Fishing - Lake Murray 8/15/09

Decided to hit up Lake Murray last Saturday morning. Got there at about 6:30am and fished the west side of the lake by the baseball field. Started out with topwater using the Rage Toad, awesome bait. Got a few blowups but only managed 1, a nice 3.5 lbr, I guess I should be a little more patient and not set the hook too soon. Switched to a dropshot, using Roboworm MM and manage a couple of dinks. Left the lake at 11:00 am, ended up 3 fish. Like always, fun time.

Gear:

Abu Garcia Revo S w/50lb Power Pro braid on 7ft med-heavy Fenwick HMXT70MH baitcast rod. Lure=Strike King's Rage Toad

Daiwa Exceler 1500 with 4/lb flouro on a Fenwick HMXS70 spinning rod use for dropshot. Lure=Roboworm MM

Bluegill Fishing: Santee Lakes

Went down to the Bloodbank to donate blood at 8 a.m. on Saturday. Came home and rested for awhile, till my wife walks in the room and asked me if I wanted to go bluegill fishing. I jumped right out of bed and grabbed the rods, packed up some food & beers and off we went.

Got to the lake at around 2:00 pm, got some nightcrawlers and we were ready to go. We asked one of the rangers where the good bluegill spot were in pointed us to a spot. Cut down the crawlers to small pieces, rigged up a bobber and handed off the rod to my wife. Before I can start rigging mine up she was already hooked up. Just constant bite after that, none were really big but plentiful and fun. We stayed at the same spot all day, well, the 4 hours that were there. Caught lots of fish and got to spend some quality time with wife, it was a great day.

Fishing The Drop Shot Rig!

One of the most popular techniques in bass fishing right now is the Drop Shot rig and is my go to rig when the bite is slow. The advantages of the Drop Shot rig is that the bait is always suspended, the depth is easily adjusted and it is very simple to fish.

Fishing: Lake Miramar

Went fishing with Steve, a friend from work, last Saturday. We decided to fish Miramar since there have been some good report lately. Got there at around 5:20 am and on the water at about 5:35. The lake looked awesome, lots of grass underwater, tullies surrounding the whole lake and there were hardly any boats on the water.

Started out throwing topwater baits. Steve went with a popper and I went with the Rage Toad. We both managed to catch a couple LMB each. Continued topwater fishing till about 10:00 went the temperature started to heat up. We switched to crankbaits and plastics and managed a few with those. Come noon time, we were done, temperature was at 100 degrees so we were out of there.

Had a good time, lake was beautiful, caught some fish and just plain relaxing. I just wished that I had brought my flipping stick with me to fish some of those underwater matted grass. It has been a while since I fished Lake Miramar so I didn't really know what the lake condition was going to be like. Anyways, hope to get back there in a couple of weeks. PS... sorry Steve for missing that fish with the net, I never was good at netting someone else's fish...haha!

Humboldt squid wash-up!

Weird happenings Saturday morning in the shores of La Jolla, Calif.

Dozens of dazed Humboldt squid, which were roughly in the 40 lb range, were found flapping around on La Jolla Shores beach after a 4.0 earthquake hit just 19 miles off the coast of San Diego.

Whether the earthquake cause them to wash up shores, nobody knows. But it didn’t take long for the seagulls to swoop in and start feeding on the squids, when some good semaritans saw what was happening they were quick to try to help the squid back in the water.

A spokesman for Scripps Institution of Oceanography said that they do not see a connection between the squid and the earthquake, but plan to look into it.