fishinone
06-25-2011, 10:11 PM
FarmerJohn and I went out this afternoon for a short session we got to the lake a little after 3:00.
I realized that I had forgotten to throw my tackle box, which includes my fishfinder into the boat when I was leaving. so we were fishing blind and didn't have any spare hooks.
We went down to the south end of the buoy line and anchored on on the point right next to the buoy line.
I dug through the leaf litter on the bottom of the boat, retrieved few sinkers and found 2 hooks on the dash. I also had 4 poles rigged. Good to go!
We watched as Mike caught a couple striper just a short distance away but didn't get any bites for a couple hours.
At around 5:30 Mike pulled up stakes. He had fished all day. He caught 7 and his guest got skunked.
We moved over onto the spot Mike had been fishing. We tried lines at different depths and didn't get hit on any of the down lines. I started casting a fly line to different spots and got hit on one soon after I set it down. I hooked up for about 4 seconds and the fish spit the whole bait out. I cast back to the same spot with the same bait, the bait was picked up again close to the surface. This time, I set the hook even harder! I got this one and beat the skunk.
http://i454.photobucket.com/albums/qq265/fishinone/Castaic%206-25-2011%20with%20Farmer%20John/IMG00675-20110625-1820.jpg
It beats eating skunk!
John and I both got picked up a few times and had the bait dropped as soon as we touched our poles.
John farmed the right side while I farmed the left side. I picked up my pole to re-cast, felt tension, swung, hooked up and had a fish on until I announced that I was hooked up. The fish promptly spit the bait at me. I could hear some commotion behind me, I looked around and said "It came off." as I saw John's rod tip coming up. He said, "the same thing just happened to me.".
I picked up 2 more fish from way up high in the water column a few minutes later and then we had to head in.
http://i454.photobucket.com/albums/qq265/fishinone/Castaic%206-25-2011%20with%20Farmer%20John/IMG00676-20110625-2118.jpg
Catch of the day!
I'm going to try again tomorrow.
I realized that I had forgotten to throw my tackle box, which includes my fishfinder into the boat when I was leaving. so we were fishing blind and didn't have any spare hooks.
We went down to the south end of the buoy line and anchored on on the point right next to the buoy line.
I dug through the leaf litter on the bottom of the boat, retrieved few sinkers and found 2 hooks on the dash. I also had 4 poles rigged. Good to go!
We watched as Mike caught a couple striper just a short distance away but didn't get any bites for a couple hours.
At around 5:30 Mike pulled up stakes. He had fished all day. He caught 7 and his guest got skunked.
We moved over onto the spot Mike had been fishing. We tried lines at different depths and didn't get hit on any of the down lines. I started casting a fly line to different spots and got hit on one soon after I set it down. I hooked up for about 4 seconds and the fish spit the whole bait out. I cast back to the same spot with the same bait, the bait was picked up again close to the surface. This time, I set the hook even harder! I got this one and beat the skunk.
http://i454.photobucket.com/albums/qq265/fishinone/Castaic%206-25-2011%20with%20Farmer%20John/IMG00675-20110625-1820.jpg
It beats eating skunk!
John and I both got picked up a few times and had the bait dropped as soon as we touched our poles.
John farmed the right side while I farmed the left side. I picked up my pole to re-cast, felt tension, swung, hooked up and had a fish on until I announced that I was hooked up. The fish promptly spit the bait at me. I could hear some commotion behind me, I looked around and said "It came off." as I saw John's rod tip coming up. He said, "the same thing just happened to me.".
I picked up 2 more fish from way up high in the water column a few minutes later and then we had to head in.
http://i454.photobucket.com/albums/qq265/fishinone/Castaic%206-25-2011%20with%20Farmer%20John/IMG00676-20110625-2118.jpg
Catch of the day!
I'm going to try again tomorrow.