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Rare monster green sturgeon at Suisun Bay VIDEO It was an incredible moment to witness these dinosaur species to still roam around in the California Delta.

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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

Features

Klamath River Watershed Once underway, the anticipated removal of four dams along the Klamath River would result in the largest such dam removal effort ever undertaken.

Robotic Fish to Study Swimming Behavior in Schools Have you ever wondered why fish swim in schools, following each other?

Historic Impact on Fishing Industry 3 million more fishing license purchases year-over-year according to RBFF

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Recent Forum Posts

Delta Tunnel Blank Check Lawsuit by WB Staff Fri Oct 30, 2020 1:54 am

Rare monster green sturgeon at Suisun Bay VIDEO by WB Staff Fri Oct 30, 2020 1:42 am

Ranger Trail 14" Tires and Rims (2) for sale by 916runner Thu Oct 29, 2020 9:54 pm

Bass Mafia Tackle - Terminal Tackle Coffin Box - Double Barrel Jerkbait Coffin Box - Bait Coffin 3700 Box - $80 by LookoutRanch Thu Oct 29, 2020 9:07 pm

Lss-2 bracket brand new $50 by 916runner Thu Oct 29, 2020 9:00 pm

HDS 8 For Sale by 916runner Thu Oct 29, 2020 8:52 pm

Industry Press Releases

Late Autumn Crankin' Crankin’ Your Way to Late Autumn and Winter Bass Bagley’s Pro Sunny B provides the perfect squarebill crankbait option

New Glo-Shot Fire-Belly Spoon That crazy catalyzing action in an earthly critter that produces its own light source.

New Kovert Tungsten Weights The Kovert Tungsten weights are 97% pure tungsten, which offers anglers higher sensitivity to transmit the lightest bites.

Obskura Patterns Added to Fleece Hoodies Just in time for cold weather, two brand new Kryptek Obskura patterns are now available in HUK’s Fin Hoodie.

SPRO Releases New Hats Fashion meets function with SPRO's new line of hats for anglers.

Recent Lake Reports

Pardee Lake By WB Staff by StabL » Wed Oct 28, 2020 4:00 am Today my friend Jon and I decided to visit Lake Pardee before it closes on November 1. We got on the water a little bit late, about 9:00am. We talked to the boat inspection gal and she told us the bite had been pretty good until this week. Turns out that East Bay Mud had dropped the lake about 4ft... that’s never good for fishing in October! Ya know, we should have been here last week lol! When we put the boat in the water we noticed the surface temperature was 69 degrees. We decided to start fishing some Island tops in 15-25 ‘ on the main lake. After we hit a few of them with no luck, we made our way to the river. The water was super clear there so I downsized to 6# Gamma fluoro with a Ned rig and finally got a bite on a point. Jon put on a Frenzy nail with his "Secret Worm"... a watermelon purple flake finesse worm. He caught the next 5 fish all on points. We got 6 fish all together. It was a mixed bag of smallmouth and largemouth, nothing big but still better than doing yard work. Hope this helps. Stan L

Clear Lake By clum553946 Went out Fri night & the pattern was pretty much the same as my last report except the size of the fish was much better. I actually got into a little bit of a crankbait bite, one being a 4 lb 9 oz’er that was full of juice! It’s still primarily a jig bite for me & like before, red flake is your friend! They were a little deeper in the 12-15 ft range & were scattered. I actually caught fish in places I usually don’t have any luck at, so throw to unlikely spots, you don’t have anything to lose! My biggest was 6 lb 15 oz & my best 5 went 28lbs 4 oz. I caught a lot of 4+ lber’s & boated 24. They’re really strong right now & catching them is a ton of fun!

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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