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Thank you sir! Appreciate it. Thankfully it was my left shoulder and I am VERY right handed!

Like you, I can normally find a really good deep D shot bite this time of year. I worked from just outside the brush out to 40’ and couldn’t even generate a bite. Definitely a different bite compared to years past.

Today was a totally different day from Monday. Not nearly the amount of fish busting shad in the bushes but there were still some sporadic boils. Fished from 6:30- 3pm. Not a lot of bites but the quality was good. Ended up with 9 in the boat. Best 5 went 14 1/2 lbs. Things were totally backwards ...

What is the one bait you turn to when you just need to get a bite? For me it’s either a 4” Senko T rigged weightless or it’s the old school Fluttercraft worm on a drop shot. I feel like I can always buy a few bites on one of those two baits. What’s yours?

A couple of Winter/Springs ago I could not buy a bite until I put one of these on. I actually got 36 fish( and I swear I am not exaggerating that number) during one trip to San V during an early spring trip on those worms dropshotted. Nothing big but lots of fun 2lb fish.

It’s funny you say that. Back in my tournament days I had a backseater, who was a really good friend of mine, beat my butt at Otay throwing a drop shot. It was the only time he ever threw it because he didn’t like fishing it even though he caught fish doing it!! I guess we are a weird bunch!

Slow day for me today. There was absolutely NO breeze today which made it really tough to get bit once the sun got high. Managed 3 early fish on Flukes with the biggest going 4.36. Best fish I’ve gotten out of there in a while. Caught it in about 6” of water busting shad. Definitely less fish in the ...

Fisheromen wrote: Tue Dec 12, 2023 12:34 pm When a fish looks big with you holding it, it is a nice fish!

lol! That’s pretty true!

Search EBay for them but, shhhh don’t tell anyone!

Nice fish!

Headed out to San V yesterday all geared up and ready for a rainy, windy, overcast day only to find blue skies and no wind ☹️ Ran to Barona and immediately had fish breaking in the bushes and just outside of them. Missed 4 fish on a small fluke, including one that sharked it from about 40’ away all ...

The chocolate/ blue vein worm. Still one of my main colors. Works in any lake and any water clarity. Absolutely love throwing a crawdad color lipless crankbait from now through the spawn!

Been getting tougher by the day. Fish in the bushes will eat if you can get a bait to them I time. If the wind comes up at all the dropshot bite is there in deeper water (20-50’). Have fished jigs, C rigs, and bigger worms deep with no love.

Son and I flipped a coin and it came up Murray, so we headed out not knowing anything really since I haven’t fished it since early spring. Started out throwing my trusty crawdad Red Eye shad and about 4 casts into the morning my bait got clobbered. Turned out to be about a 2lb trout. Certainly didn ...

Looks like last week and they are supposed to plant again this week sometime, according to the DFG website

VinnyBass wrote: Wed Dec 27, 2023 2:13 pm

blackcloud9 wrote: Wed Dec 27, 2023 9:26 am

Moose wrote: Tue Dec 26, 2023 2:55 pm Son and I flipped a coin and it came up Murray, so ...

SD Lakes Wheel of Fortune. If the lake is closed, then you MUST fish the salt that day!!
https://pickerwheel.com/?id=MmKkS

I remember that wheel from the old SDFish. Love it!

That’s awesome!

My son and I hit San V today for one last trip before he heads back to Montana. After the bust that Murray was Tuesday I was looking forward to San V today.

No busters to speak of except for the occasional single in the bushes. We ended the day with 9 combined. Very happy to say my boy out fished ...

Healthy looking fish! Nice job!

Definitely have to grind for the bites. Nice work!

Got on the water a little later than usual this morning, launching at about 8:30 with the air temp a crisp 32. Made for a very cold first run! Ended the day with 7 with the biggest only 1.68lbs. Don’t take any pictures because I was pulling them up from 55-60ft so it was unhook and get them back in ...