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Been over a week since I fished last so I decided to hit Murray. I had thought of going up to the Lake of D & K, but a cold weather forecast up there helped change my mind. Too stubborn to fish the tulles I searched and searched for shad balls and wasted a lot of fishing time. Hours went by and not ...

6 April 2025
Caught and released
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Thank you

Snagging season is here. Come on man. If you shoot a black bear from a helicopter is that hunting or you grow an oat patch and when deer season opens you kill animals you been feeding all year. Poway and other clear water lakes that you so called fisherman like to haunt this time of year should ...

The weather is heating up and before it gets too hot later in the week, I headed to the SD River this morning. No need to rush, as it seems most of the bass I caught at the river ain't until later morning. I recently scanned over time stamps on numerous photos taken here and at Murray of healthier ...

Nice day at The Captain. I only had about 3 hours to fish but with Murray closed I decided on a quick trip to El Cap.

I didn't get on the water till after 9 and picked up a few drinks and clones casting a jig to rocky bank areas. It started pretty slow, but I finally found a pattern. The larger ...

KillinTime wrote: Tue Apr 08, 2025 5:36 pm Those nicer river bass, seen to always have a yellowish hue to them?
Thanks for sharing

I have noticed that also on some of them. They
have lived through the many changes in the
water that is not always clean...or ever clean.
They probably have earned that color....ha ha.

Good to see you out there Dan. I saw him pick up a couple on his way in as I was at the dock playing with my spot lock. I think it's finally fix. Fun day for me too.
Second pic is 1 from Jennings

I fished for 5 hours at Murray today and the lake served up a humongous steaming plate of deep fried skunk. I threw everything, cranks, jerks, topwater, flukes, jigs, worms...literally every type of bait I had, and nary even a nibble.

Report over lol. I'm off to get Tylenol and bourbon.

IMG_0924.jpeg Got to Murray around 6:45am. Tiny bass busting near launch. Not one hookup. Kinda set the tempo for the morning.
Got a couple dinks on the jerkbait. I moved around a lot. No discernible pattern could be found.
Bumped into the biggest of the day on a dropshot. Only went 1.3#.
Ended ...

Well I thought it would be a good morning to pay a visit to fellow SDFish bass fishermen Mcfish and Fisheromen on their home lake. Yes, I decided to venture off a lot further than my normal less than 2 mile drive to Murray, to the Lake of D & K. My first visit this year and was greeted by Mcfish in ...

Fun day at the home lake today! I was hoping that it would produce today since I talked Vinny into making the trip out to my neighborhood! The pattern today was pretty much the opposite of last week! I got into a shallow bite today that wasn't around last week. The fish were mostly fun clone size ...

After back to back skunk sandwiches at Murray this week, I decided to go to Otay. Met up with CorsoEnthusiast and his brother bright and early.

My final count for the day was 14, with nearly half being over 3 and the biggest weighing 4.2. you know it's a pretty good day when a 2.5 pounder feels ...

KillinTime wrote: Sun Apr 13, 2025 12:50 pm Nice to see that lake producing early and consistently.
Any estimates on the size of the one that got away?

I weighed his five pounder and I was pretty close to McFish when he lost that other one and from my view could’ve pulled around 7 pounds.

Here's a few fish from the Santee Lakes in March. They were chewing the trick worm all spring. I'm taking a little break while all the bed fisherman take over the lakes.

I loaded my kayak up early this morning for otay saw Dan again great to see ya “cowboy” I got on water shot strait across got a dozen fish first couple hours flipping my neko 7” roboworm Arron’s magic right up to toulies dragging it back I missed as many as I caught or more then bite just seemed to ...

Got on the water early and got to say hi to robert_smith as he was heading out too. After a few minutes Dfishin showed up and we hung out and fished together all morning.

It was a really productive day. I stopped counting at 20 fish but I'm guessing my total was over 30. I'm pretty sure Dave did ...

Sorry for the late report but I was having some problems getting on SDFISH
Last Sunday my fish bud and I decided to go and check the repairs he had done on his boat, we didn’t think we would catch any bass because we’ve found the structure in the past to just eat up ours lures, but the main thing ...

Managed to pull 8 fatties out of The Captain today on BFS gear. Nothing under 2 and nothing over 3, but they were feisty.

I'll post a breakdown of baits I used in the BFS section for you other finesse guys if you are interested.

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That’s crazy the water is getting so low. Good job getting out there and catching before no-go!

Heck yeah! Glad you had fun bass fishing at El Cap with your son.
It's a dang shame that the water is being released so much, but at least you got out there in time and from looking at the pics and reading your report....all had a great day! Thank you for sharing with us
and tight lines always.