Upper Castaic West and Lagoon: 04.12.08
Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2008 5:20 am
Me and my son Mikie got up to the West Ramp Area at about 8:00 AM. I had read a weather report that said high gusting winds where expected today. Luckily for us they had not arrived yet.
It was moderately breezy from the NW. Air temp was already 70, water was 60 it was sunny and the barometer was hovering around 30.05 as it had been pretty much stable for the past three days.
Water clarity was gin clear.
I lead off with some plastics dropshot and got no action on those. Tried several of the ones I had prepared.
Switched over to the Ika, and at around 9:30 AM connected with this nice bass that I passed off to Mikie to fight while I got the net ready. He did a pretty smooth job of bringing the fish in without a problem.
I had laid a pretty solid AFLAK hookset on him so even though the fish shook around and jumped, fought pretty good........ it was on solid right from the start, very nice hard strike that fish gave too and he was pretty far out when he came on.
Fat Boy Ika was rigged up with Owner 3/0 black chrome EWG hook, 10 lb. Daiwa DEF BASS flourocarbon line, 7 ft. BPS Extreme medium hard action rod with Quantum Energy PTem baitcaster reel.
With the wind the way it was I had made a megacast with the Ika and there was a lot of line out..... I would say the fish was in at least 20 ft. of water when I got slammed.
We put this one on the scale and it weighed in at 3.25 pounds which surprised us. Didn't look that big to me when it came in but apparently it was well fed and had a full stomach. Hard to tell until ya actually get them on an accurate scale.
Anyway.... we fished on with a variety of stuff with no more bites. At around 11:00 AM the gusting winds finally arrived and the shore got silted out pretty bad from all the wave action that was kicked up by the wind and all the boom box wakeboats.
Mikie and I decided to head on down to the Lagoon for the rest of our stay, I had to leave by 1:00 PM today. We did that and when we got down to the Lagoon, man the wind was really blowing hard.
Air temp was 74 water was 59. The wind had kicked up whitecaps all over the Lagoon, there was pretty heavy wave action and the surface had those ribbons of foam going across the top..........you know when you see that coming in your face it's going to be tough.
Rigged up some double weighted dropshos to fight the wind for a decent cast distance. That worked pretty good except a couple of times I snapped my line off because the double weights put too much centrifical force on the line while casting that hard.
Oh well!!!! Ya do what ya gotta do and what ya think might work. Today the Lagoon was just too tough for us with the wind and we packed it in at 12:30 PM.
Besides the high winds kicking up and wishing that we had gotten up there earlier for a better time with the bite on we had a great time fishing it together, it was warm and sunny the whole time.
Fish was released after photo op.
Sorry couldn't load some of my pics because the system told me they were too big. I'll try to figure out a way to downsize them on my PC.
Any tips on how to do that would be appreciated. I only have acess to a PC now and usually do it on a Mac.
Good fishing to you guys, later............... geobass
Please practice Catch and Release on all largemouth bass. Thanks.
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It was moderately breezy from the NW. Air temp was already 70, water was 60 it was sunny and the barometer was hovering around 30.05 as it had been pretty much stable for the past three days.
Water clarity was gin clear.
I lead off with some plastics dropshot and got no action on those. Tried several of the ones I had prepared.
Switched over to the Ika, and at around 9:30 AM connected with this nice bass that I passed off to Mikie to fight while I got the net ready. He did a pretty smooth job of bringing the fish in without a problem.
I had laid a pretty solid AFLAK hookset on him so even though the fish shook around and jumped, fought pretty good........ it was on solid right from the start, very nice hard strike that fish gave too and he was pretty far out when he came on.
Fat Boy Ika was rigged up with Owner 3/0 black chrome EWG hook, 10 lb. Daiwa DEF BASS flourocarbon line, 7 ft. BPS Extreme medium hard action rod with Quantum Energy PTem baitcaster reel.
With the wind the way it was I had made a megacast with the Ika and there was a lot of line out..... I would say the fish was in at least 20 ft. of water when I got slammed.
We put this one on the scale and it weighed in at 3.25 pounds which surprised us. Didn't look that big to me when it came in but apparently it was well fed and had a full stomach. Hard to tell until ya actually get them on an accurate scale.
Anyway.... we fished on with a variety of stuff with no more bites. At around 11:00 AM the gusting winds finally arrived and the shore got silted out pretty bad from all the wave action that was kicked up by the wind and all the boom box wakeboats.
Mikie and I decided to head on down to the Lagoon for the rest of our stay, I had to leave by 1:00 PM today. We did that and when we got down to the Lagoon, man the wind was really blowing hard.
Air temp was 74 water was 59. The wind had kicked up whitecaps all over the Lagoon, there was pretty heavy wave action and the surface had those ribbons of foam going across the top..........you know when you see that coming in your face it's going to be tough.
Rigged up some double weighted dropshos to fight the wind for a decent cast distance. That worked pretty good except a couple of times I snapped my line off because the double weights put too much centrifical force on the line while casting that hard.
Oh well!!!! Ya do what ya gotta do and what ya think might work. Today the Lagoon was just too tough for us with the wind and we packed it in at 12:30 PM.
Besides the high winds kicking up and wishing that we had gotten up there earlier for a better time with the bite on we had a great time fishing it together, it was warm and sunny the whole time.
Fish was released after photo op.
Sorry couldn't load some of my pics because the system told me they were too big. I'll try to figure out a way to downsize them on my PC.
Any tips on how to do that would be appreciated. I only have acess to a PC now and usually do it on a Mac.
Good fishing to you guys, later............... geobass
Please practice Catch and Release on all largemouth bass. Thanks.
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