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A friend that works for California Waterfowl Association sent me this. My apologies in advance because it is a bit long. The point of it all is we need as many people as possible to email San Diego's Mayor about not cutting the funding for Barrett Lake. The focus of the letter is waterfowl but if ...

if anyone ended up with boat tickets for May 1st, 15th or 22nd they dont want, Im looking!
Thanks in advance

Missed out on any day, huge bummer. I did find the dates were in the URL of the listing though, in case that helps anyone.

We got May 10th and May 17th - boat tickets- funny thing was the tickets went thru after 3 min.?

We were late to draw and got them! I heard this from last year and tried it again and worked!

I think what happens is the system overloads with 10,001 hits coming in and jams it. Wait 3 min. and bam ...

Sounds like the few times I went and fishing was incredible I kept trying lures that I’ve never caught fish on, I used one lure that I couldn’t figure out why I bought it and fish on.
I caught over 30 we left at 1:00 my friend about the same.
Glad to hear it’s still fishing at its best.
I did go one ...

JWall wrote: Sat May 10, 2025 10:26 am

vito1023 wrote: Sat May 10, 2025 7:09 am
I did go one time with my friend on Mother’s Day and we both got a very stinky SKUNK.
Still can’t believe it.

Mom’s revenge

Exactly

When I fished it a week ago, there were fish in all stages.

Some were hard locked on beds, some were wandering the shallows with a mate.

Some were just making their nests, and some were guarding nests.

Water temp was in the low 60s, FWIW.

Had a lot of fun today at the Big B. I would call it quality over quantity. We still got about 60 between us that included a dozen four pounders and a nice five pounder. A lot of three pounders also. The topwater bite was just okay on the PopR and the whopper plopper. I switched to the flipping the ...

Met Dave and Joe and was on the water @4 am thanks to Jose getting the crowd in, it was busy.
Headed to Hauser and started with the popper in the dark and got a nice 5lb on the second cast. Top water was working all day for me, popper and crawler. Did find some busters on jb. Similar to last year ...

Well, made it to the opener and saw several pals. Headed out at something like 0415 thanks to Jose letting us get going early. Water temp was already 67F and wind was calm. Chuck (619Bassin) and I headed out together and were planning to go back in Hauser. I developed rudder trouble with my kayak ...

A couple observations from yesterday. I think the lake is real healthy. The bass are chunky, even the smaller ones. There are occasionally huge balls of shad appearing. The water looks great. Since the lake is so full there is a ton of submerged brush and you can get hung up easily. Some anglers did ...

Spot On with the Spawn On DarkShadow!!
I confirm the same on the opener.
Water clarity and the late burnoff made an amazing Big B aquarium below!!
Polarized lenses and the right light angle lit up nesting sites everywhere!
I could site fish with top water gear for a good hour.
Enjoy your day ...

Got 5/24 but not sure I can make the holiday weekend drive south from the 805. Anyone want to trade for a boat ticket for either opener or something between 5/14 - 5/21?