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I’m one of those guys that don’t like tournaments or tournament fisherman. Sorry. Well, not sorry… I’ve only ever done ones at night, not for the tournament aspect, just to be able to fish a normally closed at night lake in a boat. The stereotype seems to fit 90%.

If you wanna see that stereotype ...

So the tournament didn't have someone on site to fizz bass released in the tournament? That violates the conditions of their permit. Do you have photos or video of this incident? I can rectify this problem real quick...

Obviously all you bleeding hearts were so busy crying over the couple floaters and trying to save them, you missed the fact there was a DFW agent on site long before the teams ever made it back to the dock. Ethics and morals aside, I have to say it’s sort of ironic that we’ve recently been ...

Pourboy wrote: Wed Nov 06, 2024 1:24 pm And by the way I would like to be the first to compliment you on the Social D hat!

Well its been ten years and a thousand years but look at its giant fins!

5 bass today at Otay. 4 of them were 1.5 to 3 lb clones and the largest went 5.4 lbs. All of them were on a chatterbait. I went to Otay arm to try hover strolling but there was really nothing going on there. None of the boats, yaks, or tubes reporting much success so I started working deeper ...

Every year I make a trip out to the River to night fish the lagoon at night now that I don't have a boat. Its been a fun tradition I have had going for awhile now. The river saw a tournament with around 100 boats put a hurtin on em Friday and Sat. Over the night on Friday, the river went down around ...

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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1st time this back to my go to lake...I do love the pond, but the lake is so much more...

Got an on time start, long line at the iron ranger and to the water not long after first light. Threw a bunch of different stuff, spinnerbait, cranks, etc but the first one took almost an hour and I was ...

Well.....fished it twice since it opened, learned one thing: it fishes alot tougher than the last few years! The water level is extremely depressing! The lake has hundreds of rockpiles, unfortunately 95% of them are on dry land now. The bad news is there will be no boats on the lake this year...the ...

WTF is going on?
Subtract another lake for boats.

So moving away from San Diego a couple of years ago has changed the type of fishing and accessibility to water has changed drastically. I get to go to the lakes whenever, light, dark, no matter. Parks pass gets me everything and a vessel pass for the year. Fishing is much different in some ways and ...

I think adding trout would help but what would really help more is if we as fisherman started culling some of the smaller fish so the bass would have more forage hence the bass would get larger. We as fisherman have been grilled into our minds from an early age "Catch and Release" but Im starting to ...

Definitely worth the adventure to picacho at least once in your life. You can make it in 2wd.

Squaw is awesome. Some will knock it hard but a flylined, weedless night crawler in the tules can absolutely kill bigger bass as well as fishing a live bluegill under a float. It’s legal down there. There ...

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 ...