PressuredFishing

Was just curious what people's success rates are for dead zones of a lake for bass, areas with no structure or visible bait fish, pretty much just huge mud flats, sandy flat lifeless bottoms, etc. Anyone fish areas like this that are close to structure, or the bank?

Yeah, I don't mean to Hijack the forum but I've been using jigs well, what do you also use for the oaks out here? Always want to learn from the master of socal

I've been using mono, but I don't really know much about big baits compared to alot on the forum.

Yes, and some lakes seem to prefer one over the other.

Yeah, plus I like the taper, it was designed that way I hear

Yes, but DSing with light line can become a problem after a fish, when the fish pulls drag they can often tangle the tag end up, or even the tag end brakes off randomly some times when fish peels drag. Finally hooks don't like to sit perfect after a fish.

Weight? Hindsight 2020 I might got one of each instead of two lts, but not disappointed in the lts by any means, only thing that attracted me to the lt was the spider colors

Got two old 2018 model digitaka a few months ago, one is great, one is okay. Will be interested to see what people think

Yes... They are alot more fussy about feeding times, but an example I have experienced is 26 air Temps mon dead water 28 air slight breezeTemps tues dead water 30 air temp heavy breeze dead water 32 no cool breeze morning fish are a little sluggish but slapping bait, evening they are eating better, than a 24 degree day came in after and dead water again

Yeah, listened to pretty smart weather guy on PBS today and showed a chart that has shown how the more west you move across the U.S, the less predictable rainfall is and will differ dramatically from year to year and always has. I have family that works with a local water municipality, and all the regulations in lake building, dam repair, and licensing really demoralizes the reservoirs to be repaired or built so they just lower the water below where dam damage is and flood the extra water out to the ocean. Nobody wants to deal with the valves, dam repair or work, or even the simple light switch electrical work on the dam lakes because there is so much red tape, paperwork, etc. Even spraying invasive weeds with pesticides requires a month of paperwork to make sure it doesn't contaminate the water even though the weeds grow on the complete other side of the dam 100 yards away. It's easy for the municipalities to just abandon the dam all together and let the lake turn into a puddle. Not to mention walking riprap to spray it is a invitation for a snake bite or broken leg. P.S (watch easier when the engineer corps did the work...)

S.O.S get me out here! Saw bussy some years ago, was interesting layout, never fished though,

Keitechs are cheaper also

I saw this one, bellows gill is such a weird but good bait, I also like the free rig with little damiki baits armor shad for the SW here,

From what I've heard, I think your right, though I'd never know because most my fisheries are 3-30 foot and nothing lower generally.

Spend the money at digital-taco!

I don't know about FW, but here in SOCAL SD Bay is heavily heavily contaminated from the millitary... I won't eat anything out of the bays, or when water flows out of TJ poo poo river after rains... Some of socal reservoirs have studies showing some level of contamination, but to be blunt, you eating doritos is most likely worse than eating a small fillet of crappie

Always net, don't bug, tie line for the front angler, be polite and thankful, don't accept offer for front, fish the stuff he fished, save spots he missed for if you double back, bring food, pay for gas, if you spot fish give him the opportunity to catch them...

Subline super natural 20lb

Silver wolf was marketed as this, and the gekkabijin is a open water sw version, both are almost the same as the alphas air

Thats true ?

Excellent Info thanks! and absolutely agree, it's been 3 years of bacteria outbrakes and I cannot believe how little they have stocked, I don't want to say incompetence because I don't know how hard it is to run a fishery, but visiting a dfg hatchery and a private one like Mt Lassen and Jess ranch it just seems the private ones are so much cleaner, healthier from better pellet diets, clean fresh mountain stream water, excellent filtration systems, and much more space for the fish to be less crowded than dfg. I'm not an expert but maybe that helps breed strong healthy fish that don't succumb to disease as easily. Maybe you know more backstop behind the situation

Never, even being a young mid 20s guy I've only had one punch thrown at me in school and I dodged, and de escalated the situation verbally. I'm not trying to sound bodacious or boastful, but generally I've always had a very good situational awareness, and can read people very well... You can't get into a fight if your never even spoken to by them.

Always good to get both sides of the story, do you think we will see another big fish come out of Casitas and Castaic, or do you think the drought, lack of forage, and fishing pressure has hurt the fishery

20$ because I don't like the colors and won't use some