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64, santa margarita
Posted by , Fri Aug-27-99 09:22 PM
me and rob got to the lake at around four and started out at wild man cove. rob hadn't thrown the plastics over there yet so we gave it a shot. not much happened there. rob missed a bite on the buzz bait but that was about it. the first fish was landed by myself at white oak. it was a pretty decent fish, maybe 14 inches. i was throwing a grey/clear sparkle belly bass trix swimbait. we worked our way over to this shallow area which was almost directly in the middle of the lake. i got a hit which i thought was weeds and it started shaking it's head, so i popped it and started reeling and i was saying, well it's a little one..... and as it got closer to the boat we saw it was a pretty decent 2 and a half pounder. it was just shaking it's head the whole time and not using it's weight. rob proceeded to miss like 8 fish in various areas and we went over to this rocky point where rob threw a little worm. then he started knocking the 10 inchers, i mean, he was on fire. he got like 4 in a row. as it got dark we headed to the narrows. we threw the plastic for a while with no luck and there was a lot of shad on the surface so i decided to throw a popper. first couple casts i got whacked by another 2 and half. unfortunately my drag was all loose so i pulled off the mid fight drag tightening maneuver and got it to the boat. that was about it and we called it a day after that fish.