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Top water first light should be good. Lipless crank is great if the shad spawn. It’s should be a great season!

San Diego city lakes stated that Barrett was closed the first Wednesday of the month. That's today, and I believe it was open for the first day of the season today?Confused, and a little miffed, as I've never missed an opening day in 10 years

Got to the lake at midnight and already 8 cars in front of me. The launch at pigs was smooth do to the high water. Parking was limited, don’t go pass the bathroom cause there’s no room to back up.
To the fishing, the lake is unrecognizable, water level looks full, the island towards Hauser isn’t ...

“619bassin” seems generic. Bring back “ChuckLai”!!

My friend and I took our kayaks to barrett on may 10th. Got there a little after 5 and parked at pigs with no problem. The weather was wet and cold and we stopped fishing at 1:30 before the wind got to bad. We went down hauser arm stopping at different spots fishing shallow areas. W used swimbaits ...

Got to the gate at 4 and already 10 cars in front. The weather was nice on the lake, no fog. Headed to back of Hauser and started with the popper for 10, lost a 3lb at the kayak, barbless!
Pretty much same pattern as last week, daylight came switched to jerk bait, spinner, crank bait for another ...

Got to the gate around 4. Gate was just opened and we were about 8th to drive in it seemed like. Had a boat which was nice. Parking up by the bathroom because dock is so high. Motored to Hauser and stopped at a pinned location but it was totally different than years past. Threw all types of topwater ...

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Got on the lake a little before 5AM. Zipped across the lake from pigs and by 6AM I had 9 in the kayak and thought I couldn't miss. 6 on crankbait and 3 on jigs. Then I pretty much hit the brakes.Over the next 4-5 hours, I pulled in 6 more full size clones and 2 of this year's models. I'm ...

Feel your pain. No punctures in 30 years w old ODC 420 , brand new scadden hybrid punctured from dorsal spine of dink bass as I released and it jumped and stabbed the tube.
This was at 6am deep in pine.
Kayaker had some duct tape but did not hold when wet. Ended up heading back w finger on leak. I ...

Hi everyone,

Here's my report of the day. Woke up and was moving like a man of a much more advanced age, so it took more than the usual cup of coffee to get myself in the truck. Got on the water about 30 minutes late, But it still was dark and strangely cool out. Pedaled over to Hauser, with my ...

Hi everyone.

For those who are wondering, the road to Barrett is just fine, no wash outs and it appears someone may have dragged it also, so that's nice.

Got there a little later 0530 and took my time getting into the water at 0600. First thing is the water is 4 degrees cooler than it was last ...

Got there @5:30, and you can feel the heat coming. Headed back to Hauser picking up one on popper, another on a crawler. Very slow until busters came up, five other boats around and we sat waited for them to bust around us. It was fun if you can land on top of them, jerk bait and flukes worked for ...

Very slow start to the day, we just had a couple bass and a bluegill on the boat by 9am.

Was at the end of Hauser when the breakers showed up around that time. There are 5 boats (and one kayak, I think that was you 619bassin ) - and we were all sharing the sporadic surges of bass that came up to ...

When I fished it a week ago, there were fish in all stages.

Some were hard locked on beds, some were wandering the shallows with a mate.

Some were just making their nests, and some were guarding nests.

Water temp was in the low 60s, FWIW.

Had a lot of fun today at the Big B. I would call it quality over quantity. We still got about 60 between us that included a dozen four pounders and a nice five pounder. A lot of three pounders also. The topwater bite was just okay on the PopR and the whopper plopper. I switched to the flipping the ...

Met Dave and Joe and was on the water @4 am thanks to Jose getting the crowd in, it was busy.
Headed to Hauser and started with the popper in the dark and got a nice 5lb on the second cast. Top water was working all day for me, popper and crawler. Did find some busters on jb. Similar to last year ...

Arrived at 4:30am and seemed like perfect timing. No dust, no vehicles driving in at that time and rather wide open parking. Learned that they are now only doing 15 boats (with 5 on deck for backup/emergencies) versus 25 in years’ past. Noticed a slew of tubers but because of the lake being so full ...

Spot On with the Spawn On DarkShadow!!
I confirm the same on the opener.
Water clarity and the late burnoff made an amazing Big B aquarium below!!
Polarized lenses and the right light angle lit up nesting sites everywhere!
I could site fish with top water gear for a good hour.
Enjoy your day ...

Pretty fun morning at the B for me. I had 67 by 2pm when I decided to go home. Nothing over 3 but the topwater was great for me in the morning.

The key to the topwater for me was finding the bait. It was an ok bite but it really took off for me when I spotted the wolfpacks. I would get 3-6 bass ...

Got to the gate at 3:50 and the line was already moving. Light to Moderate rain that persisted till around 10:00. Road seems to be in pretty good shape so far this year..
Heading to Hauser in the dark .. very dark with all the clouds and rain.. Fished around Hauser but didn't go all the way back ...