Last trip of the year...
Wed., Dec. 20th,
Otay Lake
Boat: Tom C's
Me , Tom
We fished back end of Harvey's again. Did ok, but not super. Ended
the day back at dam buoy line, and worked back to Bushlowe cove, one on jb
for me, surprised we didn't do better. Broke small jb Tom had loaned me
the week before.
Wed., Dec. 13th,
Otay Lake
Boat: Tom C's
Me 20, Tom 15
water started out at 59 and got up to 64 1/2 By 3pm
We got out and started fishing about 8:30. We didn't really start doing
well till 10, with my front seater getting some nice ones. After I
realized an adjustment needed... downsized Rapala jerkbait again, thanks
to info from 'Pwy_FireCapt' (screen name fisherman on SDFish who was
killing them) over the pattern from my last trip two weeks ago, things
started to click.
Ended with only getting four limits and my front seater three. Pretty day
out though, and time on the water is precious.
Wed., Nov. 29th,
Otay Lake
Boat: Answered Prayer 8 a.m. to
4:30
p.m.
W/ David V.
Me 70,
David 30
Maybe so, as my backseater got 10 times more than He
did last week with me, congrats DiegoFish. I did OK, I got 13 more than I
did last week, meaning a new personal best again, but I had an extra hour
and a half to Fish too. This time they were slightly larger overall
(really only averaging about 10 inches) and some bigger models thrown in.
Lots of double hookups, felt like Barrett again. Fun times, TUL.
Wed., Nov. 22nd,
Otay Lake
Boat: Answered Prayer 6 a.m. to 2
p.m.
W/ David V. Me 57, David 3
Met David at the ramp at 6 a.m., supposed to reach mid 90's, wow. East
wind of about 10 mph greeted us.
Saw Jim (JJbasser) and he said his lack of reports last couple of months
was due to back injury. We ran
to the back left cove 1/2 back in Harvey's, and worked the outside tulles
just past the cove with frogs and largest
Whopper Plopper for nada, David tossed the kick leg frog. Worked our way
into the cove, and then to the back of
it, nada. Ran to end of Harvey's and kept with same topwater baits into
the shallows, going in the middle section instead of far left, more nada.
Worked our way back out and then I switched to the Rapala suspending
hardbait/jerkbait and started getting them. Kept working the outside area
of the floating vegetation and kept getting them, some about a pound, most
1/2 or 3/4 8 to 10" dinks, but was a lot of fun. I kept getting more and
more, two limits, then three, then four, or my. Kept at it. Worked all
across the end flats (6 to 8') and even got my first double. David did not
have the type lure, loaned him one of mine, but bigger, after he tried a
fluke and underspin for nada. He finally got one on a green chatterbait,
then a couple of more on d/s. By 1 was looking at 8 limits, then 9, 10 and
even 11 by 2 p.m.. Had to call it a day at that point, or could have ended
with 100 bass! Wow T.U.L.
Thur., Nov. 16th,
San Vicente
Boat: Paul Owen's
7 a.m. till 2 p.m. / Paul 4, me 3
Paul at the bottom lot and drove up and loaded up in his boat. Paid fees
(his birthday celeb.) and ran to the left of the island, cove on left.
Nada fishing WP me and various him. After working our way west 1/2 down
the shore (headed towards the ramp) and Paul getting one on d/s, we made a
run to the back of Kimball's. Nada on the right side, starting from the
point, w/ d/s for both of us working towards the back, nada. Then ran
across to the other side, and then to the back of the long cove, with the
giant granite boulder on the right. Lots of small bass hitting silverside
shad.
Paul got another on the d/s, and I got one on the
smaller Rapala suspending ghost jerkbait, the one that worked their the
week before. We then ran to the back of Toll Rd. arm and we worked from
the far back back out past two coves, back to the point with a flat, where
the bass were busting shore too, but bigger than the ones back in
Kimball's, catchable, but we had to leave, Paul had to go see a movie
later. I lost a nice one and landed two on the jerkbait, wish we could
have stayed, my numbers would have risen dramatically.
