I picked up a renovation job in Hawthorne and I've been thinking about doing some pre work fishing before I start at 9 a.m. I decide to drag my flat bottom saltwater rig over to fish the smaller lakes in the area. No fish finder, no gps, first
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Started off early at Lochloosa, lines in the water at 6:50. It was a cool 47° with a light breeze blowing, perfect morning. We thought it was about to get real but we couldn't buy a bite. 8:30 and we called it a loss on that adventure and blasted
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Went before the dawn on Santa Fe for the first time just scouting it out today. It was really foggy, viz was about 100' we kept our lights on all day till we left it was weird. Didn't locate any schools of fish we didn't get to dissect the
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Got up early to head to lochloosa this morning. Got a pound of minnows and it was all hands on deck till about 10:00 a.m. when the bite shut down. Caught 78 and boxed 48 between 11" and "14 with a couple 15" fish. Awesome day
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Well since the new baby was born my spare time went from little to none. I had lost all hope of getting a trip in before the new year, but the wife surprised me late Saturday night by telling me that our 2 yr old was gonna spend the night at
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