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Friday, September 17th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 78

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Partner and I landed 5 keepers, lost 1 at the boat after fishing all day. Caught about 15 mini-dinks on topwater in the vegetation which is all around the lake. Lake at 50% capacity, but launching was no problem off cement.
    City: Long Beach

    Tips: Brown crankbaits in 15-20ft right in the middle of the coves worked best and a purple worm produced. Grass line was at 20ft. No pattern. Tough bite overall. Where are all the keepers?

Wednesday, September 1st, 2004

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    Water Temp: 76

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: I've been fishing the lake consistently 2-3 times during the week. Each time I usually catch 15-25 bass which are fairly small. I've been catching the bigger ones on the west side of the lake in 10 feet of water or less. 3/8 oz. spinnerbait, 4inch Yozuri minnow, and shad rap have been working very well. It's been really hot and the bigger ones aren't really biting, however I did manage to catch a 7 1/2 lb bass on the west side of the lake over a rocky point.
    City: Ventura

    Tips: Fish early in the morning or the last couple of hours before the sun goes down. During the hours of 5-7 PM they really start hitting. If you want to fish during the day when it's hot, you could always break out the plastic worms. --
    --Catch and Release (So they get bigger!)

Saturday, April 17th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 60

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Came down from Nevada to fish Piru. Never really warmed up, marked tons of fish, no takers. Ripped, wormed (carolina and texas),dropped jigs and dropshotted. Dam all the way along east side. Had a better chance of catching a waterskier.
    City: CC, NV

Friday, October 10th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 71

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished Piru or the irst time Friday 10-10-03 due to Castaic being blown out.Arrived late (8:30 a.m.) and luckily they had just planted trout-- we headed over to the east shore and threw crank baits but had no bites or an hour or so, we then decided to go back to the launch ramp and limited (5 each) on trout 1/2 to 1 pounds each--dinner!Ater lunch we tried the dam and ished it all the way to the southern shore, picked up 1 nice bass, then headed down the western shore and ended up with 8 ish!Threw a Fat Free Shad-- hit the pockets near shore-- ish were holding in about 8-12 eet o water.A good day out o a potentially really bad one!!
    City: Newport Beach

Saturday, March 22nd, 2003

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    Water Temp: 57-59

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished Piru today or the irst time in serveral months. I was surprised at how low the water still is. Fished with my sister out o her Bass Cat. Got on the water about 6:45 with the intent o catching some jig&pig ish. Unorturnately ater an hour and no bites my sister picks up her drop shot rod and immediately gets slams but misses the ish. I inally decide to give up the jig and grab my drop shot rod and bammo!! she hooks into a ish. A ew minutes later she lands a at, egg laden 10 lb. 11oz. lunker. We immediately take it over to the marina to be photographed so we can re-release where she caught it.Turned out to be another drop shot day as ater returning the ish where she caught we proceed to catch more ish on the drop shot, although the next largest only being 3 lbs or so. Our best 5 ish would have went about 18 lbs.
    City: Paradise

    Tips: Drop shot on the old water lines in about 15-20 eet o water. Pull your bait uphill till you hit the break, shake it lightly and then let it drop back to the bottom, then hold on.

Saturday, March 8th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 54.3

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: I'm between boats so I walked the bank @ deer creek rom 4 a.m. to 7 a.m. I missed two on a brush hog and caught a nice pre-spawn largemouth pushing 4 pounds on a 6" Keeper oxblood with the orange belly. This ish was so egged up it could barely swim!
    City: Reedley

    Tips: I think the spawners are staging about 20' deep o o spawning areas.(hard to say rom one ish)

Sunday, November 10th, 2002

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Decide to post because no one has posted anything or this lake in many months. Decide to go to Piru ater we got turned away rom the Castaic Lower lake because o the Love Ride. So we went to Piru yesterday and threw the big swimbaits but no bites or ollowers. Started to spoon in 40-60t o water ater metering alot o ish down deep. My buddy "No Fish Loppy" caught 1 in 40 and I caught 1 in 66t on spoons. Then later in the aternoon I caught one more shaking salt and pepper worms in 35t o water. Both o my ish had to be needled to release the air in their air bladders. Keep both ish in the live well or the day to make sure that they would be ine or releasing. Both ish swam away to ight another day.
    City: Santa Paula

Saturday, January 19th, 2002

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    Water Temp: 52

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Tough bite with the water so low. All good structure is out o water. Metered only big school o bait o the sugarloa point(?) All ish caught in our club tourney were dropshot ish, except or the big ish which was caught on a 1/2oz spinnerbait slow rolled,(3.02 lber).
    City: Orange

Wednesday, November 21st, 2001

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    Water Temp: chilly

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: beautiul day as usual in Caliornia. Bass are deeper now and slow. Deep diving cranks natural bass color producing the most. Plastics producing a ew also, need to split shot i you try it. West side has been best or me, others claiming east side is the way to go. Need slow presentation though inesse is the key, patience!!! most action very early.Fished trout later rom 10-1. Wide open on Needleish nickel bikini and countdowns producing. Fished 3-4 colors but also catching a ew on mono line as well. Use rapalas cant go wrong with trout limited out past three times
    City: agoura

    Tips: Bass- slow presentation, split shot plastics and slow deep cranks.Trout- goin nuts on needleish and countdowns 3-4 colors best bet

