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Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 76

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Lake very warm, and very very clear. All the action was on top water. whatever it was if it made noise the bass would hit it. Largest was 6lb smallest 2lbs with several 3-4lbs in between. they hit the plug next to any type of stick-up you could throw at. The lake is so very very low. EBMUD sez its 38% full. I say its 78 percent empty and falling.
    City: Sactown

Friday, July 4th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 81

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Holiday boat traffic impacted fishing in a major way. The best bite was early morning from 6-8AM. Caught 22 bass. 12 were top water and 7 on drop shot. Caught 2 pigs way over 5 lbs each, 23" long. One exploded on my Pop R and the other on a Sara Spook in the river area off steep walls. The drop shot were taken in 4-20ft off rocky points using a 4" cut tail worm.
    City: Foster City

    Tips: Top water early and late. Drop shot in the middle of the day. Take a nap during the hot part of the day. Good luck.

Sunday, June 29th, 2008

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished from 6:00am to 1:00pm caught sixteen fish. could not get any top water bite. fish came on dart-head and drop shot in about 17-25 feet. green and purple colored worms seemed to work best. caught one nice 4lb. spot on a six inch senko off a steep rock wall.
    City: Folsom

    Tips: best results came near deep water.

Sunday, May 18th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 78

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: PICKED UP LOTS OF SMALLIES ON ROCK WALLS BY THE BRIDGE,
    CRANK BAITS, RATTLE TRAPS SEEM TO WORK THE BEST
    City: DIAMOND SPRINGS

    Tips: BRING A BOOK FOR WAITING IN LINE FOR THE LAUCH RAMP, WATER IS SO LOW THERE IS ONLY ONE LANE AT THE NORTH SHORE

Saturday, April 5th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 59-63

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished Nor-Cal Bass tourney out of South Shore, started out throwing a white/chartrues blade on the points with stick ups and with no results. Saw fish busting bait fish in the adjacent cove so i started throwing MS-Slammer/Rainbow and got chrushed by a nice three pounder. Kept throwing it for the next hour and nothing else.
    I tried cranking, ripping and blades but could not get a reaction bite going.
    So i switched to a Senko, Grn/Punpking Blk/Flake and stared picking them up on a pretty consistant basis, but i had to hit areas with wood/stick-ups to get bit.
    Lost two nice fish that would have put me in the 13-14 lb range; but ended up with best five going 11.35.
    City: Himar

    Tips: Start by giving top water a try; Spook, Popper, Slammer. Then go to Senko and Jigs; browns seem to be the thing. Fish the wood starting at the deepest stick ups first and fish your way in to the shallow stuff, be looking for bedding fish also, they are starting to move into the coves.

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008

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    Water Temp: n/a

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: on the lake 6/615 caught 2cranking 2 lbs. fished this spot 4 bout 1/2 hours nothing moved across lake tried cranking no bites moved up and down bank tried senkos caught 1 2 1/2 lbs couple min. later another 2 pounder ending up catching couple more 2 to 3 lb. range water was great
    City: lodi

    Tips: be patient reaction morning slow it down in the afternoon

Saturday, December 22nd, 2007

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    Water Temp: 52 am 54 pm

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Beautiful full moon all nite. Freezing temp, but no rain or wind. Mike's multi species ranger is great with the big windshield. Why don't more guys own them? Spent a lot of time looking for bait balls. Where have all the birds gone? Usually you find the birds you find the bait right? The lake is VERY LOW right now. Kinda neat looking up at all your old hot spots to see why fish held there. Tried spoonin no luck. Tried jigs no luck. Carolina and drop shot were best. We had a small 7 lb limit. Afternoon was better when my watch showed 4 hooves.
    City: orangevale

    Tips: Find the bait you'll find the fish. Launch ramp is only the center. 2 outside ramps are out of the water. Look out for sudden depth changes. Lots of rock piles popping up out of nowhere. Islands everywhere. The prop guys are making a lot of money this year don't help them. MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL YOU BASS NUTS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR.

Sunday, December 2nd, 2007

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    Water Temp: 56

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: go somewhere else not worth the money or time spent fishing sucks

Saturday, November 3rd, 2007

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    Water Temp: 65

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Sonora Bass Anglers held their November Tournament here today. 16 teams launched out of North Shore. Only 2 teams brought in limits. Tough day for most but not for all. The winners, Mike & Larry Freeman had 12.36 lbs for 5 fish. All were caught on the main lake cranking, top water, and plastics. The top 7 teams all fished the main lake. Big fish of the tournament was caught by Chris Richardson on a shad crankbait. Top water in the morning over grass beds, jigs & dropshotting the breaks caught most of the fish. All the bigger fish came on reaction early in the morning. Good Luck

    Tips: The fish were all relating to shad. Find the shad and you find the fish. Throw a Sammy over grass beds at first light. As the sun gets higher, fish the breaks and islands tops on the main lake. DO NOT FISH UPRIVER!!! Only small fish. Fish are not in the wood, don't waste your time. Remember SHAD presentaion!!!!

