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Saw in iCast that many brands are releasing "BFS" gear. See a bunch of guys using 5 - 7 pound FC. I remember back in the day, guys super tuning old Abu Garcia Ambassadors, to use with light ine.

I dunno about you guys, but I grew up fishing LA city ponds, which equates to very pressured fish. When ...

Launchable?

Yes it is.....Launched my kayak the other week and no problem launching my boat this morning. I am still a little cautious remembering the time when the water was real low years ago and my buddy pulling his Skeeter boat up to the trailer hit a rock at the end of the boat ramp and ...

Fished sunrise to sunset, first time doing that in awhile, and first time to Otay in awhile too. Fog was sooooo pretty that I found it hard not to stop and make some art with my camera.

Not many folks out today. Warm and sunny after fog burned off. BIte was tough, as I'd heard, but got into some ...

camobass wrote: Wed Nov 15, 2023 6:52 pm There is a rumor of a guy named JIMBO that consistently pulls 10+ pounders from shore at Murray on home poured black plastics. True story

The rest of that rumor is that he fishes at night.

Nice job and report! You didn’t miss much in those two years in my opinion. Fishing Otay wasn’t the easiest during this time due to its full capacity and stagnant water stage. I’m sure the fish were there and biting on some days, but getting back to them through the muck was one issue. It does sound ...

Took off to Lake Poway mostly on an exploratory mission and to get a few hours of fishing in from shore. I had not been up to Lake
Poway for a very long time and figured I would go take a look. I did expect a few trout fishermen but never expected so many of
them on a Thursday morning. It was ...

That’s my go to jerk bait! Had lots of success over the years at both Otay and Sutherland on it. Nice work!!

Have not been to Murray for a while....so I figured...ah, what the heck.
The few times I have gone the last few months...just catching some small clones and dinks here and there so I have not posted any fish reports. I have enjoyed reading other fish reports and great so see guys posting a little ...

Weather finally cooperated and bro and I finally got to take the float tubes out for their maiden voyage. We figured Murray would be a great place to start as it’s a smaller body of water. We launched about 8am and basically just kicked a lap around the lake starting in Padre cove fishing along the ...

I finally got back to San V on my favorite day! Along with Murray, San V is probably where I've spent most of my years fishing...starting back in the 60s. I got to the lake at sunrise, headed out looking for some busters and soon found some on the main lake behind the island. They were spread out ...

With the recent warm weather, I just figured the bass should be moving in tighter to shore. Hit the water a little after 8, and flipped
the tulles and outside of tulles in shallow water with plastic worms, craw and creature baits. So much for the bass being in tighter
as I worked those areas hard ...

Nice fishies!
Method of fizzing?


I posted this video a few weeks ago in a Feb. 5th report, and is pretty easy to follow
and how I do it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeBa-lXby9w&t=43s

I have one of these in my kayak and one in my boat for fizzing.
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I hold the ...

I've been off the water prior to today for for a couple of weeks. Amid some other challenges I've also been shopping for a new economical vehicle. The near daily drives from Jamul or Descanso in a heavy duty diesel pickup truck(which I need to pull my travel trailer) were killing me. I settled on a ...

@VinnyBass…That was a strange, but amazing, day to say the least. I wouldn’t say I was putting on a clinic. I got a lot of micro-bass. It wasn’t until I started following your lead that I started getting any size.
I even caught a couple on a spoon, which is a first for me!

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Love ...

Pictured is the first of six total topwater bass today at Murray. None of them were big, but I am not complaining. Do you know why? Because TOPWATER, that's why!!

Bass were busting everywhere early in the morning. After that slowed down it got tough to get them on anything.

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I had a similar experience. I got on the water at 8 and didn't get a single bite in 5 hours....go figure. Glad you avoided the skunk though...

Post spawn blues?

I went back to Otay for a few hours this morning. I caught 8 quality fish on various baits including chatter bait, crankbait, jerkbait and my ever present jig. I made a few passes with topwater plugs and a frog, but sadly no takers today.

My final count was 8, but would have been 9 had Vinny ...

Got on the water early and got to say hi to robert_smith as he was heading out too. After a few minutes Dfishin showed up and we hung out and fished together all morning.

It was a really productive day. I stopped counting at 20 fish but I'm guessing my total was over 30. I'm pretty sure Dave did ...

Nice job out there. Always a little less when spawned out, but still some nice looking bass and most of all bet you had a great time. As soon as I see your name on a post or see you in person at a lake, the first thing I think is I bet he is catching bass on jerk baits. Always fun to have a go-to ...