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Tuesday, May 26th, 2009

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    Water Temp: 65-75

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: had a great day out on the water throwing some spro bbz wakebaits in rainbow trout colors. caught a 4 pounder. 6 pounder and a 3 and a half pounder on it. then once the sun got high went to my fast sink and caught a 4 and a half and an 8.5. every fish came off points

    Tips: fish steep deep points with chunk rock

Friday, April 24th, 2009

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Went out today and hoped for some big fish off swimbaits. tried some spro bbz's and did not get bit. went to my little castaic soft plastic swimbait and caught 4 fish. biggest was 5 and a half pounds. all of them combined went 15 pounds
    City: bhood

    Tips: slow fishing. slipshottin might have down well

Tuesday, March 24th, 2009

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    Water Temp: 59

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Mother Nature, thanks for all the WIND N Cold front that chilled the lake to a chilly 59 in the morning and 60.9 in the afternoon last Sunday the 22nd. Bass were biting pretty darn good before that. Now I had to fish them deep at their comfront zone.....Give me that good warm 64 water and all is well here.
    City: San Dimas

    Tips: Forget the bed(sight) fish as they are no challege,offer a fatter meal of plastic and slow slow slow fish it...Hang on, Casitas has all nice healthy fat bass.....

Saturday, March 21st, 2009

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    Water Temp: 60

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: went out today and tossed out some weightless senkos for the fish on the beds. wonderful day. caught about ten on beds biggest goin 6 pounds. then started to cast out ol reliable the spro bbz 1 swimbait fast sink and caught an 8 pounder off a rock point
    City: San Diego

    Tips: lake is getting a lot of boats and people can be total doooooooooosh bags. respect the persons water and dont pull up in front off them. throw the senkos weightless green pumpkin color

Sunday, March 15th, 2009

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Wow is this lake getting crowded....a ton of boats out patrolling the flats for spawners...We worked some of the non-traditional areas and found a bunch of fish on beds or in the staging area. Surprisingly we did our best damage working the points and coves with a crankbait. Had about 8 fish on cranks and maybe 5 or so from beds. Biggest was a 5lber which hit the Norman.
    City: Ventura

    Tips: Be respectful on the water....its a big lake and you don't need to stop within 25 ft of another boat....

Friday, March 13th, 2009

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    Water Temp: 59-61

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fish are up getting ready to do their thing. Lots of males on beds. Found a couple of areas where the females are ready to come up on the the beds. Got an 8lb and a 6lb, all the rest of the fish for the day were in the 2-4lb range. Looks like it will only keep getting better. More and more boats every week. Good luck.
    City: ventura

    Tips: Fish shallow, senkos, worms the usual spawning baits.

Saturday, March 7th, 2009

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    Water Temp: 58.8

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Knocked 'em out today! We had 6 fish today split-shot Powerwormin' different shorelines around stickups. Fish are 5-15 feet deep with clear water. They hit better in the morning,but there were ALOT of fish up and ready to be caught our whole trip. Fished from 6-11:30. Fish were all 2-4 pound range. Lots of bed fish,but they were harder to catch.No Giants...:( Had a great day!
    City: Oxnard

    Tips: Split-shot Power Worm along brush lines and drop offs 5-15 ft. deep. Good Luck!
    Please add more reports you guys. Guys like me are still learning and we DO check this for info. and tips. Thanks!

Saturday, February 21st, 2009

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    Water Temp: 52

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Came back to casistas and threw the spro bbz and only caught one fish. 5 pounder. very slow day out there today.
    City: San Diego

    Tips: Fish the points with rocks.

