Saturday I got absolutely hammered by a fish in excess of 15 pounds on my Generic Trout. The fish hit the plug squarely in the middle with it's mouth closed and bolted like it was electricuted...She was gone in the same instant that she hit it.....Blink she's there,smack,Blink she's leaving...This fish I am convinced has had some sort of experiance with a wood bait before. Huge fish hard to estimate but clearly dawarfed my 12 from 2 years ago.....She is never gonna eat a trout bait again. Now, The big question?.....Coming from a guy who doesn't bed fish.....She is no where near a spawning area. In one direction over a mile to an area in the other 300 yards. I'm confident that she will remain where she is for 2-3 weeks....Anybody think it would be wrong to go catch her on a crawdad? Kadota,Ray Easly,Murphy, To name a few .....What do you guys Think? She has been educated. Jeepers it's a huge fish. She scares me everytime I think about her. Hope everybody did well over the weekend I'll post my Cachuma report Later.

Kelly

It's your personal decision how much you want to restrict yourself. Don't base it on what we think.

Nico

We are all out there to fish. BUT its up to you to be honest and not enter your fish in the contest below. Right now big fish are moving around she might not even be within 100' or active. I would guess you will have a tough time finding her. Good luck

But who's to say she's not still in the neighborhood you saw her in? Or that she wouldn't hit a trout plug again if it's thrown her way? And maybe there're some spawning beds there that you're not aware of?

Lots of uncertainties there! Just keep your lines wet, & who knows what might happen???

- jeff

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Every day Congress convenes, we lose a little more of our LIBERTY!!!

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Actually the water she hit in is close to 80 feet deep and I suspect she is either bedding on a shale outcropping or just feeds here. They need crawfish for egg development but I decided not to fish her that way. About 5 years back I bought 6 crawfish and fished a stretch of pretty famous for big fish water with all my trick stuff and not a tap and went back where I started and anchored up figuring I'd be there quite a while, as an experiment I wanted to see if they'd bite bait. Now I thought I'd be there a good long while but I had 6 fish on 6 casts with a 5-6 pound AVERAGE. I have seen big fish at Cachuma act very strangely to trout baits in the past and I believe it's because they have had experiances with them befor. Maybe 5-6 years back I spotted a 10 sitting in the back of a cove but up in the top of some brush. At the time I was playing with my new 70.00 dollar Castaic Hardbait. I tossed it passed her and swam it by and she followed it towards the boat. She was getting to close to the boat so I stopped it dead. She swam over and gingerly grabbed it between the two trebles, She let go and swam about 3 feet away and then the strange part, she stuck her head out of the water and shook it from side to side and then slowly sliped back on her tail,turned and swam back to the bush and took up position there again. That fish never touched anything I presented to her again. I think she had been hooked on a woodbait before or she wouldn't have acted that way. I've been tossing these things down here for over ten years and I am a believer when it comes to a fish especially a Florida strain getting shy of certain types of stuff except they are northern strain and more prone to eat period. However this doesn't explain why the fish at Lopez are still eating white spinnerbaits. After 20 years of getting caught on them you'd think that they would have figured that one out. Maybe that's the differance?-Reaction baits don't give them time to figure stuff out - but they way I fish my swimbait they have all day to figure it out....I am sure I do better on windy,overcast,rainy type days because they make more mistakes. I'll keep working her the old fashioned way and see if I can't stick her....I find that if you make the fish To Smart you might as well stay home...GO BIG OR GO HOME....Kelly

I would like to have seen that 'mouthing' of the Castaic -- you musta been goin' nuts watching that! :- )

- jeff

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Every day Congress convenes, we lose a little more of our LIBERTY!!!

(-- Mark Levin, radio-show host/KSFO 3-6pm)