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DanWarme

With a crankbait, line visibility is not the issue - provided you are not using a fluorescent line which can light up like a neon tube. Line DIAMETER is the critical factor with crank baits. The thicker the line, the more drag it creates and the harder it is for the crankbait to dive. So thinner lin...

DanWarme

Pretty much echo's what Doug Hannon said back in the 70's. Big bass get big because they are much more selective.

DanWarme

Glad this one had a happy ending. Far too many do not, which is all the more tragic when the majority are preventable. Supervise kids. Life jackets. Swimming lessons. Safe boat operation.

DanWarme

Just as an observation, Guys like Aaron, Zank, and Dick Trask would outfish most of the tournament field any day / everyday if you gave them nothing but 1940's era black dacron line to fish with.

Skill and talent beat out line size every time. Not to mention bait, color, size.....

DanWarme

Great Stuff Tom! Will add a couple of points. Flourocarbon lines exhibit lower knot strength because they suffer greatly from the friction when tightening your knots. I fished some FC lines from a sponsor when they first started hitting the market and the knot strength was worse than pathetic. Learn...

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Ash I do use braided lines at times, but I've yet to become a convert to them - for a lot of reasons. Among the biggest for me are: Back lashed are a real pain to get out. Or when you bear down trying to pull out a hung up lure and the line buries deep into the spool. Can't tell you the number of bi...

DanWarme

With regards to line size, here's my take on it though there is less science behind my view on this one. It's not about the bass seeing the line, it is all about how the line makes your bait act. Line size can have a huge affect on the presentation which contributes to bass eating your bait. For ins...

DanWarme

A couple of other whoppers I'll throw in.
5. Bass are line shy. You need light line to get bit in clear water.

6. You'll get bit better on green line than clear. Flourecent line and colored lines scare fish big time.

DanWarme

Got out to Castaic for the first time in years thanks to the generous offer of Dave Poolman to allow me to accompany him for a morning last Saturday. Had a great time. Dave was a bit knocked out that I got blade fish that day. I was just glad the cloud cover stuck around so long that allowed me to g...

DanWarme

With regards to bass being affected by barometric pressure on their swim bladder. Ridiculous. Here's why. Water is 784 times more dense than air at sea level. Which means bass are affected far more by a slight change in depth of water and its change in pressure than they would ever be affected by th...

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Bass do not have a "preferred temperature" at all. Being a cold blooded creature, they are the same temp as the water they are in. They may sense they have moved into cooler water, but that temperature difference quickly disappears as their bodies take on the new temperature of the water t...

DanWarme

Anyone looking for a non-boater?
Have years of pro and team tourney experience. My own boat has been in dry dock of quite some time. Need to get back in the game.

DanWarme

Thought I would maybe start a conversation on one of my favorite / hated topics. Whoppers of lies told about bass, and bass fishing or maybe more correctly myths of bass fishing. So many of them around, most being treated as gospel truth, mostly because they keep being repeated when just a little lo...

DanWarme

Not sure what the mystery is. Coca trees are one of the preferred habitats of shrimp. Well known fact!

DanWarme

Anyone looking for a non-boater partner for SoCal tourneys (Castaic, Casitas, Pyramid, Piru, Cachuma) or just to share expenses for a day on the water? Definitely not a rookie. If you fished or followed tournaments in So Cal in the 80's, 90's, 00's... ya, it's me. Still around, I ain't dead yet. lol...

DanWarme

Thanks. I will. Though Bakersfield is outside my area.

DanWarme

Currently without a running boat so I am looking for a boater to fun fish or hit some tournaments on So Cal Lakes. Castaic, Casitas, Pyramid, Piru, Cachuma...
Message me if you are interested.

DanWarme

Looking for a partner to fish some tournaments on Castaic, Casitas, Pyramid... Just want to get back in the game a bit. It's been a long time and my boat is not available so I'm looking to partner up with a boater. Open to fun fishing as well.
Send a message.

DanWarme

I really can't add much to what others have so eloquently said about Don Lee before me. All I can really do is echo the sentiments already stated. Don was at the center of bass fishing and the tournament scene out here in the west, practically from the start. He was a great business man, and yet wou...

DanWarme

dan, if the water is somewhat clear you might try and borrow someones agua view underwater camera ? if it only in 17 feet of water you might be able to spot it and then try and snag the rig ? bummer on the loss... Got one and intend to give it a try. Although water clarity is a lot less than I woul...

DanWarme

Or you could put in a tramampoline

That way you would bounce right back up again! lol

DanWarme

didn't get a waypoint. :-( By the time we stopped F'ing around, and I got untangeled, got the line out of the prop that led to the whole fiasco, got the TM back into the water to move around, and got my head on straight, we were blown way off the spot. The way my rods keep jumping into Piru lately, ...

DanWarme

To any local SO Cal Angler's who Fish Piru. If you happen to snag a 7' Light action Phenix rod with a left hand Curado on it, I would love to get it back! Of course it had to be my all time favorite Cranking set-up. lol Loss is even worse since I am no longer associated with Phenix Rods and do not h...

DanWarme

Keep the faith. I've recovered 3 lost rods over the years. Last one was this past Saturday out of 20' at lake Piru. Lost it the week before and the return trip was the charm. Even got one out of 50' my kids tossed in several years ago. Just mark the spot, work it smart and don't give up!

DanWarme

Great job!

