Castaic Fishing Map for Best Areas and 2019 fishing Report, How to fish Castaic, and info on Hunting Clubs nearby
CURRENT CONDITIONS LAKE CASTAIC DECEMBER 2016 Depth is the key right now, at least 30 feet. Using brownish spoons and jigs is the most effective for largemouths and scattering of small mouth bass. Stripers are more spread out, its best to troll using an umbrella rig with shad look a likes. Catfish seems to be very slow right now. The good news is trout are going to be planted this week.
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Known for it big bass, Lake Castaic has a two-fish, 18- inch minimum size limit, and sometimes you can take one or two 10 pounders a trip. Finesse plastic worm methods are now mandatory tocatch fish here as well as live waterdogs and largetrout imitation lures are decent options as well.As our fishing map shows, Lake Castaic is located roughly 45 miles north of Los Angeles on I-5. Take the Lake Hughes turnoff to the main entrance.
The lake is open year round, except Christmas Day, from sunrise to sunset. Subject to high winds during the spring months, the launch ramps may be closed at times.
Our fishing report shows that Spring fishing for striped bass and largemouths extends through mid- summer from late April. Stripers may respond to trout plants, or else follow the shad balls following the baitfish spawn. Black bass nesting begins in earnest in late April, but when the water is high, the fish tend to stay shallow.
Best Methods: Largemouths less than 4 pounds caught mostly on 4-inch plastic worms; Green weenies, light browns, and smoke and purple variations all seem to work. Carolina or dropshot rigs seem to get most of the bites. Stripers like the big trout plugs, or may hit bucktail jigs or Rattletraps when the fish are chasing shad.
Stripers are still part of the fishpopulation.Furthermore, stripers, including fish to nearly 40 pounds, on the good weeks,anglers may take three to seven fish from8 to 17 pounds.
LARGEMOUTHS! More fishing reports have shown that May and June are two of the very best months for catching bass at Castaic, most of the bass are going to be in less than 15 feet of water, and that’s an advantage for anglers. The shallower fish are mostly 1 to 4 pounders. Any brush that is inundated, or lacking that, they will hang around rock outcroppings or ledges. And since there is really verylittle organic sniff in the water, most ofthe fish hang around some kind of bottom change or lip on a rock face.That’s one of the reasons why lure selection here is so narrow.
Plastic worms are the first choice, and everything else is secondary. Theonly thing you might want to alter isyour rig. Use our fishing map to see Slalom Cove and Red Clay Cove which bothhave water with a tinge of color; still, thefish are more willing to hit lighterline, as they see lots of baits during thisbusy time of year as the bigger bass are not very willing to come up on the banks.Use out fishing map to look for points and ridges where thewater may come up as shallow as 8 or 10 feet.
Castaic’s remaining trophy bass haveproven to be roamers, so theystation close to open waterwhere they can forage onplanted trout, and whether using livewaterdogs or a soft plasticimitation trycasting over into 60 feet andworking up the slope, keepingin contact with the bottom allthe time.
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