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Manteca, Ca. 5-9pm (feb. 26)
Rancho Cucamonga, Ca. 1-5pm (feb. 27)
and Denver. Co. 1-5pm (feb. 28)
Feb. 26-2b… I’ll be showing movie highlights and telling stories with anglers from the movie and even 2-time (and current) world-record holder, Larry Kurosaki, who will share tips on how to get big…really big….really really big….bass.
Seeya there! Check your local store listings to confirm all times!
This years’s summary report: VERY GOOD
Hope you got a line in water.
Giant tarpon hunting at Homosassa still slow. Where did they go?!
Note: Bonefish coming. Hurricanes and patience conspire as Fall season soon - arrives..
Ok, records are not everything. But they are a lot of what has made California famous.
And it’s a state with guys that only fish for records. Crazy? Well, to each his own, but clearly the culture of the large largemouth is alive out west. I think it is part of bass’s appeal. Get a rod and a lure and you’re in the game. Anyone’s neighborhood pond could be “HER” house… We interviewed a man who caught one world record bass and found out how it changed his life. A bass weighing over 20 pounds. And we met and fished the man who caught a world record on a fly (Note: it didn’t change his life - hey, it’s fly fishing!). Both guys fish more than anyone I know, and it as a wonder they stopped fishing long enough to talk. It wasn’t easy. But Yep, they are both in the movie
In any case, the real reason we went west is not so much to chase records, but because we wanted to share some bizarro fisheries, that you might not have seen, and the giants lurking underneath only added to the intrigue!
Spot #1: Ojai California. A clear water (yes that’s right) lake with cool misty mornings and afternoons with wild flowers jumpin up from the hills and bass jumping up from the water…What made it even more unusual is we were one of the only boats there! Good “fortune” - hich I hesitate to mention - was the result of responsible marine fishery management. There was a quarantine on th lake and we just happened to have a boat that was already there. The isssue was alien quagga and zebra mussels, which multiple rapidly, clogging waterworks and destroying lake ecosystems. The mussels have been found in about a dozen lakes in Nevada, Arizona and California in the last 16 months. So, our boat couldn’t leave any time soon…Fine by me. One of the only 20+ pound bass ever caught was in these waters.
Spot #2 - The California Delta. Talk about a crazy place. It is a labryinth of levees and waterways that were built over time to bring transport and commerce inland using the waters from the San Juaquin and Sacramento Rivers. Well, It evolved into the ultimate maze of water and habitat, and a place where many people just went to live “off the grid”. It is falling apart in places, but around every corner is a new spot or an abandoned boat..If you know where you’re going though, there are some gorilla bass in there. And if you don’t, well…our camera boat fell behind a couple times and I was left to quietly ponder my place in the universe…(Not much to report on that one! I think I am here to get sunburned and dehydrated in the middle of nowhere and cajole anglers into sharing secrets for you ;-)(Bobby Barrack, or Delta angler would eventually circle back for us, but not sometimes before gathering tales of big bass and explantations of going left instead of right). Dude, what good is it if it’s not on film?! But hey, you gotta be obsessed to be good…I am just glad we saw as much as we did. That is one place I’d like to see more of…..
Please feel free join in this forum and take it wherever you want.
I’ll add more soon - and of course, join in on any discussion.
Cheers,
Jamie
You’ll see fly rod pros match skills with spin gear pros - and show why the next big thing in light tackle fishing is upon us: A fish that lies just out of sight and hits you every time like the first swing in a bar fight. We loved every minute of it.
What is the craziest thing that has happened to you with this fish?
We are honored to announce that Chasing Silver is now a part of the IGFA Hall of Fame and Museum in Dania Beach, Florida.
Individual episodes from the award-winning series will appear on the IGFA’s big screen daily between 10am to 6pm.
Website: http://www.igfa.org/
