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By Jody Only of the Stockton Examiner Larry Viviano, hands over $4000 to the first place finisher of the West Coast Bass Pro Am tournament, on the California Delta, March 27 – 28. Coverage of the event can be seen this Sunday, April 18 on Anglers West Television. Photo by Team Brewer Related articles West Coast welcomes Bassmaster…
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Are we all a bunch of “Drag Queens”. By Richard Ziert, 4/2010 The term “Drag Queen” is pretty funny in this regard because its common definition does not apply to anglers except in use of our reels drag device. I’ve purposely used the word “device” here because we are in fact the means behind the…
Springtime Bass By Mark Lassagne This is the time of year when most of the mature bass will go shallow. Neil Manji, Chief Fisheries biologist with the California Department of Fish and Game says that for many bass, this (spring) is the only time they will go shallow all year meaning many large bass live…
Arizona Triangle By Mark Lassagne Sheer walls chiseled from the hand of God. Glimmering dark red cliffs three hundred feet straight up; careening down into pellucid waters where a profusion of bass reside. Small coves that wind for miles into nowhere, wind caves you drive a boat into. Thousands of flats, rock slides and points…
JIGS “SNAKEBITE BAITS” How did the name come to be ? It was a warm late afternoon Sept 5th 2005. Jigs, (Phil Hill) went out to his garden to pick some tomatoes. The previous day, Phil had noticed quite a few tomatoes worms on the vines, and removed them and sprayed the vines accordingly to…
Did the bass change? Yes, of course they did. Are they gone? No “But things change every year”, structure moves, creek channels change and the bait moves along with other things. The fish are still there but they may have gone deeper, down the back or if the structures gone they may be suspending most…
Bassroom MESQUITE, TX — Cover Your Bass introduces “The Bassroom” the complete portable privacy system that allows you to spend more time on the water fishing by eliminating those inconvenient moments. Cover Your Bass is the culmination of research and development from innovators Matt and Kirk Smith, a father/son team of fishermen from Texas,…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: West Coast Bass Offers Custom Harley at Clear Lake Season Opener Roseville, CA – January 7, 2010 – West Coast Bass announced today that it will offer a custom Harley Davidson as first place prize at its kick-off event for 2010. West Coast Bass, the premier televised bass fishing pro-am tournament circuit…
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BassEdge POD Cast done with Aaron Martin Here are some videos I did with Tony Stoltz from www.westernbass.com Bass guide and touring pro Mark Lassagne takes on his prefish of Lake Shasta and goes over pre fish techniques and how to find the bass there. Mark takes on a day on the CA Delta bass catching…
The Fifth World Black Bass Sport Fishing Championship Story by Russ Bassdozer Photos courtesy of Mark Lassagne and Dago Luna November 11, 2009 “I have not been in an international event before, and I don’t know if there are any other tournaments where you have different countries competing from all over the world,” says Yamamoto…