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Sunday, June 24th, 2007

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    Water Temp: 71

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished AC on Sunday. 9.08 first thing on a jig, had 22 lbs for 5 fish by 6:30, struggled to get rid of a 2.9 lbr all day and finally found a buzz bait bite in the north and culled that fish. Finished with 26.6 for 2nd place. All early fish came on a jig or sweet beaver in the south.
    City: Santa Rosa

    Tips: Go south!

Saturday, June 23rd, 2007

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    Water Temp: 70's

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: The bite at Clear Lake this year has been unusually good. I'm not sure why it has hung on so long other than the possibility the bass are having to compete for food. If you can BATTLE the winds you can catch fish doing almost anything. Two and 1/2 days on the lake, my partner and I must have boated well over 150 fish, most of which were over 2 lbs and up to 7 lbs.
    (not to mention 5 catfish on bass baits to 25 lbs.) If you enjoy bass fishing you really should go now before that bubbble busts...but beware the wind!!
    City: Sacramento

    Tips: We caught them on blades, sinkos,jigs,buzz baits,swimbaits,brush hogs,grubs,ripbaits and our other club members on frogs,worms,crankbaits,as well as the items above. Thursday and Friday color didn't seem to matter much but Saturday it got fair specific. Most reported dark colors working best (example dark green/red flake and MMII)Fish don't really seem to be schooling by size you might catch a dink(in this case a dink is a 15" fish. lol) and 20 minutes later get a 5 or six pounder off the same spot. Of course the wind blown banks seemed to produuve better...so make sure you have a good charge on your trolling motor batteries and expect wet feet from rollers over the bow. Tight lines!

Friday, June 22nd, 2007

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    Water Temp: 70's

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Man it gets light early in June. On the water Friday @5:15 from the keys and found major wind that spilled my coffee and knocked the windshield loose. Hit a semiprotected area and caught 4 on a frog and lost 3 more. Nothing huge, up to 3-13. Fought wind again down to honeymoon cove and caught a nice 5.5 on the frog and a 2 lb also. I switched to a fluke and caught a 3 on the first cast. Followed it w/a 5.5.....cool. Switched to a senko as I got to the windy end of the cove. Caught several, but it was too hard to feel bites and control the boat. I tried to fish wheeler w/a froghair jig, but the wind/waves were too intense. Hooked one on a DD22, but it spit it. Tucked in south of Buckingham and had fun catching fish on a 6" darthead. Mostly 1-2 lb fish, but fun no less. About 11, the wind began to subside, so I ventured up to henderson. I'd been hearing guys were really getting them there, but the cloud cover and front that was now upon me appeared to have put these fish off the bite. While fishing some docks near there, I saw a dead bass on the surface. What was interesting is that there was another fish suspended below the dead one. I figured it was a carp until I saw the mouth. It looked to be about 2 feet long. It spooked down to about 6 feet and I let my fluke drop near it. I saw it nose down and my fluke disappear.........Then I saw it reappear.....rats, too slow on the draw. I finished the day in the south side of the rattlesnake arm w/a few more 1-2 lb fish on the darthead. That gave me 22 fish and about a about a 21 lb limit.
    City: Yuba City

    Tips: I saw a blue heron w/ a swallow or martin in its mouth standing on a dock. It shook its head and squished the small bird. It flew off before I could tell if it was able to swallow it. The water north of the narrows was very clear and the fish were not biting as well. The whole south lake seemed easier to get bites.

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    Water Temp: 73-75

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: WIND, WIND, WIND. Ducked into the Keys to get out of the wind. Fished from about 6:00 p.m. for four hours and got about 10 fish between us. I got a couple frog fish and the rest on worms. My friend got all his on worms. Nothing over 3#. All fish came from the new keys. We are here for the weekend so we will be back out there at the crack of dawn.
    City: Ben Lomond

    Tips: Try to find a place to fish out of the wind.

