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Sunday, July 6th, 2008

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Launched at Lucerne at sunrise and started throwing frogs at our first stop. I was pretty dissapointed in the topwater bite. The heavy boat traffic may have had something to do with it. Caught 2 small fish on the frog and had a good blowup on the Shellcracker that I missed. Spent the day fishing from Kono Tayee down to Nice stopping at different spots along the way. I wasn't expecting much action with all the boat traffic but had a really good day. Caught about 35 fish between 2 of us most coming on senkos sweet beavers and small swimbaits. Fished for about an hour in the morning shallow with limited success. Then we figured out the fish were sitting on the outside of isolated weed beds in 12 -15 feet of water. Thats where most our fish were caught. Caught a few quality fish but most in the 2 to 3 pound range. At about 1 in the afternoon the fish moved in shallow and we caught quite a few in 3 feet of water. Strange for how hot it was. Great day considering all the skiers and wakeboarders that were out.
    City: Yuba City

    Tips: Sunscreen!

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Beautiful Day today and man the skiers thought so to went out about 7a fished till about 11:30a down in the oaks area just drop shotin a Keeper Junebug worm caught about a dozen fish in the 2lb to 3lb range. Even though it's Sunday the Boat traffic from the holiday weekend is still pretty heavy so the wife and I went on home and will go back about wed or thur after things have calmed down
    City: Kelseyville

Saturday, July 5th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 78

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: went fishin the morning of the parade in clearlake..started at highlands park..nada i was throwin senkos,waveworms,mutilators,and more senkos,i decided to move behind these abandoned and broken down appts in the back of the bar formerlly known as the new reflections...it was a different story there :) 12 bass in less than 3 hours...biggest was 6 lbs :)..oh to the guy askin bout the weed beds.lol they are still here and thick in some places too ;)
    City: clearlake

    Tips: senkos,senkos,and more senkos.lol in watermellon and red shad colors...somethin that looks like a crawdad :) that will get ya bit here.

Friday, July 4th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 70-74

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Its kind of a late report but oh well.I went out with a friend Friday. We hit the water at 545. It was windier then hell...2 footers....we started over at long tulie throwin senkos and Frogs...i picked up 1 nice little 2 and a half on the ol Froggie...we concentratd north....we fished just out off of state park throwing whacky rig 5" senkos...we had a pretty decent day...between 28 to 30 fish. Rite before we left i picked up our biggest one of the day...4 pounder...considering the wind and the skiers...and the heat...it turned out to be a pretty good day.
    City: Ukiah

    Tips: The fish are out in about 10-12 foot of water...throw whacky rig senkos....specifically 5 "....i tryed 6 inch got a few bites but the 5 is more productive...throw into pockets in weed beds...and hold on...they're not bitng hard so pay attention.Bring lots of fluid...sunscreen...and patience...cuz the skiers get annoying...have fun...tite lines!

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

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    Water Temp: 78 degrees

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: I got on the water at 7:00 thursday morning and went back to the shallow docks north of Lakeport,everything changed since last week when I was there. The water was clouded worst, it appears the algie was thicker and I noticed fewer fish on my graph. I caught two 2#s on Yamamoto cuttails smoke,purple,black rigged weightless and weedless. Threw a frog for a while ,but no takers.Decided to find clearer water docks with deep water near by. Headed to the hwy 20 side of the narrows,a nice steady breeze blew from the north, clearing the smoke a bit. Threw a 3 1/2 inch tube bait in brown craw, rigged 1/4 oz. insert weighted hook. Picked up a nice 2 1/2 #er, largemouth, on the north side of the first dock. I noticed more fish on my gragh. So I circled around, trolling into the breeze,skip casted under the dock, Letting the bait settle to the bottom,took up the slack and crawled the tube a foot or so. When this fish loaded my rod I knew I had a 6 or 7 #er, then I realized it had wrapped the piling . When I got its head turned, it came straight up and broke water. I boated a nice 2+ # smallmouth.For the next few hours I worked an area about 100 yds. long, dotted with docks. Picked up at least one fish at each dock, some under and some in front. I caught 15 fish for the day,counting the two earlier and 4 of them were smallies.
    City: Ft. Bragg

    Tips: I like to work the whole dock, I start with long casts before I get to it. Then cast to the pilings and skip cast under it, as I approch the dock,almost always letting the bait fall all the way to the bottom. I'll swim the tube along the side of the dock. If I catch a couple of fish in a spot I'll anchor up so i can consontrate on feeling what my bait is doing ,not worring about boat position

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Started out of Knocti Vista early. Worked my way south towards the State Park. Got on a topwater bite with a small Punker. a few 3-4lbers quickly on a tule point.The next fish I estimate over 10lbs took me straight into the weeds and I lost her and my punker.I was sick the rest of the day.I guess I Can't complain I was getting bit.
    City: Orland

    Tips: Use braid at clear lake!

