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Nice car and a half width, smooth clean “ramp” into the water. Water is above where the road used to take a hard left into the cove. All the parking is perpendicular to the cove, leaving pigs main road into the water open. People were mostly wheeling kayaks to the ramp. Some guys backed up at the ...

That 1st pic is awesome.

Elaztech baits and I have a love hate relationship.

My Pros; They last for so long and have good buoyancy when you want a slower rate of fall.
My Cons; Hard to rig, and they don't play nice with other plastics and silicone. So you have to keep them away for all your ...

KillinTime wrote: Fri May 09, 2025 1:08 pm
they don't play nice with other plastics and silicone. So you have to keep them away for all your other soft baits and skirts.

I hate when you find that out too late

It finally happened for me, I had one of the absolutely epic days that Barrett is known for. Started going last year and had some solid days but this was on a totally different level. Pretty much non-stop bites all day. Don’t know what my total count was but it had to have been pushing 100. All day ...

Here's this other thread with lots of great advice: https://www.sdfish.org/viewtopic.php?p=19885&hilit=jig#p19885

I don't fish jigs much but this year on the opening weekend at Barrett I used them a lot and caught fish nearly every cast haha. I used a mix of black/blue and green pumpkin color jigs ...

You know, it's like Pourboy said yesterday when we were leaving; people sometimes hear the stories about Barrett, and think you just have to throw in a line, and you'll catch a bunch of fish, but that's not necessarily true. You still have to know how to locate fish and apply good techniques to get ...

I'd love to buy any September boat ticket. Last minute is okay as well. Please let me know!