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I agree with that, and you probably know it to or you wouldnt have posted this. The truth is non of us started fishing releasing fish, well maybe some(as I never did like the taste of fish) but I have fried myself some fish over my life. C&R comes from educating not reacting or lecturing, it sou...

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A balance beam and some float ballls. I use both wells to divide fish small keeper fish on one side, good keeper fish on the other. The Green Float is always the next cull fish....

Its fast and easy.

Tom what are these bags that you are speaking of?

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Between FLW and the yo yo weather it is hard to tell someone what is going on at clear lake as the fish are off and on very quickly right now. (at least for me they were) So swimbaits slow rolled, or shakey head, or senko, or c-rig really just go fishing is probably the most honest thing to say as t...

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Yup, I will miss Troy too, always took care of me, called me when the special baits came in and made me feel like a pro. True customer service, gentelman, and creative person. I wish him the best of luck with Fishermans Warehouse, I understand that Troy will be supply and ordering of stock in the st...

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I do not see this as a responsability of the Concessionair, if that was the case who does KVD sue for hitting a railroad tie on the delta? It is the boaters responsability to safley boat and the insurance companies responsability to pay when we hit stuff that is unmarked. I know that when I am boati...

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The Shimano Stradic is a good spinning reel, IMHO a bit pricey, however I have never had any issues with it. Keep em clean and they will run mean. The downside is when comparing it with the Diawa is the Drag system on the Diawa spinning reels have a larger surface area and I have never had a diawa d...

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I have a buddy who is a Commercial fisherman in Kodiak Island. When you want to touch the top of a 20' cieling you just wait for a wave jump up and hold on ! Also too you can jump and fall 20' from the bow going up and down. Its not the fish that we pay for, its the lives of the fisherman. These guy...

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I did in SoCal and need to get a few for up here. They are great for better understanding the Crawdads in your local lakes. I used Alpo dog food (punch holes in the top of the can) Bacon (wrap it with thread and place hang it in the trap) They make crawdad food but its a bit pricey compared to a cou...

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Buck Perry
Bill Murphy - In Persiut of Giant Bass
BBZ
Powerhand Baitcasting by Rich Forhan
Slider Fishing by Brauer?

Slider fishing is really a twist on Buck Perry's spoon Plugging both are very relavant for understanding Structure fishing and lure action.

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I know with the wind howling at Clear Lake last weekend and the Rain my Ski Goggles worked great, keep debris out of your eyes, covers the majority of your face and dont fog up. For 20.00 I conisder this a sound investment. Dont get me wrong I wear my Cocoons for fishing and have had no issues with ...

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The largemouth is 6.35 it would have gone 7 but is already spawned out some eggs. The smallie i am saying is 4.75 (just under 5lbs) Either way looks like you had a great trip!

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This is my Go To Bait, and my Favorite bait. If I was stranded on a deserted island I may not eat fish everyday but I would have fish to eat every day.... a close second for just putting a fish in the boat would be a Darthead either on a tube, worm, etc...

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With the winds out there you may want to post pone your trip to the delta for a better day

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Mather has some huge bass. Its pretty hard to target with the grass so a frog, senko and sometimes a heavy flip will work. My first summer fishing from the bank here my biggest bass on Mather was a 4.00 and bunches of 2's I have heard of big fish showing up here. From Howe its maybe a 15-20 minute d...

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Where is Arden Pond?

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Whatever you do dont look or drive a PUMA it really will spool you. I know I love my BassKitty Classic she fits in the garage, fishes great, handles big water like the Delta and ClearLake great and just has been a solid ride. I know you have fished out of Matts so I am not tellin you anything you do...

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I apprecaite what you are saying Jerkbait however given the size of ClearLake and my limited knowledge of "spots" it plays heavily to the day. Wind direction, length of run, how the wind goes through an area is always something I consider before I head out on the water. I scan the weather ...

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Ok first There is one misnomer about flurocarbon and that is the stretch. The tests that I have seen show that flurocarbon stretches as much as mono, if you want no stretch then braid is the place. As for the Copolymer lines they are mono with a flurocarbon coating on them. What that means is they w...

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Well JP thats fishin and for a one day club event really all that you can do is be prepared for anything and just go fishin!

Hey best to you to man I hope you catch a toad, just not the biggest one of the day HAR!

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Do youself a favor before you go back to strait mono on the spinning rigs I really like the performance of Copolymer line the P-Line FluroClear in 10lb is my darthead line and the SUFIX DNA (they have changed the label) in 6 and 8lb on my dropshot splitshot. Great sensativity and abrasion resistance...

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Yeah but JP its BlueBirds with High winds.

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OK nutcases Folsom Bass Team is headed to Clear Lake this weekend and I have a question about the weather. Accuweather is stating winds of 18mph with gusts to 28mph. WeatherChannel is stating winds of 8-10mph gusts to 16-17 How would you process this information? To me these are clearly two seperate...

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Great news Rick! I am excited for BassCat and for SoCal for having a Dealership located in the heart of Southern California Bass Fishing.

I know when I llived in SoCal I knew of only 1 BassCat and I am thankful that I did as my first boat is a basscat.

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I use SUFIX DNA a Copolymer on my spinning outfits and I use Big Game for Swimbaits and Topwater. MY old bulk spools of 10lb big game are now pretty much backing for my flurocarbon

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Too Funny a buddy of mine PM'd me during this thread about the Paca Chuncks. I too discovered the Paca Craws and Paca Chunks about a year ago. These things really are special and have a great swimming kicking action that no other bait I have thrown has. I also prefer them once the fish activity leve...