How many more MPH do the flames deliver??? lol

Seriously, that took a lot of work.

Well done!

DanWarme

Nips is right on. Depends on who's perspective you want. Tourney orgs give the boats because they can advertise a $25K grand prize for example, and it may cost them $15K or less to aquire. It is essentially buy it wholesale, give it away at retail. You benefit because bigger prizes attract bigger fi...

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Good job and a smart move to not confront them. At the very least they had a spear gun.... Hopefully the F&G dept can run them down and catch them red handed. Boat w/scuba gear, a spear gun, and fish with holes in their sides is a pretty good case. Least you can take comfort in knowing that a fi...

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For me, carolina fishing is more bubba bait tactics, so I use 20# on the main line and will drop my leader down as appropriate based on hook and bait size, along with water clarity. Leader can be anywhere from 6-15# with 12# being average for me. I also usually use 3/4 to 1oz. sinkers. Baits are gen...

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Hate to be the barer of bad news,

but my partner Roger Biner and I are planning on compeating.

There goes the neighborhood....

DanWarme

Hate to be the barer of bad news,

but my partner Roger Biner and I are planning on compeating.

There goes the neighborhood....

DanWarme

that's cold Cooch.

Funny as Hell!

But cold dude.

DanWarme

There is a similar correlation in rock and roll that seems to fit here.

"The talent of the drummer, is inversely proportional, to the number of drums used."

DanWarme

Dude!

When I said, bring what you want, I have plenty of room...
there is still a maximum load capacity for any boat that you can't exceed.

DanWarme

Congratulations to Stan and Mike!
Way to go guys!

On a different note...
And absolutely no reflection on some great fishermen...

Mid april tourney on Casitas getting won with less than 17# ???
the world sure has changed!

DanWarme

Dude,
That is definitely gonna get soap and lake water into your beer!

Think you may need to re-examine your priorities!

DanWarme

Apart from having one of my favorite C-rig rods break, (snapped in the cork handle) and fall into Piru last Sat, (I go back for another attempt at retreival this Saturday) I can only remember breaking maybe 6 rods over the last 25 years of fishing. And I consider myself to be very hard on tackle. I ...

DanWarme

I must be even older school than Schneider! I still like and use the jig head on an open hook method an awful lot. Have a variety of heads I use including stand-up heads, finesse heads, ball heads, wobble heads, tube heads, weedless heads, spider heads, (combining a spider jig skirt with a tube gets...

DanWarme

With regards to your comment about bass not hitting lures but going after the real thing in a flash. Have had them even more edumacated on the beds. Have had agressive males that would only grab my gitzit BEHIND the hook on the tails. Did it like 8 straight times before if finally got mad enough to ...

DanWarme

Best of luck.

BTW, there is a HUGE tourney scene on TX.
Interest in fishing back east puts CA to shame.
You will find every kind of format you could hope for.

DanWarme

I am no expert per se since I am not in the rod manufacturing business, but I do know a thing or two about them from a user's stand point. The med, fast and extra fast terms actually have more to do with the taper of the rod and its action. A fast action will be far more parabolic than a slow taper....

DanWarme

I stopped using Ebay a couple of years ago for different reasons. Crappy customer support Awful technical support One month I had about 10 sales they failed to notify me via email on. Then refused to believe it was their system that failed to work. Only way I discovered it was when I got a PO'd cust...

DanWarme

With regards to your question about obstructions, yes they are everywhere, depending on the water level. Know of one place where metal handrails stick up on a bridge spanning the flume. Unmarked of course and it will rip your unit in a flash. Lots of standing trees, rocks etc. all unmarked for the m...

DanWarme

You are on the right track and have been given a lot of good info here. What I would add is to understand that you are gonna be drawing for a pro. Everyone hopes to draw a Bobby Barrack but sometimes you end up with Joe Blow from Billings Montana who has never been on the water before. What this mea...

DanWarme

My sense is you are actually asking 2 questions. What makes a good team? And how do you do well in this sport? They are not neccessarily the same thing. A good team needs several factors. Not the least of which is to have similar goals. Some guys are ultra competitive and are not happy unless they w...

DanWarme

Wanted to add one additional item you had asked about, regarding Oxygen below the thermocline. Yes, the area of the lake below the thermocline (it is called the hypolimnion) can be devoid of oxygen by mid to late summer. But not always. The determining factors include how much decaying matter is in ...

DanWarme

Lots of factors can be at work here. You didn't mention the type of big motor you have. I can tell you that Merc Opti-max motors draw current even while off. That is how they keep the computer memory loaded. Every time you get off the water, put your chargers to work recharging all of your batteries...

DanWarme

The previous answers pretty much cover it. Fish don't breathe the "O" in H2O. They breathe the additional disolved "O2" that is present to varying degrees in water.

My only advice I can add is that you not try to argue with an idiot.
They will beat you with experience!

DanWarme

Tournaments with the proper permits from DFG will usually get a variance to allow competitors to keep 5 fish 13" or larger in their livewells on Castaic. Those fish are to be released back into the lake after weigh in, naturally.

DanWarme

Great info guys! Another thing to remember, is that the fish are always telling you something, Even if they aren't "talking" by giving you bites. Can't see anything at all on your graph? No bait? No scratches or arches? Start fishing where the graph can't see. Tight on the bottom. Tight ag...

DanWarme

That makes sense.

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