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Sometimes it’s fun just to hit a lake like that for a few hours. I used to do that years ago. I’ll drive out to El Cap after work and just fish from the shore to the right of the boat dock. Catch a few bass, then afterwards stop by the Taco shop to grab a bite to eat, and head home. It was a long ...

Memories fishing are priceless,
Stay after them , things change fast. Next trip its winner winner chicken dinner.
Vinny , always finds the positive of a trip, we always keep learning.
I like the taco theme .

Tight lines

I said last week that it seemed the bite at Sutherland was stirring. That judgment was premature! The bite, it seems, is again cold as ice. At least it appears that way to me and a couple of friends who will remain nameless unless they choose to chime in. Between us we caught 4 fish. Overcast early ...

It was so exciting as I prepped my fishing gear days before my trip and was pretty confident it was going to be some great fishing despite the long drive up the lake. Besides a selection of proven worms, I carefully packed every bait that had been successful over the years and the whole drive there ...

When o when will that lake turn back on. Glad to know the shad were spawning, sounds like a spinnerbait will start to work again early in the morning. At least you caught something, no fun getting skunked. I went twice last month and only got two bites, one of which was in the parking lot.

Rented a boat at San V today and a fellow SDFisher joined me for the morning. Some froggy looking water but no bites on either the frog or the buzzbait. Water is pea green soup from the grass scum - not just the surface, it’s throughout the water column in places.

Plastics were the goods again ...

Manually filling the live wells?

Hit San V avoiding the tournaments at El Cap all weekend. 21 caught and released before 10am. Was sunny and warm as we left. Small plastics split shot were the ticket for us.

SDFish is back and Vinny Bass is still a Slayer. All is as it should be. I been doing the same….

Dima wrote: Sun May 14, 2023 4:44 pm Is the water in San V always that green during warmer months?

Algae in the water is pretty noticeable year round but when the water heats up it blooms and creates a 1-3 foot deep blanket on the surface

The scum from that algae on the surface in the backs of some of the coves looks really froggy but at least yesterday they were not chasing topwater at all. Threw the frog and the buzzbait but didn’t get any bites. I almost can’t remember what it’s like catching fish on a Baitcasting rig since all my ...

Can't be Vinnybass, he doesn't smoke!

On second thought, it could be Vinny and the cigarette is a disguise! Crafty one, that Vinnybass!

Postponed a cool windy Friday for a warm sunny Tuesday at El Cap…WRONG! This winter that won’t let go had the lake chilly and white capping by 10am today. It probably slowed whats been a decent bite but seeing the shad along the shoreline pushed us to throw spinnerbaits, jerkbaits, and flukes over ...

Postponed a cool windy Friday for a warm sunny Tuesday at El Cap…WRONG! This winter that won’t let go had the lake chilly and white capping by 10am today. It probably slowed whats been a decent bite but seeing the shad along the shoreline pushed us to throw spinnerbaits, jerkbaits, and flukes over ...

I have had some tough trips this year to Murray where I worked hard just to catch a couple bass(thank you for lowering, then raising the water, then lowering and then raising it a little etc, etc., etc.) Anyway...My last trip in the beginning of May showed a little sign of improvement. This morning ...

Just a couple more.....
So sad....up and down water levels... My biggest.....4.25lbs

When I got up this morning, the first thought I had was this is a fish catching day. Now I know who. Nice report.

It surprised me….as Murray can be very temperamental. There’s countless numbers of times where one day the bite is on and then a couple days later everything shuts off. I struggled more than a few times this year just to get couple bass. My last trip in early May was fun but you really never know ...

Excellent! Glad to hear you guys had a good day.