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Saturday, November 21st, 2020

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    Water Temp: 58-61

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Started at 10am with the water looking stained. A-rig, S-waver, drop shot and jig were my game plan. Slight breeze kept me moving over the flats in 25 feet of water. Followers on the s waver and short strikes. Caught two on a rig (dinks) The jig seemed to be the ticket. Caught a 3 then a 2 and a few more dinks before the bite died. Tied a spoon on and looked for balls of bait. Dropped down on a few and caught one about 1.5. Tied on a lv 500 and caught 1 more. Off the water by 3pm.

    Tips: I could not get bit on drop shot and both guys I talk to on the water were catching them on drop shot.

Saturday, July 25th, 2020

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    Water Temp: 74-76

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Hit Henny with my buddy Bruce for early am top h2o bite with poppers, frog and buzz baits for a few good blow ups. Spinner baits and a few honey holes caught a couple more. Bruce caught the better fish all day and I had the numbers. Switched to jigs and had lots of hits, but they were tough to catch. Bruce got more in the boat than me, including the bass of the day 5.11lb. It was overcast for the first 3 1/2 hours on the lake with a slight breeze. Made for good fishing.

Saturday, July 15th, 2017

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    Water Temp: 74/78

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Very lucky to have overcast morning that lasted until around 9:15am with a slight breeze though out the day. Dropped the tub in at day break and stared getting hits right away. About an hour in found some lay downs around rock when the bigger bites started. there is a great weed line next to deeper water that the bass were all over. Caught around 30 or 35 bass by 11:00am with most being in the 1.5 to 3lb range and a few up to a little over 5lbs.

    Tips: I was reaction fishing all morning. Accurate casts is what paid off all morning. I have been following a pattern on henny this week. I did not fish the same portions of the lake today, just the same structure around the lake.

Saturday, October 15th, 2016

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    Water Temp: 64.3 - 66.7

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched at 7:30am dropped trolling motor in light rain. S/Waver over dying grass in shallow flats caught a few keepers. Fishing was great, catching was slow for the next couple hours. Mid depth crank, vibrate jig pick up two more. Around 11am went to deeper off shore flat and spooned around bait balls for a couple more, including the best fish of the day just over 2lbs.

    Tips: The lake looked great, we just need over night temps to drop a little and full on fall bite will kick in. I think that is why there were only smaller fish being caught.

Friday, August 26th, 2016

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: What a nice time to be fishing. Started before sunrise with cloud cover went straight to top water. With one explosion after another life was great. Carbon copy two pounders were showing there colors for the most part. Switched things up and tied on deeper diving crank and went to the flats in deeper water and caught some nicer bass but not by much. Then switched to a chatter bait and went a little shallower and caught a few more. Here is were the fun was though. There were fish busting all over, chasing shad. Tied on a kastmaster on and had a great time Little butter ball bass up to pound or more, so I retied on a ultra lite rig and went to town on them for a half hour or so.

Friday, April 1st, 2016

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    Water Temp: 58-62

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched at 8am with a slight breeze. found bass on rock and around timber. spinners, swim bait and cranks all worked. No big ones but we did find a few schools stacked up for some fast action. Good day overall.

Sunday, March 20th, 2016

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    Water Temp: 60s

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: got somewhere near 40-50 fish on assorted baits fish were eating everywhere from rock, tule and mud banks. biggest was about 5 1/2

    Tips: rage craws on shaky head, swimbait, drop shot, spinnerbait, crank, jig, and topwater eatin it all

Friday, March 18th, 2016

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    Water Temp: 58-61

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched around 7 am. started with spinners, chatter baits and deep diver cranks, got a few bumps , then tied on a speed trap and caught some were around 25 bass most around 2 lbs and a few close to 5lbs. Off the lake by two thirty.

Saturday, February 20th, 2016

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: With the med to heavy rain we had the last few days the water cooled and got a little stained. I am not sure of the temp. we got on the lake around 7:30am. With cranks, senco, spinners and jigs we caught most of our fish in 5 to 15 feet of water. Fished all over looking at the lake. Off the lake by 1;30.

Sunday, February 14th, 2016

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Started at 4pm walking the ramp side throwing jigs & senco's and caught 7 bass up to 2 1/2 lbs till dark. The lake is full pool. Will be on the lake over the weekend will give report then.

