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Sunday, October 22nd, 2006

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    Water Temp: 68

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished Sat and Sun 21-22 Oct. Sat was tough. Not a bite. Tried the north end along the islands and drop offs. Worked the river on Sunday and got 10 fish up to 3 lbs. One top water chug bug, 3 senko and 6 carolina rig brush hog and senko. All were in 15-20ft off rocky shore. Nothing on crank, spinner, or drop shot.
    City: Foster City

    Tips: Go out early and try senkos along rocky ledges. When the sun come up that will shut down so go to carolina rig off the steep rocky shoreline.

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    Water Temp: 68

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished 10:30 AM to 5:30 PM with my son (he only fished for 45 minutes, good thing he has a Gameboy). Tried Dike 1 and 2, mostly in 15 to 25 feet but when I wasn't getting anything I explored shallow all the way out to 45 ft. Tried submerged island (8 ft out to 40) with no luck. Picked up one keeper from Stump Island on a Baby Brush Hog off a steep ledge. Drop shotted a few short fish from the shady side of the bridge. Tried Lancha Plana and the south side of the narrows.
    City: Elk Grove

Saturday, August 19th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 75-77

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. caught some topwater bass in the morning to 3 lbs, then it got really slow went down to before the bridge and caguth some more topwater in the rocky areas next to nothing on worming. then at aprrox 2:25 in the afternoon the wifey hooked into a big topwater bass on the weeds just offshore 10-2. on Matzuo topwater. tough fishing all in all but that made it worth it
    City: Topaz Ca

Saturday, August 5th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 80

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Top Water city, rainbow trout size 13 Rapala twichted on the surface fished very slow, over the submerged trees. On the Lake at 5:00am, fished till the moron water skiers and personal wc's showed up abt 9:30, caught and released 8 fish, 2 largemouth and 6 spots all between 2-3 pounds.
    City: Sacramento

Saturday, June 17th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 68-75

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Basin Bassmasters out of Loomis filled the lake with boats for a tourament, 6 hours. Going to be a very hot day, so get your limit early. Working the trees in the main body finding big bass with spinner baits, jigs and worms. Some fish were found on the points in 15-30 ft shaking JK jigs. The fish will move into the trees a the sum hits the water. Island tops in deep water 20-40 ft. Winning weight was 14.0 lbs with a 5.80 big fish.
    City: rocklin

    Tips: trees near deep water are the best.

Saturday, May 27th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 70

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished top water early and only 2 applied. Missed a couple lazy ones. Went to dam and cranked a couple. Jumped around a lot hitting spot we have caught fish in the past. Bite was off due to the cold wind. Ended up with small limits. Mike D dropped a 3lber or was I to slow to the net? Bite will pick up with the warmer weather. Tell Joe M to wave when he idles by next time.
    City: orangevale

    Tips: Lake is full fish are off the beds. Lake is full of crazy people Memorial Day weekend. Sheriff is writing tickets like crazy. Did anyone slow down?Jet skiers are in the narrows? Go on weekdays.

Saturday, May 20th, 2006

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Bass bite was on in the early morning until early afternoon. A 3#, a few 2+#'ers, the rest small ones. For the heck of it, used crank baits mostly, Shad Raps, a jointed shad rap, silver/black, rattle traps orange. Fish 6-10 feet deep. Weather came in later in the day and the bite dropped off. By the time I got off the lake, the waves were 2-3 feet and the wind picked up (felt like the high seas). Fun day!!
    City: San Jose

Saturday, May 13th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 75-78

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Water and Air temps about the same. Short lived Topwater bite in AM.Caught fish on GP spider grubs, Oxblood worms and smoke/purple tubes in 5 to 15 ft of water. There are still big fish on the submerged humps. Long casts are necessary in the clear shallow water. I think the spawn is done. We saw no fish on beds. Best 5 went 12 lbs but we both dumped a fish over 4 on jigs.
    City: Castro Valley

    Tips: Several casts to the same spot caught fish. Dropshot shad colored worms also worked.

Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006

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    Water Temp: 66-69

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Dropped into the water at 7:AM and the temp was already in the mid 60's so went to some usual areas including China Gulch where the water was still pretty stained so we headed to the main body toward the dam and fished shallow banks. We found them in 69 degree water on the beds and the fun began with every fish a tournament keeper with the biggest just touching 5 lbs while all the rest were 2-3 lb range. When we moved to other similar banks found the temp to be only 66 and NO beds but they were cruising everywhere and hungry for the bait. I must have boated over 35 beauties myself while my partner was half stepping but still managed a dozen or so. Water clarity was beautiful and when the wind layed down, beds or fish were clearly visible so got some training for my annual Almanor trip in a couple weeks. It is now $22 for 2 guys to get in but my bloody and tore up fingers made the price well worth it. Get there while it is totally wide open.
    City: Wheatland

    Tips: Tried topwater, ripping, cranks, blades, jigs, Senkos and not until I started with the tube on a 1/4 oz darthead did the catching light up. I use the larger darthead as it gets to the target quickly and can be controlled a lot easier when you are targeting a bed fish. Really didn't matter what color tube as long as it was a light color.

