| __________________________________________________ October 1, 2002 - VOL. 3 NO. 37 __________________________________________________ YAMAMOTO OPEN SERIES! Do you enjoy catching good bass on Yamamoto soft baits? Do you enjoy competitive team sportfishing? Did you answer "Yesss! Yesss!"? Then the Yamamoto Open is for you! Choose from any one of these four great Yamamoto events presented by U.S. Angler's Choice across our great nation: 1) Lake Oroville, CA - Saturday, November 23, 2002 2) Okeechobee, FL - Saturday, April 12, 2003 (Full Moon!) 3) Alabama - Spring, 2003 (Lake/date to be announced soon) 4) Louis./Texas - Spring 2003 (Lake/date to be announced) Although there are four of them, each event is a separate, singular "stand alone" event. So you can fish just the one event in your area. Of course, if you want to fish more than one, you sure can, but there are no points or anything carried over from one event to the next. Each event is stand-alone. LAKE OROVILLE, CA - SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23RD The first event is set for Lake Oroville, Saturday, November 23rd, 2002. Sign-up forms for Lake Oroville are available at: http://www.anglerschoice.com/yamamoto/ Starting position is assigned by sign-up date, so hurry to sign up soon! Entry fee is $150 per team, plus optional pots for big bass ($10), a side pot ($20), and a "zero pot" ($10). The "zero pot" winners will be randomly drawn from those who don't weigh fish. So if you don't catch anything or you feel your catch will be "out of the money" anyway, release your fish without weighing in, and you still have a chance to win money! At the registration meeting Friday evening November 22nd, a free buffet will be served to the first 225 teams who sign up. Another reason to hurry to sign-up soon at: http://www.anglerschoice.com/yamamoto/ You'll be part of a whole lot of fun and socializing Friday evening. You'll share a unique opportunity to meet many fellow anglers who, like you, enjoy using Yamamoto baits. You'll have a chance to meet official Team Yamamoto members who plan to be there to help make Friday evening a fantastic fun experience for you! Internet legend Russ Bassdozer, Western legend Gary Dobyns, 2002 Classic contender Ron Colby (winner of the Western BASS Fed Divisional in 2001 and again in 2002 on the Delta), Roy Hawk (9th place & big bass both days in 2002 US Open), Dean Sault who'll be photographing Friday evening and driving the TV camera boat Saturday, Andy Cuccia who'll be co-sharing the emcee spot for Saturday's weigh-in and awards ceremony. Western legend John Murray, "Lunker Larry" Hemphill...just plan on meeting many Team Yamamoto guys there to help make the Yamamoto Open at Oroville a memorable experience for you! In addition to all the informal schmoozing, Team Yamamoto members will present educational seminars for you too: - Team Yamamoto's Larry Hemphill will give you an overview about what to expect in general from the Oroville fishery in late November. - Team Yamamoto's Andy Cuccia will educate you on 3/4 and one ton jigs, which helped Andy win a boat in B.A.S.S. on Oroville last November. - Team Yamamoto's John Murray will speak to you about his BASS Masters Classic experience, finishing 14th, and what it's like for a Westerner to fish the national trails. Plus, the whole event Friday evening and Saturday will be filmed by Outdoor Chronicles TV show producer Dave Masterson and aired on national TV on the Outdoor Channel! So you know it's going to be one heck of a memorable gala event Friday evening, a historic occasion of sorts, one you'll regret if you miss it! And oh yeah, there's the tournament fishing competition on Saturday too! There will be a cut-off reached at some point when a full field of boats is achieved, so I'd hurry to sign-up soon if I were you! To learn more or to sign-up while you still can for the Oroville event, visit: http://www.anglerschoice.com/yamamoto/ The Yamamoto Open Series is presented by U.S. Angler's Choice and sponsored by Feather Falls Casino which is host of the tournament registration, seminars and buffet Friday, Competitive Edge Fishing, Bass West Magazine, Daiichi Hooks, Best Value Inn (host hotel with special rates for tournament participants), Oroville Outdoors where you can get all of your Yamamoto products, the Delta's finest bait & tackle shop at Angler's Cove, Gary Yamamoto Custom Baits and Gary Yamamoto's Inside Line Magazine. __________________________________________________ OPEN UP A TUBE OF MEGASTRIKE! Fish attractants, you can't live with them, you can't live without them. Whether or not to use them is one of the most hotly contested topics in bass fishing. You can't live with them because they get all over everything. Not just your bait, but your hands, your rod handle and reel, your lunch, your boat, everywhere it's not supposed to be. You're like King Midas, except everything you touch does not turn to gold but to pungent crawfish and shad scent. Just remember not to pick your nose or scratch your...umm...ear. I've had lethal clouds of sprays blown back over me like mustard gas. Only much worse, deadly garlic gas. When the fishing trip is over, the stuff better be scrubbed off tout suite...or else. Some of these potent concoctions are rumored to react to soften the boat's gel coat finish, unglue the boat carpet from the deck, and your tackle bag and fishing apparel reek to high heaven. You'll never be allowed to bring them in the house again. You'll be lucky if you are even allowed back in again. Fish attractant is NOT family attractant. You'll have to sleep out back with the dog, and pray it doesn't rain. As bas as some fish attractants may smell, only a wet dog smells worse! On the other hand, you can't live without fish attractants either because...well, would you really want to go fishing without them? I sure wouldn't. You know, I don't think the average angler can confidently say whether fish attractants truly work for him or not. It just goes to show you how little we really know about what we do when we go bass fishing. One thing's for sure though, most of us would not want to go fishing without having some attractant handy. Bobby Uhrig, president of MegaStrike, knows a bit more about fish attractant than most of us. His company has spent nine years researching and perfecting MegaStrike, a new fish attractant gel in a neat squeeze tube like toothpaste. Bobby says they've studied the role of amino acids, fatty acids and proteins in the foods they know bass like to eat. They tried countless combinations of formulas before they got it right. Now they're ready to bring MegaStrike into the highly skeptical world of bass fishing. Click here to: OPEN UP A TUBE OF MEGASTRIKE! by Russ Bassdozer http://www.bassdozer.com/articles/megastrike.shtml __________________________________________________
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