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Headed out onto a very rainy lake this morning with two other boaters who were crazy enough to head out into the rain. I should probably be living in the Pacific Northwest because I LOVE the rain and especially fishing in it! My bilge pump kicked on about every 15min or so pumping out a few gallons ...

I've been absolutely killing it at Murray. Fishing my BFS setup with a 1/16 oz Keitech Mono Spin jig paired with a Z-Man 2.5 inch TRD Crawz. Both in green pumpkin. I must have caught 20 keeper sized bass in my last 2 trips.
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Here is your weekly Thursday San V report. To quote Ice Cube “ Today was a good day”

Ended up boating 16 today. My best numbers there in a while. When I got back to my area I immediately saw a couple of fish breaking in the bushes, which I haven’t seen in a few weeks. Ended up getting 6 in the ...

Had an excellent day on the water at Murray today. Caught 13 bass in 4 hours with nary a dink in the bunch! These are the days that make up for the ones you gotta grind to get a bite haha!
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Awesome and congrats to your brother!

Nice to see some water coming in to that lake. There is some good forcasted rain coming Thursday through next week. Let's hope these weather systems produce. It's too bad the City has a hardon for that dam and will let the water flow when it reaches the familiar level again.

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Bluebird skies + ZERO breeze until 2:30 - an algae bloom + 20ft visibility = Tough fishing!

Hit the ground running this morning with a fish on my 4th cast of the day slow rolling a spinnerbait from deep to shallow. As it got lighter it was obvious that there was no algae bloom going on so the ...

Too many people! HAHAHA Water's up. Algae bloom on! 58 degree water. Bass in the tulles. Good luck gettin em out.
7 solid bites, boated 1!!!

After listening to the local news last night I headed out this morning half expecting to find Noah and his Ark out there to avoid the flooding!

Pretty sunrise this morning and only two other boats out when I launched and according to the worker at the ramp they left fairly early so I was, literally ...

Crawdads vs. Jigs: Which Will Catch More?
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Hey all I hope you’re staying dry. Headed out to El Capitan this Sunday and decided I would fish crawdads. I used to love fishing crawdads and haven’t done it for a while because many of my old crawdad holes no longer hold them ...

nice going my January this year was terrible...too much wind/rain cold-low water glad you hit it

Very nice job out there.
Geez....just reading how cold it was in the morning made me cold. I guess with all the cold and rainy
weather and twisting my knee(as another excuse), I am beginning to forget how to get up and go fishing this year....ha ha
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Had an awesome day at Hodges. Really fun chatting with Chris (AKA Pourboy AKA the BeefShaman) after fishing too.

I caught three small clone Largemouths (didn't even bother with pictures), but the highlight of the trip was this dinner plate crappie on my BFS rod and reel!
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After waking up and relocating my new fish finder from the bow to the console I decided to give it a spin at El Cap which has been my nemesis the last few trips there. Fished from 1-5pm. Wind had already picked up so it was fun trying to work a spot on my crappy trolling motor(can’t wait til I can ...

Woke up to ice in my boat cover this morning and it was a frigid 33 degrees when I launched. Had to bust out my little propane heater to keep my fingers working until the sun made it over the hills.

Couldn’t feel my fingers so I started out throwing a chatterbait and an A rig for about 45min for ...

Lake Hodges Opener 2024
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Hey all, it’s that time of the year again! I am always excited to go to Lake Hodges, and this year was no exception. I had made a point to make sure that I got out there on opening day and battled the rain. It was challenging out there for sure ...

I usually fish Murray on weekdays because it is conveniently located by my kid's school. Murray, however, is closed the second Tuesday of every month so I ventured up to El Capitan.

It was an absolutely beautiful day. I ended up catching 4 smaller bass and this bruiser. The small bass were hitting ...

Observation:
#1. Skunked from shore.
#2. Water level is lowest I've seen in at least 15-years (subject to change any day or week).
#3. At least for now, there is some level of increased shore access.
#4. Viewing the lake bottom to about 10' from a pier, seems a bit early for my fellow bass folks ...

The bite at Murray has really turned on as the bass move into pre-spawn feeding.

I caught 13 over the last 2 days. Most were in the 2-3 pound range. They are feeding on the he bottom. I caught them on ned rigs, jigs, and 7" dropshot worms. Keep your bait close to the bottom in 15 to 20 feet of ...

Finally some shallow fish!!!

About 10min into my day my Spot Lock quit working on me so I called an audible and decided to just go shallow and run shorelines. Turned out to be the right move. Seems like these few warm days we’ve had pushed some fish shallow. Found quite a few shallow fish all ...