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Spoonminnow hasn’t fished the canals in Yuma. Yet he will tell you how to fish them with his New York farm pond techniques.

Here we go again

May ... hammering the panfish as usual. Monthly best went 2.28 lb. from San Vicente on a nightcrawler. Also that day, caught lots of bass up to 3 lb and a dozen other nice bluegill fishing live bait in a cove area near brush. I often find the bite picks up late in the day.

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Saturday was full of raging rainstorms. Finally got a chance to go fishing Sunday. I wanted to try bluegill fishing after some trout fishing because I often run out of trout to catch. Right after Saturday's storm, catfish would be biting better. The panfish and bass were pretty lockjaw even on live ...

Testing.... Got this one on a mop fly with silly legs a few weeks back after a slow surf sesh.

Lake Morena

Pretty sure cuyamaca still has a refund program if you pull carp out of the water and bring them up to the concession, they will refund your permit price. They are pretty thick in the shallows.

Henshaw is another good lake for those.

While I'm trolling for crappies in the mornings all you see are carp lips at the surface. All over.

I don't know if they still do but Santee Lakes would give a free pass for every 5 carp turned in.

Although it is illegal, chumming with corn works and the odds of being ticketed are close to 0. I certainly won't turn you in.

At Henshaw, you might get to see a bald eagle dropping down and pulling ...

Cancelled my freshwater plans after the rain. Slept in all morning. Jumped in the water at 9:45(slack tide) calm and empty. Got bit right off.

I had a 1/4oz jig on 6lb and 1/2oz jig on 8lb. Crawling them deep in the middle of the bay. I got out at 12:30 cause it got crowded and windy.

Ended with ...

I didn't get any in the shallow water close to shore this morning unlike the last few weekends. I think they are moving to deeper water and then to the mouth of the bay to spawn in June. Have seen that pattern before.

Water is warm now. Don't need waders or boots. Some people get sore hips or back some don't. My back was jacked.up for a year...hurt to hike or bike but didn't bother me in the tube.
There are places on both bays with easy launches and very little tidal movement, so you can figure out whether your ...

Had an awesome morning ultralight fishing this morning at Otay. Caught over 30 chunky bluegills. I was jigging 3i nch Yamamoto shad shaped worms and a small 2inch sinking jerkbait. What a great time!
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Appreciate all the info dude! Looks like the prowler is out of stock for now. That thing looks super nice, pricy but nice. Been trying to get into it for a while. There's a spot on Indian land out east I've been wanting to go night tubing at for a minute. I have this night scale deps 250 I need to ...

The ones you have to walk in camo through spiderwebs and brush in pitch black without ever shining a light all night long.

IMHO, no clips. Fresh knots can be a blessing in disguise. If you need a loop for a lure to swim free like a jerk bait or top water, learn the rapala knot. Super quick. And you can even tie a double rapala knot for heavy stuff with lighter line. Never had the rapala knot fail. My pb 13lb bass was on ...

Depends honestly. I don’t use snaps for 90% of my hard baits, but for a lot of my bigger glide baits I use a heavy duty SPRO snap. On the Deps 250 I replace the split ring with a snap. Like the action a little bit better with a snap than a split ring or direct tie.

That said, I pretty much use a ...

I forgot about lemon grove bait and tackle. I see why they don’t advertise it the same way they do ECBT. I wouldn’t wear a hat that had a big “LGBT” on the front either.

More like the city of hillcrest

Ac Plug - the OG Triple OG. Cool recent podcast with the creator here:

Looks like it might be an osprey swimbait. I used to have a few but they've been donated during some fishing trips at Skinner.