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Saturday, March 31st, 2001

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Lower Lake: Got out about 11:00am (late I know), but when you take the little woman you know how they can be late. Launched went over to the beach side. There was 2 boats on the point, no one catching anything so I drited along the bank draging carolina riged worms, and brush hogs. NOTHING. I could see some swiming by but no takers. Even on night crawlers. Next week ull moon I sure hope its better ishing.
    City: Castaic

Tuesday, March 27th, 2001

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    Water Temp: 59

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: caught 2 between 6 and 7 AM ,splitshottin a 4" green weenieon the lower lake ishing side. walked over to the beach area and saw loads o bedded ish.time to get my loat tube out big big big !!!!
    City: canoga park

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: City: los angeles

Sunday, March 25th, 2001

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    Water Temp: 58

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: water was cloudy inally started seeing shallow ish on the inside points all the way up the east side o the ishing arm. caught 7 today on klawdad and draggin a 4" oxblood roboworm its about to turn on irst week in april will be it.ull moon and the temp should be right.im ishing castaic 3 times a week so i too will be giving up to date reports. oh yeah also bring your garbge out with you im seeing all kinds o garbage loating on the lake thanks in advance
    City: canoga park

Saturday, March 24th, 2001

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    Water Temp: 57

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: O. K. , here we go or the bank guys or today. I agree with Castaic Dave as well, the overall action was slow and short lived today. 6:45am to 10:00am. 1 ish on a live nightcrawler and 1 small guy on a small plastic. O.K. bite rom 7:00am to 8:00am and then the bite just dropped o completely! The pressure had been dropping until 9:30am but it made no dierence either way ater 8:00am.
    City: Los Angeles

    Tips: Once again, light line, move it along slow, until we get around 62 degrees then you might be able to speed it up ater then. Right now the best tip is...., put the keys in the ignition and try. Now's the time you could hook a monster! Good Luck!

Tuesday, March 20th, 2001

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    Water Temp: 54

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: O. K. This is or anyone tired o seeing "old" ish reports.The reports you will see rom me are or olks who are walking the banks. I like boats, but or getting in, then out quickly, there's nothing like your eet! So, here we go.The ish are starting to move up rom deeper water now. Water has been let in on & o via the aqua duct system lately. It stains the water but does'nt look like it's hurting the bite TOO much. You'll ind (or now)the BEST bite rom 7:00am to 11:00am, then it REALLY dies o. I you need more ino Call Sport Chalet (310) 657-3210 #356 Ask or Mike Watkins in the ishing dept. For the rest o the season I'll punch in here to keep the reports CURRENT!!!
    City: Los Angeles

    Tips: Lots o things work here! But day in, day out, you can't beat ishing split shotted small plastics! When I want a client to catch at least SOMETHING I give them this set-up!Light line is key. I use 4lbs test alot! I RARELY get skunked, or what it's worth. Right now I'm hooking 1 to 3.5lbs ish just walking the shore or a ew hours. Fish SLOW, SLOW, & SLOW. Move the plastic ONLY a couple o inches at a time. I suggest a long rod 6'6" to 7'6" you'll get out arther, you'll stay on the bottom longer, which

Saturday, March 17th, 2001

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    Water Temp: cold

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: gave the lake a working over with plastics and 'crawlers. or nothing. no crawdads available at bait shop. 1st beautiul saterday in long time. everyone and his brother showed up.
    City: la

    Tips: should turn on soon

Wednesday, February 21st, 2001

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    Water Temp: cold

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: caliornia is great. beautiul day much better than yesterday. tried ishing elizabeth canyon irst. crawdads were my choice irst o,ralph ished plastics. he got bit or a swing and a miss. we kept at it there or nothing more. we headed back into the large cove towards the main launch ramp on the east side. I ish crawlers like usual since I'm kind o lazy plus I get bit more,ralph kept tossing plastics. I got bit on the inlated crawler 4lb. outit in about 15eet o water Turned out being a nice bass about 3 1/2 lb. quick release and we move into a smaller arm with a large stump,wich has produced beore.I got bit again on the crawler and brought in a nice bass. piggy piggy. it looked about 4lbs ralph said more like 5lb. whatever it weighed, it sure was pretty. let her go to. kept at or nothing else. aleast we loated the boat.
    City: los angeles

    Tips: ish bit at 1:30 p.m and at 2:30 p.m.. things look good.

Tuesday, February 20th, 2001

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    Water Temp: cold

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: it was cloudy and tough ishing. tried elizabeth canyon,nothing. ished nightcrawlers ,crankbaits,swimbait. still had un on the water. things look good. hope they don't uck with the water level during spawn. idiots do all the time. tight line guys wally
    City: los angeles

    Tips: loat the boat as much as possible.

