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Saturday, September 18th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 68-70 deg

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: With the water temp dropping, cooler air temp,(57-70)and the winds blowing it made fishing tough. Quince Malone and I lanuched out of Clear Lake Oaks with Basin Bassmasters for a team tournament. We stayed out of the winds for the first hour, not catching a fish on blades or crankin. Then headed over to the dock along hwy 20 using a black/purple jig, purple/green flake grub getting our first bass under a dock. Quincy was using a june bug lizard most of the day. As the sun came out later the bass moved up from 20 ft to 15 ft. We stayed on docks in 8-15 ft and tules with rocks, in and out of the winds. The winds blew 5-15 all day making me use my trolling motor at 50 % or more. Weighin at 3:00, big fish was at 5.0 lb largie. Most of the teams got there limits, large bag was 14.+. My bag was 11.12, we still cought 45 bass and no cats.
    City: Rocklin

    Tips: all colors in dark are working, go deep for the bigger bass and work slow.

Tuesday, September 14th, 2004

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Hello again guys well just curious anyone know's about boating? well I'm considering buying a used boat but all of them are 2 stroke what are the that allow you to use 2 stroke lakes that are not please email me thanks
    City: San Francisco

Sunday, September 12th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 71-73 deg

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: I have not seen this lake like this in four years or more, sence our New Bass TOC. some fisherman from Basin Bassmasters and I launched out of Clear Lake Oaks and stayed behind Rattlesnake Island an few hours until the winds comed down. blades and crank baits worked good, dropshot , jigs and texas worms in 8-25 ft. My first fish was a 4.5 lb largie, I'm not sure how to fish this winds on a large lake. I ended up with eleven bass for the day. hard to find a parten on days like this.
    City: rocklin

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Heavy wind kept skiers and wave runners out of prime areas, allowing for good senko action in tules. Too much wind for morning topwater, hammered fish 2-3 lbs dropshotting robo worms in 14 -25 ft throughout Konocti Bay and behind Anderson. Tules in Jago Bay produced larger fish to 5 lbs. 35 fish day, top 5 around 20-22lbs.
    City: Sebastopol

    Tips: Cover water until you start marking fish over rocks and dropoffs. If fish bite, stay on top of them. One rock pile produced 10 fish dropshotting. Fish senkos as close to tules as possible! Look for areas with good mix of tules and rocks, close to deep water for best action.

Saturday, September 11th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 72

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Saturday from 7:00 pm till around 10:00 pm gave me 6 fish all before dark and one 20 pound plus carp on a crank bait that took me for a ride. I was hoping the wind would die down for the night but it only got worse . After spearing a wave about 10:00 and flooding the boat I decided that it was too dangerous to continue. Started again about 8:00 am after being awaken by some dude throwing a buzz bait by my boat. Can't think of a better alarm clock. The winds were even worse at daylight. Picked up around 12 fish before leaving around 4:00 pm the largest a little over 4 lbs.
    City: Sacramento

    Tips: Typical Northern wind cold front from the coast. Nothing shuts down the night bite faster than this for me. It only got to around 74 degrees on Sunday. Made a decision to fish in the wind and continued to fish the 8 inch grub and 10 inch power worm. Lots of tail nippers and missed hooksets. Crank bite has been sporadic and no really top water yet , at least for me .

Friday, September 10th, 2004

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    Water Temp: Hot

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Well the top water bit is over,caught
    some giants.I have been using my Double-Buzz Bait
    all summer at Clear-Lake and the Delta.Works great
    had good luck,caught hundreds of bass on it.My
    biggest was seven lbs.at the Delta.I caught my
    fish all day long at Clear-Lake.Caught half my
    fish on a Double-Buzz Bait with Gold Blades and
    Gold Clackers 3/8 oz.Skirt color did`nt seem to
    matter.I do throw a different color than the
    rest of the fisherman.Since I make them, I try
    and use different Combo`s.Limit-Out Tackle
    in Clear-Lake Oaks sells my baits,so I try and
    fish completely different colors.I seem to
    catch bigger fish after sun-rise when they were
    headed for some type of cover,weed-mats or tully
    did`nt matter.If the fish were there they would
    just slam it.My son and I caught several limits
    over 25lbs.We fished Clear-Lake about twenty-five
    times this summer.I wanted to fish more, but had
    to go to the Delta and practice with my lures.
    If you to go after the Giants, try Clear-Lake and stop by Limit-Out Tackle and pick you
    up some Double-Buzz Baits made by Dale`s Baits
    And Blades.For more information contact me at
    dalemeddock@aol.com

    Thank You
    And Good Fishing
    Dale Meddock
    City: Woodland Calif.