Sunday, August 28th, 2011

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    Water Temp: 73-76

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: On the water when the gate opened. pop'r, spinners, shallow cranks and buzz baits with minimal action,six small ones up to 1 1/2 pounds. Tied on a weightless texas rigged senco and caught a few more and one that went 4 pounds. Off the water by noon.
    City: Napa

Thursday, November 18th, 2010

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    Water Temp: 57-61

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Started at 7am with 6 inch swim bait and caught one 2 lb bass. Through spinners and cranks in shad colors and crawfish, and hooked up a few more bass and even caught a trout on a crank bait.
    City: Napa

    Tips: I was unable to put a pattern together. Even though the lake has not been stocked with trout for a few years, The trout I caught was about 9 inches long. This tells me there are a few babies being born in the lake. A few months from know a nice swim bait will produce. Happy fishin

Tuesday, June 1st, 2010

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    Water Temp: 60's

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: This lake can be tough, Best bet with current conditions is to run to north side work the inlets and the bank on NE side back with watermelon red sekos or tx hogs in wat/red or blue/black on overcast. white on white blades. the gizard shad is in this lake so i use blue back silver speed traps. try a dad like the river to sea yabby the little one and you will get um.
    City: napa/vacaville

    Tips: work from the big inlet in the north back and find em in about 5 to 10.its all sand and run off with perfect bedding areas.

Saturday, May 22nd, 2010

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished both the north and southeast sides of the lake. Less than ideal conditions with the wind and the potential for showers. Stuck one LM off a fallen tree and that was it for about four hours of fishing. Spotted lots of fry so it looks like the spawn is over with.
    City: Napa

    Tips: Hennessy is usually a tough lake in the best of conditions, so wait until summer like weather arrives.

Tuesday, April 20th, 2010

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    Water Temp: 56 plus

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Toaday I was on a walk around the lake on the conn valley side and noticed the bass are starting to bed up. This has been happening for a few weeks now. There were a few pairs stuck together like glue and very aggresive towards intrusive baits laying in there beds. So this is more of an update of the way fish behave. I did stick a few bass.
    City: Napa

Sunday, March 28th, 2010

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    Water Temp: 58-61

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Started the day throwing BBZ-1(shad) and Mission fish along rock shelves next to deep water,nothin happened. Thru cranks,spinners,drop shots and still nothin. Talked with other fisherman and there day was not going well either. One guy had a NICE 26 inch trout.(6-7 pounds)
    City: Napa

    Tips: Still waiting for things to change,weather wise. I did see a few pre spawn bass working the shallow water, starting to be protective on some flats. Keep fishing

Saturday, February 13th, 2010

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    Water Temp: 51-53

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: After hearing good things about the bass bite,and the water temps looking good. I tossed jigs with craw trailers,shad cranks,drop shot all deep and shallow with not a bite. Fish were scattered all over the lake on my lowerance. There will be a better day, I would like some one to e-mail me with some tips.
    City: Napa

Saturday, November 21st, 2009

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    Water Temp: 56

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Decided to try out my new 10HP out on Hennessy. I love this lake, just can't catch any fish out of it. Like my luck before, NOTHING!!! I thought going between storms might bring out a few momma's.

    The lake is still very low and really doesn't have the structure that it needs but when its full this should end up being a great fishery.

    Most fish were very deep. I threw a basstrix in rainbow trout and finally found a bait that these fish were interested in. They followed the bait up to the boat, sometimes 3 at a time but never grabbed it. SO FRUSTRATING. I stopped it, twitched it, burned it...NOTHING. Again this lake skunked me. Should have just kept driving onto Berryessa like my brain told me to do, again a great day to be on any lake!!!
    City: Santa Rosa

    Tips: Your asking the wrong guy...I'm the one who needs tips.

Saturday, June 27th, 2009

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    Water Temp: 75-77

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished the north shore east to conn valley towers. Thru top water, but did not get any hits. Tied on a weightless night crawler and started in the tullies. My partner caught a nice bass right off the bat and I caught two nice blue gill fairly quick. Fished for 3 more hours and we caught ten or more fish before calling it a Day.
    City: Napa

Sunday, May 3rd, 2009

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    Water Temp: 54-57

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished the 20/30 derby with high hopes. The DFG has stopped stocking the lake with trout because of state cut backs. We fished in a med down pour of rain for 4 hours. Caught 1 bass on crawdad jig in ten feet of water. (4 lbs )Nothing special.
    City: Napa