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russ88
10-02-2010, 10:43 AM
I was making trying to make bait and noticed a swirl. Casted my lure then dead sticked. Made a couple of twitches and the fish crushed my topwater. Felt the weight and the fight is on. I knew right away that its big. She made a few runs but short pumping the fish kept her on check. My PB striper...Steve at Gallions weighed it at 17 plus but that’s after It was bled.
http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z191/Rusell88/fishisng/Castaic18lber.jpg
Striper bite has been on and off for me. Skunk one day and the other its limit style. Seems like an afternoon bite though. The lake was recently blue stoned so Lots of dead shad n baby bass floating. Back of the coves are holding bait but kinda difficult to scoop since water visibility is very poor (pea soup).
Picture worthy from the previous week.
http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z191/Rusell88/fishisng/photo.jpg
dixoncider
10-02-2010, 11:08 AM
Nice fish...!!! what's "blue stoned"??
russ88
10-02-2010, 11:29 AM
Treating the water with chemicals to get rid of algae. Pretty harmful for small fish. All the small fish n bait dying turned on the bite for a couple days. But i'm not sure if its necessary. There was hundreds if not thousands of dead baby bass and Shads on shore yesterday. Looks like they did the same last week at necktie...
koifish
10-02-2010, 11:39 AM
heard about this 17 lbs caught on Wed. Good job and congrat to your dd striper.
radray
10-02-2010, 11:51 AM
Good job Russ on that beauty. It also was nice to see you in the lake. We need to hit up again. I liked that tag team tactic we did last time.
russ88
10-02-2010, 12:40 PM
That was alot of fun ray! It sure made up for all the bad days. I needed that.... :)
You're on a roll buddy......Nice fish! That is not a striper....That's a PIG!
Congrats on your PB Russ.
KPN.
russ88
10-02-2010, 02:48 PM
Thanks fellas!
Khan,
Radray showed me the subwalk feature of the Kpn. He was killing fish when fish weren't boiling. Pretty impressive!
trail blazer
10-02-2010, 02:55 PM
Really niceeeeeee
CONGRATS
TRAIL BLAZER
SDDave
10-02-2010, 04:04 PM
Son.... nice fish
chansen49
10-02-2010, 05:12 PM
Nice unit out of the upper.. makes a muther f-er wanna sing!
Hog Caller
10-02-2010, 05:17 PM
Nice fish!
Way to be reaqdy to fire the topwater!
CAPT'N
10-02-2010, 05:59 PM
Nice fish Russ. Khahn told me about your piggy, really a nice fish.
Capt'n
Optimist
10-02-2010, 11:22 PM
wow, nice fish. I don't know we can get such huge striper from shore line until I saw your picture. BTW, what is "subwalk feature of the Kpn"?
radray
10-03-2010, 01:25 AM
Subwalk feature is you can do the walk the dog movements under the surface.
Rabbito
10-03-2010, 07:12 AM
Are you sure it was blue stoned? There didnt seem to be an algea problem before and all the algea dies off in the winter, so what would the point of blue stoning be now?
Wingnut
10-03-2010, 08:51 AM
Beautiful Striper Russ, congrats bro... you're one of the good guys, you deserve it! :Big Grin:
Yeah, was talking to Bob and he told me that the water was pretty green there.
IN2DEEP
10-03-2010, 09:43 AM
Nice striper Russ!!!
You don't need no stinkin' boat to catch the big boys.
Maybe you should have gotten the bigger knife! LOL
Scott
russ88
10-03-2010, 12:00 PM
Are you sure it was blue stoned? There didnt seem to be an algea problem before and all the algea dies off in the winter, so what would the point of blue stoning be now?
Not sure if the lake was blue stoned. My initial guess was school of stripers came through killing everything in its path. I've seen stripers push hundreds of shad up the shoreline b4. Locals n old timers said it was blue stoned. I really don't know....
russ88
10-03-2010, 12:10 PM
Thanks again for all the props.... Hope Castaic puts out a good fall bite.
SDDave
10-03-2010, 12:10 PM
All So Cal reservoirs go though a algae bloom
The lake sort of blooms, all the floating micro plant life floats to the the top of the water.
Do to heat and the change of seasons, end of harvest, all you growers should now this, the lakes thermocline stratifies.
oxygen levels in the bottom of the water column rise's, the water resource dept and Castaic lake agency will blue stone parts of the lake, blue stoning is a copper sulfate material they use to kill agae
Because after all the people below the lake don't want to drink green water!
I remember they did the lower lake and didn't spread the stiff put very well and the were dead dd bass floating belly up everyday, not a good deal, they should just let it go green it will sink out anyway.
Fishthewhaler
10-03-2010, 05:22 PM
Nice fish, looks like you are on em right now. Saweeettttt!
JSAUCE818
10-04-2010, 07:22 AM
Big russ!!! My boy! Dude, hit me up brotha...we gots lots of catching up to do man.
Nice pig !!, im not really surprised that you catching fish like this size..i envy you!..lol
gletemfeelsteelgary
10-04-2010, 09:29 AM
Nice peeg Russ...way ta slay.....congrats on that sweet fatty : )
Nice work !
just shows you don't always need bait !
HaiTheMeister
10-05-2010, 02:23 PM
Congrats on your PB Russ! it was good seeing you out there.
fishinone
10-05-2010, 04:29 PM
Nice! Congrats on the PB!
I heard about this fish and was hoping to see pictures. There must be something wrong with my computer. I missed this post for three days.
:EyePop:Nice pics! Beautiful Stripers! Good for you!
DD DAVE
10-05-2010, 05:23 PM
looks close to 20lbs
congrats
Bigfish12
10-09-2010, 07:05 AM
very nice fish
Hitts0n
10-10-2010, 11:32 PM
Yeah they sure pick the right time to blue stone.But congrats to you and your personal best striper!! Its goos to see that there are more of those still in there!!:Cool:
CL SmooV
10-10-2010, 11:53 PM
!@#$$%#$$@^*$^$%^ !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
nice pig dude!
troutdog
10-10-2010, 11:53 PM
Nice striper right there, "who needs a boat" is right! :EyePop:
TD
geobass
10-14-2010, 07:27 PM
Russ!!!!!!!! That is awesome dude.