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Marabou isn’t hair it’s feathers!
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Bass fisherman look at everything through our view point. Midwest fisherman are primarily catching Walleye and Crappie with smaller groups targeting Musky and Bass. Walleye and Crappie are food fish, not catch and release. Wisconsin does manage the fisheries a lot better then our DFW! Passion wins o...

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June Bug worms ( dark purple w/green flake ) is good in low light dawn and dusk and night in clear water all day in off color water with aquatic vegetation.
Dark green w/ dark purple jig skirt and June Bug soft plastic trailer sane situation as worms.
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Fishing with artificial lures strike detection is extremely important when using lures you can’t see. For me it took years to develop the skills needed to determine when a bass engulfed my my jig or bottom contact soft plastics. It’s the one skill that separates a good bass angler from others. We se...

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The crawdad wave...thanks Cooch!

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Where was this tournament held?
3 Canadians in the top 10!
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All the Florida strain LMB in California were not initially stocked by the DFG/DFW, they were transplanted from Florida by Orville Ball City manager of San Diego back in 1959. FLMB from San Diego city and county lakes were then transplanted by DFG from electro shocking the originals strain. DFG is t...

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thank you for sharing Cooch’s early TM experience and his Jig article.
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Disclaimer I am not a podcast listener and this was difficult to sit through. The topic was a interest to me because my belief is catch & release has become a cult like following. Let me turn the clock back before FLMB we’re introduced into San Diego city lakes. I have been a trophy bass angler ...

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Bass fishing the last decade has lost young anglers to indoor technology, the sport was dying without the younger generation. FFS- Live Scope has drawn into our sport the generation we have been trying to incorage. Catching bass has always been about location and finding that location has taken year...

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This technology is still developing and as the price becomes more competitive the weekend “pro” bass anglers will buy it making this debate a mute point imo. During spawn cycle this particular tournament is being contested FFS/Live Scope or “scope” has less advantage in visual depths the bass are on...

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Should have been 1 April post

I can we guides lining up to get 30’ bass boats.
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An easy way to compare the stretch factor of different lines is to hang a weight from two identicle lengths of mono and FC. When you do this, it is clear that mono has more stretch. That's not to say though that the extra drag from mono isn't also affecting hookset and sensitivity. When FC first ca...

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All single filament (monofilament) polymer line will stretch time under pressure, it’s called cold flow. To test Nylon mono vs Fluorocarbon line the force applied should be applied in seconds not minutes or hours. Cold flow occurs when tying knots that flatten the line from to high forces and weaken...

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Maxima Ultra Green 5 lb Copolymer line is .008 D and stronger then most 8lb .010D mono, it’s my finesse spinning line for bass fishing for decades.
Trilene XL is smaller diameter per lb test then XT otherwise nearly if not the same line.
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I now fish the Delta, so the water is almost never gin clear, and the fish aren't line shy. When I fished lakes in SoCal, I used to fish straight 12lb fluoro, because I could still feel a tick on slack line with the line over my non-handle index finger. I thought fish could see braid. I'd feel a fi...

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The easy method to understand line drag bow force is cut off the lure so nothing is attached to the end of the line and drag at walking speed about 150-200 feet of line behind your boat. This is a common practice to remove line twist. Make a slow wide turn while you reel the line back onto the reel ...

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It’s a myth that mono line stretch's under a hook set. Say what! Mono line begins to stretch at 1/3rd the line strength same as FC line. What anglers “feel” as stretch is line bow because mono line has higher coefficient of drag going through water creating a convex bow in the line that needs to be ...

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Don’t use soap use over the counter 3% Hydrogen Peroxide and rinse with clean fresh water, no harmful residuals.
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The big swimbait expert still catching DD size bass is Butch Brown!
We simply don’t have the populations of DD bass in SoCal anymore!
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San Joaquin Delta. hwy 12 Rio Vista bridge south 20 miles is approximate center zone, Hwy 12 north 20 miles approx northern zone, another 20 miles South of the center zone approximate southern zone. about 60 miles north to south and 40 miles wide only takes a lifetime to learn this tidal delta. The ...

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Anglers Marine in Anaheim

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I fished both Hensley and Eastman in the same day several years ago. I believe Eastman had standing timber and that is where we caught most of the bass. Millerton was over run with small spots asI recall, but Pine Flat was good for LMB and Spots. Only fished the Valley lakes a few time usually trave...

