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Beauty!

Looks huge in that pic! I would have used a wide angle lens and held it even closer. LOL
That's a 10 pounder next spring. Way to go!!
The lower jaw on that fish makes it look even bigger!

Took a 2,500 mile road trip pulling the trailer to the Castcade Mountains and everywhere in-between. Had a chance to Bass fish Trinity Lake and Clear Lake. We pumped up the Sea Eagle and got out for a few hours.
My Son and I had 3.5 hours of clone fishing on Smallies and Spots.

Here are a few ...

That’s awesome!! Beautiful fish! Congrats!!

Had a pretty good day at Murray finally. I got tired of 4-5 fish days, so I decided to go back to the BFS basics that I know work day in and day out. Final count was 18 all in the 1-2 pound range (as Vinny would call them, clones), so definitely a quantity over quality day. Still they were all ...

Looks huge in that pic! I would have used a wide angle lens and held it even closer. LOL
That's a 10 pounder next spring. Way to go!!
The lower jaw on that fish makes it look even bigger!


After that first jump, I kept thinking this fish
is gonna be 8 or 9 pounds easily after seeing it ...

Not the first Fathead to come out of Murray! I'm pretty sure that's my fish from a couple years back! See, catch and release does work..lol..! Photo courtesy of Mr. Vinnybass!

Fisheromen wrote: Sat Oct 11, 2025 7:40 pm Only 1 fish on a Gunfish on Friday. Slow TW! It was a good one! 4.3 lbs. First time there in a really long time. Talking El Cap.

Tiny flukes....they get picky this time of year!

I got to Otay early and was ready to fish as soon as it opened. As I pushed my float tube down the launch ramp, and into the water my feet slipped on the greasy algae, and I fell over backwards landing on my back and elbow. A guy named Joe saw me fall and kindly came over to help me up.

My shoulder ...

The wise old Doc on Hee Haw used to say "Don't DO that!" I fell a couple weeks ago, myself! Don't recommend it!

Nice Vinny. I haven't fished the river since I sold my float tube and got the pontoon float. Trying to launch that thing would be a big pain in the butt at the river but I do miss it. Keep posting these fine catches and tight lines my friend.

Great work Vinny no permit sure is nice

Chunky! Not small, by any means... unless you're used to catching 7 pounders!

Both days brought my dad saw Chris beefshamen at ramp on sun headed to middle started w cranks and sashimmy swimmer no taker one blow up on swimmer made it back of lake where they started to boil so switched to 5” fish roller hovering got a small one tried to chase boils in kayak to slow wasted a ...

VinnyBass wrote: Tue Oct 21, 2025 8:35 pm Way to get out there and catch some bass. My father and I used to go fishing a lot when I was a kid.
Treasure all the memories fishing with your father and tight lines always Robert.

Ty Vinny I try not to get frustrated with 2 on yak but yeah we’re out there while he can

Nice! Maybe not another 7 pounder but I bet you’ll get an 8 or 9 pounder. Is that your trusty craw bait?

Got on the lake at 8:30 and off by 1. It was a pretty good BFS day at the Murr. 7 fish all in the two pound range and the biggest going 3.52 lbs.

Early in the day I had some success pitching to the shore. At about mid morning they migrated out between 10-20 feet of water.

I'll share the hot bait ...

Hmmm… June Bug?

Thank for sharing! Great weather in East County today=D

Always great to see you out there Vinny. It was a nice day with good company.