Well, I fished my first federation tournament this past Sunday. They run a great tournie. Prior to the draw I met and talked to fellow SCBBC member Terry Cherney. It was nice to see a familar face and fellow club member.

On to the details. I drew Doug Okazaki as my boater. We were boat number 3. I told him I hadn't been on the Delta since July but I had a few spots I thought fish would be staging. He had prefished the day before in almost the same area I wanted to fish. The two spots were in the middle Delta and only about a two minute boat ride apart.

We started on his spot first. He missed a couple fish on a Senko. I was throwing topwater hoping for a big bite. After almost two hours and an empty livewell he suggested we try my spot since his spot didn't really produce until the afternoon.

We got to my spot and found the water much clearer. We both started throwing Senkos and putting fish in the boat. We ended up catching about 30 keepers between us. My best five went 16.50lb with a 5.3lb kicker. Doug's best five went 14.25lbs with a 4.8lb kicker. All of our fish came on senko's except for one blade fish I caught that didn't help. I tried flippin, cranking, rippin, and topwater for the big zero.

I had a great time and was happy to be representing the SCBBC. I'm going to be fishing as a traveler and hopefully I will get lucky enough to make the state finals. I encourage all of you to come out and fish these federation tournaments. Sometimes it's tough to get started so if you have any questions I would be happy to try and answer them. Talk to you later, Pat Wilson.

YO PAT
rembeR THE B.A.S.S. class at DEANZA I DO!!! you said "give me 5
years and i will be as good as these guys" you are soooo on your way
and I could be happier for you. all those talks we used to have fishing on how we were going to make it...and you are. keep up the killer work and i will be there at the classic when you make it!!!
talk to you soon
JAY BRYANT... WELDER DUDE :7

OOOPS I MEEN WELDER DUDEx(

I DONT KNOW WHY IT WONT PUT A STUPID '" E " ON DUDE OH WELL SEE YA

THANKS,WELDER DUDE.

You needed a space between then E and the smily face

Nice bag Pat. I am fishing the travelers region as well. Are you going to be at Clear next month?

Thanks for the report Pat. I fished all 5 Fed tourneys last year and they where great. It helped big time fishing the back deck. I'll be fishing the last ones when these ABA tourneys are over. Hopefully I'll see ya there. How did Terry do?

Rich

Fish fear round tubers and Bass Tech kickboats!!
http://www.bassanglerprofiles.com/richcaro.htm

Way to go Pat, I just checked out the results to see what place you and Terry came in only to find out you kicked ass and came in # 1 and Terry came in 13th. you guys had a great time it looks like to me. Way to go.

Rich

Fish fear round tubers and Bass Tech kickboats!!
http://www.bassanglerprofiles.com/richcaro.htm

Terry did great. He caught a lot of fish he just didn't get any good ones. I just got lucky. Without any prefish I guessed where I thought the fish should be and they were there. I felt pretty good that my boater got 14+lbs and I got 16lbs out of the same little area.

John, my schedule this year looks like this. I'm fishing the two northern(Clear-April/Delta-May) Everstarts, the Federation Folsom 052204/Delta 060604/Sonoma 081804, and the three BASS Opens.

Hopefully I will add the Federation State Championship at Shasta to that list but since they only take 20 guys in the travelers division I think it could be hard to make it. I'm not holding my breath that I'll do well since I can't prefish most of them.

Hey Jay, thanks for the kind words. I don't know if I can compete with Dobyns (who can!!!) from the front but I have found my nitch in the back of the boat. Being a pro is a lot harder than it looks. Still, it would be awesome to play in the Majors!!!Here's to keeping the dream alive. Tight lines, Pat Wilson.

Hey Pat,

A big congradulations on your win! I'm sure I speak for everyone at SCBBBC, we couldn't be more excited for you getting another 1st place under your belt. I'm sure your desire and determination to succed, inspires those of us getting started in tournament fishing. Way to go.

And I'd like to give a well deserved shout out to Mike T. for bringing some weight to the scales. We hope to see Mike at Clear Lake during the Open.

William - SCBBBC