Big Ed
09-22-2013, 05:14 PM
I've fished Castaic the past two weekends and it has been good!
I fished with my boy Phantom and our buddy the Dark Shadow. We arrived at one of our spots early to find the fish busting on bait all over the boat. Too bad our first hook up wasn't fish, but my buddy Shadow's leg. Apparently, you need to have a fish ON before you set the hook on a topwater bait. Go figure. Good job, Phantom! Excellent work.
So, we were gonna call it a day after just arriving and head to the nearest ER, but we voted to let my buddy suffer, and we cut the two other hooks that weren't embedded and cut the bait from the treble and pointed and laughed. Thanks Shadow for letting us stay.
http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/2441/3g4j.jpg
Then, I told Shadow you're going to need to bite the pillow, which excited Phantom (since he's used to biting pillows), and did what any good friend would do:
http://youtu.be/SptPlpvvgJY
Hey, I tried my hardest.
So, Shadow decided to just deal with that thing stuck in his leg all day, and we proceeded to smash 'em. Try some underspins on light line. You'll be surprised how well those fish eat 'em.
http://youtu.be/Q2GgLpSv6Q0
Shadow? He was fine. I heard he survived after a quick trip to the ER later that evening.
http://img547.imageshack.us/img547/653/1ium.jpg
The bite was excellent, so The 3 Amigos decided to visit Cascade once more time last weekend.
It was completely overcast and considerably cooler than the weekend before. We ran back to the same spot where we had found the crashing fish the week before. We got to the area as I slowly motored to the back. When we got to the spot, I turn off the big engine, dropped the trolling motor down and Shadow is tossing 2 stripers, a.k.a 'lineside carp' into my live well. Apparently, he had trolled all the way into the cove and the smart fish ate his tiny swimbait he had on.
I hadn't tied up yet and he already had 2 more. Then 2 more.
The largemouth were no where to be found early though. All the crashing fish were lineside carp, and those got to be 'no brain' type of fishing real quick. Caught 'em on jerkbaits, small swimbaits, topwaters, flukes, Sluggos that we pulled from a package from 1985 and even got one on a spoon:
http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/6040/k57d.jpg
I swear I think I saw a few try to eat my prop as it was coming to a stop. They also started biting on my trolling motor shaft and smacking themselves head first on my boat's glitter gel coat. Go figure.
But after the nice little warm up session with the lineside carp, the LMBs came out to play. They'd follow the shad all throughout the morning, so sometimes it'd be fish busting on subsurface baits, and sometimes they'd be deeper, which meant breaking out the drop shot to find them at specific depths.
Now, this is just a friendly public service announcement, and I'm sure it's nobody here, buuuuut:
I do realize it's live shad season and there are those live baiters on the water using their trolling motors to propel their ARC shad nets in the water trying to net your bait. Please, realize that in shallow water, when you go chasing the shad with your nets, you leave the entire area looking like chocolate milk, and after you do that, you take your shad elsewhere to fish. Be mindful where you decide to net shad, especially if there are boats already in the immediate area, because you kill the entire bite when you try to net shad. Like Mr Rogers said. Be kind to your bass neighbor.
In any case, final count was 'bout 75 bigmouth bass for 3 people, and we left the launch ramp around 2 pm. As a great philosopher once said, "I can't believe, today was a good day."
http://youtu.be/81jbcbhSGec
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7usZmIpvG8
http://img842.imageshack.us/img842/5444/h0ux.jpg
http://img547.imageshack.us/img547/7919/0oi2.jpg
http://img834.imageshack.us/img834/5483/hcww.jpg
http://img545.imageshack.us/img545/2696/stc1.jpg
http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/8775/pmfl.jpg
Later; Big Ed!
I fished with my boy Phantom and our buddy the Dark Shadow. We arrived at one of our spots early to find the fish busting on bait all over the boat. Too bad our first hook up wasn't fish, but my buddy Shadow's leg. Apparently, you need to have a fish ON before you set the hook on a topwater bait. Go figure. Good job, Phantom! Excellent work.
So, we were gonna call it a day after just arriving and head to the nearest ER, but we voted to let my buddy suffer, and we cut the two other hooks that weren't embedded and cut the bait from the treble and pointed and laughed. Thanks Shadow for letting us stay.
http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/2441/3g4j.jpg
Then, I told Shadow you're going to need to bite the pillow, which excited Phantom (since he's used to biting pillows), and did what any good friend would do:
http://youtu.be/SptPlpvvgJY
Hey, I tried my hardest.
So, Shadow decided to just deal with that thing stuck in his leg all day, and we proceeded to smash 'em. Try some underspins on light line. You'll be surprised how well those fish eat 'em.
http://youtu.be/Q2GgLpSv6Q0
Shadow? He was fine. I heard he survived after a quick trip to the ER later that evening.
http://img547.imageshack.us/img547/653/1ium.jpg
The bite was excellent, so The 3 Amigos decided to visit Cascade once more time last weekend.
It was completely overcast and considerably cooler than the weekend before. We ran back to the same spot where we had found the crashing fish the week before. We got to the area as I slowly motored to the back. When we got to the spot, I turn off the big engine, dropped the trolling motor down and Shadow is tossing 2 stripers, a.k.a 'lineside carp' into my live well. Apparently, he had trolled all the way into the cove and the smart fish ate his tiny swimbait he had on.
I hadn't tied up yet and he already had 2 more. Then 2 more.
The largemouth were no where to be found early though. All the crashing fish were lineside carp, and those got to be 'no brain' type of fishing real quick. Caught 'em on jerkbaits, small swimbaits, topwaters, flukes, Sluggos that we pulled from a package from 1985 and even got one on a spoon:
http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/6040/k57d.jpg
I swear I think I saw a few try to eat my prop as it was coming to a stop. They also started biting on my trolling motor shaft and smacking themselves head first on my boat's glitter gel coat. Go figure.
But after the nice little warm up session with the lineside carp, the LMBs came out to play. They'd follow the shad all throughout the morning, so sometimes it'd be fish busting on subsurface baits, and sometimes they'd be deeper, which meant breaking out the drop shot to find them at specific depths.
Now, this is just a friendly public service announcement, and I'm sure it's nobody here, buuuuut:
I do realize it's live shad season and there are those live baiters on the water using their trolling motors to propel their ARC shad nets in the water trying to net your bait. Please, realize that in shallow water, when you go chasing the shad with your nets, you leave the entire area looking like chocolate milk, and after you do that, you take your shad elsewhere to fish. Be mindful where you decide to net shad, especially if there are boats already in the immediate area, because you kill the entire bite when you try to net shad. Like Mr Rogers said. Be kind to your bass neighbor.
In any case, final count was 'bout 75 bigmouth bass for 3 people, and we left the launch ramp around 2 pm. As a great philosopher once said, "I can't believe, today was a good day."
http://youtu.be/81jbcbhSGec
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7usZmIpvG8
http://img842.imageshack.us/img842/5444/h0ux.jpg
http://img547.imageshack.us/img547/7919/0oi2.jpg
http://img834.imageshack.us/img834/5483/hcww.jpg
http://img545.imageshack.us/img545/2696/stc1.jpg
http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/8775/pmfl.jpg
Later; Big Ed!