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Hey guys, I'm new to this forum, so I thought I'd post a couple of pics from my trip to Hodges reservoir last Saturday. I caught 7 fish total. 1 early frog fish, 1 on a jig, a couple on Senkos, and the rest on 7" dropshot robowoworms. Anyway, glad to be here on the forum. Dan 20230805_112009.jp...

Another great morning with 13 quality bass including these jig and Senko fish. I finally figured out how to embed a video

I've thought about fishing Sutherland, but I fish exclusively out of a float tube (living full time in an RV in my retirement it works for me!). I drove by the lake in early spring and it was windy, and I had no idea how I'd approach it, so I put it on the back burner. I see you fish Murray quite a ...

Thanks guys. Sorry about the post updates, it took me a while to figure out how to embed the videos.

Awesome! Really nice catches! I'd like to float tube San V again. It's been years!

I went fishing mid-week at Murray last Wed. (retirement rocks). I caught 6 bucket mouths total all quality bass. 2 were on the flats with a roboworm on a dropshot. All the rest were caught working the edges of tules with jigs and Senkos. All in all, a great day on a lake who's water is finally raisi...

was fishing an underspin and landed a few 2 pound largemouths when suddenly something slammed my lure and bent my medium heavy rod over and started peeling drag.  Turned out that a 15.2 pound catfish thought the swimbait looked tasty as well!

It was! Pulled me around in the float tube for a while.

Had a great time on Lake Murray today. The big schools of bass are starting to break up. I caught 6 like this working the edges of tullies with jigs and Senkos.

Today was ultralight day with a seven and a half foot Diawa Presso, and 1/16th oz ball head jigs. I paired the tiny jig heads with 2.5 inch mini swimbaits. I caught 6 nice bass in the the 2-3 pound range and a Crappie. So much fun on ultralight gear. So much so I am thinking of springing for a quali...

It was fun to see @vinnybass at Murray on last Thursday. I caught a few along the tullies.

Spent the morning in Mission Bay. It was the best morning in recent memory. I lost count after 15 spotties. A couple over legal size but mostly small. Still a ton of fun.

I have become a big fan of BFS fishing. There’s a lot of stuff available out there now at most any price point. I’m using a Megabass Triza Aello rod, a true 0 power UL that will throw baits as light as 1/32oz. My reel is a Daiwa Silver Creek Air Stream Custom. It makes even smaller fish a ton of fu...

Ultra light bait caster is quite fun for crappie especially float tubing. You don’t really need a super long rod about 5-6’ should handle nicely. Line choice 6-8lb quality braid should be fine with multi species setup but ultimately for pure distance I go with nano braid or Nanofil line. The proble...

That looks like an excellent setup. I love ultralight fishing, but to be honest I really don't like spinning reels. Especially on ultralights. I am fishing 6 lb. Braid to 4 (or sometimes even 2 lb.) flouro carbon leader, and I am constantly having to fight line twist. Yesterday I had to cut out abo...

Went ultralight fishing again at Otay. Caught a dozen or so small bass, but the highlight was seven large bluegill, all in the 2 to 2.5 pound range. Fish tacos here I come.

Those are some great bluegills. What did you catch them on? I have a simple Garmin Striker 4 on my float tube, but I wasn't really actively targeting them with it. Not like the guys with forward facing sonar anyway. I was out-fishing all of them by the way. They were hover strolling and vertical sp...

Very nice it sounds like you had tons of fun out there, THANK YOU for the report and sure you'll enjoy those tacos! I'm glad most people would rather fish for bass. I found schools of gills from my kayak in 20' off the main lake flats at El Cap on Saturday. Not big ones but fun size on light gear a...

It has been a weird year. I've caught only a 3 over 5lb. Bass the entire year and I've been fishing a LOT.

I am saving my entire year (volume-wise anyway), by fishing more ultralight gear and baits. Nothing huge but at least catching a lot of fish.

I fished Murray yesterday for Bass and it was a slog. Five hours to drum up a few dinks. I had so much fun at Otay last weekend I decided to go back to Murray today with ultralight gear and hooked up with a mess of really nice fat Bluegills. I am really getting hooked on ultralight fishing. https://...