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With rain in the forecast and things I need to do around the house, I figured I better get some fishing in today otherwise I will have to wait till next week. Chatted with Dannicus in the parking lot before launching and told him I want to try some different baits in deep water today. Then it was ...

After a good year of re-learning the game after about 20 years out, I decided to take the spotty skills I’ve built up to a small local lake before (and during) the storm this week. With almost no largemouth experience as a kid, I was hoping the time I’ve spent consuming YouTube, SDFish and other ...

With the recent warm weather, I just figured the bass should be moving in tighter to shore. Hit the water a little after 8, and flipped
the tulles and outside of tulles in shallow water with plastic worms, craw and creature baits. So much for the bass being in tighter
as I worked those areas hard ...

I've been off the water prior to today for for a couple of weeks. Amid some other challenges I've also been shopping for a new economical vehicle. The near daily drives from Jamul or Descanso in a heavy duty diesel pickup truck(which I need to pull my travel trailer) were killing me. I settled on a ...

Gotfish? wrote: Thu Feb 27, 2025 5:53 am Where are those quagga mussels when we need them? I thought they were supposed to suck up all the nutrients and algae.

Mussels are about as lazy as a creature can get.

Quaggas (and soon to be golden mussels) actually make cyanobacterial (blue-green algae) blooms worse.

After having been focused on El Cap the last couple of weekends, I decided to hit Otay this morning despite the algae warnings. With my January trip up there being a skunk my goal today was to get my first Otay bass of 2025. I met up with Dannicus at first light and that first Otay bass of 25 didn't ...

With rain in the forecast the next 3 days, I decided to get a little fishing in this morning. Was trying to make a decision to fish mostly
shallow or maybe just deep.....so I fished both. I mixed it up in deep water with blades and spoons and despite not finding the huge
schools of shad like in ...

Is this the famous pre spawn bite I read about? When does spawn start?


While there are some bass in shallow water as part of a pre-spawn, I think it will be a few more weeks before it is
more of a full swing. Each lake is a little different but some warm weather can help speed things up a ...

Gotfish? wrote: Wed Mar 05, 2025 5:31 pm Is this the famous pre spawn bite I read about? When does spawn start?

I am catching some bass off of beds right now at Murray.

The wife got a couple extra days off this week so we headed up to Menifee, my little aluminum boat trailing us. Tuesday afternoon shift at Perris where I did pretty good in the spring a year ago. Found out it was too early still, the water only got up to 55°. 10° cooler than where I was fishing Otay ...

It's stocking day at Probation Pond, and the locals couldn't be happier, as the ramp was loaded with anxious individuals ready to score a stocker, or 12.

https://i.ibb.co/rf1CQbJH/Pondage.jpg
(DRAMATIZATION)

I saw the Merry Men of Sherwood at the outskirts of the mayhem, so I wandered on over ...

When did they realize they were hooked onto each other's line? When the lines came completely out of the water?


Pretty much.

The dude next to us was saying, "he's about to jump! he's about to jump!" and kept sticking his 'pole' in the water to prevent the beast from jumping.

One time at DVL ...

I'm gonna start yelling "get the net" every time my jig gets hung on rocks. Nevermind that I am out fishing solo on my float tube. I just think it'll be funny, some old guy floundering around, fins in the air, yelling GET THE NET to no one in particular.

Water is still pretty green but clearing some. Water temp was 61 where I was.

Water is still pretty green but clearing some. Water temp was 61 where I was.

How deep is the water at the edge of the tules?
Is the water just green or do you bring gobs of snotty algae back with every drag of the jig?
Thanks in advance.


I wasn't bringing back too much elephant snot but I ...

Monday and Tuesday at Murray were pretty blah. A couple of clones each day, and I had to work hard to get 'em. That changed in a big way today.

I got on the water at 8 am, and decided to head to Alvarado Bay. Deep in the cove the bass were going ape $hit chasing giant schools of shad, and busting ...

Woke up this morning and there was a light rain. I wanted to go fishing, but just sat there drinking coffee. But even though it was a late morning start, I grabbed some rain gear and headed down to the SD River. I figured I could rough it for a few hours as it was not pouring or anything.
The water ...

I woke up early this morning with plans on fishing Otay. I poked my head outside, and it was wet and cold, so I almost wimped out.

I'm glad I sucked it up though, because I ended up with a 26 fish day! Granted, most were clones and a few drinks, but catching numerous fish on consecutive casts is ...

I haven’t been throwing the Tokyo rig too much at Lake Murray, but I have used it at the river off and on and that is what I used today with the brush hog.
I usually rig the Junebug colored brush hog Texas style with a little sinker stop not far from the weight. I think most of my bigger fish last ...

Omar, the resident high school dropout, was whizzing past on his 3 thousand dollar scooter just as I was releasing another chunky 2 pounder back into the aquamarine colored pond. He stopped to chat and get the juice.

https://i.ibb.co/jkR5QSb9/20250319-153158.jpg

"Did you catched one?"

"Naw ...