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Saturday, November 4th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 59-62

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished Nov. 4th-5th. On the water at first light, First day fished main body and West branch "crawling" 1/2 oz. Brn/Org Bass Patrol jigs with Brown Yamamoto twin tail. Landed a 3+ in 25 ft. on some basketball-sized rock...Sunday looked for worm fish in Middle and South fork, found schools in 20-30 feet Drop shotting Prism Shad 4.5 inch Robos. *IF YOU ARE AN AMATEUR (NON-BOATER) WILLING TO SIGN UP FOR THE UPCOMING AC PRO-AM (NOV.11-12) PLEASE CALL ME AT 408-476-9863 BEFORE YOU SIGN UP. I WOULD LIKE TO SIGN UP WITH YOU AS A PRO TO INSURE BOTH ENTRIES* Thanks, Chris Zaldain
    City: San Jose

    Tips: Great conditions for a tourny

Thursday, November 2nd, 2006

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    Water Temp: 60-63

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Got some time off to spend some time with some good friends on a houseboat. Fished friday and Saturday, moving all over the lake we found the bass from 5-50 ft using jigs with grubs. Not finding much of any bait balls but use your graph to locate. The North end seem to be better for the larger fish.
    City: rocklin

    Tips: go deep and slow, no reaction bit yet.

Sunday, October 29th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 63-66

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Just didn't get enough from last weekend, so made the run back up from Roseville. Took a good friend with me who doesn't get to fish that often and loves to throw. The bite was a little tougher than last weekend, but we still managed to put 45+ fish in the boat. Biggest 5 went 9'13 on the X-Tool. Fish were tight to the bottom and not very active. You could find them, but had to leave the bait right on them for a while to get them to jump on it. A lot of the fish were spitting up smelt, but once again the bait balls no were nowhere to be found on the graphs. I bet the cooler weather we are going to get this week will bring the bait in to the coves and really get the fish chasing. The water temp was actually 2-3 degrees warmer than last week.
    City: Roseville

    Tips: Just keep your line wet. Fish are kinda hard to target right now. Very scattered. You can pluck off one or two in a group and then you have to go looking for more. 25-50 feet was the most consistent depth. Not very specific, but that's where they were at. Got my jig and dropshot fix for a while. Back to the delta next weekend to prepare for tournament season. Clear Lake crappie coming up as well. :-)

Thursday, October 26th, 2006

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Anyone have info on "Toys for Tots" tournament on the 4th? I need an application & other info.

Sunday, October 22nd, 2006

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    Water Temp: 66.6

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Windy first thing in the morning and cought a few topwater and reaction. When the wind laid down went to Middle fork and stuck about 10 jig fish.

    Best 2 went around 9. Thier are fish stacked up on the bottom and they are catchable fish. With the other poster, I found the smelt very deep on the graph but the jig fish came between 20-30' and were throwing up Smelt everywhere.

    The lake is turning over in areas up in the arms.
    This beats the heck out of Folsom right now!
    City: Antelope

    Tips: If you are not getting bit or seeing fish keep moving and watching your graph.

Saturday, October 21st, 2006

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    Water Temp: 63

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Just another ho-hum 60+ fish day on Oroville. Damn I love this lake when you need a fix and just want to go out and get bit. My buddy and I actually had a pretty slow morning starting up the middle fork. No reaction bite and only had 4 fish on a jig and d-shot by 9:30. Then we headed to the main body and the fishing really picked up. We were looking for bait, but didn't graph any. However, we did find a good number of fish in 28-36 feet of water hugging the bottom. The were hitting the jig pretty well, but really wanted the d-shop. Usually, just letting the motion of the boat do all the work is the ticket for us d-shotting on Oroville, but on this day you has to shake the worm pretty good. We wound up with a 10 pound 2 ounce limit and had one pushing 3 pounds that would have put us over 11 just pop off at the boat. Oh well, will take a 10 pound limit and a ton of fish anytime on Oroville. Beautiful weather, tasty cocktails and great fishing. Can't think of a better way to spend a late October day.
    City: Roseville

    Tips: Electronics! Find the fish and you will get bit this time of year. They are not lethargic and will jump on your bait if you get it around them. Was pretty weird though. The bait fish we graphed were all pretty much in 70ft of water or deeper, but all of the spots we caught in 28-36 ft. were loaded with bait. Either the bait was real tight to the bottom and we could graph them or the spots were eating deep and then coming up to shallow water. Don't know exactly. Guess it doesn't matter too much as long as the are biting.

