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I haven't, been meaning to hit DVL or Skinner just hasn't happened yet. They should be up shallow if not this week then next week for sure.

Spring is in full effect in my area, hit the local pond to flip the creek and got a nicer one.

Drop shotting 5" Yum Dingers on a 2/0 EWG hook has been slaying it lately around my neck of the woods

For the 2.8 and 3.3 I like the Keitech Tungesten fine guard head and also underspins. For the 3.8 and up I'll usually use Revenge Hedz or VMC boxer heads.

Looking for some help from you guys. I'm 99% sure this crank is a Shad Rap. I don't think they make the color anymore and not sure what they called it, but if anyone knows what model/color the crank is that'd be helpful. Thanks guys!!

Fishing the keitech fat weightless is kind of a trick. It needs to be rigged just right and can only be swam at slow speeds in my experience. Weighted hooks or nail weights and it runs true.

That's a hudd shad

Matt Lures, Optimum or Castaic are likely to offer the best options other than Huddleston

Looks like a trout

I haven't but I definitely should give a look into it. The bubbling shaker is just the absolute perfect worm for the clear waters i fish where drop shot is king. The way it kind of suspends and quivers is just insane, can't say enough good things about the whole lineup of shakers.

Been my favorite plastic all year! Paul Mueller is into them big time and showed me the way to the promised land

Those look pretty sweet, it's nice they come already rigged up nicely for CA.

There's just not a lot of girls that fish, wish there would be more that are into it. The more people who fish the better imo.

I fish the Flash Mob Jr on a rod rated just like that and it works out perfectly. I can only use 3 hooks so have 3 baits on a 1/8oz leadhead and usually 2 blades on the top arms or sometimes extra decoy baits.

This time of year I just focus on fishing structure. It's been really slow for me too. The weathers been a lot cooler than usual and storm after storm keeps rolling through yoyoing water temps. The few bites I've been scrapping by have all been on steeper drops and humps. I like to think of it as deep water near shallower water. The fish like to hang in the deeper water and then come up into the shallower water it seems like to feed. Timing has been important too, although it's really hard to know when that right time is. I'll go 4 hours without a bite and then get 3 in 30minutes.

Reins bubbling shaker 4" green pumpkin fished on a dropshot is what got me all my biggest fish this year. Biggest went 6lb and I lost a couple more good ones.

Really? I really like the mushroom head with the skirt, it works as a standup head with a TRD. When paused the TRD strands straight up and still kinda quivers while the skirt slowly opens up. I haven't found many other small standup jigs with skirts that also have the wire keeper for the elaztech.

Senkos imo more so than other lures work best when casting to a specific spot. They work great for fishing shoreline cover or docks or sumberged weed edges/pockets but aren't as good as other lures for working an area casting and working it back. For deeper or dirtier water I like a standard 5" senko, green pumpkin has been a good all-around color for me rigged on a 3/0 EWG. For cleaner or shallower water I like the thin 5" senko same color and rigged on a 3/0 straight shank, i like the roboworm rebarb.

I've used them a bit, I like them. The size of fish didn't really change but I mostly use them in a lake that pretty much just as 1-2.5lb fish so not much to compare it to that way.

Caught 2 Christmas bass today before dinner on the jig again, sure is a fun bite.

Pretty much any retrieve will work. I like to shake the slack and slowly reel it. 1/10 or 1/15 has been the best weight. 6lb fluoro on a light spinning rod.

I fish water with about your level of clarity. My top 3 in no particular order would be the Megabass Vision 110, 110jr and Luckycraft 65SP. Any baitfish color I've used has worked so no particularly hot colors. Should be getting some Rick Clunns in today and gonna give them a go this week to see how they compare.

Fished this morning before work. Air temp was 45, water temp probably in the 50s. Pretty darn cold for Socal, there was even frost on the grass in the shade. Fished textbook winter stuff. Steeper bank with quick access to deep water fished the Finesse jig and reins craw.

That'll do!! The 2.8s are gonna be lonely though

Fortunately I don't think the cormorants have any effect really. Haven't fished at your lakes but Laguna Niguel and MV both have them all the time, 15 probably roost at Laguna Niguel and it doesn't hurt the fishing. They are there long before the trout go in too. I think it's just taking some time adjusting to the lack of weeds. While present it gives something to relate to but without it sounds like it turns your lakes into mostly featureless bottom with the docks. I'd think it'd make the bass sort of spread out more. It happened at LN, they chemicalled the water, the fishing got slower then back to normal. But then the chemicals took effect and it totally got rid of all the moss/algae/grass slop that was growing in the tapered shallows. Without that vegetation it went back to being just featureless boringness and the fish spread back out and related to what little contours there are or just hungout in the nothingness. It was warmer then but worked for me was covering water with a lipless crank. The crank just helped me find fish and I started catching fish in a couple specific areas. Once I found what area they liked to bite in I could then focus more of my time on the specific areas.