Castaic Lake and Reports

Wednesday, December 20th, 2006

• By kent simmons

  Water Temp: 58.5

  Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

  Report: Cold air temp most of the day.
  Fish following bait. Find the bait drop a spoon.
  Lots of stripers at 50 to 60 ft. Wide open when you find them.
  Largies on reaction baits in the morning. Rip and run shad baits along shore and on points for keepers.
  best bite 3:00 to 4:15
  deep spooning and drop shot secondary points in fishig arm.
  Best fish 3-4 lbs dropshotting.
  City: reseda

  Tips: study the graph. Find the deep fish and spoon away
  as water warms the largies move up on warm rocks and eat the 4 1/2 inch worms. Shake then deadstick, watch the belly in the line. suttle twitch and it walks away like nightcrawler fishing. None of the bites were hard not even the bigger fish.
  Trying small jigs and bigger worms tomorrow.

Saturday, December 16th, 2006

• By mark poulson

  Water Temp: 59

  Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

  Report: Started in Elizabeth. Nada. The cove is only about 200yds deep. The lake is down about 80'+- and still dropping.
  We found fish in Old SS Cove, on rocky points.
  It started to rain hard, so we left at about 12:00 We had a limit of about 10lbs.
  City: los angeles

  Tips: Watermelon black flake is a good color right now.
  We caught on spider jig, drop shot, and jig worm.

• By Sean James

  Water Temp: Cold

  Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

  Report: Water is still falling pretty steadily. Castaic is starting to look like mini Lake Powell! Kind of cool though cause if you wait a week to fish it's like a brand new lake! Fishing is still good, guided there three times in the last week. We have been catching 10-15 solid largies and striper at will. When the water stops falling it is going to go bonkers..
  City: Simi Valley

  Tips: If you want to get out and fish my site address is www.socalbassfishing.com

Saturday, October 21st, 2006

• By Bryan K

  Water Temp: 68

  Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

  Report: Got on the water about 8am after arriving a little after 7 and then waiting in line. I hadnt been to Castaic for nearly a year so I ran down toward red clay, which had 3 boats on it already so I just started running bank on opposite shore. Saw stripers pushing bait in a cove so we got in the middle of it and had a blast catching them on topwater, rattle traps, and rip baits. They would push shad up onto the bank every 10 min or so. Kept a bunch for dinner, they were 3-5 lbs size. The shad were the bigger size, about 3in.
  
  We switched over to bass fishing after the sun got high and the boils subsided. We managed a handful of small bass on worms and rip baits but never did find a decent pattern or area.
  
  Water had a healthy green stain and visibility was around 3-4ft. Weather was clear and sunny with gusty wind. Sonar showed lots of activity around main lake and secondary points, looked like gangs of stripers at 30-35, bass at 20-22, and bait at 8-15. I spent quite a bit of time dragging worms in 15-25 but could not get any of the marks to go.
  
  Lake level is low, not sure how far down, looked like 40' or so, and many of the "normal" spots are high and dry. I saw very very little brush or aquatic vegetation in the water. Reminded me of severe drought conditions.
  City: Thousand Oaks

  Tips: Have a walking bait, rattle trap, rip bait or some version of a shad tied on in case the stripers start to boil. When they get going it can be really fun

Friday, July 21st, 2006

• By Dan Curtis

  Water Temp: 82 degrees

  Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

  Report: Up at Castaic 9:30 - 6:00. Hot few breezes. Not much action until after lunch. Thunderstorm clouds later in day. Kept throwing the ol' white spinnerbait, didn't even tie on any soft plastics. Quite a bit of bass chasing shad all over the lake. Did best near main lake shorelines. Storm wind was from north in P.M. Able to 'cast to boils' then wham!! Went over to Firebreak Cove and caught 4 3 lbers casting to boils. Ended up with total of 8 bass mostly chunky 3 lbers. Caught a couple small stripers too. Have Fun out here !!
  City: Oak Park

  Tips: Bass chasing shad/fry pattern ... best near grass beds and main lake shorelines. Spinnerbait still working pretty good.

