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#11370 - 04-20-2008 13:43
Castaic Lagoon, CA: Sat 4/19
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geobass
Veteran Member
Registered: 08-10-2007
Posts: 129
Loc: Los Angeles, CA
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Got up to the Lagoon at around noon.
Water temp was 62, ait temp 70. Mild breeze between 6 and 10 coming from the SSW. Partly cloudy mixed with patches of bright sun.
Barometer had been holding steady around 30 for the past couple of days but had begun to drop slightly to around 29.50 just before I left for the lake.
Water clarity was pretty good, not the scary gin clear since I was on the north end of the lake today and the south wind was kicking up some gentle wave action at the shorline.
Fished a lot of different stuff today. Swimbaits, Senko, Ika and various plastics dropshot, splitshot, c-rigged etc.
Water level was pretty high and in most spots I was backed up into some narrow slots in the bushes with trees overhead so the casting was a little difficult.
One of my buds lost a $40 BBZ swimbait in the top of a tree when it was taken slightly off course by the breeze.
It was stuck so bad we couldn't get it out. Pulling and shakin, the dang 20 lb. P-line it was rigged on finally broke. It was stuck that bad, and too high and far out to climb up and get it.
Got one tap on the Ika but not a solid bite.
After not getting any bites on my bigger stuff I finally ratcheted it down to my smaller 3" plastics and started getting bit on the watermellon Zoom Tiny Fluke.
I was also going to the 4" Bonzai Cinnamon Neon Core which usually gets bit pretty good when it's sunny but no dice on that today.
I was going with the kamikaze rig 5 lb. Maxima flourocarbon line, #8 Owner mosqito hooks and 5/32 mojo weights krimped about ten inches below on the tagline. 7' medium action dropshot rod with Daiwa Sol 2500 reel.
Some guys I've talked to at Castaic are now fishing this same setup on 3 and even 2 lb. line when the bite is tough, we are talkin ultra light kamikaze for the dropshot in open water. The lightest I have tried this myself so far is 4 lb.
Was able to get a few small ones with the light setup on the dropshot, my best today was a solid two pounder. Packed it in at around 5:30.
Besides the lost BBZ lure and losing rigs in the bushes and stuff I had a wonderful time fishing today. It was a lot of fun just to be out there at the waters edge catching some nice bass.
Good fishing to you guys, later........... geobass
All fish were released after pics were taken.
Attachments
geobass2_041908.JPG (32 downloads)
Description: One of the small ones on the DS.
geobassbest041808.JPG (44 downloads)
Description: My best of the day, solid two pounder on dropshot watermellon Zoom Tiny Fluke
Edited by geobass (04-20-2008 13:56)
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#11371 - 04-20-2008 15:30
Re: Castaic Lagoon, CA: Sat 4/19
[Re: geobass]
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swimbait101
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Registered: 02-28-2008
Posts: 39
Loc: California
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Wow, you are the bass expert, you always get something, EVERYTIME I GO, I GET NOTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i lost a bbz too one time
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