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Wednesday, September 18th, 2013

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 72 - 75

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Wednesday 9-18-13, my buddy and I launched out of Holland Riverside Marina (6:30 AM) at high tide. Right outside the marina, we started catching small keepers. Almost all fish were caught on sparse Tule points and up to 50 feet on both sides of these points. The bite was consistent but slow until low tide. During low slack tide, we moved to the outside of Mildred’s Island. The bite picked up again a little after the tide started moving in. The same pattern fished earlier held. However, we were catching many more dinks. By 4:30, we had over 30 fish with only about a third of them keepers. The larges keeper was only about 2½ lbs. About half of the fish were caught using Wacky-style Senkos on a heavy-duty drop-shot rig. The other half were caught drop-shotting six in. RoboWorms.
      City: Pinole

      Tips: Tule points produce many more fish than long stretches of tules.

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 71-74

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Monday the 16th all day & Tuesday the 17th in the morning until the wind got to be way too much to be worth the risk...especially since it was my sisters first trip in way to many years. Monday...fishing was good, launched out of Clearlake Oaks and ran up to the "wall" where she wasted no time in putting the first fish in the boat, a nice fat 3.5lber, which I promptly bested with a nice 5+...and so it went. We fished all the way to Glenhaven and put together a nice 25lb(+/-) limit for the day. Tuesday the wind had been up since the early AM and it wasn't a particularly a gentle ride up to the narrows. Fished from the islands down to Konocti before deciding the wind wasn't going to lay down and in fact was getting worse. The few small fish that were biting weren't helping to convince us out there. Made it back to the ramp safely only to have the left rear brake on the truck all but lock up as we were pulling off the ramp. Ended up having to have the truck towed to Lakeport to get it worked on....I know this is a "fishing report" but have to publically thank Bob from "Limit Out Bait & Tackle" as I called and explained the situation that being over 130 miles from home AAA would tow the truck but wouldn't touch the boat/trailer. I asked if I could get the boat/trailer over to the shop, could I leave it at the there until I could make arrangements to somehow getting it home. Well, Bob went "above and beyond" to help...and actually dropped his boat off and brought his truck over to the ramp and towed the boat back to the shop while I waited for the tow truck, then waited after hours for me to get back from the repair shop to pick it up and head for home. Restored my faith in at least some of the human race...Just can't say enough about that kind of unexpected response. It definitely made a bad situation a lot less stressful. Thanks again Bob!!!
      City: Colfax

      Tips: Green & Brown jig & trailer combos seem to put most of the better fish in the boat on Monday, with a few on Brushogs pitched around & under the docks. Got a few on chrome & shad rattle baits from the stretches between docks, but didn't find the previously mentioned top water or blade bite though...

Tuesday, September 17th, 2013

  • Butte County
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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Launched at Lime Saddle, fished a half day, off the lake at noon. We ended up with 10-11 spots, no large fish, all about 13-14" or so. ! was top water, several roboworms, a few tube baits, a couple crank baits. Seemed most baits worked. Water is down over 150ft. Hard to figure out where to fish with it changing so much each week.
      City: Magalia

      Tips: Anyone with a boat looking for a fish partner, let me know. I'm available most time. Email me at Jewelweaver@earthlink.net Let catch a few.

Monday, September 16th, 2013

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 70-75

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Weather: cooler in the 80s this week, windy sunday morning on south end
      Lake Level: still dropping but launching is still fine everywhere\Best Depths: the buzzbait fish were in a foot of water but you can catch fish deep
      fished south for two hours sunday morning in the kayak .three on the buzzbait and a couple on a dropshot
      Events: scbbc classic 9/28-29
      triton owners 10/5-6
      Guide Information: clearlake outdoors\Name & Number: 707-262-5852

      Tips: cooler weather should improve the bite
      we finally got some jumbo minnows in

Sunday, September 15th, 2013

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: Forgot to check

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched out of Orwood at 7:30. Nailed a 3lb 14oz on top water (Sammy, bluegill) 3rd cast. Sadly it was all downhill from there. 6 keepers in the boat for two of us. Countless dinks. Wind picked up around late morning which just made things worse.
      City: San Mateo

      Tips: Get out before the wind picks up.

