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I hear that lake isn't good anymore...hahahahaha!

What a great trip. Thanks for sharing the pictures.

Freaking nice! And what a great report brother!

Wow!! Good job boys

Mcfish wrote: Sat Feb 08, 2025 2:10 pm I hear that lake isn't good anymore...hahahahaha!

Yea especially getting 4s 5s and pb 6.5 on a popper!

619bassin wrote: Sun Feb 09, 2025 8:38 am

Mcfish wrote: Sat Feb 08, 2025 2:10 pm I hear that lake isn't good anymore...hahahahaha!

Yea especially getting 4s 5s and pb 6.5 on a popper!

To be fair, Chuck, that is the magic popper.

Holy crap what an adventure !! Great post thanks for sharing.

What a fantastic trip, you guys are awesome.
You guys made it happen, that’s the way to live life.
Memories forever.

Tight lines

Any pics of the big ones?

Great post! Love those fat pale ones =)
That's my kind of lake, low amount cover, emphasizing the structure targeting.
Keep up the good life!

Great post and it sounds like it was a great time out there. It is on my list for sure. Cheers!

After a good year of re-learning the game after about 20 years out, I decided to take the spotty skills I’ve built up to a small local lake before (and during) the storm this week. With almost no largemouth experience as a kid, I was hoping the time I’ve spent consuming YouTube, SDFish and other ...

Kept busy all last week working on a rental property and did not fish once. So, I headed down to the SD river this morning to give it a go for a few hours. Never seem to get an early start(blame old age, or don't like to be cold?).
The water temp is still pretty cold and pretty murky from the rains ...

0330 and we're leaving Los Angeles, en route to beautiful San Diego County, GPS set to El Cap, where we will hopefully not be donating our tournament fees to other anglers in two weeks. And speaking of anglers, even if we fail miserably, least we get free hot dogs for lunch, courtesy of Angler's ...

a banner across the Lower Otay Reservoir city website says closed on 2/19 due to algae bloom.

Decided to grab a boat and give more of the lake a try than I usually have access to walking the shore. Went with my buddy Chris (gotta have someone to drive the boat...). Day started with Pourboy Early release intros at the boat launch, was great to meet in person! Then we drove all over the lake ...

I've been off the water prior to today for for a couple of weeks. Amid some other challenges I've also been shopping for a new economical vehicle. The near daily drives from Jamul or Descanso in a heavy duty diesel pickup truck(which I need to pull my travel trailer) were killing me. I settled on a ...

Monday I fished all morning and only managed a couple of little clones buuuut...I was great chatting with Mcfish on the lake. I believe he said he did about the same as me lol.

Today (Tuesday) was a different story with 11 fish total. Most were clones with the best coming in at 3.45 lbs. The water ...

I had another fun day there yesterday (2/28) numbers-wise anyway. Caught maybe a dozen fat clones.

A shore angler tied into his PB and asked me if I had a scale, so I kicked over to the bank and showed him how to use it. His bass came in at 3.4 and he was positively giddy about it! I was very happy ...

Gotfish? wrote: Thu Feb 27, 2025 5:53 am Where are those quagga mussels when we need them? I thought they were supposed to suck up all the nutrients and algae.

Mussels are about as lazy as a creature can get.

Quaggas (and soon to be golden mussels) actually make cyanobacterial (blue-green algae) blooms worse.