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My thumb was finally dripping bright red blood, and yet I was smiling ear to ear, having just released my PB Spot. It kicked my ass like if I owed it money, ripping drag from my still-new-to-me Stradic 2500S in a tug-of ...

We were crawling back home north on the 5, tail between our legs, dodging the usual San Diego Driving Academy graduates. You know the ones. Dudes trailering boats in the fast lane, brake-checkers, and guys doing 40 while FaceTiming and eating Carne Asada Fries. We were heading back from San Vicente ...

Orange County seems to be very anti-fishing. In the last few years they took Float Tubing and Kayaking completely away from us in the freshwater lakes. We have plenty of water. Siphon, Rattlesnake, Oso, Laguna, Irvine, Peters Canyon, Santa Ana River Lakes. No Tubes or Kayaks. Now, vandals broke into ...

It’s my “Back Yard”. You ever want to go, I’ve got an extra Hobie Float Tube. So much less walking! We launch at half tide, let the current float us along the docks, take 5 at the peak, let the current wash us back to the get out spot. Then we eat because there is no better food than after Tubing ...

Ya Butch, you sit in a comfortable seat, out of the water, and cast to the most awesome spots, where you just know you re going to get bit. We don’t wear waders in the Summer, just a pair of old shoes and some strap on fins. Catch some fish, and leave when you are done. Don’t get me wrong, launching ...

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Hit the Newport Coastline this morning with my young friend Jake and his buddy Landon. We were to meet at the spot at 6 am. I got there early and filled a bait bucket with Sand Crabs with quite a few Softies, maybe due to the Full Moon period. I threw my first cast at 6 am and was on a nice Corbina ...

There’s still signs of life, but it may be awhile until it gets back to what it was.

Hit the Harbor in my Float tube on the smaller of the two Tides today. Got in the water at 7 am across the Bay from the Coast Guard Dock. It started off slow, I kicked against an almost non existent incoming Tide down to the Big Public dock and hit a school of medium grade Sand Bass landing 6 on six ...

I was fishing the inside troughs, the Surf itself was 2-3 foot but hardly impacted the area I fished, There was some surge up and down the face of the Beach. One time it shot up my leg and I got wetter than I thought I would. That only impacted me when I sat down on the steel auditorium chairs at ...

Late post, been rebuilding my Skiff from the ground up. For the last week I’ve completed 101 tasks no one will ever see, got stuck halfway in, under the forward floor, in between the two fish holds for about 20 thrilling minutes. Panic kills! Eventually but not without a major scratch and some ...

Another Trip to Canyon Lake. I have been fishing Newport Harbor quite a bit. Easy and close to home. Still I miss the Topwater Bite enough to again, get up at 3:30 am, on the Jump Lagoon by 5:30 am, first Bass, minutes later. All in all a better Topwater trip this time. I had 7 landed by the time ...

Hit Canyon on the Tube this morning, for the first time in a while. it was nice and cool and the water temperature had dropped from a month ago. I Launched next to the Ramp by the Fire Station at 6:15 am. Starting up the rocky cliffs of the Ski Lake, I was bouncing a 1/8oz. Jighead with a ZMan Trout ...

We hit up DVL last Saturday. After dragging a trolling motor and heavy lead battery down the launch ramp, we got on our rental and proceeded to have a ball.

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