N O T E B O O K A R C H I V E S Yelas joins FLW Outdoors' Team Chevy Moves to Ranger 01/01/2009 Thank You Skeeter 12/30/2008 Jay Yelas Lake Championship Challenge Summary 04/03/2007 Jay Yelas Lake Championship Challenge 02/22/2007 What Happened to BASS Class? 09/01/2005 Bassmasters Classic Preview 07/13/2005 2005 BASSMASTER TOUR Summary 04/12/2005 2005 BASSMASTER TOUR Preview 02/09/2005 Bassmasters Classic Preview 07/23/2004 2004 Season: Wrong! 06/21/2004 BASS Tour 03/08/2004 2004 BASS Tour Preview 01/13/2004 2003 Bassmasters Classic Summary 08/07/2003 Busch Sponsorship Revisited a year later.... 06/13/2003 2003 B.A.S.S. Angler of the Year To God be the Glory..... 05/27/2003 BASS Angler-of-the-Year Race The Season Finale in Montgomery, AL 05/07/2003 2003 Season Preview Busch Sponsorship Issue 12/17/2002 2002 BASSMASTERS CLASSIC Summary 07/29/2002 2002 Bassmasters Classic Preview 07/18/2002 2002 FLW Tour Season Finale FLW Tour Angler of the Year 07/02/2002 FLW Tour 05/23/2002 FLW Open Summary 04/24/2002 FLW Tour January 23-26, 2002 01/30/2002 2002 FLW Tour Preview 01/01/2002 Bassmaster Tour, Nov. 1-3 11/14/2001 BASS Central Open Nov. 8-10, 2001 11/13/2001 Classic Journal Day 3 Report 8/5/2001 2001 Bassmasters Classic Preview 07/26/2001 2001 Bassmaster Megabucks May 8-13, 2001 05/22/2001 2001 Bassmaster Table Rock Invitational 04/21/2001 Sam Rayburn Invitational Summary 2001 Texas Bassmaster Invitational- March 1-3, 2001 03/08/2001 Lake Toho Top 150 Pro-Am Summary 2001 Bassmaster Florida Top 150, Jan.17-20, 2001 01/27/2001 Lake of the Ozarks Invitational Summary 2000 BassMasters Missouri Invitational - Nov.9-11, 2000 11/24/2000 Jay's Tournament Notebook 2000 Classic Summary 07/24/2000

Lake of the Ozarks BASS Central Open Nov. 8-10, 2001 11/13/2001 - Oh how the mighty have fallen! In November, 1998 it took 60 pounds to win the BASS event at Lake of the Ozarks. This year it took 24 pounds. Who would have ever thought 8 pounds a day would win there? The bass virus has struck again. The Missouri D.N.R. needs to study this situation because the spotted bass are dying as well. The virus at Bull Shoals and Table Rock only killed the largemouth. Everyone is hoping this will pass, and the fisheries will soon return to normal. Lets hope so. But while Missouri anglers hope, they need to put some pressure on their Department of Natural Resources to figure out what is going on in their lakes. I couldn't get bit on the lower lake brushy docks in practice, so I concentrated up the Osage River like everyone else who did well in this event. The weather was unusually mild all week and that kept the lower end from turning on. The warm weather did have many of the upper lake fish still up on the flats, and that was where I caught my bass. I fished the Buffalo Creek area of the lake and found the bass in 2' or less on wood. I couldn't get bit deeper than 3'. Berkley spinnerbaits and very shallow cranks were what I caught my 7 bass on that got me 11th place. Water temps ranged from the lower to upper 50s on my water during the week. A few guys caught some good stringers pitching to wood on the steeper banks in the same section of the lake. It is very common to have bass in the same area of the lake doing different things.

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