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Friday, July 30th, 2010

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    Water Temp: 79-81

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Tough bite, ended up with a 3+ lM, pushing 3 spot, several little spots and 1 5-7 lb catfish.
    All fish on jigs..swimming the jig produce most of fish.
    City: Lincoln

Saturday, July 3rd, 2010

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    Water Temp: 76

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Had a really good day even with holiday activity on the lake. I just had a so so day. My partner put 18lbs in boat and culled my only 2 keepers. Only caught about 10 fish total, but the quality was there. Main body and up the river were good. My partner was dialed in with a hula grub and could do no wrong. I eventually switched over to it, but still nothing. He was using 6lb floro and I was using 8lb mono. It must have been the difference. No topwater, crank or drop shot bite. Draggin was the only producer.
    City: Sacramento

Saturday, June 19th, 2010

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    Water Temp: 74 Degrees

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Launched from Northshore and fished main body for first hour but no action. Fished coves in the main channel and started catching some small spots. Most fish came on drop shot and shakey head. Caught one small mouth and a few spots on top water. Biggest fish went 3.5 lbs. Off the lake by noon.
    City: El Dorado Hills

    Tips: Mostly a finesse bite.

Monday, June 7th, 2010

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Im fishing a local club and I've been to lake a couple of times, but wasnt able to locate any largie. Can anyone help me or give me some tips on how to locate largemouth in this lake. Thanks...
    City: Sacramento

Sunday, June 6th, 2010

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Drop shot the submerged rock piles in the main lake, or drop a wacky rigged senko. This time of year you can also crank on island points, throw wacky rig senko

Sunday, May 30th, 2010

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    Water Temp: 69

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished 2 days and caught 20 bass. Day 1 they were up shallow 2-5ft on the outside weed edges. Senkos worked. Day 2 they were in the mud lines created by the holiday boat traffic. Drop shot worked for that pattern. Fish were 7-15ft on the edges. Caught my biggest fish one evening when a top water bite turned on around 7:00PM producing multiple 3 to 4 lb fish and really exciting fishing. Tried a frog and got followers but could not trigger a strike. Switched to a small, quiet Zara Puppy and they exploded on that bait. All fish were caught in the east side of the main lake and in the river area.
    City: Foster City

    Tips: Patterns only lasted 1 day so be flexible and switch quickly if yesterdays fish are not there. Fish from shallow AM to 15ft mid day. The top water doesn't turn on until just before dark in water 70deg.

Sunday, March 14th, 2010

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    Water Temp: 50 - 54 Degrees

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Went to Lake Camanche on Sunday March 14th, 2010 and caught 6 spotted bass and 1 largemouth in 9 hours of fishing. The best five when 16.60 lbs and big fish was the 4.33 lbs largemounth. We fished main lake island tops till 11am for one spotted bass and the kicker. Moved up the river arm and found a point (35' of water) just off a spawning bay and found a nice pod of 2.5-3lbs+ spots. I proceeded to wear out the spot to fill my 5 fish limit. Most of the fish took shad patterned plastics on 1/8 oz darter heads and hula grub on a 3/8 oz football head. Threw crank / jerk / swimbaits too, but didn't have any takers.
    City: Stockton, CA

    Tips: Get a map of the lake and look for deeper water (25'-65') areas off shallow water (5'-20') spawning bays and flats w/ fresh water creeks coming into the lake. With water temps in the low-mid 50's the fish seem to be in pre-spawn transition w/ the spotted bass being more active and running down baits. The fish will spawn around April 28th's and May 27th's full moon.

Saturday, February 20th, 2010

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    Water Temp: 52.7

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: We fished the main like island tops in the west area of the lake near the dam for 3 spotted bass and 1 smallmouth and a 2.5 lb average. Tried fishing shallow in morning w/ jerkbaits, and worms, but the fish were deep. Moved off shore and picked up some fish. The spotted bass fell for hula grubs (watermelon black and red) fished in 20'-30' of water on a 3/8 OZ football head. The smallmouth smashed a Fat Free Shad in baby bass pattern in about 15'-20' of water along the southside dam. Didn't try up river or in the narrows, but would if I went back soon.
    City: Stockton

    Tips: The fish were not up in the shallows w/ the front blowing in/out. Fish deeper water and find island tops at 20' depths dropping down into 50' water. Dragging darker colored jig/pig or watermelon and watermelon red flake patterned lizards or brush hogs w/ a Carolina Rig 1/2 OZ -3/4 OZ in deeper water may be the ticket until the fish move back up in water less than 15'.