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

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    Water Temp: 74-77

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Last day on the pond but the Spook bite was off the hook in the morning. We caught about 25 spook fish and had several other blow-ups. We went back to the Nice area and found the water had muddied up a bit and the Senko bite had died off. We grabbed our jig rods and started fishing deeper rock piles at about 10 AM. From this point on it was wide open on fish from 2-3 pounds with a few in the 4-5 pound range. At noon my father hooked a 8.72 and an hour later I hooked a 7.92 both off the same rock. This was by far the best "quality" we had for our entire trip. Best five today went about 32 lbs!!! This place is awesome.

    Tips: We were here for three days and the bite was pretty consistent on the "Wacky" Senko until today when our water muddied up from the wind. The frog bite was hit and miss as well as the jig and spook bite. The conditions were pretty stable but the bite would change day-day.

Monday, June 30th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 73-77

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Went South this morning and started throwing topwater at Indian Island with only one taker. The carp were everywhere so we headed back north. We stopped in Pirates Cove and caught about ten all around 2 lbs. We then headed all the way back up to the Nice area and fished the outside weed line with great success. All in all we caught about 45 fish from 2-4 pounds.

    Tips: Frogs, Senkos and Texas rig MM III.

Sunday, June 29th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 73-77

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Went back out today to get a full days worth of fishing. We started out in Kelsey Creek throwing a variety of topwater baits with no takers. We workd our way down toward and just past State Park. Caught 4 on frogs which included a 5.5 lb, two 3 lbs and one 2 lb. From there we went to Henderson and caught a 7.5 lb and a few more in the 1-2 pound range all on texas rig and jigs. We decided to run farther up north and fished the Nice and Lucerne areas. We caught several more fish between 2-4 lbs all around isolated weed clumps. We called it quits at noon with about 30 fish.

    Tips: Fish topwater early, then go to texas rigged worms, jigs and wacky rigged Senkos.

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    Water Temp: 77

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: fished about 1/4 mile stretch on both sides of konocti picked up 12 all on senkos mostly all on the west side of konocti under or around docks- nothing big - best slightly over 3lbs. caught all in the afternoon the evening bite was suprisingly slow
    City: Diamond Springs

    Tips: dark colors seem to work best -almost all were in shade or under docks

Saturday, June 28th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 72

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: launched at Redbud late-morning. Ran across to back-side of the island and started throwing an R2Sea frog into the folliage. 3rd cast hooked and ultimately lost the biggest bass I've seen this year. Drat!
    City: Clearlake

    Tips: Have the net on deck...

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    Water Temp: 72-75

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: I finally got my boat back after being in the shop for over a month getting gel coat repair. First destination, Clear Lake, being that it rarely ever lets me down. Today was no exception. I launched at the state part and headed north to long tule pt. As the sun was coming up, I caught a 7.5 pounder on a 7

    Tips: <a href="http://www.russnyders.com/">Rus Snyders Guide Service</a>

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    Water Temp: 74 to 76

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: well we got on the water at 5am out of the oaks area and got one on my first cast on a frog patern hula popper my brother was using a bass colored pop R and was also picking up fish we caught 10 on top water about 9am it slowed down and we started throwing plastics I caught several on green pumpkin senkos, then i ran out of that color and started with a green with purple flake yamamoto hula grub, ran out of those and started with margarita mutilator , arons magic and hologram shad ,we fished gleanhaven paradise cove and pirates cove we ended up with a total of 70 fish for the day with the biggest at 5 lbs but most were 2 to 3 lbs range
    City: carmichael

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    Water Temp: 73-77

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Got here on the afternoon of the 28th, after boat inspection and stop at the tackle shop we finally got on the water at about 4:30 pm. We shot down south to Jago Bay and the bite was surprisingly slow. My father caught two on brown and purple jigs shallow against rock walls. Just before dark I had three on a frog and that was it. All fish were about 2 lbs.

Thursday, June 26th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 70's

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: I got on the lake around 1:00 pm ,thurs, and went to some shallow docks on the north end. The fishing was as good as the Tackle It web site said it would be. I caught all my fish on 5 and 6 inch worms,Yamamoto and Lucky Strike ,varing colors. I got them under the docks,between the docks,in front of the docks and right up against the sand in 2 feet of water at the back of the docks..I had a 30 minute run where I caught a fish every cast and ended up with a 40 fish afternoon.I don't scale all of my fish but they went from 1 1/2 # to 6#. The smoke was thick and stiffling, the water was flat and the air was everybit of 90 degrees WHAT AN AWESOME AFTERNOON of fishing!!!! Cant wait to make my next trip
    City: Ft Bragg,Ca

    Tips: The weeds are friend and foe. After speeding to your spot left your big motor so you won't drag a big clump with you. And while trolling set the depth of your trolling motor, there is usually an optimum depth to keep it. Also, troll between the weed and grass patches,and check and clear tangles often. Don't let them get you down cuz BASS love um!!!!!!!!!!!