Sun., Nov. 12th,
Otay Lake
Boat: Answered Prayer 6 a.m. to 4
p.m.
Slept at lake that night, to bed
around 1 p.m., up at 5 and on water by 5:45. Sunrise was spectacular and
got some great shots with the iPhone. Ran to the back right back of
Harvey's, heard from buddy Frank M. that he'd got 6 on the frog the Wed.,
before (was going to go Sat. with David, but guy that stored my boat had
the gate locked in a way I could not get it at 10:30 on Friday night, so
had to cancel).
Got a blow up on the frog, and worked my way into the back shallows, where
I got another blow up after an hour or so. By 10 a.m. I'd worked it over
pretty well, getting two more blow ups, nothing stuck. Ran back to the van
around 2 and took an 1 hour nap, giving me more energy to finish the day.
Worked the cove on the left, 1/2 way back down Harvey's, looked great,
with WP and frogs, nada. Worked the outside tulles headed back to the
entrance and just about got to the point when the worker came around
getting everyone to leave. Another great sunset too, got more shots.
T.U.L.
Thur., Nov. 2nd,
San Vicente
Boat: Answered
Prayer
11:30 a.m. till 6 p.m. / David V. 0, me 9
11: 30 to 6. Started back in
Kimball's, looking for buster action I'd heard about, nada. Worked it from
right side, just past the point back to the trees in back, topwater, nada.
Looked great too. Then to the Island, stated on one end and worked to
other end, all Whopper Plopper, nada.
Decided to run to the back of Toll
Rd. and finally went to a suspending jerkbait, silver, about 3.5' long,
and got followers but no takers. Switched to a smaller, Rapala Shad Rap 3
1/8", 1/4 oz. 'Ghost minnow' suspending jerkbait and started hooking up.
Dinks mostly, but a couple of nice 1 to 1 1/4 pound bass thrown in. Ended
with 9 in that last hour, cool. David got into the busters that showed up
last 15 minutes on a kick leg frog, but fogot to set the hook. I got a
nice one on the suspending bait, but was tough because they were right on
shore in the bushes and hard to reach. Got escorted out at about 6 p.m.,
nice day on the water. T.U.L.
Mon., Oct. 23rd thru Thurs.,
the 26th
California Delta
Boat: Answered Prayer
Day 1, Oct. 23rd
Taught a photo workshop in Yosemite, and stored the boat in Oakhurst at
the motel until Sunday night, when I picked it up around 5 or so.
Delta Monday October 23rd starting at 7:30 in the morning after
sleeping seven hours at flying J truck stop in Lodi. I had a Subway
sandwich without the bread breakfast A. Ate 2/3 around 10:30 AM the
balance at dinner Tk
It's 3:25 now, been slow. When I got out I thought it
was high tide but was low. tractor cove, tractor was showing. Very clear
water, from lack of rain to strain it id guess. a lot of rain kept that
water higher too, tractor would've been covered in high tide later but
wasn't. There was no movement for like three hours, and very little
movement right now. I've got incoming. I'm trying a spinner bait Mike
Meyers suggested. I got three bass on the white spinner bait with the bass
pro shop speed shad trailer 4 inch white trailer. half ounce KVD. got some
on the gun fish but Small and I got a bunch on the jerk bait but small 5
inch or 6 inches and I got Two stripers one first cast on spinner bait
after not using it for a couple hours. Threw the suspending jerk bait
around 1030 and started getting lots of smaller fish up to 10 inches. I've
been working the bank mostly, zero wind almost all day. temperature they
said was 88 feels like it.
Evening update. Got another striper, a good 3 pounds, by the 'house tule
islands. Two nice spinner bait bass along tule point Down in the grasses.