Saturday, February 13th, 2010

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    Water Temp: 54 was the warm

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: it was a pretty good day. Fished a club tournament Sacramento Bass Wranglers 12 boats. We finished 3rd with 13.86 and our big fish was 3.86. Winning weight was 14.20 and second place at 14 even with big fish of the tourney being 4.10. We used darter head, drop shot, carolina rig, jigs to catch our fish. We fished all off shore structure. from 15-30ft of water.
    City: Sac

    Tips: Fish slow, cast and put your hand in your pocket and drag your bait. With the weather warming up fishing should only get better. Also Sacramento Bass Wranglers Club we are currently looking for new members. For more information email. sacbasswrangler@aol.com

Friday, February 12th, 2010

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: U tell them Nac...I got ur back...lolz.... i've never fish at a lake n skunk like this b4...bass my ass...lolz. This lake got a lot of potiental but not yet. I hope they don't release baby bass..lolz. They probable realize the water gonna be way up this yr n start releasing bass. IF n when the water goes up 10-20ft n if they release some big mama..it's on. For now my comment still stands...this lake sucks...lolz

    Tips: my opionions n comments...not the fact

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

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    Water Temp: 54

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Put a friend on some of my spots last weekend for a club tourney.They used the same set up as me and Scott.Sinkos in the watermelon black flake / Jigs in brown with green pumpkin twin tails. Along with a drop shot. They took first place with 12.65 lb, not as much wait as me and Scott had the week before but they got in to a lot of fish. This is a awesome lake with lots of fish, but like all lake you have to put your time in on the water and find them.
    City: Galt

    Tips: Put your time in on the water before you doubt others report. I put my time in on this lake for 15+ years and there is still days I don't do that well. Tight lines and happy fishing

Wednesday, February 10th, 2010

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    Water Temp: 48-50

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: i feel u man...so far...this lake sux. They release 1600 bass but i can't find one.. who didn't let the bass out..lolz

Saturday, February 6th, 2010

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    Water Temp: 51

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: lake way up from last year. prefished for sat the 13th yuba city bass busters
    the bite was not. thats all i can say.2 pretty good anglers 1 bite =1fish. i expected a good bite after reading last report
    City: plumas lake

    Tips: dont read reports and actually believe em

Saturday, January 30th, 2010

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    Water Temp: 54

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished a small club turney on Saturday. The guy's that put it on wore from Stockton Bass. We started the day by blasting off at about 6:45am and headed to a island top in the main lake. My partner Scott Stevens fished 1 ton's and I fished jigs. Fished that area for about 1 1/2hr with onley one small keeper and a bite. Ran to are next spot on the main body and grafeded around. Found some arks tight to the bottom so we stoped and checked it out. I tosted a jig and Scott droped a drop shot on the arks. Three shakes of his rod and it was on. He got a three pound spoted bass. I worked the jig a little bit longer and I hooked up with another three pound spoted bass. We started to look around the area to see why the fish wore there and we hit the mother lode. We found some grass in about 40 to 50 feet. We started working the area and sure as you know it Scott hooked in to his bigest spot ever, a 5.66 lbr. This is was a spot that you would onley dream about finding in a big turney. We stayed in that area preaty mouch of the day catching three pound spots. We had about 17 1/2 pound for the day at 3:00 pm. Are waigh in was at 3:30 so we tryed one more spot on the main lake before waigh in nowing we needed one more big fish. We pulled up on are last spot of the day and it was on. Scott started off with catching two more 3 lb spots back to back on a jig and I got to on a sinko. It was almost time to waigh in and I seen a small stick up on the bank and told Scott that this was the last cast. What do you know I stuck a 5.62 lb larg mouth. We ran to waigh in and finnished the day in first place with 19.90 lb. Second place had 16.54 lb and big fish of the turney was 5.96 lb. What a day on the water, great freand to fish with and a asome day on the water. After waigh in we went back out and finnised the day out catching another limet of fish around 16 lbs.
    City: Galt

    Tips: Start the day fishinh 40 to 50 feet. Then as the sun starts to get over head look shallow. Bait was jigs in brown with green pumpken tralers and sincos in the watermellon black flake.

