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<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" width=185 BGCOLOR="#CC3333" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <I><B>  <SCRIPT TYPE="text/javascript" SRC="http://ad.outsidehub.com/st?ad_type=ad&ad_size=120x60&section=216519"></SCRIPT>   </B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Come on in or sign up...</B></I></div> <div> <B> <a href="http://www.websitetoolbox.com/tool/mb/snoozersmith" target="_top"><img src="http://www.websitetoolbox.com/images/boards/mb5.gif" border="0" alt="Message Board" title="Message Board"></a>  </B></div> <div> <I><B>Who says that girls can't catch fish? </B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Scroll down...</B></I></div> <div> <B> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="150" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 215 ><NOBR><div> <B><IMG SRC="4d57cd10.jpg" border=0 width="124" height="209" ALT="Jen 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News</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP BGCOLOR=#CC3333 WIDTH="236"><div> <B>Our Sponsors</B></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 BGCOLOR=#FFFFFF HEIGHT= 2811 WIDTH="513"><div> <B><IMG SRC="56178570.gif" border=0 width="120" height="87" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="b66bc300.png" border=0 width="188" height="48" ALT="Bitmap Image" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>Kim Bain of Alabama Pulls Off Upset Win at Women’s Bassmaster Tour </B></div> <div> <B>In the co-angler division, Denese Freeman of Lawton, Okla.,</B></div> <div> <B>scored a wire-to-wire victory </B></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id33_2008_womens_bassmaster_tour_stop_1.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Womens Bassmaster Tournament Results : L"><I><B>Final Standings</B></I></A></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="b6e15b90.png" border=0 width="277" height="185" ALT="Kim Bain ESPN/BASS PHOTO" ALIGN="RIGHT" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> LEWISVILLE, Texas — Toting more than 17 pounds of bass to the scales Saturday, Kim Bain of Alabaster, Ala., leapfrogged over 19 other pros to win the Women’s Bassmaster Tour presented by Academy Outdoors event on Lewisville Lake.</div> <bR> <div> The 27-year-old Australian native squeaked past first-day leader Patti Campbell of Waxahachie, Texas, by just 3 ounces. Bain’s total was 27-11 to Campbell’s 27-8.</div> <bR> <div> “I can’t believe it,” said a shocked Bain, who took home $51,000 in cash and merchandise, including a Triton/Mercury boat rig. Saturday’s victory was not only her first BASS win, it was also her first WBT event.</div> <bR> <div> Second-day leader Cindy Hill of Smyrna, Tenn., managed just one fish Saturday, for a 26-14 total and third place. Fourth was Christiana Bradley of Bealeton, Va., with 26-12. Jan Heavener of Sherwood, Ark., was fifth with 24-9.</div> <bR> <div> The leaders racked up the most points in the race for 2008 Toyota Women’s Bassmaster Tour Angler of the Year. Besides a 2009 Toyota Tundra, the AOY will be awarded a berth in the 2009 Bassmaster Classic, Feb. 20-22 on the Red River out of Shreveport-Bossier City, La., becoming the first woman to qualify for the prestigious world championship of bass fishing.</div> <bR> <div> With a “day job” of writing and hosting radio and TV programming, Bain has been competing in U.S. bass tournaments for several years. She has her sights set on the Classic berth.</div> <bR> <div> “It’s been my goal ever since I was a little girl to be in a Bassmaster Classic,” she said.</div> <bR> <div> Bain was surprised at her upset win. Her first-day catch was 6-7, good enough for 18th place in the three-day competition on tough, rough, wind-swept Lewisville Lake. On the second day she weighed in just 4-3 and dropped to 20th. Fighting a cold Saturday and feeling slightly discouraged, she said she decided to “just survive the day.”</div> <bR> <div> “When I caught my first fish, it took the pressure off, so I decided to just cruise around and fish at my own pace,” she said. “I did nothing different today than what I had done the past two days.”</div> <bR> <div> One of her primary patterns was flipping to pockets of brush about half a mile from the launch site on Lewisville Lake. “The rising water helped me there, and I was protected from the wind,” she said. She worked Reaction Innovations’ Sweet Beaver plastics, blue and black and watermelon red/black.</div> <bR> <div> She also fished Tower Bay and Stewart Creek, and points with flooded brush in various spots around the lake.</div> <bR> <div> Coming up short by 3 ounces made second-place finisher Campbell recall a bass that broke off after the line wrapped around the shaft of her trolling motor.</div> <bR> <div> “I’ve thought a lot about that fish,” she said. “But these things happen. It could have gone better, but I’m happy with second.”</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="b71faa70.png" border=0 width="250" height="167" ALT="Denese Freeman aqnd Jerry deBin BASS/ESPN Photo" ALIGN="LEFT" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> In the co-angler division, Denese Freeman of Lawton, Okla., scored a wire-to-wire victory and her first BASS tournament title. She took home a $25,500 prize package, which included a Skeeter/Yamaha boat rig.</div> <bR> <div> Freeman’s three-day total of 18 pounds, 10 ounces, trounced the co-angler field even though she brought in only a single fish weighing 1-8 on Saturday, which she figured might be enough.</div> <bR> <div> “I knew I had to catch at least one fish to bump up my weight at least a little bit,” said Freeman, who owns a computer graphics business that designs Web sites for professional anglers. </div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id33_2008_womens_bassmaster_tour_stop_1.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Womens Bassmaster Tournament Results : L"><I><B>Final Standings</B></I></A></div> <bR> <div> <I>Sponsors for the Women’s Bassmaster Tour</I><I> include Academy Sports & Outdoors, Toyota Tundra, Advance Auto Parts, Lowrance, Mercury, Skeeter, Yamaha, OPTIMA Batteries, Triton Boats, Legend Boats and Mustang.