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Spring 2025 Hi All, It looks like spring is on the horizon and we will soon be on our way to a new spawn! It was exciting to see some of the big bass that already have been caught in the early waves such as the double-digit on the cover with WesternBass mag contributor John Liechty and also the teener that has been making its way through social media pages caught by Gary Collins Jr. at Clear Lake. It is so good to see that the big ones like that are still out there! I hope to see even more as the season goes on. It looks like all the tournament organizations are off to a good start with participation and catches. I am hoping that the local lakes figure out a plan regarding Golden Mussels to allow us all to use there facilities this year. I am anxious Sites reservoir turns into the next bass fishing destination soon, like we discussed in the last issue of the magazine, When thinking about your fishing needs, please keep in mind the advertisers that help keep this magazine and website available to you. I would like to express my own appreciation for another year of support from the WesternBass advertisers and welcome our newest advertiser, joining us in 2025 – G-Ratt Baits. As always, tight lines! Wayne

Winter 2025 Hi All, Welcome to the start of a new fishing season! I’m sorry to see the exit of the longtime MLF (Formerly FLW) Western Division; but very happy to see the new opportunities that have opened for western tournament anglers such as Angler’s Press Pro Teams and Future Pro Tour Top 75 as well as others such as the BAM Super 60 and the expanding Kayak events of the events. I’m also proud to spearhead Fisherman’s Warehouse support of fish conservation as the Conservation Sponsor of the BAM Tournament Trail Live Release Boat. You can read more about that in the feature article in this issue. We have some new exciting things coming down the pike. The first issue of the year is always a great place to feature some of the new gear that typically debuts at ICAST in the late summer and has begun to store shelves by winter. We hope you enjoy some of the new products highlighted in this issue, that we saw at the annual sportfishing tradeshow and are looking forward to trying out on the water. I would like to close by wishing all of you Merry Christmas, a great Happy New Year and a personal best for the upcoming season. Tight Lines,And of course, tight lines! Wayne

Fall 2024 Hi All, Yes, the season of the fall feed is already upon us! But coincidentally it seems like mid-summer as I write this while the air temp is over 100 degrees, and there are several triple digit days still ahead of us. Even so, we all know that the weather will cool, the fish will feed, and the fall bite will catch up to us in no time. For those of us that have been on the California Delta, we can see the bait fish and fry are already plentiful, helping us determine lure profile, and color. This season is always a favorite! We hope this issue gives you some insight into a few of the new products in the industry, a new fishery to catch bass in the Golden State at, an insider’s look at how Forward Facing Sonar is not only changing the tournament side of our sport, but also the tackle industry and so much more info that in the end helps you hookup with more and bigger bass. We would like to welcome two new advertisers with us – ValleY Hill and Limit Out Marine. And as always, we encourage you to support the companies that support WesternBass and the sport of bass fishing. Without them none of this would be possible. Good luck to those getting ready for their season-ender fall Tournament of Championships. And of course, tight lines! Wayne

Features

Golden Mussel found at Tahoe According to officials, this is the first interceptions of the new invasive species by Lake Tahoe inspectors since the mussels were detected for the first time in North America in the Sacramento area in October 2024.

CDFW’s Special Operations Unit and Delta Bay Enhanced Enforcement Program are on the lookout illegal fishing activity along the Sacramento River.

CDFW Delta Bay Enhanced Enforcement Program Special Operations Unit was commended by the Colusa County District Attorney’s Office

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Industry Press Releases

Schlapper wire-to-wire win at Sabine River Wisconsin's Pat Schlapper has won the MAXAM Tire Bassmaster Elite at Sabine River with a four-day total of 38 pounds, 12 ounces.

Micah Jones Smashes 38.34 Pounds to Lead WON Bass California Open at Clear Lake Clear Lake is once again showing its World Class prowess.

NPFL and Fishing Chaos Form Strategic Partnership Fishing Chaos is onboard to help take the NPFL to the next level in 2025.

The Ray Scott Story" is gonna be one for the books! Ray Scott, the man who started it all with B.A.S.S. and changed the face of fishing forever!

BREAKING NEWS: Roku and Bassmaster Audiences can soon hook free access to live coverage of Bassmaster professional bass fishing tournaments thanks to a new streaming rights partnership between Roku, America’s No. 1 TV streaming platform, and Bassmaster, the world’s leading authority on sportfishing.

