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Saturday, June 30th, 2007

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    Water Temp: 74-75

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: I took a grandpa from our church and his two visiting grandsons, age 11 and 18, for a fun trip to Oroville. As has been the case this year so often, the youngest showed the oldest how to catch the biggest! He landed a 15 1/4" spot on a prizm shad Robo worm. Actually, his older brother landed a big spot in the early morning, but jumped out of the boat as he was unhooking it! She looked to be 16" or more - but was over the slot. I caught a 15 1/8" and we boated 27 in the 4 1/2 hour trip. We fished the north fork main body points early but the south wind forced us into coves later in the morning. The bite continues to be good - we just fished shadows as much as we could and then moved deeper as the sun got higher. Oroville continues to provide fun fishing, especially for the young ones just learning1
    City: Yuba City

    Tips: With 4 in the boat, we just threw worms - 4 and 6 inch Berkley Power worms and Robo worms. Morning Dawn color did not work well, but prizm shad and green craw worms did. The black 4" Berkley Power worms caught some too. I did try a Rodstrainer jig and caught a few also - wasn't sure if they were still working as summer approaches. We drop-shotted some Basstrix flashtrix minnows and the youngster even mastered that too. Future pros in the making!!! Stay in the shadows as long as you can. Early fish were 15-20 feet deep and later down to 30-35.

Thursday, June 28th, 2007

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    Water Temp: 72-76

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: On Thursday afternoon I took out a father and his two sons. Since the large amount of water craft on the lake and the wind we headed up the North Fork. On one of the coves with a shade line they started catching bass with a drop shot system. We then went futher up the North Fork to fish the rocky walls. Throwing tubes and drop shot they all caught bass. As the evening came we used top water pop-r's. Several blow-ups and two nice bass were caught. 20+ with 4 over, the biggest was 17+
    City: Paradise

    Tips: Shade lines were key. Bass were about 25-30ft deep. Drop shot colors,AYU and Aarons majic, tube colors, clear sparkle and motor oil. Top water shad color pop-r's

Tuesday, June 26th, 2007

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    Water Temp: 73-75

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished middle fork. Stayed in the shade as best I could and fished the flat walls or big boulders. Fishing was tough with the hot temps. Didn't try topwater. Caught some senko fish but dartheads were the ticket. I kept the boat in 40-50 feet of water and caught fish in 15-25 feet. I would go 1 hour without a bite and then 6 fish in 10 casts. That was consistent all day. A lot of smaller bass were attacking my bait. Boated 25+ fish. Best 5 went 8-9 lbs.

    Tips: Dartheads were the ticket, color didn't matter. Not much action split shotting or with senkos. If you take a kid fishing, get some live minnows with a smaller hook and let them catch those smaller fish all day.

Sunday, June 24th, 2007

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    Water Temp: 77.6 - 78.9

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched out of Lime Saddle, tons of fish boiling on the surface, through the spook and Pop-R but only cought 3 rats, with tons of blow ups. Quickly abandoned topwater and went up toward the feather. Cought over 60 fish all on Jigs (two worm fish) biggest fish being 15.5" most were 14 - 13" fish. The jig bite was wide open until 12:30 and tappered down from there. Fish were throwing up smelt in the AM in the late morning they were throwing up Dads and Bluegill.
    City: Antelope

    Tips: Fishing the Shade was key - if you want to gain confidence in jigs the Hula bite was on FIRE and I strongly recommend Orroville for Numbers. Take extra lead and hulas cause we went through tons!

Thursday, June 21st, 2007

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    Water Temp: 74-78

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: I had the opportunity to take out a father and his 6 yesr old son Thursday. We started on the main points on the min body with top water and on the 1st cast a nice bass. After several short strikes we moved up the main body for steep rocky walls to find some feeding bass. We found more on the West Branch and then some on the upper main body. The biggest thrill was watching the 6 year old reel in the bass. He kept saying He's a good fisherman. Although we only fished half a day and only landed 14 bracket fish I know he'll be hooked for life.
    City: Paradise

    Tips: Top water with pop-r's and on the rocky walls senko's in water mellon with red flake, clear sparkle and motor oil gitzits and drop shot with a 6 inch Robo worm in the Arrons Majic color. Keep moving to find the bass and go deeper as the Sun gets higher. Also look for shade lines and mud lines.

