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Been cooking up the halibut caught last weekend. Just cooking in a pan with a little oil, putting it on a plate with soy sauce, tartar sauce or lemon juice on each forkful. Or tuna quesadillas.

But last night I was stuffed and still had a cooked piece. Mashed it up with a fork, added mayo, pepper ...

I too got a few small trout at Doane the last week of the year. My first trout in probably 9 years or so. 700 fish is prolific!

Last fish of the year. Chunky Bass from Wohlford

My last day of fishing (12/31/2023) was awesome. Landed 10 huge Bluegills in a couple of hours. I was pulling a 2" sinking twitchbait and for a while getting bit on every cast!
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Today was the day that I decided to try out a spot that I had scouted out back in February at Flaming Gorge. It's always trout season up here, but spring brings the smallies around the rock piles, and I have always wanted to catch a small mouth bass, especially seeing as how I miss the green bassies ...

I’m pretty happy with 3” and 4” Yamamoto craw. If you like rage craw give Yamamoto craw a try, same lot of action but last longer. I alway loose one craw after one or two bass with rage craw but not with Yamamoto.
As of now I tried with Ned head (recommend 1/10oz with medium rod), wobble head, free ...

Battle Of The Baits! ZMan Pro CrawZ vs. Strike King Bitsy Bug
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Good morning and merry Christmas all!
I hope all of you are having a wonderful holiday season. I wanted to put out a video for Christmas and thought about this back in the summer. So on my last day at Barrett ...

With anticipation of hopefully more topwater action, I headed back up to Lake Miramar this morning with 3 rods rigged with
topwater baits and one with a small jerk bait. The surface was pretty glassy when I arrived. Finally a few small bass stirring the top of the
water. Everyone knows that by the ...

The V is still going! Did a short session on 8/13 from open till about 9:30. Ended up with 9 total. Mostly smaller fish but managed to find two fish over 3lbs. As has been the trend lately for me there, shallow cover was the key.

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Float tubed Murray in the afternoon from 4pm to close. Fished against the tullies with some senkos, dropshot, and brush hogs for nothing… right before closing I caught one on a dimiki blade bait by the launch dock.

Took a little trip down to my favorite body of water this morning, 9/10.

The conditions were kind of uncanny when I arrived at first light. Dead calm, overcast. Seems like an invitation to throw topwater, right? Wrong! Threw a variety of topwater baits and a few subsurface options with nary a bite ...

Awesome fish! Looks like a great day.

After Labor Day, Miramar closed to watercraft(bummer...I was having fun up there), so I made a return back to Murray. After a couple trips I found that bass are still feeding on shad and there are some busting fish here and there at random times. I spent 95% of my timejust cruising around looking ...

In a "fake news" story on the local news, they referred to Lake Hodges as being closed to windsurfing because it was "polluted". This is not true in a number of ways including:
1. that is not the actual reason
2. it was never closed for pollution
3. it is not polluted
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So..if I take my shirt off I'll catch bigger fish???

Funny as now the City says Hodges will be open to paddleboarding and windsurfering starting on Sept 13, which is today.
Maybe the news will say there was a great white shark living in the freshwater and it was taken to Sea World so now the
water at Hodges is safe....ha ha. :-)

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Used to fish there all the time years ago......but usually rented a boat(the best days was when you could bring your own trolling motor...ha ha). I Have gone up a handful of times just to mess around from shore but not recently. When I did fish from shore I caught fish over at Jump off point. Most ...

From the website it looks like the rental boats have trolling motors...Maybe I'll give Hodges a rest and try it over there. Thanks for the tips.


Yes...they do have trolling motors. I was just reminiscing about when you could bring your own motor and battery and save lots of cash in the old days ...

Here's a 12 incher I got from Hodges this time of year several years ago. I caught it on a "glide" cough cough hahaha It was never weighed or measured, just a pic and released. The hatch lid is 18" so you can assume the length.

Here's a Poway lake special;