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Can’t go wrong with the brush hog.

Since my home lake is closed tomorrow, I got permission from Mr. Vinny to fish his home lake today! I guess it's partly my lake since I've been fishing it since 1963...! The latest fish reports haven't exactly been glowing, so I wasn't expecting much...big mistake! I got on the water at 5:45, got ...

Fish #2 looks like it healed from a nice injury in the past.

Well done Vinny!! I sure could use a few of those in my pond!!

Mel - Kahuna Kentucky Bass

Congrats on a great day. I caught my first trout out of Murray on the then fishing dock 2 1/4 lbs in the 60's on a velveeta ball.

This is the First Time I had luck at Miramar. Thanks to Vinny for his posts recently at Miramar, I was able to land a few smaller fish then caught a 3#er by the Bouy line. And yes that fish fought alot harder than expected. Usually fishing San Vincente but pretty much similar small fish. Just glad ...

Awesome Catches nice size.

WEEDLESS!!
Grass everywhere.
But its fire if you find them.

Gotta gave tullies first Vinny, there is none at this time due to low water

what a day!!! Great job Vinny.

I got on the water at 5:30. In the summer months I am not dropping the kids off at school everyday, so I do get on the water earlier albeit less frequently. They'll be seniors next year, which is hard to believe.

Anyway I saw VinnyBass out there on his electronics-free kayak doing his Vinny thang ...

Ended the morning with 9 fish total. All on jigs along drop offs, and frogs across the top of floating vegetation mats (of which there are plenty). I put a new seat in my float tube and man is it nice! Ergonomic and no more sliding down in the seat. Should have done it years ago.

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TIM wrote: Thu Jul 24, 2025 12:27 pm Looks like you used a popping frog. Awesome catches.

Yep, specifically this one. But as you might imagine, I kinda had to abandon my beloved BFS gear to throw that frog lol.

Final count was 13 with three of them over 3 pounds, one over 4 pounds and the best was a 6.2 pounder.

All fish were courtesy of a jig. I tried throwing a walking bait numerous times and had only one bite which came unbuttoned. The topwater action never really got going that I saw.

It was great ...

I was out there as well, can't believe I didn't see you. Would have loved to meet you all. Im pretty sure I seen mcfish and maybe Vinny, im not sure ive never meet either before.
I was the guy with the trailer and the nucanoe. I fished the dam side til around 1 then hit the right of the launch the ...

In years of high water, the south end has been very good to me. I caught my largest personal best at Cuyamaca, but it was way back at the end of June in 2009. I caught a 12 lb bass on a Senko just as a thunderstorm began. It was possible back in those days, to catch numbers and quality, but you had ...

El cap ramp still open for boat launch got there w kayak at 530 peddled to Rock piles middle lake across from dam finger I been throwing this zoom horny toad lately topwater been nice to me I missed 3 in my first 4 casts then proceeded to catch around 7 on it only couple after sun came up so I ...

I'll take the blame..but i plead insanity..

https://youtu.be/U4Yigc75sRI
Hey all,
I haven't gotten to post (or fish) in a while. I did have the opportunity to head out for just a few hours on Saturday to Lake Miramar. It was a nice mental therapy session just to decompress. The bonus was that I caught fish! I just wanted to take it back old ...

Nice vid!