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Her reaction is priceless, gotta love that. Congrats to her on the nice hog!!!!

Caught a monster today pitching the tule reeds. For the curious I got it on a Dbomb, 3/0 ewg, 3/8 tungsten bullet weight and straight 50# maxcuatro braid.

Football jigs or round head finesse jigs for rocks, if the trees are standing and don't have a lot of branches to them I'll use the same style jigs in those as well.

All my baitcasters have braided line. I typically tie on 5-6', the leader is basically from the tip of the rod to the reel so it varies depending on rod length. I always want the braid to be a smaller diameter than my leader line and I want it to be at least 2 line classes stronger than the leader. I want it to be smaller because trying albright knot variants work best with dissimilar line sizes and makes for small connections. I want it to be stronger because there is no stretch in the braid, 12lb mono/fluoro can be stronger than 20lb braid because the shock absorbance and stretch and I don't want the braid to be weaker than the leader otherwise might as well be using a lighter leader since these aren't toothy fish. I prefer 40lb braid for the 10-20lb leaders I tie on, I just like the diameter of it and the thin stuff just doesn't cast as nicely imo and has a higher tendency to dig into itself. Braided line is the truth, amazing hook sets, amazing sensitivity, extremely castable, you're on the right path.

I love baitcasters, there are lots that work plenty great for saltwater. In Socal they are real popular. A big one like a Tranx 500 or Lexa 400 is capable of taking down Wahoo, Tuna, Dorado, Yellowtail etc. Smaller 300 size baitcasters like the NACL 50 are my standard for fishing inshore species around here. Ultimately it comes down to how you're fishing and to some extent what you're fishing for.

Some people are just flat out weird. I worked at a pizza delivery place in high school. A person did the same thing one day, called in an order for delivery and when I asked for the address they were like "why do you want to know where I live? I'm not telling you my address" Strange people. Hopefully it all worked out for you in the end.

I have braid on all my baitcasters and PowerPro is my favorite, but if you wanted to try something else Izorline makes spectra that is pretty similar in feel to PowerPro but you don't have to wait for the coating to come off before it gets limp.

Use heavy line, like 20lb and those shallow squarebills won't dive nearly as deep, keep the rod tip up too.

Nice!!! I've heard lots of good things about that place. Glad you guys have a good outing together that's awesome!

Whether it's green, blue, brown or any color if there's some sort of clarity I'm going green pumpkin, I like GP red flake and black flake as well. If it's really clear and sunny I'll also use blue fleck, margarita mutilator etc bright purple/pinkish colors. For creature baits I'll use the Alabama craw color, green pumpkin top with orangish belly. But GP variants are my favorite. If visibility is really really poor I'll use black variants.

Lightning abated at 5:45am to let me launch and do battle with high winds settling and calming into 109 heat. Managed a couple deep structure jig fish.

This is the money right here. Takes some getting used to and the right hook with the right plastics but shaking the slack on light line is the way to go. My favorite is a 4" bubbling shaker and a #2 gama or a 5in/6in bubbling shaker or roboworm with a 2/0 straight shank worm hook. It's deadly effective for Bass of any size and something I always have tied on. In SoCal at least if you aren't drop shotting can it be said you're really trying? I don't think so.

Pretty simple for me since bycatch is extremely rare. But if it feels too good to be true it's a catfish

I like football jigs, texas rigs and tear drop drop shot weights. The biggest deal to keep from getting hung is letting the lure land on semi-slack or tight line. If you free spool it all the way to the bottom it finds it's way into the cracks more.

+1 Get's used a lot for me since the lakes tend to be a bit deeper and they don't always want to come all the way up for the standard 110. The Jr is a great bait as well, basically the same exact action in just a smaller package. I'm definitely a big MB believer.

Same thing is happening at a local lake I fish at. Bass are violently busting on bait on shallow weed flats. I'd try and find out what they're busting on and try and match that. Small superfluke jrs and drop shot clone fry in baby bass are what's working for me since they're mainly eating young bass since theres no proper bait species in the lake.

I like pretty much anything that gets it done, the only thing I'm not a big fan of actually fishing is weightless senkos or drop shot but of course biting fish make up for it.

I'd wind down and set the hook cause you don't know til you do, some of the biggest bass have the smallest bites.

Just looking at your area, something like this point at Logan Martin would be what I'm looking for:https://webapp.navionics.com/?lang=en#boating@14&key={ktkEtbemO Points and humps would be what I'm looking for, especially those that get kissed by the river channel and ledges on the outside edge of the channel bends. I'm not sure how much different it'd fish those cause we don't have any lakes even close to the river lakes out here.

I feel ya on that. Thursdays are my best day so lakes like Hodges, Otay, El Cap, Barrett etc are no good, the lake schedules are a major bummer.

Caught em at Diamond Valley Lake dragging a 3/8 football jig in deep water

I'm sorry but I think you might want to get that kids cat checked out

They certainly can but just like artificials night crawlers and the like do best when retrieved

Slip bobbers are a terrific way to fish live bait like that

It's just the way it goes and you'll never really know why. 2 weeks ago at Laguna Niguel I had 20 bites all from the same coverless spot, just a little depression 4-5ft deep. A week prior I caught 5 fish at the spot but they were scattered around more and the day after the good outing I got 9 but they weren't grouped as much either. Now, there's no biters in that area at all, ghost town. From my experience with the weed killers is just that the weed bite dies but they adapt really quick and the next bite pops up. The weeds usually grow in areas that the bass aren't normally going to be in without them there so they go back to the same areas that they would've been in. If they've typically let the weeds grow more before killing it off maybe this is just the first time you've fished there at this time of year without the presence of that cover.