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Took a little trip down to my favorite body of water this morning, 9/10.

The conditions were kind of uncanny when I arrived at first light. Dead calm, overcast. Seems like an invitation to throw topwater, right? Wrong! Threw a variety of topwater baits and a few subsurface options with nary a bite ...

nice write up Sir

Hell yea!!!!!

After Labor Day, Miramar closed to watercraft(bummer...I was having fun up there), so I made a return back to Murray. After a couple trips I found that bass are still feeding on shad and there are some busting fish here and there at random times. I spent 95% of my timejust cruising around looking ...

That black dot on the KM fools 'em every time! Gotta get me one of those...felt pens!
Nice job Vinny!

Nice one! That is a Summertime El Cap fish (XL sized) through and through.

We should start a post, "Guess what lake this fish was caught in?". Only show the fish and not the background.
If VinnyBass posts one, just guess Murray and you have an 80% chance of being right=)😂🤣 JK, wish I got to fish ...

Nice one! That is a Summertime El Cap fish (XL sized) through and through.

We should start a post, "Guess what lake this fish was caught in?". Only show the fish and not the background.
If VinnyBass posts one, just guess Murray and you have an 80% chance of being right=)😂🤣 JK, wish I got to ...

B61FE27C-14C5-429C-A4FA-ECC4C2CB1C38.jpeg This evening it was all about a couple of my fave JDM bluegill profile soft plastics on the free rig. Tons of little bluegill in the water up shallow and as soon as the sun got low they were smashing these baits. Nothing big tonight, bunch of clones ...

Used to fish there all the time years ago......but usually rented a boat(the best days was when you could bring your own trolling motor...ha ha). I Have gone up a handful of times just to mess around from shore but not recently. When I did fish from shore I caught fish over at Jump off point. Most ...

I personally have zero issues bait fishing. If you you wanna have a great day with a lot heavy fish. Stitch Dads.part of the fun is making the bait. There’s just as much technique involved as stitching a worm.

With my favorite local body of water holding a two day tourney for the weekend I decided to change up the routine and forego my normal Sunday AM trip in favor of hitting the desert canals.

Day started off great with my first Smallie catch ever on a crankbait. Got two dink largies on the same crank ...

Pretty sure those are all smallmouth. Even better!


Yeah looking at those pics, mouth doesn’t go past the back of the eye on any of those fish… I just registered “largies” for the green ones cause I expect a brown fish with the facial markings but I guess that doesn’t have to be the case ...

Just a short update that after some recent trips to Murray.....there are still plenty of small bass reacting to reaction baits.
While it is always nice to catch a healthy bass, it has still been fun trying different baits to catch these little buggers.
At least they are hungry.....ha ha. :-)
Just a ...

I spy an A-rig fish in there!

CorsoEnthusiast wrote: Mon Sep 25, 2023 8:56 pm I spy an A-rig fish in there!

Yep.....Did not throw it too long, but had one come off on the jump with the A-Rig, but landed that guy.
Will try to throw it more in the winter months down in deep water.

Not been back? Otay like Sutherland, dead in the water?

Here's a 12 incher I got from Hodges this time of year several years ago. I caught it on a "glide" cough cough hahaha It was never weighed or measured, just a pic and released. The hatch lid is 18" so you can assume the length.


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Here's my Hodges comparison hahah
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Mcfish wrote: Sat Sep 23, 2023 3:31 pm Post it! Some of the biggest bass in the 60s-80s were caught with live or cut bait. Some were caught with trout power bait!

Some were caught with trout power bait...inside the trout!

professionull wrote: Wed Sep 27, 2023 4:37 pm Here's a Poway lake special;
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White treble hook?

Night Bass, this one from Lake Martinez. All the Colorado River Lakes are fishable all night.