San Diego & SoCal Fishing Forums

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 ...

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 ...

Here is a picture of the bait that did most of the damage at Murray yesterday.

It's a Rapala Crush City Ned BLT on a 1/0 EWG hook. The weight is a Nako skirted 1/8 oz.

I like to focus on rocky areas with it, but it's lightweight, and extremely weedless. You can work it over and through grass and ...

It's a great way to add a jig skirt and 1/8 oz weight to a weedless set up.

Dfishin wrote: Fri Oct 10, 2025 7:20 pm No you didn't, we have no secrets now.

I never did

Welcome to your new addiction!

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 ...

All is well folks, just some strained ligaments, and bruised cartilage. Getting some range of motion back in my neck, but it's still a bit painful to raise, and bend my arm. Pretty sure I'll be back at it this week.

Thanks for the well wishes.

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 ...

It's been a year or so since I've thrown this, and yep it still works.

Gamakatsu #2 light wire EWG hook, Zoom tiny Brush Hog in green pumpkin, and a 1/16 oz Nako tungsten bullet weight.

I don't peg the weight and pull it along the bottom and over vegetation giving it frequent little bounces then ...

Right on u caught nicer ones I went feet over head launch ramp at glorietta last week 5am after hearing your story im lucky I’m young and had a lot layers on went to check if it was slippery so as I lifted my foot to feel was flying 😂🎣🤷‍♂️


Glad you are ok, yeah that's pretty much what happened ...

Early release wrote: Wed Oct 22, 2025 4:45 pm Good to see you are back out, are you feeling better from your fall?

Yes... My shoulder is still a bit sore but much better thank you for asking

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

Really nice day at The Cap. Caught perhaps a half dozen clones in the 2 pound range. Also a couple of three pounders. I thought I got pics of both of the threes, but evidently only got one. My old eyes aren't what they used to be it seems.

I also met Ron AKA Bonecrusher and had a real nice chat ...

robert_smith wrote: Sat Oct 25, 2025 8:04 am Good job Dan did u get most on top or jig I’m going tomm sun like usual

I was mostly jig fishing. The dinks seem to be on top, but not many busters.

I'm currently designing a bowsprit for the float tube. Next time we'll see who the real Bonecrusher is. After that I'll be installing laser guided catapults for any of the rest of you jokers who consider getting in my way, (as soon as I get rid of the neck brace from my most recent catastrophic tube ...

I bet the bluegill fought harder than that little bass huh? Nice!

Nice Chris! I hope they fix all the lakes.

Beautiful Brown. Growing up in Colorado I miss fishing for big browns and lake trout. Great catch!

Carpkiller wrote: Thu Oct 09, 2025 9:37 pm Beauty, eh.

Why didn't you just lip him?

..................

Teeth, that's why lol