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Nice! Plenty to see and do. Can't beat that.

Nice job out there John and good to see you guys today! Me and Theo ended with 59. We had to work for them in the afternoon—the only really consistent place was where we saw you. Also noticed more birds today! Osprey was killing it. Fun day!

Good report and nice angling. Part of the fun at Barrett has always been the wildlife sightings.

Good to see you out there, John and the Osprey was cool to see, I think Chris really keeps an eye for those birds after his "meeting" with one on the bay. ;)

It was a nice day to both fish and see critters, I had a lot of topwater fish, which are a favorite of mine. The crankbait along the rock ...

Nice report John.

Hey JWall,
Thank you for the great report and photos. I will be fishing Barrett for the first time ever on Sunday July 13th from a boat rental. May I ask what is the best time in the morning to arrive at the gate? I've seen different posts for either 3:30am or 4:30am.

Great report and thank you for sharing!

Left for the lake at 3am. Japatul Police with flashing lights says to back to the 8 freeway side so I did and it ended up having a road closed sign. So I went home back to bed and when I got up I checked for updates and seen that people were at Barrett. So I headed back out and figured out what was ...

Went to Barrett Saturday morning and they had all the roads closed barricades everywhere so I went back down to see other cars that had kayaks and I asked them what they were going to do, they said they had a plan and I could tag along. Well they got us thru and thanks guys for that! We were the ...

JWall wrote: Sun Jul 13, 2025 11:45 am Theo is a crackup and can flat out fish!

Theo and I talked for a while he is a good kid and fisherman.

Here is a pic of double dropshot and landing 2.

Nice morning. You left before I even made it to the lake yesterday.

Shawnster wrote: Sun Jul 13, 2025 5:45 pm This is Theo just telling ya good job catching your
Own fish and also nice fish btw but ya still were
fishing in MY SPOT byyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

YEP!

Haha great to meet you out there David! Glad you did well despite the wind and the heat. See you next time!

JWall wrote: Sun Jul 13, 2025 11:42 am Good job with the entry improvisation and nice report. First I’ve heard of F&G all year!

Ive seen them 2-3 times this year. One guy got a ticket for barbed hook. Guy said barb was bent, apparently F&G felt a bit too much was left on the hook and cited him for it.

Got in line at 3:30. On the water in my tube before 5 and headed out. I had decided to main lake fish today and had planned out my spots. I caught only 1 at the launch, so I was kind of concerned. THE GOOD! Was at my first spot threw the Rat nothing, threw a small walking bait game on, lasted until ...

Hit it again. Barrett lake post. Jigs Ikas Senkos Swim jigs.....

Tried a different approach to Barrett—family outing. It worked!

Problem statement: we were a small group on Sunday with varied interests — me and Theo like both fishing and catching, my other son Julian gets bored fishing but likes catching, Theo’s buddy is a “spirited” 9 year old who likes to ...

I catch 2 at a time or I catch the other next cast makes no difference. Makes no sense (survive)! I loose plenty of fish with my barbless hook or hooks.

It doesn’t hurt for fish to die there. It helps.

There is no need to double drop shot!!!!!! Give the fish a chance to servive. Please....there is enough fish to use a single barbless hooks and still catch plenty of fish.


If you're going to go there, I'd argue there is no reason to drop shot at all, at the Big B. Personally, I leave my fairy ...