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I would imagine that you will find fish in all stages of the spawn during this time. Of course your larger pre-spawn fish will probably be reducing in girth. I think it is safe to say you will enjoy your stay and will catch plenty of fish, perhaps even that wall hanger you are looking for. Dont forg...

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I remeber that website, but I had no idea it was your Tom. Was that the Outside the box website with Chris and some other chap? I thought it was brillant, but I can see the downsides in terms of guys going to poach a big fish area. It would be an interesting year long tournament like a poker run sty...

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MARK INMAN wrote:yamamoto's 4" & 5 " twin tails 5" single tails

Yup for softplastic jig trailers Yamamoto's are hard to beat. Every now and then I am also known to tip a sweetbeaver as a jig trailer too

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I read that section and thought it was applying only to the Gap hook as I know that was an issue that was fought about 5 - 8years ago.

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#4 the last one says 4. It is unlawful to use any weight directly
attached below a hook.

Does this mean that the drop shot is illegal ??

2.10. Hook and Weight Restrictions.
(a) Definition of Gap: For the purposes of this
section, â€œgapâ€

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The smell keeps em all at bay.... "Fisherman never die, they just smell that way"

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Jims Signature should be:

Ride with an ANTIQUE
A Legend in his own mind.

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I am in I registered the day you opened up registration (Gator please let me know if you have me in) I am also all in for poker and any shinanigans going on...

This is my first Rally and I am looking forward to it, the question of the day is Boater, or Non boater?

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Mac before going Cartridge base two things to consider. 1.) Go back and read the post about the guy's lower unit tweaking and throwing them from the boat. They had a bad experiance with the cartridge PFD. 2.) A cartridge PFD only counts as a CGC approved flotation device if it being worn. IE if you ...

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Riplip wrote:My X-45 on the bow has been slowly degrading to the point I can barely read it. The screen has multiple horizontal lines that obscure the picture and data.

I would think this issue would not be the transducer but the screen itself. If the partnumbers match up you should be good to go.

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Do a NADA value on the boat and you will see it is probably 3 K over priced. When you go to insure it they will probably only insure 8k on it!

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Those cranks look kinda gimmickie to me. I can see that initail wire on the bill fouling up with moss and not allowing the bill to diflect correctly when hitting rock or tree. I am still learning the aspects of fishing cranks in the grass on the delta. I have done OK soaking senkos in between grass ...

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Troy has rewrapped two of my rods (one custom rod) and does an excellent job.

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In a club tournament a few years ago we were catching "bucks" off of beds I mean they were gaurding and coxing females in to the beds. Well two of those 2.5lb bucks died in the livewell so we did the honors and had a fish fry that night. When fillettnig the fish we found small egg sacks in...

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I am kidding of course. Greg we have never met but I was rooting for you Skeet and Litner to bring it home for us Cali boys. Great job on Clear Lake and knock em dead back east.

I am off to Clear Lake next weekend to fish your sloppy seconds, hopefully you saved me one or two fish!

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I will be able to launch on the River from Dry Creek in Antelope and Fiddyment will be the new Franks Tract of Spawners.... Diveriting Freshwater and the rising Salinity should be the concern that we take on in our lifetime, as these effects have been proven be detrimental and Global Warming is stil...

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I believe I took 4th in that tournament, the weather dropped to like 25 degrees in the AM we were fighting ice all morning pulled up to that one good area and cought three fish two of them dumped early (really wierd bite) Metered suspended fish and thought they would move up once it heated (big mist...

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I will say my favorite football jighead had the eyes horizontal, and until I learned how to tie a San Diego knot Cooch is right the knot would slide left and right affecting the action. The brilliance I found is that the action of football head with a 90 degree horiztontal head is that the line did ...

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Hawghunter you dont even throw jigs!!! :shock: HEHE naw u da jig authority right behind cooch...just couldnt resist! but take a look a those assalt jigs. you can order them from tacklewarehouse. i have only tried the bigger flippin ones but they are pretty nice! Hey hey K5 on the Assalt jigs, esp t...

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ARE THERE ANY HAZZARDS TO WATCH OUT FOR AT LAKE CAMANCHE? Yes there are plenty of unmarked lake hazards, if you have GPS watch your topo lines for islands that appear in the main lake even down by the damn. There are island tops, submerged buildings etc.... you can be in 80' to 2' in a matter of se...

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What I wouldnt give to have your problem *geesh* my fish is too big for any existing replica WAAA *hehehe*

I hope you get it figured out, I respect and admire your talents.

Jonathan

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I dont get the facination up here with the rodstrainer jigs, i purchased a few and the hooks all felt very dull to me, I filed them the minute I took them out of the package. Perhaps I am missing something? The Lure Logic jigs were my favorite, now the TNT Wadda Jig along with the Revenge Jig are de...

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How many other guys can say that they have cought a fish that weighs more then they are old?

Wow congrats Nick on the first of many.... Mike Long better look out for this little slugger

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I will see Farres tonight and let him know to contact you.

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Doesnt sound quite like the Comanche fish we were on

Good for you Tom glad to know our taxes are working hard for your fishing pleasure!

Take Care,

Jonathan

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