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Be aware Casitas has a Quagga mussel inspection and 35 day quarantine period before you can launch your boat.
Kelly, they crazies finally are diverting water from the Ventura river into Casitas...great news,
Merry Christmas all,
Tom

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Iovino makes custom colors, contact Don.
Tom

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It’s all about greed and we live the greediest state in the union and It an’t changing anytime soon!
CARB has this state by the balls.
Tom

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Don’t Pooh-Pooh Electric outboards motors they are right in CARB wheelhouse. 50hp can be doubled easily with electric power and closer to what bass boaters are looking for. The price is always high initially but not crazy considering it’s for a turn key system. GM funding expansion means this isn’t ...

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Everyone in California should applaud this decision. Think of the San Joaquin valley aquifer as a giant underground lake that goes from Bakersfield to Stockton between the High Sierra mountains and coastal mountains over 200 miles long and 50 miles wide. This “lake” has been in drought conditions fo...

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If you like the boat keep it. 2.3L Merc is a excellent engine. Suggest you use a 4 blade Fury 4, 23P prop to achieve a decent up on plane time and top speed around 55 mph. Those who think the 2.3L 150 can’t achieve 200+ HP don’t know this engine. I owned a 175SF Skeeter powered with this bigness tha...

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The 150 hp XR6 Merc is 2.5L / 153 cu in engine. Increasing hp to 200 is easy with bolt on accessories and Merc 200 hp ignition. The fact is 235 hp is possible from this engine. The ‘98 19’ Champoin is a fast hull and in demand today. You may be better off selling and buying what you want with a 150h...

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Please pray for Aaron’s family, the grief is overwhelming for a mother to out live her son and young mother and children to loose their Aaron. Looking back I remember a kid standing on the Castiac boat dock while launched out boats and Dick Trask asking “hey kid you want to take a boat ride”. The re...

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This is circulating again and will try to confirm before posting any more details.
unfortunately it’s true. Aaron passed way today. Please pray for Aaron and his family, the grief is overwhelming.
Tom

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Just confirmed the face book notice was a false rumor..so sorry to add to Aaron’s family grief.
Tom

WRB · Aaron Martens Aaron Martens passed away 4 Nov 2021,

Aaron Martens passed away 4 Nov 2021,

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Bass Cat Pantera Classic 19’6”, is ideal tournament boat and handles lake Mead.
Tom

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Originally the WB had good SoCal participation, then went through the PM me stage followed by tight lips. Today it’s from boredom.
Tom

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Trade offs, 19’ is easier to maneuver using the TM and long enough for good tackle storage, rides good in every in California bass lake. 21’ with a jack plate isn’t easy to maneuver with the TM and alloys dual console with lots of storage. Lake Mead the ‘21 is a good choice. Dual axis trailer in als...

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847- 1100 & 1200-1300 AD pacific coast averaged less then 6” annual rain fall.
Tom

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Thanks for all the recommendations, will pass on a few names that I recognize and trust.
Tom

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The guide isn’t for don’t need one, it’s for a friend from the mid west.
We had a few members who are Clear lake guides, just can’t remember who is still in business there?
Tom

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Any suggestions currently?
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If the jig in question used a common mold it can be duplicated by several custom jig makers.
Custom mold, then it’s more difficult.
Tom
PS, Lot folks lost the lives in Paradise fire, most lost their homes and everything else they had.

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The Right to Try law allows cancer patients to try trail treatments without waiting for approval to get into trails. The clock is running, don’t wait!
Prayers sent.
Tom

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I don’t see the PM?
Torque can be an issue of too much wetted hull. To add prop lift you need negative rake, to add speed you add prop tip cup. Changing pitch is a new prop. A good prop shop can modify your the prop before buying a new one.
Tom

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Have checked the cavitation plate torque tab?
You don’t want to run 6K rpms very long, 5800 is a better target, what engine & hp?
Tom

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Loosing my son to cancer last year makes you appreciate seeing Aaron continuing fight and get back into the sport he loves. Prayers help!
Tom

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What is amazing catching a 7.3 lb Smally using SA701 rod, very skilled angler!
Tom

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I am old enough to remember Pat Brown being Governor. During that time period DFG Officials raised from the ranks and we had some excellent leadership. Fishing license money was used to fishery management. Times changed and DFG management became political appointed and funds went into the General Fu...

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We stopped Nuclear power plants. France and Germany adapted the GE breaded technology and now over 90% nuclear power, plus desalinated supply water as a bye product. Meanwhile we shut down possible fuel pipe lines to buy from Germany and Middle East to ship product over seas via freighters and train...

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Suggest you read the USC paper titles “Mega Droughts” If Google hadn’t taken it down. Years 850 AD to 1100 approx 250 years the total annual rain fall for California averaged less the 6” annual rain fall. This was followed by 1200AD to 1300AD with a second mega drought. Since that time period Califo...