Friday, July 7th, 2006

• By Dan Curtis

  Water Temp: 80 Degrees

  Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

  Report: Fished Castaic Friday 9:30 - 5:30. SW Winds 20mph forecasted never happened. Some breezes. Stuck with spinnerbait fishing all day. Ended up with 7 keepers. 2 - 4 lb, 3 - 3 lb., 2 - 2lb. These fish were a lot meaner than what I have been catching past few weeks. Thought they were all stripers the way they hammered the s.b. and tore off toward parts unknown. All caught on white skirt silver willow leaf.
  City: Oak Park

  Tips: Fish main lake wind blown shorelines and 'cups' that make easy ambush locations for bass. Didn't have much luck in backs of coves. Also, target stick ups near off color water. If you see fry jumping around you are in a good spot. Have fun!!

• By zack

  Water Temp: 68

  Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

  Report: hey guy's guess what.. the biggest bass are caught in our "Region".. go figure.
  City: morgan hill

  Tips: My tip is alway's the same... catch, weigh and release.... for the other people that don't think that California can produce good bass ..I think the last top 20 are from this state.. Correct me if I'm wrong.. It doesn't matter..Fish Safe be Boat wise and alway's remember '"Watch out for the Jet Skier's.. half the time the driver is way to young to know how fast,, it's going.. Thank's for the info....Zack

Saturday, June 17th, 2006

• By BJ Perkins

  Water Temp: 71

  Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

  Report: Me and Jeff got on the lake about 6am and by 10am we had 6 fish up to 4.5 lbs using a split shot texas rig with oxblood robo ended the day with 16 fish total all in all a great day!!!!!
  City: Boron

Saturday, June 10th, 2006

• By Chris Rhoden

  Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

  Report: Fished Castaic from 7-1:30 today. Good conditions, with good fog until about 10:30. The fog kept most of the skiers off the water until later. Good breeze later on in the day, but you have to have some good boat control! Ended all inall with 6 fish, 4 bass and 2 stripers. Biggest was a nice 3.5 largemouth, on a Pointer 100 in a little cove near Old SS.
  City: Pearblossom

  Tips: Fish reaction early on. Topwater will get some bigger fish usually, as will rip baits and blades. Otherwise, go split and drop shotting. Good #s of smaller fish for the drop shotters, if you want quanity over ouality. Wind and skiers are making for mudlines all across the lake. Staysees and blades in the line where clear and mud meets, and Senkos or dark T-rigs if they won't hit reaction.

Sunday, May 28th, 2006

• By Dan Curtis

  Water Temp: 67 degrees

  Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

  Report: Fished Castaic Sunday. Forecast said winds NNW 10-20 mph. Lots of boat traffic. Cool in the morning with some wind. Picky worm bite 5-20 ft. Oxblood. Worm fishing is so boring. By lunch time I had two fish, one dink and a 2 lber. By 1:30 lake was totally calm. Lookin' grim. At 1:45 wind came up out of NW. Picked up chart spinner bait. No takers. Lots of just hatched fry near bushes. Switched to white spinner bait with translucent green/blue in skirt. A 4 lber smacked it big time. Continued to fish near walls with hanging bushes. Bite got better. Fish were just nailing that spinner bait. Quit at 6:30 .... ended up with 14 bass. Only one dink hit spinner bait. Rest were all cookie cutter 2-4 lbers. Lots of fun. Great day considering boat traffic.
  City: Oak Park

  Tips: IF you get wind start throwing reation baits around hanging bushes. Later in the day it doesn't seem to matter. Fish came up from 10 feet to surface.

Saturday, May 20th, 2006

• By Brian Linehan

  Water Temp: 78

  Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

  Report: Fished FOCL night event. The water was super clear and only 20-30 boats showed up. We couldn't have asked for better weather. Fishing was kind of slow for us. We caught 7 fish on cranks and 2 on Robo Shakers (6"). Fished the ski arm all night and spoke with a friend who did much better in the fish arm. They caught over 25 fish between 1-3 lbs. on Senko's.
  City: San Clemente

  Tips: Fish slow, fish the fish arm, stick with Senko's in 10-15 feet.

