Learning to Fish Can Last a Lifetime

  Having family or friends to teach fishing is an advantage to kids.  It certainly was for me.  And what I learned a long time ago is still with me to this day thanks to all those who helped me get started.

Fishing Ethics and The Spawn

 

     This topic can be a contentious one and as usual, everyone has an opinion, including me.  But fishing during the spawning period does not have to be as great an issue if simple precautions are taken.

Time Again for the Bass Pro Spring Fishing Classic

  Come down and get some great deals and meet Pro Anglers and company Pro Staffers.  Event dates: February 28 – March 16.

Close Encounters

  A lot can happen in the great outdoors, much of the time all good stuff, but sometimes it all goes wrong.
Also published at Fish Explorer.com

Cooking Salmon Grouper

A catch of Rockfish aboard The Gentleman

  My culinary skills are legendary; legendarily nil.  But experimentation and a little book-learning paid off in the kitchen.  Also published @ FishExplorer

Don Welch Wins California BASS Nation at Pyramid Lake

1st Place Don Welch joins his twin
brother Ron on the 2014 State Team

  Like the rest of the California BASS Nation events this year, frontal conditions created issues with catching numbers of fish, but despite the lack of cooperation from lethargic bass success could be found, including a behemoth smallmouth!

Ron Welch Wins CA BASS Nation event at Clear Lake

     With a game plan in mind and a must win determination, Ron Welch finessed his way to the top of the field at Clear Lake to make the California B.A.S.S. Nation State Team, qualifying to attend the BASS Nation 2014 Western Division Tournament to be held at Noxon Reservoir, Trout Creek, ID.