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Fall 2018 Fall 2018 Hi All, I’ve said it many times; however, it is worth repeating... I cannot believe how fast the seasons fly by and fall and TOC time is once again upon us. I look forward to watching the championships play out and the new victors take their stage. With many of the schedules for the circuits already announced, it is exciting to again think of the events that will take place, especially with the Bassmaster Elite Series returning for a western swing. Will our hometown guys claim the trophies, or will a traveler take them home? I hope all of our readers in the fires areas a safe and speedy recovery back to your homes and business’s its just been a crazy year for these catastrophes and I know we just want to get them behind us! As I close, I want to thank all of the readers that support WesternBass.com Magazine and the WesternBass.com website as well as all the readers that support our sponsors. Without them, none of this would be possible as a free source of bass fishing fun, info and camaraderie for all of us! Wayne
Summer 2018
Summer 2018 Hi All, I would like to start off this issue by thanking all of our readers and our advertisers for making this magazine possible, your support for our site is greatly appreciated! If you haven’t seen the newly remodeled Fisherman’s Warehouse locations, Sacramento and Manteca, you must stop in and take a look. It is a whole new store! Looking at the tournament scene, there are many accomplishments to be congratulated, such as Bub Tosh with back-to-back wins in the last two WWBT Pro/Ams and Wayne Breazeale as his FLW win this past month made his 3rd major Clear Lake win in as many years. We are looking forward to this season’s topwater specialty events for the summer – BBT’s Snag Proof Open and FPT’s Ultimate Frog Challenge. They are always a blast. Thanks again to all of our readers. Good luck out there on the water. Wayne
Spring 2018
Spring 2018 Hi Anglers It’s early spring and one of my favorite times for fishing to see all of the big bass show up. Like many others, I am excited to see if the good rains that we received last year give us some bigger and better fishing to look forward to. With this spring issue of WesternBass.com Magazine, we have Roy Hawk on the cover. This was planned before his debut at the first Bassmaster Elite Series event and was quite fun following along with him as he secured a 2nd place finish while we were working on the cover. I would like to wish him continued success as our newest western pro out on the cross country road. For all of us fishing back home, we have much to look forward to in the upcoming season. It is already starting out well with the great draws of the Wild West Bass Trail (WWBT) at nearly 200 boats for their Shasta Teams tournament and the 100-plus boat draw of the Best Bass Tournaments (BBT) semi pro event at Berryessa. We anticipate some good fish to be caught at this quarter’s specialty events like the WWBT Surprise Ford Team Open on Lake Pleasant on March 10 - 11, the Yamamoto Big Bass Challenge hosted by Angler’s Press on April 14 and 15 – an event which never disappoints, often resulting in a double-digit bass and also the Rat-L-Trap Open hosted by Best Bass Tournaments on April 22. To close, I would like to ask that the WesternBass readers support the companies that make the free magazine and website available to you. Wayne

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Outdoor Retailer Innovation Honor Awarded to Costa Sunglasses
Outdoor Retailer Innovation Honor Awarded to Costa Sunglasses Costa Sunglasses® earned top honors for innovation at last week’s Outdoor Retailer Winter Market trade show in Denver. The new Baffin sunglass frame from The Untangled Collection, released in 2018, was awarded with the show’s inaugural Innovation Award presented by Capitol One Spark Business and A+E Networks® as the show kicked-off on Wednesday, Nov. 7.
GLO-SHOT Jig added to the GLO-SHOT Spoon in Northland's Line
GLO-SHOT Jig added to the GLO-SHOT Spoon in Northland's Line Northland Fishing Tackle builds on last year’s wildly successful introduction of the Glo-Shot® Spoon by expanding its popular Glo-Shot® palette with the Glow-Shot® Jig.
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The first stop on the Frabill Bro Road show is almost here.
The first stop on the Frabill Bro Road show is almost here. The first stop on the Frabill Bro Road show is almost here. The fine folks at Marine General have invited "Bro," one of the ice fishing industries most successful guides, along with the hard water anglers of Duluth, Minn. out Nov.14 for their annual Turkey Fry and Ice Fishing Kickoff. Come on out between 10a.m.- 2p.m. to "Meet the Bro" and talk turkey about Frabill Ice Fishing Products. During the event Marine General will have great specials on Frabill and Plano products.
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Lake Reports

McClure Lake
McClure Lake By Lake McClure Fishing Report 11-9-18 On the water - 6:30 am Off the water- 12:30 pm Water clarity- clear Today I took a couple of clients (Henry and Naz) out on beautiful Lake McClure for a half day trip. We started off on the south end of the lake fishing main lake points and creek channels between 25 and 50 foot of water, drop shotting 4” shad pattern worms. We caught a lot of fish between 12 inches and 2 1/2 pounds, the bite was fast and furious for the first couple of hours! After about 9:30 am we decided to start bouncing main lake points and steep rock bluff style banks throwing some more drop shot baits, tube style baits, and jigs. We caught several more fish, with the biggest still going right around the 2.5 to 3 pound range. We ended the day with well over 75 fish, not bad for a couple who has never been bass fishing a day in their life! The fish seem to be following the shad, so when you find the bait, you find the fish, simple as that.
New Melones Lake
New Melones Lake By The fishing on New Melones and most of the Motherlode lakes has been a little bit tough. But the weather has been absolutely gorgeous. The fish are in transition from summer to fall and the weather has been so nice they are stuck in limbo. This has spread out the baitfish and the bass. We have been successfully catching fish in shallow water and deep water from 5’ to 70’. The most difficult part has been they are there one day and gone the next, leaving us searching and starting with a clean slate each trip. Regardless of the tough bite we are still have a great time on the lake and finding plenty fish on each outing, we are just having to work a little harder to locate them. Using a variety of search baits and finesse presentations has been key. Along with using our fish finders to locate balls of bait. Umbrella rigs, underspins and rip-baits can be fished at various depths and used to cover water. Dropshots, jigs, Ned rigs and shakeyheads work best when slowing down to comb and area. With a little bit of cloud cover and rain we should start to see the epic fall bite we have all been waiting for.

From the Blogs

The Glide Fluke 125 and 178 by Josh Parris
The Glide Fluke 125 and 178 by Josh Parris By The glide bait category is littered with different baits, a bit of a gold rush in the last few years. Although there are a lot of great baits on the market, there a very few that are as versatile as the lMA Glide Fluke. Originally designed by Michael Murphy to imitate Blueback Herring on the […]