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      Water Temp: 74

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched out of Orwood at 6:00am on first light. Tide was low, bottoming out at 8:45.

      I fished until 12:30 around the south and eastern sloughs of Woodward Islad. 16 fish, half dinks, half keepers. Biggest to 2 lbs.

      Early morning, caught dinks and keepers on shallow squarebills bouncing off inner weed lines or right up against tules. Early morning fish were really shallow, despite being low tide. Topwater and the outer weed edge were all unproductive in this situation.

      Later in the day after the slack, I caught the remaining fish on reaction bites with swim jigs and various depth crankbaits. The young ones were active. Other fisherman reported the same lack of bigger fish
      City: Redwood City

Saturday, September 14th, 2013

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 69-70

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Started across from B&W; picked up 2 11"ers on red crankbaits. Outgoing tide was strong so went to tule strips and picked up a bunch of striper shakers to 17" on cranks and havoc sick fish 3.5"...fun but wondering where the bass were. continued fishing moke on inside/outside weedlines with cranks, spinnerbaits, jigs, and senkos, but only picked up a few here and there and most were barely keepers. Ran up to Sycamore and water was warmer, about 72-73, but on the low tide, same junk fishing as the main Moke. Just couldn't come up with anything sizeable today. Not even solid keepers.
      City: folsom

      Tips: Aboluly NONE. Sure would welcome some other more productive reports/tips. Ran into one bass boat working tule strip opposite direction we were working it...as we crossed, I told him we were only picking up here and there, bite was slow. He said same for him and his partner. He was cool. Was it a lockjaw day? Was for us.

Friday, September 13th, 2013

  • Mendocino County
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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Anyone fished this lake recently?

  • Butte County
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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Shore fished today at Lime Saddle from 6:30am to 7:45am. Ended up with 5 spots, all right at 14-14 1/2", no large fish this trip. All on Texas rig roboworms. Seems like the fish are putting on weight and looking a bit fatter and solid these days.
      City: Magalia

      Tips: Anyone with a boat looking for a fish partner, let me know. I'm available most of the time, if not already fishing. Email me at Jewelweaver@earthlink.net Lets catch some fish.

Wednesday, September 11th, 2013

  • Butte County
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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished today with Joe. Launched at the spill way about 6:30am, off the lake at 10:30am. We ended up with 6 spots, the last location produced 3 in the 15-16" range, the others were typical 13-14" fish. Most fish on roboworms, bigger fish deep, about 30-35ft or so. One was a large mouth. Fished the main lake points and coves. Thanks Joe, great trip.
      City: Magalia

      Tips: Anyone with a boat looking for a fish partner, let me know, lets go fishing. I'm available 90% of the time. Email me at Jewelweaver@earthlink.net Lets catch some fish.

Monday, September 9th, 2013

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 72--78

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Weather: warm days , cool nights
      Lake Level: still dropping\Best Depths: 2-30
      you can catch fish on anything right now but chatterbaits have been one of the top choices
      topwater can be a good bet for bigger fish
      Big Bass: 2-3009/06/2013 - 11.36
      there was a 11.36 caught prefishing for the bobs marine tourny
      Events: triton owners oct 5-6,should be a good bite for this event!!flw oct 10-12th, aba toc oct 18-19
      Guide Information: clearlakeoutdoors\Name & Number: 707-262-5852

      Tips: 49.3 to win the bobs marine ,congrats to mike Rothstein and adam martin on the win (61boats)

Saturday, September 7th, 2013

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 76-78

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I took two good fisherpeople - guy and gal - out Thursday for a late afternoon/night trip. The cool weather was in the process of leaving as a north wind set in after dark. As usual - it slowed the bite at night. She loves buzzbaits and used my Blade Runner 1/2 oz black buzzbait. Just before dark she made a perfect cast about 2 feet from the bank and a nice bass smashed it and we soon had a healthy 4 lb 13 oz angry bass in the boat. She caught a smaller one right after that. We had to leave the main body because dark of the moon big swells aren't fun! We retreated to the narrows and caught a few more 2 to 3 pounders. Dark of the moon wind can ruin the best laid plans. Couldn't do anything I had worked out for the night bite. We did wind up with near 15 lbs for the best five.