Friday, February 20th, 2009

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    Water Temp: 56

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: so with the tip from Sneako...I went out...fished the bbz on the point and I outdid him...I caught five 11 lbers...and threw the little spro for nada...put on a tru tungsten and caught three 6 lbers....yeah baby....
    City: La Jolla

Monday, February 16th, 2009

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    Water Temp: 50

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Went out today with high hopes of some monster fish on swimbaits. started casting a spro bbz slow sink and caught 5 10 pounders!!!!!! in the first 5 hours. it was unbelievable. the bite slowed to nothing and went to the spro bbz 1 the little four inch version in blue back herring. caught 2 5 pounders on one point. phenominal day out. will be coming back soon!!!!
    City: San Diego

    Tips: throw swimbaits on points

Saturday, January 31st, 2009

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished casitas for about 4 hours this morning. It wasn't too bad, picked up 2 fish early on a crank and put 3 more in the boat on yum dingers. Those fish were deep in about 35 ft of water.
    City: VC

Friday, January 2nd, 2009

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    Water Temp: 59.5

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished NW points area near Deep Cat...Station Canyon?... Sorry I forgot the location. Had an unexpected surprise this morning. Fished a crankbait uphill on a long point, very tight to the bank. The surprise part was I caught a 2 pnd. very fat Spotted bass on a crankbait I colored myself! The CB dove to about 10 feet and was actually a saltwater CB. I drudged the rocks and red clay when it hit. That was the only fish for today.Skies very foggy for about three hours then cleared.Metered alot of fish off points. Water temp is actually dropping
    City: Oxnard

    Tips: Crankbait points uphill bouncing off the bottom. These fish were 8-15 ft. Nice day.

Monday, December 29th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 58-61

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fishing has been tough as nothing has been working consistently. Able to scratch out some 2-4lbs around the schools of shad on ice jigs and headspinners. Had 2 swimbait fished hooked yesterday and lost both, saw one and he looked in the 4lb range. Both fish were hooked in the first 15 casts then not even a follower after 7:30. I managed to snag a few shad on my ice jig through the nose so i put them on for bait and did get a 8lb, long and skinny. Nice day on the lake weather was too good.
    City: ventura

    Tips: Fish the shad balls the bass are near, but hope they want to eat what u have. I keep changing baits until they find something to their liking. Good luck

Wednesday, December 17th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 61.8

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished from 6:30 until 1:00. Weather was cloudy/gray skies ,no rain. Threw everything today.Fished at Crawdad Point, Islands, Dead Horse, Deep Cat, West side of Main Island, Dead Horse again, then finally Bouy's near Marina.Metered schooling fish near Marina(alot), used the Rapala Ice Jig in 20-25 ft. of water. I figured with all the marks, The law of averages had to go in my favor then...BAM!Finally hit one!Nice spotted bass 2 pounds.I used my fish finder, changed the chart speed and sensitivity which seemed to help isolate the marks and I was able to read it more clearly.This one little fish made my whole day!
    City: Oxnard

    Tips: I used the ice jig in 20-25 ft.water. Found schooling fish and dropped it around them. During this outing, I started to doubt my fishing ability. I remembered Iaconelli say, "Never give up!" I didn't and I caught a fish which validated me. Thank You all for your help.

Saturday, December 6th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 64

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished from dawn till 10 both Saturday and Sunday. Fished for big fish using swimbaits 80 percent of my time. Not a tap. Switched to spoon on Sunday in the last half hour and caught one 3 pounder.Bait is suspended just out of sight depthwise in the backs of coves. Saw many slashing boils but could not connect. I used a lavender dd22 shad on both days without a bump,< I need Bryon's music :>) )Seriously tough but I did learn a new spoon trick...See tips below
    City: Ojai

    Tips: I metered around deep water from 80-45 feet until I found a layer of shad 10 feet thick sending my color meter into a yellow/red layer from 55 to 65 feet. I lowered my spoon to the bottom and procedid to molest the shad. Then I noticed on my meter that the rucuss I had created by scaring the shad had made some fish begin to stir that were evidently just under the shad.Caught one and missed two. Saw one swim down 10 feet on my meter and missed it when it bit. I was still trying to figure out what the slowly descending line from 45 to 65 was when whack...swing and a miss. Now I know what that line is ;>) In hindsite it seems that you can just hang the spoon and raise and lower it slowly just off ( within a foot ) the bottom and be extra ready for a quick bite outta no where while spoon'n in shad stew in 65 feet. This bit looked like it got stronger as the day passed but alas I had to go.

