head that tell me anything is a good idea as the other half always validates the idea as being sound.In the real world I now know if the thought occurs in my head and it's a fifty fifty proposition there is a 100% chance that I a...

Kelly Ripa

Well after fishing Casitas yesterday I can make this one observation. The panfish have exploded. In my quest for just one legal bass I had 5 bluegills over a pound and 4 redear the size of my boats steering wheel. One even took some drag on the hookset.. :shock: . The guess is we are going down the ...

Kelly Ripa

Does anyone use Ph to make decisions on the water? Back in the 80's there used to be a device called the Color Selector. I think *Spike it* owns this product now. I remember Don Iovino gave a talk at my club those many years ago and his remark was that it was junk as the PH probe was not sensitive e...

Kelly Ripa

There are evolution's in fishing or at least there were for me. I wanted to catch a fish. Then I wanted to catch five. Then I wanted to catch big fish. Then as a Guide I wanted to put unskilled fishermen on fish and the skilled on my best. Now at 66 I just bang around junk fishing doing what I want ...

Kelly Ripa

Year round for me... but the windows are smaller in the colder months. I used to slay big fish at Cachuma when the wind blew in the afternoons right now in the dead of summer. I could be found fishing the windiest stretches of shear bluff walls with a 9 inch M.S. Slammer dark rainbow. You fished the...

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Not really news

Kelly Ripa

I'm glad those numbers exist in the state as a whole but So. Cal. is a different matter. Being locked up has killed the numbers along with the rings of fire retardant and mismanaged lakes. I miss being able to travel free with my boat because of the repercussions of the locked tagged water agencies ...

Kelly Ripa

I wonder how those numbers are on Clear Lake where no one would eat a bass on a bet....DDT and Mercury locked into that ecosystem for the next 100,000 years. Remember when the fish in the Hawg Troughs in SoCal Had Casitas fish in them?

Kelly Ripa

Just before I retired I laid in supplies of line, hooks,skirts...Basics. I have hard baits and soft bait tackle to last me. Thankfully the fish are helping conserve my money by not biting.

Kelly Ripa

I don't think not eating fish had anything to do with our problems personally. They broke the ecosystem with the quagga mussel deal. No more plants of anything. Before they put in trout,bass,bluegill and crayfish on a regular basis..I have no way to post a picture of the paper thin 14-15 pound fish ...

Kelly Ripa

That little keitech at 2.8 is as small as I'm going. I don't know about the shad bite that's never been my thing even when I was a guide. That is Marc Matrani's deal( ojai angler) but I have not heard of any bite according to the boys at the gate...and they fish. I always catch fish in the summer he...

Kelly Ripa

It will be a replay of Cachuma IMHO. In 7-10 years it'll be okay but not great because there won't be trout plants.Next year we go to full pool also.There were 8 boats in the tournament Tom. What anglers can do is very limited here and you see the results They wouldn't listen if we set our selves on...

Kelly Ripa

I want to thank him for the tips,help,baits,thoughts and experience you passed on to me and all the nutcase's over these many years. You have been on this site and NCBF since their inception and always for the better.

RIP

Kelly Ripa

Happy Birthday WRB Glad your on the mend as everything now takes longer yet now goes by in a blurr. I can remember a night WON tournament maybe 12 years ago...maybe 60 boats or so...I put up a ten pound+ fish for my big fish before our 5 combined got weighed and Ron Cervenka looked at me and said......

Kelly Ripa

I hear it's bad up and down the state and then I Saw The Casitas results and they are consistent with what I am now experiencing. I fished all day two days prior from 5:30 launch time until I gladly pulled off at 4;00. The main obstacle as I see it is the fact from 42 feet deep to the bank has subme...

Kelly Ripa

I'm with PD +1

Kelly Ripa

Time of year would vary my choice.

Kelly Ripa

I finally retired so now all I do is fish and occasional Honey do's ....I should have done it a long time ago

Kelly Ripa

Your right . This post is about to get buried.

Kelly Ripa

I remember fishing Naci in the 80's in a club. I was weigh master and I remember several 13"... 5 fish limits under 5 pounds. With only 3 fish caught total Castaic is fishing like Casitas right now... BAD ....Casitas if you are in 30 feet of water the flooded brush is within 8- 10 feet of the s...

