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Here is a picture of the bait that did most of the damage at Murray yesterday.

It's a Rapala Crush City Ned BLT on a 1/0 EWG hook. The weight is a Nako skirted 1/8 oz.

I like to focus on rocky areas with it, but it's lightweight, and extremely weedless. You can work it over and through grass and ...

It's been a year or so since I've thrown this, and yep it still works.

Gamakatsu #2 light wire EWG hook, Zoom tiny Brush Hog in green pumpkin, and a 1/16 oz Nako tungsten bullet weight.

I don't peg the weight and pull it along the bottom and over vegetation giving it frequent little bounces then ...

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Saturday morning, I found myself out at the Marina del Rey jetty. I wasn’t planning on being there, but it was either that or prefishing Diamond Valley again, which we affectionately now call Cubic Zirconia Valley. I had gotten my ass kicked at DVL ...

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I realized something this week. I haven’t actually fun fished in a while. Like, just gone out to fish without a tournament hanging over my head like the cloud that follows Eeyore everywhere.

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And that’s why we keep coming back to your post… Great read!…You need to be writing for a outdoor magazine… I felt like I was there.. Thank you for posting…
Butch

I went on an exploratory trip to check on conditions, and found some really fishable holes in North Newport to South Huntington Beach. It was late afternoon with the nearly Full Moon rising well before the Sun set and the Tide getting very low. The holes were defined by the surf disappearing into ...