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I love the motivation, drive, enthusiasm but lets be realistic here.....
Having a hard time walking the terrain of our local reservoirs @ 70+, but you're climbing fences with gear, & running from the sheriffs...

If I do a little tresbassing, I’m a criminal…But if I wanted, I could walk out of Albertsons with a cart full of stolen groceries with no consequences and be a TikTok hero.

Did some BFS fishing at Otay this morning.  Caught 3 bass on a Mini Brushhog, and 3 large bluegill on a 2" jerkbait.  Fun mornin!

Went for a morning hike to celebrate my bday. Took home a couple presents. Got em on 3" drop shots and spinnerbaits. Invite yourself fishing.

One of the best fish tacos I ever ate in my life was calico bass. It was also prepared by a 6 figure salary chef aboard an 18million private sport fisher. Lol

Winter is about done, as soon as the seasonal creeks stop flowing the lake will only get lower...! Don't forget that the City and Water Authorities say that the reservoirs weren't built for fisherman! No kidding! But since they've dumped over 15 billion gallons of water into the ocean this year ...

I imagine the people who managed these reservoirs when they were built didn’t have the same worldview as the people who manage them now. The people running them now are more concerned with what kind of stick figure is on the bathroom doors at the reservoirs instead of how much water is in them.

Culling arguments aside, there is plenty of bait in el cap. The shad tend to be the thickest in the north end most of the year. When you’re in 30’ and your graph starts glitching thinking you’re in 2’ because the screen is solid orange, that’s a lot of bait!

Hiking in Yuma. 11-3 on the homemade slug. 20 lb mono

Its been years since I caught a double digit bass. I saw a fish that looked decent sized. I jigged the area for a while with no bites. I grabbed another rod with a slug. Twitched it through the trees, and BAM! Now im fighting a giant. I kept expecting her to come off because she was so big. She ...

I finally got some time off from fishing these kayak tournaments up here in Northern California..... I was able to find and dial in a pretty speical bite on my now Home pond. Weightless 5" Shad color senko dead sticking on the tops of boulders. Tops of the boulders would be in about 20ft. I found a ...

Some Otay morning action in the tubes today. Brother and I have effectively starting calling it “FLOATay” because it’s such a float tube friendly lake. Lots of good spots to launch and fish there. Every trip I’ve taken down there I’ve encountered quite a few tubers as well.

How was the fishing? We ...

Then what about the Bass I catch on large Bluegill while Flathead fishing at the river? Bass eat big Gills all the time. Sometimes they choke on them, I’ve seen Bass dead Bass with Coots stuck in their mouths. They will try and eat anything that they can fit in their Big Mouths, yet we rarely see ...

Nice release….NOT

Loveland used to have a 3 strikes rule back in the day. You broke 3 in one trip: wading, throwing a bass 20 feet through the air into the water and bringing a go pro down there.

It’s all good. Honestly the wading and go pro was a joke. I’d be lying if I didn’t swim more than once for something in that lake. The release was rough.

Take it easy killing time, all I had to “know” you by was your response to this post. “Agreeing” with that “toss” wasn’t funny in the context of ...

Just listening to some recorded podcasts that Bruce Smith has started. Specializing just in San Diego bass fishing. He’s got some great bass fisherman on, which I appreciate. Also, he’s covering information on the city and the county’s plans on closing some of our lakes certain days and months per ...

Haven’t been on SDfish too much lately but I decided to post this catch. I was planning on taking out the kayak but didn’t want to go through the hassle of loading it up so instead, I went on the bank. I saw some fish busting so I decided to throw a small 2.8 Keitech on an underspin. I got caught on ...

Had a 16 fish day today at Otay. Walking baits, poppers, jerk and crankbaits all produced. Even picked up a few worm fish after it got hot. All in all a beautiful Saturday morning.

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Ah man I knew we made a mistake not going to Otay this morning. Lol. Nice job Brutha!