Fishing Forum - Castaic fishing report for 9/13

[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.[ Tongue

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Hey there tubeN2 and son,

Thanks for the nice report. I wonder if the Stripers and the bigger LMB miss their weekly diet of small plater trout. The trout were not stocked year-round anyway so the big boys survived somehow but...... with trout plants cut from way back, I figure the lunkers are thinking the bluegil are looking better all the time. gulp!

The best catfish bites reported at SARL's two lakes was at night. I wonder if the same does not apply to Castiac? I've floated Corona Lake and it's pretty good by the dam.

JapanRon
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[cool] Hey JR, there is still some decent tube action at Castaic Lagoon. Let me know if you can make it some day before they close.[cool]
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