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Friday, July 9th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 80

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: THE FISHING IS RED HOT!CAUGHT AND RELEASED 2O-30 BASS ( 2LBS-5LBS) ALL ON TOP IN THE SKI ARM. LATTER IN THE DAY FISHED JIGS AND DROPSHOT IN 15 TO 20FT OF WATER.
    City: TORRANCE

    Tips: OXBLOOD WORMS AND BROWN JIGS.

Thursday, July 1st, 2004

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Upper Lake; 6/28-7/3: put in at 6am (kayak fishing) and worked the north bays just at the v where the fishing arm meets the ski arm. Lots of strikes and hook ups with 2-4 lb bass casting to the banks with straight tail robo worms (oxblood, aaron's & brown - 4 1/2" & 6"), rigged texas style and a very small split shot about a foot up. Switched up to 9" trout swimbaits and got lots of follows from much larger bass, but, no hits. No hits on spinner baits or cranks.
    City: Castaic

Tuesday, June 29th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 75-78

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Got on the lake at about 6:45 and started to use Zara spooks (puppy) in the coves but only got one bass about 3 pounds. So my buddy and I thought the water temperature would be good for crankbaits, but we only got 2. So when i looked over at my buddy he was using some weird looking Yum bait its supposed to be a great flipping bait and i think its called yum woolie hawg or something like that and it was in the watermelon color. His first cast he caught a nice 4 1/2 pounder, so i immediatly switched over to the texas rigged bait. The first few minutes of me using the bait i got a huge 6 pounder!! So we ended up catching 8 big fish for the day.
    City: Castaic

    Tips: When fishing fast moving lures and nothing is working, switch over to soft plastics along the same areas where you previosly used your fast moving lures and see the results!!

Sunday, June 27th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 78

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished lagoon. Bite was very slow. I missed the morning bite by ariving at 8, but don't think it would have made a difference. Encountered lots of weeds. Fished shallow, fished deep, fished slow, fished fast, split shotted, drop shotted, through cranks, through spinners, all with little luck. Caught two small fish split shotting Fat Sack lightning shad on the dam. Graphed stacks of schooling fish at 35 feet but couldn't get them to bite. Other boaters I talked to had the same report.

    Spotted lots of bait fish and fingerling bass.
    City: Tehachapi

    Tips: Post reports. Those of you reading this benefit from the posts, allow other to benefit from your fishing. Avoid the lagoon, fish Fat Sack.

Thursday, June 24th, 2004

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    Water Temp: Warm

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: On the water at about 9:00 a.m. Went into the first cove in the fish arm and caught some decent fish on drop shot (3" Fat Sack Clear lightning shad). Went all the way back in to the shallow water of the cove and started catching buzz bait fish. Threww the buzzbait all the way down the bank and caught a couple good fish. More drop shot fish came around noon. Hard to throw the split shot because the fish are biting the lead on the way down!
    City: Tehachapi

    Tips: Top water Top water and more top water!

Tuesday, June 22nd, 2004

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    Water Temp: 75-80

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: My buddy and I went out on a weekday and the lake was quite busy. We started out fishing coves; and using zara spooks. Caught the bass in the back of the coves where there was sand and weedbeds. At about 9 bite slowed down and we started to use rapala jointed shad rap's and we ended up catching 7 nice 2-5 lb. bass. Look for the water depth to change dramatically (dropoff), at this time of the year the bass will use this type of structure for a transition period, throw your lure parallel to the break and be ready!
    City: castaic

    Tips: Use small topwaters in the morning, and when using the cranks, match the size and color to the baitfish, and bring them in S.L.O.W.

Monday, June 21st, 2004

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    Water Temp: 73-75

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: This report is for Lower Castaic!!! Very slow bite now that the water is warming up. Fish are surficing but topwaters for some reason are not working, use 6-7 inch roboworms either Texas or split shot rigged in about 20 -40 feet of water and bass are bitting the worms HARD. If you choose too drop shot, use the 6 inch aarons magic or oxblood red flake and just let it sit still. Good luck!!
    City: Castaic

    Tips: Use soft plastics and fish them slow!! I fish this lake just about every other day, I fish in a bright orange bighorn float tube and come say hi if you see me on the water!! Good luck

Friday, June 4th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 73-78

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Went up to the lake for my first time with my brother and nephew. got on the lake at safe light,started in a cove in the fishing arm .throwing blades and buzzbaits with no luck.seen some fish on there bed so i went for a 1/16 jig and 3inch craw (thanks to jason owen from lakeport tackle ) and thats when the day really started . every bed i flipped to had a 3+ on it .fished back of coves all day tell 5pm and came to the ramp .waiting for the dock my nephew cought two 4lbs under the dock. all told we had 10 4lbers and 15 3lbers.wheres a tournament when you need one .
    City: bakersfield

    Tips: jigs jigs and more jigs .1/16oz brown on brown 6inchs to 3ft deep in coves

Saturday, May 1st, 2004

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    Water Temp: 63

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fising was slighlty difficult to the small drawdown of the lake. Partner and I caught fish on custom poured senko type baits as well as custom poured splitshoted 4" worms. Caught a couple dropshotting as well for a total of around 15 fish for us.
    City: burbank

    Tips: Fish shallow early and move out to about 20-25 ft. as day warms

Saturday, April 10th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 66

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Launched at safe light on the lagoon. Spotted nice fish on the beds. Between the two of us we netted four approx. 3 lb-ders by ten in the morning. All were caught on white lizards (fat sack). All were male protecting beds. Spotted numerous large females but they were stingy. Great day of spotting fish. A real rush when the 8 lb-ders are looking at your bait. To bad none bit.
    City: Tehachapi

    Tips: Everybody post. I know you all are fishing, take the time to post, to assist all of us to find fish. If you are reading this then you should assist by posting yourself.

