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Wednesday, April 14th, 2010

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    Water Temp: 60

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fishing Casitas the last few days. Bass are hitting plastics and i have been getting them on Senkos in about 10 feet of water. I also scored a good swimbait fish on a Optimum prototype bait i am working on. She was 8.8 pounds and after I let her go I had another bass slap at the bait.
    City: Camarillo

    Tips: I have been fishing from the shore and the fish are moving around. I caught the swim bait fish by the ramps. tight lines chief

Wednesday, April 7th, 2010

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: not a great day when it came to lunkers, but there were a bunch of fish up shalow about 4-15 feet of water that were hangin off the shore some 20 yards on trees and other wood structure.
    City: Ventura Ca

    Tips: fish small baits like 4 inchers in shallow water on points with flats near by and on points in the backs of coes.

Saturday, March 27th, 2010

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    Water Temp: 58-64

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: One word: Plastics! It has been a plastics bite for me since January. On this day it was basically the same as it has been for me for months now. Dropshot/splitshot/texas rigged worms. Pro staff peoples worm by robo has trumped oxblood light red flake and jackall watermelon candy flick shake. The big fish bait for me for the whole year has been a wacky rigged 5 inch senko.Green pumpkin black flake has worked always but Green pumpkin with black and purple flake just gets you hammered. All of my better fish have been extremely shallow yet the are not on the flats rather they seem to be adjacent to the flats on the deeper edges that lead to them. If the bait hits the water and your line shoots off towards deep water it's going to be one of your better fish. There seems to be a lull in the action at midday but if it's overcast...The bite goes all day. Most of the fish are concentrated on wood and brush in 2-12 feet. You can fish pretty fast and cover the water with the dropshot by simply throwing to wood that you can see or throwing to the dark spots that you can't quite make out. Of course the telltale signs of a bed can be seen from a very long distance....The circular brushed off areas surrounded with clam shells are spaced out about every ten feet all the way around the lake. The fish have been like this for weeks and there should be one last good shot of them up to the new full moon in April. I did catch 8 rip bait fish this week. I have not been able to get this going at all but it most likely means we are now fishing with some post spawn fish. I have yet to see the shad up as in years past but they are due.
    City: Ojai

    Tips: Deadstick your baits(plastics) or at least try to keep them in the wood when you find it. I shake the baits but I don't move them until I have given it some time. The tag end from the hook to my dropshot sinker has averaged 6 inches or less. I also seem to do better with 4 1/2 inch baits...somedays it does not matter.

Friday, February 26th, 2010

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Hey Big Stick

    How do we get a hold of you so you can show us how to fish Casitas? You want to post a number or something?
    City: Oak View

Monday, February 22nd, 2010

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    Water Temp: 59

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Saw a couple decent size bass hitting top water. They were moving all around the shallows too. Ended up with a couple small ones (2lb range).

    Tips: Roboworm Oxblood

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    Water Temp: not sure

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Wow What a great day at Lake Casitas. The fish are moving up and hitting the plastics.I started the morning on the shoreline throwing swimbaits and had only one good follower. So I started throwing a split-shot rig with a Mindalures Spear worm and got a nice chucky 2 ponder. I then saw a bed in deeper water so I broke out a 7 inch Meta Pearl spear worm and watch the bass hammer it and that was my big bass of the day. She was about 6.5 pounds. Finished the day with 10 more bass smallest was 1.5 pounds.12 bass overall. tight lines Chief
    City: Camarillo

    Tips: I was fishing the Mindalures Spear worms in 4in and 7inch.I fished them on a drop-shot,split-shot and texas rigged. The shad color and the pearl got the most hits.Shoreline guys fan cast and walk the banks slow most bass are not bedded down yet butthey are there. good luck

Saturday, February 13th, 2010

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Went out for the 1st time this year, had a pretty good day. Started off slow in the morning only sticking four fish 2-3pds on a 1 ton jig with twin trailer. Between 10-12 the bite turned on! Stuck a 6.32 on a senko, 4.02 on a drop shot, and several 2-3pd spots on senkos and drop shot. Caught all the fish in two areas.
    If you can find them, your in for a good day. For those who can't, call me and I'll take you out. Remember, just cause you can't get em, doesn't mean they're not bitting!
    City: modesto

    Tips: Don't bash on those who can actually go out and catch fish, it makes you look bad to everyone else that can catch them!

Sunday, January 17th, 2010

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    Water Temp: not sure

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Hello all,
    Well they must have read some of these reports because they chased me off the docks(lol). But they were nice about,just an FYI the DFG is around and checking.I had one huge blow-up this morning on a swim bait. We watch a kids rod go out for a swim and about a 4 pound bass running off with it about 50 yards out. The kid was using a night crawler.tight lines Chief
    City: Camarillo

    Tips: Leave the bail open or in free spool, just might save your combo.

