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Perfect day for topwater..but they forgot to tell the fish! I picked up a small fish on the surface right away and that was the end of my topwater party. There was a few scattered breakers the next couple hours, but not worth chasing. I broke out the dropshot pretty quick and picked up a decent fish ...

Haven’t been on SDfish too much lately but I decided to post this catch. I was planning on taking out the kayak but didn’t want to go through the hassle of loading it up so instead, I went on the bank. I saw some fish busting so I decided to throw a small 2.8 Keitech on an underspin. I got caught on ...

I think if i had wanted to catch dinks all day today i couldve easily with a thin senco gr pumpkin black flake just about anywhere in the shallows but got the urge for something bigger so I headed to back side of island where I started throwin black and blue jigs with craw trailers. After losing 3 ...

Had a 16 fish day today at Otay. Walking baits, poppers, jerk and crankbaits all produced. Even picked up a few worm fish after it got hot. All in all a beautiful Saturday morning.

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Was out and set up by 6:00 am. I figured I'd hit the Straits since i haven't fished that portion of the lake in awhile. The lake has dropped another couple of feet I reckon by the looks of things. The straits looked more like a mud flat as i started on the north side . I All those good rocky out ...

Dang.. i should went to Otay instead of Miramar

The last time I fished was 14 days ago, which to me is a lifetime! Been pretty sick and took a while to recover(some weird stomach virus) and even lost 8 pounds. Finally able to start eating better and just when I was thinking of getting back out on the water, I suddenly found myself limping around ...

I finally got back to San V on my favorite day! Along with Murray, San V is probably where I've spent most of my years fishing...starting back in the 60s. I got to the lake at sunrise, headed out looking for some busters and soon found some on the main lake behind the island. They were spread out ...

If I haven't told you guys, I am sure happy I found this forum. It's been great meeting and fishing with you gents!

Tough day at El Capitan yesterday. I threw a bit of everything at them and they were positively sluggish. It was nice to see Jeremy AKA CorsoEnthusiast out there.

I landed a couple of clones and a handful of dinks mostly on poppers right next to the banks . BTW I named the little one Vinny.
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Well El Cap may have been a grind yesterday, but Otay was amazing today! I kinda lost count a little bit but my final total was somewhere between 50-60 bass and 1 Bluegill. Most of the bass were topwater with 15 or so coming as a combination of cranks, jerks and even a few worms.

It was awesome to ...

Excellent day! When Otay topwater is happening..it's happening!

Otay is making up for a disappointing (at least for me) 2023.

Nice meeting you and fun fishing next to you for an hour or so. Thanks for the small popper lure. I caught a lot on it.

Also got the jerk bait working and the bootleg frog got in on the Action too.

Nice running in the double digit Kevin also. We were fishing Buster by the boat dock for an hour ...

Fun times.

Or it was a 6 inch bass that only got half the worm in his mouth. That happens too. Be careful waiting for the second tap, especially jig fishing, that’s usually the fish exhaling the bait!

Thanks all for your input.
Things I hadn't considered.
Went back out for redemption tonight and got a couple at twilight.
One I got on the second tap and the other I felt absolutely nothing but noticed my line racing toward me. Didn't hook this one in the targeted lip; but fortunately it was before ...

Got on the water a little after 5:00 am and landed 6 really nice topwater fish within the first 45 minutes. At that point I was thinking WhooHoo! Otay all over again. Then the sun came up and the bite turned off like someone flipped a proverbial switch.

I proceeded to basically circumnavigate the ...

VERY cool footage of Steve Kennedy fishing day 2 of the Bassmaster Elite series at Smith Lake a couple of days ago. At 24.5 minutes he'll explain, and show, how he catches two bass in short order w/ FFS. Too cool, and glad he took the time to show us, makes worth watching, as only hear them talk ...