Fishing Lake Casitas
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Fishing Lake Casitas
Weyer's report:
We fished the lake from 11:00 a.m. to close at 4:30 p.m. The water temp ranged from 66- to 68-degrees. I got about a dozen bites. The fish were all in the 3 1/2 to 4 1/2 pound range.
Most of the fish bit in 25- to 40-feet. The best lures were a brown/purple jig, a dropshot and a shakey head.
The best lures were a 3/8-oz brown/purple jig, an 1/8 or 3/16-oz shakey head with a trick worm in watermelon red or watermelon candy and a 6-inch Roboworm in Oxblood Light with Red Flake on a dropshot with a 3/16-oz weight, 6-lb test on 6-to 8-oz leader.
The best areas were Arrow Island area, Station Canyon, main lake walls or deeper lake points.
There was a shallow bite in 3- to 10-feet. I would say a crankbait, umbrella rig or spinner bait would be best for this. There was little bit of a topwater bite, later in the day.
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Re: Fishing Lake Casitas
I haven't fished Casitas since they "closed" it, so this in like online porn!
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Casitas was stocked with TailWalkers this week and these trout eat soft plastics and are excellent dinner fish. No reason to bass fish, they are way too difficult to catch!
Tom
Tom
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Tom,Oldschool wrote:Casitas was stocked with TailWalkers this week and these trout eat soft plastics and are excellent dinner fish. No reason to bass fish, they are way too difficult to catch!
Tom
The trout they stocked were 6" to barely over 1lb average. These were stocked to "GROW" the bigger bass again. Makes me chuckle!
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That's good news, although I'll lay awake nights worrying about the poor steelhead and how those planter trout are decimating them. Hahahaelfish16 wrote:Tom,Oldschool wrote:Casitas was stocked with TailWalkers this week and these trout eat soft plastics and are excellent dinner fish. No reason to bass fish, they are way too difficult to catch!
Tom
The trout they stocked were 6" to barely over 1lb average. These were stocked to "GROW" the bigger bass again. Makes me chuckle!
I hope your toads get healthy real quick on a trout diet.
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mark poulson wrote:That's good news, although I'll lay awake nights worrying about the poor steelhead and how those planter trout are decimating them. Hahahaelfish16 wrote:Tom,Oldschool wrote:Casitas was stocked with TailWalkers this week and these trout eat soft plastics and are excellent dinner fish. No reason to bass fish, they are way too difficult to catch!
Tom
The trout they stocked were 6" to barely over 1lb average. These were stocked to "GROW" the bigger bass again. Makes me chuckle!
I hope your toads get healthy real quick on a trout diet.
I think this is the ONLY plant of food sized trout then the BIG tanker trout are to be planted the rest of the way. Fingers crossed its all smaller trout.
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He forgot to talk about how awesome that 3rd launch ramp is .
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isn't that 3rd ramp a charm??? Goog grief! Come tourney days you are talking about a nightmareDave Wilson wrote:He forgot to talk about how awesome that 3rd launch ramp is .
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If we don't get some rain we'll be launching off the island!
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They don't care about the boaters there. So why fix the ramps. Just put a water slide on it.
Make one cast for me.
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Sad but oh so true.
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There is another ramp, in fact 2 ramps if the water drops another 20'!adman wrote:If we don't get some rain we'll be launching off the island!
Pray for rain for all our lakes!
Tom
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Yeah Tom, those launch ramps aren't goin to be in good shape AT ALL! They dropped those culvert pipes all over them. Those ramps will be smashed to smitherines!Oldschool wrote:There is another ramp, in fact 2 ramps if the water drops another 20'!adman wrote:If we don't get some rain we'll be launching off the island!
Pray for rain for all our lakes!
Tom
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My first trip to Casitas the marina was at the end of the sunken island, the big island was connected to the north shore and a ramp was located at the lowest area south of the coyote ramp, so you have to drive all the way around the big island to fish deep cat dam area.
Most of those ramps are there, but under a few feet off silt!
Let's hope it rains before anyone needs to launch on the old ramps!
Tom
Most of those ramps are there, but under a few feet off silt!
Let's hope it rains before anyone needs to launch on the old ramps!
Tom
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Re: Fishing Lake Casitas
Phhhhhhhhh , sissys !!!!! I used to launch there BEFORE there was even any water !!!!!!! The fishing got much better when they put water in it though ........
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Mike,mike at robo wrote:Phhhhhhhhh , sissys !!!!! I used to launch there BEFORE there was even any water !!!!!!! The fishing got much better when they put water in it though ........
We will be launching in the prized carp snaggin waters!
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Joey and Paul Scamardo use to luanch their aluminum boat out of the pick up tuck onto dry land. Joey would pick up the boat and toss it into the lake back in the early 60's. Mike you were ahead of your time, you should have paid more attention to the Scramaldo's, they caught lots of bass!mike at robo wrote:Phhhhhhhhh , sissys !!!!! I used to launch there BEFORE there was even any water !!!!!!! The fishing got much better when they put water in it though ........
Tom
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Good lord !!!!!!! I haven't heard those names in 35 years !!!!!! More amazing is that I remember .....
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