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Otay Michael

Anyone find a 3700 with jigs and chatterbaits over around Terminous let me know (flew off the deck on the way back to Tower Park Marina). Probably sunk but one never knows. Was on my last day up there last Thursday. Got 15 my last day with this kicker. https://scontent-dfw1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xp...

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Brent Ehrler

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Congrats Cooch.

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When WB had two divisions of fishing forums, north and south, where was the invisible line that separated the two? I'm guessing Santa Barbara east. Anyone know, or was there one? I know when there was one the north had a ton more posts compared to the south. Seems the whole thing has become as quite...

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Personally, I get a wave from most folks, whatever boat they have. Many before I do, and the few that don't- oh well. Figure they're just gettin' skunked!

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Hard to tell. But most those big bass don't fear my name any longer, they're too new to the scene ;/) But Italy I am. In Siena now, here's me working at 10 pm last night. https://scontent-mxp1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpa1/t31.0-8/1889033_1923707287855320_7542463117173724682_o.jpg Finally get to put t...

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Oh man oh man oh man...

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Thanks Brian. It's nice to see our sport growing world wide.

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Thanks George, look forward to meeting you.

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Great job. Yes, when I went out I saw about 8 other boats all morning, and that was from one end to the other.

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Let me know when and where for next year, Im in! George PS.. What kind of are work did you shoot? George, I shoot what one would call 'fine art photography'. Folks visiting my gallery in Del Mar think they are, quite often, paintings, but they are photos. Pretty much straight, little darkroom type ...

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https://sdfish.com/forums/attachments/meandcroatianteam-jpg.11064/ Here we are after the final day three weigh in. It was tough fishing, sometimes a team would come in with one, and sometimes the other had a limit, with a big one or two. It was a neat venue with fishing three teams, then total all ...

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I'm over here shooting a series of art in Italy for a month, and a bass fishing friend I made while shooting Croatia three years ago said his country was fishing in the Black Bass Fishing World Championship at the same time, so I decided to go and make art in that area. It ran last Thursday-Saturday...

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Upon doing some research I found this, and the unlikely chance that this bill (mainly a 'stop the drought' bill with this bs 'kill most fish' thrown in) will ever become law (Lord willing): https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/114/s1894 Any of you folks are still Democrats I hope you'll switch all...

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Done, yet one thing bothers me.. Why am I not seeing this on other sites? Brother (assuming you're a male), copy and paste Wayne's post to other sites. I've already done that to a site in San Diego w/ hundreds of fishermen. Thanks for asking, pick up the torch and run with it, it's light and folks ...

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done and shared on FB

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Sign Petition: State Angling to Ban Common Fishing Gear & Sinkers! You have until October 23rd to STOP the state from regulating and potentially banning common fishing gear and sinkers! If not, the price of your fishing tackle could increase 20-fold or, worse yet, become illegal in California! T...

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This reminds me, I wish they would change the name of False River, never liked the sound of it, sounds phoney!

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Wed. before last, I went with one of my fishing buddy Mike to Barrett Lake, a 'catch and release only' lake in east San Diego that you can sometimes get over 100 per day, because of it. He could only stay till 1.30, but I stayed till closing (6 am till 7 p.m- whew). http://www.seewald.com/images/Fis...

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Just read on Kramer (catching up on his good reads) where they had found this gentleman's body in 240' of water, what a miracle in itself it seems. Did a search on WB as I did not remember reading about it over here, and then remember this discussion after re-reading it. This helps to remind me to c...

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I call it Primrose, it starts growing early in the year even in cold water winner winnner chicken dinner thanks swordfish, a search comes up with plenty of info on this plant now, and here's some on this 'non-native' invasive plant from So. America: http://www.ecy.wa.gov/programs/wq/plants/weeds/wa...

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Was keeping some records on my trip up there a couple of weeks ago, anyone know the name of this aquatic plant growing there?

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From the site on why we want to stop this (in case you need a reasonable case to make to friends): The San Francisco Bay-Delta is the largest and most unique estuary on the Pacific Coast of the Americas. Fresh, clean, water supports the largest nursery for California fisheries, the largest Pacific C...

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Cool, someone else posting ways to help our bass fishing in California!

Filled out the form then posted to my facebook page by hitting the button that did it for me on the thanks page.

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Tom G., obviously with the wink he's kidding.

He's giving folks a good tip on getting on them!

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Some shots from Tower Park Marina area, fished 8.17-20.2015 (brought my 14' aluminum boat up this time): https://scontent-lax3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpf1/t31.0-8/11893988_1893465277546188_8192138977311715278_o.jpg https://scontent-lax3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xtp1/v/t1.0-9/11885093_1893465340879515_...