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    Water Temp: 63

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished North Fork. Best 2 fish plus a few others on white chartreuse spinnerbait. Other keepers on craw 6" worm on darthead (very steep rock banks) fished slowly. Dropshot fish on Morning Dawn were all in slot. Crankbaits in orange craw worked early. .

    Tips: Bluebird skys, shade maybe a factor on bigger fish

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    Water Temp: 65.6

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: On the lake by 8am and decided to throw jigs. If they didn't want jigs, then I wouldn't have to take them off the hook. I Used half ounce Bass Patrol all brown on one rod and 3/8 oz brown/purple on the other with Yamamoto 221 double tail grub. Lake very windy, that was a good thing. Caught fish on every stop but nothing big. There was a tournament and based on my fish it probably took over 10lbs to win. Wish I had some of these fish last week at the Anglers Choice TOC at Shasta. I might have made expenses.
    City: Paradise

    Tips: With the wind there may have been a reaction bite early. I had no luck with a blade and briefly threw a worm with no luck. Use something you have confidence in just fish. Its beautiful out there. Most bites came either on a point or just inside. Caught some fish in the back of Dark Canyon. The heavier jig worked best.

Sunday, October 15th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 67

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Started at first light using topwater and caught a 3 pounder right away , I stayed with topwater until 9:00 and had 4 fish . Then caught a few on a darter head worm and missed a few on a jig. Then went to a football jig with a hula grub and had non stop action for three hours.Almost all the fish came from 20 to 30 feet.I tied on 15 set ups easy, those rocks tend to eat the football head as well as the fish. Ended up with about 50 fish with the best five going !0.25 pounds. Oroville sure beats the heck out of Folsom right now.
    City: Granite Bay Ca.

    Tips: Cut off your weed guard, the bites are soft.Fished topwater on the main body and hula grubs up the South arm.

Monday, October 2nd, 2006

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    Water Temp: 73

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: I took a father and 7 year old son for a 6 hr trip - trying to start another bass pro at an early age! One of the first bass in the boat was almost 15 inches and I thought we were in for some quality spots. Not so! Lots of 8 to 13 inch spots with the young man reeling most of them in! They feel great on my 782 Loomis rod!! We toured the middle fork and found the further up we went the smaller the bass were. That was just our boat of course. Before we quit, we fished the same area we started and caught a few more better fish - should have stayed there longer! Great time for all - about 18 to 20 spots in the boat!
    City: Yuba City

    Tips: Drop-shotting and split-shotting Basstrix minnows and worms gave us pretty good action. Most fish were on steeper banks at about 25 feet. Sun or shade didn't seem to matter. Steeper drop-offs next to a flat were the best structure.

Thursday, September 28th, 2006

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Mike & Patty..good job!but you might want to buy a scale,because i think you just set a record

Wednesday, September 27th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 68

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Got on the lake at 7:15am off by 12:45. 18 fish in the boat. ALL cought on top water. Biggest going 2lbs. Love this lake!
    City: sac

Sunday, September 24th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 62

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Took the grandsons fishing up the middle fork Sunday. Caught 22 fish between 8:00 and noon, most under the slot. Caught one over the slot..it went 2# 14oz. Had 4 more inside the slot for a limit just over 9 pounds. Three of our fish were smallies.

    The best fish came on a darterhead with a 3 1/2" Yamamoto Kuttail worm in watermelon with gold flake. The big one came shallow on a steep wall. The rest of the slot-fish came on the drop on similar stuff. The small fish came deeper on dropshot worms. Grandsons had a blast.
    City: Fair Oaks

    Tips: Two colors that worked best were watermelon with gold flake and smoke blue pearl.

Saturday, September 16th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 71

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: windy,but not to hot.Started fishing 6am-1:30pm.
    fished around line saddle and picked up a couple nice 3-5 lbs.on spinner with green/white wiskers.moved further up Nelson bar north side and thru rubber worm 4"close to shore north side and cought 8 more between 2-4.5lbs.wind got to bad so we left.will be back in 2 weeks on this lake.
    City: orland

    Tips: throw all the way to shore.when the imitations quit working try some real worms and the bites back on this spot anyway.start up on the north side let the wind push the boat keep about 30'from shore and toss all the way to the shore.
    see you there in 2 weeks rain or shine good fishing and keep the line wet.

