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Been a good couple of weekends. Can’t wait for the next couple
Of months. Going to be good with all this water.

Water 70+- and so GREEN!!!!! The whole lake!!! Visibility 6" at best.
Boated 3 males in the junk. Be a month before it's, at least, somewhat clear.

Way to find them JJ. Not easy when the water is like that.
I’m surprise the bass can see a pumpkin colored senko… ha ha
Tight lines

Hit the road at 6:30am and made the 1hr 20 minute trek from Oceanside to the most remote lake in San Diego County. Got my boat all dried up the night before but arrived to find out my cooler had tilted over and spilled all the melted ice into the boat 😩 Spent 20 mins getting that all dried up and ...

Way to perserver , it paid off. You guys had a great time.
Thanks for sharing the beautiful photos.

Dixon Lake update on Bass. This fish had a few eager friends, but she was the most photogenic. I was just walking the shore pounding along with a #7 Rapala and they were very cooperative. I'd like to say that's a surfcasting rod and she was huge, but it's really about a 20" fish, which is still a ...

Awesome report!

That far lake thought the years can be very tough to fish especially when the water was so low unless you like to fish for carp. But just about every April and sometimes early May(depending on the weather) there is a period where some very nice fat healthy bass are caught. It is kept pretty quiet ...

Nice. You put me to shame.looks like you had some killer conditions. We had sheep on the ranch for most of the whole day. (White caps)

I got to the lake at sunrise, expecting to see the regulars out on the water already...but no, I was alone. That tells you how tough the fishing is and the high water has made launching and parking a real challenge. I keep expecting the lake to go off every week, but it's still not happening! I ...

Good to see you out there yesterday morning.Sorry to hear you didn't catch a dozen bass at Sutherland. Good you found those 3. It's been very tough this year. I have been skunked 4 weekends in a row at Sutherland. The water level being so high, I think the fish are confused. Hopefully it will get ...

Reminds me of the old days out there when there was alot more water! Miss those days! Hopefully they won't drain it all down stream!

Got to the lake early, almost empty, which was a big surprise to me. Paddled out and immediately got a treat over by the big water inlet. Of course that anchored me to that spot for another fruitless 45 minutes. But moved along the shoreline and out to the island and got many takers. All on dropshot ...

water temp 72 to 74 on sunday 04/30

Mcfish wrote: Sun Apr 30, 2023 3:11 pm Reminds me of the old days out there when there was alot more water! Miss those days! Hopefully they won't drain it all down stream!

I think they just rely on the severe leak in the dam to drain haha. There is a whole lot of new water out there. Almost double in acreage from where it’s been

Well for the first few hours it seemed like bad business as usual at the old lake. Just cold and rainy! The game plan was to throw a buzz bait through flooded brush. If that failed, a spinnerbait through flooded brush. I just knew they had to be in flooded brush! Well, if they were, they were not ...

I have very good (Luck) fishing this method at Sutherland during high water.
It is basically a heavy drop shot, I make my weights 3/4 oz from a piece of lead from a 1lb spool of hollow lead. (Main use is river drifting for salmon) cut to length and insert a swivel put in vise to crimp. Rebar hook 5 ...

if anyone wants to shore pound ramona or morena hit me up.

the other day at morena, i took a break from bassin and gave the carp a go. i got 7 big ones(24-27”) in an hour. it was like, “that was fun, back to getting laughed at by bass”

Knowing that 15 north morning traffic on a weekday gets crazy and going south in the late afternoon a lot worse, I decided to head up to Lake Miramar and put in a little fishing time in my kayak. Knowing that I need to make the most of my time on the water I quickly headed across the lake.
I was ...

Nice angling there Michael. I talked to you for a little while when we were leaving Barrett on Wednesday. We did fairly well and I posted a report. Hope you got into some topwater action at the Big B.