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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: On the water at 8:00 am, fished pts. @ main lake
    north of Spanish Flats 6 fish to m 2 lbs, moved to Oaks had 8 fish, 5 keepers to 2 1/2, 11:30 moved to Big Island caught about 14 mostly 1-2 lbs, decent action coves, pts, look for weeds off banks, even better with wood & rocks. Best 5 of the day about 14-16 lbs.
    City: south san francisco

    Tips: Yamamoto creatures in Baby Bass (texas rigged with small bullet), Senko's wacky rigged, split shot caught fish on baby bass, watermelon blk & gold flake, rainbow trout pattern 5" on all, seem like they like the green color. Bite was good with the wind ripple on water.

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    Water Temp: 65-66

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: went out to oak shores. The bite was tough as steel until the end of the day when I caught a 12# LM! caught him on a purple magnum sized zoom lizard, texas style with a 40/ and half ounce weight cant wait to get back out there
    City: peidmont

    Tips: dont give up!!!

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 62 deg

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Went out of Markly coveat 7:00 amcaught 20 fish all small dinks had a good time top water was on fire this morning barely made it out of markleys .finnaly picked up and went around lake on some of my favorite spots . did well till 11:00 bite died of . had a good day lots of fun going to the delta tomorrow hope wind lays down . took some pictures going to post up in photo section. nothing in size Dave , got to go to the delta for the monsters , lake was like a duck pond today and hot
    City: Elmira

    Tips: senko 4 inch finnesse worm with tail watermelon they were all over it..... went through bag and a half, pop- r for top water

Monday, May 5th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 65

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Markley cove was hot for the spots. Caught 10 in an hour using darter heads. Biggest was 3lb.
    City: west sac

    Tips: Take your kids they will have a blast.

Sunday, May 4th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 67.5

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: This past weekend I got to the lake late Friday afternoon. I set off to my
    favorite cove for the late bite. I threw my chugger at least fifty times until
    I got my first top-water fish and then for about an hour (from 8 to 9 PM) every
    cast was action. The following day I went out with my wife and we used plastics
    only for the bass. We caught a few and lost a few. The bite was tough because
    the bass are on their nests and did not have any interest in feeding but only in
    protecting the nests and teased us by moving the lines before we could set
    the hook. I went out later in the evening with my friend Albert and we had better
    luck. Once again I was looking for that evening top-water bite but nothing happened
    until around 8:30 PM. I was throwing a chugger and Albert was throwing a Zaro Spook
    and we just kept hitting fish. We landed a limit in no time. Fish were jumping all
    around us but not all bass. During the day light Albert threw Cast Masters at the
    boiling fish and they turned out to be trout. Hooking them was no problem for Albert
    but he had a hard time landing them. It turned out to be a great night (see photos).
    Sunday I went out for a couple of hours on my own. The wind had picked up and I
    decided to troll most of the morning. I used a crankbait that only went down about
    two feet and hooked up around nineteen trout. The water temperature ranged from
    65 to 67.5 degrees. If next weekend is warmer, I look forward to a great fishing
    weekend. In the photo Albert is holding an eight pound catfish. 'til next week..............
    ................good fishing!!!!!!!!!!!!!! www.fishingconnection.net If you have any
    fishing stories you would like to share please email me at bestguide@hotmail.com or
    call me at 650-583-3333.
    City: Napa

    Tips: Cats,crappie,bass,trout,salmon,carp,sunfish now active

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    Water Temp: 63.5 in the a.m

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Got on the water about 6:30a.m. out of marlkley cove, we started in the 5mph and caught a few on dartheads shallow.We moved to wragg and caught a few spots outside the weed lines and from there went to the vineyard with no sucess. went about halfway up putah creek and found a cove with solid 2.5 lm and a couple smallies mixed in. wind picked up so we went back to the narrows before it got to rough. We found most of the fish were near the backs of cuts with grass and on the sides of points with chunk rock and a weedline. best five around 13lbs.off the water at 3 p.m. and bot traffic was picking up.
    City: knightsen,ca

    Tips: Best bite today was on darter heads 0 to 15 feet and best worm was fat body robo worm 6" orange crusher. ;ine seemed to make a difference with the clear water, I was throwing 6lb yo-zuri and my partener was throwing 8lb they definately bit the rig with 6lb by 4to1.

