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Thursday, June 4th, 2009

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    Water Temp: 76

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: I got to fish Amador with a friend this Thursday. We fished from 3:30 pm - 2:30 am. This was the day after several successive days of major thunderstorms so we didn't know what to expect. The weather was decent, though, but a bit windy during the afternoon and evening. The moon phase was about 3 days before full and the lake was about 8 feet from full, the water was pretty stained (4'). The weeds are showing up pretty strong and the moss is getting started in places too. We got a few fish during the afternoon but it was very slow and no size to speak of. Zero topwater boils. When the sun was getting low in the sky about 45 minutes before sunset we started catching fish on Senkos in pretty windy conditions. I got a solid 3 on a 7" white Senko then my friend got an 8.0 about 20 minutes before sunset, the fish fought great. Later we got a 4.7 and a 5.6 with the rest below 3.0. Our best five-fish weighed about 23.3 lbs. We also got bit on spinnerbaits and jigs but the Senkos seemed to work the best because of the weeds and moss. Overall, the fishing was pretty slow in between a few quality fish. I got my 5.6 at about 2:25 am so the quality fish were still active when I we left.
    City: Folsom

    Tips: Give the Senkos plenty of time to sink. We caught fish on main lake points as well as secondary points deep in coves.

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

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    Water Temp: 78-83

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: This is not much of a report because of the weather conditions. The Sierra Thunderstorm clouds drifted west over Amador and beyond, totally shuting off the bite. I have seen this many times at Amador and other lakes with these conditions. Don't know if this is the highly charged air (lightning) or air pressure - but the results are consistant. For example, we threw every type of topwater before dark and didn't have a sniff! That is not normal this time of year. Rick and I have 70+ years of combined experience on this lake - to no avail sometimes!! We caught 5 up to 3 lbs and missed just a few. Power worms provided what little damage we did.
    City: Yuba City

    Tips: One can usually tell when this is happening - all life stops. Only 2 or 3 fish came to the top during the evening. No bait, no fish, no bird activity, few crickets, deathly quiet - except for airplanes coming and going. I don't remember anytime in the past 30 years with this much daily thunderstorm activity with heavy rain. It will keep the fire danger down!

Saturday, May 16th, 2009

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    Water Temp: 65-70

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Tough conditions but we managed to catch 19 between the two of us. Pretty much every fish came on a split shot rig with brownish 4-6 inch worms. Fish weighed 1 to 3 lbs. I had a bigger fish that broke my 6lb test. I still haven't caught the 8 lber ,but I know there in this lake.
    City: Galt

    Tips: We found a wind blown bank with grass in about 5 feet of water. This area held some quality fish. Fish stopped biting after it hit 90... Fish early and late. Pray for some clouds.

Saturday, May 2nd, 2009

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    Water Temp: 65

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: WHAT A GREAT LAKE TO FLOAT AROUND IN YOUR TUBE!! ME AND MY BUDDY CAUGHT 17 FISH TO 3.5 LBS. MOST FISH WERE CAUGHT WITH 6LB TEST ON SPINNING TACKLE. THE MALES ARE VERY ACTIVE SITTING INCHES OFF THE BANK. I WAS PLANNING ON THROWING THE SWIM BAIT BUT WE WERE HAVING SO MUCH FUN WITH THE SMALLER BAITS. THESE FISH ARE VERY STRONG AND HEALTHY.
    City: GALT

    Tips: MY BIGGER FISH CAME ON 6" SENKOS,WACKY STYLE.

Sunday, April 12th, 2009

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished 7 AM to 1 PM. Got 15 fish, biggest going 6 lbs, mostly males. The bites seemed to come in spurts. We would fish an hour with no bites, then all of a sudden we'd get bit back to back. We even had a double hook up.
    City: Brentwood

    Tips: The fish that aren't on beds are still feeding on shad. Find the shad and you'll have a good time.

