Ray Lopez
02-25-2010, 05:06 PM
So after this crazy week on the lagoon. Fishing Monday catching 7 bass, then Tuesday off, wednesday i caught 4. When i got home that day i was still getting the shakes because i knew i had to get back to my lovely little goon'. The little lady went to bed at 8pm and i could not sleep at all. Then as i look at the time it was now 12:45am. I was still wide awake and i could hear this voice in the back of my head saying "if you fish it they will come!" Over and over and over again. Something was telling me to get on the water because it was time to pull a hawg!
Now mind you i was already planning to met up with Rob aka REZ to get his mind off all the stress's that come with getting everything together for his wedding in April. So i left my house at about 1am (i woke up at 6:30am the morning prior no sleep!!!! sleep is for the weak). I get to the lake at about 1:30am. It is perfectly calm and the water is flat and glassy. There was a 3/4 rising moon phase. Also the front coming in. I figured that the bite was gonna be killer. As i got down to my first spot at the end of the 1st camp grounds i could hear that little voice getting louder telling me "it's time to land another PIG DDeez all the way!!!!!! get er done! lol
I throw on a arrons magic 7" straight tail on the drop shot douse it in smelly jelly and cast out. First cast i get slammed and land another dinker about 1.5 pounds
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v28/RayLopez/Fishing%20Photos/kdk_0937.jpg
Nice that is a great sign for a good night.
I cast out a few more time and I'm getting hits but just can't stick um on the hook. Eventually after like my 3rd missed hit i stick another dinker about 2 pounds.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v28/RayLopez/Fishing%20Photos/kdk_0936.jpg
Sweet!!!!!
Then the wind started to pick up big time. Were talking about 30 to 40mph it felt like. I kept trying to fish but i kept missing the hits because i couldn't tell if it was a hit or just the wind moving my lure. Then it got so bad that i could no longer keep the weight on the bottom due to the current being to strong and taking my line. So i figure what the hell and walk back to my car around 4:30am. I set my cell phone alarm for 5:30am so i can get on the water b-4 the sun peaked over the mountains.
*BEEP BEEP BEEP* Okay I'm up. I grab my gear and the wind had died down a bit but was still gusty. I go down to the spot below the 1st campground where I've been hauling fish all week. I throw out the 6"oxblood red flake on the d/s set up. Tap Tap Tap Drop DAMN!! Light tapping. So i dead stick the lure and then twitch it a few times. Nothing!!!!!!!! So then i keep bringing it back it slowly. Half way in BLAM BLAM TUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz my reel starts peeling line fast!!!!!! HOLY CRAP i just stuck a HAWG!!!!!!!!!! I really started to get excited when the fish would not come up to jump seeing as all the other bass have been very airborne this week. I knew i had just stuck a fat DD!!! So we go back and forth she would run i would gain a bit and then she would run again. This was going on for at least 3 to 5 minutes (hard to remember since the mind was racing). I finally get to see her size in the clear water about 7 feet in front of me!!!!! F YEA!!! I knew she was a DD my 2nd DD ever!!!!!! Now I'm really getting excited but i keep telling myself "Stay calm you came here for this do not loose this fish!" She tries to break it for the reeds and i work her out and then she runs for the low hanging tree branches. I run to the other side and work her out of that. Then I get her close enough to lip her and pull her out of the water. WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!
I started jumping up and down and my hands were shaking my heart was racing and i was yelling at the top of my lungs to an empty lake lol. I hurry up and throw her on the digi scale and she comes in at 12.6 SAWEET!!!!! I snap my pictures and off she goes back to make some big strong babies!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v28/RayLopez/Fishing%20Photos/kdk_0938.jpg
Can you see the look of shock on my face? lol
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v28/RayLopez/Fishing%20Photos/kdk_0939.jpg
wanted to get a full body shot since she was too long to get a full pic with my huge head in the picture.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v28/RayLopez/Fishing%20Photos/kdk_0940.jpg
Went it finally hit me that i had just landed another DD at 12.6 pounds!! lol
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v28/RayLopez/Fishing%20Photos/kdk_0941.jpg
Then my favorite picture is her parting shot as she swims back safe and sound to produce more big bass
FIRST F'N CAST!!!!!!
