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NOTHING
LIKE A GOOD OLD FASHIONED BUTT WHOOPIN!
By: Ron Wilson
March 31, 2005…. With the weatherman predicting beautiful weather I
figured it was time to get a good black bass fix for Tim Paes, our
webmaster and Nor-cal Bass Tournament director extraordinaire.
I
don’t think Tim has been bass fishing all year as he has been busy doing
his websites, five all together and also taking on extra duties at work,
you know how that goes, get a promotion and then you have to do twice the
amount of work for the same pay.
Anyway I talked Tim into fishing the Nor-Cal Team Tournament at Lake Don
Pedro last Saturday. We didn’t have much of a chance as neither of did any
prefishing. We did our pre-fishing the day of the event!
We started the event off in Ramos Creek. After a few casts I managed to
nail a nice 3 pounder in a creek channel about 30 feet deep. It’s a
better start than I have had in the last few tournaments.
The lunker fell for a Keeper red, blue and green flake 082 6 inch worm,
which has been my stand by bait this year.
We went to the next point where I had a fish suck the bait in, but when I
set the hook the line snapped. That’s one thing I don’t like about
darthead fishing with light line. When the fish sucks it in to deep, the
line is right at the toothy part and can easily break.
I
picked up a rod with a watermelon candy Brushog and tossed it back in and
a small keeper grabbed it. I check the mouth, but it wasn’t the same one
that had taken the bait a minute ago.
We moved to Rogers Creek near the buoy lines with no luck. Back out in the
lake I had a smallmouth on a rocky point and then it was back to Ramos to
try to get the one that got away.
It wasn’t interested but a couple smaller ones were. A smallie and a
largemouth and we had a limit.
We ran up to middle bay and scored a nice smallie and Tim finally culled
one of my small bass with another smallie. He bragged proudly, “We’ll I
got one in the box,” I said, “It won’t be there long!”
We headed by the outhouse to get out of the wind but the fish just weren’t
on the bite for us there.
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What an awesome limit of black bass, to bad it
wasn't ours! |
I
suggested Jenkins Hill where I put another largemouth in the boat that had
one eye to cull Tim‘s fish. I think he muttered something about me now
picking on the cripples.
Tim caught another small smallie to shake and it was time to head in as he
had to set up to MC the event and I was on the bump table.
We weighed in close to 11 pounds first and the lead was a short one as two
bags later it was 13 pounds and then 15 pounds and then 18 pounds and
after a couple more a couple guys pulled up and said they needed 5 bags!
I
had a tub full of hawgs to look at; the biggest weighed almost 10 pounds.
Their 5 fish weight was over 37 pounds! This ended up being a new Nor-Cal
Bass 5 fish limit.
The pair said they had 5 fish for 34 pounds by 7:30 am and culled three
5-pounders for their final weight. They said they would’ve had over 40
pounds but they lost a big hawg that threw their swimbait right at the
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