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I thought with your title, it was off to Sutherland you went.
Nice day catching. It was perfect weather.

Tight lines

I thought we finally turned a corner 2 weeks ago..now I fear there are no corners! I had a 2 hour pattern going and then "boom"..it is no more! At least we get in some good cardio...

I thought we finally turned a corner 2 weeks ago..now I fear there are no corners! I had a 2 hour pattern going and then "boom"..it is no more! At least we get in some good cardio...

"It is no more" because you had "better" things to do! Work around the house can always wait!

I saved a lot of gas and aggravation this year as I was almost there every Friday with my kayak enjoying some fun bass fishing in previous years. My last trip there was in the beginning of May and I threw everything and the kitchen sink that normally works and it resulted in only one bass. Nothing ...

I have not been back there in about 2 months. Definitely was a weekly thing in years past. Super unfortunate…

Although I haven’t been fishing in over a month and probably won’t go for another month I thought I would put this out there. For me it has been fun to get them on the rat, the mudbug (crawdad) and the Black Cockatoo! What are some of your unusual baits?

Got to fish San V yesterday morning with SDFish member Oh Da Shiz off his boat.

San V is just en fuego right now. Mostly a finesse plastic bite but they were chomping. Find the shade, find the mud, find the fish. Definitely the best local bite going that isn’t on the downlow.

We ended up with ...

You are on a heck of a roll CorsoEnthusiast. Nice job out there putting the hurt on bass everywhere. Looks like you guys had a lot of fun! Thanks for sharing and tight lines always.

So, way way back when I was still wet behind the ears and the Snagg Proof Frogs were not a thing, I used these fishing with my Grandfather;
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Cool Snake photo! They make a snake topwater.

Saw in iCast that many brands are releasing "BFS" gear. See a bunch of guys using 5 - 7 pound FC. I remember back in the day, guys super tuning old Abu Garcia Ambassadors, to use with light ine.

I dunno about you guys, but I grew up fishing LA city ponds, which equates to very pressured fish. When ...

Still did not see any topwater action......pretty strange as in the beginning of June it just started to go off and then pretty much died.
Drastic changes in the water levels definitely had some type of affect in the overall fishing as normally topwater action would be pretty
much wide open in the ...

Everydog wrote: Mon Aug 07, 2023 6:52 pm The extra benefit with the small spinnerbait and cranks, Catching big-ass crappie.

These guys ate a tiny little underspin (which has also caught bass for me around Shad spawn time)

My little local lake out here in Ramona has been very abusive this year! After 4 months of 1 to 3 fish days, I finally started putting together some patterns a couple weeks ago and today was my revenge day! The weather was perfect, overcast in the morning and a high of 82 by 1:00! Normally in August ...

That's great to hear! That is the lake of D&K that I was used to. Nice work!

Nice job out there McFish as you pulled in quite a few very healthy bass. It was great to see that a number of fish can be caught after a very tough and unusual few months up there and I got to witness most of it. The next time... I am going to fish to the left of you early(where the fish were ...

Rumor has it I am still at the back of the lake. Not true, but it took an hour to get back from the Santa Ysabel arm and I went less than half way back. Twice the lake we had last year!
I found a TW bite early! Buzz bait and Popper. Missed a couple, farmed a couple and caught 4 to 2.8 lbs. Had one ...

Has the water level come down at all? Or is the city holding the levels steady?

I'd say the water is down maybe 10' from the high 2 months ago! I would think they still want it lower in anticipation of the El Nino winter prediction..
Even though that's not a real good prediction of a wet winter ...

The Trifecta Vinnybass, fisheromen and Mcfish...glad you found em. 11 is a great day the way Sutherland has been this year. Thanks for the report and pics @Mcfish

RamonaAngler wrote: Sun Aug 13, 2023 4:05 am The Trifecta Vinnybass, fisheromen and Mcfish...glad you found em. 11 is a great day the way Sutherland has been this year. Thanks for the report and pics @Mcfish

I was hoping I would inspire you to get out there and get some on saturday...and you did!

20230922_062845.jpg 20230922_074842.jpg They're putting Sutherland out of it's misery this Sunday, shutting it down for the winter. It's been a long strange trip out there this year! Good days were almost nonexistent. Just when you thought it was changing for the better..it wasn't! We were hoping ...