I was texting everyone on my phone, screaming out F Ya!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! pacing back and forth trying to calm down. That woke me right up and got my heart pumping a mile a minute!!!!.
Once i calmed down tossed back out and within seconds WHAM TUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUG!!! OMFG i just hooked another possible Double Digit!!!!!! My eyes got super wide now and i started freaking out. The fight was on while i was still trying to calm down from the first one. She makes some long runs and i keep bringing her back in. I see her come up and give me the DD swirl on the surface I scream out HOLY SH**!!!!!!!! Then she tugs even harder and then after a 5 minute battle the line breaks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! F***!!!!!!!
Okay now I'm freaked out. I just stuck 2 DD hawgs and landed one at 12.6lbs. I was shaking like crazy now. Pissed for loosing that 2nd pig and jazzed i landed my 2nd DD ever!
I cast out a few more time and then on my 10th cast Again WHAM WHAM TUUUUUUUUUUUUUUG!!! WTF is going on here? She starts a hard battle and i fight this fish for a good 2 minutes before she comes up to the surface. I jam my rod into the water trying to keep her from head shaking but sure enough i see this massive head and part of her body break the surface and then the dreaded head shake *tink* my line snaps again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Damn this was another fatty i would say at least 8 to 10 pounds!
After i retie and now even more bummed that i just lost 2 possible DDs in a row. I hurry and retie and cast back out but nothing is happening now. No love at all! DAMN! Oh well i landed the one nice fatty PIG marking the 2nd DD notch on my belt.
So then REZ calls me and asks me if it's windy i told him yea but the fish have been biting better in the wind this week. Plus i caught a PIG get your *** out here!!!!!!! So then around 8:45 REZ shows up and we start working the shoreline. My spot got jacked so we decided to more farther north towards the point. We fish there for a bit and then slowly make are way down back to the spot below the 1st campground. I get a few hits but they are short bites and miss swings. "I was getting sloppy from sheer exhaustion from fishing all day the day before and then not going to sleep and getting back to the lake at 1:30 am and only getting 45 minutes of sleep."
I start helping some guys that were going after the bass but didn't know how to do a proper drop shot. REZ started making his way south a bit. Talking to a few different people it looked like the whole lake was sort of slow compared to the prior days this week.
Then i hear REZ call out "I'M ON!" I grab his camera and he lands a nice 2 pound chunky bass.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v28/RayLopez/Fishing%20Photos/100_1787.jpg
Sweet the skunk is off for REZ!! This was the first bass he's caught in quite a while. He also landed his on the oxblood red flake 6" straight tail. We continue fishing that area and then Fishbones his lady and Fishtale show up. We start chatting it up. By now im pretty much over the fishing just hanging around for the good company, and enjoying the day. I show fishtale how i do the drop shot and we all pretty much just kicked it chatted it up for a few hours before REZ and i decided it was time to leave since i was passing out.
What an awesome week on the water.
Working this pre spawn time is great seeing as the last 2 to 3 months have been pretty rough for bass fishing on the goon. Been catching good numbers of fish, landed my 2nd DD, got to reunite with my old high school buddy after 11 years, meeting a bunch of cool people. Helping at least 4 people learn the d/s and putting people on fish and breaking in new poles, also seeing some old lagoon folks like reelhigh. This has been one of the funnest weeks i have had on this lake.
If this week is any indicator for this years fishing then we are in for one hell of a year.
