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Just a short trip over to Murray this morning and landed a handful of clones on reaction baits and plastics. Not much of anything
was breaking the surface, but I was happy to land a topwater bass on a popper. The bass were all pretty small but did get one
just over 3lbs on a creature bait.
Better ...

It's been about a month since I fished the SD River. A buddy who fishes the river often told me last night that he has caught only
one bass after 3 trips and his buddy got skunked yesterday. I figured what the heck.. and so for a change of pace I decided to fish
it for a few hours this morning ...

So tried something little different today brought my dad on back of kayak so tandem fishing and not sinking was the plan was fun mostly I believe today was learning curve rockpile where I usually go had biting fish early we moved around after a while cruzing showed my dad how a yak w troller is he ...

I hit my home lake today, not sure I've ever fished on the 4th of July...but it was well worth it! I was on the water before sunrise and Fisheromen was already into fish! We headed over to an area we got fish last week and it was on! Before 7:00, I already had 18 fish...and I'm thinking Fisheromen ...

Got to el cap a little later then expected with dead battery couldn’t find battery charger jump from other car wouldn’t work took battery outta other car got my car going took a little over hour left my house at 545 for cap w dad on yak 2nd time around got better idea headed for rockpile middle lake ...

Hey Dannicus,
I thought that was you in the tackle shop early morning. I was in line with my son behind you. Glad to hear you had a productive day. We got one each on wackies. I was throwing a tiny popper on my dark wolf setup. Only had one strike it but missed. Would have been nice.


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Hey Dannicus,
I thought that was you in the tackle shop early morning. I was in line with my son behind you. Glad to hear you had a productive day. We got one each on wackies. I was throwing a tiny popper on my dark wolf setup. Only had one strike it but missed. Would have been nice.


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Topwater season has arrived full force at the Murr with fish busting all over the lake. I saw a few good sized ones come up, but mostly they were small, and chasing tiny bait. I got a handful on my usual topwater walkers, but I swear they have been practicing how to throw a lure when they jump ...

I was on the water by 5:30 and had a choice to make, go after the smaller schooling busters or sit on the rock piles hoping for bigger fish on the bottom! Easy choice, I just can't pass up a topwater frenzy! I ended up with 22 fish on top, mostly 2 to 3 1/2lbers, caught on various flukes and a ...

May ... hammering the panfish as usual. Monthly best went 2.28 lb. from San Vicente on a nightcrawler. Also that day, caught lots of bass up to 3 lb and a dozen other nice bluegill fishing live bait in a cove area near brush. I often find the bite picks up late in the day.

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Dave and I hit the Bay yesterday from 6am - 11:30am. Fishing in the slack and some of the incoming tide.

I get out here about 3 or 4 times a year. The only goal was to catch as many species as we could.

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The bite was pretty steady all morning long. Lost count of the ...

I decided I wanted to get into fishing to have something to do with my kids. Went out alone for the first time just to test the waters. Thanks to the tips on the site, I got 3 spotties in 3 hours and quit when something strong snapped my leader.

Ya did good my man, looking forward to more reports

Just received this info from the City:
"Barrett tickets for Wednesday are visible on Ticketmaster starting with Wednesday, July 23rd. Tickets will be available to be purchased on Tuesday, July 8th, along with the August dates." Sorry for the late post as I have been out of country.

As we won this ...

Hello all,

Barrett was really nice on Wednesday. I was a little worried since it was 44F at Pigs at 0430. But...the water was a pleasant 70 F and the fish were happy as well. First fish came on a popper and was a bit over 3 pounds. He hit it like he was angry at it and I have to say it was the most ...

Got out usual time, Jose let us in early, wasn’t too busy at Pigs, met our buddies Dave and Joe, headed to Hauser. Consistently good popper bite ALL day, even got one on a Rat, the biggest was 4lb on a frog! Braided line really got it done, did lose some big fish on barbless hook, but overall ...

Also, I wanted to share this cool little rod holder I made for super cheap. I was sick of rods lying all over the boat so put this together in 20 minutes for $20 at Home Depot... worked great!
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My buddy mrpatrick will be bummed I didn't post his fish, so here's a pic of that whopper ...

Hey guys, I was the one that requested BFS be added as a forum topic. Thanks admins and thanks to @VinnyBass for facilitating the topic add! I figured this would be a great place to share our rigs/setups, gear, baits and techniques. I look forward to seeing what you all are using.

Got all my fish on my Chinese 2pc magicl rod and covello 50 reel bfs setup again lol whatever gets it done got good feel so I bring it reel works great also for Chinese engineering I got rod and reel for 60$ each so not bottom line i have never trusted a 2pc rod especially a Chinese one but it has ...

This is a Nage by Eurotackle. It's a 2.25 inch micro jointed swimbait. It's sinks at a moderate fall rate, so I can count it down. It twitches well but also looks great on a straight retrieve. When the small bass were busting at Murray I threw it on top of them and started a fast retrieve as soon as ...