Good set ups for fishing castaic lake ca. shore fishing?
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What should i use for shore fishing? I am fishing for bass… i have been using my bbz1 and bbz 8 in. trout lure. i have not caught a single fish all summer and i go every sat, and sun. If anyone has some useful tips it would be greatly appreciated.
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gary yamamoto worms have never failed me and I use them almost exclusively for bass fishing and even in some saltwater applications. Texas rigged or Carolina rigged with a 1/8 oz bullet sinker, 8lb test line and you can feel even the slightest bumps. I am not a crankbait expert so I don’t have much to say
Wait until Castaic stocks trout before you toss the swimbaits… stick to plastic worms around the shoreline. Use crawfish-looking plastics in the rocky areas (which Castaic has lots of). And when the bass are busting shad on the surface, go to a topwater.
My dad and I fish Casitas up the road, and we don’t toss swimbaits until the trout are around, which won’t be again until early November or December when they stock again and the water cools off.
grand master is right about the trout and trout baits. fishing from shore is a bit of a never stop learning endeavor though. Fish that regularly feed around the edge of their lake feed off fall in food supply. They eat what would naturally fall off rocks, bushes or trees. they also face the afternoon wind knowing the wind might blow in an insect or something. They also have peripheril vision and are easily spooked by you or anyone coming into their horizon this movement in their sight simply runs them out to the drop off to deep.
Do this always when approaching a lake: stand twenty feet from the water’s edge and cast plastics: like large (this time of year, small in spring)) grubs, lizards or worms onto the dirt (hopefully kicking up some dust and dirt) sending it into the water with the bait and wait. in one minute take up slack in the line and twitch your rod just once then wait ten more seconds and take a half reel turn. do this all along the shore from twenty feet away the target area for your bait to land is within three feet of shore. If the water is way down like it was the last time I was there you might not be able to hide from distance so seek something to hide behind like rocks. if you walk the sideline casting fifteen to twenty feet ahead of where you are facing and walking direction will work just as well then only move four feet and repeat. Lastly: never let your shadow hit the water, and try to have the afternoon winds at your back.
I have said this here at least twenty times now: throw a lizard onto an over hanging rock, downed tree or tree stump and stick it there. jiggle your rod tip very little till it falls in the water (get ready) and you might (as I have too numerous times to count) see the basses dorsal and tail fin come out of the water as it charges the bait and crushes it. Great success
live shad work real good at castaic, if and when you can get them. fishing from the shore, use them about 3 feet below a small float hooking them behind the dorsal fin.
but l have gotten more castaic bass on plastic worms than anything else. my favored area is to the right of the main launch ramp (as you face the lake), from that shoreline all the way around into the next cove. the yamamoto “big ika” has done well for me there also.
also use pop-rs when the shad are up on top.
those trout swimbaits will work better in the winter.