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Congratulations

Lake record?
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No few if any sunfish are including bass. I believe Sacramento perch are the only native sunfish family to California. Red Ears are wide spread in California, not a new non native fish.
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Red Ear sunfish ( Shell Crackers) eat all types if mussels including Quagga, Golden and Zebra mussels.
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West coast anglers don’t support B.A.S.S. by coming to the events visiting sponsors or weigh ins.
The 2026 Elites have a lot of MLF anglers now, should help viewers watching the derbies.
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Russo Craw good looking color

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Congratulations Sonoma lake isn’t known for 5+ lb LMB.
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Cooch used a lot of blue/brown color TNT Wadda Jog, basically a flatter Arkie head with fine strand weed guard. Big fan of a few Flashabou strands in jog skirts for UV color reflection.
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Credit my Viper jig for every giant bass I caught during winter/early pre spawn at Castiac and Casitas. Top 5 are 17.4 lbs, 17.4 lbs, 17.6 lbs, 18.6 lbs and 19.3 lbs over a 14 year period 1981 to 1995. Still occasionally big bass but the giants are very rare today.
Hope you catch a new PB

Tom

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Swans are majestic birds you would think the bird people would be making an effort to protect them.
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Good upgrade

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Arkie head design with fiber guard is the traditional jig for brush cover. In 1971 I designed my Viper jig to work in steep rocky sparse cove lakes where I fish. The Viper head doesn’t have a weed guard! What I use is a spring to hold a 1 1/2” split tail finesse worm to protect the hook point attach...

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Don’t know about marks hooking setting technique, mine is a reel set and rod sweep. When I detect a strike I tend to keep my rod tip down feeling the line for any changes in pressure or movements. When I think a bass has my jig my 1st move is reeling the line tight to start the hook point penetratin...

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My question is about today’s BFS casting rods and reels. I used spinning rods and reels with line under lb test because 35 years ago the spool tolerances could pinched line under .009 D. Don Iovino’s “tuned” 2500C with Phenix Doodling rid was the combo I used for decades for light line bait casting....

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Spinning outfits with 6 lb line is what was posted.
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Mark I have changed my finesse tackle to BFS this year using straight 5# Max UG, lot better casting control and enjoying catching average size bass

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As you I am a jig fisherman, Happy Thanksgiving and thank you for sharing.
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The Calico bass would jump into the boat to eat those boiled crawdads. Calico’s love orange peel orange!
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Boiled crawdads.
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Try to be there

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$200 a head without door prizes….or charity donation. Please bring back the Bass AThon!
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I give Don Iovino credit to start using his tuned 2500C reeks, Phenix Doddle rod and 5 lb Maxima UG line with small finesse lures. Don made a good living with his finesse fishing. The finesse casting stayed underground for decades, spinning tackle became main stay for finesse bass fishing. The probl...

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Clear Lake gives the west coast 1 lake to fish. The 1st 3 are full of Cypress trees and alligators something west coast angler know nothing about. The rivers are a toss up both coasts kayakers can fish those.
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That’s a stretch!
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Killer Calico bass color!
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Friend shoved an ice pick down the bass throat and claimed they swam away in good condition.
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Unknowns like Andy Morgan!
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1st & foremost don’t fizz a bass unless you are in a tournament. Simply put a 8 oz torpedo weight tied on another rod, put the weight into the bass mouth past the crunchers and lower the bass back down 30’ and reel up the the weight. Fizzing through the mouth you are not going through the crunch...

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That is you don’t use ridgid super glue use flexible UV Sense glue.
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UV Knot Sense by Loon is flexible and can be smoothed to cover anything sticking out.
With that said 1 knot is 100% stronger than 2!
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What 36V TM are you getting? Some 36V TM will run on 24V setting.
Batteries in series should be the same mfr and age, cranking battery separate from the electronics. With lithium you need a charger for 36V marine battery.
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Your TD should take time to demonstrate the proper method to fizz a bass. The mouth method isn’t a good idea, vital organs in that area. Laying the bass on its side and needling it below the lateral line works, it takes about 30:seconds. The needle hole doesn’t inflate the air bladder, it’s under pr...