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"very low coefficient of water drag", are you an engineer in So. CA who also loves bass fishing? I'm impressed... Yep, retired after 50 years as a aerospace engineer. Today’s bass anglers are impressed by how a state of the art lure looks to them, hair jigs are simple and ugly but bass ea...

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In SoCal our lakes are mostly sparse cover steep rocky structure, even when near full pool.Now with most lakes drown down the cover is nearly none existent. Deep casting jigs like football heads with standard to medium light hooks without weed guards help hooks sets using smaller diameter .012D or l...

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Bill Murphy in his book In Pursuit Giant Bass has a chapter on color worth reading, based on his expertise catching big bass and his expertise on the color white as a dental technician. Having read dozen of papers on how fish/ bass see colors none including this are controlled conditions, using anim...

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Let me know how the bass brain interprets colors.....answer we don’t have a clue.
Tom

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Not into forum bashing anyone. Call St Croix Corp office number 715/762.3226 in lieu of the 800# for customer service issues.
Tom

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The Ned jig is very similar to the Dart head jig, swim it off the bottom slowly, it’s not the best on the bottom, unless bed fishing imo.
Tom

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Cooch’s Wadda Jigs not selling in the classified shocked me, hard to find jigs for the Delta not selling, what’s going on??
Tom

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If the Stratos was a garaged boat for 12 years with low engine hours it’s a good deal.
Tom

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There was a isolated Sacramento perch population in Little Lake, a private lake north of Mojave, Ownes Valley. Unique lake, spring or aquifer water supply, very deep center volcanic ecosystem.
Doesn’t help you for NoCal.
Tom

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Trust and Verify. Read the long opening 1st sentence, recreational fisherman and hunters are being played to set aside more and more non use for fishing and hunting more use for environmental zealots.
Fund them DFW remove non native fish like the Black Bass species.
Tom

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Big Bear is 7,200’ and your carb engine needed smaller jets and 19P prop to run good up there.
Just get a 21P aluminum prop for vacation use at Tahoe and makes a good emergency prop.
Tahoe is a beautiful clear water lake, enjoy your vacation.
Tom

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You will lose about 20% hp, should be OK getting on a plane. Ideally a 21P 3 blade/20P 4 blade for optimal performance. Your engine is fuel injected and computer should adjust OK, carbs need smaller jets. Similar to Big Bear lake, newer OB’s handle higher altitude lot better then the older carb engi...

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The water you see from the Sacramento River Valley, Eastside rivers/streams, Delta, San Joaquin Basin and Tulare Basin is surface water. The water you don’t see is the San Joaquin aquifer a massive underground lake. Surface water fills underground water until the supply line overwhelms replenishment...

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My post was in response to the silence from angles known for decades when asking simple questions. I sold my boat all my tackle and only occasionally back seater, not tournament fishing. Coming off the water and asking a simple question “how did you do” without any response is what’s going today at ...

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PM sent
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The WB site has always been a PM sent in response to direct inquires, so many secrets, little sharing. Now the quagga mussel lock downs have taken secrecy to new level, no one talks period for fear someone may catch their bass.
No chatting at the ramp, very little eye contact all lips are zipped!
Tom

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Rich Tuaber, a local bass pro who won US Open years ago coined the term “reaction bait”.
Tom

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Factor in your current cost of living then multiple by 30% to live a California. Everything that can be taxed higher is and added “fees” for use etc. Fishing license is close to $60,annually, launching fee’s at all lakes, gasoline is currently $4.5 going up weekly. Native Californian and love our cl...

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Loomis PR845C popping rod originally designed for bone fishing casting floats with/live bait works perfectly for small cranks and is an ideal structure spoon rod. Very flexible tip to smoothly launch light weight crankbaits with 5 power lower half to control big bass. I used Sunline Armillo 11 lb Ny...

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1st you need to understand how a spinning reel functions. The spinning reel spool is fixed and doesn’t rotate. The line is wrapped around the fixed spool via a bail rotor creating one twist in the line with every rotation unless the line can untwist. Your crank bait prevents the line from untwisting...

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If you like a challenge fish the US Open at lake Mead!
Adapt or Die is what B.A.S.S. needs to do and recognize there is bass fishing west of the Rocky Mountains.
Tom
B.A.S.S. life member since 1968

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The Oldtimers generation of bass anglers borne during WW2 are getting fewer every week. I like to think our generation developed modern bass fishing. The Silver Eagle club members are fast disappearing, they are my generation, my friends and fishing partners. RIP is becoming to common. Talk to the l...

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Good choice, 8’ XH IROD was my favorite 8” Hudd rod at any price.
Tom
PS, nice bass

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