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You can't tell by the cold, drizzly weather..but the fish told me today! I thought for some reason when I hit San V on Monday morning, that I could take up where I left off two Mondays ago..wrong, wrong, wrong! I started flipping senkos between the brush in 4'-6' of water and soon realized that the ...

Yep those 8-13” thin Senko fish in the trees were the pattern for me a couple weekends ago out there. Stark difference from Cap right now, there’s Bait boiling all over in open water there.

I was finally able to get out on the boat after a couple month hiatus, so I decided to go to San V. I was surprised to pull up at 5:45 and only see about 11 trailers in the parking lot on Memorial Day weekend.

As I was prepping the boat to launch (cleaning all the cob webs off), I got a chance to ...

I started at about 6:30am and left at 8:30am and ended up with 6 from the bank. 4 were the smaller 1-2lb like you caught then I got a spawned out lethargic 7-8lber and then a 5lber that was healthy but I had to bail for work.

[Lake Hodges 2023 Re-Opener @chrisbrandtthebeefshaman9590
https://youtu.be/PI1Xcsmmngg
Hey all so glad to be posting this! Got to the gate around 4:40 and was #10 in line. When the gate opened everyone in front of me went to the concession area and I went straight to the vending machine for my ...

I enjoy watching your youtube videos, always catching those monsters..

Glad to bring back good memories. I had so many people ask me about the beer of the day it was crazy. I had to add that at the end. Cheers!

Thanks for the great report and video. Always enjoy them and thanks for posting. Good luck at Barrett.

Made the trek up to Hodges today. Currently exploring the shoreline pretty fast to find spots for next week. Not a bad start

Got to the lake at 4:40 am and was about 10th in line. I went around all the cars that stopped to go to concession to buy permits and straight to permit machine and had front row parking at the launch. Was on the puddle by 5;45 and kicked across and started throwing my finesse jigs. Got a couple ...

Headed to Cap this morning for about 5 hours. Pounded the shoreline with a variety of baits until I found what they wanted to chew on, which ended up being spinnerbaits. Caught a handful of clones. Nothing big, but still catching. Looks like the heat is on next weekend.
Typical size this morning ...

San V is working on a project to make hydroelectric power by pumping water up to a yet to be built lake..and then send the water back to San V to make electricity..still in the planning stages I believe. I would think it is like what they do at Hodges and Olivenhain reservoirs.


Beyond my pay ...

Guys who forgot that Otay is closed the second Wednesday of the month like clockwork usually end up this day at Murray. I thought to myself, I could fish Murray this morning and post a report(like you guys haven't seen them before...ha ha), but decided to venture out to the SD River for a few hours ...

Stout fish, Vinny!

More fun on our trip to Pelican Lake, Minnesota. The evening topwater had kicked in. My buddies are getting them on the whopper ploppers while I’m getting them on the rat and the bird.

Everyone on the Hernandez side that I have encountered has been very courteous and the fish just keep on coming.

Tried my luck today for some wipers. Ended up catching 3 in a couple of hours of fishing. I had a night crawler on at the beginning that got smashed, thought it was huge catfish but ended up being a 30 inch carp. Ended up catching a lot more carp on the night crawler, but didn't catch any on the ...

Sorry guys, I made this post last week in the wrong section. Anyways, I decided to throw it up again and say hello. Nice to know that this site exists as I was bummed when SDFish.com went away as it was a great tool for information and to connect with other anglers. ( I was Rescue ranger 905). Now ...

Lake Hodges: FISHING ON FIRE!!!

https://youtu.be/YK3BdyfTnBg

Hey all sorry for the late report. I posted the video and then forgot to put the report here as well. Here goes…

Sunday headed for my second Hodges outing of the year and had a super fun day. I started out the day hoping for a reaction ...

My pops and I love these videos man! Love the brews! Keep them up. Tight Lines and Cold Ones