Saturday, May 3rd, 2008

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    Water Temp: 63+

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: went to berryessa on saturday and got out to oak shores. we fished all the coves there and hooked into 7 fish landed 5. using watermelon black flake mini lizards, roboworms, brush hogs, and D-10 rapalas
    City: Richmond

    Tips: D-10 were in craw color, purple roboworms, and the brush hogs were black with lots of red flakes fish the robos split shot but flip the worm so its wacky splitshot the brush hog texas rig the lizard with brass and glass. the fish seem to relate to the crayfish alot. do this and youll have them all day

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

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    Water Temp: hopefully warme

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Hey guys, i just quickly need to ask if anyone's been catfishing at berryessa, or if you've heard any negative or positive reports of the conditions for catfishing right now. any advice helps: 'cause i'm going to berryessa this weekend for catfish using chicken liver, and i'm just wondering because the fishing report said there was no sign of cats, yet i know that some of those kinds of reports aren't always true. THANKS!!!!!!!
    City: el cerrito

Sunday, April 27th, 2008

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    Water Temp: upper 60's

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: It was a beautiful weekend out at Berryessa. My friends and I loaded a bunch of gear in our boats and we camped out on the big island in the middle of the lake. We arrived Friday evening at around 4pm. We decided to fish skiers cove, and got on a decent top water bite. By the time in got dark David and I landed about 20 fish to 2.5 pounds. Saturday was a bit tougher because of all the extra fishing pressure and boat traffic. We went to the north-east corner of the lake. The topwater bite never happened in the morning for some reason. By 10am there wasn

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Saturday, April 26th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 60

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Took my two boys out for a trip to the lake. Started them out with a mojo rigged baby brush hog watermellon red flake. I was throwing a vixen topwater. Ended up with 15 on the brush hog and 6 on topwater. Most fish were Berryessa specials 1.5-2.25 lbs. My older son did however get into a 4 pounder on the brush hog and was able to get his first bed fish at 3 lbs. Dad had to get in on some of the fun and I was able to get a 7.5 lb bed fish. Best 5 over 19lbs. Great day on the lake even better when it is shared with your sons.
    City: Vacaville

    Tips: All the brush hog fish cane on the inside edge of the weed lines main lake 10 -15 ft. Topwater fish came on the sides of the points. The water is very clear so long casts are a must. Not much of a reaction bite clear water and little wind. There were alot of empty beds but some fresh fish were moving up and looking. Take a kid fishing.

Friday, April 25th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 66-69

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished this past Friday from 1pm to dark in the lower section of the Narrows. I wasn

    Tips: My patterns for spots were on the sides of the points - nothing

Sunday, April 20th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 58

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Went to East side in the morning and picked up a few spots. Found one point they were holding and picked up 5-6, biggest 2.6lbs, all spots on drop shot and crank. Late morning moved to west side but all dinks. All of the small fish were smallies. Majority of fish all spots in 15-20'. Threw a brown garlic worm and caught a trout on first cast. They were on a feeding spree today after yesterdays high winds.
    City: south San Francisco

    Tips: Drop shot robo worms (brown) in the am. Later switch to white kinami worms on drop shot. All fish were holding off points. Looks like spots are on move to spawn.

Saturday, April 19th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 60-62

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Since I was at Pardee yesterday, I thought I was there again today - it has been many moons since I have seen Berry this clear. Glad we fished today - tomorrow morning many be a record low. Nice Spring we are having! I was prepared for the worst as far as wind goes as I met my clients at Markley today. It was bad most of the day, but the lake went dead calm about 11 am at the mouth of Wragg Canyon - weird! About an hour later it was back at it - even worse. In spite of the winds we had a very nice trip. My clients were very new to bass fishing but picked up techniques very quickly and did well in the wind! We Texas rigged and split-shotted Robo worms in morning dawn and warmouth colors and wacky rigged #301 Senkos. We fished about 7 hours and moved around alot but still managed 19 bass for a 10 lb plus limit. A near 3 lb largemouth was the biggest. They caught all the quality fish except one, starting in the afternoon after it warmed a bit. Most bass were deeper - 10 to 20 feet. We could not see any shallow fish.
    City: Yuba City

    Tips: Almost like summer, we found some of the quality bass on windy points that had a mud line. We checked out the backs of several major coves - not much there. Most fish were back on walls and major points. Wind and murky points were the best pattern. We only fished the narrows. Didn't think we needed to take a chance on the main body. Nice trip!!

Friday, April 18th, 2008

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    Water Temp: N/A

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Got out on the water about 1:30 on friday just looking for bed fish. Caught one, but didn't see many. The fish I had on beds the week before had moved off with the water dropping. I went out to the Narrows and I switched to a jig and did okay. I caught 13 on a green jig and than towards the evening in the wind, I got on a good rip bite and had a blast for a while. I caught 16 across from Wragg Canyon and two others come unbuttoned at the boat. I also had a lot follow it in the clear water, but not strike. Not much for size, but I did have fun. I think a crank would have worked, but I just couldn't put the rip down and was sad to see the sunset since I was having so much fun.
    City: Fairfield

    Tips: Just get out there! Reaction on the windy banks and I caught a lot of my fish on a jig in the pockets between the points or the sides more so than the actual point.

