Well, did y'all sign up? Anyone go as an observer? I'm in and ready to lose my $200 in style :) Hope to see a good nor-cal contingent there.

Good luck Rob, I will be rotting for you.

I would like to be there for the weigh in. Do you know when that will be yet?

Well, Ron said there will be 7 Norcal guys in it so maybe, just maybe, one of us can put the fear in those Socal guys. (Rob, you're still a Norcal guy for this one, especially if you win. :D )

I am in as a Volunteer Tournament Official.....Jan. is looking to be a very busy month for me....

Bryan

Matt - who else is coming? Don Moorman, yourself, and ?

Bryan - glad to hear you will be there as an observer, hope I draw you.

Tim, glad you got in. Should be a spectacle out there :D

The seven NorCal anglers in the tourny are the following:

1) Don Mormon
2) Rob Belloni
3) Matt Allen
4) Chris VanCleave (sorry if mispelled)
5) Steve Pagliughi
6) Don Osbourne
7) Will ??, dang it I forgot Will's last name :-(


Word has it that the second of the three will be held at Clear Lake.

The last is Will Bevard. That looks like a good group to me, I hope one (or all) of us makes Norcal proud!

Now all you fellas need is a camera man in each boat..

Hence, one hell of a swimbait fishing vid

Spent the night in the parking lot,it was awesome! See you guys in January.

Tim E

I'm sure they are but are all the spots taken? For both angler and observer?

Cervenka said there are still observer spots. This was as of earlier today - 11/20/07

Pretty darn cool. Old school guys, new school guys, lure makers, locals, and nor-cal. I feel bad for the fish.

Allen, Matt
Bailey, Paul
Bailey, Shaun
Ballesteros, Jerry
Bauernfeind, Buck
Beever, Keith
Belloni, Rob
Berry, Art
Bevard, William
Brakebill, Mike
Brown, Butch
Coe, Jordan
Cole, Allan
Conway, David
Davies, Steve
Eaves, Tim
Ellis, Mickey
Elshere, Eric
Elshere, Larry
Flaata, Rob
Friedrichsen, Alek
Gash, Mike
Grover, Kyle
Haring, Kenneth
Holder, Todd
Holoubek, Dave
James, Sean
Kerr, John
Kerr, Justin
Lander, Mike
McDonald, Kenneth
Moffitt, Mike
Moorman, Don
Newman, Matt
Oldham, Brent
Osborne, Don
Pagliughi, Steve
Poolman, Dave
Randell, Ryan
Riha, Doug
Roberson, David
Rosen, Dana
Ross, John
Silks, Gregg
Taylor, Mark
Thigpen, Rod
Thompson, Ron
Vanclef, Cris
Vanderburg, Ken
Warme, Dan

Doing it as an Observer, there isn't a name on there that I won't have a great day on the water with....Looking forward to it.

Bryan Vogt

PLEASE OH PLEASE just one good one, OH PLEASE OH PLEASE. I hope one of us wins too or at least some of us place high.
Best of luck to us all.

Don.

Wow, there are some heavy hitters on that list.
John Kerr, Rob Beloni, Butch Brown, Rod Thigpen, Dam just about everybody. This is going to be awesome. I think i'll go just to see it go down. Too bad there are a some names i wanted see on that list, Mike Long, Jerry Rago.

wow i hope someone brings a video camera to weigh in :-)

Pete there are a lot names I would have liked to see on there.
You would have been one of them.
Pete Augustin
Paul Duclos!!!!!!!! Hello
Jerry Rago
Mac Weackley
Jed Dickerson
Fish Chris
Nico
Mike Shaw
Mark Rogers
Mike Long
Bill Sieamental
Ike
Aaron Martins
Steve Kennedy
Byron
Crupi, yeah I know he used dads but I bet he could use lures
Maybe some big names from Florida like Doug Hannan
or even Rollan
or There has to be a couple players from Texas.
There was a name or 2 that I dont think belongs (dont ask)
I know Mike L couldnt make it and Bill S declined. I wonder how manny guys actualy turned it down? I know I could have signed up at the bass-a-thon, I had time but I have never seen the lake and I am soo bussy I wouldnt even be able to get a single day prefishing so I passed. Yeah I'm chicken! All in alll I still think its the coolest damn tourney ever put on and its a hell of a field. I know I have a couple secret guys fishing for team Mattlures in it }( and I hope they do good.
I hope all of you guys that are fishing it stick one!

