Today was a solo mission to the lake. I got there around 11am and fished until about 4. I was thinking about doing some carolina rigging today with a brush hog but I started out in the marina cove with the 5" brown/tan big hammer. First fish came not far from where I park my boat, a nice 2 pounder. Working slowly through the cove I picked up two more fish about the same size. They were hammering it, no tap tap just slurp and they were on! I stopped by the marina for a minute to talk to Dean and Dave and then headed across the lake almost directly across from the marina. The first point I pulled up on I snagged my lure on a rock so I went towards the bank to get it. Once there I realized there was a nice rock pile just to my left. I dropped the big hammer almost straight down but it never hit bottom as a nice fish grabbed it on the way. I brought her to the boat and put her on the scale. A nice 4-3, my best fish in quite a while! Happily I worked down the bank from there. I'm casting along this sort of nothing piece of bank and watching my lure as it comes up out of the deeper water. Just as I lift it out of the water to make another cast I see this bass out of the corner of my eye that had just raced up after the swimbait. I quickly flipped the reel into freespool and dropped the bait back down about 2 feet and I'll be damned if that sucker didn't turn around 180 degrees in about a second and eat it right there in front of me. After a quick tussle alongside the boat I lipped this one and weighed her at 4lb 8oz, another very nice Margarita bass! This was too much so I went back to the marina to see if Dave wanted to come out and keep fishin. I gave him a fish trap and we headed back out. We'll of course the big ones didn't keep biting and we both farmed a fish each and then at the end I caught one about 1.5 pounds. So since it was gettin pretty darn hot up there I cleared out around 4. After going probably 4 months without catching a single fish over 4 pounds today was really a treat. I talked to another guy up at the lake who's name I can't remember but who I've talked to before in the winter time, and he said he was getting the big kids too and had boated fish of approx 5 and 6 pounds along with a number of other nice fish. Kinda vauge as to what he was getting them on but I think worms or maybe a jig. He got the 6 about 100 feet from where I got the 4-8 although we were there at different times. Some days I guess the big girls just decide to go on the feed all at once. When you fish enough you're bound to hit it right sometimes!

Ah something I forgot...<BR>My corsair 200 after landing those two nice fish is now completely dead. I hit the thumbar and the whole thing ripped out of the side and wouldn't go back. So sweet those crapsairs...

Rob, are you friends with Matt Peters of Dana Point, CA? If so, drop me a quick note with your email address. <P>Thanks

Brett,<BR>My email is rbelloni@calpoly.edu. If the guy you're talking about also goes by the name Pete's and is a fishing maniac, thats the guy.<P>Rob

Went fishing at Casitas on Saturday 9/4. Launched in the fog at at 6:25, and caught a buzzbait fish on my 10th cast--2.2#. That was it for the day, though not for a lack of effort. My buddy Dan caught a small fish on a silver & blue rattle trap. The next meeting of the SB Bass club is Monday 9/13 at 7:00 PM at Rusty's on Carrillo. The Casitas tournament is Sunday 9/18.Cost of the tournament is $24.00 plus approx. $30.00 nonboaters fee. There is no charge for joining the club this year. All members have to belong to BASS for Insurance purposes. Join today, if you want to fish. Membership isapproximately $18.00. That includes 10-12 issues of Bassmaster mag.<BR>Dave