Well gang. It's been building up to a broiling hot March heat wave in Nor-Cal this week. Yesterday evening the time and temp down the way from my house read 78 degrees. Should make for an interesting event for the Clear Lake Bassmasters Elite Seires. Will the fish lock up and get on beds? Will they be just days away - suspending and lockjaw? Will someone find prespawn fish that want to bite in spite of it all?

For certain, Clear Lake has a huge population of 3lb bass in it right now. You have to expect that anyone who slows down with a drop shot, shakey head, or senko will be able to catch 16-18lbs. But will anyone be able to find a 30lb sack out there? With the lake nearly full, will some interesting backwaters open up - and will they fill up with giant bass on beds?

The BassCast camera is on Skeet today.

http://sports.espn.go.com/outdoors/tournaments/bassCast/index

Fun fun

Should be interesting... I just checked out Skeet's BASSCast a bit ago... So far, from what I was able to see, he got a 3? pounder on a swimbait (looked to be a 6 in. something... couldn't tell)... He seems to be tossing swimbaits a lot this morning... I'm pulling for Skeet, especially after that 1 ounce loss... That's a HORRIBLE deal!...

I wish the BASSCast was a bit more "live", though...

By the way... anyone know what the prizes were for the Delta top finishers?...

dAvE

It looks like the fishing was tough for most today. Like you said Rob looks like there was bunch of 3lb fish. It's got to turn on by the weekend and I'm sure there are more bags like velvick's to come. My fantasy team is all over the board.

Jake J

http://calfishing.com/gallery/v/members/jakej/

My fantasy team choked. At least I can say I lead the calfishing group for 3 days :+

Tight field after 1st...gonna be interesting to see who has the confidence to throw swimmers later in the day. For the sake of my fantasy fishing group hopefully Velvick has a few groups of fish to play with we all know he doesn't lack confidence!

My fantasy team is doing great all but one of my picks are in the top 12. I think Clear lake is going to turn on big time this weekend and expect to see more 25-30 pound sacks.

Lotta ins, lotta outs, lotta what have-yous