BAM II Report

I'm 95% positive they were anchovies.

No mistaking the nose and mouth of those fish.

Weird.

The only posibility would be silversides, but their mouths are tiny, I thought.  The fish in this stripers stomach had the bulging nose and very long mouth.

I know that people use frozen anchovies as bait down south for stripers, my guess is that this guy ate a bunch of bait.

MolBasser

mooch
 
the pig head is what happen's when you put a banana in a  sled the pig head is the work of mojo baby

peace love & soul
 

Karma can get UGLY!

 Ok I hope I don't miss anyone. The White tribe, I can't thank you enough for the memories that will last a life time. You guys are the best! Mooch Thanks so much for the education you gave me and my Son. Take it easy on Jelly, I'm the one who told Ty to stick the head in your Yak ( I can not tell a lie.) I thought long and hard about opening  that door and figured" What the hell." hopefully it's the start of a long and friendly jousting match I can tell my grandkids about. Kayak builder thanks for such a valiant effort with the oinker. It turned out wonderfull and I was snacking on it the whole next day. You took off before I could chip in on the cost so next time it's on me. Sufing marmot the cigar and conversation was a real treat.Thank you. Molbasser the Beer was "Da Kind" Those were probably my Anchovies, I had a huge wad of them stripped about 1/2 an hour before you hooked up. I think I was the only one with them for bait.
 I have to admit I had high expectations for this weekend and I was more then pleasently suprised by the effort put out by one and all. Everyone was a treat to meet and wish we could do it every weekend. It was nice to finally meet everyone and wish I had started getting involved much sooner. To Pat and Randy I wish we could have talked politics more but the weekend was so full. I will be down in your neck of the woods soon and we will get a better chance to talk then. To all the rest of you Yahoo's,  Kudos and I can't wait to do it again.
  Now on a more serious note. King of the Hobbit Nation? You bring a tear to my eye and corns to my feet. ( in my best waynes world voice.)    "I'm not worthy, I'm not worthy"      Does this position pay very well? haha  Thanks again for making us feel like were part of the family.  Sincerly Bigfoot, the Hobbit King..... Ooooh Yahhh!

Had a great time at mendo2 that was the most fun I have had in a long time
Thanks to all who put this thing together won’t miss it next year
 
Sorry about the big pics I did not know how to post that many
Sorry to you guys that are too cheap to get cumcast oh I mean comcast

loved it cant wait till next year

HHhhmmmm....

Bait stolen 'eh?  Makes sense.  The fish were not that digested and certainly were anchovies.

Sorry for bogarting your fish dude (not!)

LOL!!!

Cannot wait 'till next year.

MolBasser

I covered for Mooch during the awards, so here are a couple 'fill-ins': *the* Buckle and da Winna'!

Hooray.  Good shots of the amazing buckle.  I can't believe that with one drop he gets that!!!!!  Congrats again, Brian.

And Omar, to be considered as one of the hobbitons you need to post an on the water picture of a fish you've boated and your feet are in the picture with it.  If you get more comments on your feet than the fish.........it's a clue..........

da mooch report:

Took off Friday morning at 3AM (from Millbrea) and made it to the South launch ramp at 5:30AM. The gate to the launch was open so I parked and took a nap. Met Adam / fish hunter and his nephew about half an hour later and we decided to try for some SMB and LMB. We also bumped into Bob Neal as we were paddling out. (the wind was blowing at this time ) Thanks to the intel of Juan / MAKO1, I managed  to catch my biggest SMB to date = a 16 1/2 incher (photod and verified by Adam) and a nice 2# LMB right in front of the Dam. I trolled my "confidence lure" - the mighty shad rap along the rockwall of the dam and hooked up with the LMB and later on, I was drifting along the wall while casting the shad rap towards the lip of the shoreline when I hooked up with the SMB. THanks again Juan 

I took off and fished the "bald Island" right across the dam and caught a few more SMB - all small dinky ones. I then called Adam and told him we should head over to crappie cove to get some cover from the wind. And just before we got there, I got a radio call from Dan. I told him we were on our way to Crappie Cove. As soon as we got there, I made a cast in between two stick-ups and got a LMB to hit. Dan was close by when I saw another LMB trying to eat the one I was reeling in  I quickly released the LMB and Dan and I began bombarding the area but to no avail. On my last cast however, I managed to get a crappie 

I then got a radio call from Mike / Mickfish - he said the gate to the camp grounds was already open, so we all decided to pack it up and head over to base camp.

Saturday - I got to watch Bill hook up - he was a bout 30 feet ahead of me and only about 20 minutes into the paddle towards the rocky point across the camp site.  A few hours after, I hooked up right on the point...unfotunately, it was LMB = but a big one  It measured 20 inches. After that, I fished the shelf right across the camp site but to no avail. I also hit the tower and drifted back and forth but no love there either. I did not give up and fished till the deadline at 3PM. It just wasn't meant to be 

Had a great time as usual - got to meet more NCKA members - old and new. The best thing about these shindigs is that not only do we get to help out Chef and give a little back to the SBA of Ukiah, but we all get to meet the faces behind the names. And of course - the food was EPIC  Many thanks to those who showed support by attending and to the Whites and the Penningtons for another derby well done  Looking forward to next years event.......and I hope Molbasser wins it this time....he has been working really hard on his trash talking 

Looking forward to next years event.......and I hope Molbasser wins it this time....he has been working really hard on his trash talking 

Anyone else up for renaming MolBasser to Mol-LargemouthBasser.  It seems to me he does better with LMB than stripers and I think it fits better with his trash talking personna? 

Just kidding Chris. Besides you really didn't want to win, that buckle wouldn't look good with tie-dye.  As for myself, I'm still looking for the right belt.

Thanks to Family White, Bill and the whole NCKA Crew!Couldn't have been planned better.This was the event I saw on the site when I first clicked it!Only one 14"LMB for me,but I wasn't pissed,after hearing it took seven and five attempts to get their first striper.Great time with GREAT PEOPLE is what I'm in this for.Glad the raffle was sucessful and I thank the "Raffle Gods" for linning-up that 1st prize to me.(I never win anything)

SHOUT-OUT to Mooch! for lugging up an xtra yak to lend to my nephew and then giving him the"Secret Lure" that he caught three different different species(LMB,SMB and a big-crappie) to boost his lure confidence he had the time of his life paddling from the deepest-arm of crappie cove all the way to the island hearing his uncle yelling,"come on you sissy,keep your body straight and don't rock side-to-side so much.Dig harder or we'll never get back to the launch!"along with some other non-family-friendly-rally yells.He kept repeating"it keeps pulling left!"He finally looked down to see the small anchor down about fifteen feet and rolled it up as I laughed my a$$ off!Thats a long paddle draggin a five pound disc for"Moochs' Cabana Boy".

Till the next BAM,
Peace-out,
Adam/FisHunter

Seabreeze,

I guess that I'll have to see what I'm up against at Paddlefest. I'm gluing hair on my feet and knuckles as we speak.

heh...isn't gluing like getting an assist from a power boat?...........

Call it what you will, either way, my dog's not happy.