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Looks huge in that pic! I would have used a wide angle lens and held it even closer. LOL
That's a 10 pounder next spring. Way to go!!
The lower jaw on that fish makes it look even bigger!


After that first jump, I kept thinking this fish
is gonna be 8 or 9 pounds easily after seeing it
come ...

Finally got the ok to go back out in the sun as long as I had sun coverage and sunscreen. Followed Drs orders and headed out to San V today with sunscreen, a sun gaiter and hat.

Lake is super low and 20+ foot visibility. Decided to fish areas that were out of my usual rotation. Started the day ...

Very nice! Loved the pics and looks like you guys had a really fun time.
Catching fish without electronics and fishing with your son.....sounds wonderful!
Thanks for sharing

Took a 2,500 mile road trip pulling the trailer to the Castcade Mountains and everywhere in-between. Had a chance to Bass fish Trinity Lake and Clear Lake. We pumped up the Sea Eagle and got out for a few hours.
My Son and I had 3.5 hours of clone fishing on Smallies and Spots.

Here are a few ...

Had a pretty good day at Murray finally. I got tired of 4-5 fish days, so I decided to go back to the BFS basics that I know work day in and day out. Final count was 18 all in the 1-2 pound range (as Vinny would call them, clones), so definitely a quantity over quality day. Still they were all ...

Well the last two mornings have really been a blast. Yesterday I got 16 in 4 hours starting with a couple top water fish...nothing huge, but a few 3s...

But today...I only fished for 3 hours, from 6:15 to 9:15 and it was epic. Had probably 15 blowups on the whopper plopper and landed 7 and then 5 ...

Went strait to back first thing was foggy and cold 48 degrees in parking lot saw shamen there and his tube 👍 towed buddy with me so he had one side I had other started most way down north arm was couple tubing very back came on odyssey 4x4 from who knows where anyways I threw mostly sashimmy swimmer ...

robert_smith wrote: Sun Oct 12, 2025 3:15 pm Talked to couple guys one said Fri he got 32 and only 1 dink today another guy only got 1 but his buddy got 17 I bet he had tiny flukes mcfish

Throw em!

Great seeing you at the ramp. I ended up landing 9 and losing a bunch more including one giant that straightened the hook on my jig. And yes it was a bass not a cat. I lost it on the jump. Video coming soon.

Another epic morning at O'Neill...one on the plopper that was soooo fat I almost couldn't believe it.
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What did you eat?
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And then one after another on the spook (Halloween is coming you know), here are some examples...
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Haven't posted anything since my 7.25lb bass few weeks ago at Murray(Didn't want to bore you guys as just landing mostly dinks anyway), but here is just a quick post from the SD River.
Got just 3 bites this morning on a quick session at the river and landed 2 bass.
Not big by any means but still ...

Both days brought my dad saw Chris beefshamen at ramp on sun headed to middle started w cranks and sashimmy swimmer no taker one blow up on swimmer made it back of lake where they started to boil so switched to 5” fish roller hovering got a small one tried to chase boils in kayak to slow wasted a ...

Got on the lake at 8:30 and off by 1. It was a pretty good BFS day at the Murr. 7 fish all in the two pound range and the biggest going 3.52 lbs.

Early in the day I had some success pitching to the shore. At about mid morning they migrated out between 10-20 feet of water.

I'll share the hot bait ...

I live here, it's a mess. Not only are they draining it again they don't even care to do it correctly. They have been draining it too quickly not giving the fish a chance to acclimate so the die off is huge. They have stirred up the lake causing an algae bloom and since the lake has no aeration it ...

Wasn't going to post anything as it was pretty darn slow this morning, but Mcfish asked
me if the bass were still jumping? The answer is NO, as I did not see a single fish jump.
Worked the usual baits and was only able to pick up 5 small bass on plastic worms. The highlight on the day was chatting ...

So are there Northern or Floridas in the SD river?

I am not really sure. Guessing Northern bass? When they released tons of water from El Cap the other year, if some of those are Florida bass, there mustt of been some that made it into Lakeside then Santee and then into the SD River. Anyone else ...

Like Dan said, great day to be on the water.

It was nice unloading the tube and launching without all those damn green bugs pestering you.

Planned on heading towards the back of the lake, but hit a couple points on the way. No luck on the buzz, so switched to the Karashi and got a 3 pounder first ...

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Hey all!

I did make it out on the last weekend at Hodges for the season. I was surprised to see a good number of people at the gate at opening. I had heard that it was slow lately but had to get out one more time. I got my first bite within 5 minutes of fishing on a ...

Best one in a while...and it was an adventure.

Bit of a long story, but I have to share.

So hooked this girl on the far side of the small opening and the fight was on...she even jumped a couple times and then...she got tangled in a patch of tulles and was completely stuck. What to do? Tried all ...

Had a couple nice days lately at El Cap. Air in the early morning is cool/cold, but the water temp is still upper 60s F. Poked around along the shore and picked up a few nice fish with the usual suspects for me, a popper, a floating Rapala and a little swim jig I have been playing with. Wind hasn't ...