San V 12/4 and picture help

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San V 12/4 and picture help

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Been recovering from shoulder replacement surgery so it’s been about 6 weeks since I’ve been on the water. Hit up San V yesterday not knowing what to expect. Was surprised to see so many fish busting shad between the bushes and the shoreline. Made it very hard to get a bait to them. The fish that were busting were solid fish from 2 to 5 pounds. Had a couple swipe at my bait, but not take it, but did find one two pounder that I was able to stick. Once the sun got higher, and the busting fish quieted down, I tried everything from drop shot, to flukes, to small swim baits, to C rig, to jigs. Could not buy another bite. Even on baits I was getting steady bites on last years at this time.

Fished from 7-2 with 4 total bites and 1 measly fish. I’ll be back out there on Thu to try again.

Can anyone tell me why my pic is upside down, or better yet, how to fix it?????
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Forgot to add that I messed with a 30-35lb blue cat that wanted absolutely nothing to do with me. It didn’t care at all that my boat was sitting 10ft above it. I would drop a bait in front of it and all it would do was turn around and do a 180 (kind of like my wife! 🤣) . Messed with it for about 15min before it got tired of me and decided to move on to less annoying waters!
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Vinny, fix his pic!!!
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Total shoulder and 6 weeks….dang. It took me a lot longer than that. Almost a year in and swings are still hurting.
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Thankfully my Dr has a son who is totally into fishing so he is sympathetic to me needing to get out on the water. I still have limitations but I can set the hook and fight a fish with no issues! 😁😁
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I flipped your pic over for you.
Shoulder replacement surgery…Wow! I bet that is tough. Hope you have a full recovery.
It will be easier for you to haul in the bass you will be catching down the road.
Thanks for sharing and Tight lines :-)
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Thank you sir! Appreciate it. Thankfully it was my left shoulder and I am VERY right handed! 🤣
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Fisheromen wrote: Tue Dec 05, 2023 7:11 pm Vinny, fix his pic!!!
Done.
Deb and I were watching Modern Family and I just checked the site on my phone and saw the
pic...or did you telepathically send me a message? ha ha. :-)
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Moose wrote: Tue Dec 05, 2023 6:41 pm Been recovering from shoulder replacement surgery so it’s been about 6 weeks since I’ve been on the water. Hit up San V yesterday not knowing what to expect. Was surprised to see so many fish busting shad between the bushes and the shoreline. Made it very hard to get a bait to them. The fish that were busting were solid fish from 2 to 5 pounds. Had a couple swipe at my bait, but not take it, but did find one two pounder that I was able to stick. Once the sun got higher, and the busting fish quieted down, I tried everything from drop shot, to flukes, to small swim baits, to C rig, to jigs. Could not buy another bite. Even on baits I was getting steady bites on last years at this time.

Fished from 7-2 with 4 total bites and 1 measly fish. I’ll be back out there on Thu to try again.

Can anyone tell me why my pic is upside down, or better yet, how to fix it?????
San V was one of the few lakes to be fishing normal this year, but now it's kind of gotten into a funk. I found some of those fish breaking on the shore, behind the brush, got 2 of them to bite but couldn't get them out! Two weeks ago, I was on busters from 8-1..Last year at this time I was getting busters out in the middle of the lake! Monday's fish acted more like spring fish. I ended up with 7 fish, but I was lucky enough to get a pattern going outside of rock walls. Normally this time of year, I fall back to deep dropshotting after the busters die off..but I got no love on the d/s on Monday! Thursday is going to have a big cool down, so who knows what the fish are going to do?? Good luck!
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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.
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