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I got super lucky this afternoon at San V. After catching a bunch of bass on dropshots, I decided to target a few panfish laate in the day based on my meter readings and WHAMO, blessed with a tanker panfish, a 4.2 lb. redear.

She was caught on 2 lb line and a piece of nightcrawler, 18 feet deep on ...

Got up early for a half day ocean boat but got a flat tire which I had to get fixed. I don't live close to ocean but they rescheduled it for Friday.

After tire was fixed went to my local tiny pond with a bobber and half night crawler. Forgot how hard it is to set a hook with a bobber. Caught a few ...

After getting stuff done at home, I ditched the beach gloom for beautiful San Vicente and fished on both Sunday and Monday afternoons in the kayak. Overcast weather with slight breeze. This is trip 4 and 5 to SanV following the same panfish pattern. Its a slam dunk to take the kayak with the ...

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As everyone knows Hodges opened last week. I've been starving for a crappie bite all year. I had to go. Plus the kids have been asking to get out as well. Thought it was the perfect opportunity for both.

Got there in line before it opened to ensure we got a rental.

The ramp is now the parking ...

Last week after a year of forced hiatus, I finally got out fishing and had a good day. But it only gets better, because this week I got to share it with and old friend. Like last week, it was a short day of about 3 1/2 hours. I always feel pressure to catch some fish when someone goes with me, but ...

Headed out on the beautiful Sunday morning bass fishing. Sure the bass cooperated on hard baits, but not as beautiful of pics or size like a few crappies. Didn’t toss anything smaller than 1/2 oz cranks.

Continued my quest for improving my kayak crappie techniques on Father's Day with a very lazy 'gentlemans hours' kayak launch at 10:30 am. Weather was bright sunny and the water temp pushing 74.

The deeper side of the lake in the deeper channel areas seemed to be the ticket for finding them. Used ...

I got a itch to fish on a weekend, normally it’s week days. With the lighter crowds.
That’s a mistake, go when you can, turned out to be a nice day.
Caught 6 healthy crappie, and home by noon, very light breeze with no wind.

The Crappie Mecca!

Wish it was me...

Since I have nothing to report on the subject thought I'd share this really cool video of "Fishing Addict" out killing the 2 pound slabs. I watch a lot of his videos and he has that lake and live scope dialed in. He didn't have his scale. A few might had ...

I have not posted much but have been kayak fishing crappie between shore bay halibut trips and pond bass on weather days.

Lake Hodges 2/16 and 2/22. A few crappie and a couple nice bass both trips, some crappie released. Using various crappie jigs "out in the middle". Water temp 58 early and 62 ...

Testing.... Got this one on a mop fly with silly legs a few weeks back after a slow surf sesh.

They are in there and I tend to try for them with very light tackle (my sierra trout setup). If you can get away from the turtles you may find some nice ones.

Letting everyone know that the Wayback Machine (internet archive) has some priceless SDFish items saved, like the DJThrills piece:

https://web.archive.org/web/20210422000049/https://sdfish.com/forums/t/fishing-san-diego-bay.163428/

It LOOKS LIKE the SDFish site but is actually only a "snapshot ...

I grabbed my boat and made it to HB for my grandsons birthday. Ryan just turned 5 and I promised to take him fishing with his much older brother Caleb who's now 8. We traveled over to Newport Bay to try our luck so we launched in the back bay by Newport Dunes . As we left the ramp and it hadnt been ...

Great fishing on the DD for some taco eaters. Great time on the water, good time with friends.

I was stressed to fish a straight forward rig as possible. I fished 80lb to 40lb with 16oz of lead, 3/0s, wished I fished 5/0s.

Caught my 4 reds, my girl caught 4, and then I stopped fishing after ...

Went to one of my local little spots. Watched a guy pull up an 8” calico on shrimp, bash it over the head with a rock then filet it. Called fish and game took a few mins to get a live operator. As soon as he saw me on the phone he packed his stuff and took off before fish and game arrived. I’m going ...

1st day out in awhile.. Beautiful day at Bolsa Chica .. Scrounged 3 sand crabs :roll: and figured I would use freeze/dried bloodworms, Since my local bait shop had no fresh bait… I got one dink perch on one of the sand crabs, and nothing else for awhile… Then the switch turned on about an hour ...

https://coollab.ucsd.edu/pierviz/

Saw this on channel 8....

Follow the wind. Season might be a little early and cold for top water carp action, but the lake is susceptible to high winds (hence no kayaks) which can create scum trails on the surface that the carp feed on. If that materializes, follow the wind to where the scum is collecting and look for ...

Fished there this morning. Super challenging because the lake level rose so much that finding the fish became more difficult. Got a carp and a bass on a simple John Montana hybrid fly with a pink squirmy wormy tail.