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Took my dad out to optometrist and after we took a walk sweetwater fished shoreline between first and second cove for couple hours he got a small one on 5” black senco 1/4 leadhead I got 2 on the janitor crush city works great for neko I got mine on bfs not many crappie fisherman but still quite few ...

Well since I have been enjoying the Skeeter so much this year, I wanted to go again. Worried about El Caps ramp and Friday's warming temp (I like to fish when it's cooler for sure), I headed down to Otay.

Got there at the crack of dawn, Headed to Otay Arm and got one right away on the whopper ...

Caught her on a jig Wish it was pre spawn, but still the 1st time i broke 10lbs

Had a fun day at Murray. Managed 14 bass. Granted the majority were in the 2 pound class but never the less, lots of activity, and great fights on my light gear! I'll post the bait that got most of the love today in the BFS section.

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Just a few pics from a couple recent trips to Murray pretty much sum it up.
There are bass up near the top of the water and bass down near the bottom.
Most are clones, but hope you find your action on top or on the bottom! :-)

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Just an FYI
The water levels at Murray have been fluctuating up and down recently also. It came up nice the
other week and then was down this morning. You can still launch a boat but I took this pic
today(5/9) after my boat was on my trailer just to show you the end of the boat ramp.
A few more ...

Tried a quick stop on a Wednesday afternoon and it was fun! Got the first one on the whopper plopper...giant blow up...super fun with an audience too. Got 3 more...2 more top water and 1 big miss and followed by a couple worm fish...
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Fun trip...can't ...

Went first thing this morning to cap w buddy first time on yak tons of boats I thought today going full speed in circles seemed like their all enjoying last hoorah guys w the girlfriends going for a Cruz not fishing like Vicente without the skiers 😂 I got nothing neko or my black senco saw shad ...

So, as predicted I went to Hodges today (Saturday) and got lots of action. some early morning topwater blowups, but did not land any of them. Not sure if it was me or the fish...I'll say it was them. A few pics and then a funny story.

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You too Vinny! I rarely fish Fridays but my kid had testing sooo...
I caught a couple of topwater and crankbait fish early but mostly focused on the edges of the tules. All in the 2 pound range. I lost count but it was over a dozen or so. I'm looking forward to some bigger fish making themselves ...

Minnow was working well today. Landed around a dozen or so.

Had some fun while on the road last week. I hit the river under the I-10 bridge on the AZ side for some smallmouth on Monday....Hit a pond near St George Utah on Thurs and headed out to fish the Highline canal near El Centro last night for some evening fishing. Mixed bag but watch to see some ...

Got to lake morena at 630 not a single person on water had the lake to ourselves thought was gonna b awesome tons of cover stickups rock piles u name it water vis only foot or two water was warm headed by dam north side no bites finally started getting bit north side heading toward the shallows ...

By now, Otay has surpassed El Cap as my favorite SD body of water. Almost all of my best days over the last year have happened there and it just feels like home.

While neither day was a wide open bite, both were fun sessions at different ends of the day. Saturday I started out in a favorite spot ...

I see a lot of anglers are using it. I also see the controversy it is causing in the tournament world. Some even blaming low tournament signups and falling sport interest on it.

I myself have never used it. My ignorant opinion from the outside looking in, would be negative. These are my thought ...

I have Panoptix on my current kayak. I mostly don't use it, and don't really like it. When have I used it? I was using it at El Cap to see if there were any fish anywhere one day when I couldn't catch anything. Spoiler alert, they were there, hugging the bottom. It's fun to set it up and cast past ...

As we spoke about out on the water at El Cap brother, I briefly considered adding it to my float tube. Briefly being the key word in that sentence. I have no problem with guys using it, but like you, I've watched them spend hours staring at their screens. Speaking for myself, that's the polar ...

Its a tool just like spotlock. Does it make you a better fisherman? It helps but not make you catch fish. If anything it tells you have many fish won't bite. Like anything else you must learn it. It does not do well in shallow water. The jig and minnow thing is a kick but frustrating at the same ...

I'll chime in on this.....

As someone who has limited time fishing on the water, I use it to eliminate "dead" water. I'm at the point where I need to maximize my time that I do have on the water. You still need to catch them though when you see them and that can be a challenge in itself.

If you ...

Others have mentioned that it is simply yet another tool to your arsenal. I remember the same controversy when Alabama rigs came out.

From experience, it definitely helps when the shallow bite isn't happening. Many have this false sense that you see the fish and you cast to the fish and then you ...