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Arrived early to San Vicente, just a gorgeous day. I was looking for some nice panfish.
Caught a nice mess, bought home 4, had crappie from the weekend trip.
Nothing real big .
The pesky bass were on a tear, eating a cup of night crawlers .

Got to the lake early, caught 12 bass, 3 bullgill.
Bass were all over them crawlers.
On the trailer heading home by 11:30
Caught a few on plastic worms as well.
Bluegill pictures the biggest 2.01.

San V has the best trophy redear and SE strain bluegill potential IMO.

The report is rising water Big time.
The old places are no more , I wish I had pictures , it was a very tough day .
I had to leave at 10:30 was hot.
I caught one nice bluegill , let it go. To hot to clean fish.
I want to report the good with the bad , wasn’t a bad morning tho, it was very nice.
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Bluegill, green sunfish, copper nosed gills, redear sunfish, black and white crappie. Redbreast sunfish to name a few. Hope it helps

WTF? A Roy Justice sighting? My Man! A legend here folks!

Roy M, my man. I'm still kicking and I see you are still terrorizing the crappie. Keep on keeping on.

The kids have been ready for another trip since we did so well @ Hodges a couple of months ago. I've been hearing the bluegill bite was on @ Otay so I thought we would give it another try. I say another try as I've taken the kids here a few times and we never seem to have a good day. My son labeled ...

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 ...

Went ultralight fishing again at Otay. Caught a dozen or so small bass, but the highlight was seven large bluegill, all in the 2 to 2.5 pound range. Fish tacos here I come.

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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Some nice ones for sure!

Got this guy as bycatch during a recent trip with a crank bait. 7lbs on the boga probably the biggest I'll ever catch. Thought it would be cool to share.

Arrived about 6:15 to a lite crowd.
Started beautiful, then came the fog and wind for a while.
That blew thru and become super nice.
Checked a couple spots for nothing, then found a brush pile loaded with bluegill. Caught 25 released 8 smaller ones.
Good day on the lake

Haven't kayaked Murray in years but lazy-launched the kayak into the breeze after lunch at like 1 pm. :)

Headed to the west side of the lake and was surprised the bass were crashing on bait very randomly, here and there. Threw some small stuff at them, hooked one on a spoon and I got a couple ...

It's been a while since I've posted an actual fish report of my own so I thought I would finally share one.

Went to Otay last Sat. Got there at 6:15am.

Cold in the morning (46 degrees) but Had a very nice sunrise.

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It turned out to be a was nice day over all. Got up ...

For the past month I think I placed a few orders online for crappie stuff (sorry bass no budget left for you). Most of the items are new and a few just replenished old stock. I think end up getting closer to 20 bags of plastics. Really have hope of some items like Zman stuffs, Slab Hunt’r and ...

If you want the best panfishing of your life,
The next week the weather is in the 80_90s in Yuma , in April — unheardable .
Go out and fish the drops with night crawlers. Bring a cooler with plenty of ice.this report is is a gift from god, the biggest split shot #2 watergremlin is the ticket.

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Did I miss anything here?
It might be too late for the OP but if I target blue gill and don’t know body of water i would use 1/16oz drop shot with either night crawler or 1” Berkley gulp alive. I would drag or swim slowly or just drop and shake until you find hard bottom.
I hope @camobass wouldn’t ...

Have fished successfully at Santee Lakes for bluegill and bass lately. The hotter the better. I'm fishing my UL trout rod, usually no weight or float and getting some on the micro-popper too. If you have kids this is an easy place for catching fish, 4# or 6# fluoro line and small #10 mosquito hooks ...