Cameron and I had an excellent Day 1 on El Capitan. We were brought right back down to earth today on Otay, where we only had 3 keepers and basically fumbled an excellent opportunity to sweep the entire event and win it all. We sucked at Otay today, straight up. Couldn't get it going or done.

Yesterday, life was good. Cameron had fish going pretty good on El Cap, which freed us up in the morning mentally and spiritually to just go fish and have some fun. Fished buzzbaits and got some tiny fish to blow up on it. Cameron catches one keeper finaly. We move back toward the back of the lake, and pull over on a steep bank with shade, wood, and big rocks. I noticed Cameron didn't have his money rat tied on, so I asked him if I could tie one of his on. He obliged and I got one to kiss it about 15 minutes later off some wood. BIG HEAD on this fish. She looked huge in the water with this big old head (unfortunately she was super skinny, but had a teen sized frame it appeared). Rago Rat, original wooden super OG rat that has caught a billion fish for Cameron, and I catch a 9.89 in the El Cajon Ford on El Capitan. That fish held up for the Big Fish of the Event which was cool.

Cameron was on a spoon bite on deep suspended fish around wood, and hooked one that went 7.80 pounds. So we had 2 absolute giants for El Cap in the boat. We somehow got both big bites in the boat, and Cameron filled up our limit with some other decent keepers. 26 pounds on El Cap was just insane.

Otay, today, we couldn't get frog fish love, swimbait love, breaking fish love....nothing. We should have just settled in to catching a limit from the get go and fished outside slow and deep and caught us a limit. Oh well. Lots of fun. Huge thank you to Paul Leader, El Cajon Ford, Anglers Arsenal, the Cassidy crew and everyone who put the event on. Just fun to fish in San Diego with a bunch of old friends and peers.



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