Thursday, January 14th, 2010

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    Water Temp: 57

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: The trout plants seem to be showing up pretty regular, they planed 800 lbs at Coyote ramp today about 10:00. Seems the staff at the lake may be calling their friends who fish for trout as they are waiting for the truck when it shows up and fishing off the docks at the ramp that say no fishing on them, there is no enforcement either. The bite has been tough and the fish are deep as is typical for this time of year. Got on some with the carolina rig and had a good few hours. Pretty crowded at the Coyote docks, I took a look and headed for the other end of the lake. Dont forget a needle to fizz fish or a weight of 3-4 0z on some line to get them back deep this time of year.
    City: Oak View

    Tips: Carolina oxblood robo's

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    Water Temp: 57

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: The trout plants seem to be showing up pretty regular, they planed 800 lbs at Coyote ramp today about 10:00. Seems the staff at the lake may be calling their friend who fish for trout as they are waiting for the truck when it shows up and fishing off the docks at the ramp that say no fishing on them, there is no enforcement either. The bite has been tough and the fish are deep as is typical for this time of year. Got on some with the carolina rig and had a good few hours. Pretty crowded at the Coyote docks, I took a look and headed for the other end of the lake. Dont forget a needle to fizz fish or a weight on a 3-4 0z line to get them back deep this time of year.
    City: Oak View

    Tips: Carolina oxblood robo's

Wednesday, December 30th, 2009

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Decided to hit up casitas one last time for the year. It was cold and wet. Figured the swimbait bite would be on but tossed it for nada. Hunkered down for drop shot for nada. Around 1pm got on a jig bite. Got 4 fish in about an hour in 35 ft of water.
    City: Ventura

    Tips: Think brown.

Sunday, December 20th, 2009

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    Water Temp: 63

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: No fish today.The last plant has made a few more of the bigger fish to move around. I had a few followers come up to the baits. I guess they had a tourney going on,I saw a few guys hitting the points more than once. Some of the guys coming in said the bite was not there for them. I was there on Friday also and the guys on the boats got them on drop-shots using Oxblood 4in worms.
    good luck Chief
    City: Camarillo

    Tips: Keep throwing those swimbaits your time will come. Check your line, if its looking old time to replace it.

Wednesday, December 9th, 2009

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    Water Temp: not sure

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: I was fishing from the shore and I went when it was pouring down rain and cold. I started throwing a 8 inch huddie and i got the bite and the bass hit the stinger hook.There were two trout plants prior and i was fishing next to the launch ramps. She was a nice 7 pounds.
    City: Camarillo

    Tips: For open water use Owner stinger hook on top of the bait if you are fishing from shore.
    tight lines,
    Chief

Tuesday, November 10th, 2009

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    Water Temp: 65

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Man the fishing here has been pretty slow for he last 2 weeks or so, but when the water warms up it isnt to bad. Fish dont ewant anything to do with reactionbaits, i found succes with sentos and robo worms.
    City: ventura ca

    Tips: fish around the boat docks with senkos and robo worms. when the water warms up i would back off and fish some points on the island.

Sunday, September 13th, 2009

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    Water Temp: 78

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: thought it was about the time to put down the swimbait and start throwing my trout punker. started throwing it over points and secondary points. made mulitple throws to each point. im talking 40 times. i caught about 10 biggest goin 6. lots of 3s. should get better when the water gets a little cooler.
    City: san diego

    Tips: throw baits on points multiple times

Sunday, September 6th, 2009

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    Water Temp: warm

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Hit the lake on Sunday. It was crowded and a fair number of boats out...Fished the earlier morning topwater bite for nada. Eventually hunkered down and fished a jig in about 20-25 ft of water and pulled in 5 before calling it a day around noon

Saturday, August 22nd, 2009

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    Water Temp: 78

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: went out today and threw no other than my spro bbz trout colored. well it was kinda weird today. probably had 15 one pounders following it and i caught a 3 and a half. that was it

    Tips: maybe throw some sammys

Sunday, August 2nd, 2009

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    Water Temp: 77.9

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Weather clear and hot high 70's to 80* approx. 2:30 p.m.Fished East shore along lily pads in small cove with Bobby Perfect Frog. Threw onto shore and twitched to openings. Used MH Abu Garcia rod with Daiwa reel and 15 P-Line. Fish hit very shallow approx. 2-4 ft. water. First catch with frog lure and textbook application. Fish was 2.5 pnds. Very Nice day with my family.
    City: Oxnard

    Tips: Fish lily pads with Perfect Frog. Drag/twitch slowly over openings. Attempt to "read" where the openings are and look for pads moving. Make sure the fish has the lure in it's mouth (tension on rod)before setting the hook. Good Luck!

Saturday, July 25th, 2009

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    Water Temp: 77

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Went fishing with my 4 yr.old Saturday prepared with Jackall Flick shake and topwater. Water still recovering from algae bloom, but better visibility. Fished shoreline across from marina on big island. Caught a four pounder and two smaller ones with watermelon candy and green pumpkin/red flake worm drop shot-wacky style in 4-8 ft. water.Fished weedline deeper side. Weather was warm and not too hot.Still lots of grass.My boy had a great time trying to reel in that 4 pounder!
    City: Oxnard

    Tips: Jackall flick shake worms/ drop shot around weed lines. Fished parallel to shoreline on main island. Great day for the confidence!

Tuesday, May 26th, 2009

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    Water Temp: 65-75

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: had a great day out on the water throwing some spro bbz wakebaits in rainbow trout colors. caught a 4 pounder. 6 pounder and a 3 and a half pounder on it. then once the sun got high went to my fast sink and caught a 4 and a half and an 8.5. every fish came off points

    Tips: fish steep deep points with chunk rock