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You guys rule. Rad fathers day vibes and killer fish on the DRT!

Now lets go rope some calicos and yellows!! 🤙🤙


Thanks brother! You're on deck on a trip to SCI to go smash some calico bass and yellows! I hope I get the boat back in time for this weekend and the weather cooperates. I'll be ...

Got out in the dark with Chuck and Steve around 0430. Air was chilly at 55F, but water had cooled a bit to 71F. Chuck went along our usual path and did quite well, I'll leave those details to him. I went to Wilson's creek and along that shoreline, throwing the rat in hopes of a nice large surprise ...

Got there @3:30 and already 8th in line,felt like opening day because the line went out the gate. Someone blocked the gate so Jose had to walked in. Met Dave, Steve and couple new friends, Dave went to Pine and I went to Hauser, hoping it won’t be the last Wednesday for me. Started across Pigs on ...

Hey Dave, I was going along the bank and talked with a guy who was using his FF sonar, he saw several bait balls and we did play around with some surface fish there, but they were the 10-12 inch variety. I went further back in Pine and did turn on my Panoptix and saw bait balls in 28 feet of water ...

Nicely done! We are all looking for the replacement of the BB. I think they went off Keto and went vegan.

Very nice and love the pics!

Nice work. Who makes that bow mount attachment for the motor ?

Thanks brother! You're on deck on a trip to SCI to go smash some calico bass and yellows! I hope I get the boat back in time for this weekend and the weather cooperates. I'll be in touch and soon

Shaaaaaaka!


Man I miss the days of hunting yellows and calicos. Had two rigs that could ...

Spoiler alert — the fishing is good!

My son and I arrived late (~10:30) and closed the place down as usual. In contrast to last weekend when we were catching most of our quality fish along rocky shorelines, Sunday was all about finding them in the stick ups. I beat Theo 34/31, but he scored the ...

Theo just keeps adding on!! Good job both of you 👏 It is a puzzle to solve every trip. We have been lucky to find the same lures working the last 2 trips but do not expect that to continue.

I keep looking for you out there John! No luck so far. Hope we cross paths soon! I hear the bay has been ...

I truly like a black and blue, jig-n-pork combination; fishing rocky banks.It is quite a popular lure amongst the angler population.And anytime you are fortunate to catch forty-nine bass fishing a jig is truly a blessing.Congratulation gentlemen!

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 ...