Castaic Lake 4/28/10 WFO - As Good as it Gets + Anger Management
Hi again. Yes, it another week and that means another Castaic Lake fishing trip for me. Today, I got some time off work and I took one of my dads buddies, Bay, to fish some stripers before he headed back to Kansas. The day started out by me wanting to punch someone in the face 400 times. After I calmed down, I got to do some fishing. It started out slow then it went nuts. We caught over 50 fish. All nice large one. Very few schoolies. It was wide open for in the afternoon. We had doubles, triples and quad hook ups on big units. Castaic Lake is definitely going off. Here are the moments in time:
Here is how the day started. It was kind of chilly. Forecast was a slight chance of rain, with high probability of rain the next day. All the signs of good striped bass fishing. I was sure we were going to do well.
Here is the drama. I wanted to try out Sharon Rests in the morning. I anchored up and was waiting for some fish. All of the sudden this Jerk drives around me and scares away all the fish. Then this Jerk drops his anchor over mines and parks like 2 feet in front of me. I was like WTH!!!!! He tells me, "He sees fish". I tell him, "This lake is HUMONGOUS" and that he does not need to park his boat right on top of me. Plus his anchor is criss crossing mines and if either of us would to pull anchor, we be all tangled up. He tells me he is already anchored and there is nothing he can do. Basically, he is being the biggest ahole in the world and doesnt want to to move. Understand I been at anchor for 30 minutes before he arrived. I am fuming at the this point and he had the audacity to ask "if he is too close". I get tired of his crap and pull anchor, cause I am not willing to lose my anchor. I pull my anchor and of course it it tangled up in his, but luckily mines is a mushroom anchor and there is no points, so the tangles comes undone easy. When I left I had a few choice french words for him and his mama. And I was not being quiet about it either. I am sure the 2 other boats were entertained. Also, when I came back in from the lake someone kicked in my winch handle on my trailer. I sure hope it was not the Jerk cause it would be on like donkey kong.
I went to one of my spots and put Bay on a nice lineside.
A few minutes later Bay hooks up again. Dan (Lowe Boat) fished with us for a bit.
The result, another nice fish.
Later on we got a schoolie.
The bite was fizzing out big time. There was a lot of fish in the area, but they were locked jawed. I made the decision to try the buoy line cause everyone and their grandma was there and I wanted in on the bandwagon. Glad I caved into the buoy line cause the first drop was a instant hook up. Here is the bendo shot.
A schoolie. Better than nothing.
Better fish.
Bay also got in on the action.
After the schoolie passed through, we started getting some nice fish.
Then some turn on the lights for us and we were getting doubles.
After the doubles, I got my hand at a larger unit.
After I got mines in, Bay threw on a schoolie.
Some action shot from the buoy line.
It was pretty good fishing, but we wanted the bigger models, so we started to meter some.
We found them in a nearby area.
Here is one of my larger models.
It was wide open. Our poles were bent the whole time.
More action shots.
Here is a double bigger models.
Bay again with a bigger model on. I was also hooked up.
Results: All the fish were very nice. We waited for about 1 minute for each bite. That was how good it was.
Here is one of our quad hook ups.
This is how my fish finder looked. It was filled with stripers.
In between playing with the larger unit, we had to deal with the every present schoolie.
Some got released to grow up and fight another day.
See you later bud. He gave my camera a wet splash goodbye.
Here is Bays take. Some of the large units went home with Bay for his fish fry. Some got released and a second chance on fish life.
Here is Bay giving you the idea of the size of the fish we were catching.
Parting shot. April Gloom.
Hope you enjoyed another week at Castiac with me. I would like to dedicate this post to the SOB in the morning. I hope he caught a big striper at that spot and choked on the bone eating it for dinner. See you next time.
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