Last weekend's heavy rains resulted in some big Florida-strain largemouth bass being caught on Lake Oroville. In the American Bass Association event on Sunday, the Chico-based team of Jeremy Johnson and Dave Sherrill included big Floridas of 9.59 and 5.84 pounds in their five-bass total of 23.75 pounds; an exceptionally heavy total for Oroville.
The Chico Bass Club's long-running privately-funded stocking program has put over 22,000 Florida-strain largemouth into Lake Oroville over the past 10 years. Besides terrific cumulative catches like the Johnson/Sherill team made, the program also yielded a new lake record bass, when a 15.48 pound whopper was taken out of Oroville in 2007.
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Over 100 eager anglers jammed into Cozy Diner in Paradise on Wednesday night for the second annual Paradise Bass Club seminar, primed to hear the secrets of a pair of legendary professional bass anglers: Dave Rush of Palermo and Sig Taylor of Clear Lake, with local guru Don Reighley acting as MC. Both pros have won in excess of 10 boats in competition, along with numerous titles. Taylor holds the distinction of having caught the heaviest three-day tournament total in......
