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San V is definitely the most consistent bite this spring and summer! If you don't like fishing trees and brush down to 40+', you might pass on the V now..it can be a challenge to pull the better fish out of the jungle!

Oddly enough almost all my catches the last two weekends were in less than ...

Last Monday when I was at Miramar I saw a few rumbles on the surface but had no topwater baits with me as I packed mostly worms and craw baits. A buddy also recently told me he caught a few on top this trip I packed a few topwater baits in my kayak. It was a little foggy when I arrived and headed ...

They limit the number of permits for the lake...the lake would be packed with people if they didn't! Those northern bass are eager and willing to bite lots of lures that San V Florida bass would ignore. San V is known primarily as a dropshot and senko lake. The topwater can be great, but that's not ...

Hi FisherMax09,

Southern CA is really a decent fishery all over. Check this website and you'll see everyone has favorites all over the county. I didn't notice anyone mentioning Hodges, either. But that's a lake with some big fish. Certainly worth a look.

I think you just need to go fish, and not ...

Hit my home lake for a few hours on Saturday morning 8-5-23. Got on the lake at 6:00AM. 1st one on a Popper in shallow water. 2nd one on a drop shot rig in a little deeper water. Then had one break off heading under the boat, even though my drag was pretty loose. 2 more missed hook sets after that ...

Got in and out before 9:30 when the zoo showed up in force. Caught a couple of shoreline dinks then moved out to the 20ft zone for 3 bigger models. All caught on splitshot 4.5” roboworms.

Saw in iCast that many brands are releasing "BFS" gear. See a bunch of guys using 5 - 7 pound FC. I remember back in the day, guys super tuning old Abu Garcia Ambassadors, to use with light ine.

I dunno about you guys, but I grew up fishing LA city ponds, which equates to very pressured fish. When ...

Still did not see any topwater action......pretty strange as in the beginning of June it just started to go off and then pretty much died.
Drastic changes in the water levels definitely had some type of affect in the overall fishing as normally topwater action would be pretty
much wide open in the ...

The extra benefit with the small spinnerbait and cranks, Catching big-ass crappie.

With anticipation of hopefully more topwater action, I headed back up to Lake Miramar this morning with 3 rods rigged with
topwater baits and one with a small jerk bait. The surface was pretty glassy when I arrived. Finally a few small bass stirring the top of the
water. Everyone knows that by the ...

Hey guys,
I'm new to this forum, so I thought I'd post a couple of pics from my trip to Hodges reservoir last Saturday.

I caught 7 fish total. 1 early frog fish, 1 on a jig, a couple on Senkos, and the rest on 7" dropshot robowoworms.

Anyway, glad to be here on the forum.
Dan
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Took a rare drive with my kayak up to that lake that is 38 miles North & East of..........ok you guessed it, if you said Lake Sutherland. I decided to give it a try even though it has been really tough fishing this year for many and for me the last time I fished there months ago. I arrived and saw ...

My little local lake out here in Ramona has been very abusive this year! After 4 months of 1 to 3 fish days, I finally started putting together some patterns a couple weeks ago and today was my revenge day! The weather was perfect, overcast in the morning and a high of 82 by 1:00! Normally in August ...

Rumor has it I am still at the back of the lake. Not true, but it took an hour to get back from the Santa Ysabel arm and I went less than half way back. Twice the lake we had last year!
I found a TW bite early! Buzz bait and Popper. Missed a couple, farmed a couple and caught 4 to 2.8 lbs. Had one ...

Another great morning with 13 quality bass including these jig and Senko fish. I finally figured out how to embed a video

San V is one of the few consistent lakes this year, good job getting on them!

Nice work. Good numbers and fish and you got out before the crowds.

Awesome! Really nice catches! I'd like to float tube San V again. It's been years!

Thought about Murray, but instead headed up to Lake Miramar again for a morning of fishing with my kayak. I figured I would try to go get'em while I can because after Labor Day, there will be no boats, kayaks, float tubes allowed on the water I was told as they will be working on a big water project ...

A clip I put together a few years back. My dedication to everything San Diego County bass fishing. Pulled from footage from many various trips. Always wanted to do a part 2 but sold the boat. Someday maybe. Tight lines everyone and stay safe this week.