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Hey All, Just wanted to post a friendly reminder about covering up and using sunscreen, especially you younger guys.

This past Friday I had to have, what was thought to be, a dime sized spot of skin cancer removed from the left side of my forehead. Well once they started to remove it they found ...

Welp, summer has come to a close up on the high prairie and soon all the trout will start getting active for the winter. It definitely has been a slow summer, as we had a dry-ish winter up here, and a lot of the reservoirs had more water drained out of them than water flowing in. I caught a few ...

....and Tight Lines of course!

Some opinions/observations about lures:
1. I see statements made all over the Internet that a certain lure works because it resembles such and such a bait that fish feed on. This is usually nonsense. Plastic worms work but bass do not normally feed on earth worms and they do not look like minnows. A ...

It's a shame we don't have drive ins anymore. There's a few left in MA but I don't know if there's any out here.

With hardly any new posts lately, I decided to try to stir up things up a little.
I normally would not do this, but just felt that hopefully this post may inspire some
of you to PLEASE share some of your fun catches in 2025.

While none of my bass broke the 10lb range(what's new?),
I did catch 3 ...

A few pics

Here is a few of mine...

My first corbina, in my first year of surf fishing.

I went through and picked out some of my favorites from the year. This was my second year back in the game after years out, and at times it felt a little foolish trying to do a bit of everything. It felt a bit like whack-a-mole trying to keep up with the surf, the lagoons, and freshwater but the ...

Only 5 I got this year was an early season mama out of shallow water in a mountain lake. She ate an 8 inch senko though!

Even the Birds are on them.

It's hard to compete with the famed Mr.Vinnybass...but here are a few of my favorites from 2025! My big fish for the year was an 8.2, I'll see if I can improve on that this year! Vinny says that's impossible with all the finesse stuff I throw!

Perch tacos.

Flour, egg wash, Japanese panko.

Fresh cabbage, red onion, tomato, lime juice, salt and pepper pepper.

Sour cream/crema, mayo, chipotle in adobo.

Took a little trip out East to the land of the Canals today for an afternoon session.

Had a blast! When it’s good out there, it’s just so much fun.

Managed 10 or so largemouth and a couple smallmouth, including my first 2+ (don’t laugh, I’d never caught a Smallie until a few months ago lol) and ...

I just put this clip together guys. These are my personal favorite areas for freshwater fishing in Ca I have personally visited. I fish Bass probably 90 percent of the time but enjoy all types of fishing. I based this list on this......Cost? Lodging availability? Things to see and do? Great fishing ...

HK_Supermarket wrote: Sat Jul 01, 2023 3:31 pmWent on lots of hikes and gave tenkara fishing a try. Now I'm hooked to fly fishing too!

As the saying goes, "Trout don't live in ugly places."

San Gabriel Mountains South Fork Trout action( video). With all the recent rains this year, this area should be prime for a fall trip and its only around 2 hours away Off I-210. Back when I did this trip, I managed 5 or 6 in a few hour session all on Berkely Power worms. It would also make for a ...

Many campground closed due to swampy conditions.
My jam is flicking spinners in little creeks. High, fast water limits presentation in most spots. Gonna hit parts of the San Joaquin tomorrow. Gonna have to be past the summit by 7 am to avoid the shuttle. The road to the postpile is open but the ...

Same Jam here! From Onion Valley trail head campground.