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apparently I'm Tony from NY and Arnold from Chicago

I read this 3 times now and finally figured out the joke to it

We always used Yozuri disappearing pink leader fishing all the so cal Marlin tourneys and the Bisbees along with all the other Marlin tournaments in Baja/mainland. For what that’s worth. $100k entry fees etc. never had any issues. I still use it for fresh. I don’t typically do mainline flouro, just ...

Just a heads up to anyone heading to Lake Murray with a boat as the water level
is now very, very low and you may not be able to launch. Even my buddy Paul went
there to launch his bass boat over the weekend and took off to to El Cap because he told
me about the low water at the ramp.
I went over ...

The preserve is an entirely different thing! Talking about hiking trails!

I just wanted to take a moment to thank “Suicide Fish”. They have saved many a Fisherman’s day. If you hit your favorite Lake and can’t find a bite in all the usual areas, Suicide Fish will maul your offering, three feet from the boat. Suicide Fish will boil in the shallows and make a wake to your ...

All of the sporadic water quality tests that CDFW has conducted over the last several years have shown anoxic conditions and extremely high conductivity (salinity amongst other minerals) in the water. No one knows why, but the development in addition to natural conditions could be the reason. I ...

The water level has been fluctuating a few feet even just from my last three trips there. It went down then back up a little bit, and a tiny bit higher on Friday morning. I did not worm fish much after no bites, but managed to catch six bass and a trout on reaction baits. This whole water level ...

Is this one of those Golden Phase Largemouth I’ve read about. Note lack of markings and the Red Eye.

Done

Bass have the ability to change their color to match the background, much like a chameleon. So bass caught in the weeds will have the classic green and black largemouth pattern and I have seen fish caught in the open water be light green and almost silvery.

https://www.takemefishing.org/blog ...

I’ve caught one with zero markings at murray

The markings/no markings usually comes from where the fish are, if they’re relating to cover or open water, and water clarity. Guarantee if you catch some schooling open water fish, they will have a bland pattern at best

My favorite color Worm is not really a color. Black. Straight, no flakes, glitter, Curly tail. I mostly bought 8 inch and cut/melt the tip with matches, not a lighter, for length. Lighters leave a smell. Texas Rig, Wacky, wacky with a nail. My Dad showed me those techniques in the 60s. Funny how ...

You can't tell winter's coming by the daytime temps, but at 6:30 out on San V...I was feeling it! Air temp started out at 42, water temps 60-62. A nice little breeze out of the east didn't help. I was expecting some breaking fish, but found none after an extensive search! I brought out the dropshot ...

Well, with the weather starting to cool down at night and water temperatures getting colder I decided to just take a late morning
run to the SD river. I figured there was no sense in going early and besides, I normally don't fish it much past the middle of November
as it tends to shut off as the ...

As you know from my posts in the panfish section I've had a ton of fun recently targeting large Bluegill and Crappie on ultralight gear and micro lures. So today I decided to go after Bass on the same gear. I caught 6 Largemouths. Nothing huge but they sure felt like it on those whippy rods and ...

Slow day for me today. There was absolutely NO breeze today which made it really tough to get bit once the sun got high. Managed 3 early fish on Flukes with the biggest going 4.36. Best fish I’ve gotten out of there in a while. Caught it in about 6” of water busting shad. Definitely less fish in the ...

Things were a grind today at the Murr. I fished for 6 hours, and located some large schools in 40+ feet of water. They were suspended 7-10 feet from the bottom. I dropped everything in my box on their heads with nary a nibble.

Finally I switched over to ultralight gear and managed to bring in 3 ...

El Capitan Tube Mobb Big Bass Tournament 2023
https://youtu.be/dSXOmC-fRBo
Hey all I headed out on Sunday for my first float tube tournament with Tube Mobb. I saw these guys on Instagram and had run into them at a few lakes. This was the first event of theirs I had participated in. Anyone in a float ...