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I hear you. Bait that my JB scared up, from 10' away sometimes, was about 1/2' long. That was at Cap which I hit up for an afternoon session yesterday after getting some basal cell growth cut out of my chest earlier, been awhile. Tried top for a bit, mixed in with JB, nada. Saw a buster or two, but ...

It seemed like forever since I fished last. Tied up with lots of things to take care of as it was one thing after another and I really
needed to get back on the water. Took care of some business this morning and rushed home and figured I would head up to Murray
for a few hours in my kayak. Oh wait ...

The wakeboard boats have been insane out there this year. I really hate that they have the whole lake but insist on running right by the boats fishing. Sometimes not even a long cast away! Really irks me.


In July while my brother was here we were out on the V with a buddy, spot locked on a ...

That second fish was stout, or were they the same fish? 8-)

SD has a river?


Many moons ago I used to tube the SD river on either side of Mission Center Rd. Pretty consistent catching w some quality. Not sure how it is now but that tule line screams at me every time I drive by there!


I ...

I mixed it up a little this week, instead of my normal Monday trip, I hit San V on a Thursday. I grew up fishing the V on Thursdays, so it was kind of like old school days. I got there at sunrise and set out looking for busters! It looked grim after I checked my first 3 or 4 normal areas, but my ...

What line are you throwing at those schoolies?

20lb braid with 8' of Pline Fluoroclear. The braid helps in throwing weightless baits.


Question on the setup McFish and others…my braid to fluoro (50 to 10) is hard to throw smaller baits as the braid seems to dig in to itself on the spool ...

What line are you throwing at those schoolies?

20lb braid with 8' of Pline Fluoroclear. The braid helps in throwing weightless baits.


Question on the setup McFish and others…my braid to fluoro (50 to 10) is hard to throw smaller baits as the braid seems to dig in to itself on the spool ...

What line are you throwing at those schoolies?

20lb braid with 8' of Pline Fluoroclear. The braid helps in throwing weightless baits.


Question on the setup McFish and others…my braid to fluoro (50 to 10) is hard to throw smaller baits as the braid seems to dig in to itself on the spool ...

20lb braid with 8' of Pline Fluoroclear. The braid helps in throwing weightless baits.


Question on the setup McFish and others…my braid to fluoro (50 to 10) is hard to throw smaller baits as the braid seems to dig in to itself on the spool and I really have to wing it to get 80% of a ...

CKRZ,

As an Escondido resident, Lake Dixon has been my "home lake" for over 2-decades.
I am strictly a bass fisherman from shore and can only speak to this species.
I fish Dixon no less than once per week.
If you fish Dixon for bass, it's hard to beat a drop-shotted finesses worm rigged weedless ...

CKRZ,

One last comment in addition to my earlier reply.
My personal Lake Dixon rule of thumb is "never on a weekend."
Way too many people.

Fished sunrise to sunset, first time doing that in awhile, and first time to Otay in awhile too. Fog was sooooo pretty that I found it hard not to stop and make some art with my camera.

Not many folks out today. Warm and sunny after fog burned off. BIte was tough, as I'd heard, but got into some ...

PS Don't fish the point behind the spot with an X at dusk with a big topwater, you'll have a heart attack when she blows up on it, hopefully your's will stick, mine didn't.

Vinny where did you get your boat serviced if you don’t mind me asking?


DarkKastle Marine
Derick King
https://darkkastlemarine.com

Used to go to Anglers Marine in Lakeside (well no need to explain and be negative) but discovered DarkKastle via John Cassidy at
Angler's Arensal and a few other ...

Sometimes I am not.

Had a couple spinning rods with me and tied up a dropshot on the lightest rod to fish a tiny, shallow pool in Creek X.
Nyet.
The next spot had potential for bigger fish. And it is accessed from a bank about 3 feet above the creek.
At one point i cut off the dropshot sinker and ...

Ahaha. I fish at a pond near my house. Sometimes you get in some strange positions to catch a fish and one time I was holding on to a tree with one hand and planning to cast and then use my leg to hold on to the tree. I don't know why that seemed reasonable, I do things I don't always understand ...

The fish at San V are definitely smarter than me..as soon as I set the hook, they're burying themselves in the nearest tree before I can even get a crank on the handle!

Thought about hitting Murray(lots of dinks chasing reaction baits)this morning for a few hours, but changed my mind. Since I have not
been to the SD river in a while, I loaded my flippin' stick and another rod(both rigged with straight braid) and headed there. I was
shocked at how high the water ...

Persistence pays off again for you. Also, I don’t get it. El Cap is only 37% full and yet they are releasing water.

The chance of an El Nino bringing above average rainfall is 50/50! Last year was an La Nina year and we had way above average rainfall...so are we just going to dump half of our water supply into the ocean every year? So, if the rain doesn't show this winter do we have to fill our lakes back up with ...