Thursday, September 9th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 74.78.8

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: took a trip down after reading all the favorable reports and they were spot on. Got in the water at the M&M ampground behind rattlesnake at 0615 and motored over to rattlesnake throwing at the toolies with baldes , cranks and rip baits but didn't get bit. Went back over to the area just north of M&M and started throwing a docks and nothing again. Crossed over to some other docks and found a bunch of fish in the 12-15 ft depth so started throwing jigs tipped with the amgm twintail in #23 and got 5 fish, the smallest was at 2.07. Went to Buckingham and fished from the seawall down to Shag Rock? and got a bunch of the same. Moved around down the other side of the point and fished past a lot of great looking homes and put more in the boat. Went back to Shag after the bite slowed around 1030 and fished there again and got on fish in the 19-23ft range and finished the day off with 43 of these fat little largemouth. what a great day, cool and a lot of fish. got things loaded up and went to Northlake Ford for 4 gallons of their Merc Premium Plus (thanks John) and drove home. Well worth the time and miles.
    City: Redding

    Tips: Used a brand new bait made by MGMLURES called a hoo-dun-it. it's about 6 inches long with long narrow tails and some wings and a ribbed body. used a brown with gold flake one, one called melon pepper and one that was red with some black flake. Those baits got pounded.MGM is at (530)347-1782 up in Cottonwood www.MGMLURES.net

Tuesday, September 7th, 2004

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    Water Temp: Not Tested

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Well what do you know I finally did visit this lake and boy was there a bass, well first started looking for boat rentals yes there are a lot of place but all of them don't have enough, too many anglers 2 of the place we went all boats are rented. so my buddie end up in soda bay but we still got luck although it's quite windy my buddy caught 5lbs+ and most of them are clone 2-3lbs total fish for two of us 20-25 lost count including 4 huge catfish caught on powerbait thanks all of you for such a honest report and all the tips tight lines Catch and Release.. its worth a trip maybe I'll go there again weekdays.. ;-)
    City: San Francisco

    Tips: Most of my fish caught on swimbait castaic bluegill and banjo minnow, waveworm (tiki worm) also did well green pumkin with orange stipe, I'll be back and bring some catfish bait..

Monday, September 6th, 2004

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    Water Temp: Never looked

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Got a chance to venture up here for a night guide trip on Sunday. Fished with Jim and his dad Don. When we started out it was very hot and balmy due to the fire to the south and lots of boater traffic in the south arms. Needless to say out early evening bite was slow and we managed two topwater fish, both on the Cicada frog. Then I got stung by a Yellow jacket that climbed down in my shirt, thank goodness he popped me on the opposite side of my heart, man that stung, burned, swelled up and itched all night long, might have been a blessing, better than any redbull and kept me up all night. We were'nt gonna have any moon till after mid night, so we began fishing deeper ledges with brown 1/2 oz jigs with a black Yamamoto single tail grub trailer. We started to then catch some nice three pounders, but it still seemed very slow, so I moved us over to Konocti resort to fish around the lighted area. Turns out it was lit well for the Alabama show, we spanked fish in here from the courtsey dock all through the front of the patio, putting on a special show for the crowd out on the rail. No giants, but a lot of fish in the 2.-3.5 range, fat porkers they were. As the moon came out we vacated to some other areas and the bite just kept picking up. Dropped dad off at 1:00am and Jim and I ran to some areas in Konocti & Jago and began catching a little better quality up to 4.5 pounds now. We never put the jig down until we pulled up and left at 9:00am. Great trip, we caught so many fish it was just too furious to try and keep count.
    City: Oakley

    Tips: The jig bite here is still off the hook. And although we didn't fish a lot of areas, a clear pattern was established that provided constant bites at every place we stopped. Shallow, rocky banks with a slight sloping bottom or a flat bottom at 6-7 feet. Any type of structural change or ambush cover, held the better fish over 4 pounds. All the fish came from 0-6 feet. During the night, we put a ratle on and fished the jig fast and erratic with the black grub, during the day light, we removed the rattle and changed to a the 164 grub. The day fish clocked it on the fall every time. On this trip, we never got bit below 10 feet, simply because our jigs never got that far!

Saturday, September 4th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 72 Night

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Great Labor Day weekend at Lake Place Resort and I took the S.O. therefore I had to put a leash on my Ranger; at least some of the time. Fished day on Saturday from 8:30 till 2:00 pm for 17 fish the largest 5.11. The best 5 that morning was 12.7 lbs and everything came on a 1/2 oz. football jig in orange and blue. Fished the ledge, highway 20 side at Glenhaven on the breaks at 12-17 feet. Saturday night was the best night fish for me this year. The bite did not start until after the moon came up, around 11:30 and lasted till I quit at 5:30. Biggest fish landed 10.03lbs but I lost one at the boat that dwarfed that one. The fish actually opened up a 5 ought Gami off shank round bend hook. First time that has ever happened to me. The ole girl first tried the prop and then the trolling motor at which point I stopped the drag with my thumb while moving to the back of the boat. Oh well, talk about exciting. Best five that night went 27.9 lbs on the cull enm rite. No fishing on Sunday and started the night fish at 7:00 pm and quit at 1:30 am . Too tired to wait em out. Only 10 fish Sunday night and totally different than Saturday. The largest fish was a suicidal 4 lber that jumped a foot out of the water to smash a spook before dark. It was SLOWWW after dark on Sunday night, lots of tail bitters and dinks. Slept in a left Monday around 11:00
    City: Sacramento

