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>Tournament day 1 video >http://www.calfishing.com/files/Movies/show/e3/e3.flv > >[b]Prefish Day (Friday)[/b] > >Thursday night I drove up to the lake. Big fire on Hwy 16 had >the road closed. Got there at midnight after a 1.5hr detour. >5:30am the next morning we were up and at it. > >Had one bump first thing on Brock's weedless bait by state >park. Then the sun got up and turned real flat and blah. >This was a theme all week. Get the fish early. We tried >Hendrson for nothing. Tried Braitos and caught a 2lber. Then >over to Lucerne. > >Pitching to the grass mats by Lucerne in 10' with brush hogs >yielded one 3lber. The water was clear there, no algae, but >not much sign of bass. Drove over to trailer park. > >Trailer park was shallow. Dragging up mud on the the trolling >motor all over. No fish. Ran around some more. We like >driving the boat (not really). Fires around the lake and a >head cold had me sneezing like crazy. > >Tried by county park and quercus. Late in the day we got some >breeze and I caught a 5lber on Brock's weedless lure. Don't >know if this lure has a name or not but it's nice. Very >weedless and thin so you can actually land fish on it. >Recommend owner beast hook 8/0 with a decent weight. > >Got off the water around 3pm. I was dying from being sick and >not sleeping. Caught up with a few old friends at the check >in thing. Good crowd. I like ChampioN boat people :) I told >Nico he was holding out on the fishing catching for the >tournament since his slaying skills were not evident this day. > > >[b]Tournament Day 1 (Saturday)[/b] > >Nico had this spot by long tully point where he'd gotten a lot >of bites in practice. The fish weren't real big but there >were a lot of bass there. We were in the last flight and >didn't expect to get the spot. Amazingly no one was on it. > >We pulled in and Nico began demonstrating the skills that were >in absence the day before by catch a 4.5lber on his 3rd cast >with an S-Waver and two more fish shortly thereafter (3lber >and 13.25incher). Got some cool video footage. It was a fun >morning flurry thing. > >I was feeling no mojo so resorted to a drop shot and caught a >2.3lber. We left and ran to the mid-lake where Nico had >caught one pushing 7lbs on Thursday on the S-Waver. We get to >his spot and he gets drilled by a big fish. Miss! The next >cast the fish boiled but didn't bite. The back hook on the >bait got mangled from the first bite. Grr.. > >Continuing to feel no mojo I caught a puny 13.25incher on >dropshot. When you have the fish ruler out at Clear Lake, it >hurts your pride. At least we had 5 fish. It took about 2 >hours. From there we executed the remainder of the plan which >was to go to Rodman slough and brave all sandbars. It's >shallow. Just telling you in advance. If you don't run in >there right you'll get real stuck. > >Made it in to our spot with great anticipation. No boats were >in there. Caught nothing. Major bummer. Flipped and pitched >and flipped for over an hour with no bites. Couldn't believe >it. > >Finally Nico caught a 3lber and I got a 2lber along with a few >more 13 inchers. With about 2 hours to go in the tournament >we were over it so we got out of there and went back to the >mid lake to try for big ones some more. The condition was >bad. Calm, too much algae for swimbaiting really. If it's >windy you can throw but if it's calm and the surface stuff is >really think it's not great. > >We picked up and made a run for long tully with an hour left. >A half mile short of the point my motor lost power and died. >And wouldn't start. It was bad. We were full on dead in the >water :( > >Called the TD, he said Rick Kendrick would come get us. We >were about 1/2 mile offshore. A lot of guys were running in >to the weigh in for the 1pm flight but I didn't want to flag >people down because I figured they just had a little time to >get in. > >A few minutes later Jared Litner drives right past and I waved >him over. It was kind of surreal since I know Jared from >years past fishing Central Coast in the old Wilderness >Outfitters days. It just seemed like about the most random >thing for him to drive by right then a half mile offshore >randomly at Clear Lake. We talked and he said he could help >out. > >Jared was out there fun fishing and enjoying his day and this >is just a pain in the butt kind of thing, to get flagged down >like that. Especially after driving like 9 million miles to >New York and back to fish the Elites on Onieda. But he >stopped for me when he could very easily just drove on by and >I downright thought it was a nice thing to do. > >A minute later Rick K pulled up so it all worked out. Rick >brought Nico in with our fish and later came to tow me in. >Having had boats of various sorts since 1998 it was >embarrassing to get towed in for the first time! But all >things considered it was a lucky break because we could weigh >our fish and the boat died only a few miles from the ramp, in >good weather on a day when guys like Jared and Rick were there >to help out. > >I feel there may have been some karma in effect from the day >earlier this year when Nico and I were out at San Pablo with >my 3 year old son and we towed some drunk idiots back to the >ramp in 20mph wind. Karma plays on the water :) > >So thank you Jared and Rick K. Sincerely. > >At the ramp the mechanics from Bob's did some troubleshooting >and it turned out the air compressor was toast, seized up to >where the engine couldn't start. Bummer. Tom and Al the >mechanics were super cool. Thank you guys! We had 16lbs for >day 1, not very good but not terrible. 28 was leading. >Plenty of bags over 20. > >what worked > >[a >href="http://www.tacklewarehouse.com/Zoom_Swamp_Crawler/descpage-ZSWC.html?from=calfish"]Zoom >Swamp Crawler 5 inch green pumpkin[/a] >[a >href="http://www.tacklewarehouse.com/River2Sea_S-Waver/descpage-R2SW.html?from=calfish"]River2Sea >S-Waver in Party Crasher[/a] >[a >href="http://www.tacklewarehouse.com/Sugoi_Fluorocarbon_Clear_Drop_Shot_Line_130yd/descpage-YSDS.html?from=calfish"]8lb >test sugoi drop shot line[/a] >[a >href="http://www.tacklewarehouse.com/Zoom_Brush_Hogs/descpage-ZBBH.html?from=calfish"]Zoom >Brush Hog - watermelon red flake[/a] >[a >href="http://www.tacklewarehouse.com/Yamamoto_Senko/descpage-YAS.html"]Yamamoto >Senko - 7 inch green pumpkin[/a] >[a >href="http://www.tacklewarehouse.com/Owner_Weighted_Beast_Hook_w__Twistlock/descpage-OWBWT.html?from=calfish"]Owner >Weighted Best with twistlock - 8/0[/a] >[a href=""][/b] >[a href="http://www.hiroshimacustoms.com/"]Hiroshima Customs >weedless[/a]
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