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Welcome back and hope you will be back to feeling 100% better soon. Been there and it sucked. So nice to see your post
this morning and you back in action. Glad you finally got a scale, but for me it sometimes tells me that a bass may not be
as big. A bass I figured was about 5 1/2 because it was ...

[email protected] wrote: Sat Aug 10, 2024 4:16 pm Hey Vinny,,, is the ramp usable for boats ??? TIA

Yes, the ramp was good on Wednesday and I actually fished out of my boat on my last two trips there and it was fine.

US Men's basketball. GOLD!
Gotta love Steph Curry sinking 3's at the end.

Decided to head up to Miramar again since the last time I was there July 24. A little foggy in the morning but was able to throw on
some random busters here and there. They seemed to be more focused on the small baitfish they were chasing. It was a little frustrating having a few roll over or ...

That blade thing looks sweet! Just found one my self, and I will try it out there in a few days perhaps. Mirmar is my home lake now that Hodges is closed. Are you fishing it on the bottom?


It is funny as I did not throw any blades for a long while. Not last year, because Miramar was closed to ...

Mcfish wrote: Thu Aug 15, 2024 9:21 am

Fisheromen wrote: Wed Aug 14, 2024 4:17 pm Classic Vinnybass, working his magic!

Vinnyhoudini...

My escape act was to get off the lake before I melted and it was close, but I succeeded....ha ha

Are you using a fish finder while fishing the blade bait? Or throwing near the busters or just fishing out a lil bit deeper off the tules?


A little of both as I look for shad or bait balls with the finder and throw long casts beyond them and let the bait fall deep.
When bass go aftershad or ...

Dannicus wrote: Thu Aug 15, 2024 3:43 pm Awesome as always Vinny!

Hope you are feeling a lot better.
Always more fun to fish when you are healthy and look forward to seeing you back one day at Murray again, once you get tired of
catching so many bass at Otay....

Nice job out Dannicus! Topwater action….sounds
like you had fun. I will need to start fishing topwater which is always a blast. My buddy Larry was also out there telling me they were busting alol over. And of course I bailed on going over to Murray this morning….dang! Anyway, thanks for posting and ...

It was a little overcast in the morning and after an already late start to the lake, I spent a good deal of time on shore before launching
when I ran into my old fishing buddy Sonny. Haven't seen him in a long time and he is an amazing bass fisherman. He fishes out of a
kayak and always catches ...

Was Larry the guy in the White boat? Yeah there for a while they were turning the surface into a playground! Mostly smaller clones like in the pictures, but you know me, I was throwing stuff on my beloved BFS gear so the fights were still fun!

I stuck with topwater most all day, and was still ...

Like Mcfish says you make it look easy Mr Murray, I mean Vinny.
Curious as to which hole do you use on that blade I can’t tell from the picture?
Congrats keep doing what your doing, it’s working.


What is funny is I never changed what originally came with the Damiki Vault(blade).
I imagine the ...

So you use it only for vertical jigging, do you ever cast and treat it like a rattle trap?

Only in the winter I have used it for vertical jigging. Recently I cast it out and reel it in with a pumping stop and go action
like you would with a jerk bait.......but most of my healthier bass I have ...

Swings are free wrote: Sun Aug 18, 2024 12:21 pm That's a shame , I picked up 15 bags of clone Fry's there after they disappeared from the face of the planet.

OMG....you hit a goldmine getting those that day. I remember searching through my garage and all my tackle just to gather
up about a dozen of them when you could not find there anywhere.

The surface was like an oil painting when we got on the water and with the full moon I figured it was going to be a tough one.
Then the surface started to stir which took our minds off of melting as weather really heated up quickly. I told McFish I have
only been fishing reaction baits and not ...

Bet there was a lot of good natured smack talk out there.


It was so dang hot which can often trigger more aggression and irritation in people, but all in all we kept it pretty nice
as we were concentrating on trying to catch bass during a tough bite. What was really special was that each of us ...

Sometimes the busters are nice, but better things are sometimes down deeper. Bet you were stoked when you found that
nice afternoon bite on plastics. I could visualize the big smiles you had below all the facial sun gear. Great job out there
and thanks for sharing your adventure with us. Always ...

I actually did not plan to fish today and got on the water with my kayak close to 7am. Had the pleasure to meet and chat with 1FishDude, who had a very cool pontoon set-up. It was a tough start as I was only able to land 2 bass until around 10.
Then things got a little better as I mixed it up with ...

NIce Job!

Early release wrote: Thu Aug 22, 2024 5:36 pm NIce work Vinny.

…..from the guy who has been tearing
it up out there at Barrett.
Tight lines always buddy