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Eating turkey on Thanksgiving is nice but taking a nice long drive out east and catching bass on that day seems to be a heck
of lot more fun! Looks like you are really enjoying that light gear and it is really paying off. Thanks for sharing your adventure
with us. I immediately thought after ...

Here's a few from near my area from two separate mornings...couple good ones and as I have promised (I (insert name) do solemnly swear to always post the dinks with the "good ones")

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And the dinks...Check out the bait:fish size ...

El Cap...
Only got one there two weeks prior back seating, and front seater only got one also.

Got there at noon yesterday, tons of trailers in the lot. Overcast and rain threatening.Two guys leaving reported one between them, on d/s, not good.

Fished till dusk, nada. Top 1/2 the time, jerkbait ...

Is it just me, or was this one of the quietest years of fishing in So Cal ?

Hit Wohlford on Saturday for a recon trip. My buddy Bryn called up saying he was stuck in Escondido and needed to catch a Bass. Not a lot of Daytime options right now for some epic style fishing so I found some info on Wohlford and ran down, picked up Bryn and hit the Lake. It was $72 for two ...

It has been a weird year. I've caught only a 3 over 5lb. Bass the entire year and I've been fishing a LOT.

I am saving my entire year (volume-wise anyway), by fishing more ultralight gear and baits. Nothing huge but at least catching a lot of fish.

I spent beginning of the year at San V and got skunked twice, but after that, I pulled at least 5 fish each trip, until this fall, when the busters were looking for lures that resembled plankton. ( kidding, but they wanted small stuff ). Spent the summer chasing fish at Barrett and while I had a ...

Decided to take the cheaper fishing route(a recent new roof set me back $$,$$$$) so I headed down to the SD River for a morning session.
The last time I was there it was really stained and flooded via the tons of water being released from El Capitan. This time the water had
gone down to almost back ...

I think the City screwing with the water levels had a big influence on the fishing. San V probably was the most consistent fishing and had the most stable water levels. Sutherland and El Cap were really dependent on whether the City was messing with the water levels!

Always enjoy your reports and the last smallie I caught was in Pennsylvania while on vacation years ago so I’m not an expert on them. That is a nice bass on your pics above. Looks like you’re having a lot of fun fishing away from the city.
Thanks for sharing and tight lines always buddy.

Nice canal bass. Perfect T-day

You can't tell winter's coming by the daytime temps, but at 6:30 out on San V...I was feeling it! Air temp started out at 42, water temps 60-62. A nice little breeze out of the east didn't help. I was expecting some breaking fish, but found none after an extensive search! I brought out the dropshot ...

Well, with the weather starting to cool down at night and water temperatures getting colder I decided to just take a late morning
run to the SD river. I figured there was no sense in going early and besides, I normally don't fish it much past the middle of November
as it tends to shut off as the ...

As you know from my posts in the panfish section I've had a ton of fun recently targeting large Bluegill and Crappie on ultralight gear and micro lures. So today I decided to go after Bass on the same gear. I caught 6 Largemouths. Nothing huge but they sure felt like it on those whippy rods and ...

My son won a Caddis float tube earlier this year at the Cuyamaca kids fishing tournament. Since we already have tubes I gave it to my best friend Randy, and bought him waders as an early Christmas gift. We had a blast fishing Murray this morning.

I caught the catfish while flipping a Senkos at the ...

Today was a totally different day from Monday. Not nearly the amount of fish busting shad in the bushes but there were still some sporadic boils. Fished from 6:30- 3pm. Not a lot of bites but the quality was good. Ended up with 9 in the boat. Best 5 went 14 1/2 lbs. Things were totally backwards ...

I think it is funny when fishermen shy away from a bait that they KNOW will catch fish. How many times have I heard "I don't like to Drop Shot, but if I need a bite..."

T-Rig Green Pumpkin Baby Brush Hog will get bit at any lake in SD! Grass, Rocks, Tules, Sticks it can do it all

Had a great morning in Mission Bay today. Caught and released 11 nice spotties.

Three inch paddletails on keel-weighted hooks slowly pulled through the grass on the bottom was the ticket today. I was fishing an ultralight rig with 4 pound test, and had to make sure my drag was set well because all ...

The guy that originally made them moved to Texas from San Diego...they're still out there!