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Can’t go wrong with the brush hog.


The lure of the past comes back to life. Heck I had about a hundred of the buggers(probably more) in my garage that haven't touched water since the 80's...ha ha. Now the Junebug colored ones I started buying last year as they often produced bass but not always ...

Nice Bag O Bass!

How much tackle do we have and keep buying? I know it's a ton. The crazy part is I keep going back to the same baits, only utilizing less than 5% of what I have. That's being conservative =/

Since my home lake is closed tomorrow, I got permission from Mr. Vinny to fish his home lake today! I guess it's partly my lake since I've been fishing it since 1963...! The latest fish reports haven't exactly been glowing, so I wasn't expecting much...big mistake! I got on the water at 5:45, got ...

Dang, you had a super good.......I mean Super Great Day!
I was happy that I stopped by the lake a few times to look around and saw you out there in the distance with splashing around you. I was hoping it was just birds(just kidding!)Then later stopped by after lunch and was lucky to catch you before ...

Dfishin wrote: Thu Jul 17, 2025 7:39 am Nice! No busters?

Yeah there were busters. I got a few but mostly small. Saw a couple of bigger fish surface but they ignored me

This is the First Time I had luck at Miramar. Thanks to Vinny for his posts recently at Miramar, I was able to land a few smaller fish then caught a 3#er by the Bouy line. And yes that fish fought alot harder than expected. Usually fishing San Vincente but pretty much similar small fish. Just glad ...

WEEDLESS!!
Grass everywhere.
But its fire if you find them.

If you free line a senko on the edge of the tulles
or even a little deeper and work them slowly over the grass has always been a good option also.

Great job and thanks for the update. I can't wait to get back out on the water, hopefully soon. Cheers!

Missing your reports...what's up?

Hey thanks for reaching out. My wife had cancer surgery and I have not been fishing lately. It went very well and we believe that we got it all.

I had ...

My prayers go out to you for your wife and for you to be strong throughout this stressful time.
Hopefully all will be well and both of you can clear your minds and get back to less stressful things.
Best wishes and tight lines always my friend.

I got on the water at 5:30. In the summer months I am not dropping the kids off at school everyday, so I do get on the water earlier albeit less frequently. They'll be seniors next year, which is hard to believe.

Anyway I saw VinnyBass out there on his electronics-free kayak doing his Vinny thang ...

I got on the water at 5:30. In the summer months I am not dropping the kids off at school everyday, so I do get on the water earlier albeit less frequently. They'll be seniors next year, which is hard to believe.

Anyway I saw @VinnyBass out there on his electronics-free kayak doing his Vinny ...

Great job Dan i have been going there too caught a 5.86 last night and a 6.13 last week on robo neko 6” and osp beaver 3.5” I been getting my share of dinks and clones only one I caught before dark also my only option right now my car broke down again axel broke

Ended the morning with 9 fish total. All on jigs along drop offs, and frogs across the top of floating vegetation mats (of which there are plenty). I put a new seat in my float tube and man is it nice! Ergonomic and no more sliding down in the seat. Should have done it years ago.

IMG_20250723 ...

Go look at mattlures galleries on his website. Any pic that has tulles with waders or pine trees in the back is cuyamaca.

Damn lots of trophy size bass wonder about the quantity though.

TIM wrote: Thu Jul 24, 2025 12:27 pm Looks like you used a popping frog. Awesome catches.

Yep, specifically this one. But as you might imagine, I kinda had to abandon my beloved BFS gear to throw that frog lol.

Final count was 13 with three of them over 3 pounds, one over 4 pounds and the best was a 6.2 pounder.

All fish were courtesy of a jig. I tried throwing a walking bait numerous times and had only one bite which came unbuttoned. The topwater action never really got going that I saw.

It was great ...

What can I say but congratulations on a fantastic day out there!
Those were some fine bass you caught. Here most of us were just waiting out there for the topwater bite to happen and
we waited and we waited and it never happened, while you wasted no time catching bass with the jig. That 6lb bass ...

@Fisheromen 's daughter Kathryn, aka "Kat" showing the guys she knows how to catch bass too!