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Great job out there Dave!
Looks like you had a fun time and always a little better having a motor on
any floating device. Saves your energy for fighting fish. Thanks for sharing.
Tight lines always.

Finally got the ok to go back out in the sun as long as I had sun coverage and sunscreen. Followed Drs orders and headed out to San V today with sunscreen, a sun gaiter and hat.

Lake is super low and 20+ foot visibility. Decided to fish areas that were out of my usual rotation. Started the day ...

Had a pretty good day at Murray finally. I got tired of 4-5 fish days, so I decided to go back to the BFS basics that I know work day in and day out. Final count was 18 all in the 1-2 pound range (as Vinny would call them, clones), so definitely a quantity over quality day. Still they were all ...

Dfishin wrote: Thu Oct 09, 2025 4:50 pm Looks like a nice place. Nice and calm.

It was glass.

Only 1 fish on a Gunfish on Friday. Slow TW! It was a good one! 4.3 lbs. First time there in a really long time. Talking El Cap.

Went strait to back first thing was foggy and cold 48 degrees in parking lot saw shamen there and his tube 👍 towed buddy with me so he had one side I had other started most way down north arm was couple tubing very back came on odyssey 4x4 from who knows where anyways I threw mostly sashimmy swimmer ...

Great seeing you at the ramp. I ended up landing 9 and losing a bunch more including one giant that straightened the hook on my jig. And yes it was a bass not a cat. I lost it on the jump. Video coming soon.

I got to Otay early and was ready to fish as soon as it opened. As I pushed my float tube down the launch ramp, and into the water my feet slipped on the greasy algae, and I fell over backwards landing on my back and elbow. A guy named Joe saw me fall and kindly came over to help me up.

My shoulder ...

All is well folks, just some strained ligaments, and bruised cartilage. Getting some range of motion back in my neck, but it's still a bit painful to raise, and bend my arm. Pretty sure I'll be back at it this week.

Thanks for the well wishes.

Another epic morning at O'Neill...one on the plopper that was soooo fat I almost couldn't believe it.
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What did you eat?
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And then one after another on the spook (Halloween is coming you know), here are some examples...
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Haven't posted anything since my 7.25lb bass few weeks ago at Murray(Didn't want to bore you guys as just landing mostly dinks anyway), but here is just a quick post from the SD River.
Got just 3 bites this morning on a quick session at the river and landed 2 bass.
Not big by any means but still ...

Both days brought my dad saw Chris beefshamen at ramp on sun headed to middle started w cranks and sashimmy swimmer no taker one blow up on swimmer made it back of lake where they started to boil so switched to 5” fish roller hovering got a small one tried to chase boils in kayak to slow wasted a ...

Got on the lake at 8:30 and off by 1. It was a pretty good BFS day at the Murr. 7 fish all in the two pound range and the biggest going 3.52 lbs.

Early in the day I had some success pitching to the shore. At about mid morning they migrated out between 10-20 feet of water.

I'll share the hot bait ...

Wasn't going to post anything as it was pretty darn slow this morning, but Mcfish asked
me if the bass were still jumping? The answer is NO, as I did not see a single fish jump.
Worked the usual baits and was only able to pick up 5 small bass on plastic worms. The highlight on the day was chatting ...

Really nice day at The Cap. Caught perhaps a half dozen clones in the 2 pound range. Also a couple of three pounders. I thought I got pics of both of the threes, but evidently only got one. My old eyes aren't what they used to be it seems.

I also met Ron AKA Bonecrusher and had a real nice chat ...

I have not posted in a bit, but have been fishing...here is a collection from various spots in reverse time order...

El Cap, first time from the bank. Started early and picked up 2 and the better one on a Geecrack bellows, that I always thought should work but until now never has...
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Hey all!

I did make it out on the last weekend at Hodges for the season. I was surprised to see a good number of people at the gate at opening. I had heard that it was slow lately but had to get out one more time. I got my first bite within 5 minutes of fishing on a ...

Best one in a while...and it was an adventure.

Bit of a long story, but I have to share.

So hooked this girl on the far side of the small opening and the fight was on...she even jumped a couple times and then...she got tangled in a patch of tulles and was completely stuck. What to do? Tried all ...

Had a couple nice days lately at El Cap. Air in the early morning is cool/cold, but the water temp is still upper 60s F. Poked around along the shore and picked up a few nice fish with the usual suspects for me, a popper, a floating Rapala and a little swim jig I have been playing with. Wind hasn't ...

Got there bright and early said hello to Chris and Dan before departure made few stops on way to the back no luck with crank or 3 sizes magic swimmers I also threw lipless, jig and underspin the fish started to bust around 730-8 mostly around beginning of north arm my dad got one I missed one on ...