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Nice work! I didn’t see any surface activity yesterday at all early, at least in the front of the lake and back in Chocolate, aside from Carp. That moss is definitely a challenge right now, having to pick it off your baits every cast, and your weight gets covered in it and you can no longer feel the ...

It's a blessing getting sooooo much water in all our lakes, but it sure has put a damper on the bite overall. Strange, as the water temp isn't all that cold at most.

Got to the lake early, almost empty, which was a big surprise to me. Paddled out and immediately got a treat over by the big water inlet. Of course that anchored me to that spot for another fruitless 45 minutes. But moved along the shoreline and out to the island and got many takers. All on dropshot ...

Those redears have a bad attitude! They will attack fish way bigger than themselves this time of year! We need the bigger bass to move up now!

Dang it!!! I have to tell you that I had a completed story ready to post and lost it by opening another window and not saving it as a draft.
After screaming several "special" words showing my frustration...here is the post and a lot shorter than the original which is good as many of you know most of ...

Great report, nice to hear topwater action is happening. I cannot wait until my whopper plopper is back in business.

Great report Vinny,
You write with Enthusiasm, we can tell you have a true love for the sport of fishing.
The childhood photos are fantastic.
Looking forward to more adventures.

Tight lines

Thanks for the kind words @stringbean. I do really love to fish and being a guy who loves to talk a lot ...

Good Stuff, love the Sammy. You made me laugh with the worm comment=-D
Thanks for the post!

This year has been a bit slower with the bass bite from shore. I get into a decent fish here and there, but the bite has been very slow. The minute you skip a week you may miss out.

I knew it was going to be a special day, first cast was bit, then a hen mallard jumped up on the deck and stayed with me about 45 minutes.,.
We had a long talk about duck hunting I told her to stay off that Colorado river and salton sea next fall. And the guys on Noffinger rd were sky busters. I ...

Well for the first few hours it seemed like bad business as usual at the old lake. Just cold and rainy! The game plan was to throw a buzz bait through flooded brush. If that failed, a spinnerbait through flooded brush. I just knew they had to be in flooded brush! Well, if they were, they were not ...

Very nice! I was getting concerned last week that spring was never going to happen on D.K.! I think when summer gets here, they'll be in the brush...if the City doesn't take all the water out first! I never thought of taking a photo while laying on my side!!!

Nice job @fisheromen and under cool conditions at the lake of D & K. Looks like you had some fun and sorry to hear about the one that got away(you will hopefully catch him and bigger ones sooner or later). The water level at the lake has been so high that I thought you had to fish sideways judging ...

I'm new to the whole bass fishing thing so this was my first time on the water trying to catch some largies.
Thanks to VinnyBass who was kind enough to provide me with some detailed advice I felt like I knew what I was doing. Not a lot of action though but we've caught a few between myself and the ...

Way to break in the freshwater rods and reels! Some days pros would kill for 3 keepers=)

Nice job out there. Looks like you guys had fun.
The smile on your son’s pic tells it all.
Tight lines always and thanks for sharing.

VinnyBass wrote: Sun May 07, 2023 7:18 am Nice job out there. Looks like you guys had fun.
The smile on your son’s pic tells it all.
Tight lines always and thanks for sharing.

@VinnyBass we both enjoyed every minute of it. Thank you again and tight lines!

Be careful taking advice from Vinnybass...before you know it, you'll be catching 6lbers!

Dropshot hint: hangs up less in the rocks and brush!

Took the whaler out for a spin around the lake and found a very steady bite Stopped counting around 15 fished for 2 1/2 -3 hours. Nothing special just old school worming