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I’ve obviously been a little busy catching since the old site went down

Nice..very busy I'd say! I lost that 5-6 pounder at El Cap end of January and didn’t get another bite until March. I was starting to have an existential crisis LOL! Broke that skunk with a limit at San V, went back and got a limit the next day and have been on a streak ever since. And the bite hasn...

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Figured I’d update on what’s being going on. Some words to corroborate with all the pictures I posted in the catch thread. As I mentioned there, February and the first couple weekends of March were brutal for me. I lost that big fish at Cap and didn’t get another bite till the first weekend of March...

Can’t leave out the nice one I pulled out of the bushes at Cap

That was quick! Already got one. Thanks all.

Like new Daiwa Tatula 300 HG - 7.1 gear ratio. Very low miles on this reel. Bulletproof platform that can bomb cast big swimbaits and a-rigs a country mile. Have a couple new reels coming and need to make room. Asking $200 OBO. No trades. Has a fresh spool of 25# FC Sniper flouro on it. Let me know ...

Fun little trip to El Cap this morning. Night and day from last weekend were I managed 2 fish in 2 days. Mostly worm fish, with an underspin bonus. Tight to or in cover was the key for me. Managed a mission to get one of my catches out of a bush that involved me keeping pressure on the fish for 5 or...

Not sure why my pics are all sideways.. (edit: they’re no longer sideways)

Nice work Vinny!

Dixon was my favorite lake growing up. My dad would drop my brother and I off in the morning and we’d walk the bank throwing mostly split shot reapers and we always caught fish and have a good time.

Great report, I may have to pay Dixon a visit soon.

Took the Kayak down to El Cap this morning. With the water way up, I knew I had to be one of the first couple kayakers there or that now smaller dirt lot would be full and I’d have to drag my ‘yak across the parking lot. Apparently a big club tourney this morning, a bunch of people just drove in bef...

Also: water is down probably 2 feet from last Sunday. First time since they’ve had the valve open that I’ve noticed a drop. Feeder creeks are still flowing but since the rain has slowed down the level is starting to drop. Inconvenient time for that to happen when fish are pushed way up shallow spawn...

Nice work! I didn’t see any surface activity yesterday at all early, at least in the front of the lake and back in Chocolate, aside from Carp. That moss is definitely a challenge right now, having to pick it off your baits every cast, and your weight gets covered in it and you can no longer feel the...

Depends honestly. I don’t use snaps for 90% of my hard baits, but for a lot of my bigger glide baits I use a heavy duty SPRO snap. On the Deps 250 I replace the split ring with a snap. Like the action a little bit better with a snap than a split ring or direct tie. That said, I pretty much use a sna...

Mcfish wrote: ↑Sun May 07, 2023 11:58 am Dropshot hint: hangs up less in the rocks and brush!

These are even better IMO. Been fishing these in the trees at San Vee and Cap all spring and have lost a lot less of them.

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Hell yeah! Nice work buddy! I gotta get back to the V soon

Good to see you out there on Monday. Even fishing near you I hooked up on a drop shot, but she came off, in fact all 5 bites I had yesterday came off the hook. Gonna have to change hooks. Great job out there actually boating 23 bass! I'll be back next Monday. Maybe I can tie a line to your boat and...