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    Water Temp: 68-72

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Started in the middle fork at first light. First fish of the day was our big fish. A 2'4 spot on a rip bait. Then we got our 2nd big fish, a 2'3 spot on a buzz bait. Good start, but the quality went down from there. The bite really slowed in the middle and around 10 am we headed for the main body. We got on a good jig, dropshot and VooDoo bite and boated another 30 fish or so with the biggest being just under 2 pounds. We then went in to Potters to finish the day and got a bunch more jig fish up to 2'2. Most of the better fish were in the deeper water around 32-36 feet. Our best five went 9.90.
    City: Roseville

    Tips: Use your electronics. Find the bait balls and you've found feeding fish. Look for the balls that have the snakes running through them. Then drop right underneath them. Usually your better fish will be on the bottom feeding on the injured smelt that is coming down. Another fun pattern was throwing the VooDoo in the backs of coves. The high water the last 3 years has really helped the largemouth bite. My buddy and I are averaging 4-5 largemouth everytime we go to Folsom or Oroville now. Some of the largemouth were caught in 1-3 feet of water in the coves with brush in them. You just need to have wind blowing in on them and some stain. Throw the VooDoo to the back of the cove and just slow roll it out by the brush. Vicious strikes. Green Pumpkin and Ch/White worked best. Check them out at fishinmagiciantackle.com Good luck

Sunday, September 3rd, 2006

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished 9:00 to 12:00, windy and choppy due to all the holiday boats. fished the narrows, coves and steep rocky points and banks, close to shore out to 20 feet, picked up three keepers (missed one strike) on white/chartruese 1/2 oz spinner bait with trailer hook, on mud line with a little shade. Also caught two small fish on Carolina rig on babybrush hog watermelon candy.
    City: Carmichael

    Tips: Reaction bite is starting and will only get better at Oroville. Slow role spinner bait right on the bottom, let drift down off underwater rocks or other structure.

Friday, August 25th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 75-76

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: On the water at 6am with Joe Miller, headed up the North Fork with our small spooks for our first bait. Finding small bass switched to jigs on a flat Island top in 20-30 ft with rocks landing four nice 2-3 pounders. Worked points with rocks with darter head using 6" worms and split shot and lizards in green pumkin. After 10 am the bass went deeper and got smaller.
    City: rocklin

    Tips: Fish 10-30 ft and slow, early and late

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    Water Temp: ?

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Overall a suprisingly slow day. Didn't get on the water until 1:00PM- headed up the middle fork expecting a big numbers day and only scratched-up a dozen or so slot fish. Moved to south fork for similar results. Main body was also slow. Off the lake by 6:00... I was told the bite was wide open? Perhaps before noon. My daughter had the big fish of the day- a spot at 2.6lbs.
    City: Roseville

    Tips: We stuck with dart heads in various colors- fishing points and rocks. Fish were at all depths. There were some guys at the top of the NF fishing crawdads under bobbers doing well...guess I should have been fishin a jig.

Wednesday, August 16th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 73

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Sorry for being late with this report, got buzy. The Basin BassMasters out of Loomis hit the lake @ 6:30am. Light winds but the fishing was hard to get something over 15 ", but the club got a waver and only had to get 13" or biger. Thank God for that. My partner and I had our limit by 8am. At the end of the day and 80 fish later we weighted in 6.78 for our best five. The winning five fish were Joe Everett and Vence Lee with a big bag of 8.96. A fun but culled all day for less then 7.0 lbs.
    City: rocklin

    Tips: good luck

Monday, August 7th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 78

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Me and my dad got on the water about 7:30 went up past the big green brige! He started with a dart head and I started with a crankbait in about 10 feet of water. Got 1 taker(not even a pound!) Then my dad stared to catch fish and so I switched of to a green dart head and still didnt get anything! Finaly I got a keeper a 3pounder! total catch Dad 6 Son 4 I get him next time! of the water at about 10:30
    City: Folsom

    Tips: The Fish seemed to be on top of the water and where stricking at anything that was moving! Stay on the water longer than we did and you catch fish!