Get your chance to fish the lagoon when the fishing is hot March 20th tube, toon, yak meet-up
sign up:
http://fishingnetwork.net/forum4/showthread.php?43280-Attn-ALL-TUBERS-AND-YAKERS!!!-Meet-up-Saturday-March-20th-2010-Castaic-Lagoon
Also major thanks to fishbones for the gift, hope you, your lady, and fishtales land some pigs tonight.
Now mind you i was already planning to met up with Rob aka REZ to get his mind off all the stress's that come with getting everything together for his wedding in April. So i left my house at about 1am (i woke up at 6:30am the morning prior no sleep!!!! sleep is for the weak). I get to the lake at about 1:30am. It is perfectly calm and the water is flat and glassy. There was a 3/4 rising moon phase. Also the front coming in. I figured that the bite was gonna be killer. As i got down to my first spot at the end of the 1st camp grounds i could hear that little voice getting louder telling me "it's time to land another PIG DDeez all the way!!!!!! get er done! lol
I throw on a arrons magic 7" straight tail on the drop shot douse it in smelly jelly and cast out. First cast i get slammed and land another dinker about 1.5 pounds
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v28/RayLopez/Fishing%20Photos/kdk_0937.jpg
Nice that is a great sign for a good night.
I cast out a few more time and I'm getting hits but just can't stick um on the hook. Eventually after like my 3rd missed hit i stick another dinker about 2 pounds.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v28/RayLopez/Fishing%20Photos/kdk_0936.jpg
Sweet!!!!!
Then the wind started to pick up big time. Were talking about 30 to 40mph it felt like. I kept trying to fish but i kept missing the hits because i couldn't tell if it was a hit or just the wind moving my lure. Then it got so bad that i could no longer keep the weight on the bottom due to the current being to strong and taking my line. So i figure what the hell and walk back to my car around 4:30am. I set my cell phone alarm for 5:30am so i can get on the water b-4 the sun peaked over the mountains.
*BEEP BEEP BEEP* Okay I'm up. I grab my gear and the wind had died down a bit but was still gusty. I go down to the spot below the 1st campground where I've been hauling fish all week. I throw out the 6"oxblood red flake on the d/s set up. Tap Tap Tap Drop DAMN!! Light tapping. So i dead stick the lure and then twitch it a few times. Nothing!!!!!!!! So then i keep bringing it back it slowly. Half way in BLAM BLAM TUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz my reel starts peeling line fast!!!!!! HOLY CRAP i just stuck a HAWG!!!!!!!!!! I really started to get excited when the fish would not come up to jump seeing as all the other bass have been very airborne this week. I knew i had just stuck a fat DD!!! So we go back and forth she would run i would gain a bit and then she would run again. This was going on for at least 3 to 5 minutes (hard to remember since the mind was racing). I finally get to see her size in the clear water about 7 feet in front of me!!!!! F YEA!!! I knew she was a DD my 2nd DD ever!!!!!! Now I'm really getting excited but i keep telling myself "Stay calm you came here for this do not loose this fish!" She tries to break it for the reeds and i work her out and then she runs for the low hanging tree branches. I run to the other side and work her out of that. Then I get her close enough to lip her and pull her out of the water. WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!
I started jumping up and down and my hands were shaking my heart was racing and i was yelling at the top of my lungs to an empty lake lol. I hurry up and throw her on the digi scale and she comes in at 12.6 SAWEET!!!!! I snap my pictures and off she goes back to make some big strong babies!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v28/RayLopez/Fishing%20Photos/kdk_0938.jpg
Can you see the look of shock on my face? lol
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v28/RayLopez/Fishing%20Photos/kdk_0939.jpg
wanted to get a full body shot since she was too long to get a full pic with my huge head in the picture.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v28/RayLopez/Fishing%20Photos/kdk_0940.jpg
Went it finally hit me that i had just landed another DD at 12.6 pounds!! lol
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v28/RayLopez/Fishing%20Photos/kdk_0941.jpg
Then my favorite picture is her parting shot as she swims back safe and sound to produce more big bass
FIRST F'N CAST!!!!!!
