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Great pics and report. Congrats.

Lake staff at Barrett calls future changes crazy. At todays rates, they make $3K per day when open, and staff is there whether it's open or not, so no savings there by closing, as planned... idiots.

Great report, way to slay!

Holy Moly, great job.

Bonecrusher wrote: Mon Jun 23, 2025 5:49 pm What does it affect Barrett? Keeping Wednesday's open?

Barrett will now remain open Wed., hurrah!

Xman99 wrote: Mon Jun 23, 2025 8:00 pm Michael…I think I read somewhere today that road is closed because of the recent fire.

Yeah, thanks. Went to the cities lake page and had just read it. Wanna fish it before it closes to boats.
CIao.

Great report, glad you got on them!

Some nice models there bro.

My fav

Edit. Closure dates for August posted below with photos from today, the 30th.

Two bass thumbs up

Closed Aug. 4th and 5th. And the 19th and 20th. They said that might finalize closers for algae treatments for the year. Got a few nice models on top water today. Follow up bait of choice was a Senko, which worked fine. Folks throwing smaller plastics recording high numbers.

Nice job (on cooking... great smoke ring there.)
Inspires me to get mine fired up again.

Missed three weeks of top water fun as I was working in Italy. Got some at Otay last week and today at Miramar had some more topwater action. Absolutely a gorgeous day with only one other boat on the water.

May as well show a couple of my images from Italy, huh?

Works tuff, right? Hahaha
Dream job!


Yeah, but someone's gotta do it, right?
Fourteenth trip to Italy, month per, can't get enough I guess.

My first trip to Italy netted me an image that won a Int'l photo competition!
This one, titled 'Ghost of Florence', took 'Best of Show, color, S.D ...

Fish otay today. Noon till 4:45 PM. Started out calm and after about an hour got white caps balance of the day in Harvey’s. 61° but with the wind, it felt like 50°Threw the lipless, underspin, super spook for Nada. Went to Old Faithful, gunFish and got four blowups and landed three.

Wow, some great images here!

not amateur but... couple of cell phone snaps from earlier this month.

Was so beautiful last week. TopWas slow overall but the third cast got this nice one on a 7” lunker punker.