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My favorite color Worm is not really a color. Black. Straight, no flakes, glitter, Curly tail. I mostly bought 8 inch and cut/melt the tip with matches, not a lighter, for length. Lighters leave a smell. Texas Rig, Wacky, wacky with a nail. My Dad showed me those techniques in the 60s. Funny how ...

Our lakes have declined because, well, some people just suck at being humans

Dang, bummer. Those are hard to flip especially on a lake. Hopefully it was because he was trying to land a 20lb bass…that’s the story I’d give any way haha


If I am not mistaken, Hodges is still the only lake in Calif to produce at 20+ lbs bass, that does not stock trout.

Bummer!That's a lot ...

I thought it's almost July...didn't feel like it at 5:00 this morning! I woke up to 47 degrees...it should be more like 60 this time of year! The fish didn't seem too happy either! The first 3 hours were cold and foggy and the fish weren't having what I was throwing! Then the sun came out and the ...

Looked for you out there yesterday. Didn't find you. Same thing for me...foggy, cool in the morning and no bites. Caught my 1st one at 10:41 and the second one at 11:25...both on my black frog. Missed to blowups and missed a hook set on a drop shot in the Toll Road Arm. Left the lake at noon.

Been two weeks since I was there, was an interesting trip. Here's my report from back then...

My God has a sense of humor, here's our latest interaction with Him, see what you think.

Dr John, my friend and current backseat student, and I went fishing at Otay lake yesterday. It ended up being much ...

I fished it yesterday (July 4), first time this year although it's in my neighborhood. It looks like there would be fish everywhere. I got a fluke fish in the first hour. Fished until about 10:30 and only got one other bite flippin' a worm. I'm guessing it was a bed fish because it bit below the ...

they're called little creepers. Available at ECBT and tacklewarehouse

Little creeper trash gill or a rip off because the pec fins look different unless they changed the mold. They get bit. Get a bottle of mend it.

This is a dangerous request, lol....

You're likely to get a lot of different opinions on this, so I'd just suggest you pop into one of the local shops around Santee and Lakeside and you'll get a wealth of knowledge and grab "the bait/s" you need to get you some green bass.

Need expert advice to buy best tackle for bass fishing!
Expert opinion needed.


"Best" is relative.

Perhaps providing details as to the type of bass fishing you'll be doing, and what your budget is, people may be able to give their 2 cents?

(Altho this post smells spammy to me)


My ...

Last Monday when I was at Miramar I saw a few rumbles on the surface but had no topwater baits with me as I packed mostly worms and craw baits. A buddy also recently told me he caught a few on top this trip I packed a few topwater baits in my kayak. It was a little foggy when I arrived and headed ...

I had epic night sessions there thru the 80s, one 7 trip run with at least one over 10 each trip until it just got too hot. All on the Float Tube.

Took a little trip down to my favorite body of water this morning, 9/10.

The conditions were kind of uncanny when I arrived at first light. Dead calm, overcast. Seems like an invitation to throw topwater, right? Wrong! Threw a variety of topwater baits and a few subsurface options with nary a bite ...

With my favorite local body of water holding a two day tourney for the weekend I decided to change up the routine and forego my normal Sunday AM trip in favor of hitting the desert canals.

Day started off great with my first Smallie catch ever on a crankbait. Got two dink largies on the same crank ...

Pretty sure those are all smallmouth. Even better!

Different spot today, different species (all largies - for sure this time lol), but same pattern - chuck, wind, catch, rinse and repeat..

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I’ll chime in here, my PB caught at the lower river. 10.2 LBS

professionull wrote: Thu Oct 05, 2023 8:02 pm

bigbassin wrote: Wed Oct 04, 2023 11:11 am I’ll chime in here, my PB caught at the lower river. 10.2 LBS

Damn I need to start fishing SD river!

Pretty sure he's talking about Lower Colorado. That's a really good LCR fish!

My Dad circa. 1988