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My last few visits at Murray have been dominated by dinks and clones. Still catching decent numbers, but most have been small. Today I finally got on a little better bite. Not giants but got 3 in the upper two and lower 3 lb. range. Flipping the edge of tules with a jig. It certainly ain't power ...

Since my home lake is closed tomorrow, I got permission from Mr. Vinny to fish his home lake today! I guess it's partly my lake since I've been fishing it since 1963...! The latest fish reports haven't exactly been glowing, so I wasn't expecting much...big mistake! I got on the water at 5:45, got ...

I got on the water at 5:30. In the summer months I am not dropping the kids off at school everyday, so I do get on the water earlier albeit less frequently. They'll be seniors next year, which is hard to believe.

Anyway I saw VinnyBass out there on his electronics-free kayak doing his Vinny thang ...

Ended the morning with 9 fish total. All on jigs along drop offs, and frogs across the top of floating vegetation mats (of which there are plenty). I put a new seat in my float tube and man is it nice! Ergonomic and no more sliding down in the seat. Should have done it years ago.

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Final count was 13 with three of them over 3 pounds, one over 4 pounds and the best was a 6.2 pounder.

All fish were courtesy of a jig. I tried throwing a walking bait numerous times and had only one bite which came unbuttoned. The topwater action never really got going that I saw.

It was great ...

In years of high water, the south end has been very good to me. I caught my largest personal best at Cuyamaca, but it was way back at the end of June in 2009. I caught a 12 lb bass on a Senko just as a thunderstorm began. It was possible back in those days, to catch numbers and quality, but you had ...

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Hey all,
I haven't gotten to post (or fish) in a while. I did have the opportunity to head out for just a few hours on Saturday to Lake Miramar. It was a nice mental therapy session just to decompress. The bonus was that I caught fish! I just wanted to take it back old ...

Edit. Closure dates for August posted below with photos from today, the 30th.

Not sure where I wanted to go this morning so I loaded up my kayak and made a quick decision to head up to Lake Miramar. With a little fog over the water I searched for something on top, but still not really happening yet other than a few that rippled the surface in about an hour of looking. So I ...

Fun froggy morning at Otay. Only 5 bass, but all over 3 lbs with the best going 3.76. also managed a few beefy bluegill trolling crank baits when changing froggin spots.

I'm impressed with the quality of the new Paramount waders. They seem really well made. Time will tell how many trips I make ...

Decided to skip a trip to the Lake of D & K due to hot weather. Oh course I was bored after my coffee and biscotti and kept bouncing the idea that maybe I could just head down to the SD River or Murray and fish from shore for couple hours before it gets too hot. Finally I grabbed 2 rods and a ...

Last week I wasted 3 hours waiting for the busters that never showed up...not this week! I started out fishing creatures on rock piles in 8'-20' of water and found fish right off. If you didn't feel rocks or trees, you weren't getting decent fish! I ended up with only 13 fish, but the quality was ...

Water level remains good for boats to launch was a packed house today both parking lots about full when I left at 11 I threw spinner blade neko worm but only for a short time I was having to much fun on topwater toad landed 8 missed a lot I experimented with diff toads early I have a mold I made ...

Well, I certainly don't have Miramar all figured out like VinnyBass , and Pourboy , or the rest of you pros. I managed 6 fish over 7 hours, but all were clones, and man I really had to work to get them.

I got no love at all on cranks, jerks, flukes, frogs, or anything that swims. All 6 fish came on ...

More toad fishing at cap this morning w my dad on yak got there early started north side dam finger was getting blowups but not near as many only landed 1 in couple hours we missed quite a few but they weren’t really that aggressive did have one knock my bait 2 feet in the air and he jumped 3 ft was ...

I like the way you did your photos in groups of 3. Very convenient for the viewing public=D
I bet the bass 100% thought they were hitting a nice bluegill when they saw the fat senko.


I tried something different in the pics just to show the different baits or colors used
and thought it would be ...

I've been seeing all your posts about the El Cap bite. I decided to give it a try. I managed a mere 6 clones in 7 hours. All of them looked pretty much like the one in the picture. Musta come from the same litter.

Couldn't get a frog bite, Caught them on a crank, jig, Huddleston weedless grass ...

I just glad you went fishing and nailed them on my Birthday. I did my 64 mile Birthday ride, it gets tougher every year. 1 pic from the halfway spot. I surf fished today with a large South Swell for two Corbina and a Yellowfin Croaker and 90 pounds of weeds. Weeds pull hard in a big swell. Lots of ...

Some of the bigger fish are starting to hit topwater walking baits at the Murr. I caught 6 early morning TW fish then it basically shut down. I picked up a few more on a jig pitching the edge of the tules and points. Total was 9, with the biggest going 4.1.

Sometimes its true...it is fun and this was one of them...I was there for a total of 3 casts (flips really) and here is the result:

Way better than the 12 fish dink festival at Hodges the day before...