February 7, 2012

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Crappie Day at Lake Isabella

Went over to Isabella Friday because I heard the crappie bite was ON. While the fishing was fun the entire trip didn’t quite go as well as planned. I arrived at the lake and get a text from my friend that was supposed to meet me at the lake stating that he had a tire blow out on the way to the … [Read more...]

Lake Isabella, Road Closures

As most of you know, Lake Isabella in California is my home lake, actually it’s my closest body of water, I've been fishing it since 1979 and I have quite a few friends that live over there so that’s why I refer to it as my home lake. Anyhow, today I got an email from a friend with pictures of … [Read more...]

Lost a Good Man. RIP PWBuilding my friend.

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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...]