Sunday, October 14th, 2007

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    Water Temp: 67 degrees

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: My first trip to Camanche in about a year. Wow, could not believe how low the lake was...standing timber everywhere. Tough bite overall. A few short fish. Four keepers for about 8lbs. Three on jigs, one on a crank. All fish caught by 10am, dead after that. Did graph some fish as well as baitfish. Drop shot down into them and nothing. Tried dropping into several areas like this and nothing. I agree with most reports for all the lakes, water temp has to come down to 60 for the fall bite to turn in. Couple other guys on the lake had about the same results.
    City: Sacramento

    Tips: Keep at it and be patient till that fall bite turns on.

Friday, October 12th, 2007

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    Water Temp: 58-60

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: on the main lake no fish but heard from a gut he said he was fishin in about 1 foot of water catchin good sized fish on lipless crankbaits and slashers so i just went up to the south shore pond for some trout and caught 10 to 11 fish but released all of them but to huge fish weighing at 7.46 and a 7.07 two monsters on a rapala in a rainbow trout color.
    City: Elk Grove

    Tips: for main lake fisherman still gettin reports on early topwater fish and fishin wit everything to crank baits,jerk baits,drop shot and many other baits.For those trout fisherman trolling both of the hat islands are producing fish the next plant of 1200 pounds will be at north shore.

Sunday, October 7th, 2007

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    Water Temp: 68

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Smallmouth pressure bites and dinks pecking at plastic. No hard bait bites.

Saturday, September 8th, 2007

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    Water Temp: 75

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: After paying the outrageous fees, to the dam fsihing poppers and frogs. my buddy caught 2 spots withing 1 foot of the same cast. The dart fishing on the almost exposed humps. Picked up 4 more. Off the lake about 11 am. The ski'ers were stacked up at the ramp
    City: Sacramento

Wednesday, August 15th, 2007

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    Water Temp: 876

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: i like pie
    City: fcgvvhj

    Tips: oreo pie

Wednesday, August 1st, 2007

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Gary Ritter Please get a hold of me. Need to talk to about the boat you bought a few years back

    Tips: email or call

Sunday, June 10th, 2007

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    Water Temp: 78

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished early and late Fri, Sat, Sun. Caught 18-20 bass each day. Most fish caught on top water
    Pop-R. Also caught fish on drop shot, crank jerkbait, senko, and TX rigged worm. Biggest fish was a 26" 8lb monster that nailed my jerkbait after a bad cast. Caught all fish in the river area along rocky shore with steep drops.
    City: Foster City

    Tips: Top water early and late. Jerk and crank on wind blown flats and points.

Saturday, June 2nd, 2007

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    Water Temp: 71-73

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished from 7am-2pm, Threw worms galore(wacky, weightless, texas), lizards, jigs. Got nada. ~1pm, got 3 dinks on some weird green tube bait with 6 legs on it from the bottom of my tackle box. On Sun, fished from 7am-10am. Got a dink on chrome/blue deep diving crank and a 8 pound cat on a zipper worm.
    City: San Jose

    Tips: Not sure if the full moon affected the bite, but I was expecting better results since they planted 1400 lbs of florida strain LM last Nov. This lake has too many water skier/wakeboarders in it. They even go into the 20mph/fishing zone. I wish Ranger Rick would sit back in a cove and pick them off one by one. It'll buy them a ton of donuts for sure.

    Careful navigating this lake. Saw a pleasure boater hit an unmarked shallow at high speed. It was funny.

    $80 to camp and fish from a boat for the weekend. And I thought Amador was expensive. Guess we gotta pay for that off-ramp at the Maze.

Friday, May 11th, 2007

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    Water Temp: 64-70

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Mothers day weekend great rip plent of bass and very few fisherman OH!! How sweet it is....plenty of bass on jerkbait spinnerbait rattle trap crankbait topwater No a single bass on worms ..shall I say breezy but not terrible stayed back through the narrows for the most part ... worked out by big hat sunday a.m. with nary a bite ..sure were alot of swallows though ..no shortage their gin clear water made the spinner bit the most fun oh wait jerkbait ..uh ..you get the picutre 100 bass + in two days ...me and the wifey cu fishin the Triton rules the water
    City: Topaz Lake

Wednesday, April 25th, 2007

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    Water Temp: 63/67

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: FISHED SAME AREAS I DID ON MONDAY FOUND CONDITIONS TOUGH BRCAUSE OF WIND AND FRONT MOVING THROUGH MANAGED 3 FISH LARGEST 4 PDS ON A WATERMELLON LIZARD 15/20 FT LEVEL LET THE WIND DRIFT RHE BOAT
    City: ANTIOCH

Tuesday, April 24th, 2007

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    Water Temp: 66

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Out on Tuesday 24th 6am till 1pm lots of bed fish had a small limit in a few hours and then... there she was, a big girl, up shallow. Hooked her on the first presentation. Only problem, it was on the drop/shot rod. She was off quick. Re-grouped and gave her a jig. From about 15' away she charged and ate it. It was the longest 15 minutes of my life. She weighed 9lbs1oz on my scale so I took her to the North shore and weighed her in,(9lb even) did the picture thing, and took her back to her spot. Thursday out at 12:45 till 4:00 Hooked 8 landed 6 big fish 3.5 best 5, 13.06.
    City: Ione

    Tips: The fish are up. I saw beds from 2' to 12' deep. Look for shallow humps with cobble and little scrub brush. The beds are in the brush. Try brown jigs, Swim them and shake them change it up. I caught fish on the jig a shakey head worm (brown) and senkos. Get a good map and go find a flat and work every spot with brush. Good luck.