BAY TACKLE JOINS WESTERNBASS.COM SPONSOR GROUP

El Cerrito Location Serves Wide Variety of Angling Needs

OAKLEY, CA (October 4, 2005) — WesternBass.Com announced today the signing of Bay Tackle as the newest addition to its sponsor group.

Located in El Cerrito at 5815 Cutting Blvd., Bay Tackle is a full service tackle store specializing in Fresh and Salt Water applications. Whatever your angling needs may be, Bay Tackle can fulfill them.

George Lu took over Bay Tackle and wanted to make it the best possible store serving as many angler needs as he possibly could. George and his excellent staff will assist you in whatever you could possibly need to catch any species of fish, be it in the Delta, Bay or ocean and whether you fish from shore, pier shoreline, bass boat or party boat.

Product manufacturers are well represented at Bay Tackle with great product at excellent and competitive pricing from Diawa, Shimano, G.Loomis, St. Croix, AVET, P-Line, Penn, Quantum, Okuma, Shakespeare, Pfleuger, Calstar, Seeker, LuckyCraft, Yamamoto, Roboworm, Zoom, Berkeley Maxima, Izor, McCoy, Bagley and that is literally the tip of the iceberg. This store is loaded from floorboard to rafter with tons of fish catching goodies.

Bay Tackle’s staff is intimately aware of what’s catching fish and offer assistance to a wide variety of anglers. Ask them what you need and they’ll take you the rest of the way.

For more information on Bay Tackle in El Cerrito check out their website at http://www.westernbass.com/shared/sponsors/pages/baytackle/bay_tackle.shtml or call (510)235-2032 or send an email to baytackle@sbcglobal.net.

WesternBass.Com is a suite of web sites for bass fishing enthusiasts of all types; shore anglers, tubers, competitive tournament anglers, club anglers and non-tournament anglers all use and share the sites along with industry professionals, manufacturers and Pro Anglers. The site was originally created in 1996.

WesternBass.Com features reports, forums, classifieds, chat rooms, lake specific information, an ever expanding library, BASS WEST USA archives, partner pairings, video and book rentals and special ‘Nutcase’ events. Also featured is video programming on WesternBass.TV and audio on radio.westernbass.com. Striped Bass are a highlight on stripers.westernbass.com.

Sponsors of WesternBass.Com include Skeeter Boats, Yamaha Outboards, G3 Boats, Northlake Ford, Bass West / AC Pro Shop, Yamamoto Bait Co., Walton's Pond, The Hook, Line & Sinker, Phil's Props, Jay Liu's Service, Persuader Bass Baits, Glory Hole Sports, Galaxie Marine / BassCat – Triton, Tracy Oasis Marina-Resort, Reaction Innovations, Bass Weekly Radio, C&C Marine, National Bass West Inc., Sawyer Cook & Co. Bass Boat Insurance, Dave's Bass Shack, Tackle Warehouse, 1-800-BASS BOAT, International Sportsman's Expositions, Fred Hall and Associates, Extreme Angler, American Bass, Suction Coolie Cup, Pro’s Soft Bait Glue, Beauty and the Bass Calendar, Nor-Cal Fishing, AIM Marine, Anglers Marine, Save Phace, Gone Fishin’ Marine, Sacramento Pro Tackle, Snag Proof Mfg Inc., WON BASS, Maritech Industries, No Sweat Mist, Mark Lassagne/Farmers Insurance and Bay Tackle.

Affiliated guides include Cooch's Fishing, Rich Thiel's Guide Service, Larry Hemphill - Instruction/Guide Service, Bass Fishin' with Richard Pounds, Randy Pringle: The Fishing Instructor, Don Levett Guide Service, The "Maine" Guide, Johnny Mac's Shasta Lake Guide Service, Golden State Guide Service & Instruction, Johnny C's Bassin1A Guide Service, Bob Myskey Guide Service, Dave Gliebe Guide Service, Bob Thein Guide Service, Dave Mckenzie’s Bay Area Backwaters Guide Service, Donnie Vachon Gudie Service, Paganelli’s Bass Fishing Experience, Dean Sault Guide Service, A day on the Water Bassin’ with Jerry Fournier Bobby Barrack Back To Class Guide Service.

For more information, contact WesternBass.Com at (925) 679-9575 or visit http://www.westernbass.com/.