Stumpknocker
08-17-2016, 04:25 PM
It's been a while since I fished Castaic...been out traveling this summer. My pal Danny and I got in line early behind TroutOnly...nice guy, talked with him a bit, then hit the lake and found the boils along with the fleet. Boils were mostly short and moving quickly. Danny hooked up and then broke off...I managed to land a 4 pounder on a spoon.
We chased around for a while longer as the boils became fewer and fewer and then put out umbrella rigs in the same area and trolled around for nothing. Finally decided to head to another part of the lake that sometimes works for me...put our time in there trolling around, seeing no boils, and seeing not too many striper marks in the catching zones.
We then tried a few other spots, again for nothing...finally we headed back to our original spot...what's that saying about never leaving biting fish? We put out the u-rigs and as soon as we entered the area we had started in we both got slammed...Danny brought in a double, and I got one...all 3-4 pounders.
With new enthusiasm we kept at it in that area and managed to catch 3 more of the same size fish until around 11...we had plenty of fish to eat, it was getting really hot, so we wussed out and headed for the dock.
Here's the cleaning table shot.http://i1100.photobucket.com/albums/g402/yobobscott/aug17.jpg (http://s1100.photobucket.com/user/yobobscott/media/aug17.jpg.html)
I was glad to meet Bob Caffey...I'm happy to admit I've learned a whole lot about fishing from his posts here, and I'm grateful for them.
We chased around for a while longer as the boils became fewer and fewer and then put out umbrella rigs in the same area and trolled around for nothing. Finally decided to head to another part of the lake that sometimes works for me...put our time in there trolling around, seeing no boils, and seeing not too many striper marks in the catching zones.
We then tried a few other spots, again for nothing...finally we headed back to our original spot...what's that saying about never leaving biting fish? We put out the u-rigs and as soon as we entered the area we had started in we both got slammed...Danny brought in a double, and I got one...all 3-4 pounders.
With new enthusiasm we kept at it in that area and managed to catch 3 more of the same size fish until around 11...we had plenty of fish to eat, it was getting really hot, so we wussed out and headed for the dock.
Here's the cleaning table shot.http://i1100.photobucket.com/albums/g402/yobobscott/aug17.jpg (http://s1100.photobucket.com/user/yobobscott/media/aug17.jpg.html)
I was glad to meet Bob Caffey...I'm happy to admit I've learned a whole lot about fishing from his posts here, and I'm grateful for them.