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Monday, November 12th, 2007

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    Water Temp: 60

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Started fishing aroound 7:30 a.m. Went around hitting points. Found a few but couldn't get them to bite. Around 1 p.m. caught 3 spots split-shotting. Biggest going 14 inches. My partner caught one largemouth on a jig around 15 inches. Went home about 3 p.m.
    City: El Sobrante

    Tips: Look for calm areas with direct sunlight. Shady areas weren't producing at all or even showing fish. Good luck

Sunday, October 28th, 2007

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    Water Temp: 69

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Took my grand daughter out for some fun fishing and we had a blast. The top water bite was hot and heavy. We cought alot of small fish and a few good ones. The water glassed over about 11:am and stayed that way the rest of the day. Very few people on the lake and that was great.
    City: sonora

    Tips: Look for bait fish on or near deep drops. I chunked a 5" rapala in shad and one in gold and black.

Sunday, October 21st, 2007

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    Water Temp: 66

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Took a two day trip- total for two days was about 35 fish to 2 lbs. No reaction bite- everything came on 1/8 oz. dartheads with 6" pro worms (color 64SPF) and Senkos. I lost my $85 8" Triple Trout in the Mocassin area.
    City: Elk Grove

    Tips: The fish seem to be feeding on presentations above, not below. I don't know the lake so we didn't did not get to dropshot any offshore structure.

Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007

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    Water Temp: 64-68

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: WOW! Started in Horseshoe with #16 Huddy 1st light this morning and scored 2 fish, bam bam, shaz-am! The 1st fish was 4.8 the second fish was 8.9. Points, points, points. Missed 2 more fish (thought I would leave somtin fur ya all). After the sun came out went to the main Lake fishing the submerged islands and never caught a fish on the Hud, but I did stick several pines and oaks. Hearing how tough it's been I tried and scored on the baby brush hog (water melon/ red flake) drop-shotting in 30' to 50' off the deep river bluffs on those islands. a few largys, but the bigger fish were the spots up to 2-1/2 pounbs. After pounding the main lake humps I traveled south of the Dam, still main lake/ski-cove entrance and spooned some more fish on a 3/4 oz hopkins. My best fish was a 3.5 largy. This lake is on FIRE!!
    City: San Jose

    Tips: After the sun comes up, watch that graph for bait!

Sunday, September 2nd, 2007

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    Water Temp: 77-80.6

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Well it was only my second time to melones and didnt do to bad with all of the traffic. Started fishing at 7am no topwater bite. Fished the damn nothing. Then i decided to make a run up the lake to find steep rocky point and it paid off. cought about 25 fish in 200 yards of shorline. no size really but a couple 3 puonders. They were not to deep i would say maybe 10-15 ft. Baby brush hogs in green pumpkin seed were doin it for us. left at about 2 pm. to many jackasses on the water.
    City: Turlock

    Tips: Fish main points slow if you feel any tension set the hook its probably a fish.

Wednesday, August 8th, 2007

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    Water Temp: warm

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: This was my third trip this year up to Melones. Again,lots of fish early. My two biggest fish came offthe lunker punker top water.They were 4.5 lbs and 5lbs. Lots of followers. Off the water by noon. Too hot for me.
    City: Farmington

Tuesday, July 24th, 2007

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    Water Temp: warm

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished for three days. Caught fish in a wide variety of sizes. (Yes, small ones too) It does not take much to get me excited. This was the second time I have fished here during the summer months. Nightcrawlers were doing there thing. We caught a ton of bluegill, over half were longer than 6". Also got several legal size bass and catfish. Yup, there was also a 4# LM that got away. Awsome trip.
    City: San Francisco

    Tips: Bring sun screen, lots of water and hat. If you are using worms... KEEP THEM COOL and LIVELY!!

Saturday, June 30th, 2007

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Started out early using a Lunker Punker Trout spook. I at least 10 blowups and landed 7 Bass along the points. The largest was 7.9 and the rest were in the 3-4 pound range. One of my best topwater day so far. Ended the day tossing jigs.
    City: Paradise

    Tips: Throw bigger topwaters first light around points and hold on.

Sunday, May 27th, 2007

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    Water Temp: 72-74

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Hit the lake on Sunday with the crowds. On the water around 10, waited 30mins for my turn to launch. We swam and fooled around until a wind came up at around 1pm...fished the mudlines (thank you wakeboarders) for fast action. 30 fish in about an hour and a half, mostly Aarons magic robos and flukes
    City: Benicia

    Tips: The fish were suspending in 12 to 25ft under the mudlines. Look for banks that the wind blows into.