Ran back to the dock and got a beer and Chugged two cold waters before
hand. Ran back to tractor bay to check tide and it was slightly higher
than it was at low tide but not much. Faster for Nada, back out to the
point, and then finished east in the shadows and got one on BPS kick tail
shad. Fished till dark, around 7 o'clock, and left the boat and trailer
hooked to the electrical at Tower Park. Got the parking permit earlier, so
it's cool to park there through Thursday. 1130 pm now and hanging at
flying J truckstop again.
Day 2, Oct. 24th
Slept in the van again to bed about midnight up at
8:30. slept OK for the van, headed towards Lodi for my breakfast at Golden
ox diner but instead found a breakfast place from Michael and David Z
Vineyards. steak and eggs and more eggs in exchange for the hash browns,+
fruit for $11.95. and I met Ashley over at the wine bar afterwords, had a
quick and small sip of One of their Zens– Ashley said the managers a
fisherman he might want to join me so I gave her a couple cards and told
her to give one of the owners maybe do a trade out.
got on the water at 10:30 ran to the the last island on sycamore slough
got one on the third cast on the bass pro shop Shad surface. and a three
in a cast later in three more islands nothing went to the spinner bait
again and third cast got a nice three-quarter pound, it's 1:40 now.
John Olichney joined me after calling in at three and saying he was on his
way. Picked me up some KFC chicken and showed up around four. we ran back
to Sycamore and started on the first batch of tall is this time. He threw
a gun fish and a small jerk bait, suspending, and that got him seven total
for the day. He got to stripers in the beginning on the gun fish and I got
an 19" on the hole-in-one lure, 1 inch over minimum size. I kept it for
him. I missed one on the frog, a nice one, and then a little further down
got a nice 3.5 on the frog. He was slowly getting them on the jerk bait,
and about dark we made a run back to the bridge area. We worked the point
westward, Towards B&W, and about a half hour later, 7:30 and dark out, I
got a 8 1/3 on the White whopper popper. John did a great job with the
net, although we almost lost it at first when he missed.
Click photo to enlarge.
Now we're talking, an 8 1/3 lb lunker on topwater, TUL.
I got a room at the Motel 6 in Lodi and was asleep by 11 PM, dead tired
from tonight's in the van and fishing so long each day. Good nights rest,
then breakfast at the Golden ox, Then picked up the boat and took it to
Paradise marina to launch.
Day 3, Wed., Oct. 25th
Mike Myers said he was ready to pick me up if I wanted to join him
so I decided to go with him, And this was about 930 or so after running
back to get gas at loves truck stop. Like the last two days, it was sunny
and no wind, but Mike said he already had five since oh dark hundred on S
waiver and white spinner baits, two pounders. We made a run toward Franks
tract, right side of Mandeville island, and I got a couple on the white
spinner bait after an hour or so. He slowly got them on them too.
After an hour so I ran to potato slow, and tried hard Luxembourg slowly
getting one or two here or there. We decided to run to the bridge by tower
park marina to find moving water, but stopped between Tower Park and three
island honey hole, where I got some on day one on grasses on single house
tule Island, which looks Abandoned now. I got one on the hole-in-one by
the house dock, and then another little further down, both about 1 1/2
pounds. The wind was starting to finally come up in the last hour. We
worked from the bridge west towards BMW for about a mile and I got one
more on top, Mike zero. We ran back and finished a spot of Kings Island,
for Nada, then ran past paradise towards Stockton. I finally tied on a
cream super spook and got hit first cast, then got one about a half hour
later. We finished around 7 o'clock, almost completely dark out. It was a
good day for us fellowship wise, and fishing was So So.
Chatted at the launch ramp while he cleaned his boat and then I went to
Lodi for in and out burger. Refilled my water bottles which I'm keeping
now, got some ice, a double double protein style, and have spent the last
hour updating these reports and checking emails. Plan an early start
tomorrow out of paradise, and hope to get some good frogfish.
