Chris Lambert of Capital City Bass Club won the B.A.S.S. Western Open this past weekend in Kenniwick with a 3 day total of 42 lbs. He took home $46,000 and a new boat. Four of the top five finishers were from Washington, Skeet Reese Finished Fifth

Daryl S.

Pretty interesting tournament.  Jeff Boyer came from 80-something on day 1 to take 16th place.  There was a pretty heavy presence of Washington anglers - most of which fared pretty well.  I like that!

But don't take the final weight of the winner as an indication that the fishing was excellent.  The majority of the daily limits were less than 10 pounds. 

Interesting note:  One angler traveled from Australia to participate!  And he took 21st place!

Glenn, one of the main reasons for the low total weight was the constant change of river flowage.  It started at 47,000 CFS and increased each day to over 60,000 CFS, causing the fish to move each day.  The winner caught all his fish on a submerged underwater current break (12-15 ft)in the Snake River ???.  He told Chris, Byron V., and myself that the size of the spot he fished was no larger than his boat!   Addtionally, on day 2 the winds were high in the morning, causing several anglers to either not go back to their original pattern, or have difficulty fishing them in the strong wind and river currents.  A third reason, again attributed to the rising water, was that several anglers established very shallow water patterns upstream which became inundated and unfishable with the rising water level.
All in all, a 2.80 lb level for 15 SMB is not bad under bluebird skys with fluctuating levels and wind.

Smitty  AKA Code Blackstar

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You're thinking about it all wrong!

This isn't a woman who can regularly beat you at the tournaments; this is a woman who can afford to fly around the world to fish!!!!

*sniff sniff*  do you smell that?  I can smell the peacock bass in S America already....

As I'm now on my 3rd wife and she is definatly a keeper I have to say - "I can neither confirm or deny that statment Mr. Maglio."
Moreover, any information I might be able to provide would definatly be tainted by the alchohol induced fog I was in during my R&R in Sidney in late 1967 8).
The fact that Military Police faced a herculean job in catching and returning folks to Viet Nam following their 7-day R&R visit to Austrailia might lend some credibility to that assertation.   (Not that I know anyone who fell into that catagory)