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Dave and I hit the Bay yesterday from 6am - 11:30am. Fishing in the slack and some of the incoming tide. I get out here about 3 or 4 times a year. The only goal was to catch as many species as we could. IMG_20230723_090433647.jpg The bite was pretty steady all morning long. Lost count of the Spottie...

I decided I wanted to get into fishing to have something to do with my kids. Went out alone for the first time just to test the waters. Thanks to the tips on the site, I got 3 spotties in 3 hours and quit when something strong snapped my leader.

Ya did good my man, looking forward to more reports

Hello all, Barrett was really nice on Wednesday. I was a little worried since it was 44F at Pigs at 0430. But...the water was a pleasant 70 F and the fish were happy as well. First fish came on a popper and was a bit over 3 pounds. He hit it like he was angry at it and I have to say it was the most ...

Got out usual time, Jose let us in early, wasn’t too busy at Pigs, met our buddies Dave and Joe, headed to Hauser. Consistently good popper bite ALL day, even got one on a Rat, the biggest was 4lb on a frog! Braided line really got it done, did lose some big fish on barbless hook, but overall anothe...

Just a short trip over to Murray this morning and landed a handful of clones on reaction baits and plastics. Not much of anything was breaking the surface, but I was happy to land a topwater bass on a popper. The bass were all pretty small but did get one just over 3lbs on a creature bait. Better to...

It's been about a month since I fished the SD River. A buddy who fishes the river often told me last night that he has caught only one bass after 3 trips and his buddy got skunked yesterday. I figured what the heck.. and so for a change of pace I decided to fish it for a few hours this morning befor...

Also, I wanted to share this cool little rod holder I made for super cheap. I was sick of rods lying all over the boat so put this together in 20 minutes for $20 at Home Depot... worked great! IMG_3692.jpg My buddy mrpatrick will be bummed I didn't post his fish, so here's a pic of that whopper (and...