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A few recent trips ended with me having to leave biting fish to get back in as the sun was setting. So on Sunday I packed a strobe light so I'd be legal kicking home in the dark....and the sunset bite never happened. Tons of those little bay anchovies everywhere...and NOTHING chasing them. 5 ...

Dude's a fishing machine.

Carpkiller's Factory sounds pretty high-end.....
Just a redneck on the porch of his double-wide...makin' jigheads...one pink flamingo short of a country song....

I have an idea for a way to add a bill to one of the jigheads that I make. I would need some sort of plastic that's very transparent, and flexible enough to snap into place around the lure's body.

First question is, does anyone here have the capacity to make such a thing...material-wise?

And how ...

...artisanal...

The second best description of a fishery......topped only by this....

“The Carmel is a lovely little river. It isn't very long but in its course it has everything a river should have. It rises in the mountains, and tumbles down a while, runs through shallows, is damned to make a lake, spills over ...

Yeah, whatever.

There are a bunch of spinning and casting rods marked down, and there were a few Shimano Sienna reels for a couple dollars off. But the Lew's rods caught my eye. Especially the 6' 10" Medium action casting rod for ...$18.50.

I do NOT need another casting rod, but these things are ...

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Whole bunch of rods in the 50 to 90 dollar price range...half price...and even lower.
Penn Squadrons, several Ugly Sticks, Berkley Shocks, couple of Ugly Stick Tigers....
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Pro Tip:

Abu Vigilante one piece 7 foot medium action casting rod....a bitchin ...

stolen content....but....maybe a swivel in between?

Found good deals on NRS paddle tops online, back when I was winter- wading in the surf to fish. The anorak style were the least expensive and worked well. But I have a 19 inch neck, so even the xxxl sizes didn't fit well. Just a caveat if you're a bigger guy...

"I have seen people take a lot longer though."

"People" checking in.

I do a lot of layering at the water's edge...and taking stuff out of the bucket and putting it in the right compartment on the tube takes a minute or three. taking the shoulder straps off the tube and stowing them...extending ...

<<Update May 24...the Devils Postpile website says the Red's Meadows Campground will be the only one open this summer. First come, first served. Hmmm...>>



Okay. Snowpack is average which is good.

Construction on the road from Mammoth into the San Joaquin River Valley is continuing. The road's ...

Only got seven spotties, but a nice day on the water.
Three of the bass were decent sized, 13 to 14 inches.
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Didn't to get pics of all of them, but at the end of the day I wish I had, to show the color range. One was brown and white, this one was medium, and the biggest ...

That pic has to be recognized nationally if not globally. Literally a National Geographic moment. That could be the cover photo for the ca dfg

Photographers go out everyday and never catch a photo like that


The video of it went viral on Instagram. Currently over 225K views! I had a ...

Like others have said, moving water is better.
I mostly fish San Diego Bay.
There are lots of tide charts out there; I use Tides4Fishing because I am used to it. And I like seeing a tide graph, which can tell you visually when the water's moving faster....which is a bigger deal for me because I'm ...

South Bay Saturday.

Followed Gotfish around for a while on the Coronado side.

Managed 13 sbb, a short halibut, and the first one of these that I've got on a ScorcherZ tube bait (green).

And this one was much larger than any of the ones I've got on bait.

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Morena can be great...if you hike away from the parking lot and campground.

A friend does pretty well with flies...but I do not. However, you might get a decent not-a-carp if you're soaking bait.

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Took a stroll along a local creek....
Got that pretty bluegill, as well as five small bass.

And bumped four of these out of the brush...

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The bluegill and a couple bass bit a gold Panther Martin. The other bass ate the ever-popular 3 inch bass ...

FB update on the Hubbs white sea bass hatchery releasees.....






Hubbs White Sea bass

These are out in the garden shop....

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If it wasn't perfect for SD bay, they couldn't use this pic on the tag, could they?

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spec sheet

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See the first comment for a sit-on-top that's also marked ...