Tuesday, June 19th, 2007

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    Water Temp: 76

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: I took a father/son to Oroville this morning for a 4 hr trip. It was a donated trip for William Jessup Univesity to honor the son's 16th birthday! We started near the dam launch ramp cove but caught only smaller bass so me moved out into the main lake. We found a hump that was full of quality spotted bass and caught several in the 14 to 15 1/4 inch size - all on Robo worms in morning dawn and prizm shad. Birthday boy caught the only bass over the slot. We wound up with 21 bass but for some reason lost a lot of them. The delta breeze moved in about 9 am and seemed to slow the bite and cause them not to inhale the worms. Weird! A very nice morning however!
    City: Yuba City

    Tips: Most of our fish were found from 15 to 30 feet in the early morning. A few even deeper later in the morning. We did find them schooled a bit - a few areas with lots of fish and some with none! I suggest moving around a bit - most fish were on or near points. Canyon Creek was a bust for us for example. We had to wait in line at the dam launch - believe it or not - a salmon derby (sort of) on a Tues morning. I checked with some salmon guys when our trip was over and they were all smiles!!!

Monday, June 18th, 2007

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    Water Temp: 72-74

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Launched out of Bidwell first light. Started on top with the Lunker Punker Jr. around the house boats. Two quality Spots about 17 inches hit on the first few casts. I later moved to the Bridge pilings and scored 7 Spots and one 3.3lb Largemouth. Ended the day dropshotting with great success at 20 ft. excellent day!
    City: Paradise

    Tips: Throw the big baits early for the Larger Spots. In two trips to Oroville i have had at least two fish over 3 lbs.

Saturday, June 16th, 2007

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    Water Temp: 72-76

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: I took a couple out Saturday that were up here on business and wanted to see and fish our beautiful lake. We started on the main body with some pop-r's fishing in the shade. With only small fish responding we went up to the N. Fork to fish the walls and points. Useing senko,s and tubes they did very well. By 11am the boat traffic and wind made it difficult to use senko,s and tubes so I changed to spinner baits. They were having so much fun catching bass on the spinner baits they extended their time to fish longer. They ended the day with 30+ with 1 over.
    City: Paradise

    Tips: top water in the early morning,tubes in clear sparkle and motor oil and senko's in pumpkin and water mellon on walls and points and white and chartruse spinner baits on points and rocky walls.

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    Water Temp: 70's

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: fished from 8 AM till about 12:30 PM
    bite was slow but then again we got out there late. we caught 4 spots, missed a lot on rubber worms we could have had at least 10. we stayed in and around the launch ramp due to the visibility. all in all it wasn

    Tips: we got the most bites on Morning Dawn and Margaretta mutilator III (#3) rigged weedless with bullet weights.

Friday, June 15th, 2007

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    Water Temp: 72-76

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: I took a nice couple out Friday to teach them how to bass fish. For their first time they did really well. We fished the N. Fork from 7:30am to 12:30pm. Useing senko's and tubes they caught about 30 bass with 2 over. They were very excited about bass fishing.
    City: Paradise

    Tips: Senko's on walls and drop-offs and tubes on points and walls.Senko's in pumpkin and water mellon and tubes in clear sparkle and craw colors.

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Great fluke bite Thursday evening and Friday morning. Thought heat would drive them deep. Not quite yet! Solid 10# limit both days. Best fish was a 3.5 + (est.) Largemouth.
    Throw on some sun screen and head up the North Fork. Most points held fish, Coves not so great for us.
    This is one great lake! Not crowded, lot's of action, a variety of shoreline structure, and tons of wildlife watching you "jerklips".
    City: Oroville

    Tips: Pearl Zoom Flukes, Yamamoto grubs (Pumpkin/green), tubes (3/16 dart), and Robo Worms. 5'-30'.

