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Vinny, that first bass is a very nice fish! What is that, a 2" Sammy?

Although I haven’t been fishing in over a month and probably won’t go for another month I thought I would put this out there. For me it has been fun to get them on the rat, the mudbug (crawdad) and the Black Cockatoo! What are some of your unusual baits?

Rat for sure. The unusual lure that comes to mind is the deps sonar. It’s a swim bait that’s jointed but the rubber skin around it makes the joint less flexible and the tying point is dead center on the side. It literally moves like a forward scanning sonar. I’ve caught a quite a few fish on it but ...

Yep, haven't caught fish on all of those!

Two weeks ago I was at Barrett and saw a dead rabbit in the water. I realized why the big rat lures work right there.

But for me, consistently this crazy crawler is the strangest thing I use ( and variants ) and every week I get some fish to claim it.

My wife caught one just over 4 before Loveland was destroyed and it spit up a biiig pack rat on the last jump.

I also saw a juvenile duck big enough to be on its own get pulled down at otay. It was “screaming” doing everything it could to get away. Fish finally let it go and it went to shore. I ...

Got to fish San V yesterday morning with SDFish member Oh Da Shiz off his boat.

San V is just en fuego right now. Mostly a finesse plastic bite but they were chomping. Find the shade, find the mud, find the fish. Definitely the best local bite going that isn’t on the downlow.

We ended up with ...

The Megabass I wing135 is great. Last trip to Barrett a 4lb broke the wings!

Fished El Cap and Hodges this weekend. Threw t-rigged brush hogs, t-rigged margarita mutilator robos, spinnerbaits, underspins, jigs, and dropshot... Could not buy a bite this weekend. I tried fishing shallow and deep.

They bit a lot better for me a few weeks ago as I caught quite a few on the ...

You gave it the kitchen sink and more! You now have your off week out of the way

Awesome report Vinny bass, looks like you found the right bait to fool the bass.can’t wait to get out to Miramar and fish in the tube.

Got one on your new worm! Must have been fun! Bet attendance picks up!

Hey Vinny,
Great job at Miramar. A few of those bass have big shoulders. Once again, the Sammy performs in your skilled hands.
Joe.

Miramar can fish alot like Murray, not surprised you do well there also! The attendance may pickup, but most people will probably have a tough time getting the better fish! Lots of tulles and some deep water is not most people's expertise!

2weeks ago the fish were busting in front of MO’s hole
Everywhere I fished the Ima long cast from shore and had 5 smaller
Next morning a big school of 3-5 lb fish going crazy
I had 14 all were nice and not the normal size
By far the absolutely best day of Topwater ever at Miramar


That is ...

That looks like a great morning. Topwater is my favorite ( I think that's a popular statement ), so it's nice to see topwater rewarded. It speaks to your skills though, to go from topwater to finesse so easily and keep landing them.
Tight lines,
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This clip is from a few years back, yes..but its still my all time favorite Night fishing clip.Gonna be doing some night action coming up in September as well. Anyone else ever do this? Guys, its super fun!

Hit my home lake for a few hours on Saturday morning 8-5-23. Got on the lake at 6:00AM. 1st one on a Popper in shallow water. 2nd one on a drop shot rig in a little deeper water. Then had one break off heading under the boat, even though my drag was pretty loose. 2 more missed hook sets after that ...

Still did not see any topwater action......pretty strange as in the beginning of June it just started to go off and then pretty much died.
Drastic changes in the water levels definitely had some type of affect in the overall fishing as normally topwater action would be pretty
much wide open in the ...

My little local lake out here in Ramona has been very abusive this year! After 4 months of 1 to 3 fish days, I finally started putting together some patterns a couple weeks ago and today was my revenge day! The weather was perfect, overcast in the morning and a high of 82 by 1:00! Normally in August ...