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 59

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Took another client out on Wednesday, what a change from last week. It was very windy and cold. The fishing started off slow, because we were fishing the same pattern as last week. The cold front and dropping water level had moved the fish off the beds
    and into deeper water. We adjusted to the changes by getting the boat next to the bank and throwing out towards deeper water.this worked great,The fish were still in spawning areas,but they just moved off the beds into deeper water. When the lake level is dropping bass position themselves, facing out, towards deep water. We caught 42 bass ,after the adjustment. We caught them on brown worms and swimbaits.In the afternoon some the fish started to moved back up to the beds., so we did get to do some sight fishing.I have two trips booked for Don Pedro this weekend, so look there for a report.
    City: Livermore

    Tips: Fish in spawning areas; Hardbottom, wind protected, sunny

Monday, April 14th, 2008

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    Water Temp: ?

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Myself and A buddy went to berryesa yesterday started fishing about 1:00pm, walked the bank in the oak shores area. Caught alot of fish along the deeper banks. All fish were caught on Drop shot with a couple landed via crank bait. All fish were in the 5 foot to 20 foot range. We caught around 30 fish in a couple of hours and were on our way home before dark. If the fish aren't spawning their REAL close. Most of the fisher were of the smaller sizes with the best about 3 pounds ..... lots of spots on the flats with the smalls in the clear rocky areas.
    City: Vacaville

Sunday, April 13th, 2008

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: THE LAKE IS WAY DOWN FOR THIS TIME OF YEAR ..PLACES I FISHED LAST YEAR ARE AT LEAST 20 FEET FROM THE WATER. THE FISHING IS PREETY GOOD HOWEVER . I CAUGHT 7 SPOTS 1 LARGEMOUTH AND A 17 INCH CRAPPIE,ALL FISH WERE ON LUCKYCRAFT JERK BAITS IN BLACK AURORA COLOR.CRANK IT DOWN AND LET IT PAUSE TWITCH AND PAUSE.
    City: SANTA ROSA

    Tips: FISH THE BACKS OF COVES ON THE NORTH END OF THE LAKE. TOPWATER POPPERS AND 4 INCH FLOATING RAPALAS WELL REALLY TAKE OFF ANY DAY NOW.

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    Water Temp: 62

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Subject: Fishing with Sid
    Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 23:20:35 -0700

    The weekend ending April 13th was great fishing. Friday I took Travis out for
    a day of non stop fishing. We caught over 25 fish which included bass, crappie
    and trout. It seemed like everything was biting. Our success with the bass was
    that anything we threw out they were going for. They were hitting crankbaits,
    plastics you name it and it worked. This coming Sunday, April 20th, will be the
    full moon and I think this weekend should be even better. I won't be able to fish
    this coming weekend as I will be out of town but I hope to hear some good reports
    on how it went. Please check out the photos of some of the fish we caught.
    'til next time........................................................good fishing!!!!!!!!!!
    www.fishingconnection.net If you have any stories you would like to share please
    email me at bestguide@hotmail.com or call me at 650-583-3333.
    City: Napa

    Tips: you can fish from a boat or walk the shore and pick up alot of fish

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    Water Temp: 57 or 58

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Gin clear water! i went yesterday with my bro and my buddy and his dad and caught 5 fish, with a 3 pound smallie at best. my bro caught 2 largies and i caught a 2 and a half pound LM, who struck my night crawler out of aggresion 9 feet off shore, as I hovered it over his rock bed.(the water is so clear I could see him take it). IMPORTANT: the bass are at the BRINK of starting to spawn- with evidence from my previous sentence. the best shore fishing at least, is probably this ONE tiny cove at OAK SHORES. fish here!
    City: el cerrito

    Tips: USE WATERMELON BLACK FLAKE ZOOM mini-lizards catch the bass well. another bass was caught on a green roboworm and the smallie was caught on a firetiger little cleo. i'd say just try the lizard.

Friday, April 11th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 58

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Took two clients out on thursday and caught lots of fish( roughly 30). Most of the fish were caught on worms, but a few on swimbaits and sinkos. The Smallmouths were shallow ,with alot of them on beds. The Largemouths were from 10 to 35 feet deep.Fun time of the to fish.I got another trip booked for wednesday on this lake ,I love it.