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One of the commercial threadfin shad fishermen was run into recently at night, probably up near the Stockton Turning Basin...From what I was told, he was thrown overboard and whoever hit him never stopped...Beware if you fish at night, just because you have your lights on, you are still vulnerable t...

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a company where you can lock in contracts for fuel...Buy what you want at a set price and then go to their gas stations to fill up...If we only knew...Check out firstfuelbank.com, hit current prices and scroll down and hit FFB history going back to 1982...You can check the price for those years and ...

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spare tire on the truck completely out and it was low...By feel, you might have thought it was good but the gauge said otherwise...And, I had a lock that was on the spare tire system and I learned how that works today too... Glad I checked it...Xman, check that spare!...Thanks for the gas cards!... ...

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They hit the Walgreens in Pittsburg last week... It was a take-over robbery with four masked men...Around a dozen or so shoppers robbed too...Carry only needed cards on you and as little cash as needed, you never know when things might go bad...

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Was down there last week talking to PJ...A guy asked me about the stick I was walking with, thought I had back surgery or something...No I told him, this is a whacker stick!...

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Just read a great article over at sfgate.com (Chronicle) by Tom Stienstra and he mentioned always having a supply of red stick-on eyes for his trout lures...Great tip, probably wouldn't hurt to put some on those chatterbait blades...

Thanks Mr. Stienstra...

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Yeah Andy, try running up Sugar Cut in the dark about 10 o'clock at night trying to find threadfin shad for the Trap...Once you went in that slot, you had to keep it on pad until we hit the ski course or nets they laid up there on the big left hand turn...Looking back, we took a lot of chances... If...

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Yeah, PJ knows about the other Tom, I let him know awhile back it wasn't you...I'll mention you to him when I get ahold of him...

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that spot-tailed minnows, ones with a spot on the tail had more misses by bass...Makes sense, they aim for that back spot and probably think the minnow will go in a reverse direction thinking the spot is the minnow's eye... Should lure eyes be bigger?...How about a frog lure with a 1/2 to 3/4 inch e...

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Welcome back Tom...Give PJ a buzz if you want to do a little tube float'en...Kacie's Slough has been hot and maybe you guys can hook-up...Keep it quiet though, don't tell the boaters!...

If Kacie barks, it's a fish!...

Team KacieFish...

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C U Big Daddy!...And stick with CRAMER!!!!...

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Thanks Mike...I went out and bought some bright orange markers and colored my white frogs with them...Will test them in Rock Slough... In checking around, I found some of the most awesome looking frogs at floridakayakfishing.com, check it out...Check his frog factory colors too...Ken's co-inventor o...

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I'm looking for an Xman Orange frog and can't find one...Yeah, was out at Loma one day and a guy had a chartruese bobber and with the wave action and sunlight angle, I couldn't find his crappie bobber out on the water...I told him you need an Xman orange bobber!...Another guy nearby had an orange bo...

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Now I read where they all come under the umbrella of Jarden Outdoor Solutions, a division of Jarden Corp...They own Seal-A-Meal, Mr. Coffee, Sunbeam, Coleman, and many more companies...

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used his Fenwick Elite Tech Flippin' Stik for cranking too during his recent win...That's great application!...BassFan has the article up right now on his opinion on the subject...

Anyone using their flipping stick for cranking, too?...

If Kacie barks, it's a fish!...

Team KacieFish...

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supplying much needed sandbags to the Corp. of Engineers back in the flood stricken areas of the midwest all along the Big Muddy...He has a warehouse with 15 million sandbags and has been supplying the Corp. as needed...He could have gotten more than the 25 cents he is charging a bag but didn't go t...

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The craziest one I heard was that scuba divers were being used...That one took the cake when the guy told me about 7 or 8 years back...Yeah, the Jacques Custeau technique!...SCUBA...Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus...

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was passing out baits at a tournament...Then he goes on The Bass Pros and spills the beans on bait and how he approaches different fishing situations...Amazing, most people keep things secret, this guys #1 in the world at bassfishing and gives most of it up...Very generous... Wonder how many pros wa...

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I think they spit out some freshwater clams to lose that weight, Har!...Cooch figured out a long time ago that black bass in the delta love clams beds...Yeah, find the milfoil with a nice little current and a gradual slope, and you'll find those big bass just waiting for a meal...On that slope you'l...

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Just left BassFan, VanDam was leading going into the final day at Kentucky Lake and some guy named Rick was in second...Rick who?...I think the guy's last name was Clunn...I guess his rod selection system worked for him this week...

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Grizzly Island and Holland were the worst for mosquitos before dark...My shad buddy and I talked about how it might be more difficult to commercially shad these days with this problem now in existence... Xman, better to watch the Sherman Boys from the G Street parking lot...Remember The Mallard hole...

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Cooch, can't forget Kacie's bark!...Yeah, she always barked when she saw a fish on the end of my line...

Team KacieFish...

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Went by a car dealership yesterday and they had all economy-sized cars out in front...Two weeks ago, all they had were full sized pick-ups...Reported on the news, they make over $11,000 profit on the full sized trucks and $860 profit on the cars...Hmmm, which one would you want to sell???... New lur...