Saturday, June 9th, 2007

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    Water Temp: 70.4 - 74.2

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished the north and west branches with good to very good sucess (48 fish with 11 over) as said in other reports from the south and middle branches, the fish were down around 20' to 35' and schooled up on points, between secondary points on mud banks. What differs in this report is that all the fish caught were on crawdad baits. The yamamoto creature baits and fish to sea craws seem to work the best while others I talked to wrer using robo's shad and aarons majic in the 6" size on 1/4 oz. dart heads. the largest fish brought to the boat was a whooping 2.73 lbs. caught by Larry Petersen whose day was cut short by jet skis and wake boarders on the west branch (they almost sunk his 14' alum.). The rangers and warrdens said they would have a "bigger" impact on the lake this year as compared to last, since I never saw either of these at all last year, I guess once would be concidered a "greater impact". All weekend anglers please beware of these "Pains in the Ass". As Mr. Petersen told all of us "they come right at you, get as close as they can and turn sharply to create a large wake for their enjoyment, not ours"
    All in all, it proved to be an enjoyable day despite the little punks and their toys.
    City: Paradise

    Tips: the "run and gun" approuch seem to work the best. Don't stay in one spot and "creap fish" look deep.
    Drop shot and dart head are a good bet, if you like the craws, beprepared to fish alot of water, with hook-ups about every 4 to 5 casts. Let it set between "pops" and check for heavey lines, not "bites"
    tight lines,
    B. Gibson
    Paradise Bass Assn.

Friday, June 8th, 2007

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    Water Temp: 71-75

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: So, what would two young men want to do the day after thay graduated from Chico High School. Learn to bass fish with me, of course! Let's get adulthood started off right!! We started at 1 pm (they had to sleep in after parties!) and fished until about 9 pm. One of them had done some bass fishing and the other was totally new to the sport. Of course - HE caught the biggest at the end of the trip - a spot just under 18 inches! He had another at 16 inches and his friend also had two "overs"! We both helped the "newby" and he finally got the hang of "no bite - just pressure" and really caught mostly quality spots. We caught a few on topwater but they were small. The continuing cool weather and dropping water found the bass quite deep, mostly 15 to 30 feet. There was very little animal, bird, and fish activity. I was surprised we did as well as we did with an even 40 bass in the boat. We did see a mountain lion at the treeline in the middle fork where we spent the whole time. The guys had a great time and are now pretty competent bass fishermen which should go nicely with their new diplomas!! I loved hearing "I got another one" over and over!!
    City: Yuba City

    Tips: Robo worms were the tools of the day! Morning Dawn was the early choice and held on all day. They fished the 4" size. Prizm Shad was good during the afternoon and MMIII added to the fun. Other colors wern't so good. I tried drop-shotting the Basstrix Flashtrix minnow and it worked well also, especially in the late afternoon. I had both guys try dropshotting and one of them hooked a nice one. We found the fish sort of bunched up - several in one area and then nothing in others. We moved around quit a lot. Our limit was between 9 and 10 lbs - the last near 18 incher was pushing 2 1/2 lbs.

Monday, June 4th, 2007

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    Water Temp: 75

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: I took a writer from Western Outdoors to Oroville this afternoon to help him prepare for an upcoming article he is working on - featuring the fishery at Lake Oroville. He was guided by a trout/salmon guide in the morning and they did well on Coho's to 19 inches. Pressure was on!!!!! Well, guess what!? We did well too, landing in excess of 25 spotted bass with 3 at the 15 1/2 to 16 inch range. We just had time to fish the middle fork. We use morning dawn and prizm shad 4" Robo worms, and #301 Senkos. He also caught some drop-shotting the Basstrix flashtrix minnow. We caught a few on topwater baits too. One of the "overs" was in less than 10 feet of water - weird! We had heavy cloud cover and wind when we started but it quit about 4 pm and the lake was dead calm. Nice trip!
    City: Yuba City

    Tips: As the lake slowly drops, the bass are moving off-shore and small bass were chasing bait on the surface. A sure sign that summer is just around the corner!