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Day 4, Thurs., Oct. 26th
Fished out of Paradise marina after staying at Flying J truck stop in the
van. To bed early and up early, 7 am, and got to ramp and launched and
fishing by 8. Forgot to pay launch fee, paid when I left. Worked the
island by the bridge after heading north (right) from the ramp through the
no wake zone for nada, spook and w Plopper 130 and the Savage rat. Ran to
Mike's honey hole other side of King Island for nada with rat, then worked
towards King Marina, which is further out 8 mile road, and did not get one
till about 11 when the wind kicked up, on the 130 Plopper over a tulle
island point, a 2 but a fish none the less. The wind was non-existent
again, made the bite tough. Threw the blade, but mostly the rat. Continued
that slough and did not get on them until dusk, when I came across a big
flat off one of the islands that had grasses up to 5' in 8' water, running
the blade over them. Got five in about an hour, averaging 2 pounds each,
fun times. At dusk ran back to small island near Paradise and worked the
130 Plopper all the way back, nearly, to the ramp, getting a 2# on it
about 1/4th the way into the long run, about 7 p.m. and nearly completely
dark. Got off the water an hour later, at 8. Ran to the Flying J in Santa
Nella and charged up the batteries while crashing in the van, till 7 a.m.,
where I left it for three days and picked it up on the return that Sunday
evening.
Got blessed with two gents at the truck stop tire
center there, not busy and helped me get not just one tailight going, but
the second which had not worked in years, TUL.
Oct 26, 2017 Kings Island, Ca Delta. from m seewald on Vimeo.
Wed., Oct. 18th
Otay, solo
Boat: Answered Prayer 1 pm to 6:30 pm
3, two popper frog, one propbait
Back in the country, got my notch on my belt for a bass
caught in another country, France, and back where the bass grow big and
eat mean, OTAY- YEAH.
Got there to blue skies and slight breeze, a perfect
day. A young man named Jeff came up and introduced himself, had got a
couple of dinks he reported. I hoped to do better as I figure with this
warm weather the frog bite should be as good as it was before I left three
weeks ago. And it was...
Click photo to enlarge.
First one was on the popper frog.
Ran to the back of Harvey's and found my buddy Tom on
them since daybreak, he'd come a long way on learning the frog bite since
we went out together a couple of months ago, and got a faster reel and is
now getting hooksets not just blowups, cool. Reported 10 on the frog last
week, a few less this, but getting them on some other baits I'd showed him
quite well now.
Otay 10.18.'17 bass on frog from m seewald on Vimeo.
Got more blow ups than fish, as usual, and lost a real nice one on a
hookset, monsters hardly budge when you hookset them as if they're only
2's, and note to self, RE-TIE, braid does not last forever after a couple
of dozen frog fish fought!
Oct. 1 to the 16th, in France. Got a
FRENCH bass! Yeah.
Story here:
https://sdfish.com/forums/t/finally-success-in-holy-grail-search.164129/
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Wed. Sept. 27th
Otay.
Boat: Answered Prayer noon am till
6:30 pm
Me 10, solo (all top)
Clear skies, slight winds.
Click photo to enlarge.
Got a nice one that my friend Tom Cosgrove took for me from his boat, he'd
done well too.
Had a blast at Otay, all topwater, mostly on Sammy's and kick leg frogs or
hollow bodied frogs, couple on the med. W. Plopper, like this one on my
new Dobyn's SB rod, third cast, way to break it in.
Got this buster on the W. Plopper, funny how sometimes they go for bigger
baits.
Got this lunker on the frog, first of the day on my afternoon session.
And this shows the spot she was waiting to ambush my bait!
Here was another frog bass towards dusk.
And this shows the spot I had to hit, and bring her out of, which was not
easy. There
is a ton of sunken brush they dig down in, being shallow most of the time,
and then
dragging them over the fallen trees and brush. Small miracle to get them
landed, you
have to reel fast, and strong braid and rods make it possible.