Monday, December 4th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 57

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Trolling in marina my riend and i caught 4 largemouth to 4lbs
    City: Winnetka

    Tips: A C PLUG

Sunday, November 19th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 63*

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Frist time at Castaic ( windy S.O.B.)! Did'nt know where to start, hit the rist cove on the east arm, saw some other boats in it and thought it might pay o. Tied on a worm and hit the rocks, rigdes, drops os, switched to crawstried it agin, tied on a ball buster spiner and got a littlehit, switched to a dierent spiner(color & size) Nothing!that was about an hour! I ought the white caps across thelake to try my luck. Found another cove with nothing in it.I talked to someother ishermen, everyone said they did about as well as I did. There was a "American BASS Southern Caliornia Team Tournament" the day beor (11/18) but I dont think they ished the lake out! I have better luck at Lake Skinner! I might go back but not to soon.I just wounder how the tournament did?
    City: Whittier

Friday, November 10th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 76 degrees

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Whent out about 6:00 AM and caught 46 bass. Biggest bass was 78lbs average weight was around 34lbs. Fish the shallows and have un!
    City: Folsom

    Tips: Buzzbaits!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Saturday, October 28th, 2000

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    Water Temp: warm to touch

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: my riend ralph and I got up to the lake about 2p.m. I was soaking crawlers,and waterdogs or nothing,but it sure elt good. ralph tossed his a.c. plug out oshore and let it deadstick,while he tied on a crawler on his smaller outit. well what site I had. I witness a large commotion. rickin' looked like lipper's tail waving at me.turned out a stiprer was eating his a.c. ater a short and laughed illed ight ralph brought in his 13.6lb. striper. that was it or us ,but we met a guy by the name o michael who had caught 2 or himsel. sure beat sitting at home. ish-on ellas.
    City: los angeles

Friday, September 1st, 2000

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    Water Temp: 73

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Went out around 1pm, was very windy aew white caps. We had a hard time ishing the elements. Fished areas that normally hold ish to no avail, wind was blown' us around. We ound one cove that wind was very minimal and started to catch ish. The time was 5pm. The lake is starting to turn over now. Last week the surace Temp was 80. The water authourity is releasing and replacing water which is eecting the bite. Bite is ok in AM and late Evening.
    City: Castaic

    Tips: Worms only worked today.

Saturday, August 12th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 79 Deg

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Went out or evening bite. Bite was good, Caught 15 ish, biggest was 3.5, mostly shakin a 6in Robo Worm, and blades. I you ind the bait, you ind the ish, not hard at all, The bait is everywhere
    City: Saugus

    Tips: 6in Robo Shakin Wrom, 3/8 oz Dead Eye Blade in Purple Shad pattern. Lucky Crat Sammy 85 in AYU

Friday, May 5th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 77ish

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Slowed down a bit. I caught 4 bass to 3 lbs. I caught them all on purple worms in about 10-18 eet o water. Oh yeah, just wanted to let you know that there's this website called AllAdvantage.com This website actually pays you 50 cents an hour when your on the internet. They get the money to pay you by putting an advartisement on the bottom o your screen. You don't have buy anything. All you have to do is take a minute to sign up and download a view bar. the view bar has the advertisements on it. Anyway, it's worth a try. So just go there and check it out. Just ollow the instructions on the site. And dont orget to type in this id# when you sign up: EWC-804 you get a little more money this way.
    City: LA

    Tips: :)

Saturday, April 15th, 2000

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: The bass are on!!Fishing in 1-5t o water, rom shore, on the upper lake, the bass are in ull spawn activity. I've never seen so many bass in one place, at one time, and so close to shore, ever beore in my lie. there must have been 3 schools o 12-20 inch bass. in each school, there were at least 30 ish. I tried down shotting and even small bite sized crayish, placed under there noses, but could not get a bite. Finally i re-tied, a split shot presentaion with a reaper and 1/4 oz slip shot. that did the trick! the strikes came on "the all". the best spots are the least disturbed!!!thats all I'm saying or now. the bites still on and I dont want everyone ishing it out. send E-mail to lurelord@yahoo.com or exact location. (boat traic is prohibited in this area, but, is close to ramp)hope this ino helps.john
    City: Canoga Park

Tuesday, April 11th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 62

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished Casitas Sunday evening or hal an hour, all day Monday and Tuesday, Apr. 9-11. Son, John, ishing rom shore Sunday evening, caught a 4 lb. Bass on a buzz bait in a oot o water near shore on North side o Wadleigh Arm. That ish kept us rom being skunked, as we got no urther hits during 20 hours o ishing rom a rental boat. The water was very clear, 62 degrees. We saw literally dozens o ish rom one to seven pounds lazily cruising beneath the boat. They reused all our presentations, including everything rom 2-inch white grubs to split-shot and drop-shot 4

    Tips: I your goal is just to catch some ish, even dinks, try small white curl-tail grubs or 4-inch worms on 4-6 lb. Flourocarbon line. I you'd preer to catch larger ish, you might try a wacky-worm or Hannon's swimming worm method (neither o which I tried, but they might work where other, more conventional methods ailed miserably).

Friday, March 24th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 58

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Got out late in the day/morning, I wanted the og to burn o irst to help warm up the water. Launched around 11:00 went to old outhouse cove irst graphed ish (good ish) on some secondary points but could not even get a bite. I was drop shotting (tried ox-blood, purple), using jigs, and crawdad colered cranks. Nothing! I putzed around the lake or awhile looking or signs o lie, noone home. Then I went to the ski arm to the large canyon next to the island. Something said switch to carolina rig, I did! First cast, WHAM a nice 2.7lber emale hit my ox-blood. Then I went back to the same place next cast Wham, one hit it then shook o ater lying up to say hello. I was able to put 2 more in the boat all in 30 min time. Then it shut down.
    City: Castaic

    Tips: Carolina rig.

Tuesday, January 18th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 48

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

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    City: FRESNO