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Great family day before the storm.

Love those smiles!

Another quick to Murray on foot this morning. Nice morning for fishing. Overcast and no to light breeze until quit about 0900.

Started fishing about 0630 and no bites until 0645 :)

Got a small bluegill on topwater which a heron boldly came up and tried to take from me as I was grabbing the leader ...

I went to Murray for a couple of hours this morning to chase bluegill.

The session started off with a weird event.

A few minutes after starting casting I hooked a bluegill about 6 inches long on a popper. As I was bringing it in and grabbing the leader with my right hand there was a crash behind ...

What bugs do you like for tageting bluegill? I imagine just about anything would work. I was thinking of doing it just to keep my long-rod game sharp so I'm not rusty at the beginning of each Sierra trip.

Thanks


Almost anything they can get in their mouths will work.

Commonly available trout ...

Now the hamster wheel is turning, why were the macks so hot for the Sabiki flies? Is it the super small size, the fact they aren’t moving much (less to chase), the fact they’re six of them so it looks like a school, all of the above? Anyway, I’d like to tie flies like the Sabiki rig and fish a ...

For LMB fishing, I'm using straight braid a lot more and can't see my line choice evolution turning back.

For the concerns about riping hooks/ baits away from fish, which combo, spinning or baitcasting would be considered to compensate more for this worry?

I am more accurate with a bait caster ...

Fished Barrett yesterday for the first time in 5 or 6 years. Physical issues kept me away.

Made the trip out there yesterday with my brother. He lives nearby with kids and work its difficult to get together to just hang out. Plan was to go spend the day and take what we could get. Got a later ...

Sounds decent considering what I heard from lake staff and most folks I talked with out there Sunday.

Seemed tough for most folks out there.

Bluegill on a rattletrap - no surprise. I have caught them out there on plastic worms, senkos, crank baits, jerk baits, hard poppers, and spinner baits. Also ...

Great day on the bluegill. We seemed to be getting pecks and pulls right about the depths you were catching at. I almost set up my girl on a smaller bait to get into that action and may get better prepared for that on Saturday if the bassin is tough again. Thanks for the detailed report!


Yeah ...

Thanks for the great write up. Curious how you are fishing 6 to 10 feet under an indicator, are you using a breakaway/sliding type indicator?


No breakaway or slip indicator.

Nine or ten foot piece of level mono to looped to end of fly line. Anything much longer than the rod is difficult to ...

Now that it is Halloween, the important question.

Worst: has to be black licorice, whether jelly beans or vines. Not a fan of candy corn either.

Best: Reese's peanut butter cups. Almond Joy pretty good too.

Most unpopular Halloween treats: pennies. An old lady in the neighborhood used to hand ...

Been hitting San Diego one to two days a week for the last couple of months. Mostly between Fiddler's Cove area and south end of the Coronado Cays and from east to west.

Fishing has generally been good. A few slower days where the fish ate plastic grubs much better than flies but most days about ...

Most of the hype, conversation, and advertising for quality fly rods revolves and the mid through high cost range but there are a still some pretty good rods for less than $200 from established fly gear companies that sell through brick and mortar dealer networks. Unfortunately prices have risen ...

As the water cools down I will utilize slower retrieves more often. I use slow retrieves in the summer too but also faster retrieves. But the faster retrieves tend to be less productive during the colder periods. Still, I experiment to see what is working. But when the water is measuring 56º at the ...

Fished South San Diego Bay again this morning. Launched about 0630 and first cast around 0645. High tide around 0715

We both caught fish on the first cast and quickly caught several more. Five or Six long drifts today. One of those only produced a couple of fish each but the others were pretty ...

Fly pattern colors haven't mattered as much most days with fly action seeming to be the discriminating factor on some days when a fly that had a greater tendency to drop vertically worked better than one that dropped slowly fell more on a slope.

Curious what factors influence how a fly drops in ...

Got onto San Diego Bay this morning for a pre storm session as well as testing a TFO NXT Black Label 6wt rod.

Not very breezy and mostly dead calm from 0800 to 1000. No rain. Small tidal change. Fished from about 0645 to 1030. Pretty good catching on the last part of the outgoing tide but things ...

Another good outing in the South Bay this morning. Started casting around 0700. Started catching around 0702.

High tide just before 0700. First couple of hours of the outgoing was pretty good then it slowed for us after but still getting a few here and there until quitting about 1100. Fairly calm ...

I have seen quite a few but a couple of favorites that were assembled for specific tours:

Paul Simon's band for the "Born at the Right Time" tour in 1991-1992. The set list included classic Simon songs as well as some great stuff from "Graceland" and "Rhythm of the Saints". The band included a ...