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Otay has been a lot of fun this summer. Bait is all over and those fish are hungry.

Spent the first 6.5 hours of the day down there this morning and it was a little of everything. Got a topwater fish before I even put my tube in the water. Pulled up to the bank and there were busters in the cove 6’ off the bank. Grabbed a rod and threw topwater at the busting fish and had one on immediately. Got a couple more busters out in the tube on my favorite little JDM topwater. Every cove I kicked into today was loaded with bait. I’d be working the tule lines and all the sudden a symphony of busters would start up. Could see bait all around.

A few topwater fish, a couple fish on a fluke style bait, and a whole mess of worm fish. Varied in size from dinky dink to the big of the day at 3-14.

I think El Cap has officially been usurped by Otay as my favorite local body of water

Great job out there again buddy!
Roughing it in this heat...... but getting well rewarded.
Love the pics as I can imagine all the fun you were having out there.
Thanks for sharing and tight lines always.

Nice one!

Nice Report, definitely keeping everyone in the loop. Thanks!

I haven't had anything eat the Wakasagi. I even through it in the middle of a bunch of busters and nada. Glad to see it's successful for others! lol

DarkShadow wrote: Mon Aug 05, 2024 12:12 pm I haven't had anything eat the Wakasagi. I even through it in the middle of a bunch of busters and nada. Glad to see it's successful for others! lol

The 55mm size has been like magic. The busters love that bait for me. 9/10 times they eat it as soon as it hits the water before I even move it.

CorsoEnthusiast wrote: Sun Aug 11, 2024 9:33 am

DarkShadow wrote: Mon Aug 05, 2024 12:12 pm I haven't had anything eat the Wakasagi. I even through it in the middle of a bunch of busters and nada. Glad to see it's successful for others! lol

The 55mm size has been like magic. The busters love that bait for me. 9/10 times they eat it as soon as it hits the water before I even move it.

The busters up here are focusing on tiny silverside and tiny shad, so even tho the boils may be all over the lake, it's taken scaling down to tiny baits to get fish to go. I'm talking about those 1.5" Basstrixs.

But, down in San Diego County? These fish had no problems eating full size baits, and I should've thrown that Wakasagi to get some confidence in it.

Perhaps later in the year when the shad are bigger and the silversides bigger we'll get better looks.