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Isn’t Hensley near Eastman?
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San Joaquin River drainage is south I believe you are asking what is east? The San Joaquin sloughs are you best bet for LMB, Stripers can be are everywhere close too the Sacramento River drainage areas.
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The Signal Crayfish has been in the Delta for over a 100 years now, little late to panic.
Consider 99% of the crawdads used for bait in California are imported from Louisiana, the Red Swamp Crayfish.
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Watching pro anglers bass fishing during a tournament is like watching grass grow, it’s always been boring. Watching the MLF formate was more interesting buy it wasn’t always live. Viewers bitched MLF was a dink feast so they added Heavy Hitter format and still had complaints. The lasted culprit dam...

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Lowrance Fish Lo K Tor in 1960’s was $60 about $750 today’s $.
You got to wonder how the drivers see over those screens?
Your a tournament angler FFS-Live Scope is a needed tool to be competitive.
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The McClough outboard engine test site is over 75 years old, I remember when it was still operating!
Using Cats to push a new ramp into the+water, cool stuff.
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Like several members my Cabalas Guide wear rain suit is well over 30 years old and kept my dry in heavy down pours and still going strong. Just put the wet jacket and pants on a hanger separately and let dry.
I haven’t ever washed my rain suit!
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You might need to PM Mark for his trailer use.
I use custom pork trailers that float.
Yamamoto 4” double tails.
Berkley 4” Chigger Craws.
Fish Lab 3 1/2”Nymph and split the tail.
Iovino 2 1/2” craw (no longer in production).
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Lookin good

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Don’t know anyone anymore in Ventura county. You might check with Anglers Marine in Anaheim.
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The Viper jig is a custom I made in 1971 and caught all my giant bass using it. No longer have the mold you will need to contact jiggin4bass.
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Sounds good Mark.
This thread is only one with more then 3 replies.
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jiggin4bass wrote: ↑Tue Jan 30, 2024 1:45 pm WRB
Tom thank you again you just made my
structure fishing 100x better and at my finger tips now when I want to pour up and tie some Viper Head Jigs

Enjoy

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My 1st jig was a Doll Fly back in ‘55 that I caught my 1st jig bass on. Doll Fly was a ball head jig tied with bucktail in a wide variety of sizes and colors, mine was black with red thread and tail. Trailers were unknown to me until the mid 60’s reading about the “pig ‘n jig, a hair jig with Pedigo...

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Fred Arbogast used wide flat rubber skirts on his lures before Vinyl.
The tuernacula jig was popular for awhile for vertical presentation in standing timber at San Antonio, looks good Mark

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The thin or fine living rubber was frog hair as I recall.
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The past 10 Governors 3 were Republican and 7 were Democrats, none of the Republicans had an impact on water projects, they were all Democrats and Newson is carrying the tradition forward. Water is gold in the golden state, without it the economy collapses. Anyone who thinks bass anglers have a seat...

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The $$$,$$$,$$$,$$$ dollars should be going into building desalination plants along outer 900 mile coast. How do you think Saudi Arabia and other countries without fresh water supply exist?
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If you can’t tie a knot under Fishing conditions the knot is worthless. Fishing conditions include wind, cold, rain, poor light, boat motion etc. FC is a good knot but everyone suggesting to burn the tag ends has never tried that under Fishing conditions were burning the main line or leader is catas...

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Do yourself a favor and get a Daiiaci FG knot tool.
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There is a very good article by Terry Battisti “Sticks of the past”- Dick Trask. This cold morning I received some Screamers that Trask use to distributed for Flutter Craft now available from US Bait co who has the Flutter Craft tooling for both curl and ribbon tails. Dick was a Icon now forgotten b...

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Do:you know where the term Lunker Bass originated?
Back in the late 60’s when B.A.S.S. 1st started (1968) they offered a decal for Lunker Bass over 7 lbs. As I recall the term was originate at Lake Kissimmee Lodge but don’t recall name on the decal I had on my big tackle box?
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pd wrote: ↑Tue Jan 02, 2024 6:47 pm Why ask what happened? Let them rest…

Just wanted to properly pray for Dylan and his family during this stressful time of loss.
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Prime of life what happened?
Prayers for Ryan and his family.
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2024 has to be better then 2023,
Happy New Year!
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Carp were harvested back in the day at Big Bear lake and fed to the fox farms, now a shopping center.
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Lowrance Ghost is very quite and responsive, there are good choices.
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pd wrote: ↑Sat Dec 30, 2023 6:51 pm You mean air bladders?

Yep

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