Stumpknocker
09-30-2015, 01:22 PM
First time back at Castaic in a month...headed up the ski arm first thing in the morning hoping for boils, and saw some birds working right away just past C point. There were a few boils underneath as well...pulled up along with about four other boats who stopped at the same time and started throwing everything I had tied on...tried a spook and a spoon...no hits...threw a fluke out and got slammed immediately. Nice fight, ended up with about a four pounder.http://i1100.photobucket.com/albums/g402/yobobscott/fluker.jpg (http://s1100.photobucket.com/user/yobobscott/media/fluker.jpg.html)
Nice fat fish, fought really hard on 6 lb. line. Turned out to be a gravid female with a load of eggs almost ready to go.
That action died quickly...looked around for a while in the ski arm, found some very brief boils in the fishing arm...so brief the birds had trouble getting there in time for a shad or two...couldn't get them to hit anything from bottom to top, but I didn't bring bait this time. Nothing on the u-rig either, but it's nice to get one fish right away for fish tacos aplenty.
Nice fat fish, fought really hard on 6 lb. line. Turned out to be a gravid female with a load of eggs almost ready to go.
That action died quickly...looked around for a while in the ski arm, found some very brief boils in the fishing arm...so brief the birds had trouble getting there in time for a shad or two...couldn't get them to hit anything from bottom to top, but I didn't bring bait this time. Nothing on the u-rig either, but it's nice to get one fish right away for fish tacos aplenty.