Matt your right, Paul Duclos!!!!!!!! Hello. I hope it's going to be a great time for everyone so next time we some more of the big names.
Like the list you made below. I also hope one of the boys from SD wins it on a Matt lure, cuz so cal rules . Good luck to everybody. Pete A

Jerry Rago
Mac Weackley
Jed Dickerson
Fish Chris
Nico
Mike Shaw
Mark Rogers
Mike Long
Bill Sieamental
Ike
Aaron Martins
Steve Kennedy
Byron
Crupi

The upside is that from the sound of it there will be more events. So if some of the big names in trophy bass didn't come to this one, they will have more opportunities in the future.

In thinking about it more, I'm sure some guys just don't feel compelled to fish with an observer in the boat (and potentially with a camera rolling). I can understand that. Not everyone is all about winning money in fishing.

I also think that if I lived across the street from a great trophy lake like Casitas and knew it inside and out, I'd be reluctant to really get after it in some 10k tournament in front of someone. For 100k if I was on them, yea... I'd be tempted to do whatever it took. But for 10k, maybe not so much.

Going to Casitas is easy for me because I don't really know the lake very well, and in January I'm not going to do anything fancy trying to catch fish. In the end, I'll probably rig 5 rods and just go fish.

My money is on Rod Thigpin to win.

WOW what a list of HEAVY HITTERS!!! I think I'll print it just to 'Have' --- Good Luck and SAFETY to ALL involved!! == FIND THE BAIT!!!!!!!

baits-check, poles-check, boat-check... im ready to fish! :-)

Good luck guys that lake has been real tough lately, It takes a while just to find fish and they are deep. Water clarity is about 3 ft and wont be getting better any time soon. There dont seem to be a lot of fish relating to structure as usual. Sometimes they are just in deep water suspended so find em and mark a waypoint to stay in that area.
Good luck
Rich

I'm really looking forward to this event, should be very interesting with this weather.

Hopefully everything goes smoothly at the gate!

Anyone else crazy enough to be camping out there?

BEHIND THE COLD FRONT...A VERY COLD AND UNSTABLE AIR MASS WILL CONTINUE TO BRING THE RISK OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH AT LEAST FRIDAY...POSSIBLY INTO SATURDAY. IN ADDITION TO THE HEAVY RAINFALL INTENSITIES...THUNDERSTORMS WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS. AS THE AIR MASS CONTINUES TO DESTABILIZE...CONDITIONS WILL ALSO BECOME MORE FAVORABLE FOR WATERSPOUTS AND ISOLATED SMALL TORNADOS LATER TONIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY...WITH THIS POTENTIAL CONTINUING THROUGH AT LEAST FRIDAY.

What color lure should I use when tornadoes are present? Also, does the weather service have a spell checker? Nah, why bother...

Thunderstorms? Tornadoes?!?  x( 

This should be real fun. 

Watermelon with yellow flake is a proven Hurricane color but in Tornadoes, haven't a clue :+

I like a black/red flake for tornadoes. Matches the clouds nicely ;)

Good luck, guys!!!

Guess I better bring both of my anchors!

The forecast today calls for ponding in urban and other areas.

I am trying to decide if ponding is a real word, and where these "other areas" might be located.

My highly trained weather sense tells me that right now it's raining outside, and that there are puddles on the ground. Beyond that, I find the weather.com special weather statements utterly hilarious :)

good luck guys - ill be pulling for the internet dudes :D