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I have a tent I can put in the back of my tundra and a thick camping pad/ warm sleeping bag. Works great.

This is too hard... Gladiator The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Seven Samurai Braveheart Road Trip Underrated movie pick: The 13th warrior

Go fish with a guide on the CA Delta! Definitely one of the world's best bass fisheries, and always a chance for a toad. Clear Lake isn't too bad either, but it's a little farther away from SF... Try hooking up with Bobby Barrack or Randy Pringle, on the Delta... google search http://www.thefishinginstructor.com/ http://www.bobbybarrack.com/

Oregon and California annually. OR, CA, TN, AZ, NV right now.

That right there is the problem, KLuo. It could just be because the handle on a spinning reel is longer. I don't know. Maybe I just don't have the same wrist action in my left hand as my right . I'll give it a few more days before I swap it out. I like holding the rod in my right hand, it's very comfortable, I just can't crank it properly for some reason. It's really just due to habit in most cases. I originally used right handed baitcasters and bought a lefty by accident. At the time I was mainly walking the dog with it, and it just felt silly reeling with my left and I could hardly do it. But after 3-4 days it was fine. Now when I use right handed reels again it feels just as awkward. Stick with it

Used it on the muddy waters of Fort Loudon, definitely helps see the line move, go for it

It happened. Matt is a great guy and a hell of a fisherman

Sad but inspirational story.. I read it here. http://www.bryankerchalfund.org/

The fish should be spawning by the second week in May... Definitely some quality fish to be caught around that time.

Those are some chunks.. must be cold those things are dark! Is that a craw bait or a whole different animal?

Alright... Take two on this post.. I wrote a super long one and lost it when BR went into maintenance mode! Going to pump this one out fast. ;D The FLW College Fishing Western Regionals were held on September 19th-21st on the California Delta. It was a 3 day tournament with 20 teams of two. I fish for the University of Oregon. We had three teams who qualified for the regionals, one of which lives on the Delta. FLW provided us with the wrapped championships boats. We were allowed one day of prefishing the day before the tournament started, with off limits starting the week before. The pre-fishing proved to be tough, and the dock talk rumor was not many people were on good fish. It was 100 degrees throughout the weekend. My partner and I decided to run to Discovery Bay and drop shot docks, which is how we had qualified for the tournament when weather conditions proved to be tough the first time around. We knew we could get ~12lbs a day, and hopefully a nice kicker as plenty of big fish have come out of disco. We lost about an hour and half making the run each day. On Day 1, we got on the fish early in the day during the high tide and had limits in the first couple hours. Later in the day we targeted shade pockets at the back of docks and were able to cull little by little. We had 11-14 which was good enough for 6th place. On Day 2, we decided to use the same tactic as we knew we were on a consistent bite and assumed one of the other teams would run into some trouble. We figured we were in perfect position to sneak into the top 5, and escape the pressure of the cameras, although we ended up having a camera boat and camera on our boat the first half of the day. My partner had a couple of kicker fish break off which was tough, but we were once again able to bring in a limit of 9-03. It proved to be good enough for 5th place, as we beat out another Oregon team by a little less then a pound. Day 3... Same deal. We had 6 decent fish within 45 minutes. We were fishing a new bay then we had the previous day, and as we got farther off the main channel the bite started to die. This was our big mistake, as we could have made the adjustment quicker and continued to pound outside points with more current. Having to worry about tides and current definitely makes the Delta a tough place to fish with little pre-fishing. Our 10-03 3rd day limit was enough to move into 4th place and land $8,000 as well as a trip to the National Championships in Tennessee on Fort Lodoun/Tellico Lakes (April 9th). Our goal was to make the top 5 and advance, so I was quite happy with the result. We never got the kicker fish in the boat we needed, which the Delta is definitely capable of producing. The tournament will air on the Versus Network this sunday (October 13th) at 12:30 eastern. My name is Reed Frazier... check it out! If anyone knows the Tellico Lake/Fort Lodoun area I would love to pick your brain! Hopefully will get the chance to prefish during my spring break. FLW and the National Guard really hook it up for us... jerseys, traveling expenses, boats, food, everything. Here are some pics. We fished out of the chevy boat the first two days. Day 3 morning show. We were in the Castrol Boat, and getting interviewed in this picture. Waiting to weigh in 1st on day three. 4th place. Top 5.

We had a tournament up on the Willamette out of Newberg on friday. Supposedly the bite has been tough the last couple weeks but we got into them pretty good. Submerged timber in 15-20 feet of water was the ticket... drop shot/tubes.

I'm on my 4th spanish course for a minor, need 9 total. It's a really practical minor, specially here on the west coast. I feel you don't learn as much in broader minors where there is just so much material to know to truly be an expert. With a spanish minor I expect to be fluent by the end.

Joe Montana, Gretzky and Will Smith's sons all play for Oaks Christian in LA.

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