Thursday, June 21st, 2007

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    Water Temp: 74-76

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Just finished two father/son trips in a row which started early in the morning - good fishing and 38 bass each trip. A 27 lb catfish was the bonus today I guess one could say - second fish of the day! Dad wanted to learn to fish jigs - maybe he will change his mind after that 10 minutes plus tussle!! He was tired!!!! 12lb Big Game line did the job! She ate a brown/orange Weapon jig with #180 Yamamoto grub! The wind blew pretty good but we still found areas to fish in the Rattlesnake and lower lake areas. The areas north and south and the cove around Sea Breeze were good to us - lots of bass to 5 1/2 lbs. Off-shore at Anderson Island was good too. Dad was on a tear in the afternoon on rock walls catching several good bass to 7 lbs 2 oz. The green pumpkin Dead Ringer was his favorite. His son had some luck drop-shotting MMIII Robo worms. He hadn't bass fished much lately and was bit rusty. Our best five were pushing 26 lbs - excluding the catfish!! The day before found very good fishing for us, though we couldn't get anything over 4 3/4 lbs. We had a possibility of a 50 fish day, but converting a trout fisherman is often not easy when it comes to the hookset. He lost many, many bass half way to the boat because of his "trout" set! I think he understands now. He son did very well. We used green pumpkin brush hogs, Yamamoto Kreature baits (#301), Power worms, and Robo worms. I used a Weapon jig some preparing for todays trip and as has been told to me, the jig bite is good!! Both days found us fishing the 20 to 30 foot depth for better quality bass. I also hooked a 5 lb frog fish near Indian Beach but lost it. #301 Senkos were working very well but we didn't fish them all that much.
    City: Yuba City

    Tips: Both days as I was showing my clients some keys to off-shore structure at Clear Lake, it became clear to me that bass are starting to relate to their deeper water homes. It was also clear that they are moving around to feed. I like to target the same area more than once and sure enough, bass will be feeding at a certain time on a rock ledge for example, and will not be there at another time. Sometimes you have to move around a bit to find the fish since they are pretty mobile at the beginning of summer.

Wednesday, June 20th, 2007

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    Water Temp: 74-78

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished the night of 6/20, all day 6/21, 6/22,6/23 & a few hrs 6/24 with my brother Benny and friend Keith. We got 10 bass to 3 lbs on 6/20 night plus a 10 lb cat fish on a jig, I kid you not we caught this cat fish 3 times 3 nights in a row at the same spot,I got it once on jig and my brother twice on drop shot the reason I know it was the same cat is it had a white spot on his head the size of a quarter, that was fun. On 6/21 I got my second largest bass on a yamamoto rootbeer hula grub, 8.2 lbs under a dock, I finally broke the 20 lb mark on 6/21 and my Brother & Keith got many fish pushing the 5 lb mark. On 6/22 my brother and I started off with the yamamoto again and we had 21 lbs in 7 cast!!!, my first fish in the AM 4.14, second cast a 4.9 and 3rd cast a 5 lber, my brother got a 4.10 and a 3.14 all off the same wall, we went and picked up Keith and had lunch and charged the battery's and than back out, we get to our spot we want to start at and I get hung up right away and have to re-tie so my brother takes over the trolling motor and says I want to try this area down here that you never go to I said go ahead you are in charge and we start throwing into shade spots along tullie walls and start picking up 2 to 3 lb left and right and than he turns back the other way again and I cast out about 30 yards behind the boat to hit this one shade spot again and nothing so I just drag my black/blue sweet beaver behind the boat across a nothing bank and she hit, a 9.9 lber, my new 2nd biggest fish ever, I broke 20 lbs for the first time on 6/21 and on 6/22 I had 28 lbs!!! My Brother broke his all time weight record and qty of bass in one day and my friend Keith caught his biggest bass ever at 4.14. In about 3 1/2 full days of fishing we got over 200 bass and 5 catfish, all cats caught on bass rigs.
    City: San Jose

