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Any of the good spots can go from "dead" to "wide open" very quickly (or vice versa) as the current changes. I use circle hooks 5/0 and above to help avoid killing the babies. Descending device or similar setup to help rescue little ones. One more tip - good map (zoom out): https...

20230810_155424.jpg Reds Meadows and Pumice Flat open. Other campgrounds too swampy. The Postpile is open for day use. Got 8 browns in the postpile area on Thursday. Small and micro. All caught on the new spinners...dubbed the Patient Zero. The trout catching epidemic starts now... (Selling the siz...

So on the way home, spotted a medium-sized herd of elk in the wildlife viewing area. This is where the pastures are watered all summer to grow grass, and the elk come down to hang out an fatten up for the winter. This group of about two dozen included one bull, who only had one antler. They were qui...

Looks like a Nile Tilapia. I think foulhook is correct. I have them in one of my greenhouses and they have a lot of variation but some very much look like that fish. I said the same thing but said blue tilapia so did one of my buddies that studies fish, caught it at lake Jennings and don’t feel lik...

My theory is that the secret to catching halibut is to drop the bait on their nose. As long as you do that, anything works. Has to be boring to just lie there on the bottom all day waiting for something to eat instead of chasing it down like a respectable fish. A real dead beat of a fish, even if ta...

Fished the afternoon outgoing tide from ~1pm-4pm. Tried to film but forgot how after a month of no fishing A school of bonito and corvina followed in the hooked fish but no other bites from them after i let it go Landed 1 Bonito 1 short halibut 4 spotted bay bass https://youtu.be/Q8vjyS2otrA?si=KIno...

First off thank you to all veterans Went to Mission Bay for the day with my entire family for Veteran's Day to have fun fish and have a BBQ The bite was pretty good and steady throughout the entire day for us. Myself and my wife got there around 6am and she instantly hooked up on a drop shot rig. I ...

There is a rumor of a guy named JIMBO that consistently pulls 10+ pounders from shore at Murray on home poured black plastics. True story

San Diego Anglers is hosting it's 24th Annual Open Bay Bass Tournament in San Diego Bay at Shelter Island. It will be different this year in a number of ways. It will be held at the Outboard Boating Club at the top of Shelter Island launch ramp and it will be a catch, measure and release tournament ...