Friday, May 19th, 2006

• By Larry Benavides

  Water Temp: 78

  Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

  Report: First boat in. Fished till 1:00PM. Most early fish were caught rippin' a Lucky Craft Pointer 100SP in Sunfish. Best fish went about 4 pounds. Most fish after 10:00AM were caught on Senko's and Roboworm Curly Tails in Oxblood Light. Most visible fish were guarding fry. Caught 3 super fluke fish (baby bass) in the fish arm. Water was clearer in the ski arm.
  City: Whittier

Monday, May 8th, 2006

• By rb30328

  Water Temp: 67

  Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

  Report: Wasco Bassclub blast off at 6;00 am.The morning was slow but picked up about 8;30 with cranks.After about 10;00am the sun was out and it was all about sight fishing.They were all over the place in the 2lb range.The big ones were roming or were post spam.I wished i had pre-fish I would have done better than 12.34.1st place won with 16.00lbs
  City: bakersfield

  Tips: Crank in the morning or throught senkos.When the sun comes out go sight fishing in the coves and flats most of them are still running.

Saturday, April 8th, 2006

• By Jay R

  Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

  Report: Will be comming through on the 8th from Sacramento.
  Is there anyplace to camp near the lake?
  City: Sacramento

Saturday, March 18th, 2006

• By stretch

  Water Temp: 54-59

  Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

  Report: bass working bait first hour ,small ice jigs,small blades,drop shot 4-6in robo,aarons magic,ox blood,tight to blank,mostly small fish,bigger fish am working bait

  Tips: small blades,ice jigs (am) 4-6in robo,ox blood,aarons magic red flake

• By mark poulson

  Water Temp: 54-55

  Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

  Report: Fished the upper lake today. Lake has come up ten feet in a week. Lots of fish suspended. Tough bite. Fish haven't move up, or, if they started, they're suspending now. Probably due to the fast rising water. Three bites, one fish.
  City: los angeles

  Tips: Worm. Slow. Shake it.

Thursday, March 16th, 2006

• By tommy o.

  Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

  Report: fished robo worms crank baits, no bites. very slow. Ps.. if anybody needs a backseat or someone to fish with let me know,, I dont have a boat...
  City: north hollywood

Monday, March 13th, 2006

• By STRETCH

  Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

  Report: what nobody fishing castaic,or just don't want to share????

Sunday, November 20th, 2005

• By mark poulson

  Water Temp: 65+-

  Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

  Report: Fished from 7:00 'till 2:00. Four fish, 13lbs. Windy all day. No shad boils. We fished Bones first thing, three fish, including a 5 on the main point, north side, in 6' of water.
  Fished the main lake on that side, nada.
  Went around to fish arm, Hawks Nest at about 12:00. Fished the east side west facing point and walls on out. Nada, but we did see a beautiful woman with her husband in a purple Ranger.
  Fished the point on the main lake with the bouy cluster. Four pounder. Lake capped up and we left.
  City: los angeles

  Tips: Jigs and Ikas. Throw long and tight, retrieve SLOOOOW. Active fish are on the points.

Saturday, October 22nd, 2005

• By OT

  Water Temp: 65

  Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

  Report: On the water around 7:30 am - extremely fogy. 3 of us in the boat. Started off with topwater and ripbaits - nothing. Went back into Elizabeth - nothing. Checked with other boats - no bites. After fog burned off around 9 am, decided to net some shad; afterward, hit some main lake points in the Fish Arm - bass stacked in 10-25 feet of water. Caught about 15 - all bass had fat bellies and were 2-4 lbs. Netted more shad and headed to the very end of the Ski Arm - main lake points loaded with bass. Caught another 15-20 bass - seemed smaller 1.5 - 2 lbs. Called it a day after catching and releasing a 5 lber. Off the water around 2 pm.
  City: Santa Clarita

  Tips: Spotted a lot of bass shallow in 2-5 feet along shore while hunting shad; seemed active and ready to hit a shad imititation (???). Work hard for 5 bites throughout day or net shad and learn a lot about how suttle a bass bite can be. Even fishing shad, you learn tons about how important it is to be a line watcher. Half the time, you don't even know they took the bait, unless you saw that slight line twitch.