The kick leg frog, similar to a buzzbait, is working well this time of
year too (a
fluke worked across the surface would work the same).
Nice area to work, the ends of the arms.
6.32 PM, capturing the end of another blessed day.
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Sun. Sept. 24th
Otay w/ David V.
Boat: Answered Prayer 9:30 am till
4:30 pm
Me 9, David V. 5 (all top)
Arrived at lake to blue skies, zero
wind, and noticed busters in middle of lake just from the docks, so we
motored over and David tossed his Reaction Innovation Shark (kickleg
frog), and while adjusting his reel after the first cast a bass ate it as
it sunk, he was so excited, and that was cool.
Click photo to enlarge.
David with first cast bass, 9:45 a.m.
We worked them for over an hour, I got them on the
Sammy mostly, but one on the Poe's Ace in the Hole prop bait, the 4" one.
Click photo to enlarge.
Got my limit on the topwater buster action over a one hour period or so.
After the wind came up it was more sporadic, and we finally made a run
to the far back, my new honey hole, and I got one in short order on the
Spro popper frog along shore under a batch of floating dead tulles.
Click photo to enlarge.
The trusted Spro popper frog gets her done.
Got blown up on with the new Reaction Innovation
'shark' lure and David followed it up minutes later at the same spot and
got her to go, same lure!
Click photo to enlarge.
The 'shark' worked again.
We worked that back area and got some more on the frog
and the shark. Buster action happened as we motored out to 'big water',
right at the end of it against all the floating plants. Had to get to
church, TUL.
Wed. Sept. 20th
Otay w/ David V.
Boat: Answered Prayer 2 p.m. till
6:50 pm
Me 2, David V. 2 (all top)
2 me, both React. Innov. Shark (kick leg frog), 2 him (white
flukes), all ½ way back right side Harveys.
Fished the closed area past the buoy line by the dam,
nada, a boat of three guys in a rental were already back there, this is
the third time within a month.
Monday. Sept. 18th
Lake Murray w/ Mike C.
Boat: Answered Prayer 2 p.m. till
6:50 pm
Me 1, Mike C. 0
1 me on Reaction Innovation ‘shark’, a 4.8, otherwise nada.
Clear blue skies, 2 till 7, Mike joined at 2.30.
I fished long point across from ramp before Mike
joined, nada (Punker).
We ran to San Carlos arm, left side ½ down and worked
to end, I threw Sammy’s, Gunfish, Poe AIH 700, for nada.
Very back worked a narrow space and I got a nice 4.8
on the topwater kick leg frog type lure, Reaction Innovation ‘Shark’.
Busters showed finally but would not play. Got a hit
blind casting sm. Gunfish, did not stick. Last hour ran to the long point
and worked back cove and towards buoy line by sunset, nada.
Friday, Sept. 15th
Lake Murray w/ Sean and Aiden
Boat: Answered Prayer 2 p.m. till
6:50 pm
Me 1, Them 0
2 pm till 7
I got a few on the Sammy, they nada. Tried frogs and other top, Sean the
worm.
Sun. Sept. 10th
Otay w/ Rob M.
Boat: His 6 am till 7 pm
Me 12, Rob 20
First time busters for the year. Started Otay Arm,
second cove on right. I got a frog fish (Jerry rigged kick tail Bobbys
Perfect) in outside tulles, then Rob one right on shore with his. Then saw
busters out on buoy lines. I got one on a S.Spook, then a Gunfish, He one
on a Kastmaster, Boiler hard bait, Clone fry.
By 11:30 shut down, we went to Harvey’s, right side
of shallow tulles flats, and got some on shore. Ran to dock at 1 to get
JJ’s busted reels for Linebig to get replaced from Shimano, then back to
Harvey honey hole. I got some on my new Poe's ACE IN THE HOLE double cedar
wood buzzer after having a blow up earlier. Fished the cove on right for
nada, then ran to Otay buster spot, to look, nada, then to dam cove past
buoy line on east side, Rob got one.
