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Over the last week or so, I’ve been mentally prepping for some more freshwater fishing. I spent most of the summer in the salt, and after a few months away from my local ponds my confidence was really lacking. I also had a tough time justifying the extra drive time to hit freshwater when I had the ...

I threw practically the entire arsenal at them today. The final count was 8. Nothing huge, but all were solid 2+ pounders so I am not complaining. Every fish came courtesy of a tiny Megabass Griffon crank bait. They just wouldn't touch anything else.

Now watch, tomorrow I'll go back to the same ...

I decided to take my kayak up to Miramar this morning and throw a wide variety of swimbaits.
There was only one boat that was launched and
no kayaks and not even a float tube. Add the fact that there are no trout stockings planned there, I knew it was probably going to be tough. I mixed it up with ...

Had a great time at El Capitan today. 9 fish in total. I threw my new Berkeley Triple Minnow rig for a while, and got no bites, but to be fair, I really need to put in some time learning to fish it. It does look good in the water.

All 9 fish came on a NED bait on a 1/8 oz jig. They liked it when I ...

This came just in time! Planning on fishing El Cap tomorrow. I’ll be tossing the ned rig, but I just picked up a new setup for my moving baits that I have yet to break in, so hopefully I’ll be able to get on one or two crankbait fish as well. Thanks for the intel, and tight lines!

Of course ...

Outstanding!!

Awesome fish. What was your setup for drop shot . Had to be lite. Impressive. Thanks for update.

Nice fish!

Hi all,

Had a couple interesting days on the water this weekend. Got out to El Cap yesterday, and had a quick session on Miramar this morning where I got into a good one. Reports below:

El Cap (1/17): Showed up to a line at the gate again this morning. My first thought: not again! Last time this ...

Awesome fish. What was your setup for drop shot . Had to be lite. Impressive. Thanks for update.


Thanks for reading! It’s pretty light, but not as light as I know a lot of guys will go with their finesse stuff. I run 15lb high-vis yellow braid to a roughly 12 foot 8lb flouro leader with a 1 ...

Enjoyed the reports Brad and thanks for sharing it with us. Congratulations on your PB! Got to love a PB anytime of the year, but on the third cast of the day......that is awesome!
Tight lines

Congratulations on your personal best, my buddy and I went out to Lake JENNINGS looking for Bass. They had a trout plant not too long ago so we tried at some spots we’ve done well before. We were thinking about going to Miramar when we decided on JENNINGS not that we would’ve caught anything ...

I have been taking care of other things that I kept putting off and have not been fishing much at all. I think people have seen me at Home Depot and Lowes so much lately. that they must think I work there..ha ha. So this morning I needed a break and arrived at the river around 8:30a.m. Have not ...

I don’t use Large swimbaits but when there’s a trout stock on a lake I use all my trout pattern lures, strangely I caught more fish on Rapala countdown in Fire tiger pattern.

Awesome fish. What was your setup for drop shot . Had to be lite. Impressive. Thanks for update.


Thanks for reading! It’s pretty light, but not as light as I know a lot of guys will go with their finesse stuff. I run 15lb high-vis yellow braid to a roughly 12 foot 8lb flouro leader with a 1 ...

Awesome, congrats on your PB!

Congratulations

I was heading out to Home Depot and decided to take a rod and make a few casts at the river. I got to a spot where I fish and tulles and debris filled the area so I just had to flip in little openings. I was surprised when my Senko twitched. I quickly set the hook and landed this bass. A good way to ...

Fishing El Cap with my buddy the Beef Shaman AKA @Pourboy . Always fun even when fishing is tough.

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