New here, fish mostly in SoCal and a bit in NY, MN

[VGT]

Hey everyone, 

 

I fish mostly in Socal (long beach), once a year in Minnesota, and then monthly in Westchester county, NY.

 

Didn't really know anything about fishing other than how to tie knots well. Would fish lake trout occasionally on trips didn't catch a whole lot and would hit the pan fish hard when I would visit my grandparents in MN. Finally this last summer I was tired of rigging worms so I threw on a tiny kastmaster spoon to catch the panfish and I nailed a bass kept fishing the shallows the same way and landed a bunch of 1-2 pounders and was hooked. Trip ended back to work and home. Pulled out my old gear at home and fixed it up and fished my local city pond (el dorado park lakes). Fished plastic worms texas rigged after miles of reading and in the fall I caught several 3-5 pounders right in the reeds. Then started fishing Kensico Reservoir and silver lake preserve when I go out to visit my Girlfriend in NY. Haven't really caught much at all couple dinky's, all bank fishing. Now that winter has hit I'm catching nothing here in my local pond or in NY. Hopefully ill find some help here or someone to fish with at least LOL.

 

Favorite Lakes,

El Dorado Park Lakes, CA

Union Lake, MN

Silver Lake Preserve, NY

[GaryH]

Welcome aboard VGT.

[whitwolf]

Welcome!

[A-Jay]

Hello and Welcome to Bass Resource ~

A-Jay

[Darren.]

Welcome aboard! ??

[Log Catcher]

Hello and welcome to the forum.

[soflabasser]

Welcome to the forum

[Bluebasser86]

Welcome!

[Big Hands]

Welcome!

 

El Dorado Park gives up some nice bass every year, especially in the spring as do several of the urban park lakes in the LA area. Before transporting bass in livewells became illegal, there used to be a lot more stocking of those urban park lakes, but that why it's important to practice C&R there.

 

If you know anyone with a small aluminum boat that is up for a little adventure, fishing the outside of the Federal breakwall in Long Beach harbor . . . . at night . . . . with your bass gear can be a blast fishing for calico bass, sand bass, and sculpin.

[Glenn]

Welcome home! We're glad you're here.

[VGT]

On 12/18/2020 at 3:31 PM, Big Hands said:

Welcome!

 

El Dorado Park gives up some nice bass every year, especially in the spring as do several of the urban park lakes in the LA area. Before transporting bass in livewells became illegal, there used to be a lot more stocking of those urban park lakes, but that why it's important to practice C&R there.

 

If you know anyone with a small aluminum boat that is up for a little adventure, fishing the outside of the Federal breakwall in Long Beach harbor . . . . at night . . . . with your bass gear can be a blast fishing for calico bass, sand bass, and sculpin.

Thanks everyone! And yes I have considered fishing the break wall but just haven’t gotten to it!