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With El Cap, Hodges, Morena, and Sutherland now below 15%, San V, Otay, and Barrett will be destroyed next! They have to keep Murray and Miramar up to run the filtration plants. The City has no money to buy water, so kiss your lakes goodbye....you'll be drinking what you used to be fishing! The ...

Not just every bass boat, but every boat that the owner does not want to be put in to the salt.

Thanks for the report.

Son is in town for a few days so we got out for father/son time on the lake.

Arrived to the ECBT tournament launching after moving to San V from Otay. Thankfully there were only 17 boats so it wasn’t bad. Started out with top water and wake baits. Managed one on a soft Z-man popper. Missed several ...

Buy shiners and cast them off the side of the dock with a small hook and split shot 2-3ft up the line at San Vicente or any lake for that matter, doesn't get any easier then that

I saw the work they were doing around the shoreline of upper otay and aw they had reclaimed water pipes for irrigation and a bunch of people in chem suits spraying for weeds… to make it “natural”…. I told my buddy it couldn't be good for the water… couple years later massive rain and run off and ...

My buddy took some pics the other day at Miramar....here is a couple of them.
Crazy water level eh?

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Launch ramp dock
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While I was biking around the lake, the water level was so high that it was past the reeds, almost as if you could fish from shore on ...

I fished there on Sunday June 7th. Was a very stead pick bite. 2-3 made it to the 2 lb. class. Rest were 1.3 lbs class. Drop shot got the number, flipped senkos got the bigger bites. Saw some jaints underneath the rental docs, including a 50 lb. cat.

Went Saturday morning early decided to try to get my first buzz toad fish if I could first cast a foot of shore checked my drag put it in gear and fish on thought I was stuck in muck at first then it jumped was good size came in rather easy weighed 5.8 my biggest at cap so far was stoked and at same ...

Haven't taken the boat out for a while so off I went to Murray this morning. Greeted by bustling bass and of course Dannicus out there as it was going off pretty good. The madness was trying to catch the bass that were 98% focused on live shad. I thew so many reaction type baits and top water baits ...

That big one is a beauty! Rattlesnake Bass!

Did our every other year trip to Powell. Yes water is lower, but it is still big and deep. Landed on a great beach in last chance bay. We caught a lot fish, small mouth, strippers, catfish, carp and blue gill. No walleye this time, no big strippers. My son remarried and we have 3 added grand kids to ...

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Go fish the salt. Lots of willing participants.

Quick session down at the river. Ended up having 2 come unbuttoned and landed 3 bass. One bass I lost was pretty darn big, but not going to whine about it to you guys...ha ha. Thank you to Dannicus for inspiring me to toss a jig( a larger one, but still a jig) as it has paid off with larger fish at ...

Yesterday, I decided to check out Lake Wolhford. For this fishing trip I challenged myself to a plastic bait finesse only, and completely skunked. I knew this lake is notorious for having murky waters but I wasn't expecting it to be that murky! I fished the east side of the lake and walked to the ...

Buddy Success Bonus! Put my buddy Bob on his first Yellowtail….4th of July off Avalon.

Quick morning trip up to Miramar.
Tossed a 6" WCZ Battles shad for a bit and had small bass follow it and a couple about a pound banged the tail which was interesting to watch. No surface action at all so just tossed plastic worms shallow and deep and missed 3 and landed 9 small bass. I thought I ...

Good job on getting some fishies....the City is doing it's best to eliminate bass fishing in the County! Get em while you can!

Remember when San Diego boasted some world class bass fisheries?

Remember when San Diego boasted some world class bass fisheries?


The glory days was when the City of San Diego managed the lakes and they had money and there used to be lots of troutplants (which was a great diet to help make giant bass). The county lakes like Dixon, Poway, Jennings and ...

KillinTime wrote: Mon Jun 29, 2026 2:11 pm I thought past the buoy line was closed to fishing? That maybe way it got better for you as you continued on....

Nice work on landing 10

Agreed, I believe that area is closed to fishing but I could be wrong.