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Got numbers on Cap today targeting bass in shallow water. I got on the water at about 6:30 and made my way across the lake to target fish hanging around rocks. I made a few casts into the shallows with a neko-rigged 4-inch senko on the way there and managed to get a fish to take, but lost it. Been ...

1st time this back to my go to lake...I do love the pond, but the lake is so much more...

Got an on time start, long line at the iron ranger and to the water not long after first light. Threw a bunch of different stuff, spinnerbait, cranks, etc but the first one took almost an hour and I was ...

El Cap (2/15) - Repeat of Friday. 22 fish caught in the same types of areas. Lost around 8-10. No bigs, but did get a couple of high 3’s among the clones.

Dfishin wrote: Tue Feb 17, 2026 1:07 pm Nice work! Going to be interesting after all this rain.

It will definitely be interesting. I’m curious to see if the rain affects the water level considering how low it’s gotten over the last 3 weeks.

Here is a story that explains, to me at least, what fishing is all about. So, let me set it up...same lake (O'Neill) two consecutive days. Could not have been more different.

Day 1

Start with a cold morning, and casted about 3000 times in the first hour and snagged the tulles about 6 times, lost a ...

It was a beautiful day on the water at Cap this past Sunday. Sunny, about 74 degrees, and just a light to moderate breeze coming from the west in the afternoon. The bite seems to have slowed down a tick since last weekend, but I was still able to manage quite a few bites and 10 fish in the net. The ...

I know Damian Thao has been seen on this site before (maybe it was the old site?)

I thought everyone would appreciate this toad!! Except for Beef Shawman, since he's the only one with a greater PB that's on here... :-D

Here is the link
https://www.wired2fish.com/news/veteran-kayak-angler-caught ...

Just the pure joy of hooking, and landing, a pig.

Hey guys, am back on the new sdfish.org.. didn't realize sdfish.com was gone after several years LOL!! On the new one now..
Hit Hodges today, and was slow as expected.. Mid 80's with no breeze, felt like mid-summer August.. Seemed most folks were crappie fishing, and maybe a handful of bass anglers ...

I was inspired today to spend a few hours this morning down at the SD River thanks to fellow SDFish member tomnilll .I have not been fishing much at all and needed a nice kick in the rear which tomnilll has provided with some recent posts and nice bass he has landed. Not much to say, but landed 2 ...

I haven’t fished for a very long time. Hit up Otay today. Got there around 6:30 to very low water levels and quite a bit of algae.
Did ok. Got 11. Biggest went 4.4# and another 3.6#. Rest were clones. All caught on jerkbait and dropshot.

Mine was on a Spro popper frog, about 8 years back, and she slurped it in, no explosion. Big ones don't need to explode on it, they just swim under it, open up the gills, flush a gallon of water in and anything in it, and swim off with a swagger. AKA a toilet flush. You know she's big at that point ...

Back to the new favorite but with a new plan...respooled one baitcaster with 10lb mono and fished just a weightless senco in the edges of the tulles...trying to get more bites. Seemed to work, got 6 bites in a couple hours but lost four of them because I was afraid to set the hook too hard with the ...

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Hey all!
It has been a little bit since I posted here. I headed out to Hodges for my second trip of the year. The lake looks beautiful (although still low) and there are now nice patches of tules coming in. I think if the lake level stays this way in a few years we will ...

Murray has been ok numbers wise for me for the last few weeks, but everything has been clones and dinks so I haven't bothered posting.

Still I didn't want you guys to think I left altogether so I figured I'd better put up something. I've thrown everything from big swimbaits to worms and tiny jigs ...

Well not really how the expression goes but here is another story.

Back to what has become a favorite of mine (O'Neill) for an after work session and I have to confess the lucky first. Here is the result.
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How I caught it Lucky: my cast landed about 8 ft. to the right of my ...

Fished Hodges yesterday. Was a beautiful morning with heavy fog on the water. My third Wednesday fishing Hodges and my second trip in a row without even a bite. In 3 trips, i’ve only landed 1. Has to be operator error, right? Here’s a pic of EVERYTHING I threw yesterday. You be the judge.
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That looks like an awesome day!!!

Very very nice post!
The grandkids catching bass and looks like they had a blast!!!
Thanks for sharing with us and I had nothing but smiles seeing all those great pics.
Tight lines always.

That’s what it’s all about! Awesome job getting them on some fish