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Hey everyone, not new to the forum but new to posting. I went out to Hodges with the goal of catching a PB. After grinding away for a couple of hours, I met another fisherman who was having some luck with crank baits. I have zero confidence with crank baits but patterns are patterns so I tied on a ...

otaymichael wrote: Sun Aug 25, 2024 9:57 pm Cool. Congrats. Glad you had a scale.

I told my wife I was going to Hodges to catch a PB. Took the Go Pro so I could get a picture. I was lucky my scale still had batteries with juice.

I may as well repost Vinny’s from last week. Started the day catching a couple on drop shot in the fog. As soon as the fog lifted, I switched to fluke and it was on. Unlike Vinny, I stayed near the tules. Ended with 14. I missed at least that many (didn’t have the right fluke hooks with me). Most ...

I was able to get out on the water twice this weekend. Friday and again this morning. I got 5 on Friday and 9 this morning. It feels like I have caught many more. I have been fishing small flukes and a BFS walking bait (thanks for the tip Dannicus) for the most part. While I have been catching fish ...

Great job. I’ve only been out on the bay a couple times this year. It’s usually my winter jam. The South Bay is one of the best fisheries anywhere. Z-man plastics are the way to go. I used to roll with Keitech but the spotties just tear the tail off.

Evidentlyt some guys got upset that I shared this story and bait. They told @VinnyBass to talk to me about it. Well sorry if I offended anyone, but I thought this site was about sharing catches, baits, techniques that work etc... I mean I always appreciate hearing from you guys regarding what's ...

If this group of guys got skunked, there’s no hope for the rest of us.

My son and I fished Barrett on opening weekend. I never bought into the talk about 100 bass days. Well, I caught 106 and now I am a believer. As you can imagine, I wasn’t expecting much at Murray this morning. I ended up having one of my best days at Murray. It started out slow for me so I switched ...

Thanks, Vinny. I don’t have it dialed in like you but Murray is solid when it’s on. Seems like the summer pattern is finally here.

Yeah, DV is way better than VD.

I saw you rolling up as I was heading out. I got four on Monday and missed at least that many. Yesterday, I threw a finesse crank a la Dan for a couple hours. Nada. I had to go with the drop shot robo worm to avoid the skunk. Ended with two. Everything has been small. Still both days were beautiful ...

I took advanced of the warm weather over the weekend and put in a few hours Saturday morning.

I caught a smallish bass on a drop shot in 20 feet of water on the first cast. I have been using 6th Sense’s new 4.3 drop shot minnow with great results. No first cast curse for me as I went on to catch 8 ...

Thanks, Vinny. Not sure what happened there.

Get out there, Dan. I have been killing them on BFS jerk baits.

Haven’t caught any trolling but it’s been on fire out there

Well, El Cap is still on fire. I was out there Saturday morning. I immediately got stuck in the mud and broke my kayak cart. A truck was stuck in the mud as well. Whoever pulled them out may have left their tow straps in the back of my truck. I’ll hold on to them for you. Other than the rough start ...

I never fished El Cap in the before times so I don’t know how to assess how the lake is fishing. What I do know is that I am catching 20-30 bass every trip this spring. I caught 11 in about 30 minutes at the newly formed island yesterday. I ended with the day with 28.

There are massive schools of ...

Wow! That looks like so much fun. I went on the 20th of last month didn't catch that many but definitely caught a few compared to the last time I was there when the ramp was intact which was 8 years or so ago. Thanks for the report! Stupid question, what does BFS stand for?
Tight lines!


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