    Tips: Rootbeer Red flake Yamamoto hula grubs on shaky head, Black/Blue Robo worm sweet beavers or Margareta Mutalator sweet beavers small or medium size on shaky head, 5 inch watermellon Zoom worms on drop shot. We found fish everywhere but found more and bigger ones where deep water was very near, when I say deep water I mean 16-25 feet, the fish we caught were only in 3-8 feet but that deep water was right there. Catch, Care and release, the 9.9 lb was absolutely perfect not a mark on her and she still there waiting for you and maybe 10 lbs by now the way they are eating!!
    Bring a Brother or a friend, it was my Brothers 50th B-day and what a time we had. We fished from just above Shag Rock to down south Red Bud. God bless and tight lines

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    Water Temp: 75

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Got the boat in the water around 5:30am on Wednesday with a few buddies. It was the first time fishing Clear Lake for two out of the three of us and we had a blast. From what I hear, we had a slow day for Clear Lake standards and still boated 40 fish by 1:30pm. Lots of 1's and 2's with an occasional 3 in there. Texas rigged brush hogs and sinko's, drop shotting worms, brown jigs, etc.... They bit everything we tried with the exception of a spinner bait thrown a dozen times (I was told the hard stuff turns on in the fall). Fished the rocks mainly and had success on the underwater foliage up shallow. Most fish were 2-10 feet deep.
    City: Rocklin

    Tips: Don't try to take a leak if you have a line in the water, you might try to set the hook with the wrong rod!

Tuesday, June 19th, 2007

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    Water Temp: 75+

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: It is completely Awsome when you can take your 4 year old son fishing and he can catch a 10lb limit of Bass in a few hours by himself with the biggest going 3. Thats like me catchin a 30lb limit with a 10lb kicker. I dont know how long this lake will be on fire but The only thing more I can ask for is that 10lb kicker. I had 17lbs in the short trip with my son. Two 4lbr and the rest 3's.
    City: Petaluma

    Tips: Drop shot, Senko, Swimbait. For some reason couldnt get a jig bite going...????

Sunday, June 17th, 2007

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: It's truly amazing how clear this lake is in some spots. Seeing 15' to 20' down is just unreal. The wife and I launched today at about 7:30AM and fished around Henderson (aka; SNAGVILLE) for about an hour. We ended up taking 17 fish there with the largest coming in at 4-7. We headed across the lake and fished along route 20 and caught a few more small ones. We ended the day fishing Glenhaven, Anderson and Windmill point catching numerous fish in each area. Our best 5 went just over 20lbs and together we caught and released just over 40 fish.
    City: Petaluma, CA

    Tips: The bite is still prety much wide open. Now is the time to gain some confidence in baits you don't normally throw. Get out and go fishing. Today we took our fish using the drop shot, shakey head and t-rigged worms, beavers and brush-hogs in the watermelon color. I also caught a few fish using a small swimbait.

Saturday, June 16th, 2007

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    Water Temp: 70-78

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Went to Clear Lake for only the second time ever and fished for 3 days. My Dad and I caught so many fish it was unbelievable. We started in the afternoon at Shag Rock and fished to Buckingham point catching many fish near rocks and structure just offshore with Senkos "Wacky and Texas, #208 and 301" The biggest was a 6lbs 10oz toad (my personal best) and many 2, 3, and occasional 4. The next morning we started near Long Tule point with Frogs and Spooks and had a couple of blow ups but only a few hook ups. We also caught a few on Senkos there (same colors) but nothing much so we decided to try Anderson Island. There caught a bunch over there on Senkos from the shore out to 12 feet. I also caught some split-shotting with a brush hog. In the afternoon and evening we fished around State Park and caught several small to medium fish on crankbaits (casting parallel to the tules and making contact with the bottom, ripping it out then they would strike) as well as Senkos and drop-shotting MMII's near the submerged, isolated vegetation.

