LAKE OROVILLE 2016 What a fun past few weeks its been…. Usually this time of year I have the big baits out chasing that “one bite” but with the opener of Wild West Pro teams starting the season early I was forced to switch gears and get into tournament mode earlier than usual. And […]
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Wild West Bass Trail Counts down to a Lake Shasta Shootout!
Wild West Bass Trail will have a shoot out on Lake Shasta on Jan 30th and 31st! This will be the 3rd event of the 2016 season. Lake Oroville had 98 boats in the Team opener and Lake Pleasants had 77 boats in the Pro/Am opener in the Arizona Trail region. Lake Shasta already has […]
BBT Motherlode Region Hits Lake Don Pedro this Saturday
Date:1/23/2016 Body of Water:Lake Don Perdo Launch Location:Fleming Meadows Details:Sign-ups will be at the Trading Post in the upper part of the parking lot. We will be ready for everyone at 4am till blast off. Come early for the launching could be a problem due to low lake levels, any questions please call Kevin at […]
Soft Jerkbaits by Josh Parris
You could write a book on the various rigging options and techniques of soft jerk baits, but for time sake I’ll stick to shallow weightless tips for now. I have always stuck by Zooms super salty Fluke, it’s soft, durable, and has enough weight to be cast a mile weightless. I throw my flukes on a medium heavy […]
Treat your Rods Right with the Rod Glove
Taking care of your equipment could easily be argued as one of the most important things when it comes to practicing good (fundamentals). Us bass fisherman spend thousands upon thousands of dollars of our hard earned money on our fishing equipment, boats, electronics(fish finders), rods, reels, line, tackle, proper apparel for the weather, the list […]
A Break from Bass Fishing
Some days we need to just slow down and break away from bass fishing so I saw an opportunity to spend some time with my Dad so we decided to go chase Sturgeon. With a ton of fish moving through the system right now we headed to our favorite bait shop Benicia bait and tackle […]
Deps Slide Swimmer 175
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3G1XV8jjcb8] Changes in the Deps Silent Swimmer 175 Deps Japan has been hard at it, working on the new Slide Swimmer ABS inject models. The new models will be released in the 175mm size and the 250mm. The original slide swimmer molds were approaching 10 years of age and needed to be replaced. They […]
Camp Far West Fishing Report
David Gretler and I fished the Camp Far West tournament. The morning water temp. was 61 at the ramp. We went north up the arm and started fishing topwater lures. I fished a River 2 Sea Whopper Plopper and David went with a spook. We had a lot of fish swipe at the baits (dinks…) but no takers. As the […]
Lake Toho fishing report
This past weekend was the Amphibia Big Bass Trail on lake toho. The lake is fishing pretty good after been beat the death by two national tournaments several regional level tournaments and countless local tournaments in the span of 4 months. Right now look for schooling fish just south of Makison island and west of […]
Delta Fishing Report
April 18, 2015 Bob Tyler and I fished the BBT this past Saturday. We ended up in second place out of 95 boats. We cuaght our fish on 6″ Senkos and a drop shot, but all of the fish we weighed in were caught on a Senko. We caught our fish in a 1′ to […]
