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Wow, looks like a great day on the Cap. Looks more like San V wind than Cap!

It was definitely howling down there in the afternoon/evening yesterday. White caps when we pulled up to the lake about 345.

Saw fish in all 3 spawning stages yesterday. Pretty soon it’s gonna be time to throw ...

Brother and I took the float tubes down to Otay today. We got there a little later than normal and it was 8ish before we got in the water.

Weightless worms along the tule lines in Harvey’s were the meal ticket today. Think I spent exactly 3 casts on other baits all morning. Started off with a ...

Was awesome to meet you out there today Dan! Lookin forward to the next time.

Took the tubes out to Cap this morning. Mother’s Day had the lake pretty empty early! Only a couple of boat trailers and my brother and I in the tubes.

Immediately started throwing my favorite bladed bait around shallow brush. Got the most action where there was brush in the back of cuts and coves ...

Spinnerbait fish are a lot of fun.
My favorite spinnerbaits normally get replaced when the wire breaks at the line tie and all I get back are the blades=)

For a time there I really liked the Terminator baits, but I have even had those break, but rarely.

Way to get out there!

These are pretty ...

Some shore fun. Got a new dropshot rod so I respooled, threw my terminal and some plastics in a small pack and grabbed a water bottle and headed down.. not like I needed an excuse to go or anything lol.

Got there about 5pm, hiked down further toward the Dam than usual. About 545 I got 3 in 5 casts ...

This is definitely the time of year you could bring nothing but a package of size 2 EWG hooks and a couple packages of thin senkos to San V and just pick apart that shallow brush. Watching your line move and then working to get that fish the hell out of the bushes makes for a lot of fun.

Some Otay morning action in the tubes today. Brother and I have effectively starting calling it “FLOATay” because it’s such a float tube friendly lake. Lots of good spots to launch and fish there. Every trip I’ve taken down there I’ve encountered quite a few tubers as well.

How was the fishing? We ...

Decided to make my first trip out to what is known here at “the lake of D&K” in 30 years this morning. As fate would have it, turned into an SDFish party out there!

I only fished till about 10am but ended up with 5 landed and 3 lost. Worm fish all of them except for one.

Will definitely return ...

Love the little Evergreen cranks!

Been a minute since I posted! Band stuff has kept me busy lately but I have still been out fishing my normal places - Cap and Otay are where I’ve spent the most time but also got a Hodges trip in.

Otay has been business as usual for my brother and I. Flyline plastics along the tile line and for me ...

Band stuff? I essentially retired from my last band (classic rock/drums) because I’d rather go fishing 😂 Thanks as always for the 411. Man that lost fish had to hurt but you do know where she and her brothers and sisters live. I love having just the right amount of water into the tules to get a ...

Band stuff? I essentially retired from my last band (classic rock/drums) because I’d rather go fishing 😂 Thanks as always for the 411. Man that lost fish had to hurt but you do know where she and her brothers and sisters live. I love having just the right amount of water into the tules to get ...

Spawned out 3-12 from last night.

Anyone know if the schedule for our lakes is just the usual this week? Only San V and Murray open Thursday like normal or are there additional lakes open/closed on account of the holiday?

Looking to get out for a few hours in the morning.

Thanks in advance!

Curious if anyone has experience fishing on the 4th. A few years ago I was surf fishing in the morning, off the water by 7AM, and there was a line of cars waiting to get into the parking lot and fighting over my space. Is it a zoo at our local reservoirs?


I think the last time I fished on ...

Sounds like an SDFish tube trip in the makings…

Lots of fun was had.. 10 total landed this morning, 7 keepers, biggest one 19”/3-9. Happy 4th all!

JWall wrote: Thu Jul 04, 2024 2:47 pm Healthy critters Corso!

The fish in the middle pic was a perfectly executed sight fish. I saw her cruising, made one perfect cast to put the bait right in front of her, bait didn’t splash the water enough to spook her and I got to watch her come up and eat it. Felt like throwing a TD pass!

Learn the dropshot rig and the wacky rig. Between those two techniques, get a pack of 6” roboworm and a pack of 5” senkos. YouTube is a great resource for learning about it. Even on the worst fishing days I feel confident I could catch fish on a dropshot roboworm or a wacky rigged Senko.