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Kelly Ripa

I would think that between cloud seeding and mother nature due to the fact the Santa Ynez river is giving all of it's runoff to it that it will spill.

Kelly Ripa

Intellicast for Lakeport shows a lot of rain Saturday and next week is off the hook rain daily mostly...very good start as we weren't supposed to get much until the March time frame according to the experts. Because the ground is finally soaked enough for run off it could be be a better than anticip...

Kelly Ripa

It took us some extra minutes to get down the length of Clear Lake in Sept. as we had to come off plane a few times just to get through the western grebes. There just wasn't any line you could take that would work...

it's how we roll.

Kelly Ripa

Good point....Herons and egrets are very valuable tools for finding fish. Often times I know which way the bait school is swimming or are even alerted to their presence by these birds. The egrets will be leap frogging down the bank staying on the shad. As there aren't many shad right now on the bank...

Kelly Ripa

JL...You'll not find a finer winter time angler than WRB (Tom aka Oldschool). Send him a PM and he will fill your head with a lot of experienced knowledge. The day I met him he had 2 fish over nine pounds on spoons :shock: and sat there and told my partner for the day and I how we could make our own...

Kelly Ripa

I would always fish a Lake with both largemouth and smallmouth. If I was at berry I might use my 1 oz. stuff no need to go larger than that as I only need to feel it.More likely a Kastmaster thing...

Kelly Ripa

I see the spoon thing didn't work out.

Kelly Ripa

Had to use a fork lift and a strap on mine...it did lift the boat for a bit...The strap left no mark but I replaced everything anyway.

Kelly Ripa

What do you do when they don't eat at first light? I think a lot of fisherman evolve their aspirations when it comes to fishing. Most start by wanting to catch a fish. That evolves into I want to catch a limit. Then maybe you become a tournament fisherman and if not maybe a trophy fisherman. I perso...

Kelly Ripa

Let me start this by thanking all of the nutcase's that not only read this post but came back for more on the long read. I didn't want to post it online because it's just some of my rambling anecdotes, some of what I do with a few observations thrown in. I have had to keep throwing stuff hourly out ...

Kelly Ripa

Yes. I was reading about the new Epitome rods and they are using them from stem to stern on that rod and he now has a way to use air for scrim instead of paper or chopped nano carbon.Keep it coming is all I can say...

Kelly Ripa

Any opinion on the titanium wire single foot guides? Then I'll stop bug'n ya

Kelly Ripa

If you are buying blanks what handle are you using?

Kelly Ripa

Don't know what you bought as I have never had anything like that happen and I use braid which can be wicked for looping onto a tip but that's just just an operator error on my part ...very rare. How do you bend a ceramic guide on a rod?

Kelly Ripa

It's okay to resurrect this one. :D I did get a Silver Widow to add to the BlackWidow dropshot rod. I do believe there is some kind of electrical thing going on with it as when you get bit on it. It feels like you've been crushed. The vapor deposition of nickle to the handle must create this feeling...

Kelly Ripa

Hmmm.... I got a lot of PM's on this so I wrote up about 3 pages typed on some of my insights into spoon fishing while answering the questions some of you had. I won't post it here but if you want a 10 minute read on the subject :shock: send me a PM and I will send it to you. Good luck and tight lin...

Kelly Ripa

Absolutlutely PD. It was Bob Measly that showed me the light back in 88'. He and Doug Chessmore would have beat everyone in an early January Western Bass Tournament with the 3/8 Kastmaster. For sliding back at a wall rather than blazing by nothing works better. Most unfortunate that the skies cloude...

Kelly Ripa

You know I took the trouble to not name my partner so as to protect the innocent in case you didn't notice. I see some rain in the forecast and I'm doing some waxing etc. for a while so next week sometime....My Boat. If you can't locate a 3/4 hopkins by then don't sweat it as they are like potato ch...

Kelly Ripa

Ya know...for 16 Billion + dollars I could build one hell of a lot of De-sal plants and pipelines to dams And keep the state flowing with all of it's natural strength rather than fund a tunnel that is going to give Piglosi's real estate buddy in SoCal all the water he needs to build on that worthles...

Kelly Ripa

I had the opportunity to do a little late fall/early winter fishing with a new friend last week in his sweet Ranger. It never fails to surprise me at the power of a spoon to ignite a bite. We had been fishing a little over an hour with one very small square bill fish for our efforts. My partner had...

Kelly Ripa

I would suspect that when none of us could get our packages in a timely manner because of their *Shipping* issues. The Wilderness Sports Warehouse was coming up to speed most likely at the Alpharetta Lakes Pkwy. Address in Ga.I see on some of my orders. I just today got a back-order from TW that was...

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So I get home from fishing today and I have a 6X8 Tackle Warehouse box at my door. Not anticipating anything I shake and hear a clunking noise and I flat knew what it was...It was a Tatula TW 80H I had bought months ago and returned or was it?? I bought it because it was fresh from I-cast new limite...

Kelly Ripa

I guess we need a cheap hand held metal detector at the weigh ins. Stupid is as Stupid does. I know I gave money to Mike Hart and only wish I'd been at the U.S. Open to watch him lock himself in his truck. If they know a metal detector is waiting it would knock off the lead thing. The fish fillets i...

