Castaic Lake and Pyramid Lake Fishing Report 9/17/2014

The water continues to drop at Castaic but the bite isn't bad.  We've seen small striper boils here and they're usually in the backs of coves first thing in the morning and periodically throughout the day.  Standard issue lures like Zoom Flukes, Lucky Craft Gunfish, and Kastmasters.  The bass has been a little slower unless you can pick up some live shad with dip nets or sabiki rigs.  Pin them on with a #8 or #10 Owner Mosquito Hook through the nose with 6# line and free spool it.  Almost every bait will be a fish if you have a good bait tank.  For plastics, the Basstrix Flashtrix in 1/5" and 2" work great flylined on 4# or 6# line.  

 Pyramid has a large algae bloom but don't let the green fool you, it's good for the fish and is only on the top layer of the water.  Underneath, the water clear and fishing has been fair to good.  Stripers continue to be caught trolling umbrella rigs with Keitech Swing Impact Fat's in the marina and in the channel on the way out to the main part of the lake.  Largemouth are in the grass or on the grass edge and drop shooting on the outside with shad colored 4 1/2" Roboworms has been productive.  Smallmouth bass are on rocky points in 20-25 feet of water.  Dirty Jigs in 1/2oz and Texas rigged Zoom Brush Hogs have been working best.

Castaic and Pyramid Fishing Report 9/3/14

Castaic has remained steady on the Striper boils. We have been looking for congregations of birds, or birds already working the water. This is usually an indicator of baitfish in the area, and where there are schools of baitfish, there are schools of larger fish. Zoom Flukes in White Ice, Albino, and Smokin Shad have been producing best.  This is our go to technique this time of year. We rig them with a 1/4oz Scrounger head and fish this on a straight retrieve or a Keitech Jig Head with a pop then slack retrieve, like a jerkbait.

When the boils start going off both of those techniques work very well, along with topwater baits such as theLucky Craft Sammy and Gunfish.

The Largemouth have been hitting topwater baits very readily as of late. We have had very good luck on the River2Sea Rover. The Duo Realis Spinbait 80 has also been very effective.

Pyramid is still very similar. The boils have been off and on throughout the day. They are usually very active and boiling first thing in the morning. Once that dies out they have been coming up again all around the lake every few hours. The same techniques as above have been very effective on the Stripers. If we can find the school on our meter we can usually get them to go on walking baits.

The Largemouth and Smallmouth are being caught outside of the grasslines on spinnerbaits and other shad imitations such as the Huddleston Weedless Shad. They are also being caught on our trusty Yamamoto Fat Ika!

The fishing has been hot so be sure to get out there and get a piece of it!