I agree definitely much higher population of stripers at Pyramid but most are small in comparison to the stripers at Castiac. Not to say there are aren't any big ones in Pyramid or small ones in Castiac but my experience has been that Pyramid has better numbers and Castiac has better quality on average. You can be sure that Pyramid holds big stripers as well. As far as shad are concerned I really don't know which lake has more but it seems like the stripers at Castiac are feeding on small bass along the Dam. I whitnessed some of this when I was there last Friday. I fished the shore for a couple hours during the late afternoon evening. I hooked a big striper on 5" mackerel pattern swimbait (imitates a small bass). The fish rolled on it about 10' from shore, it was an awesome sight to see. I was using 15lb Ande and I'm confident the line would have held up if it didn't get fraid from contact with a local reef while fighting a black seabass the week before. The only one to blame there is myself. I've learned that lesson too many times to let something like happen but it did. I'll back this week with some fresh line.


JerryG