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for the last 20 years?...Hmmmm ... DFW has mostly been busting pot growers in our parks and wilderness areas.

Kelly Ripa

So my question is..How did they go from wanting to get all invasive species out of the lake to SAVE THE LARGEMOUTH

Kelly Ripa

I was going there but Tom pretty much nailed it...Non-existing management. Here is a question.Have you ever seen anyone working for the betterment of the fish or habitat in California that wasn't a volunteer person or private organization? I know of a local tackle store in Ventura who's owner is try...

Kelly Ripa

Looks like a ferret but it is a mink as they can have white patches on face and chest.

Kelly Ripa

I had a let's go Brandon sticker over a year ago since then I've made my own stickers. One says FJB ..<. and the 2000 mules he rode in on . The other says < BIDEN> <The American Nero and his son the ZERO > kind of catchy don't you think :wink: New ones under consideration: Benedict Bidens Dirty Deed...

Kelly Ripa

Speaking of trades bass-assassin. I'm a now retired aerospace master machinist who graduated from Upper Lake High School ( Senior Class Pres. #75 ). I was/am financially secure and over the 45 year span when I look at my work in total. One of my bigger achievements was to have my hands work on thing...

Kelly Ripa

We were owner operators of a resort there when I was in High School mid 70's. My younger sister was a deputy sheriff there for years 70-80's. You have to understand the **** hole you are talking about has been this way since back 100 years ago when the Big shot entertainers had great big mansions ar...

Kelly Ripa

All my rods except two are Loomis and Big Daddy's got it right on the details. It took seven months for me. Be ready for your new rod...Chances are you won't like it. I broke an old Dropshot rod and finally when they got one in stock and sent it to me....I took it to a local shop and sold it on cons...

Kelly Ripa

I spit beer through my nose on that one jigg'n...

Kelly Ripa

From what I had heard from a very reliable source was that they had palettes of the stuff and they were specifically waiting to see where fisherman were fishing and then went in and threw it all over the joint when you left. The water color went to hell and you can say bye bye to topwater or frogs f...

Kelly Ripa

Adjust your game plan accordingly.

Kelly Ripa

Known him since I was 17...I'm 64 now...A true Ambassador and gentleman

Rest In Peace.... Dee

Kelly Ripa

funny I have been using my old Green Shimano for topwater forever...........

Kelly Ripa

Hours and compression?

Kelly Ripa

NCBF is where I got my start ...Tony and Gator...

mucho water under the bridge since those days...3 boats ago

I've been a nutcase one day longer than you Eric

Kelly Ripa

float or slow sink?

Kelly Ripa

Fry guards and bed fish ...I'm sorry things didn't work out..

I can't come up for 4 more weeks snivel snivel...drat....Maybe my friends will have a new boat by then ....over a 11/2 years on the build because of shortages industry wide. supposed to be May and now I don't know.

Rip

Kelly Ripa

The Casitas system works??....Only if you were born in the middle ages and except B.S. as indisputable proof that something is working. It makes zero sense but matches up well with our current slide into total anarchy. Two 6 year olds could come up with a better system.( as long as they weren't educ...

Kelly Ripa

Garbage in....Garbage out. Simple computer 101. Somebody goofed on data entry somewhere down the line. Here at Casitas I was told just last week : Make sure your tamper proof tag is correctly affixed to your cable / lock when you leave as we have new people and they are getting it wrong sometimes :s...

Kelly Ripa

Second vote for catfish...usually you just throw away the mangled spinnerbait or crank....I was sure I had a toad on more than once

Kelly Ripa

The reason I go to Clear Lake is because it's all good...Name a bait or presentation you want to fish and it will work for you.The fish don't act like pure Florida's as they still chew the paint off of baits that have been around for a century. Then there is fishing at night which can really be an e...

Kelly Ripa

If it's been around since the 50's I don't want to see another frick'n sticker coming my way to grease greasy people's pockets and nothing else..................

Kelly Ripa

No.

Just me....maybe.

Kelly Ripa

You know Eddie you just might be a brother from another mother... :lol: ...It comes in streaks...said the proud owner of 2 broken Ford trucks....Don't ask :wink: Oh and you'll love your new charger. I pulled off my old OEM charger this year for the same issues and now I'm moving along just fine on m...

Kelly Ripa

I recently posted a lake report and in it I reported I was catching fish on an A-rig. I got a P.M. and I'd like to share my modifications prior to fishing my A-rigs. I have from the on set not liked any stock A-rig I purchased. I don't trust any of the hardware and don't like the connections and on ...

Kelly Ripa

Pretty skimpy reading lately. Leave a report and maybe help out a struggling fisherman better plan an upcoming trip. I have made some great friends over the years with a P.M. after they have read a report of mine over the years. Just a little can go a far way in some cases. Help a Brother or Sister ...

Kelly Ripa

Loved that post as it makes me remember the pumps we had on our dock at Clear Lake when I was in high school in the early 70's. I used to laugh at them because we had to use a calculator to figure out the bill as the mechanical mechanisms(tumblers) in the pump only went up to .29 9/10ths. I guess it...

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