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Not a great fishery.. But it's right down the street. Hard to pass up, no matter how funky the water gets. (Sadly, I've caught underwear there...)

I agree with this information also, I really love Senko's, and now that I'm getting back into fishing for bass I couldn't imagine making a trip without them.

I agree with this advice.

usually when I can't wait to fish I either try to better my knowledge or I drool at fishing gear.

I prefer finesse myself, that being said, my favorite "power" bait is a lipless crank.

Nice sized bass, last time I saw pictures of hogs like that they had 8" trout swimbaits in their mouths.

Well, we sold our boat and a few years of not fishing put me into that "lets give this lake stuff a try again". Fishing is one of the few things in the world that I can do and just be calm, cool and relaxed.. Nothing to be stressed about or overthink. Can't live without some form of fishing.

My personal favorite bass happens to be my first, and it really opened my eyes... I was much younger, I always read "slow is the key" for large mouth with plastics.. Well, my definition of slow was impatiently fast.. My first outing with a baitcasting reel yeilded, a birds nest.. While untangling that birds nest, my 7" watermelon worm sat there in the water for oh.. 20 seconds, not moving at all... I manage to untagle the line, decide to reel in and recast, as it only landed about 5 feet from the shore, and there was a 3 1/2lb bass on the other end. I didn't learn a d**n thing that day. It's taken quite awhile for what happened to really sink in.. To be honest, I've always been an ocean fisherman, while I have fished a few times for bass, it was never really a priority. Now im here to give it a shot

That's the problem with most bass fisherman. Sadly when I was younger, I spent a LOT of time probably scaring the crap out of bass with worms moving at the speed of light. I actually landed my first bass on a worm during summer when I was much younger, fixing a birds nest of all things.. Bait sat there about 20+ seconds, I reeled in the slack line after fixing the nest and all the sudden there was a beauty on the other end, about 3 1/2lbs, not bad for a first bass !

My favorite book is "Fish Have No Hands" by Mike Gardner. It's geared towards bay fishing for Spotted Bay Bass, but the techniques have really taught me to slow down and detect pressure bites.

That would be amazing to have those little local ponds around my house. My personal go-to styles are drop shotting, fishing Senko's wacky rigged, and dead sticking (I caught my first bass fixing a birds nest from one of my first casting reel experiences).

Nice fish, I've had worse than 1 fish sadly

Aye. I've never really fished Fresh Water too seriously, I live a few miles from the ocean, between bay bass fishing, surf fishing, inshore, offshore.. Never really wanted to drive the 70 mile one way trip to a HEAVILY over fished CA lake, especially as the boat we had was a bit much for lakes But, I figured I might give it a try.

Wow, that's crazy. Once I saw this post I joined just to send Hammer 4 a message. I'm not to big on drives, and I've read a disturbing trend of breakins at Lake Perris, and I have no boat nor the money to really rent one, so the only close place to fish for me is El dorado park, really not an ideal place but it's what I have for now. Id love to chat with a few of you that may have some information regarding fishing there. I've only gone a couple times and the most I've landed in a single day was 2, get skunked about half the time.