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Looked apocalyptic down there in the evening! That wind was insane. Caught almost everything out deeper tonight. Either the shallow fish have already moved on and the next wave hasn’t moved up yet, or the weather change has them retreating. Bro caught his new PB - about 18” long and pretty girthy. W...

Early release wrote: ↑Sat Mar 16, 2024 7:12 am Nice Fish CorsoEnthusiast, we didn't have any takers that looked that good. Weather was strange in north county later in the day too. It poured at my place in Escondido.

We found her in like 25’ at the end of a rocky point! My bro landed her on his ultralight rig and a 6# leader to boot!

Andre is a good buddy of mine. Was stoked to see that fish caught off his boat. In the same spot my grandpa’s 1972 state record 17-14 was caught in too.

As Vinny can attest I fish Murray from my float tube an average of 4 days per week. I regularly pull in good numbers of bass, with the occasional scattered 6 pounder plus. The numbers of fishermen on the lake varies from negligible to quite a few on weekends. Lots of shore guys showing up recently....

Some more fun yesterday..

Didn't take the float tube? Not yesterday. Bro and I were planning to take them out at Murray today but the weather had other ideas Yesterday we only had 3 hours to fish in the AM and wanted to save the tube debut for a day when we have a little more time. Weather forecast so far doesn’t look like ...

JWall wrote: ↑Sun Mar 24, 2024 5:23 pm

CorsoEnthusiast wrote: ↑Sun Mar 24, 2024 11:54 am Some more fun yesterday..

The Fat Ika!!

When you need to get in every little nook and cranny..

camobass wrote: ↑Mon Mar 25, 2024 4:45 pm I never had issues with ikas and hookups. I use super line wide gap hooks, rigged reverse with skirt in the front and weedless just like T RIG.

Yep, the backslide rigging is the way. I dunno if there’s a better bait for picking apart a piece of brush.

Just to add my 2 cents: Everyone has their way of rigging it, but this is the way I used to rig the IKA. I use a weedless wire hook IMG_1799.jpg IMG_1797.jpg and a nail weight in the back end. IMG_1801.jpg Ready for action IMG_1802.jpg I can definitely see the nail weight helping in heavy current w...

Another great video and I knew your tube setup does everything, it’s even a floating wet bar!! Love the big catch story and how nice getting to relive that day again! So Hodges back in the day was maybe a red lake like Cap is a green lake etc. Like your jig with a hint of red with the pumpkin, I us...

Its creature city for me tomorrow at El Cap. Jig n craw, fat ika, and a new one, a Yamatanuki. Are you guys trying to make me go broke? Talking about some cool bait that I’m gonna have to probably order some on tackle warehouse now that you are talking about it………ha ha :-) You know I’m eternally a ...

Its creature city for me tomorrow at El Cap. Jig n craw, fat ika, and a new one, a Yamatanuki. What size Yamatanuki? The little 2.5” guys are great on a weedless Ned head and as a Jig trailer. The 3.5” size I think would fish terrific as a backglide like the Ika. I bought the 2.5’s dark green/amber...

Version 1.0. 3 rods right now. Gonna tinker with it and see what else I wanna do with it. My original idea was the have that bar across the back connect to another 90degree elbow and then run a straight piece down into the water to mount a transducer on. Will probably start out simple like this and ...

Nice work! Tryjng to slide out there for a quick shore bang if I can get work to cooperate

Added a horizontal bar on the right side to attach to the D rings. Seems like this is going to work and isn’t going to lean to one side or the other. Think I’m gonna let all the Rod turrets swivel. Cup holder on the front is going to have a magnetic dish mounted inside of it, place to keep baits and...

Mcfish wrote: ↑Fri Mar 29, 2024 7:59 pm

JWall wrote: ↑Thu Mar 28, 2024 3:31 pm Dude you are throwing a hardware store out there!! Nice fat one too

His garage looks like a Bass Pro Shop....

I might be the only person here with worse Gear Acquisition Syndrome than Vinny

Nice work! Tryjng to slide out there for a quick shore bang if I can get work to cooperate Did work cooperate CorsoEnthusiast? I’m curious if there was an afternoon bite. There was a better bite with the smaller males in the trees around rocks as we were leaving and wonder if it sustained. Can’t im...

I haven’t been to D&K since probably the early 90s. Will have to take a Friday off work and make the drive up for a tube day in the next few weeks to check it out.

Tonight, the fish were out deeper. Seems the storm/cold front made them retreat from the shallows. Little warming trend mid week so hopefully back on course this weekend. Just a couple dropshot fish tonight, one about 8 1/2” and one about 14”. Definitely not the bite I was on last week. Water level ...

Also - there’s a pair of bald eagles nesting in the trees just east of the dam. My last trip prior to today we heard a loud “CRACK” and we looked back to see an Eagle flying with branches in his talons, they were building their nest. Today one of them was circling the area looking for floaters. 0821...