I don’t know about your neck of the woods but out here in California the crappie are getting ready to move up into the shallows, if they have not already to perform the yearly spawning ritual. While at the lower elevation lakes they might have already be staging at my home lake they have not yet … [Read more...]
California Aqueduct Fishing
On line I had reading a lot of reports of some very nice Striped bass coming out of the California Aqueduct in the Antelope Valley area so I did some searching on Google Earth thanks to suggestions from a couple people I had met online. After seeing some likely looking spots I decided to take a … [Read more...]
Lost a Good Man. RIP PWBuilding my friend.
Jim Levandoski, aka PWBuilding, PDUB and Pdub. I don’t know how many of you knew Pdub but he was a gentleman that I, as well as a lot of others, met online at various fishing forums and he had a gift for finding and catching crappie. I never had the honor of talking to him in person but I had seen … [Read more...]
Dick Trask, the inventor of the split shot rig
I recently saw a story in Bass West magazine as well as a reposting on a West Coast Bass Fishing Forum where they did a write up on the Inventor of the Split Shot Dick Trask. For those of you who don’t know who he was let me fill you in a little. He was the original inventor of the split … [Read more...]
Fishing with Ryan Newman
On Saturday April 23, 2003 I had the honor of taking the 2002 NASCAR Winston Cup Raybesto’s Rookie of the Year, driver of the Number 12 All-Tel, Ford at the time, Ryan "Rocket Man" Newman out for a day of bass fishing on Lake Perris the day before his race at the California Speedway. I also … [Read more...]
My Big Bass
The day I caught my big bass ... I remember it like it was yesterday. It was back in the early 80's, I don't remember the exact day but I do remember it was in early spring. A friend and I decided to go over to Lake Isabella, basically my home lake, for a day of tubing, and what a memorable day … [Read more...]