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I too did ok a couple of days ago. Fished out of Konocti Vista Casino Marina: https://scontent-lax3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xap1/v/t1.0-9/11223852_1893447624214620_204132778122063218_n.jpg?oh=6c5575f4e7217321b85ddaf76a9993b0&oe=56369F5B https://scontent-lax3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfp1/v/t1.0-9/1...

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What if every money tournament held in California charged $1 per entrant for every tournament, and that money went to a full time fishing lobbyist or two (or three or four?) for our industry? Maybe a higher amount, say $10 per, for ones like FLW or any tournament with payout over a certain amount? G...

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Scratch that. Just drove by a new fire west of Kelseyvilke. What bad luck. Thinking of leaving after dark, need to get some more fish.

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Yesterday a bit hazy. Lots of blackened brush, again, coming from Williamson. Ran across a gentleman with Americana colors all over his boat named Dale Ball that said he was killing them in the south. I worked up here at Konocti and did ok, driving so. today to launch and ck it out!

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Thanks for that great info buddy. How's the air quality? I'd guess most of the smoke is headed east.
Coming up next week for a couple of days, will stop in and say hi.

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Looking to throw smaller flukes on a smaller setup on busting bass, just not getting the distance with a regular rod (I'm throwing 10# co-polymer with a small gunfish, but it does not cast far).
I've got a good ultralight reel, so suppose that half is fine.

Wanting to use flukes, subsurface.
thanks

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Thanks Man! Day 2 morning came with many choices on where to start! Sometimes its a 30 mile run but not that morning. We pulled up after a short run and BOOM 2lber yes 1 minute later Plop, Plop, Pause, wait, wait, KABOOM!! She did a back flip and dug down for the tulleys, but the Omen black 13 rod ...

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also, don't set the hook until you feel weight. They don't usually miss it, but sometimes they do, and if you've never stopped working the bait during the explosion then it'll still be in the strike zone for a repeat try by the bass. By trying to set the hook with no bass on you'll end up have the b...

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clearlakeoutdoors wrote:I personally take the center hook off and put on two #1 round bend treble for the other two

ditto

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Congrats.

How about a blow by blow account of how it went down, practice your writing skills and bless us at the same time.

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Tower Park does, I fish out of there a lot.

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How sad, accidentally backed over the person.

I like the boat safety rules, especially' motor off' during entering or exiting the boat, makes sense.

I think we forget how dangerous a prop can be. I don't ski, or take folks out, but now if I do I'll be aware of this.

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Eat a pancake for me...

bump

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Otra mas, same frog. El Capitan Resev.

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Count me in... River to Sea, yellow headed blackbird frog. Delta

Thanks.

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Good tip, only makes sense for open water. What he fails to mention on the sharpening tip is that you need to run the hook point over your fingernail to test it properly. If it skids across it when pointing it straight down when you move it across, it's NOT sharp. If it does not skid when you try to...

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Awesome.

I hope my first DD comes on a frog! I've got eights, and lost DD, but none landed yet.

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good job guys

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Way to go Mike, Great pics of some delta quality fish! That is why I love that place and miss it dearly since moving to the middle of the desert. You can at any moment catch a ten or the biggest bag you have ever put in the boat. Afternoon and evening bites can be crazy good. Let me know when you h...

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That is such a hard pattern to use. I remember a couple of years back when I fished the Snag Proof open solo that the word was out that you had to get them by dead sticking them. I just was not used to waiting a minute between twitches, so I, as well as many others, did not fare well at all. I did l...

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Rec'd this info from KEEP AMERICA FISHING>> The government thinks it’s okay to destroy your engines. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is trying to force gas with 15% ethanol on America. Called E-15, this fuel is approved for use in less than 10% of the cars and light trucks in the U.S. Most...

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Just got back from the Delta a couple of days ago. Got to go out two times before last weekend (taught a three day, A-Z photo class in Napa). Once with my buddy up there, and once by myself, then got out two times this week, Mon. and Wed. (glad I did not go out Tues, man it blew didn't it?). First d...

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Oh, I've had mohs surgery (skin cancer removal) and about 100 'pre-cancer' spots burned off my hands and face over the past 3 years now. Of course those of us blonde (as kids), blue eyed have to be double concerned, and I heard red-heads even more so. Those blessed with southern continent ancestry a...

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the zip off bottom 1/2 of the sun pants is neat when the sun starts going down but the temperature does not. Get the lighter shades, they stay cooler mid-day. To believe you may not have to cover up 'unless you know you need to' is a funny statement, not laughable funny. The sun-gloves (and I've gon...

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Did a little digging in the article: Completion of construction -November 2015

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