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Had a great time at El Capitan today. 9 fish in total. I threw my new Berkeley Triple Minnow rig for a while, and got no bites, but to be fair, I really need to put in some time learning to fish it. It does look good in the water.

All 9 fish came on a NED bait on a 1/8 oz jig. They liked it when I ...

Hi all,

Had a couple interesting days on the water this weekend. Got out to El Cap yesterday, and had a quick session on Miramar this morning where I got into a good one. Reports below:

El Cap (1/17): Showed up to a line at the gate again this morning. My first thought: not again! Last time this ...

I was heading out to Home Depot and decided to take a rod and make a few casts at the river. I got to a spot where I fish and tulles and debris filled the area so I just had to flip in little openings. I was surprised when my Senko twitched. I quickly set the hook and landed this bass. A good way to ...

Caught this 7.25lb bass from shore this morning on a trout swimbait.
McFish says to never tell where..... but he already guessed where. Smart guy!

It’s pretty fun down there right now if you’re in a kayak or a float tube. Fish up shallow - everything I caught was in 8’ or less of water. Had most of my success on the Neko, seemed like there were quite a few on a moving bait bite early too. Saturday was better than Sunday. Water temp once the ...

Fun day at Otay yesterday. The weather was beautiful and the water temp was 58. My final count was 11, nothing huge, but fun anyway.

Most came on a jig, or Ned bait with a couple of underspin fish thrown in for fun. Basically I worked the banks and points all along between the boat launch down to ...

Been since the fall since I’ve fished freshwater the launch ramp is Mudd but a guy launched a boat by himself left of the docks seems like hard ground was a good size aluminum I fished 3” craw osp on rockpile I had always done well in past got bit after 10 mins knew they were there so I spent couple ...

Had a pretty good day at El Cap, final count was 7, all jig and worm fish, but nothing big.

That will be my last trip to The Captain until they raise the water some. I got completely stuck in the mud trying to launch and wrenched both my old arthritic knees trying to get out. Our wonderful lakes ...

Had a really good BFS day at the Murr. Final count was 24. The largest was just under 4 lbs. Most were in the 2-3 pound range, with a few dinks scattered in there. Even the short fish were pretty weighty with bellies bulging from shad.

The best part was that the first 11 bass were all on top water ...

Heard there were busters so off I went. Nothing busting, then Dan (Dannicus) showed up and flipped a switch. They were on big balls of bait. I watch Dan catch them on top water. I was throwing a flash J, topwater, my first was my biggest 4.19lbs. I took some pics of what was going on under the water ...

I got the opportunity to fish the second annual EMAS charity event hosted by our very own Chris Brandt, AKA The Beef Shaman, AKA Pourboy at Barrett.

The lake was in great shape, and people were posting the usual awesome Barrett numbers. I only got 30 myself, but I managed to find a larger fish ...

Made I way around Utah not much fishing but did hit strawberry reservoir and provo river for a few. Strawberry was hoping for some cutthroat, only rainbows. Could catch them all day if you wanted, nothing big. Weather got cold and rainy with snow not to far off. Went to provo river resort camping ...

Just thought I would share another cat I caught at Murray while fishing for bass on a spoon. This one weighed right around 7 1/2lbs. I thought it was a bass at first, but then the way it was fighting knew it was probably a cat. Anyway....it was a fun fight on a light rod with 8lb fluoro.

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Just a pic of my third cat I have caught while fishing for bass at Lake Murray. This one gobbled up a brush hog. It took about 20 seconds
as I was thinking it was a nice bass, but soon realized it was probably a cat. This was the smallest of the 3 and weighed 6.75lbs.
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Those are some great bluegills. What did you catch them on?


I have a simple Garmin Striker 4 on my float tube, but I wasn't really actively targeting them with it. Not like the guys with forward facing sonar anyway. I was out-fishing all of them by the way. They were hover strolling and ...

Very nice it sounds like you had tons of fun out there, THANK YOU for the report and sure you'll enjoy those tacos! I'm glad most people would rather fish for bass. I found schools of gills from my kayak in 20' off the main lake flats at El Cap on Saturday. Not big ones but fun size on light gear ...

Very nice it sounds like you had tons of fun out there, THANK YOU for the report and sure you'll enjoy those tacos! I'm glad most people would rather fish for bass. I found schools of gills from my kayak in 20' off the main lake flats at El Cap on Saturday. Not big ones but fun size on light gear ...

I fished Murray yesterday for Bass and it was a slog. Five hours to drum up a few dinks. I had so much fun at Otay last weekend I decided to go back to Murray today with ultralight gear and hooked up with a mess of really nice fat Bluegills.

I am really getting hooked on ultralight fishing.
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My last day of fishing for 2023 was awesome. Landed 10 huge Bluegills in a couple of hours. I was pulling a 2" sinking twitch bait and for a while-getting bit on every cast!
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Arrived about 6:15 to a lite crowd.
Started beautiful, then came the fog and wind for a while.
That blew thru and become super nice.
Checked a couple spots for nothing, then found a brush pile loaded with bluegill. Caught 25 released 8 smaller ones.
Good day on the lake