    Tips: The day bite is as good as the night still. Talked to a tourn. friend, Harry and his wife picked up a 11.2 on Sunday Morning, fishing a Brush hog. I still will take the grave yard shift this time of year, cool and peacefull. The open hooked 1/2 oz football hulla grub type arrangement is working well for me. I used an orange skirt and a small Yamamoto blue craw as a trailer. For my night bite 8 inch yamamoto grub in black blue flake or black red flake, florida rig and in the future a bigger hook. The muscadine brush hog is cheaper and worked just as well if ya use plenty of smelly jelly. Cranks picked up some good fish too.
    Given my steller performance on the Delta Last tourn. 3.5 lbs, I needed this trip. By the way The carp rolled like mad on Saturday night and not one rolled around me on Sunday. Maybe Lunker Larry is onto something with his carp theory. Also, the 10 lber spit up a bluegill the size of my hand into my live well where she recovered for her photo oppurtunity. Maybe the next full moon will find me dragging a swim bait.

Friday, September 3rd, 2004

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    Water Temp: 76+

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished this lake for the 2nd time in two weeks. Bite was consistant as the week before, about 20-30 fish between my partner and I. But the wind was a bit much to bear. When allowed to fish, bite as pretty good. Caught them on rocks w/ texas rigged worms in green weenie and oxblood colors.
    City: San Francisco

    Tips: Stay out of the wind and fish slowly in rocky areas and under docks. Texas Rigged plastics worked well.

Wednesday, September 1st, 2004

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Larry stafford-i read your post and i know how to tell if its a carp or a bass trust me!It was not a carp it was a huge LM bass.Ihave some nice pics but cant figure out how to post em here.And yes i caught the monster on catfish stinkbait i thought it was wierd too.Ive caught crappie on trout power bait too.I gave one of my pictures to one the bait shops near m and m campsite.
    City: red bluff

    Tips: Its TRue no joke!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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    Water Temp: 75-80

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: just got back today. Here it is. Find a rock pile, toss out a float so you don't drift off and start tossin' a 1/2 oz white spinnerbait. Important to slow roll and bump the rocks. Fish on top in the am, around the edges after sun up. 50+ fish in two days, biggest 5lbs, but lots of solid fish 2-3lb. Black/blue zippers texas rigged produced well, better fish on the blade. Clear Lake is on, but not the toads we might expect. PS, try out the new Konocti Vista Resort. You get your own berth, with power, with your room. The place is awesome. Right next to the County Park.
    City: Walnut Creek

    Tips: Them rock piles are the ticket.

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    Water Temp: Not Tested

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: To all those guys whom took my posting seriously and e-mailed me and post their suggestion there's only one thing I can say you guys "ROCKS" Thank you very very very much I will be forever in debt with all you kindness I'll let you know how I did on my trip
    City: San Francisco

    Tips: Coming soon

Tuesday, August 31st, 2004

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    Water Temp: don't know

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Well I guess there is no boat rentals here then boy I was looking forward to go this long weekend and rent a boat for a whole day but none have responded my posting I guess all this nice report is just gonna be part of my fantasy catching some of those anyway thank's guys keep posting at least I'll be updated on action
    City: san francisco

    Tips: Sorry can't help I haven't been there actually

Sunday, August 29th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 72+

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished from 6am to noon with a good freind. Started with top water around Rattlesnake Island and had no bites on buzzbaits or spooks. Moved offshore to rock piles and immediately started catching fish on Yamamoto Kreature baits. Caught them on every color in the boat...3 different watermelon based colors, 2 different green pumpkin colors and 2 different black colors. Left the rock piles to work breaks around Anderson Island and Pirates Cove. My partner used a small Brushhog and Zoom 4" Lizard on a C-rig. We both caught a lot of fish with the fastest bite coming on the small lizard and the better fish all came on the new Yamamoto bait. We never caught a kicker fish and our best 5 totaled 16 pounds 2 ounces on a Normark scale...just a bunch of solid 3+ clones. Also, there was a full moon right up until dawn so we really expected a slow bite and were happy with our results.
    City: Fair Oaks

    Tips: Worked the Kreature bait on a 1/2 oz Yamamoto weedless jighead (Yamamoto 66 series). Had to keep the jighead moving fast to prevent it from getting stuck in the rocks. It felt much like working a crankbait as it kept banging rocks.

