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MB in the morning and decided to try a spoon fly. It produced, got a couple croaker, some spotties, and a small halibut (which came off when I tried to pull it into the tube by the leader). The takes seemed more aggressive on the spoon fly vs other flies this morning. It’s a relatively easy tie and ...

Hit up blacks this morning throwing out the fly in the surf… not great conditions with very choppy surf at close tidal intervals so there was a lot of sand messing up the clarity of the water. It was also an outgoing tide which is not my favorite but it was the only time and date I could go this ...

My right hand has carpal tunnel and it's been painful casting and stripping line for extended periods of time.

I borrowed a technique used by stillwater guys, using a floating line, long mono leader, and break-away strike indicator. The idea was to adjust the leader length below the indicator to ...

Went fly fishing on the Lower Owens river just outside Bishop California last weekend. The weather was awesome and the fishing was great… caught some wild brown and rainbow trout up to 15” long using a euro nymphing technique. The hot fly was a size 14 light brown thread frenchy with a pink 3.5 mm ...

I didn't want to bog down the "What Yak are you fishing?" thread with this question. Given the cost, size, and weight of some of these craft, what are the advantages over a small power boat? I'm not takling centerconsole but rather 12-14ft aluminium with a tiller 9.9-20hp motor. Easy launch, low ...

Hi everyone

Used to be active on the old site. Mainly fished from kayaks and from shore. Been a few years since I've had a kayak, but recently got a Glide Angler iSup to hit the bays.

It's been a lot of fun and have been getting on some quality fish, like this keeper Halibut from Liberty Station ...

Waders with zippers are typically $400 and up. I saw this for <$200 and got it: https://www.basspro.com/p/white-river-fly-shop-prestige-front-zip-stocking-foot-chest-waders-for-men?hvarAID=shopping_googleproductextensions&ds_e=GOOGLE&ds_c=BPS%7CShopping%7CPMax%7CProprietary%7CGeneral%7CNCO%7CGoogle ...

I love my zippered waders! Absolute game changers. I found Paramount Outdoors over a year ago and the Deep Eddy Zippered Waders that I got from them are the best I have ever owned. After purchasing them I reached out to them telling them how much I loved them and let them know I make YouTube Videos ...

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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I finally pulled the trigger on a new float tube from Netherlands called Float Plus. Bladderless, dropstiched floor and seat, undermount motor ready, and they are installing the fold up wheels for me at no additional charge.

Of course I'll still have to glue on my fish finder mounting brackets ...

That is a sweet setup!

My son has an slx bfs on a kast king kestrel rod, and I can cast the tiniest rapala countdown or a 1/32 hookup bait a mile. Straight 5lb flouro

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 ...

Managed to get out for a couple hours on the creek.
Previously, the new tiny fluke thing was getting whacked pretty consistently just flylining it.
Figured I would stick to dropshotting it this time out.
I mean, it looks like a shrimp or a bug or something anyway...

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Gonna get my photos out here and go from there. I need to sell in batches of $100 or more to make it worth the trip to the Dixieline in Ranch San Diego. I am open to ideas/help. Thanks.

Hiya.

Amazon has the 6 inch gulp sandworms in camo, on sale for $5.54 per pack. Assuming these are standard packages, with 10 sandworms per.....

That works out to 9.233333 cents per two inch chunk. \

As opposed to 33 cents each if you buy a pack of 2 inch sandworms for $7.99.

I ordered some ...

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Geecrack bellows gill 3.8", weightless t-rig - green pumpkin and summer gill were getting hit pretty regularly for me last year around laydowns and submerged grass

Awesome day I arrived 10:30 pm Tuesday night 6 trucks in front of me . Met some cool guys talking in line . 4:30 am we're heading to the dock . 25 minutes later both my buddy and I are hooked up . Fishing on fire within an hour we have 20 fish each . In the morning I throw 4" senkos set up Neko ...