Fishing Forum

[cool] Well guys, as we are getting closer and closer to the the possible closure of Castaic Lake I am trying to get in a few last trips to the lagoon there. I got there around 4:52am. The water temp was still around 78deg. There were still remnants of a full moon so we decided we still had time for some catfishing. We were wrong. Cats wouldn't bite. Saw a few topwater splashes around the dock, broke out the flyrod, and nothing doing. Tried many variations of flyies too. It was getting close to 7:00 and no bite in site. That's how it goes sometimes.

My son was getting anxious to catch something so I gave him a few suggestions. Bang!!!! He pulls in a baby LMB off the bottom. So we figure that there is still a chance for something being early and all. No sooner did we re-rig ourselves and we were catching LMB in thier prime time hour for this lake. We ended up with 2- 8#, 1- 9.5# 1- 12# and 1- 16# all returned to the water. We are still trying for the big one. He is still out there. There was not a single bluegill in sight that whole morning. Sheeeeesh with LMB lurking around in abundance, I wounder why.[]
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Hey there tubeN2 and son,

Nice report. I kind of worry about the fishes in that lake now and if they close. If they don't have any money, they can't pay for stocking.

My guess is that with the small trout not being planted at Castiac either in the upper or lower water (dfg trout planting schedule shows almost ziltch) then the stripers and big bass must be eating everything in sight that's smaller than them.

Just a thought.....

JapanRon
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[size 2]Corn! That's the answer. We can dredge all the Utah areas. They don't want it anyway![cool][/size]
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[cool] I don't think that the Utah board want's to hear anything more about corn! But they are more than welcome to discuss corn issues here.
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