Saturday, August 28th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 75

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Fishing was still good, fished the 28th and 29th caught 20 fish one going 6pd.s, use drop- shoting, spinnerbaits in white and chartrues,senkos (wacky worming) and crank baits. fished rocks and flats during the morning and evening, and docks during the middle of the day,
    City: royal oaks

    Tips: Use 4in and 6in robo worms in oxford red flake, for drop shoting, during the middle of the day use senkos and drop shoting under the shad of the docks, caught a 6 and a bunch of two's and 3's.

Friday, August 27th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 80's

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Went up Friday evening to fish the full moon and get some TOW. Took a friend who has never fished Clear Lake, Yep that's right, Never...
    He is new to the bass scene and mainly fishes for coldwater species.
    He is new to wormin so I showed him how to drop shot a Iovono 4" spadetail in Oxblood red(out of Roboworms) and just to show em a little something different we dartheaded a 4" Berkeley rib worm as the bottom rig to see what they wanted(Bait is like 6 years old) and fish a Texas rigged 10" worm in RED SHAD and T-rigged Yamamoto craws on the deeper rockpiles. I cranked a Fat free Shad while he dragged the drop shot and we killed em. Be patient and it will pay big dividends, I knew the fish where there and when they turned on WOW... We fished the same rockpiles over and over just rotated them and the fish would up to feed and kept us busy to 1am. We caught at least 40 plus fish from 7pm to 1am and I caught 3 fish on 3 casts all in the 2 to 3 lb range on a CB in a pearl w/Blue back I was fishing hard and fast with reaction baits and I had him fish slow and deliberate. With his combo he out fished me, of the 40 plus fish we caught he had caught at least 20 to my 10 before I started to worm. (Rotator cuff was hurting, So I used that as an excuse to worm)
    Then at about 11pm the patience paid off when I caught a 4 1/2 and then another around 4. Then the big girl hit and she tipped the scales at 9.1. If you was on the lake you probaly heard me yell. Caught her on a T-rigged 10" powerworm in RED SHAD (Thanks Lunker Larry) So my friend has his best time ever with his big fish of 4lbs and our biggest 5 went about 26lbs.
    Tight Lines, Kap.
    City: Santa Clara

    Tips: Spend TOW -Go now and have the best time of your life. It is the best time to teach someone who is new to Bass Fishing. Drop shot deep water docks and Rockpiles. We caught our best fish methodically working over the rockpiles with plastics. It is easier to fish plastics at night than Hardbaits unless you like hooks.

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    Water Temp: N/A

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Wazzup fellow anglers I've been seeing a lot of nice report regarding this lake I haven't actually been there.. yet, But I'm planning to.. is there a boat rentals around this lake? if so..., can you please kindly email it to me?!!.. any additional info about this lake will be highly appreciated.. Thanks a lot thight lines!!!
    City: San Francisco

Thursday, August 26th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 77

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: The fishing was pretty much the same yesterday, but the weather wasn't! Had jackets on 'till late morning and, oh my, WIND! I guided a local uncle and his 15 year old nephew visiting from the mid-west. Like other recent clients, the lad had to come to Clear Lake to catch the biggest bass of his life - 5 lbs 1 oz, on the, what else, red shad Dead Ringer worm. Another nice fish in Horseshoe Bay! We started by hiding behind Anderson Island and fishing several of the rock structures, casting Carolina-rigging big worms. I finally got a semi-big bite on a black 10" Power Worm and she turned out to be 6 lbs 9 oz. 'Bout time! She was on a ledge in about 8 feet of water. The quality and the numbers worked well all day with this setup. Another good color was muscadine, along with black grape. I don't think this has ever happened to me before but this is the third trip in a row with the exact same top five weight - 20 lbs 3 oz. We caught a few over 40 bass and didn't catch any under 12 inches. Funny how that changes from day to day. Last Friday we caught several 11 and 12 inchers. I enjoyed hearing the uncle ask his nephew if it was worth getting up at 4 am to which the reply was "YOU BET"!
    City: Yuba City

    Tips: The young man's five pounder was as fat as the smaller footballs we have been catching. My 6-9 wasn't. I thought she might go 7 1/2 or so but just didn't have the weight. I have noticed that about some of the other quality bass we have caught. They don't seem to be as beafy as the smaller ones. Just my observation and I could be way off. Maybe we're not fishing in "Fat City". We have been working the worms off the bottom at a fairly fast clip. Deadsticking has also been working. The Yamamoto Kreatures worked again very well. I tested the crank bite and it was dead. The jig bite wasn't as good as normal either. They love that floating worm. You will catch average fish with a big worm, but I think you have a chance for a big one using some bulk in the dingy water.