Kelly Ripa

I bought and returned recently a Tatula100. It was so small you had no line on it and you could darn near cast all the line off of it. With the new gears you probably can cast all the line off of it now and it will likely cost more...If only it was a 150 ...

Kelly Ripa

I could go on for three hours about how bad edge customer service is . I Paid and Waited 4 months for a rod and never got it. They cancelled the order...No argument. I made the mistake of asking where the rod was...My mistake....Never Again....Luckily I'm so old I'll never need another....Great rod....

Kelly Ripa

I don't know it sounds like an alternator to me. I had some of those same problems in a tournament and just bought a new battery and threw it in the boat and it didn't make it through the next day...It was my Alternator. Do you have Pergo switches that disconnect from the battery all that is going t...

Kelly Ripa

I have an I-rod "magic stick" It is an incredible value. One of my favorite Non -Loomis rods.Very reasonable price but that rod is to long for your yak.

Rip

Kelly Ripa

The edge rods are very nice but after all that I personally hyped them on this site. But after purchasing 3 rods a few years back ( 2 Black widows and a silver widow)... I will never do business with them again. Gary Loomis makes great rods but after that part you'll find yourself alone. The worst C...

Kelly Ripa

after 66 years I evolved...sue me :lol: ....sitting in a boat trolling is possibly one of the best ways to catch a fish...But it doesn't flip my flapjack.I suppose one day it might be my only avenue :shock: ....I am at home both salt/fresh after a lifetime of fishing. It's his tackle and I am going ...

Kelly Ripa

I can officially shut down this post as I was able to talk to the other fisherman last night. I'm not taking any tackle or rods...If anybody sees two guys in a 12 aluminum boat trolling for trout Kindly shoot me . I'll be in the front portion of the boat wondering what I did to my wife to deserve th...

Kelly Ripa

I'm from Socal and I fish my wife will tell you. :oops: I have some pretty nice stuff lined up to go in a 10 x 12 plano.That's all I'm taking except 6 bags of plastics..... Nothing is cheap when you are the guest :lol: I saw Ryan's latest. So I'm prepared for the drill. I did win AOY from the backse...

Kelly Ripa

I still have the "Kine stuff" from back in 88...

Kelly Ripa

Thanks for the information guys!!! From what I gather it is pre/spawn/post right now....What could happen I'm just the chauffeur on this deal with maybe a side benefit...

Kelly Ripa

I had wondered about that aspect that's why the 2.8 swimbaits.

Kelly Ripa

I'm going to be on Don Pedro in two weeks....I'm thinking my senko,small swimbaits,dropshot,topwater....It's only been like 20 years since I crossed paths with the Don. I assume everything is a month off at this lake as it has been in SoCal. Water temps? If it's something you don't want out use a p....

Kelly Ripa

Given the threads lately this won't last long...Mods need to put this in political section.

Kelly Ripa

Sammy is one of my favorites. I had three topwater fish at Casitas yesterday in the first hour. I had zero fish after that for the day....Post spawn.

Kelly Ripa

Did you even try topwater? I know they are done here at Casitas. It doesn't matter what the water temps are or what they do to the water. The fish didn't read the book. SoCal Reservoir fish are different from the northern part of the state cousins. I got plastered on topwater by the 3 pound fish how...

Kelly Ripa

I have a dual pro you can have. I cut it out of my 96 191 champion where it was working fine and put in a new NoCo. It's a three bank system. You pay for shipping and you can have it as it's just sitting in a box waiting for me to toss the next time I am at an electronics recycle site. If your inter...

Kelly Ripa

I like to use my I-Rod Magic stick for everything you mentioned.

Kelly Ripa

It's always nice to meet a new friend on the water...especially when in need.

Kelly Ripa

Do you know how many disposable diapers they pulled out of the fore bay? Seriously I always wondered how any fish can live in that lake when half of L.A. soaks there body in suntan oil and leaps in the lake to cool off. The joint must surely have a ring around it by July....I would imagine you have ...

Kelly Ripa

Thanks for the quick info. 4/8

Kelly Ripa

Sent you a P.M. today 4/7.

Kelly Ripa

Where and when? I can't find any info. about that. Both Cachuma and Casitas have those problems Tom. I asked where it was done because I think what you are describing I saw during the process used in S.B. Harbor . DFG sez no deal on my before mentioned process anywhere in the state. That was the law...

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