09-15-2003, 02:01 PM
[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.[
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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.[
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