Castaic Lagoon 12/27
Today was slow for largemouth, just like it has been for a few weeks at the Lagoon. Robo Bass and I arrived at around 7:45 after stopping by Castaic Tackle (small store, but has good stuff) to pick up a couple things. We went to a couple different spots for nothing and then finally went to our secret crappie spot. Robo Bass caught 2 crappie there fairly early in the day and one was huge. I still hadn't caught anything and I thought I was going to get skunked for the first time in a while! We fished in some different areas for largemouth, but I still hadn't caught a fish. Finally we went back to the secret crappie spot and I caught a good size crappie. A couple minutes later I caught a small crappie that fought as much as the bigger one, because it was hook on its side! Haha! Then after a few more minutes, Robo Bass hooked into a MONSTER fish. It was going crazy and making long runs. He would reel it up some and then it would make a hard run back to the bottom. His drag was burning the whole time! Then it made another powerful run and Robo Bass put his cranking hand on the rod to get some extra leverage to keep the fish from pulling his rod in the water, but he accidentally grabbed the line along with the rod! This made it so that it wasn't letting any more line out while the fish was making a run and the line snapped! It was terrible after seeing how much the fish was fighting. It must have been huge, but we aren't sure what kind of fish it was. The water was around 50 degrees today and the air temperature was even lower, so we were cold most of the day. We ended up staying until closing once again. I can't wait for the largemouth bite to pick up!
My first crappie of the day. Pretty nice size and fun to catch.
I didn't take a picture of my second crappie because it was pretty small.
Robo Bass's nice 2 lb crappie.
Robo Bass's smaller crappie.
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Originally Posted by formosa