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

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    Water Temp: 51

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: A friend and I dropped lines around 8am and we were hooking into fish all day long. We hit the jackpot when we found some kind of large cover ( might of been a large tree) in 50 feet of water, on an old roadbed. My first large-mouth of the year was a picture perfect 4lb+ large-mouth, with a belly full of shad. My rods are rigged with 8 lb line that kept getting broke off by either the power of the fish or the hard cover. Next time I'm taking some of my delta gear with me to horse some of these fish. Crank-baits, jigs, shakyheads and dropshots were all duds today. A simple 3 inch watermelon tube was the only producer. We worked upriver, the narrows and the China's.
    City: Rio Vista

    Tips: Give extra attention to large cover with bait fish over it. Have tubes in different colors, jigheads from 1/16 to 3/8 and stronger line for heavy cover.

Friday, December 11th, 2009

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    Water Temp: 52

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: It is so cold up here but the fishing is warming up. I found some nice smallies on top of an Island in 50 feet. The key this time was finding the shad on top of these islands. I use up 4 1/2 hours just trying to find bait balls and only 2 droping line. 4 nice fighters, My biggest was 2 lb all came on a 3 inch tube on a 1/4 jig head. IF the top off the Island is 30 feet then you do cicles around the Island at 40 real slow, its kind off boring buts what worked for me today.
    City: Sacramento

    Tips: I didnt hit the jackpot today. But I know that the main lake has giant. Fish with a friend, I would of trade my 4 fish just to talk to someone today.

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    Water Temp: 53

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished this lake for the first time, a friend. The day Started cold and slow. Tried working baits balls, but never could get them going. I could see lots off fish mix in with the bait on fish finder? We headed up river on tip from a friend and we started catching smallies, there were other angler up river also cashing in. Around 3pm My friend hooked into a 3 1/2 lb spotted that gave him the fight of the year. All in all we had a great time and I can't wait to come back. Fish were in 30 to 50, the best bait was the drop shot with a dark robo worm (prism shad, tube, spoon, and beaver tails were duds today). My friend who is new to the bass world did something that will get him more fish than most, He never gave up and made every cast count.
    City: Rio Vista

    Tips: Have a game plan and try hard so stick to it. When someone takes time to show you a spot, Think about whats making the spot so good.

Wednesday, November 11th, 2009

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    Water Temp: 61-63 Degrees

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: I needed to take the boat out to see if transome transducer was reading depth properly once on plane after re gluing. After finding out that it now reads water dept at speeds above 10mph is a good thing so I decided to fish...Found the bite good for size in the 30-40 foot depths. All of my fish came on a spoon at those depths. Quality spots all five at 2 lbs or greater with the largest near 3lbs. I left after @5 hours of fishing. There were at least 20 other boats that I seen up river and yet nobody will take the time to post which is why I am. I didn't go behond the bridge because at least 5 other boats made their way up river. Saw several boats fishing the two bridge pilings but only one piling was producing fish all small from what I could see. There were a mix of trout and bass fishermen yesterday and the weather cooperated. I was off the water by 1:30pm and wish I could have stayed longer but had things to do at home....Lake level is @75% full which is a good thing around here....
    City: EDH

    Tips: The Spots were spitting up crawdad pieces and probably should have used my jigs but I wanted to see if the Dah spoon would produce here like they did for me on Berryessa. The craw color pieces that they were spitting up was red/orange.

Sunday, September 27th, 2009

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    Water Temp: 76

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: I fished Comanche Thur thru Sunday AM. I averaged 12-15 bass each day with one 20 fish day. There was a great top water bite from 6:00 -7:15 PM each night. Caught numerous 3lb fish and one 4lber. Top water fish were caught along the rocky shore in the upper river area. Sara spooks and tiny torpedoes were the best baits. The morning and afternoon bite was slow due to extreme heat and limited to smaller fish caught on drop shot robo worms and Comanche Jack plastics in 20ft off rocky points. Tried crank bait and carolina rigged plastics and nada. Caught a couple of missed top water fish on senko.
    City: Foster City

    Tips: Fish top water late evening and drop shot during the morning. Sleep during the heat of the mid-day

Saturday, September 19th, 2009

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    Water Temp: 76

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: dropshottin 7 inch sencos is possible wacky rig them on a drop shot i've done this. I did it at clear lake and yes there was a pig caught on it, 5 lbs. it depends on the lake certain fish like big profile and certain fish like small profile. yes a 7 inch senco sinks hella fat you gotta keep it movin in a natural way.
    City: sac

    Tips: look more into the lake before you fish it. the more knowledge the better chances you have on putting a pattern together.