    On Friday morning it was our best day ever. We started at Lake Side Park and fished to Quercus Point. We were casting Senkos in every color imaginable (we literally caught fish on 12 different colors). Most fish were 2 to 3lbs, but we did catch several 4's each and at least three 5's. Most were up against the tules, some were also right off the first break where it goes from 3 feet of water to 5 feet. We must have caught a fish every 5 to 10 minutes. After working that stretch several time we noticed some cruisers and other bass off the shore a ways (wind was so light could see them really well) We then started to sight fish a few and had the best luck with a Shakey-Head and a MMIII worm. One fish wanted nothing to do with it until I drug it up to him and tapped him with it. He sucked it in and it was 4.5lbs fish.

    This Lake is on fire and even being new to it we were able to catch fish after fish. You could probably catch fish on Senkos all day, but we did enjoy seeing different parts of the lake and catching them with different techniques.
    City: Fresno

    Tips: When the wind was calm and and the water was clear we stayed back off the tules and made longer casts. A lot of fish would come out of the tules to hit the Senko even if it wasn't at the base of it. If they did not hit it on the fall we would wait 5 seconds, drag it about 2 feet and let if sit again. Many of the fish hit it pretty hard and others you would just see your line move.

    Make sure you also bring some lotion for your hands because they get tore up from catching so many fish!

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    Water Temp: 71

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Met a friend from Red Bluff at 6am at Limit Out. We launched right there and within 15 minutes had 17 pounds, just like that. We moved that number to 22 pounds by 2pm when we quit. Big fish was 5-14. The lake is on fire. I agree with the previous post about lure selection. We stayed south of the narrows and fished docks and offshore breaks. The lure list was Vixen, Spook, frog, Senko (wacky and Texas), jig, Norman D-20, Beaver, wooly grub. Like about everyone else, we caught 40 fish, too. Clear Lake is just amazing.
    City: McKinleyville

    Tips: Call in sick, today !!

Wednesday, June 13th, 2007

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished 5 hrs with Bob Thein today caught 60 Bass 3-5 pds drop shot in jago bay. My fourth trip this year with Bob and another GREAT trip. Never went 5 min. Without a hit just when you think it can't get better it does. There lake is unbelievable.
    City: sacramento

    Tips: Fished drop shot but I would bet anything and everything would work

Tuesday, June 12th, 2007

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Rewarded my son in law for taking the wife and I to the airport with a fun trip to clear lake. Launched by limit out tackle. Ran north to Lakeport to get out of the wind. The fish are still on the beds? Nothing big so we left them alone. Black and blue jigs worked well around the docks. Fish were up shallow still. Nice 3 lb average.After lunch at Renaes ran back to windflower fished into the wind with tubes and the size went way up. 7 lbs 5 lbs 4 lbs lots of 3 's. Funny how the bite gets better as the day goes on. Some docks had lots of fish some had none. I had about 22 lbs for the day. Son in law had about 15 lbs. Lizards, bruch hogs, tubes, jigs almost anything worked.
    City: orangevale

    Tips: Lake is still on fire. See Bob at limit out tackle for current hot baits. Never fished more than 15 foot level. Docks are where I go in the afternoon. I have been using 10 lb fire line in the bright green with a 8 lb floro carbon leader about 6 foot long. Seems to hold up really well. Only line breaks have been at the hook not the blood knot. Try it on your shakey head set ups and your tube rigs. Capt mike out

Saturday, June 9th, 2007

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    Water Temp: ?