Ran back to honey hole, then to far back, Rob and I got more, me another
on the Poe. Last run was back to Honey Hole, I got another on the Poe.
Back to docks at 7, sunset time. Great day.
Wed. Sept. 6th
Otay w/ David V.
Boat: Answered Prayer 2p.m. till 7
p.m..
Me 1, David 0
1 frog fish me, he zippo. Fished from 2 tilll 7.20,
end of Harvey's. New Poe cedar prop bait lure nada. I had seven blowups,
he three. He’s learning the frog, never had one yet.
Interested in the Lord finally, has 9 & 10 year olds,
one autistic. Says prays with them, does not know the Lord. TUL.
Mon., Sept. 4th
Lake San Marcos
Boat: Dennis'. 6 am till 11 a.m.
3 me, 0 him.
One wp fish on island, and two frog fish. Lost a
biggie at ‘honey hole’ (by end of homes on left headed to dam).
Wed. Aug. 30th
Otay w/ David V.
Boat: Answered Prayer
Me 4, David 0
Me four bass, lost three, one big wp fish by dam bouy
line. Fished the cove back east side of buoy line by dam, nice area, water
up so you could go over the land. Linebig said usually a wood fence there,
it was gone. We fished far back Harvey’s honey hole.
He left 5 p.m., I stayed and fished the far back
Harvey's, got last 2.
Sun., Aug. 27th
Lake San Marcos
Boat: Dennis'. 4 till 8 p.m..
2 me, 0 him.
2 frog fish, 4 blowups me, two blowups him. Our first
time out.
Mon., Aug. 21st
El Capitan
Boat: Frank's
1 me, 2 him. pre-fishing.
pre-fishing. Slow for us.
Lost wp to nice fish when Alain’s rod broke getting
it over tree tops, last point on right headed to Conejos.
Fished trees for nada, tried top and jigs.
Usual spook action did not really happen like days earlier for me.
Frank got hit first wp fish, and used it tourney day for a 3+, they only
got 2.
Fri., Aug. 18th
El Capitan
Boat: Frank's
3 me, 2 him. pre-fishing.
Started left side of Dam arm, nada.
Then front of Conejos and bank towards back, nada.
Worked back into trees, his buddy got one, us nada.
Worked across from Boulder bay, he got one on square
bill. Tried wp for nada.
Wed., Aug. 16th
Otay Lake Reservoir
Boat: Answered Prayer
Tom 1, on the WP med., me 12, 11 on the frog, one WP med. fish.
Heard from Tom the week before there was a hidden area, so to speak, past
the tulles at the end of Harvey's, so we ran back there to start with, and
got the Skeeter on plane when we hit the 20 yards of floatind debris that
plugged up the 'canal' that goes back. Push poled the rest of the way
back, along with trolling motor on hight (now fixed from two weeks earlier
of cable/fuse problems).
Click photo to enlarge.
Really got into the frog bass.
Nada first hour working our way in, frogs and WP for me, flukes and frog
and WP for Tom. He got the first finally on the WP, was to be his last. I
started getting them on the Gavacho frog, green/white belly. Ended with 11
on the frog, nothing under 2, nothing over 4, mostly 3's. Fun times. At
dust it got even better, of course. Back to docks about 7:45, 10 minutes
after sunset.
Wed., Aug. 9th
Otay Lake Reservoir
Boat: Tom Cosgrove's alum.
4 me, one frog, one wplopper (new white, 3 cast Harvey’s, entrance on
right.) 1 bass pro kick tail fluke, StikePro stick bait.
7 Tom C., one wplopper, 6 kastmaster dinks.
Nada first hour, we worked the second cove past the sculler docks
again, nada. I ran the tm all day. Ran to entrance of Harvey's, right
side, where I've been doing well. Got a nice 3 on the third cast of the
new Powder (white), med. WP 130, cool. Kept up with the frog, and Tom was
trying it more too, has never done well with it, maybe one or two so far.
