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Thanks Dave! The condition of these fish is alarming to say the least.

Yea wonder if this biggie’s with the skinny body profile, have either still have Senko’s or other plastics inside them and still blocking their guts or just expelled the plastic and now able to eat their natural meals?

I’ve said it before if someone or company can make a Gummy Bear type soft bait ...

Got out early for a very pleasant morning temps-wise. Had initial trolling motor/remote issues with a newly installed Smart Head conversion and once that problem was solved, got on the fish quickly with a popper biter. I had a little ground to make up as my buddy fished on while I was cussing and ...

Finally the bite was back on at Barrett! I went in late April for the Cast Hope event then a couple days in mid-May, and the bite was unusually tough and slow. But last Sunday, almost from the get-go, I could tell it was going to be different.

Started out on the Pine arm of the lake and found some ...

For the past several years, my son and I have hit up Barrett on Father’s Day. Last year was the most epic day of fishing in my life. I never believed the guys who would talk about catching 100 or more bass at Barrett. I have had many great days there, but never came near the 100 mark. Last year, it ...

Put in 5 hours from 5:30-10:30 when dealing with early winds and afternoon to-do’s sent us packing. The first 3.5 hours were consistent bites on our swim senkos, doubletail hulajigs, minijigs, senkos, and micro chatters. Caught so many on my swimsenko in two trips that the hook snapped in the middle ...

My son and I went on Sunday and had a great time. We launched from the dock area and went across the lake and down about half mile. We tried top water for the first 30-40 min with nothing. Switched to drop shot and never looked back. Caught over 25 fish for the 2 of us and I had a 3 and a 6.10lb PB ...

18 LMB, almost all on drop shot. All about .5-1 lb range. Float tubing. Bite just died about 11 am.

Car thermometer read 103F when I looked at it at Lyons Valley Road on about 2:30 pm. Stopped for ice cream in Alpine.


Thanks for the report. We bring our own ice cream this time of year. We ...

Back to Barrett with the boy and it was hot! Got there a bit late around 6am. Picked a boat and away we went deep into Hauser. Drifted around for a while trying to figure it out and settled in a weedy area surrounding by stickups and it was fairly steady...picking away at em...had a couple blowups ...

I am addicted to that late evening bite. So many times on my way home, after Juul is out rounding up the fishermen, I will stop at a few spots on the way to the dock and hook a few nice ones. And many times my count is 49, or 39, or 29, and I just need that next 1 or 2 to get to 50, 40, or 30. Kind ...

Launched at Piggy's around 6 am and to my surprise there were only 5 other cars there. You can almost back right to the water line to launch. If you have fished Barrett in the past you pretty much know the pattern(s) this time of the year. My success continues to be the 1/8 oz underspin with a ...

Finally got back to the Big B on Wednesday. I thought it was going to be a scorcher, but thanks to the cloud cover the weather was perfect. NO wind and pretty glassy conditions until I call it quits around 3 pm. Started working my way back into Pine picking up fish every where I stopped to fish ...

Ended with 27 by dusk, for a 1/2 days 'work'. All top, poppers, whopper ploppers, super spooks, buzzbaits, frogs and boot tail frogs. Better than last week. I only got 15 on top. Found a tackle box on the way into the lake on the dirt road. Lose anything? Looks to be a kayakers, as some hand control ...

Cannot use my boat on Saturday. My loss is your gain. PM me

Hey - trying to trade my 9/14 ticket. If I don't get any offers, I'll sell it to you.

FYI.......Barrett for 2026 season will open on May 6th, Wednesday. Closing date is Sunday, September 27th.
LGF.....D

TommyP

Ps The rumor going around that Barrett will not be open on Wednesdays is total BS, except for the first Wednesday of the month(excluding opening in May)

Yea my buddies (2) and I were all sitting at a dinner place and the same thing happened to him, system entered 2 and showed $370, too much, he said.

Backed out and then it said SOLD OUT! WTH!

We scored two, one was for the opener .

6 total bass today at Otay, and five of them were courtesy of this:
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It's a Diawa 3" TD Minnow, and it has definitely become my #1 jerkbait for BFS fishing. It has great action and casts a country mile. Most fish hit a twitch twitch pause retrieve, while two hit it on ...

I've told you about this rig before, but they liked it with a TRD craw the last couple of days instead of my usual TRD or Crush City Ned baits. This has accounted for more than half my fish total both days.
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