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: First time up here and it was incredible. In the first 30 min. caught 6 fish all around 4lbs. After 1 hour my partner and I had caught 25 all of them around 4 with a 6.5 and a 5 thrown in . We fish the south end and I believe it was Jago Bay. Used Yum and Berkely lizards in watermelon red - flake and pumpkin and it was unbelievible.Finished the day with somewhere around 80-90 between us. 6.5 was the big girl. Should have been in the tournament lol
    City: Santa Rosa

    Tips: sunscreen and check your line for fraying due to rocks and having lots of fish on

Friday, June 8th, 2007

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    Water Temp: 70's

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Thirty years on Clear Lake and I have never seen a continuing bass bite such as the one everbody is reporting on. Last trip, two boats, six anglers---210 bass to 7lbs. in 1 1/2 days on anything you wanted to throw. Top water--Riccos,
    Crankin'--Lucky Craft LV500 Shad, Senko's--Cinnamon with black and purple flake. Incredible. Where are the shad? Maybe this is why the bass are so hungry--no forage.
    City: Novato

    Tips: North or south does not matter. Hang out in 8 to 12 feet of water, edge of weeds, etc. and you will catch fish.

Tuesday, June 5th, 2007

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    Water Temp: 71

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: What an amazing day today!! When I guide someone from out of state, I always want things perfect! I met my client from Oregon at 6 am at the Clearlake Oaks and was looking forward to showing him the wonders of Clear Lake for the first time! The lake had other ideas as the wind was howling and the cold front was moving in! I realized after observing the water that we were going to Lakeport. Bob Higgins of Limit Out Tackle told me everyone else had made that move. So we started there at 7:30 am and the Oregonian had the nerve to catch a bass on the first cast!! Then I knew the day was totally ruined! Not so this day! We worked our way up north from Lakeport fishing nooks and crannies - docks, rocks, tules, and whatever structure we could find. He was using the 8" green pumpkin Dead Ringer and I was using the 7 1/2" RoboTail worm in green neon pumpkin. We were targeting larger bass with the big worms. We caught quality after quality bass - mostly all over 3 lbs. I think we had 8 between 4 and 5 lbs. I actually got broken off with 14 lb test also - couldn't believe it. I was also determined to catch a chug bug topwater bass in spite of the weather and I did - about 10 am. That was one of our smaller bass at 2 1/4 lbs We did some sight fishing which was no easy task, but my client did coax a 4-2 and a 4 3/4 to take a white/chartreuse Robo Sourpuss - nice sight bait!! I highly recommend it! He worked on the bigger one for awhile and when she bit the first time - he got her - sweet! Hard to do in the wind. As we were getting near the end of the trip, I suggest he try the watermelon/red flake Dead Ringer he had - since it was getting brighter out and he needed a change! GOOD DECISION!! As we fishing one of the metal walls up north, I heard him grunt. I turned around and looked in the water and almost freaked!!!! He said she might be "6" and I though "16"!!!! After a tense moment or two in the wind, I netted a beauty - a spawned out 8 lb 11 oz toad. He told me later his goal was an "8". So he overshot his goal a bit - big deal! His previous biggest in Oregon was 5 1/2. I was proud of our limit - between 26 1/2 and 27 lbs - in very tough conditions! We wound up with 31 bass total. We were really trying for quality, not numbers.
    City: Yuba City

    Tips: I mentioned the RoboTail worm made by Roboworm. I really put it to the test and it held up very well! I caught 10 or 12 bass on the original worm I used - and these were quality bass!! They are soft but seem very strong. I tried the red crawler color also but only caught one bass on it. Green pumpkin really has been the color of choice for me this year at Clear Lake. It seems to work every trip no matter what type of bait I or my clients are throwing. Other than the sight fish, most of our bass were in the 6 to 10 foot range. It is not easy for me to fish that shallow all day - but I managed! My biggest was the 5 pounder on the Robo worm. I threw my
    Weapon jig the last few minutes and did hook a nice bass but lost it. Lots of weeds up north but my client was very good at finding holes in the weeds and pitchin' his worm in the holes and stickin' bass. One or two Senko bass (#301) but worms were the "meal of the day"! The bass were very aggressive from our start time - 7:30 am to about 11 am. As the clouds move out and the cold wind increased, the bite really slowed for us. If you would have told me that my client would have stuck a bass that size in those post-front conditions and at 2 pm, I wouldn't have believed it unless I saw it. Well, I saw it!!!!!