Sunday, April 5th, 2009

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    Water Temp: 60 to 66

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Well me and my brother made our first trip here since last year. we got on the H20 at 6.20 AM. started throwing swimbaits with no luck jerkbaits, we picked up first fish on a dropshot in about 1 to 2 ft. then again about every 10 ft. all the way down the bank.all were males squirting semen out so they either doing their thing or gaurding nest we ran out of our sexy shad robo worm then switched to margarita mutilator. and one on a wacky style senko. we also caught 2 trout 1 at 8 lbs and 1 at 5 lbs but they don't count we ended at 4pm a total of 61 fish and we lost several I got 28 and my bro got 33 that SOB won again I guess I taught him well, but he was in the front of boat all day so I guess I held my own!! All fish were released even the trout because they were a little big for bait HA HA
    City: Carmichael

    Tips: Go fish and release your catch !!

Thursday, April 2nd, 2009

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    Water Temp: 58-65

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Thursday, 4/2/09 - Three of us fished from sunrise to sunset and caught over 60 fish up to 5#.
    Sunday, 4/5/09 - Fished from 10AM-4PM and only boated half dozen (all 2 - 2.5#, but I helped a guy weigh a bass that was 7# 11 oz).
    City: Cameron Park

    Tips: No reaction bites for me

Thursday, March 26th, 2009

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    Water Temp: 63/66

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: STARTED 8AM FINISHED 4PM CAUGHT 12 LG MOUTH BIGGEST 4PDS ALL ON SENKOS 5/15 FT FISH ARE READY TO MOVE ON BEDS. LAKE IS DOWN 20 FT FROM HIGH WATER MARK. LAUNCHING IS NO PROBLEM NICE DAY GOOD TIME,
    City: ANTIOCH

    Tips: START SHALLOW WORK THE COVESNICOLSON

Tuesday, March 24th, 2009

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    Water Temp: 58-60

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: went out again and caught 4. missed a few others, bent the gamakatsu hook!!!!! then half heartedly set the hook and had a 5 plus pounder on for 5 seconds and popped off. fish are getting ready to spawn. marks are all over the fish.
    City: brenthood

    Tips: throw bottom baits, fish are spawning

Wednesday, March 18th, 2009

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Quite a few small fish in the top 6ft., some where making beds. Caught 5 nicer fish (3 to 5lb.)in 20 to 30ft.on points and rock piles, useing a brown/orange jig. Tried spinnerbaits and swim baits but no takers. Gill (local guide)also caught some nice fish on a black/blue jig in deep water.
    City: Sacramento

Tuesday, March 17th, 2009

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    Water Temp: 55

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Went out today for bass today from the shore. good day. fished for a few with nothing to show. then got on a very steep rocky bank. missed one on a jig than caught one on a jig than caught one on a tube and missed a few others. fish came out of 20 feet of water. than went to a new spot and fished the points. almost on everypoint caught a fish or missed one. ended up with 11 total fish and missed many more. used senkos, worms, tubes and jigs
    City: Bhood

    Tips: senkos and worms were best on ponts with some rocks on them

Wednesday, January 7th, 2009

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    Water Temp: 49

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Went out on the 7th,got out on the water about 8am. Started trolling for trout right from the marina. No takers! Switched to bass about 10am and ended up with 3 small fish to 2 lbs on a drop shot in about 25-30 ft of water. Slow but still caught a few. I need some big fish areas, if anyone knows any, feel free to expand!
    City: manteca

Sunday, January 4th, 2009

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    Water Temp: 47-51

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Started around 8am and fished for bass right off the bat. Very slow in the morning, so we found a point and pounded the trout up to 4 pounds on berkley power worms. Around 11:30 started to fish bass again and we caught 4 bass 2 on Jigs. Largemouth went 5.3 lbs and the spot went 2.3 lbs also pick up to smaller ones drop shotting in 25ft of water. The spot was caught right next to bank and the largemouth was caught in 22 ft of water.
    City: Antelope

    Tips: Fish the points and the coves very slowly. We fished one point that the largemouth come from for over and hour. Good Luck.

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    Water Temp: 43-45

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Did a little trout fishing the other day and noticed a bass boat on the water in this cold weather still. I stopped and asked how he was doing and he said he had one fish with several bites on a texas rigged plastic bait, looked like a crawfish pattern of some sort. Larry if your out there, I'm an avid delta rat but lakes are not my specialty. I see all kinds of trees and stickups where the bass may be hiding but I was wondering if you had any tips for me. I plan on heading to the lake Wednesday the 7th of January. I also noticed a coulple of islands now that the water levels are so low. Pretty cool to see where the bass are hiding when the water is at normal capacity. Any help for my first amador winter bass trip would be great! Thanks and happy new year to all!
    City: manteca

    Tips: The TV fishing shows have started their 09' season so if the fish aren't biting, stay warm and learn some tips from the real pro's!

