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Pretty nice day today at Otay. Ended up with an even dozen. Nothing huge, but healthy, fat, little footballs, and a lot of fun none the less.

All fish were caught on a 1/8th oz. Bitsy Bug jig with a green pumpkin Z-Man TRD bugz trailer. I was casting the edge of the tules and dragging it back to 10 ...

Hit El Cap with my buddy Andre on his boat Monday.

It was a tough day, we spent the majority of it watching fish not eat our baits, but the ones that did eat for us were quality.

I lost a fish around 8:30AM that sawed my line in the rocks, and then around 9AM I lifted up on my worm and something ...

Deja vu all over again!

Headed out after our set of storms not quite sure what to expect but found several willing little bucks fairly early. Had a steady pick of 2lb clones throughout the day.

The day was almost literally a repeat of last weeks trip. I ended with 18 again. Best five were just ...

Well, lots of chores have been keeping me busy, but I was finally able to head out to do a little fishing this morning. I am sure glad
I did as it has been a while. I intended to work the tulles, but nixed that after picking up a few bass on reaction baits. It was great to see and chat with Pwy ...

Despite a pretty dang good fishing trip to Murray recently, the bass this morning put on the brakes or should I say slammed on the brakes. I stubbornly stuck to using all sorts of reaction baits and the bass just were not cooperating. It reminded me of that old saying.... "Live by the sword, die by ...

Pictured is the first of six total topwater bass today at Murray. None of them were big, but I am not complaining. Do you know why? Because TOPWATER, that's why!!

Bass were busting everywhere early in the morning. After that slowed down it got tough to get them on anything.

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By the way, I passed Vinny @VinnyBass
on the way to Murray yesterday. He was in disguise, but I recognized him instantly for some reason. He said to tell you all hi!

Hey all,
It was a fun day at Lake Poway. I only fished for a couple of hours and only got 2 bites. Fortunately, the fish were 10.22lbs and 7.52lbs! So. Much. Fun! It's been a few years since I got a DD and the feeling never gets old. Both were bed fish that I caught on jigs. I have a feeling this ...

Shore pounding! Love that your feet is your trolling motor. Grew up shore pounding and still do it nearly on the daily, but it's a cement walkway instead of rugged terrain like in years past.

Been over a week since I fished last so I decided to hit Murray. I had thought of going up to the Lake of D & K, but a cold weather forecast up there helped change my mind. Too stubborn to fish the tulles I searched and searched for shad balls and wasted a lot of fishing time. Hours went by and not ...

Catching bass on the way home from
work……very nice!

Managed to pull 8 fatties out of The Captain today on BFS gear. Nothing under 2 and nothing over 3, but they were feisty.

I'll post a breakdown of baits I used in the BFS section for you other finesse guys if you are interested.

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Had a fun day at Murray. Managed 14 bass. Granted the majority were in the 2 pound class but never the less, lots of activity, and great fights on my light gear! I'll post the bait that got most of the love today in the BFS section.

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Columbo fish.

You’ve been on them out there! I gotta get myself out there one of these days…

Minnow was working well today. Landed around a dozen or so.

Had some fun while on the road last week. I hit the river under the I-10 bridge on the AZ side for some smallmouth on Monday....Hit a pond near St George Utah on Thurs and headed out to fish the Highline canal near El Centro last night for some evening fishing. Mixed bag but watch to see some ...

I think I caught that one before too, there are a few spawning still and a lot of them are really hungry post spawn. I caught two others last time that had crooked tails which was weird to see, birth defects from the same spawn or something

By now, Otay has surpassed El Cap as my favorite SD body of water. Almost all of my best days over the last year have happened there and it just feels like home.

While neither day was a wide open bite, both were fun sessions at different ends of the day. Saturday I started out in a favorite spot ...

tomnilll wrote: Sat May 17, 2025 12:33 pm I would use it for sure if I could figure out how to set it up from the shore...

Probably in the future, there will be something.