Friday, May 18th, 2007

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    Water Temp: 70-73

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Great weather

Monday, April 30th, 2007

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    Water Temp: 68-72

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished from sunrise till about 4:pm and had a blast. Put 63 fish in the boat. Alot of small spots and Red eyes. Mostly top water and crank baits but a weightless Arrons Magic 4" pink got the big ones (4,4.5,6.3, and a 7). A friend hit an 8 plus in the ski area. What a day!!!
    City: Sonora

Monday, April 23rd, 2007

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Cleatus, the fish that you caught, were there any damage on their fins? I caught a bunch of males there last week and they were in good shape. Let me know. Thanks.
    City: modesto

Friday, April 20th, 2007

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    Water Temp: ?

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: me and my partner bill slayed the bass!!! wacky rigged senkos in yellow and white. we fished mainly upriver, where we proceeded to catch a bunch of big doods.
    City: twain harte

    Tips: light line was the ticket! i didn't think my 6ft cabelas rod was gonna hold up but it did.

Saturday, April 14th, 2007

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: I started with senkos and nailed a few decent fish.Then I started throwing a lunker punker top water and had numerous large fish follow. I finally got one big blow up. After a short fight I landed what my berkley scale said was a 7.3lb Bass. My first swimbait fish! Lookin forward to more swimbaiting.
    City: farmington

    Tips: If you get fish following. Keep throwing because eventually one is going to grab it!

Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007

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    Water Temp: 60

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Caught a lot of fish but none to big. Four fish were around 3#. Used Zoom Candy worms and Brush Hogs. Would like to get some tips on proper use swim baits and spinner baits.
    City: Modesto,Ca.

    Tips: The bite was not a real hard bite . Some of the fish were just there and you could tell by the heavy drag

Monday, April 2nd, 2007

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    Water Temp: 63

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: overall good day spinnerbaits produced some nice fish out of submerged brush all together 30+ fish biggest fish 7lbs6oz.on a yamasenko they are moving to the shallows
    City: Twain Harte

Saturday, March 17th, 2007

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    Water Temp: 60-63

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Got 15-20 fish. Mostly from 10-25 ft. Some bites are soft while many are hard hits. 90% of the fish are between13-15 in. Got 1 about 4# on a deep diver on a muddy point.
    City: modesto

    Tips: I was fishing too fast for a while. Slow down and got more bites.

Wednesday, March 14th, 2007

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    Water Temp: about.,...60-65

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: came here for the crappie and ended up doing the bass...which we were very happy with lot's of fish in the shallow water and off the rocks .......this lake is fishing good now..... 11
    City: loomis

Monday, March 12th, 2007

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    Water Temp: 57-58

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Great day on water. Lots of small fish though. Weather was perfect at about 80 degrees by afternoon, mild wind. Morning bite for small fish was on but the bigger fish were harder to find all day. Most bites came on sharp, primary points with smaller rock on shores (not big chunks, small stuff) up the river arms in 30+ feet of water. Not much happening in the trees or closer to shore for me this day.

    Started morning off with rip baits and got nothing. Then moved to senkos and jigs and got a few rats.

    Did get a few fish on a spinnerbait in shallow water but the better fish were on a texas rigged robo fished deep or with a middle range crank bait over deeper water (30-40 feet-fish were suspended middle of water column in many cases). Steeps were better than flasts/coves. Used the drop shot but all fish were rats.

    Had a hard time catching any fish in the coves or main lake in the southern end or dam areas. It was all about primary points and deep water for me up the western river arms. Best fish of the day was about 3.5 lbs on the robo.

    Never seen so many trout/kokane jumping in my life though and wish I had a spinner or two in my boat at times. Like bricks falling out of the sky that day. Scared the heck out of me a few times when I wasn't looking.
    City: San Rafael

    Tips: Best colors for the deep fish were dark colors (purples and blacks). I actually had to have the bait moving or hopping a bit to get bit. Shallow fish hit a chartreuse SB with double gold blades. Crank was a chrome color.

Tuesday, March 6th, 2007

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished glory hole and tuttle town area. Caught spots in 8ft out to 25ft. fish were grouped together. 100 yard stretches of nothing and several would come from the same spot. got them all on texas rigged candy colored 6" worm. Never felt a single bite. Just raised the rod and felt slow steady pressure. defineitely not a wide open bite for me but it was worth the trip. got about 10 with biggest about 2.5#

    Tips: if you feel pressure on your line swing on it.dont wait for the tic or the tap I never felt one.