6/27- El Cap

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6/27- El Cap

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Was thinking of hitting the SD River with my kayak this morning but changed my mind and instead headed out to it El Cap. I must say thank you to Jeromy(#CorsoEnthusiast) for providing added inspiration to help make my decision. The weather was crisp this morning and lake was very glassy but knew it was going to heat up.
Started tossing jerk baits and spinner baits down the banks. Every cast I anticipated something slamming my lure. Then tried a Chatter bait for a bit and still nothing. I decided to fish a tiny bit deeper and switched over to an under spin and landed one pretty quickly. A few other clones followed in the action which was fun. As the sun started heating up things, I was basically was practicing casting as I threw a number of reaction baits and finally decided to try something different. I tossed an T-rigged Upton Otay Special for a bit and then put on a Rage Craw. And on my first cast, got bit and I pulled in a small bass. Not much later I had bass come unbuttoned right next to my kayak and a few casts later in the same area I had a bass pop my line on the rocks. I may have said something that I cannot post, but let's just say I was not happy. My next bite on the Rage craw was a little healthier bass which made me briefly forget(of course I am thinking about them now) about the 2 bass in a row I did not land. So between the under spin and Rage craw and Googan craw, I ended up landing 8 bass this morning. All the bass were pretty small and my biggest bass seemed big only because of the size of the others I landed. Still it was fun to get out and get a morning of fishing in at El Cap.
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Healthy, but really not that big
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Lots of these dinks
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On another subject:
Road above El Cap is not a race track...
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(or maybe he heard a rumor that @McFish was going to
be at El Cap giving away some of his favorite colored Roboworms?)
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Re: 6/27- El Cap

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:o wtf over.....
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Re: 6/27- El Cap

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Dont you hate it when you get bit & you swing for the moon & at that instant you feel the line on the rock that wasnt there before you were bit, you always know whats next at that instant......
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Re: 6/27- El Cap

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Yeah …. That was crazy!
A couple years ago I was on the way to Lake Sutherland and on the road along the lake. Heading the opposite direction was a Volkswagen bus on its side. There was 2 young guys just standing there next to it. I guess it just happened a few minutes before I got there and asked them they’re OK and they said yes. They got too close to the right side of the road hit a rock close and it flipped their vehicle. Every time I leave Lake Sutherland since then, I would look at that rock and stay clear of it.
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Try to explain that to your insurance company...or your parents! Stupid is as stupid does.....
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Nice fishys...think I would of pulled out my flukes! Were you racing that guy to see who could launch first??
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He was probably showing his girlfriend how to tie a palomar knot...yep, I bet that's it...
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Re: 6/27- El Cap

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That guy must have seen you and was speeding up to get your autograph
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Re: 6/27- El Cap

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thats a narrow road & a nice roll to the bottom if he would have went over the ledge....
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Re: 6/27- El Cap

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Your Rage and Googan craws always seem to produce. Way to branch out to another lake.
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camobass wrote: Tue Jun 27, 2023 5:44 pm That guy must have seen you and was speeding up to get your autograph
Autograph? Come on man.....that is hilarious Camo.
More likely some buddy told him that I was fishing a different lake than Murray
and he was in a big hurray to see it with his own eyes....ha ha
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Slater wrote: Tue Jun 27, 2023 6:02 pm thats a narrow road & a nice roll to the bottom if he would have went over the ledge....
Would not be a fun roll down that steep hillside.
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Re: 6/27- El Cap

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How do you top a car? A few know that Vinny already had a phobia of that road! Probably did not help!
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Fisheromen wrote: Sat Jul 01, 2023 7:24 pm How do you top a car? A few know that Vinny already had a phobia of that road! Probably did not help!
I now consider that road as dangerous as LA traffic at rush hour….. ha ha
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Re: 6/27- El Cap

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VinnyBass wrote: Sun Jul 02, 2023 1:03 pm
Fisheromen wrote: Sat Jul 01, 2023 7:24 pm How do you top a car? A few know that Vinny already had a phobia of that road! Probably did not help!
I now consider that road as dangerous as LA traffic at rush hour….. ha ha
Except nobody shoots at you on the way to El Cap.....
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