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I thought the same thing. He’s probably dying to get his name back out there one way or another…

Sammy, is that really you Mike? Hahaha

"Ramona eagle enthusiast Mike Long has a passion for conservation"
Except when he is using a 5/0 XXX Owner Treble to snag spawning bass!

I found a pattern on Lake Mohave my last day here. I got on the water at 3 am, and immediately headed to rocky areas I identified yesterday. I was casting weedless craw baits on to the bank and bouncing them down steep rocky banks.

Ended the day at 11am with nine largemouth and one smallie. Most of ...

With a very hot day ahead, I was going to stay home but decided to go to Murray. Finally got on the water a little after 7am and messed around trying to catch one of the bass chasing shad along the surface. It was next to impossible as those little buggers were up and down quickly but did pick up ...

Finally got into some nicer fish at Murray. Final count was 5. All fish were over two pounds with one going 3.5 and another was 4.5. It really was a beautiful early December day.

Nice to have a day that wasn't a total dinkfest :D


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Poway has been great to me and my kids this season.

I’ve never gone as far to use fluoro. Cats are not line shy at all.
I don’t catfish as much as I used to but for soaking bait, I got into just a sliding egg sinker directly inline with the hook. Casts better than a swivel with leader. But even better if you aren’t worried about casting as far as ...

Well something went wrong with my saltyfreshsd account, got logged out and no password reset emails so back to my old forum name. Went up to Hodges yesterday morning. This time brought some bait so I could toss out a catfish rod while I bass fished. Ended up with 10 cats, 2 bass and a carp. Here is ...

Small hook like size 4. Chunk of shrimp, no weight. Cast it out and leave the bail open, watch the line. Simple enough. The stocked cats just make laps in the local lakes.... Use two rods if you can... 8-12# gear

From September of 2021. We were soaking bait for carp. I was using shrimp...

Why yes, I am sorting my old photo files.

One local creek has plenty of bullheads, but never encountered a bigger cat after some 15 years of scratching around.

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Same spot a year later. At first I thought it was the same fish, but it was a nearly two inches shorter ...

Fresh over frozen if you can

While fishing for bass at Lake Murray, this cat decided my underspin looked like something good to eat. I wanted to get a
pic or two and get it back in the water. I should have took my time as it was not easy to hold up with one hand for a pic and
quickly glanced at the scale which my arm was ...

Just a pic of my third cat I have caught while fishing for bass at Lake Murray. This one gobbled up a brush hog. It took about 20 seconds
as I was thinking it was a nice bass, but soon realized it was probably a cat. This was the smallest of the 3 and weighed 6.75lbs.
The point east of the boat dock ...

A 40lb channel cat fish would be an extremely rare catch. A 40lb catfish would more likely be a blue catfish or a flathead catfish.

Thought I would put this in here. It was caught on a BFS combo plastic worm 6 lb test. Don't have a scale for over 15 lbs.

Careful what you post… bluegill live or dead is illegal to use as bait in public waters in Ca except imperial valley. Since you slay the MPA probably, doesn’t matter haha. Nice cats by the way..

Me at diamond valley. Caught in the Rock quarry area and 8 more just like em. 13.5 and a 13.8. Twins! Lol

I just found the site and wanted to get things going again. I got this nice red ear sunfish at lake 5 on a night crawler.

I got to the lake about 6:30am, caught five bass real quick, all males cruising the bank, so i thought I would try for a few bluegill.
Caught six nice ones .
I’ll try to post the pictures of bluegill.