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Morgan Stanley's anylist predicted oil to go to $150 a barrel on Friday...Didn't Greenberger mention them as one of the biggest buyers of heating oil contracts on the East Coast?...Follow the MONEY!...

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Read about the Commodities Futures Modernization Act of 2000.!

Remember Enron?...

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Airlines, what about U.S. Steel????...Symbol (X)...In the 180's today...If we only knew...Yeah, that X in Xman stands for something... Ron X... Hey Xman, oil was up $5.50 or so as of this writing today...Hey, I forgot what New Hogan's looks like at these prices...Anybody seen Elmer lately?...Yeah, t...

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Michael Greenberger, a Law Professor from the University of Maryland explain what's going on in the Oil Markets...Look this information up yourselves if you can, you'll get a little better idea of why these prices are going through the roof...He went before a senate committee and told them what to d...

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La Superior Market in Pittsburg is better!...They play Lucero and Thalia music when you walk through the door...Yeah, and you can see what a Talapia looks like if you go all the way to the back near the fish market section...And if your lucky, catch the Basa on sale for $2.49 and have a fish fry, al...

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article appeared today in the Contra Costa Times about this subject and the affects it might be having on the food chain...I mentioned this subject to a commercial clammer last year as we were driving up to an area above Freeport...Mentioned treated wastewater is dumped into the river just below Fre...

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Can't beat a nice little aluminum with a small motor...Wouldn't give up my Tohatsu and Gregor for anything...Then I got my kayak last year at West Marine 40% off or so and things look a little better...Can drop in at Holland Tract for free...

Xman, bet you're glad you didn't sell your rig, huh!!!...

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30% of the worlds children are from India...That's 3 out 10...300 million children in India was the number given the other day on the news...These kids grow up and start using gasoline, the exponential equation is tremendous... New Hogan Reservoir?...Hope I can afford to make it up there in a few ye...

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only problem was they were trout instead of bass that I watched get caught in about an hour yesterday...Man what a clinic this guy put on...Best trout fisherman I've ever seen...Caught on a Kastmaster and PowerBait... The key with this guy is his attention to detail and yesterday he moved when he sa...

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Yep, Pops and Drops!...

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last night, a guy that owned a trucking company in S. California was crossing the Mexican border with an outfitted truck he could use to buy diesel for his fleet...He was tapped out of his savings and just trying to make it...The price down there was $2 and change for diesel and they said the Mexica...

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Valid points everyone...My favorite color years back around Holland was brown and purple...If it got tough I went with red pork...I remember Dee using that Mister Twister Pocket Dad years back...Kind of an avocado green with black and a creamy looking bottom, may of had a pinch of orange... When sha...

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The reason I asked is I wonder if Kevin VanDam's principle of matching the color of the bait to the color of the bass's surroundings applies?...Lot's of green pumpkin and watermelon color out there in the delta...And avocado colors too!

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using it for their outboard engines?...If so, what do you think of it?...

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Sal D. (Whaler 1)...Pittsburg has a nice little bait shop downtown by the river's edge and now I read an article by Sal D., one of Pittsburg's finest fishermen over at the Fishsniffer striper forum that the city may be doubling the rent on Do and his partner...Will they stay in business if this is t...

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This fish could have been weighed but both these guys were smart enough to know that if they walked it a ways to where there was a scale known to be, they both believed it would die...Good thinking on their part...They didn't even lift it out of the water to measure it... I knew there was one hangin...

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Cooch, I just used your calculating figures replacing 27 with 29 and I hit 16.1!!! Uh, Oh!...That was a "Big One"!!!...Thanks too Gator, for your fast reply...

By the way Cooch, nice fish!...

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The "Old Man" said it was the biggest bass he'd ever seen...His word is as good as gold...I'm glad the fisherman let it go...I asked the "Old Man" what the guy caught it on and he said a small Rattle Trap... Thanks everyone...I'm going to go with around 15 or so when I tell the &...

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14 lb'er of yours?...I know an old man that saw a guy catch one that they measured out at 29 inches and let it go because they had no scale...Had a large girth he said, but didn't measure that part of the fish...Any guess what it weighed so I could give the old guy a guestimate?...

Thanks...

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count him out of the running in a tournament...Clunn said it, "Dave Gliebe was the most talented bass fisherman he'd ever met"...Thanks Dave for the discussion we had at the Pitt Marina a few months back...Along with Dee, a true pioneer of the sport...

Both are still kicking Butt...

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Yeah, send some back to Sherman too...FLW needs to hold a tournament and run it right out of Sherman Island!...

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That skier was Bill Dance!!!...They were filming a Bloopers Show for his videos!...

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The rattlesnakes are starting to move around out there so be aware of your surroundings when walking the banks fishing out there...Last one seen was only about a foot long...

Buy your permits to fish out there too...People have been sited out there for not having payed to get in...

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Yep, nothing runs like a Tohatsu!...You duck hunters out there, if you're looking for a great motor, check out Tohatsu...They can handle a lot of weight, great torque!...Big Mike was right!...I've got a 25 hp two stroke and wouldn't trade it for the world!...My shad buddies use to laugh about the tu...

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I think it's time for Team KacieFish to put both you River Studs on its team!!!...

If Kacie barks, its a fish!...

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