Castaic on Saturday 4/12/14, Motor Test and Striper Slaying
Well, after finding oil running from my motor while tying the boat down, I've been bumming rides for at least a month and a half. Thank you Bassfan, Capt'n, Striper Mike and DMS for the kind invites. You kept me fishing when I should have been working on my motor.
After I made a few false starts trying to get the lower unit fixed up and finding more and more trouble, I finally took the lower unit to Amir at Mobile Boat Service in Canyon Country. Amir always does a good job and he got it back to me in a week.
While the lower unit was in the shop, I took the covers off of the motor, filled chips and cracks, sanded, painted and did the maintenance. I reassembled the motor Thursday and Friday evenings.
Here's the motor Friday evening before dark. I wouldn't pay me to do painting but, I work cheap.
I met Ron at Gallion's corner on Saturday morning and we were off. We talked to Bassfan in line during the perfect time to fish and soon we were allowed to launch.
The motor started right up, both gears work etc. I'm happy.
Ron and I cruised the fish arm looking for activity and when we found a few schools DMS pulled up and anchored on one of them without looking around for them. I'd say he knew where they were. We had set up to troll the ones that were outside of those and soon picked a little one up. That was it though, the others wouldn't play.
We trolled on down to Elizabeth Canyon and back up the lake. We found some small schools but no takers.
We stopped by and talked to Bassfan at his supersecretbaitspot. He hadn't gotten any but got a small one while we talked and he had caught one on the troll earlier.
After that we went over and baited down with DMS. I asked if setting up next to him would be OK and he said "Sure go right ahead!". Well I really wound up too close but being lazy our solution was to fish out of the far side of the boat from him. When the wind would drive us together I could have touched his poles with one of mine if I had tried. Thanks Dan for being so good to us. I enjoyed catching up with you. At least we didn't need to yell.
We managed a few before the striper got really picky. They started touching the bait once or twice and swimming off.
Around 1:00 Dan and Lulu had there limit and pulled out. I think they had a 5 pounder and a 3 pound kicker to top off their limit.
Ron asked if I'd mind leaving around 3:00 and I agreed so we pulled out with only 18 fish landed.
I caught 13 and released 5.
Ron caught 5.
I pulled ahead of him because when the fish got picky I was still hooking some.
Here's Ron with some of our fish at Gallion's on the way home.
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Originally Posted by Double A
