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I got on the lake at 8 am with trepid hope in my heart, tied a little 2" crankbait on my BFS combo and kicked out with a silent humble prayer to the fishing gods. About 20 minutes in I felt a bump and low and behold...A FISH! I have to tell you I got far too excited over a panfish, but after the ...

"Blades, Ice Jigs & Spoons..oh my!" was the theme today at Murray. Decided to give it a go after some inspiration by yesterdays post by Dannicus. Fumbling around at home I did not get on the water till around 8:45.I tossed a few swim baits near the ramp and shoreline but it already started to warm ...

Yeah one of the reasons I have kinda avoided fishing deep is the whole fizzing thing. I have read about how to do it, but the idea kinda freaks me out a bit. I didn't have as good of a day as Vinny yesterday, but I did find a few chunkers hanging out between 15 and 20 feet.

Amazing job as always ...

Chuck ( 619bassin ) and I hit lake Baccarac in Mexico for the last few days. We had fished the lake together four years ago and had a blast back then.

Left San Diego via Tijuana to Los Mochis Sunday morning, a 1.5 hour flight and a 2.5 hour van ride, arriving there late Sunday afternoon. Grabbed ...

Decided to visit Otay this morning. Got on the water about 615, immediately worked my way to the tules and began flipping the edges with no sinker rig plastics and quickly broke the skunk. Got another one just a couple of casts later as the rain started to come down. I fished that spot for 25 more ...

Misty overcast morning which was perfect for top water action. Went across the dock and got one on the popper second cast. Worked along the way to Harvey and got a few more, blow up on a frog but missed.
Looked like there was a tournament because there were 20 boats down Harvey! Found a flat area ...

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Spent the first 3 weeks of vacation camped at Cottonwood AZ. Took day trips to the Grand Canyon, Tuzigoot, Montezuma Castle and all the surrounding monuments and towns. I never did locate a good spot to launch my tube so I didn't fish for 3 weeks.

The DTs started to set in. Uncontrollable shaking ...

Spent a lot of time throwing onto bass swirling around the surface feeding almost exclusively on small shad. Still exciting but then you start seeing that 90% of them are very small 8-12" bass. Every once in a while maybe a 2lb bass would jump but even then that was rare, but that is what keeps you ...

Went on Sunday to Lake Hodges with the Hobie looking for some crappie. Got there late after breakfast, like 7:15 am and picked up a nice one on my second cast. Water was off-color coffee with 1' of visibility on top, and the deepest channel straight west of the ramp is about 10' deep now out by the ...

I fished Murray yesterday for Bass and it was a slog. Five hours to drum up a few dinks. I had so much fun at Otay last weekend I decided to go back to Murray today with ultralight gear and hooked up with a mess of really nice fat Bluegills.

I am really getting hooked on ultralight fishing.
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Had an awesome morning ultralight fishing this morning at Otay. Caught over 30 chunky bluegills. I was jigging 3 inch Yamamoto shad shaped worms and a small 2 inch sinking jerkbait. What a great time!
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Had another awesome day at Murray with my new BFS rod and reel and some Z-Man micro chatterbaits. I just love my new setup when I want to go extreme finesse! I caught 6 of these bad boys on the day and 2 small bass. :arrow:

Happy New Year everyone and tight lines in 2024!
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I decided I wanted to get into fishing to have something to do with my kids. Went out alone for the first time just to test the waters. Thanks to the tips on the site, I got 3 spotties in 3 hours and quit when something strong snapped my leader.

Heres some recent shortfin corvina pics. I got the SFC bug for a couple months and let it interrupt my green fish game. It was fun, but after dropping a 9lb largemouth this weekend right at my feet, I'm kinda over it. Goin back to freshy. A couple of these fish were 26-27" the rest were medium sized ...

Got out 1/2/24 after work for 1.5 hours. Fished the ned rig just outside the cays for 6-7 spotted bay bass. Slow outgoing tide, didnt see much bait and the bites were very soft. Biggest fish was ~12.5", nothing special of a day but good to get out.

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Rented a skiff to bond with my son. Didn’t have hi expectations especially since we are beginners. Was about to call it a day and he snagged a legal halibut on live sardine. He was so pumped and now is addicted.

Y'all hit me up. Invite yourself fishing. Tubes, yak, hike, shore, fresh, salt, fly, etc. Ramona, morena, Sd bay, Sweetwater, etc.

If you're one of those guys that makes a youtube video because you catch 3 dinks, don't hit me up.

Laughing at the YouTube comment. I may take you up on that if you ain’t scared go throw the cam’ees on and black out.