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In my youth I loved speed and raced dragsters both A fuel and fuel flat bottoms. My bass boat was fast 80 mph w/ hot rod engine so guilty of speed. Never drive my boat fast the conditions wasn’t good and anyone else on the water. This isn’t the issue during bass tournament on weekends with lots of b...

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Today’s boats all have GPS that records everything and the OB computer records the rpm’s the engine ran, not to:difficult to determine speed during the tournament hours. What will be difficult is setting a speed limit.
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People die every day by distracted drivers that should be paying attention and people rarely get charged. I'm sure he had to be glancing and looking around at that speed but just flat out missed seeing that boat. His problem is that its on video and it just looks horrible. He will be doing time and...

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200mph boats are not rare race boats, they're expensive, but available to anyone. The average Dave Custom Boats (DCB) run 150-175mph with Merc inboards. Do a youtube search. A bass boat running at 70mph is not extreme and in this case 67mph is not considered excessive. Again, boating accidents are ...

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200 mph boats are rare race boats, yes with enough money anyone can buy one….but few have the skills to drive one! bass boat running at 70 mph are WOT at the maximum speed the boat can run. Most cars on the road can go over 100 mph but not safely. If you take your eyes off the water at 70 mph in a b...

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California is very late to requiring boat operators to have proof of boating training with Boater Card. Eastern States have required boater safety training for years and tournaments require the same proof along with insurance etc. I don’t know of public lakes with unlimited speed, we have 35 mph lim...

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We used super tuned Abu 2500C reels with ML rods back in the day with 5 lb Max UG mono.
This was the west coast BFS made famous by Don Iovino.
Today’s BFS reels have free running spools that you can use like a spinning reel, even with Senko’s.
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St. Croix Victory VTS71MF and VTS73XMF both in excellent contition.
$130 each $230 for both Shipped. Local pickup* $100 each or $200 for both.
PM for photos. Rods are excellent condition.
Tom
* Simi valley

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Picking the BFS rod and putting away the spinning finesse rods. Been using spinning for finesse bass fishing since the late 80’s when dart heads w/flutter craft 4 1/2” worms and split shot became popular. Spinning finesse took a long time to spread across the bass world of fishing. Today it’s as pop...

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Nice, add a Screamer from US Bait Co.
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If I were you ask the CDFW.
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Floss is snagging salmon in the mouth, not sure any snag right now is legal in California.
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Original post was titled Teener not Tweener!
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Sent photos; Anytime, Anywhere is the colors I use most and in colder water.
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Mark I sincerely hope you catch a giant bass using my Viper Head jig. If everything works out maybe we could spend some time on the water jig fishing. For the few who may know of the the Viper Head jig I kept it a secret for decades after making it in 1971 because of my personal quest to catch the W...

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It seems like a lifetime ago when I received a email from Andy asking if I knew a good custom worm pourer. I have no idea who referred me to Cooch? being a SoCal jig fisherman my guess it was Robin who made my custom custom Super Pork trailers? whoever it was I referred Andy to Don Iovino and they g...

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My 1st sonar unit was a Lawrence green box Flasher and that opened structure fishing for me in the early 60’s. Had outside offshore fishing all to myself for about a decade. Flashers still exist on sonar units along the 1/4” wide right side as real time data with history scrolling right to left. Thi...

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In SoCal our public lakes are only open for one night fishing during the 5 days around the full moon phase. If you don’t fish the full moon phase you don’t bass fish at night from a boat.
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Understand we are going through a high heat period at home now! We re cruising the Baltic Sea area with temps in the mid 60’s with some thunderstorms and the people are complaining about the dry summer! Everything is wind electric power except our cruise ships that support them. Same in the Scandina...

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