    Use white lizards (fat sack) when they are bedding.

Wednesday, March 10th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 60

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: my boat and my frinds boat we had 4 guys on each of them. we were aenkerd off at the right side of the lake mud flats & we were fishing about 15 to 18 feet deep. all morning long to mid after noon about 2:30. we all had landed are limt 5 fish a paece on crawdads freeline. THE BEST TIME FISHING IN S.CALIFORNIA. NO ONE WAS SKUNKED LOL.
    City: panorama city ca

    Tips: THE FISHING IS ON.

Monday, January 12th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 54

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Bass being caught in 30 to 40 t. .Fish size ranged rom 3lbs. to 8lbs.Caught 11bass between 7:00 and 10:00.At 10:00 they stocked more trout.
    City: castaic

    Tips: Drop shotting TRUE IMAGE 3" Lighting shad.6-8" gap between weight and hook.Use your graph,i theres no arch theres no ish.TRUE IMAGE baits can be picked up at LAKESIDE BOAT SERVICE.

Wednesday, December 3rd, 2003

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    Water Temp: ?+?

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Just planted on the 2nd. Great trout ishing 15+ on kastmasters rom shore. Stripers on trout plugs near main ramp.
    City: Canyon Country

    Tips: Good Luck

Tuesday, November 18th, 2003

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    Water Temp: cold

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Lately I've ished Lake Castaic, the lagoon area at night rom about 9pm-12am, and been catching only trouts ranging rom small to about 2lbs. I've noticed that some days the trouts are biting early in the night (8p-10) and at other times they are biting ater midnight. Trout ishing at Castaic is pretty good right now, most o the times my riends and I are catching 5-20 trouts per night.
    City: Los angeles

    Tips: I suggest you gear up or trout, size 14 treble hooks with power bait(yellow-rainbow) and ish rom the shore line because they are close to the shore most o the times. Also ish your way up the shore be constantly on the move until you ind the spot where they are biting. Boat launch ramp is a good place to start your ishing night.

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2003

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    Water Temp: 72

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: We ished Elizabeth Cove irst thing, and because the wind was up a bit, I threw a Castaic Gizzard Shad on heavy string, picked up two really nice bass right away (a 3lb. and a 5lb. ish).The rest o the day was slow as it seemed the worm bite virtually shut o. Will look or the next trout plant and probably ish stripers. Caught a 12 there 2 weeks ago on a Bass Assassin.Good Luck!
    City: Newport Beach

Friday, July 25th, 2003

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    Water Temp: ?

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Tried soaking anchovies or striper in the morning with no luck. Started looking deep into coves. Saw many bass stacked up deep in coves. Some bass still showing "spawn-like" behavior, aggressively chasing anything that swims into their area, except my bait. Tried worms and grubs and got them to look hard but they would not take it. Can someone help me?? What else could I try to make them bite? Managed to scratch one small bass on a purple worm.
    City: La Crescenta

    Tips: Back in the coves, you need to use some sort o plastic due to all the underwater grass. Cast and retrieve is no good.

Monday, July 7th, 2003

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    Water Temp: warm

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Got out to the lagoon early! Split shotted 4" oxbloods in shallow water. Ater a good two hours no bites. I went to deeper water where there was still hydrilla alomost at the top o the water. I threw a Robo kicker craw and just started busting bass out the weeds. Full limit in 1 hour with a 7lb bass to top all my ive ish.
    City: Granda Hills

    Tips: Fish your plastics "dead slow". Try a 4" bold bluegill kicker craw rom Robo. I you have live shad your getting wide open!!!

Saturday, June 28th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 74

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fish were holding tight to the bushes and trees along the shorelines Red seemed to be the color. caught only 3 my partner caught 10 lots o boat traic

    Tips: split shot 6" red worms

Friday, June 20th, 2003

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished the lower lagoon lake at dusk until 11 pm. No bites o reaction baits or the irst 2 hours. Started drop-shotting black, 7" worms - caught a 4-4 and a 5-6 in about an hour. Fished the north end o the lake in 3-15 eet o water.
    City: Newhall

    Tips: PATIENCE!!

Sunday, June 15th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 74

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Been ishin castaic or last 6 weekends.totally wide open 30-60 ish a day toppedo by at least a 4-6lber. Dropshot, merlossenkos, dartheads,spinnerbait or texas.color doesn't matter but i'll leave it upto you to ind em. Once you do it's a reeor all!!!
    City: n. hollyweird