Some of you guys know I've been fishing a lot of tourneys lately at Don Pedro. CV and I won the WON Bass, 100%, Nor-Cal Bass, and Angler's Choice. The other one I fished was the ABA with SWMB8R in my jon boat and we took 5th after losing an 11-12lb fish.

I know everyone wants to know what we are doing and where we are fishing. I'd be talking about it too if I was fishing those tourneys and the same guys were winning every one. I also know that some guys have seen us hook some fish in the tourneys so people are barking up our tree so to speak. That's all part of tournament fishing and I expect that in tournaments people will try to get on our stuff and see what we are doing.

So let me tell you as much as I feel like telling about what we are doing. The bottom line is that we are winning on swimbaits and sight fishing. When the fish are active we're catching them shallow. When the fish shut off, we're going deep. This is exactly what I said at the awards Saturday and its the truth. Pedro is extremely clear and those fish move up and down daily, even hourly. I am not going to say what we're catching them on, what spots, what our patterns are etc so please stop emailing and asking :) I don't have an obligation to anyone to say what I'm doing and so rather than lying, I'm just saying hey, I'm not telling.

Now to the topic of cheating. A few weeks ago one of the anglers fishing the 100% bass tournament caught a fish that had a wire clip in its lip and a piece of braided line coming off the wire. It was apparent that the fish had been tied up and had managed to break the line and get away. This weekend one of the teams fishing the Angler's Choice found a mesh cage back in Woods with live bass in it. They dumped the fish and brought the cage in to the TD and everyone got to see it at weigh ins. The bass in it were apparently 2 and 3lb bass (baffling since catch 10 to 13lbs on beds right now at Pedro is not very difficult). There was another tournament at the lake Saturday and its possible that whoever was cheating was in that tournament. No one was caught in either incident.

I am bringing this up because there could not be any more clear indications that TD's with upcoming tourneys at Don Pedro should be giving the polygraph. I am by no means accusing anyone in particular of cheating, I don't know but a handful of the fishermen in the Motherlode region anyway. But with two definite cheating incidents in the last month, something should be done. I've had the pleasure of meeting some of the local guys at Pedro and there's a lot of regular hard-fishin guys out there playing by the rules. But there's also some scumbags trying to cheat everyone out of their money. That's BS and I hope the TD's will use the polygraph more.

-Rob