Saturday, April 29th, 2006

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    Water Temp: depends on wher

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: great day on saturday. My buddy caught the largest spot I have ever seen or weighed. 7lb 3oz. caught it on a blue over silver size 11 rapala on the surface. It didn't seem to matter what you threw, they hit it, everywhere on the lake. smallest we caught was 2lbs most in 3-4 range and all in 10-15ft of water.
    City: Sacramento

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    Water Temp: 70

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Started day north shore watching a guy drop his bayliner off his trailer half way down the ramp?Never seen that before. Lucky his brand new honda outboard was in the up position, the boat was gone when we got back in the evening. Had a great day. Nice overcast sky allowed mike and i to use top water for 2 hours with biggest at 3.8 lbs. Yep a real dollar fish for mike. My spook didn't work as well as lucky craft popper did.We each caught and released 15 nice ones apiece. Being in the back of the multi species boat I got the left overs. First top water fish was a nice 6lb channel cat. Hit the popper like a bass and kept mike all excited until I netted it. Grubs, crank baits, split shot, hula grubs, worms everything worked except buzz baits ,spinners and rip baits? $22.00 for 2 guys seems worth it when the fishing is that much fun.
    City: orangevale

    Tips: Don't hit the brakes hard when backing down the ramp. How embarrased could you be. I'm thinking do I really want to go for a boat ride with this clown? Fish are very active and bite real good. just throw your favorite bait.

Thursday, April 27th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 64-65

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished from 7AM-11:30. All on the South shore coves. Caught six. Five on beds with a variety of lures. Chatterbait, Fluke, jigs, tubes. Two 3#, the rest were small males 1.5#. Best five only 11.5#, but a good effort will get you bigger fish. I had one on but was just could not close the deal.They're up.
    City: Ione

    Tips: Go to a cove with clear water. Use markers to mark the bed and move to the next. After you have a few marked go back to the best looking fish, approach from an angle with the best view and go to work. Have light and dark lures tied on. The fish don't care about color. I used white jigs chartruse tubes, silver chatterbait. If it's a little windy use an anchor, and wait for a breakin the chop some times you have to go by feel. Good luck and always release your bed fish!

Wednesday, April 26th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 65

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Caught three all split shotting, a couple of two pounders and a dink (two shallow and one right under the boat at 13 feet). Fishing main lake island tops. Saw a lot of fish cruising shallow and they were skittish but didn't actually see anything that looked like beds and the ones I caught had tails in good shape. Tried some of the deeper breaks, but no luck there.
    City: Elk Grove

    Tips: Fish haven't seen weather this good or water this clear for a while. Try to stay out deeper and work to the shallow, if they see you its over (for now any way).

Friday, April 14th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 56-59 with very

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: We started our morning heading for the Delta and hoping to have fun with some pre-spawn bass. That was not to be because of the Delta closure imposed by regulatory agencies. What to do next...so we decided to head for Lake Camanche. We did not have our lake fishing gear with us but we managed to have great time catching & releasing 20+ bass averaging 1-2 pounds. All our fish were caught by split-shoting 4.5" worms on structure with deep water access. There were plenty of trout trollers and they all seem to be doing well.
    City: S.F.

    Tips: 4.5 worms in pumpkin seed with chart. tail. Good luck.

Saturday, April 1st, 2006

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    Water Temp: 52-55

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Lake was very high. Fished the narrows and caught 5 spots to 2#s on Robo worms. Moved to the main lake exposed trees and caught 3 large mouth to 3#s on brush hogs and zipper worms.
    City: Sacramento

    Tips: Aaron's Magic and craw color plastics for best results. No reaction bite.

Thursday, March 23rd, 2006

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    Water Temp: 50

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: fished topwater in the morning and caugt a 1pounder.
    the rest of the day was slow caught a few on a storm wiggle wart.
    City: sacramento

Tuesday, February 28th, 2006

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: the fish are 15-35 feet down.jigs lizards rubber worms crawdads and brush hogs are working good
    City: sacramento

Tuesday, February 14th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 49-51

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished the rabbit creek area for 1st 3 hours, a bit muddy but it helped. Threw rips and spooned for a small limit. Moved out to Big Hat island, picked up 6 fish over 4 lbs. there. The bite was shaken darter headed green ghost. Bite really slowed there after that. I decided to go fish near the dam, brilliant idea! I caught two kickers, a 7.4 and an 11.6! Drop shotted those hawgs in 46 ft. of water. Aarons magic with 6 lb. berkley vanish and my spinning rod. What a fight the 7.4 gave me, as it was a SPOT! What a day to have on valentines day, especially when your only "love" is fishing.
    City: Lincoln

    Tips: Spoon murky water in the early hours, then break out the worm!

Saturday, January 21st, 2006

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    Water Temp: 50

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Launched with a bunch of tourney guys, and went to points on the main lake. Slooooooow. Tried jigs, cranks, and spinnerbaits, but only caught 4 bass and a trout (by mistake) on dropshot. Bass weighed in about 8 lbs.
    City: Sacramento

    Tips: When the wind kicked up in the pm, we were out of there.

Saturday, November 5th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 61-64

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Devil Mt. Bassmasters held our November club tournament at Camanche with a 4 boat turnout. Conditions were post frontal with clear skies and clear water. Rained the two days before our evernt and this shut the fish down some. Lake was calm most fo the day with very little wind. Water was 61 at launch and warmed to 63 in the afternoon. Two anglers managed limits over 8 lbs. Big fish was 3.13lbs largemouth. Fish were somewhat active in the morning with big fish caught on a top water first thing in the morning. As the sun came up, the reaction bite died and the fish dropped deeper. Plastics and jigs ruled the day accounting for the majority of the fish. Drop shotting worked too but seemed to produce smaller fish. Winning weights were a mixed bag of large and spotted bass coming in about 20-30 feet of water on football jigs and plastics fished slowly. Bite was less than a mush bite, the jig would just stop falling and there would be weight on the line, no movement you just had to feel the weight and set the hook.
    City: Walnut Creek

    Tips: Most productive colors were brown and green pumpkin. Fish came on worms, hula grubs, creature baits and beavers. Fish deeper and slow down. Steep banks seemed to concentrate the fish. Still on a late summer pattern, lake as not turned over.