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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 ...

Glad you got on them, heard it's been fishing well.

@Oh Da Shiz that's awesome!
My son and I were there yesterday and got completely skunked. We were throwing all kinds of topwater then switched to dropshot and then to ned rigs and nothing. Not a single bite in 3.5 hours. It sucked but at least we've had some good father-son time on the water

So great to see you back on the water again.
Father and son time fishing together always is special. I can still think of all the times my father
took me fishing and great memories we shared together. Anyway best wishes and tight lines always. :-)


He started liking it too, I'm surprised! :D ...

Nice fish!

Smartphone pic? Way over saturated and when I look at a luminescence and color channel histograms for the image they show big spike on both the left and right side. Looks like something the computational enhancements stuff built into phone cams over the last few years would do (yea I'm ...

My local lake has the same problem. I believe there was just too much Fertilizer washed into these lakes. The Algae blooms in the daytime but sucks Oxygen out of the water at night. Low Oxygen slows the Bass way down and more or less shuts them down. We are putting our offerings on the Fish but ...

The past week was the typical shore pounding results this year. You catch a few fish here and there and in low numbers. I went to San Vicente, Poway, and Sweets. If you want a free shower, hit the lake trails at Poway. The grass and weeds are nice and thick you will be soaked in seconds with May ...

I started at about 6:30am and left at 8:30am and ended up with 6 from the bank. 4 were the smaller 1-2lb like you caught then I got a spawned out lethargic 7-8lber and then a 5lber that was healthy but I had to bail for work.

[Lake Hodges 2023 Re-Opener @chrisbrandtthebeefshaman9590
https://youtu.be/PI1Xcsmmngg
Hey all so glad to be posting this! Got to the gate around 4:40 and was #10 in line. When the gate opened everyone in front of me went to the concession area and I went straight to the vending machine for my ...

Made the trek up to Hodges today. Currently exploring the shoreline pretty fast to find spots for next week. Not a bad start

Got to the lake at 4:40 am and was about 10th in line. I went around all the cars that stopped to go to concession to buy permits and straight to permit machine and had front row parking at the launch. Was on the puddle by 5;45 and kicked across and started throwing my finesse jigs. Got a couple ...

20230605_092419.jpg June gloom..just what the fish ordered! Water temp 70-73, air temp not that nice! A stiff breeze blowing most of the day. I got on a solid pattern right from the start, working a dropshot in 15'-20', off steeper banks with rocks! I brought 23 fish to the boat, not counting a few ...

Fun Day for Sure. Love the June Gloom on the lakes=)

Nice! I would have run out of hooks, not to mention baits!

Killing it...
Water looks stained / green compared to the San V I remember...?
am I mistaken?

Barrett report, right?

Nice..5.35 on a frog! Rods, don't make them like they use to...some of my favorites are 30-40 years old and still ticking!