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 75

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: fished from noon on the 25th til noon on the 26th, besides the smoke fishing was great, fished mid lake with senkos the first day and banged 22, topwater was excellent around state park soda bay area another 27 on topwater this am it doesnt get much better.
    City: woodside

    Tips: try topwater in the am til around 10 then senkos come on

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: I launched and fished half a day from the Konocti side. Weeds - Weeds - Weeds. No where to cast along the shore anyway where the weeds werent thick. Cleaning my baid after every cast.
    Water level also down considerably. Is the highlands side of the lake so thick with weeds also.
    In order to get away from the weed you had to be a good 50 - 100 yards from the shoreline.
    I picked up a few with a bright purple senko. It was agravating however.
    How do you guys deal with the shoreline weeds?
    ALSO
    My trolling motor and outboard were constantly getting stopped up with the same weeds.
    I am fishing on the wrong side of the lake?
    City: Santa Rosa

Saturday, June 21st, 2008

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    Water Temp: 72.6

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: We started the morning watching the lightning as we drove toward the lake, not sure if when we go there we would be fishing or sitting for a couple hours waiting for a restaurant to open and have breakfast. Luck was on our side and we launched out of the Oaks with no wind and no lightning! We started out a four walls with 3 or 4 small fish all on brown and purple jigs. We moved across to a weed line we like to fish and caught a couple 4 pounders. We headed to the windmill point and caught another 4 pounder on a watermelon Senko. Next was off to egg rock for a 3 pounder and then headed home.
    City: Sacramento

    Tips: We did not have any reaction bite this morning. Everything came close to grass and on a slow presentation.

Friday, June 20th, 2008

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    Water Temp: low 70's

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: This is a report for Wed 6/18 and Fri 6/20. Wednesday, after launching at the free ramp in the keys, I threw a frog in the rattlesnake arm for an hour without a bite. Started getting fish from honeymoon cover south on wakebaits, frogs, flukes and senkos. Ended the day at 1pm with 14 fish to 3 lbs.

    Friday, it was 10 degrees warmer at dawn 5:15 am! OMG that is June fishing for you. I decided to put in at Redbud for a change of pace. Threw a frog for a few minutes, with no takers, so I flung a buzzbait and whacked a 3.5 in the first few casts..........?????????? I have thrown a buzzbait for 5 million casts on this lake and only caught one fish, now I catch one in 5 minutes? I stuck with it and banged a 6.6 a few minutes later...Wow. Sun now on water and I see lots of shade on the east bank. Move over the to water pipe point just north of Redbud and bang 2 more 2 lb fish. The bank just north of the water pipe point is real shallow but I decided to fish it anyhow. No bites for a few minutes, but then a 5.0 eats the buzzer and I am back in action. I fish a small harbor and have several blow up on the frog, but they dont get the hook. Get a 3.3 by a private harbor that says no boats. Lost one south of the boatworks. It got ugly for several hours where I saw fish cruising in the shallows, but not biting. Decided to hit a very protected cove where I'd caught several on Wednesday. I break my frog off in a tree and decided to head in and retrieve it. When I get under the shade of the tree, I see bass everywhere. Then I see 5 beds in casting distance. I mess with them and none of them jump on my senko. I kept messing with one of them, banging my lure off the fish. Suddenly, the fish is interested........OMG, then it eats the lure and I land it. I managed 5 bed fish in an hour or so........tons of fun. Even caught another on a frog. Headed to some dense timber around 3 pm and they were all over my senko. I caught 8 up to 3.3 lbs before leaving @ 4pm to pick up my kid at school. I finally had a quality day here this year with my best 5 breaking 21 lbs. I saw Lunker Larry's truck in the parking lot at redbud friday............maybe he can give us his report.......
    City: Yuba City

    Tips: Seems topwater was working Friday. Heard that the spinnerbait was king on thursday. I caught several fish deep, 20+feet on a jig, but it was not red not, nor was the dock bite in the afternoon. It appears that this last full moon has more fish spawning. I

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    Water Temp: warm

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: WOW What a great 3 days we had! spinnerbait bite is off the hook on the north end of the lake. Throw frogs in the afternoon. Bite was best from noon on.

    Tips: Grass = fish