Monday, November 12th, 2001

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    Water Temp: 67

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Caught lots o small bass o points using small jigs no keepers, I had something snap o my spinnerbait with 8lb test, no bites o crayish colored crankbait.Nice day about 75` sunny and breezy.They close the lake too early. Try Dropshotting with small tubes in the 25 oot range, near any bend in the creek channels or o points.Good Luck!!
    City: South Gate

    Tips: Use your sonar and look or baitish in the creek channelsor try ishing the points and backs o coves with cover.Be observant and look or swimming birds that dive and bring up baitish, and try ishing that area, ollow the direction o the birds, and avoid spooking them.Try rattle-trap type baits in the depths, Spoons, Jigs, anddrop-shotting on lite-line.**Remember - Follow the baitish, its your best bet.**

Saturday, September 15th, 2001

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    Water Temp: 76

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Caught over twenty bass. Most under one pound. Hal dozenin the one to three pound range. Caught all the bigger ish on a Bill Norman Deep Little N in a crawdad pattern. Caughtall o them on rocky points at the north end o the lake beore 8:30 am. The small ish were jumping on smoke sparklecrappie jigs and 4" hologram shad RoboWorms ished drop-shot.
    City: Ventura

    Tips: Crawdad pattern crankbaits seem to be the lure right nowat Piru. Normans, Fat Raps, and Rat-L-Traps are all working.Crank the lipped ones (Normans and Fat Raps) right down to thebottom so they're grinding into the rocks and mud.

Saturday, September 1st, 2001

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    Water Temp: 78

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: 3 in 1 boat, guys launched at 07:15.Went to Felica cove,tossed spinners, live crawlers, drited or catish......Nothing . Rarely saw ish at all on the screen. Wind came up at 10:30 so, headed or protection o other coves, and inlets. Tried everything,got nothing. Still had un, but would have like a ish dinner.
    City: Torrance

    Tips: It's end o summer ish are deep, ind a ew points with a graph.Start trying your box o "Goodies" and ind out what they are eating.Go out early ,come back early beore your blown o the water.

Sunday, July 8th, 2001

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    Water Temp: 70-80

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: ish r small!

    Tips: WATER IS CCLLEEAARR!!

Saturday, February 24th, 2001

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    Water Temp: 50

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: I went to ish with my Bass Club on Sat. 9 Boats and 17 ish caught. Fish caught on Plastics worms and Jigs. Fish were all caught between 20-30 eet and water temp 50 degrees. It Rained ALL day. No Limits by anyone, and a ew people blanked. 7 pounds won. Lake is low but with all this rain it show be coming up.
    City: La Mirada

Thursday, February 15th, 2001

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    Water Temp: cold

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: got on the lake about 11:45a.m. started trolling around bobcat cove, across the dam,got a hook up on a small at ree shad in bass rye pattern.but ish unbuttoned. kept trolling and hooked up with a bass on the same at ree shad. bass went 16inches. came out o about 20eet o water. tried driting with nightcrawlers,nothing. that was it or my cousin german and I. we'll keep at it. It's going to turn on soon.
    City: los angeles

Monday, January 29th, 2001

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: MY bro richard and I arrived at the lake about 9:45a.m. We started trolling rom the pump house towards the dam. We used 4lb outits and richard used a mepps syclops that he used the weekend beore and I used an orange thomas bouyant lure that I had ound on the road. Richard caught 2 trout on the syclops,I caught 3 trout on the thomas bouyant lure. richard attached a mepps spinner onto a small spinnerbait arm he had and caught a trout on it. I anchored across the marina on the oppisite side o lake and caught a trout on an inlated worm. total 5 trout kept 2 small dinks released. we were o the water by 3p.m. perect day on the water. ish on ellas.
    City: los angeles

    Tips: get on the water beore it gets too crowded later in the year.

Sunday, January 21st, 2001

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    Water Temp: cold

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: another beautiul caliornia day. alot o people on the lake trolling or a good reason. It seems thats the way to catch trout. we trolled between the pumphouse and bobcat cove with a silver syclops mepps lure or a total o 11 trout. thats the only lure that worked or us. no other lures were hammered,some got hit,but not the solid strikes that the syclops got. also my riend ralph got a ew trout also trolling, a bass o simi-deep rocks with a plastic worm. some trout ate his worm also. my dad was on shore and caught a 11" bass. all bass were released, and some trout also.ish on ellas. sure beats sitting at home.
    City: los angeles

    Tips: while trolling we use 4lb test outits with lure tied on only. sub-suace seemed to be the ticket.

Sunday, December 31st, 2000

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    Water Temp: 50-52

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Aternoon bite 14:00-16:001st choice: Brown or purple jigs with plastic trailer working rom shore-20' Rocky points2nd choice: Also caught a couple with a drop shoting purple worms
    City: Piru

    Tips: Stay on the steep points, watch out or the wind gustsLures: Skinny bear jigs, Gary Y. Trailers, Robo midnight 7" worms

Saturday, October 14th, 2000

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    Water Temp: ????

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Arrive at about 8:00 a.m.. Could see small schools o bass jumping out o the water. Caught our small bass and a crayish. Water was calm until about 11:30 a.m. when most o the ski boats got on the water. The wind also kicked up at about that time.
    City: Newhall

Friday, August 6th, 1999

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Trout bite was decent by the dam, the bass bite was slow in the coves. Only a ew good sized bass were caught.
    City: los angeles

    Tips: some lure suggestions would be using 3/8 oz. Kastmaster,needleish, and small minnow style Rapalas or trout.Also try casting Kastmaster to trout breaking the surace chasing shad.