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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
https://youtu.be/F35SFcPAXTQ
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 ...

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 ...

Got up this morning and went to a nice breakfast with Deb(bacon/eggs/toast...no crepes today McFish). Later, I found myself in my garage which basically means I started messing around with fishing gear to pass time. I picked up a few clones at Murray the other day and kept thinking about a bass I ...

Well our boat rental plans bombed, so chose to spend an hour on a pier looking for what is different from last week.
Last week:
Water level lowest I've seen in 15-years.
Through clear water to about 15', nothing looked attractive at all.
Skunked.
Crappy trout fishing as the scheduled plant could not ...

Dixon, now there's a word we've not heard for a long, long time... great report, gracias.

Reminds me of when you had a chance a catching a bass worth ONE MILLION DOLLARS!

I had a chance at her, one of just a handful of folks, story here:
https://www.seewald.com/had_chance_at_w ... d_bass.htm

Well left my house late Sunday morning and took my kayak down to Otay. Didn't arrive till 8:45, but did not matter much as
I mostly wanted to just get my PA 12 back in the water again. I have not taken it out since late November. Anyway....it was
an easy launch as I parked right next to the water. I ...

After the fish were hammered with 110 teams in the Anglers Marine tournament on Saturday, my expectations were set pretty low. The morning started out about how I thought it would. There were only about 6 boats when I launched but one of them ended up on the spot I wanted to start on. No biggie ...

Well it was a 77 mile trip to the lake and back home.....or was that just a large farm pond I fished at today???
Last year the water level at the lake of Donald & Kiefer was so high that you had to launch up near the concession stand as the
parking lot was all under water. It was absolutely ...

Sutherland opened today and everybody seemed to know. I wrote a longer report but touched the wrong button and it vanished! Not as easy as it used to be, or I am dumber!
Short version: Water is cold, fish are in the stick-ups and seem to be few.

I’m really bummed I have to go back to work next Monday. The last two have been really good to me at San V. Last week I got the 7lber and today I boated 27 (no BS, I have pics of most of them).

The bite started almost right away this morning. Messed around with a chatterbait for about a dozen casts ...

Lake Hodges Fishing: How Many Fish Can I Lose In One Day?
https://youtu.be/FKoe7PF1Ow0

Hey all here’s a late report from last Sunday at Hodges. I said out to just enjoy having a day on the water. It ended up turning into something bizarre. I worked down the shoreline and ended up missing a couple ...

Ok Boys. I honestly don’t know if I have the words to describe the day I had today.

This was a day that will likely live with me forever! I can honestly say that I have never experienced a day like I had today, and that includes fishing Barrett years ago when it first opened back up!

I don’t ...

20240308_085935.jpg Fished my hometown lake the last 2 fridays and ended up with 2 very different patterns. Last week I was catching them on the outside of the stickups, today they had moved to barren flats. Last week was pre-front, today was post-front, with a 2' rise in the lake. This time of the ...

Hi all,

Hodges was very nice today. Got out in some really cool fog early in the morning and started on my way. Almost instantly I got a sample size bass on a crankbait that was very ambitious for a fish of his size, he wasn't the only sample size fish I got, I had a couple, they don't figure into ...

backseated with a friend yesterday, Been a moment, the lake is WAAAAY up, loooks great. You won't get that workout launching. Water fairly clear, a little green. A few beds, not many. Water 60.5, trout recently planted, reaction baits 0, d/s working ok in 10=20, some at 30.

Love to go back in ...

Well I stayed up late(1a.m.) and with the clocks pushed ahead the next thing I knew it was morning. I didn't sleep well and woke
up a number of times and kept thinking about fishing even though I had not planned to fish today. After breakfast I quickly made a
decision to fish and started gathering ...