I got one on it, and also the fluke and the stickbait.
Kept working that whole side to the big cove, then ran back to Otay arm
and fished the shadows, got into a nice topwater buster bite, finally. Tom
slayed them on the kastmaster, I stuck w/ the frog, going for big one. Got
one on the Gunfish right off though.
Click photo to enlarge.
Tom with a nice one, my first 'buster bass' of the year on top, a Jackall
Gavacho frog bass.
*Wed., Aug. 2nd
Otay Lake Reservoir
Boat:
Answered Prayer (87 Skeeter w/ 115 Merc.)
Solo 2 bass on the kick tail Bass Pro Fluke
3 till 8
Was hot at Otay, In more ways than one! Fished from three till dusk,
was so nice on the water with all the clouds. Got some great blowups on
top- frogs. But nothing stuck at first.
Fished the first or second cove in Otay arm on left side past the sculler
docks, and bottomed out in shallow but forced trolling motor to turn in
the mud and busted the older cable (had replaced the longer one a few
months back). Even the newer one was starting to break, so order a set
from the Trolling Motor Doctor in O.C.. Also blew the fuse as running it
with the prop not turning).
So went and fished the entrance to Harvey's, left side, and let the wind
blow me down the shore, nada. Ran across to the south side. Only the fluke
seemed to work, and after getting a few went back to frogs. Soft jerk
baits had nonstop action by other boaters too, in 12 foot of water outside
tulle points. But I stuck with bigger top water, swinging for the fences
as usual. Even at dusk I lost three big ones on the StrikePro stick bait (sim.
to a S.Sook) in five minutes, dang! I could've really scored but that's
fishing. (NOTE: the following week noticed that the
first bass had straightened out the hook, no wonder lost all three).
Click photo to enlarge.
Fluke fish, sunset at S. entrance area, Harvey's arm.
*Sunday, July 23rd,
Otay Lake Reservoir
Boat:
Answered Prayer (87 Skeeter w/ 115 Merc.)
Sunday, Valerie worked for me.
Probably 6 hours min.
Went out but as I did not record any
bass w/ the camera (catching up on these posts a month later), only see
photos of frog on pole and sunset. Oh, I remembered I had tried all new
areas with the frog and struck out.
Click photo to enlarge.
Everywhere looks fishey. Got a couple of blow ups, that was it.
Note copied/pasted from sdfish reports a
week later
From sdFish a week later...
seanm said:
"Glad to see you getting back out there!"
Yeah, too much work, I've been going crazy, usually fish twice weekly, now
lucky to get a 1/2 day every other week or so!!! OUCH/HELP ME LORD!!!
Reason being the mall my gallery is in has a new owner, and his management
team now requires us to maintain 'regular mall hours', which is 10 to 9
daily, 'cept Sunday, close at 6! (Don't blame them really, if we all have
irregular hours traffic suffers from folks not knowing if anything is even
open, so many other shops were doing the same!).
Means no more 'gone fishing, back tomorrow' notes on the door. Will need
to get more artists back in to share the space and go back to it being a
'co-op' in effect, like I did years ago. Then I'll get days off again. Was
nice while it lasted. (Any retired folk needing part time work selling for
big comm. only contact me).
Here's a couple of snaps of the plaza, with an ocean view (how blessed),
and some promos in the gallery, and the gallery itself. Come on by and say
hi when in Del Mar. It's on old Hwy 101, and 15th street, in 'old Del
Mar'. My 'Best of Hawaii' is up on display, along with 100 images from 65
world-wide destinations. "
*Mon., July10th,
El Capitan Reservoir
Boat:
Answered Prayer (87 Skeeter w/ 115 Merc.)
4 bass me, 0 bass Eric - one on Strike Pro 'waterstriker', three W.Plopper (one a
3).
