First Report Upper Castaic 8/6/10
Well fellas I've been lurking for a little while and thought it was about time I started contributing. I headed out to Castaic with my father and brother, somehow we all had the day off work- it was about 6:30am.We stopped at Gallions to get some fresh anchovies at the lake the conditions were good, and since it was a weekday the boat traffic was light. We all had to kind of refresh our memories when it came to launching the boat, our old boat sat with engine troubles for about 5 years. I had been reading on here about the good action going on at Elizabeth Canyon so we headed up that way. I dropped the trolling motor and we went for largemouth pitching out different crankbaits. No action at all for any of us and since we didn't want to waste the rest of the morning we decided to head to the main buoy line to go for stripers. It was now about 9:30. Right away the fish finder was metering them at about 70 feet. All around us boats were landing schoolie sized stripers. We dropped in cuts of sardine flylined on 6 and 4 pound test. Any minute I was expecting to hear the sound of peeling drag, but nothing. I tried all different depths but still..nothing. Minutes turned into hours until finally at around 12:30 my dad pulled in a nice 20 incher. I was glad we had at least beat the skunk but it wasn't the day I'd hoped for. We left an hour later puzzled as to what went wrong. I thought I had Castaic figured but I guess not.
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Originally Posted by sawoobley
