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California's extreme drought conditions causes a 5-mph speed limit for boaters A majority of the lake’s boat ramps are unusable because they are completely dry.

Wild West Bass Trail Pro Cup Series at Camanche A select group of the best angler’s head to a new lake; Lake Camanche and with a unique set of rules.

Central Valley anglers...Don Pedro is this Saturday! Late signups will be taken on Saturday morning beginning at 4am, at Fleming Meadows

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Fall 2020 Hi Anglers Welcome to the pages of WesternBass.com Magazine Fall 2020. As a special insert this issue, we’ve provided a look at some of the new products that site sponsors have worked hard on for release at this year’s ICAST. Feel free to continue your virtual view of ICAST 2020 and make your angler’s wish list. You never know what will be the “next best thing”! Speaking of new product, we are excited to help preview the newest collab from the Frog Master – Bobby Barrack and Tackle Technology with his two new signature series designs. They are available at Fisherman’s Warehouse and affiliate stores. As we head into TOC time, I have to say 2020 has been a year like no other. At WesternBass, we are fortunate to be a place that provides relief from some of that craziness – a place to talk fishing and share our fishing adventures. The support of our sponsors and our readers is what allows us to do so and we are thankful for both. Because of that, we want to take a moment to remind everyone that WesternBass, including the free Classifieds and WesternBass.com magazine is all paid for by the sponsors of the site and provided at no charge to the readers and users. Please remember those companies and support those who support you. Good luck on the water! Wayne

Summer 2020 Hi Anglers I hope you and your family are doing fine and hopefully back to fishing the lakes you enjoy. The summer fishing season is finally here – something many of us have been excitedly waiting for during the forced hiatus. It is very nice to see some normalcy returning to our fishing industry. Thanks to all of our readers for sharing their fishing adventures in the forums. To kick off the season, our summer issue features one of the many anglers that contributes to essential workers in these challenging times. WesternBass wants to thank Clara as well as the many, many others. Please keep your local mom and pop businesses and the people and places that support them, in mind for your needs. We are all on the road to recovery together! Good luck on the water! Wayne

Spring 2020 Hi Anglers Once again, I am putting the finishing touches on the WesternBass.com Magazine wondering where the time has gone. The new season has kicked off for many of our tournament circuits and big bass are already starting to show up. As we’ve seen in the WesternBass. com forums there are already double-digits and even teeners starting to bite. It is always an exciting time of year and we are looking forward to what 2020 will bring. I hope all of you are enjoying our quarterly magazine. We have continued to bring the latest in technology along with great articles and video content for your enjoyment. I want to also thank all our site viewers and mag readers for their support and invite you all to support our site advertisers. They are the reason we can bring you the content that we do. Also, I want to wish everyone good luck in their fishing goals this year, whether it is in tournament competition or fun fishing weekend warriors. Good Fishing Wayne

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Over 45,000 Derelict Crab Traps Removed Over 45,000 Derelict Crab Traps Removed Since 2004, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF), together with individual volunteers and organizations, has successfully removed and disposed of over 45,000 abandoned and derelict crab traps. The removal of these crab traps is especially important to boating safety and crab harvesting efforts.

Why are so few chinook reaching the upper river? Adult chinook returns to the river since dam removal are the highest since the late 1980s, with more than 7,600 estimated in the 2019 count.

Science is a part of everything we do at Trout Unlimited Science helps us make the best-informed decisions possible not only for our organization, but for all of our conservation partners as well as federal and state agencies

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Recycle Fishing Line by WB Staff Thu Oct 22, 2020 7:37 pm

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Navionics depth ranges by Fly'in V Thu Oct 22, 2020 5:28 pm

WTB: Shimano Citica 200E by northriver20 Thu Oct 22, 2020 4:54 pm

Industry Press Releases

2021 BFL Schedule MLF Announces 2021 Phoenix Bass Fishing League presented by T-H Marine Schedule, Entry Dates and Advancement Opportunities

Triple T Championship Texas Team Trail Hosting Championship Event on Choke Canyon Reservoir Angler of the year title up for grabs

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Knot Tying Video Guide from Sunline Video Knot Guides from Sunline Here are a series of videos from Sunline that provide some of the best visual instruction in knot-tying we've seen anywhere.

Recent Lake Reports

Oroville Lake By WB Staff by Joe daddy » Thu Oct 22, 2020 3:55 am Went out yesterday with Cotton and Big John. They crushed it. Catching fish all around me. The drop shot rig definitely produced more bites for Cotton. A number of fish on the reel in on that rig also. We did dabble into the cranking some, heard it’s been hot. Not much luck with that but we are no crankster gangsters by any means. Gave it up pretty quick. I finally managed to find a nice one around 3:00. Missed what felt like a large mouth bite around 10:30 on best point we came across...good day of fishing, happy to get back on the water.

Bullards Bar Lake By WB Staff by Larry Hemphill » Wed Oct 21, 2020 11:32 pm The fall will be a good time for you to check out the structure all over the lake. You might take some photos because a lot of the lake looks the same - very FISHY!! Keep your eye on your meter because there are lots of shallow flats in places you might not expect them. Most of the quality spotted bass suspend in the fall and are vey hard to catch. I would look for points that are long and move slowly out to deep water. If they have a ledge or dropoff at the end or side of them - Bingo!!! You usually can only find the trophy spots in shallow water during the spring spawn. There should be a lot of shadows with the sun dropping lower each day. I would key on those areas. if you are there on the right day, topwater can be fun in October!!!

From the Blogs

CA Delta Fishing Report by Christian Ostrander By Randy Walker

The delta is fishing well for numbers and quality fish right now and catching them on basically anything you want to throw. Topwater like Rico poppers and river2sea rovers in Shad patterns have been working all day long with some crazy explosions and landing some fish up to 6 pounds. The punch bite still has […]

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