Saturday, June 2nd, 2007

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    Water Temp: 75-77

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Wanted to get this report on before I forgot what all happened, last weekend. Me and my fishin partner Mad Maggs took the boat out before I had to leave town for a week. We launched out of Lime Saddle and headed straight out across the lake to the house boats and started on top water against the steep walls and house boats with no takers. Went to tossing a football jig with various trailers on it and first fish was 15.5" we fished on for a bit and I took off the top water sammy and put on a Chartruse Chatter-bait with a single tail chart 2.5" grub on it, and after a few cast's I pitched it next to a small tree and let it fall about 6-8' and bang the fight was on I had no clue what it was but it was dragging me all over the front deck of my Tracker PT 190! Then I did it, I made the call for Madd Maggs to get the net, something I have never asked him to do on any of our prior trips, so he was bouncing all over the boat with excitement just waiting to see what was on the other end of my Chatter-bait. A brief belly flash told us it wasn't a bass but something else, I fought for around 2.5 minutes with em' and Lo & behold it was a 12 lb catfish according to the rapala scale!! I debated making fillets out of him while I let the monster recover in my live well, but respected him for the outstanding fight he put up. So I released him right back where he was caught.
    So back to fishing for the ones with green scales on'em! I had to switch Chatter-baits as the big cat destroyed the other one. We caught 20 or so spots over the six hour trip, w/2 over the slot. Dart head & football jigs were the baits of choice!
    City: Plumas Lake

    Tips: Had alot of fish hit the lures on the fall, so watch you line. Had alot of missed fish as well, allow a few seconds for the fish to take to bait then reel down on it, and set the hook. I pulled back alot of craw trailers that had no claws on them any more, maybe that had something to do with color, but the other bass I caught thru out the day didn't mind it!

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    Water Temp: 67 to 73

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Anglers Choice tournament day, most every one caught lots of bass. We finished 6th with 10.41-lbs. The top weight was 11.75lbs. with a kicker of 3.75lbs. Big bass was 5.20lbs. We started in the lower main body and worked our way up. Fishing both sides,we fished rocky points and walls with gitzits, senkos, and spinner baites working the best. Some of the teams used worms and jigs.
    City: Paradise

    Tips: Gitzits in motor oil, craw and clear sparkle. Senko's in pumpkin and watermelen and spinner bait in white.

Thursday, May 31st, 2007

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    Water Temp: 70 ish

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Started out @5:30 am fished the south arm with big numbers several fish in a row I just worked my way around the bank casting a robo grub on a football 3/8 oz jig head somtimes switching to a single tail grub white or something with a sparkler fished to about noon with 5 keepers over 2plus lbs several just in the slot great day the wind came up and down so that pushed me into several different coves with good luck in all
    City: Roseville

    Tips: Advise for the last posting go slow I use my confident bait 3/8 oz football jig head with a robo grub or single or double tail grub either white or gray with sparkles throw against the rock bank let it fall retrieve slow they will hit it I promise I still learning the top water thing

Wednesday, May 30th, 2007

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    Water Temp: around 60

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: nice and glassy out. water is begning to warm up.
    i fished for about 4-5 hours and only managed to land two fish. we had all kinds of rubber yamamoto worms and tubes, in watermelon, pumpkin, and rainbow, not to mention plenty of robos & lizards, and they were not taking them. even on days they work good for me I only manage to land 2-3 on rubber worms. What on earth am I doing wrong. I keep trying and being persistent but I just know there has to be something wrong after comparing the numbers of fish people on here are catching with mine. I

    Tips: dont fish this close to the full moon, when ever i have the fishing is never that great. pay attention to moon phases.

Sunday, May 27th, 2007

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Anglers Attic annual nite series will start on June 2. Blastoff 5pm at packers bay. Must sign up at Angler's Attic any time before the tournament. Entry fee will be $80 per team big fish included. Any questions call Chris @ Angler's Attic 530-245-0654 Tips:
    City: redding

Saturday, May 26th, 2007

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    Water Temp: 65-69

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: I took out a father,grand father and grandson out on one the busiest weekends of the year. Boats, house boats,jet ski's all over the lake. To keep it enjoyable we kept to rocky walls, some what away from the baots. We only used senko's and tubes to catch nearly 80 bass with 5 over. It was really great seeing 3 generations all catching fish. Lots of double and one triple hook-ups. We fished from 6:30am to 1:00pm. on the West Branch to the main body.
    City: Paradise

    Tips: Rocky walls using pumpkin and water melon senko's and tubes in brown craw,motor oil and clear sparkle colors.