Recent Lake Reports

California Delta By TIDALBass First day out after being out of the area for a couple weeks on vacation. Took a little time to figure out what the fish were doing but as the tide got higher the top water bite was consistent above the weeds on the flats. Fish were relating to current cuts and were subtly taking the bait vs blowing up and hitting it hard. Overall good day with about 16 pounds for the best 5. Always fun to catch them on top. TIDAL CA Delta Fishing

Clear Lake By WB Staff basstrophy » Mon May 19, 2025 7:30 pm The team of Reed Frazier and Nick Doring (Quality Control) was victorious at Clear Lake. They dominated with the strolling technique to best a field of 67 anglers. They had found a few key docks that held the winning fish. “My game plan was to find a location that was protected from the wind.” stated Frazier, “My main location was blow out with huge waves crashing in the area.” “I picked up a big fish on the stroll on the Mooch minnow that was around 7 to 8 pounds, it wrapped around my bow mount trolling motor and jumped and came off when it hit the side of the kayak. This was the first time that I had used a bow mount trolling motor.” “I had not fished that area, but this was about the only area that had docks and was fishable.” exclaimed Frazier, “I had found fish near docks in about 5 to 8-feet of water.” “I was using the 1/16 ouch weighted jig head with the Mooch minnow.” remarked Frazier, “The first fish I had caught was under a dock and the second fish was between two docks, I saw both fish on the FFS.” “The biggest fish I had caught was with a group of fish that were roaming.” mentioned Frazier, “The docks that were better were the docks near the back of the cove with several slips in the area.” “The bite slowed down when the sun came up compared to when the cloud cover was overhead in the morning.” articulated Frazier, “My team partner Nick Doring and I both caught a limit of fish and two of Nicks fish accounted for our limit. He caught fish on a drop shot near a dock.” “Doring was fishing a school of fish that were eating bait fish in the area.” declared Frazier, “Fishing was good for us in the area that we fished due to the forecasted wind and rain.” The team of Drew Boles and Paul Mata (Slaughter Houze) finished in second with a total of 101.00” besting third place by their big fish a 23” toad. They tossed swimbaits and the LV 500 to capture their second-place finish. “Early in the morning, I caught a limit of fish on the LV 500.” claimed Boles, “I was in 6-feet of water casting out to deep water to catch fish on the LV.” “There was a small area that the fish were ambushing bait.” pronounced Boles, “I was ripping the LV with big rips to get my bites. It seemed the harder I worked the bait the fish would react to the bait better.” “Once that bite stopped, I started to fish in 8 to 10-feet of water and slowly worked the bait along the tulles.” expressed Boyles, “I had to spot lock on the tulle point and cast repeatedly in the same area to get the fish to bite.” “That was my day, I fished two locations all day.” said Boyles Third place went the team of Isaish West and Shaun Leytem (Shisiah) with a total of 101.00”. They used a frog in tulles to catch their nice limit. “I had practiced the weekend before and found fishing tough; I only caught 3 keepers.” proclaimed Leytem, “I relaunch and found a bed fish near Nice.” I relaunch once again and headed farther North.” “My partner had caught a few fish on a frog, so I started North and worked my way towards Lakeport.” reported Leytem, “I caught two fish on a frog quickly on the black frog. I changed up to a white frog and started to get more bites.” “The area I had found had hitch and duck weed pushed up against the trees and tulles.” pointed out Leytem, “I had to make repeated cast to the same area to get the fish to bite. “The angle of the cast was the key to get the fish to eat the frog.” alleged Leytem, “I did have two fish blow holes in the duck weed and I would follow up with a 6” Senko to get those fish to bite.” “There was only a few very few specific locations that the fish were set up on.” informed Leytem, “When they ate the frog, they had it in their crushers, they ate it really good.”

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Wappapello Bass Circut Top 3 Interviews By RB Bass Outdoors Angler Jeff Jewell By Vern Westberg II

Wappapello Bass Circuit Results The WBC had 97 boats show up to the Redman Creek Recreation Area for the third tournament of the season. Finally an event on Wappapello with out some kind of weather or water extreme, so far this season it seems there was always something, extremely low or high water, torrential rains […]

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