</I></div> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <I><IMG SRC="5ddf4050.gif" border=0 width="500" height="5" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></I></div> <bR> <div> <B>Lady Angler lands the third 2007-2008 ShareLunker from Lake Fork</B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000080" FACE="Arial" ><B><IMG SRC="b5afada0.jpg" border=0 width="250" height="218" ALT="Pamela Plummer Photo by David Campbell, TPWD" ALIGN="RIGHT" HSPACE="10" VSPACE="0"></B></FONT></div> <bR> <div> Saturday evening, April 5, 2008, Pamela Plummer of Fort Worth was fishing in seven feet of water off a dock on Lake Fork when her ZOOM watermelon red plastic worm got hung up in some vegetation—or so she thought. “Then my pole bent, and I realized I had a fish,” she said. “It jumped and I realized I had a big fish. It jumped three times before I got it in. 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Battle lines on this issue were drawn in the sand long ago – some northern laws that prohibit it date back to the 1800s – with no end to the argument in sight. </div> <bR> <div> Those against fishing for bass during the spawn contend that it disrupts the breeding cycle, resulting in fewer fish in the future. However, studies indicate that fishing during the spawn, even if specifically for trophies, does not appear to harm the bass populations. Obviously, taking a spawn-ready female from the bed will, if she dies, reduce the numbers of young bass produced. But bass produce thousands of spawn every year, leaving the surplus millions of juvenile fish to become food for other species – so numbers aren’t an issue. Further research has shown that if a big female hasn't spawned yet and is released in good shape, then it is likely she will spawn.</div> <bR> <div> Contrary to some beliefs, a bedding bass is not easy to catch, particularly the big females. It is true that the small males are often aggressive in their guardian duties, but the trophy fish is very difficult to catch. To catch fish during this time of year, I use two methods, depending on whether or not the water is clear enough to see the beds.</div> <bR> <div> If the water is reasonably clear, I look for hard-bottomed coves, a place where the bottom will be mostly pea gravel and chunk rock. Once there, I get on the deck of my boat and watch for the mostly round nests, areas that have been cleared off by bass fanning their tails. Once I spot a nest, I either look for a bass or its shadow. Once I spot the fish – be it a small male or a large female – I use my spinning reel, spooled with 10-pound Berkley Trilene 100% Fluorocarbon line (especially if the fish have already been pressured) or a casting reel spooled with 17- or 20-pound 100% Fluorocarbon, and cast a white, Texas-rigged Berkley PowerBait Flippin’ Tube, with the hook barely piercing the skin of the bait. </div> <bR> <div> I position my boat far enough away from the nest so as to not spook the bass, but close enough that I can still see what is going on. After casting just beyond the nest (if the fish hasn’t already gone for the bait), I hop the tube into the nest, working it through the nest area searching for the “sweet spot.” The sweet spot – for some unknown reason – is an area of the nest that, when a bait reaches it, will cause the fish to attack. It may take several minutes or several hours to get the bass to react, but when it does, it will turn itself sideways and scoop the bait off the bottom in an effort to remove the intruder from the nest – not always to eat it. Because the hook is barely in the bait, it will be easier to set the hook.</div> <bR> <div> If the first approach doesn’t work, a like to turn to a dark colored Berkley Gulp! Lizard and try the same tactics. However, unlike the white tube, the dark lizard is harder to see in the water. If the water is too murky to see the nests, try Carolina rigging in the shallows. And if you’re after smallmouth bass, look for underwater cover to hold bedding fish.</div> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="11" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="VOID" RULES="NONE" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=CENTER HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="7"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="16" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="7" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <div> Fishing the spawn can be fun, difficult and rewarding all at the same time. Just be sure to practice catch and release so that other anglers will have the opportunity to enjoy the fishing, too.</div> <bR> <div> Berkley Pro Jay Yelas is the reigning FLW Tour Angler of the Year and a former Bassmaster Classic champion from Corvalis, Ore.</div> <bR> <div> <I>Article compliments of The Fishing Wire</I></div> <bR> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 BGCOLOR=#333399 HEIGHT= 17 WIDTH="513"><div> <B>News you can use....</B></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 48 WIDTH="513"><div> <I><B>Fishing Hot Spots</B></I> Releases New and Revised Fishing Maps For Arkansas....<B>but, still no map for Lake Hamilton</B> (site of 2008 WBT Championship).</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 BGCOLOR=#9933FF HEIGHT= 33 WIDTH="513"><div> <I><B>"All our dreams can come true - if we have the courage to pursue them."  </B></I><I> Walt Disney</I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 BGCOLOR=#CC3333 HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="513"><div> <B>"Meet The Lady Bass Angler"</B></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 BGCOLOR=#A6CAF0 HEIGHT= 1173 WIDTH="513"><div> <I><B>Profiles of professional, amateur, and weekend lady bass anglers.</B></I></div> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B><IMG SRC="b5864470.gif" border=0 width="100" height="71" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Name: Lisa Diehl<IMG SRC="b556c5b0.jpg" border=0 width="364" height="347" ALT="Lisa Diehl" ALIGN="RIGHT" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Hometown: </B>Pittsburgh, PA</div> <bR> <div> <B>Occupation</B>: Educational Counselor, Educational Opportunity Center of SWPA</div> <bR> <div> <B>Family</B>: Phil, two dogs, and lots of family in/around Johnstown, PA</div> <bR> <div> <B>Years fishing:</B> I’ve been fishing ever since I can remember. 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