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I got to the lake at 6:15, under dark, cold, cloudy, drizzly skies..which pretty much remained that way for the next 6 hours!! The lake seems about a month behind with the unseasonably cold spring we're having! I ended the day with 14 fish, mostly small males which I hadn't planned on fishing for! N...

Like new Daiwa Tatula 300 HG - 7.1 gear ratio. Very low miles on this reel. Bulletproof platform that can bomb cast big swimbaits and a-rigs a country mile. Have a couple new reels coming and need to make room. Asking $200 OBO. No trades. Has a fresh spool of 25# FC Sniper flouro on it. Let me know ...

JJ here. Chuck told me about this site.
Otay 4/19 boated 5, 4 on underspins.

Otay Michael could catch a frog or popper fish out of my birdbath! I expect him to show up at my koi ponds!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Maybe some truth to that good buddy. Got top last week at El Capitan and again today. I’m warming up the gunfish and poppers fairly well! Haven’t seen anybody else throwing top yet!! D...

Fun little trip to El Cap this morning. Night and day from last weekend were I managed 2 fish in 2 days. Mostly worm fish, with an underspin bonus. Tight to or in cover was the key for me. Managed a mission to get one of my catches out of a bush that involved me keeping pressure on the fish for 5 or...

Not sure why my pics are all sideways.. (edit: they’re no longer sideways)

I got to the lake about 6:30am, caught five bass real quick, all males cruising the bank, so i thought I would try for a few bluegill.
Caught six nice ones .
I’ll try to post the pictures of bluegill.

The heartbreak is you get turned around on the quagga mussel inspection 90% of the time from a ridiculous reason. Example, a eucalyptus leaf that fell in your boat the morning you drove up and you missed it. Or condensation. After much praying on the way there, we passed the inspection. What a relie...

Hit Murray this morning(like you guys did not see that coming...ha ha) and it was cool and overcast. I heard of a few topwater stirrings from my buddy Larry who wrangled in some recent topwater bass, so I was ready. It is still a little early for topwater and should be going off a lot better as we h...

Water 70+- and so GREEN!!!!! The whole lake!!! Visibility 6" at best.
Boated 3 males in the junk. Be a month before it's, at least, somewhat clear.

IMHO, no clips. Fresh knots can be a blessing in disguise. If you need a loop for a lure to swim free like a jerk bait or top water, learn the rapala knot. Super quick. And you can even tie a double rapala knot for heavy stuff with lighter line. Never had the rapala knot fail. My pb 13lb bass was on...

Fluke time is coming up real quick!

Out of state licenses should be included in tournament fees. Just like lake fees here.
Most guys come from out of town.
That sucks

Lately I have been visiting Santee Lakes and catching bass, but also watching the newly hatched bluegill grow from one inch to more than three inches. They always seem to be feeding on heavy concentrations of freshwater plankton and also on hatching bugs in the heat of the day. They are usually stay...

Dixon Lake update on Bass. This fish had a few eager friends, but she was the most photogenic. I was just walking the shore pounding along with a #7 Rapala and they were very cooperative. I'd like to say that's a surfcasting rod and she was huge, but it's really about a 20" fish, which is still...

Tried my luck there on Friday- Sunrise to sunset. Reports from other anglers- it was slow going! Fisheromen joined me for first half of the day and a different friend the second half. Paul and I only got two the first half, one each, and I got four more the second half. All topwater but one bedfish ...

Arrived at the lake 6:30 looked as if I was fishing a private lake, maybe 10 boats. For a spring unheard of. Started chasing the bass, after 23 all cruisers it was time to move on, Got on the red ear, spent the rest of the day catching them. If you like having a fish trying to pull the rod out of yo...

A few red ear !!

Dang it!!! I have to tell you that I had a completed story ready to post and lost it by opening another window and not saving it as a draft. After screaming several "special" words showing my frustration...here is the post and a lot shorter than the original which is good as many of you kn...

SOLD-Lightly used G440-5, it was a GREAT reel!