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I thought with your title, it was off to Sutherland you went.
Nice day catching. It was perfect weather.

Tight lines

Clear lake and Naciemiento never disappoint

Gimme back my baby bass! May seems early for topwater at Murray, but it will just make the season longer. I think maybe you forced them to feed! Yep, dropshot would of extended your day...you're so stubborn!

Always easy to spot Mr. Vinnybass at Murray...

Those are awesome! Actually made for someone missing an arm. You set the hook with your leg. I bought one for a friend who always wanted to fish but lost an arm when he was younger. They even make a one handed knot jig. Pretty cool. Definitely googan status of you have both your arms

The Bud lite ...

Brett...(I just sent you the photos to your email and text so that they are correct and not sideways)
Hey....Nice job up there and a lot more fun than the terrible bite up at Sutherland so far. Good to see you getting back on track.
Tight lines always buddy. :-)


Thanks VinnyBass ! It was great ...

Brett...(I just sent you the photos to your email and text so that they are correct and not sideways)
Hey....Nice job up there and a lot more fun than the terrible bite up at Sutherland so far. Good to see you getting back on track.
Tight lines always buddy. :-)


Thanks Vinny, but the pics on my ...

Great! Thanks Vinny!! Now you can teach me how to do that...hahaha.

You can't tell by the cold, drizzly weather..but the fish told me today! I thought for some reason when I hit San V on Monday morning, that I could take up where I left off two Mondays ago..wrong, wrong, wrong! I started flipping senkos between the brush in 4'-6' of water and soon realized that the ...

Yep those 8-13” thin Senko fish in the trees were the pattern for me a couple weekends ago out there. Stark difference from Cap right now, there’s Bait boiling all over in open water there.

It is always kind of crazy when a pattern works and then you find yourself sticking to it way too long when it doesn't work. You know it is hard not to stick to it as it has worked before and I have found me doing that many times and then switching to something else that works and thinking...geez ...

Great report mcfish,
You always figure them out, sometimes it just takes a minute.
Thanks, for sharing !!!!

It is always kind of crazy when a pattern works and then you find yourself sticking to it way too long when it doesn't work. You know it is hard not to stick to it as it has worked before and I have found me doing that many times and then switching to something else that works and thinking ...

IMG_9567.jpeg Ditto on the nicer fish of two weeks ago replaced by dinks on Sunday. Not all bad as the girl is learning to finesse fish small plastics and was actually out catching me. That is until I first stuffed her and the back of the boat farther in the brush. When that didn’t work, I drifted ...

Decent size Friday crowd on yet another cooler, breezier Late May day. WTH is the warmer weather? Anyway for the 3rd straight Cap trip, I caught a fish on my first cast. I can’t say that’s ever happened before. And then after thinking it will be WFO, it turns out to be anything but and just a slow ...

Sutherland is DEAD! Never seen anything like it! I thought a bunch of rain would rejuvenate the lake but exactly the opposite seems to be true. Every fisherman I talked to (both of them) seemed to have a different explanation but all agreed; the fishing stinks! To top it off the forestry was weed ...

professionull wrote: Sat May 27, 2023 3:20 pm Thanks for the update, I was contemplating giving it another go but now I'll just save myself the discouragement.

Has the water level dropped at all yet?

Water has dropped about a foot. Another 20 feet and I may begin to recognize the lake.

Very frustrating and confusing! The lake looks so good and is fishing so bad!! After fishing it for the last 3 months, it actually seems to be getting worse..if that's possible! I'm not sure the 1'-2' water visibility is helping! In 6 hours, I covered alot of shoreline, flipped a bunch of bushes ...

Same with my local stomping grounds, its been ridiculously tough.....

I was finally able to get out on the boat after a couple month hiatus, so I decided to go to San V. I was surprised to pull up at 5:45 and only see about 11 trailers in the parking lot on Memorial Day weekend.

As I was prepping the boat to launch (cleaning all the cob webs off), I got a chance to ...