I went up to clear lake for a few days as a stretch
of good wether came up. I got to State Park Thurs morning.
I didn't know the Everstart tournament was goin on. I
put together my boat and launched out of the camp site
at approx 8:30AM. Instantly I saw all the boats. I mean
there was a boat every 50ft from Soda Bay to County Park.
There was no place to do any fishing, I guess one of the
pics shows the dozen or so boats in/at Kelsey creek alone.
I talked to a few of the boaters, but was very respectful
and didn't do any fishing, except for 2 spots, and I asked
any boaters that were around if it was OK first. So the
boaters were along the reed/shore line and I was motoring
down the lake shore outside them. I even got to give a
clap to a few when I saw them catch a fish (like you see
in a torunament on TV). Several of them commented on the
KB and asked several questions about it. Even when I had
to go between 2 boats to get back to my camp site, I made
sure I asked the boaters if it was OK first.

I determined that I could only fish before they came out
in the morning or after they left for the weigh in. I did
go out that night after all of them had left to a least get
some fishing that day.

The next day I packed up and went over to the other side
of the lake, as I heard there weren't many boaters over there. So
Friday morning I went to M&M. Well the cut was after Thurs
and there were maybe 2-3 boats at State Park, Kelsey Creek,
but I was half packed up at the time, so I just continued and
left. I spend 2 days at M&M with no fish. It looked like the
bite had turned off as the fish were gorged on all the shad
that were around. There were alot of them on the State Park
side, but not nearly as many on the M&M side. I even talked
to several other fisherman (not tourney people) and they also
confirmed the bite was very slow. So that was my trip.

"PLEASE DON'T THINK THE WORST OF ME BASED ON A PICTURE".

I challange anyone to ask the tourney officials or the
fisherman that saw me around if I did anything at all that
could be considered unethical or out of line in any way!!!I always try to be a considerate fisherman and thinking I'm not gets
under my skin. That's all I have to say.

Larry Nakamura