Dang it, just typed up the whole report and now it got erased...

Anyway, fished with Brian #2 at casitas today, not too many big ones in the morning, but we did manage a few decent fish. Brian busted the double bed rape and caught a 4.5lb female and her slightly smaller cohort.

Started to get windy at around noon so we ran over to Dead Horse Canyon to get some shelter. Came across a slug sitting on a really steep slope with a little male. They both took off when we came up on em, but we decided to crash into the shoreline and set up on em to see if they'd come back. Sho nuff, they came back to the spot but were kinda sketched out, so we let em settle for half an hour without casting. I threw one jig toss in there to see what would happen and they didn't respond too well, so we let em sit for awhile longer. The male was really agressive and would attack the bait almost every cast, so we were really scared of catching him because he was doing a really good job of keeping the female in the area. With the wind and all, it was hard to distinguish the two of them, especially to discern which one was biting your jig, so we just watched and waited. Long story short, two and a half hours and maybe 12 casts later we got a little window of about 20 seconds where we could see the big one by herself pretty well, so I pitched my jig and kinda tapped her in the side and she spun right around and slurped it. Short fight and one half hearted jump later and we got the scoop on her. Weighed in at 12.0 even. Length was 28" and girth was 21". We looked around a little more after that, but we bailed shortly afterward with hurt batteries.

Gear:
Lure Logic 3/4oz football head jig w/ zoom spinnerbait trailer
Castaway JWR610
Shimano Chronarch SF 100
12lb P-Line CXX

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