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KelDawg1Mon Aug-19-02 08:00 AM
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#5341, "Cachuma 8/17-8/18"
Mon Aug-19-02 01:49 PM

          

Well the difference in the weather put the fish in a frenzy on Saturday. I started out on my magic spot just cruiseing along tossing the buzzbait after about 60 yards whap! a miss, Whap!a miss,Whap a miss Jumpin jeehosafat what the heck am I doing wrong here. This fish ended up hitting the buzzbait 5 times on 5 casts so I switched up to a rico....Nothing! picked up the other colored buzzbait I had tied on and Smash this time it's on but it's only a keeper.Huh? Now either it was the same fish shortstriking the thing or there are a bunch of them right in one spot. Kept at it for another 30 feet no more takers time to go. Pull up to my next spot and drop the trolling motor and got into the hotest buzzbait action I've had in years!!! I don't know how many hit it and missed or how many I even caught along this stretch but for an hour it was wide open bendo with the fish avg. at around 3 to 4 pounds. I made one errant cast and wound the buzzbait up to the bush the line had gone through and slowly started pulling it up the branch so I could pop it off smash a 5 jumps into the bush and bounces off trying to kill the buzzbait! Scared the crap outta me and of course she didn't get it but it would have been interesting to catch a five OUT OF THE WATER! I left this area to go to my prime buzzbait water and there was nobody there! I couldn't believe my eyes as there was a tournement going on "as always" and this water has always got someone on it. Heck I'll take it, so down the bank I go getting a fish per 60 yards for about 1/4 mile. Sweet! run to another spot .....There are guys out fishing on the flats so I tuck up against the bank and start running along...Hmmm, whole lot of nothing and the cast that I was going to call my last for the area I get a 5....She tore the heck out of the buzzbait so I stopped and made some repairs and moved to my next spot. A big swirl but no bump on the first cast ....Nothing for 200 hundred yards I put the buzzbait one inch off this little cut Boom! best fish of the day about 6 and change...I weighed my five best while eating a dog at the marina and it went 21 1/2...I pulled the boat out and called the little woman to plead my case for a return on Sunday morning...No problem...I went back on Sunday licking my chops and it was altogether different than on Sat. So Brian#2 I don't know why they eat some days and not others.Where was your post for Thursday I didn't see it....If your going,tell us about it! Even when I can't figure them out I'll let us Calfish crowd know I went. The weather seemed the same on Sunday Blessed with a long morning of fog but on Sat. when I pulled off the boat cover it was dry and on Sun. it was wet! Sundays fish where far fewer as I only managed 4 but the were bigger. I had a 7+ hit the buzzbait and I didn't swing just kept up the retrieve and that fish missed a second time. It was quite a sight to see that fish cartwheeling across the water....Very agressive but she must have been farsighted because she sure missed that bait by a mile! Jeff- The bait I've been keeping quite about is a 7" worm king swimbait with a 3/4 oz. leadhead. I've been tossing it on bluebird days with alot of sucsess. I couldn't find them anywhere so I ordered up 25 of them and got them on Friday but the morning bite was so awesome that I just couldn't stop and give it a try this weekend! Hope all is well with everyone and Brian I know it was a cheap shot and I prolly shouldn't have taken it sorry but hey guys lets talk it up out there! I helped out some guys from San Diego on Saturday and when I saw them on Sunday they where all smiles....One thing about Cachuma.....They don't like a big Clacking buzzbait, they just want it slowww! The other thing I saw was alot of guys fishing prpendicular to the bank....In my mind that's dead wrong as your only in the strike zone for a few sconds instead of the whole retrieve. I pull the boat into 8 feet of water and bring the backseater up front and make parrallel casts with the trolling motor on 24 volt #3 and force feed them the bait....You eat up water but come back in an hour and they will be back!

Kelly

  

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Cachuma 8/17-8/18 [View all] , KelDawg1, Mon Aug-19-02 08:00 AM
  RE: Cachuma 8/17-8/18, Mceehops, Aug 19th 2002, #1
RE: Cachuma 8/17-8/18, Salmonoid, Aug 19th 2002, #2
RE: Cachuma 8/17-8/18, KelDawg1, Aug 19th 2002, #3
      RE: Cachuma 8/17-8/18, Jeff, Aug 19th 2002, #4
      RE: Cachuma 8/17-8/18, KelDawg1, Aug 19th 2002, #5
           RE: Cachuma 8/17-8/18, fishtrax, Aug 19th 2002, #6
           RE: Cachuma 8/17-8/18, Jeff, Aug 20th 2002, #7
           RE: Cachuma 8/17-8/18, KelDawg1, Aug 20th 2002, #9
                RE: Cachuma 8/17-8/18, Jeff, Aug 20th 2002, #10
           RE: Cachuma 8/17-8/18, CHRIS, Aug 20th 2002, #8
      RE: Cachuma 8/17-8/18, Salmonoid, Aug 20th 2002, #11
           RE: Cachuma 8/17-8/18, Salmonoid, Aug 20th 2002, #12
                RE: Cachuma 8/17-8/18, KelDawg1, Aug 20th 2002, #13

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