Castaic Lake 3/18/10 Three hours of SLAY!!!

[marzocchi]

Hello again friends. I am glad business is picking up again so I have more work. The only downside is less fishing time. I finished up some of my work early and called my friend Ricky to join me in my weekly Castaic Lake fishing trip. We had a late start. Got to the lake around 1ish. By time we got to one of my spots it was almost 2. I was contemplating on which spot to hit. I hate blurring out my background and since I revealed my spot in some of my recent posts, I noticed there are like 772676923744 more boats in that area. I did not want to deal with the boat traffic so I chose an area with less boat pressure today. We fished for 3 hours and had to leave because Ricky got seasick. We pretty much slay'd them. Castaic has been pretty good to me. Here are the time captured stills from my phone. Enjoy.

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This is how the afternoon started. Did not even get to tie up my second rod and BENDO!!!

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Nice fish to start the fishing trip.

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Ricky the Bear turn. I did not take a pic of his fish cause his fish doesnt count.

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Then it was my turn again. Large unit. WOOT!

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Then it got WFO for us. Here is one of our doubles. Of course mines is always bigger than Ricky Bear.

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Water action shot to keep my post entertaining.

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Ricky going Bendo again. We got most of our fish on the $20 Fred Hall Kencor rods. The action is perfect for the stripers. I should of bought two.

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Another decent fish. That is my new addition to my boat to the upper left. Collapsible cup holders. A damn good investment.

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I forgot the the net today, so Ricky and I had to play Bassmasters. We had to do the lip grab. It was not fun at all.

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Or we had to do the other bassmaster grab. The under the belly lift.

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Later on I got rewarded with a Large unit. The pics do not do her just. She was a pig.

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More doubles. Large unit compared to a schoolie. Guess which one is Rickys.

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This is pretty much how it looked all day for us. Bendo.

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More Bendos! All on the Kencor rods.

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We ran into Dan (Lowe Boat) and Wayne. We told them we forgot our net. They were nice enough to lend us their extra net for the day. No more playing bassmaster for us. Such a relief.

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Another Large Unit for me.

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The Amish Ricky with another nice one to add to the collection.

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This is how our cooler looked. It looks pretty full. We slay'd em.

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Here is Ricky modeling some linesides to give you an idea on the size. Ricky is 6 ft something, 200 something pounds.

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I forgot to take my parting shot this week. Here is something I had last week at a restaurant. Raw geoduck (aka the penis clam) on ice. I can tell you it is not worth the 24 bucks I paid.

A lot of you are asking what kind of bait I am using. I am not using fresh bait. Sometimes I do. Sometimes I use Gallions pak. Sometimes I used the rotten ones. Sometimes I use the aged or cured one from my freezer. I have a concept that I am testing and it seems to be working out alright. Or maybe I am just crazy.

Hope you enjoyed fishing with me again. It was a short trip but a epic one. See you all next week if work doesnt get the best of me.

[Newfishsmell]

Hey I just looked it up in the dictionary " marzocchi " [definition] striper killer !!
WTG

[Chito]

Looks like you and your buddy had a hell of a great day congrats....I've seen and heard a lot of great things about castaic lake

i think i should head up there pretty soon:Idea:

[diggity]

just to clarify i did not get seasick... secondly you always line up the boat so that ONLY you get bit so i have to work a lot harder to catch the fish i do... cheating bastard! haha but we have to slay more fishies before i leave for the motherland!

[Ray Lopez]

oh man you guys are striper killer machines. Great job out there guys. Wish i could get up on the upper lake right now but everyone i know is so focused on the lagoon it's hard to get away. I'll take ricky's spot when he goes back to the motherland lol.


Are using the raw geoduck to catch striper??????? lol yey for the penis clam. But see you gotta eat it while it is still alive and it can squirt some stuff in yo mouf bwhahahahahaha. That is one creepy looking animal.

Right on brother keep on slaying um i love seeing these reports!!!!!!!

[Trout-Chaser]

WTG--I always enjoy your reports!

[Shock]

Nice going killen them Stripers man!!!

So def have Castaic dialed in...Someone on your spot you just move to anither one! Nice!!!

By the way, were you anchored down there or drifting? How deep was it?

[kgselect]

Awesome day at Castaic. Great pix. Thanks.

[msos]

You are a good fisherman. Nice report.

[fisherman from long beach]

nice pics and report. i love my kencor rod.its a really good rod,very sensitive.great catch you guys.

[fisherman from long beach]

also forgot to mention,anything named after a penis i would have to pass.lol.

[marzocchi]

oh man you guys are striper killer machines. Great job out there guys. Wish i could get up on the upper lake right now but everyone i know is so focused on the lagoon it's hard to get away. I'll take ricky's spot when he goes back to the motherland lol.


Are using the raw geoduck to catch striper??????? lol yey for the penis clam. But see you gotta eat it while it is still alive and it can squirt some stuff in yo mouf bwhahahahahaha. That is one creepy looking animal.

Right on brother keep on slaying um i love seeing these reports!!!!!!!

I should have used some of it for striper bait. It was not all that good.


Nice going killen them Stripers man!!!

So def have Castaic dialed in...Someone on your spot you just move to anither one! Nice!!!

By the way, were you anchored down there or drifting? How deep was it?

I was anchored. I was at approx 108 ft. They are a little bit deeper than last week.


also forgot to mention,anything named after a penis i would have to pass.lol.

Food channel said it was delicious. I had a choice between this or some lobster as one of the seafood dishes. I picked the wrong one.


...And good luck out there this weekend everyone. It is going to be a zoo out there.

[JimmisLine]

Good report, and nice pics. Thanks

[Hitts0n]

I usually dont care about replying to all the striper reports cuss they are all the same(boring),but you sure know how to give the details of the wonderful slay day,great j0b !