I was texting everyone on my phone, screaming out F Ya!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! pacing back and forth trying to calm down. That woke me right up and got my heart pumping a mile a minute!!!!.
Once i calmed down tossed back out and within seconds WHAM TUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUG!!! OMFG i just hooked another possible Double Digit!!!!!! My eyes got super wide now and i started freaking out. The fight was on while i was still trying to calm down from the first one. She makes some long runs and i keep bringing her back in. I see her come up and give me the DD swirl on the surface I scream out HOLY SH**!!!!!!!! Then she tugs even harder and then after a 5 minute battle the line breaks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! F***!!!!!!!
Okay now I'm freaked out. I just stuck 2 DD hawgs and landed one at 12.6lbs. I was shaking like crazy now. Pissed for loosing that 2nd pig and jazzed i landed my 2nd DD ever!
I cast out a few more time and then on my 10th cast Again WHAM WHAM TUUUUUUUUUUUUUUG!!! WTF is going on here? She starts a hard battle and i fight this fish for a good 2 minutes before she comes up to the surface. I jam my rod into the water trying to keep her from head shaking but sure enough i see this massive head and part of her body break the surface and then the dreaded head shake *tink* my line snaps again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Damn this was another fatty i would say at least 8 to 10 pounds!
After i retie and now even more bummed that i just lost 2 possible DDs in a row. I hurry and retie and cast back out but nothing is happening now. No love at all! DAMN! Oh well i landed the one nice fatty PIG marking the 2nd DD notch on my belt.
So then REZ calls me and asks me if it's windy i told him yea but the fish have been biting better in the wind this week. Plus i caught a PIG get your *** out here!!!!!!! So then around 8:45 REZ shows up and we start working the shoreline. My spot got jacked so we decided to more farther north towards the point. We fish there for a bit and then slowly make are way down back to the spot below the 1st campground. I get a few hits but they are short bites and miss swings. "I was getting sloppy from sheer exhaustion from fishing all day the day before and then not going to sleep and getting back to the lake at 1:30 am and only getting 45 minutes of sleep."
I start helping some guys that were going after the bass but didn't know how to do a proper drop shot. REZ started making his way south a bit. Talking to a few different people it looked like the whole lake was sort of slow compared to the prior days this week.
Then i hear REZ call out "I'M ON!" I grab his camera and he lands a nice 2 pound chunky bass.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v28/RayLopez/Fishing%20Photos/100_1787.jpg
Sweet the skunk is off for REZ!! This was the first bass he's caught in quite a while. He also landed his on the oxblood red flake 6" straight tail. We continue fishing that area and then Fishbones his lady and Fishtale show up. We start chatting it up. By now im pretty much over the fishing just hanging around for the good company, and enjoying the day. I show fishtale how i do the drop shot and we all pretty much just kicked it chatted it up for a few hours before REZ and i decided it was time to leave since i was passing out.
What an awesome week on the water.
Working this pre spawn time is great seeing as the last 2 to 3 months have been pretty rough for bass fishing on the goon. Been catching good numbers of fish, landed my 2nd DD, got to reunite with my old high school buddy after 11 years, meeting a bunch of cool people. Helping at least 4 people learn the d/s and putting people on fish and breaking in new poles, also seeing some old lagoon folks like reelhigh. This has been one of the funnest weeks i have had on this lake.
If this week is any indicator for this years fishing then we are in for one hell of a year.
Get your chance to fish the lagoon when the fishing is hot March 20th tube, toon, yak meet-up
sign up:
http://fishingnetwork.net/forum4/showthread.php?43280-Attn-ALL-TUBERS-AND-YAKERS!!!-Meet-up-Saturday-March-20th-2010-Castaic-Lagoon
Also major thanks to fishbones for the gift, hope you, your lady, and fishtales land some pigs tonight.