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With El Cap, Hodges, Morena, and Sutherland now below 15%, San V, Otay, and Barrett will be destroyed next! They have to keep Murray and Miramar up to run the filtration plants. The City has no money to buy water, so kiss your lakes goodbye....you'll be drinking what you used to be fishing! The ...

Not just every bass boat, but every boat that the owner does not want to be put in to the salt.

Thanks for the report.

I think folks might be tending to their depression with how poorly the lake has been fishing.


My guess too. How are the boys? They get out there yet? If Theo can’t figure out the mystery and pound them good, I’m selling my gear 😂😂

Hey John! Good to hear from you -- all good here. Me and ...

Maybe it’s possible that the lake didn’t have the cooler water temperatures since the Sept. closing and the lake temp stayed the same, but it doesn’t explain the better catches with the guys pre-fishing in April.

I think folks might be tending to their depression with how poorly the lake has been fishing.


My guess too. How are the boys? They get out there yet? If Theo can’t figure out the mystery and pound them good, I’m selling my gear 😂😂

Hey John! Good to hear from you -- all good here. Me and ...

Hey Shawn,

I think we can all speculate on the issues at Barrett and various resolutions. I kind of think that things like this are a bit cyclical and we can expect this cycle to also correct. When it will correct is the question to ask, but that's a question that uncovers more questions, maybe if ...

Hey Shawn,

I think we can all speculate on the issues at Barrett and various resolutions. I kind of think that things like this are a bit cyclical and we can expect this cycle to also correct. When it will correct is the question to ask, but that's a question that uncovers more questions, maybe ...

Many years ago Barrett fish were skinny as they are now. The answer was a shad plant and the following seasons size was much better. I posed this with a state biologist recently and he thinks the extremely high number of fish due to C&R would make a shad plant a meager drop in the bucket of what ...

Headed over to Murray this morning and was greeted with over cast skies and cool weather. Not much later it got pretty windy and the water got very choppy. I took was my small kayak, that does not get much lake action because when the winds came up it was almost like trying to keep a popsicle stick ...

Maybe it’s possible that the lake didn’t have the cooler water temperatures since the Sept. closing and the lake temp stayed the same, but it doesn’t explain the better catches with the guys pre-fishing in April.

Go to https://lakemonster.com/lake/CA/Barrett-Lake-713 , scroll down to the water ...

We're headed out tomorrow and would love to get the latest intel on where things are at so we can gear up accordingly.


The fish are lethargic and there is a lot of algae in the water. Drop shot and Senkos worked slowly did best for me. Fish I caught on 5/20 seemed to be either close to the bank ...

Dinks are not boring...they are the savior of most outings!

We're headed out tomorrow and would love to get the latest intel on where things are at so we can gear up accordingly.


The fish are lethargic and there is a lot of algae in the water. Drop shot and Senkos worked slowly did best for me. Fish I caught on 5/20 seemed to be either close to the ...

We're headed out tomorrow and would love to get the latest intel on where things are at so we can gear up accordingly.


The fish are lethargic and there is a lot of algae in the water. Drop shot and Senkos worked slowly did best for me. Fish I caught on 5/20 seemed to be either close to ...

I suggested to F&G that we harvest slot fish at Barrett and release them in SV......u may laugh but he said they have done that before. One way I fish Barrett under these conditions is using 6-8 lb line on a 1/16 or 1/32 bullet weight Texas rigged single tail grub or twin tail rubber bait. I stopped ...

I suggested to F&G that we harvest slot fish at Barrett and release them in SV......u may laugh but he said they have done that before. One way I fish Barrett under these conditions is using 6-8 lb line on a 1/16 or 1/32 bullet weight Texas rigged single tail grub or twin tail rubber bait. I ...

I’m not sure if we fished a different Barrett than others have been fishing, but this felt like the normal Barrett we’ve fished the last 20+ years, other than the lower water level.

Dead-sticking light-colored Pop-Rs worked best early, and wacky-rigged watermelon-red flake Senkos worked best after ...

I don’t have the energy to do the full on report today, and gotta get back to helping my wife with the kids after taking the day off, but there were definitely encouraging signs of life out there today.

2 weeks ago it felt like it was almost exclusively a finesse bite out there for us with worms ...

It sounds like conditions changed a lot from last weekend. I fished both Saturday and Sunday (23-24) and it was pretty tough each day. Fished Pine one day and Hauser+main lake the other. Caught 48 total across both days, biggest was about 3lbs, most 1-2lb. Zero top water bites either day and only ...

On the water by 5, the weather was cold, fog, and little bit of rain. Lots of boaters, not many kayaks or tubers. First bass on the plopper, the rest of the day was all top water for me, got a couple of busters. Biggest was @2 lb. Ended up @ 15, the cold weather didn’t help much. Left @ noon and the ...