I headed up to Castaic after class today for some striper fishing since I've been hearing good things about the plant on Monday. I ended up catching my biggest striper yet. 14.4 pounds, I know it's not a whopper but it was a lot of fun. I also missed three fish in about 15 minutes. That was pretty dissapointing. I tossed the generic trout that I just got from the Ventura Fred Hall show. I love that bait now! All in all it was a pretty fun day out at Castaic.

Question about gutting these things, how exactly do you guys gut these things because the way I did it was tuff as hell. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Congradulations on your new personal best striper. I like to fillet them and as you probably already know they are excellent eating fish.

Great job man! Hey, I'm curious where you were fishing at? West ramp, main ramp or lower lagoon?

Good job on your fish Bro.... I fished from my boat on tuesday and wednesday for a total of 11 fish, biggest being around 16lbs...

Did you catch your fish on the ramp, think i saw you, the afternoon bite was much better then the evening, i had at least 20 follows on the smirk bait, but couldn't get bit on it , got all my fish on a A/C minnow.

Best way to perpare the fish is to fillet it, the bellies are good smoked, i like mine beer battered and deep fried.....

V Dave



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Yeah Valencia Dave that probably was me, I was wearing the green shirt, and Blaksun, I was fishing off the west ramp.
See ya later