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Tried to get a few hours in the morning before the heat took over. they opened the gate at 6;00 and i set up the pontoon and was on the water headed down the Del Dios arm by 6;30. I was heading to a place i knew that has deep water because from the reports i got on folks throwing the kitchen sink at ...

Yeah, I know you guys are tired of my Lake Murray reports, but I tried to make it a little more interesting.
I decided to first try to catch a few bass on hard topwater baits. I put on a little Zara Puppy(Spook) since Dannicus , CorsoEnthusiast and a few others said to throw smaller baits. I ...

Took my good friend Randy (who is still new to fishing) out float tubing at Murray, hoping to get him introduced to some topwater action. He was really jazzed as he landed his first three topwater bass, one of which went 4.3 lbs. Sadly no picture though as he dropped it taking it off the scale.

As ...

Damn VB…do you secretly work for tackle stores?! I now have 5 new baits I need to go buy 😜

PS great work as always 👏


Don't buy anything.....as in a month all of the stuff won't work and will be sitting back in tackle boxes left in my garage
for years like that Damiki blade....ha ha
Later I ...

If they keep taking water out, we might go shopping for all the lost lures. I swear that lake has more of my tackle than any.

JWall wrote: Thu Aug 29, 2024 9:17 am Damn VB…do you secretly work for tackle stores?! I now have 5 new baits I need to go buy

PS great work as always

Do not try to keep up with Vinny's lure collection...soon your garage would look like a Bass Pro Shop....

Went to Miramar for a couple hours this afternoon after reading some reports here. A few fish busting on shad here and there but weren’t interested in anything I threw at them. Landed one on a small jerk bait near some tules. This fish fought like one twice his size which was fun. Might head out ...

Back in the 80’s two buddies and I fished Hodges every Wednesday as we all had Wednesdays off and it was our preferred lake, we would fish the dam for shore where the the overflow was and if we could cast to the ledge where the deep water was it would produce a bass every time and between my buddies ...

This sounds strange, but I just did not feel like going to Lake Murray this morning(despite the fact they are biting)and decided to go down to the SD River.
I have not fished there since late June and lately it has just been too dang hot. I figured that I could fish a few hours this morning and get ...

Been hitting San V a few times. There has been a lot of silver sides. Hard baits get me the dinks. Plastics get me a verity of sizes. Managed to land a Kitty over 20lbs. There is 1 spot that has been producing skinny ones. Not sure what is wrong or happening to them.

IMG_6277.png Google earth. Look for the drops. Fish the white water side. The upper can produce too but the flow stirs up crawdads and bait..plus it’s the “end of the road” when fish swim upstream. Flow is best but not necessary. You may be able to find a time schedule on line.

As far as paddle ...

Senko gut!

San Vicente Reservoir: Late Summer Bass Fishing
https://youtu.be/Ux_Jf_YhsCI

Do you know where I haven’t been in a long time? San Vicente. I was thinking about where the fish and I realized I hadn’t been there since they raised the lake. So I got out on the water first thing and realized I’m kind ...

Ditto

Very nice!
Always enjoy the videos and watching you on the rougher water the first 20 seconds, I ran to the medicine chest to take some
Dramamine, but put it away as the water calmed down. Always feel like I am fishing right there with you and great to
see your post and hopefully there are ...

Great video as always Chris and super job with the jig. San V is not known for being a good jig fishing lake but like you I love throwing a jig and have had some success especially on back side of island with one. Great looking rod btw. Hope to see you out on the water my friend and thanks again ...

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I still throw them. I've cleaned up on tiny brushhogs and a pegged 1/16 oz bullet weight. I Texas rig them on a #2 light wire hook and throw them on my BFS gear. I think Vinny and McFish have seen me have success with that setup. I've even caught a couple of 4 pounders that way which is an absolute ...

On the lake by 6 and off again by 10'30 because it got hot!

I launched at North Point and headed Southwest. Caught a couple on topwaters but there really weren't too many busting that way. I picked up a couple more swimming a small jig with a Keitech fat impact for a trailer.

After I kicked back ...

Good question!