Sunday, November 30th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 65-66

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Like Kelly, I found stingier conditions than the past weeks. Got on the water at 7am Saturday and headed through the fog patches to long valley area. Found 1 fish about 2lbs on the plastic 3rd cast. Hit several more spots on the west side for no more strikes. Metered alot of fish under bait at 40-50 feet some down around 80 feet. Got lazy about 10am and tied on a lavender shad DD-22, cranked up the stereo and started dragging them in 25-30 feet of water following the shore. Started catching fish almost instantly. Managed to nail 11 fish up to 3lbs every time I would cross over an exposed point. The crank would bounce the top of the point fillowed by a fish. Called it a day at about 1:30 with an even dozen.
    City: ElSegundo ca.

Friday, October 3rd, 2008

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    Water Temp: 65

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: I had some good luck at Casitas fishing the shorelines. I was lucky to hit a 6 pound bass and a pair of 5's and 4's and had a few blow-ups also. I was using baby bass flukes and super flukes in the same color. the bigger bass are chasing bass fry everywhere.You know me,I threw big baits with no luck. Flukes were the ticket today. good luck Chief
    City: Camarillo

    Tips: I also heard that the white flukes are working also.

Saturday, September 27th, 2008

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: got off work late and didnt have time to get the boat out so decided to hit it up from shore a little bit.the algae problem is getting a little better and water is starting to clear. saw massive amount of schoolers eating shad in the back of santa ana near the creek. managed to scratch a few off throwing the spoon. biggest being 4.5 then got a 5.0 throwing the frog right before dark in the sticks.stuff is starting to change. this week should be fun
    City: ojai

    Tips: lake fork crome spoon.snag proof bobbys perfect frog(cicadia). 7 ft 844 imx.new curado 7 to 1.

Saturday, September 20th, 2008

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    Water Temp: @72-74

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Had not been out in a month. Got new boat on water and went fish'n. Found topwater to be a dead end. Switched to jigs and worms and did well enough on points. Nothing to brag about but consistant action when on the points. Fish caught on cranks were the same size as my worm fish. Bait blocked out the meter in some areas. I had better success when I lengthened up my dropshot rig. If I had @ 12 inch distance or so from worm to sinker I got bit when the bait just touched down. Strange because the jig bite is a little tap ...but of course right on the bottom. Better fish came on the jig. I was only on the water until 11:00....Rumor was the morning bite was better than the evening bite.
    City: Ojai

    Tips: I used watermelon candy and oxblood red flake worms. Jig was brown with a brown trailer. Crank was Luckycraft in ghost color. Bite is improving and the better fish should play very soon.Fishing uphill seemed to help.

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008

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    Water Temp: 77

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: I had two good days at lake casitas with buzzbaits.first day on the shore and on a boat.I had two big blow- ups by the t dock and caught three in a row with a DEPS Buzzbait. On the boat had a few more blow-ups and caught a couple more bass. Nothing big,biggest maybe 4 pounds. The next day the water looked like it dropped a little. I started on the shore by the log boom in the back of the boat docks and nailed a good 7 pound bass. I moved down the bank by the thick stick-ups and banged out a 9 pounder on my own double buzz. I ran into a friend later that day and he told me the buzz bait bite had died off glad I did not run into him early in the morning.
    City: Camarillo

    Tips: I was using Deps Buzzbaits and my own double buzz. I also was using a 8 ft. rouge rods with braid and 20 pound maxima to pull them out of the grass. reel: shimano 300dsv. Most of the fish were by grass with stick-ups.The bites were by the grass with stick-ups.
    tight lines,
    chief