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BeatTheSkunk wrote: Tue Nov 28, 2023 9:55 pm Yup! I think this is my spot too. I just pulled a lipless crank and a chatterbait from the tulies. By chance were those evidence of your presence?

The crankbait is (was) mine...

I’ve seen guys jump in dead winter and retrieve swim baits. Myself included.

I’ve also seen a guy at Loveland strip down and swim out to retrieve a $3 lure.

I wonder if all the el cap draining created cold tailwater flow that drew it in? Combine that with a salmon whose navigation is busted, seems crazy but I suppose it's feasible.

I have my serious doubts about the salmon. I've only seen one pic, and it's poor quality. I would imagine it would have receive a lot of more attention if true. Heck, I saw dead carp a few months ago when O2 levels dropped.

That salmon’s skin has that dry, shine look to it. Like it wasn’t quickly caught, photo’d and released

I am going to sound like a negative Nancy here.....but here are some things in the WON story that to me seem strange.
He said he had only a 20 minute window to fish, before going to work. OK...yet there is a float tube there and it
just seems illogical to take that out, try to get it out ...

@VinnyBass On the History Channel there is a show called "the Proof is Out There". Where experts look at videos and pictures of UFO's and bigfoots to see if there real. That sounds like your next job.

I’m pretty sure I know one of the posts you’re referring to from the old site. Last year or maybe even last spring. I never said anything but almost left a comment. All the “different” fish and the same unique marking. Thinking it was Perris or Elsinore

There's always some animal where it doesn't belong...flamingos and turtles in San Diego bay...


While I don't believe the salmon story because of my own experience and the lack of evidence provided, you're right in that stranger things have occurred. Sea turtles have been documented in the San ...

Mr. Vinnybass sent me this photo, claiming he caught it in the S.D. River..but his net was too small to land it! I'm not saying it didn't happen...but I think he just played it poorly...! Probably caught it on a Tokyo rig and didn't get a good hookset..

They were on Facebook. I downloaded them to post here.
I feel kinda dirty posting someone else's pictures

Still, was it alive and caught or floating and snagged? Looks rough. Maybe someone bought it with intent to cut and eat It spoiled and they dumped it in the river as a prank? If it’s the real deal, very wild

I came across this report. Wanted to share.

https://wonews.com/double-digit-largemouth-weighed-in-tournament-at-lower-otay/

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BY MIKE STEVENS

CHULA VISTA— Despite the obvious presence of active bass at Lower Otay Reservoir, fishing seems to be up on one day ...

That thing looks more than beat up. That thing looks dead. And as someone mentioned before in this thread, that generation is obsessed with videos! They're posting videos of the food they ate earlier in the day on social media.

The fact that there is no video is a bit sketchy, considering that it ...

If that fish isn't dead it must of swallowed a few bags of meth washed out of a homeless encampment.. that or it's the start of the zombie invasion...

You can say that again! ;/)

I do know that there have, on rare occasions, been salmon caught on local sport boats. Haven’t heard of any in recent years and they are extremely rare but I wouldn’t say it is impossible for a stray fish to make its way into the river. By the looks of that fish it looks to be pretty close to the ...

The second pic where the head is on the bag in the water is probably exactly how they found it

Moose wrote: Fri Dec 01, 2023 3:32 pm Now a days it’s also the bummer about fishing, you never really know the true story unless you were there and there are too many bogus stories out there so everyone is very skeptical when stories like this pop up

Pretty sure it's been like this since the beginning of fishing.