Sunday, June 3rd, 2007

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    Water Temp: 78

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Well my dad and i went out on the lake sunday due to his great luck the day before. We started out on the tulie line near the Fetzer dock throwing frogs we both had 3 blowups, on one of my blowups i pitched my senko back in and hooked him and we were just fun fishin so a played with him and lost it about a five pounder. The frog bite was really slow at first but picked up later, i had my senko in my hand all day.About noon we roll up on about a seven pounder my dad lets me have him so it took me about seven casts and finally got him on my green w black flake senko. There are alot of bass still bedding everywhere we went when saw a fish on a bed it took us about 2 minutes and we had them. So over aLL we had 32 fish with are best five going about 21 pounds.
    City: Ukiah

    Tips: They were biting on just about everything but the senko and frog worked the best.

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    Water Temp: 73-75

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Well, Vaughn and I decided to go for it despite the full moon. Started out at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, fishing the old keys hoping for some frog fish. Worked the frogs till it was about dark with no action. We though maybe the full moon was going to screw us. We then moved to the new keys and started getting fish on plastics. The action stayed fairly steady even after the moon rose. Couldn't beleive it when I looked at the time and it was 2:30 a.m. After about 30 fish between us, we called it a night. Back on the water at 6:30 a.m. Started south of Konocti with poppers and frogs and plastics. Had constant action all day. At about 11:30 a.m., we went back and checked out of our room and then got some lunch. We took a little snooz for about an hour and were back on the water at about 2:00 p.m. We went back to the new keys and kept getting consistent action on plastics. Tried for some more frog fish and had several blow ups, one that was quite large but did not stay hooked. Only boated one fish on the frog. Need to work on keeping frog fish on. We got about 60 between us on the day. Went home at 6:00 p.m.
    City: Ben Lomond

    Tips: Get out there and fish. This is an awesome fishery!!

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    Water Temp: 73.2

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Another excellent day at Clear Lake with very little wind and lots of fish! We hit 4 walls first thing at 5:30am with several in the boat right off the bat. We decided to move across the Rattlesnake arm and go back into a cove that we had good luck in a couple weeks ago. Same results as that past trip.........FISH ON! Purple and brown jigs with the cinnamon/purple twin tail Yamamoto's were killing them! Ken had to use the "little girls" room so after that we hit the back side of Rattlesnake Island with no bites. Back across the lake to the dock and Ken decided to show us that he really could set the hook and not lose fish!
    City: Sacramento

    Tips: slow in the weeds and Senkos were good all day! Tight lines!

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    Water Temp: 74-78

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: I fished both Saturday and Sunday this weekend. On Saturday I took out two co-workers who had never been bass fishing before. We fished from 8:30 to 1:00 and caught 20 fish. Our biggest fish of the day was 3.5lbs. Nothing spectacular, but I was happy to see each of my friends catch their first Clear Lake bass. We focused on spots all around the narrows and on into Horsehoe. My friends caught fish using the drop shot and shakey head worm. I caught most of my fish on the jig. Today the wife and I spent the entire day on the lake and had an excellent time. The wife caught the first, biggest, most and last fish of the day. Together we combined for 50+ fish, with the largest being a very clean 4-13. Our best 5 today went just under 18lbs. Today we fished further south around Monitor island and south of Fraser point. The clarity of the water was unreal in these areas. It made fishing tough especially with light wind and a high sun. The jig bite is red hot right now, I caught numerous fish with it today. The wife caught most of her fish using a drop shot like technique that the fish just ate up today.
    City: Petaluma, CA

    Tips: Go fishing using your favorite techniques and you will catch fish. Avoid clear water in low wind high sun conditions. The water levels are a bit low so look for fish off the bank