2012
| Diamond Valley Lake 4/4 | Typical spring largemouth action, Hookey and Dufish nailed many from the shallows including one smallmouth. |
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| Diamond Valley Lake 5/2 | Had the spring overcast I have been waiting for but the bass bite was somewhat slow, only caught two largemouth and a few other hits. |
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| High Sierra 5/25 | An attempt to catch a lahontan cutthroat trout at a secret high country lake. |
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| High Sierra 7/31 | Backpack into the John Muir Wilderness for seven nights with hopes of landing large brown trout. |
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| High Sierra 8/29 | Truck ran crapily, had to bail out of the back country. |
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| High Sierra 9/21 | Hiked to 11,500-foot Tamarack Lake only to find small brook trout. |
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| Palos Verdes 10/24 | Fished Palos Verdes for opaleye after seeing hundreds of the blue-eyed fish caught at local sportfishing landings. Didn't catch any. |
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| Palos Verdes 11/28 | Still hundreds of opaleye in the local sportboat counts, fished calm waters for two of 'em. |
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