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008

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    Water Temp: 61-60

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Started out thrownin huddies and ospreys for bass right where the trout were being stocked.. No takers.. went way up north on the steap walls and threw robo's for 13.. couple two pounds and a three but the rest just small.. Didnt even fish the main body because of the trout fisherman!!
    City: Citrus Heights

    Tips: try not to hook the trout fisherman.. haha They were on just about every shore accept in the far back arm...

Saturday, November 29th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 60-61

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: I guided a great guy from Minnesota last night from about 4:30 pm to midnight. The bite started out pretty fair as he caught his first California bass shortly before dark. He continued to do well into early evening, hooking several more but just landing 2 of them up to 2 3/4 lbs. They are hard to get out of the trees. I had him using a 10" black Power worm most of the trip. I was trying a brush hog to no avail - didn't get a bite 'til later and finally landed a nice one before we quit. The high fog kept the air temp nice and the boat dry. We noticed about 8 pm that it was getting suddenly much colder - we looked up - and the fog was gone, nothing but cold stars!! The temp dropped quickly and my Ranger got so wet with heavy dew that we had to wipe seats down constantly. That absolutely messed the bite up as it always does. Heavy damp air is the kiss of death for night fishing and last night was no exception - except for my 2 last bites. We had a great time in spite of the slow action and were able to get the boat out without too much work.
    City: Yuba city

    Tips: I have fished Amador a few times in the last 35 years with the water this low but it struck me this time how steep the walls are - there is still 100 feet of water in places. Most of the bass will hangin' in and around the trees 'till the lake comes up, so plan accordingly! I found shad hugging the bottom in 40 to 50 feet of water and also found balls of them suspended in 10 to 25 feet of water. Water temp says it is October!

Sunday, November 9th, 2008

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: went out on sunday got about ten to fifteen bass on spinnerbaits mainly got em on brush hogs nothin on spook though a lot of fish in one perticular cove chasing in the baitfish but thats about it threw swimbait jigs dropshot dragged grubs. got one trout trollin a kastmaster big fish went about 3 nothin big.
    City: sacramento

    Tips: burn the spinnerbait fish the plastics on the outsides of the sticks thats how we got em and thats how everyone else said they were gettin em

Sunday, October 26th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 68

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Boy the water sure is down I have never seen this lake this low stick ups all around the lake and the boat dock is out of the water so plan on getting a little wet and muddy to get in your boat. we got on the water at agout 10 am I caught my first fish on a frog patern pop R and 6 more drop shotting a margarita mutilator the biggest went 5 lbs we saw lots of big trout busting the water looked like they were chasing bait fish
    City: carmichael

    Tips: just to let everyone know that they raised their prices back up to 35 bucks for 2 people to fish from your boat a little pricey since their ramp is in such bad shape

Friday, October 24th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 67-69

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: went out on saturday for bass and trout got about fifteen bass and two trout didnt go for bass all day a lot on spook i think i found the fish out not too sure though good fishing a lot of trout swimmin around seen a lot of schools but they just didnt want anything probably goin to hit the delta this weekend
    City: sacramento

    Tips: fish spook they seem to like it in open water right off of the shore that got me more blowups than through the sticks

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    Water Temp: 68-69

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: I fished Amador by myself for a while Wed afternoon, evening, and a little while at night. Bass were active on topwater but not very accurate!! Many good bass would jump over the Chug Bug and miss it. Weird!! My biggest was only 3 lbs - caught in the middle of the lake. The bass are feeding on the shore and over 80 feet of water! The night bite was ok but couldn't hook any big ones. The 10" Power worm was good for me.
    City: Yuba city

    Tips: It was difficult getting my Ranger out of the water by myself - it just took time. It is easy with 2 people. It is fun to remember how the lake looked 25-30 years ago - solid brush and trees!! Look for isolated brush - it usually holds bigger bass.