Water down 8' since last trip, 80
degrees, maybe 84 back in trees.
Picked Eric up at frameshop at
10:30, on water by noon. Met 'Capt. Kirk' Mitchell at pay station, he
recognized me from reports. He's retired. Says he fishes Obregon
yearly (last time end of Feb., 2017, 125 fish per day, 25 on top- his
buddy as a bass boat), said we should buddy boat down, he likes it more
that Novillo! Also, has a 25' Parker center, said I'd trade art for a
seat, as lately no cash for gas. His buddy Terry (who has terminally
ill wife, bummer) had the boat, would not start. Help them get it started.
(They got 3 in three hours, buzzbait). He usually fishes with 'Marshall',
who works so weekends only.
Click photo to enlarge.
New acquaintance 'Cap't Kirk' getting top action..
Water down 8' since last trip. We worked the ramp cove,
and I got a nice 2 pounder second cast while Eric parked the trailer, TUL.
It broke my lure in 1/2 (probably due to so many monsters on it lately, as
this bass was too small to do that!?). Zippo, I threw top, Eric spinner.
Fished second point on right headed N. for nada, all the way to third long
point, which is now a peninsula again.
Click photo to enlarge.
First bass broke my well used med. Whopper Plopper- wow!
Ran to trees and started in the back right, wind was
pretty strong. Nada. Worked inside of the trees, which were in some 8-9'
depth. Looked great, nada. Worked other side when we could no longer go
along shore, deeper, 10' still. back to front. Got a blow up on the med.
WP, and Eric first, on a frog under the trees. He mixed it up, a metal
flapping bird lure, the frog, and a white spinner, nada more for him.
Worked the right side out more, after reaching the front, nada. Got to
spot across from Boulder Bay so ran over there, and I got one of two
blowups landed, a nice 2#, bass #2.
Click photo to enlarge.
Third of four bass was a nice one, 3 lbs. on the med. W.P.
Ran to the island to work the point, got bass #3, a
nice 3 pounder, and another on the next point where the dam arm starts,
always get action these two points. TUL!
*Weds., July 5th,
Otay Lake with Mike Wade
Boat:
Answered Prayer (87 Skeeter w/ 115 Merc.)
0 bass Mike, 7 bass me - two on frog, three W.Plopper (one a 4.5 and one a
6.5) and two on BPS small swimbait, gray back white belly.
Picked Mike up at this house at noon, then made the one
hour drive to the lake and launched. Made a run to the sculling ramp for
20 minutes of frog nada. Ran to back of Harvey's, saw Rob and Trevor first
and got info, they had 8 since 8, only one on frog), so looked bad. We
fished from far back right end back to the creek for nada, nor did we see
fish (found out later Rob got zippo there too, but it was good a month
ago!)
Decided to make a flats run, and went back towards the
entrance of Harvey's were I started throwing the med. W.P., and got a 6.5
in short order in 12' of water.
Click photo to enlarge.
First bass was a nice one, 6.50 lbs.
Continued this while Mike threw a buzzbait, and at 4;30
I got a 4 pounder, just 10 minutes later. Worked into the opening of
tulles and got another, this time a 2, just on outside tulle line, like
the four was.
Click photo to enlarge.
Second bass was almost as nice one, 4.50 lbs.
Worked around that area, tied on a BPS swimbait that I
use as a trailer for the Chatterbait and got one in two casts, TUL. (Mike
was getting bummed, nada for him yet). I offered him one but he declined.
Got another, then decided to run to Bushlow Cove after running into Rob
and Trev coming from the creek, to give them space.
I got one back on the frog, finally, back in Bushlow.
We fished it all the way back
to shallow water, and got a 'tree hanger' bass 1/2 way back in, cool.
Worked it back out, nada. Was getting darker so ran to back of Otay arm and got another on the frog off
a thin tulle patch. Then back to the skuller dock cove for more nada at
dusk.
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