      Tips: All our bass were largemouth with a few spots this time. The largemouth have really shown themselves this year - along with the smallmouth. My boat has seen very few spotted bass this year - thought I did catch a 4-2 spot in May or June. I understand my clients stayed another day and did well in the evening with bass up to 6 lbs! Probably a more pleasant evening with less wind.

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 69-70

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched B&W for a half-day of bassin'... started on the Moke at our tule strips...brother immediately hooks up a 2lber slow-rolling a white spinnerbait w/white trailer along the weedline. thought that was a sign for some action. Not. Hits were spotty at best as even with the high and outgoing tide, crankbait hits were so-so with many only about 10". I did get a nice spunky 20" striper early on but didn't hit anything else til late morning. Around noon, we ran up to the island just outside of Sycamore and tried to find moving water but everything seemed to be a dead calm the whole morning. I finally got a fat 2lber on a black/blue flk 5" senko. Ran back up the moke and picked up a couple more each on senkos. Ratio of catchin' was about 3:1 in favor of my brother.
      City: folsom

      Tips: None. Sure could use some suggestions when the wind isn't blowin' and the water is dead calm, whether high outgoing or low. thanx!

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 75

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the Bobs Marine event so we got up there on Friday to pre-fish. On the water at about 9:00am on Friday and we started throwing top water; Spooks, Buzz baits and killed em. We had better than 25 lbs for our best five and were amped up for the tournament.
      Fished the east side near the narrows and started out with a Berzerk Baits green pumpkin jig with pumpkin trailer and stuck two in the 3.0 range than went on to stick a 6.3 on a buzz bait.
      We lost two pigs on the top water and ended up filling out our limit at 20.34.
      Second day we caught them on the same Berzerk jig and drop shot but bite was much slower. We could not get the top water going and ended up catching our limit on shaky head Robo worms MM.

      Tips: Start out with top water and let the fish tell you what they want. Have a jig ready at all times and throw it' 3/8 oz Berzerk Baits gn/pkn jig worked best for me this year.
      Keep trying the top water and if you are not getting bit, MOVE!!! Try to put together several spots where water is different so if you are not getting bit at one, move to different depth and or color.

Friday, September 6th, 2013

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 76to83

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fishing with Sid‏














      Fishing with Sid


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      To: Sidney Silberberg, lake b Peter Kilkus new






      Picture of Fishing with Sid























      Labor Day weekend was just perfect at the lake this year. The weather was great and the fishing was super!!! I took out Justin whom I had not seen since last year. This year he wanted to target bass and boy did he. See photo of him holding two bass just over five pounds each. He had a great day. The following day I took Bob out again and taught him to drop shot, wacky worm, use brass & glass with a worm and use a senko weightless. We went to the vineyards and along the west side by the Bureau. Saw balls of bait all over the lake. We fished the area around the Bureau heavily with no luck so I decided to go by the west wall going south towards Spanish Flats with no success. I changed to deeper diving lures and instantly we started catching fish. Bob caught four bass up to four pounds in less than twenty minutes (see photos). We had a great time!!! The icing on the cake for this weekend was when my wife and kids just passed me on my son's boat and my wife had a hit and as she was reeling it in the bass jumped twice and it looked bigger and bigger each time. She brought in a ten pound two ounce very large mouth bass her biggest bass to date (see photo). 'til next week................................................................................good fishing!!!
      www.fishingconnection.net If you have any questions or stories you would like to share please email me at bestguide@hotmail.com or call me at 650-583-3333.
      City: San Francisco

      Tips: Knowing the lake is important but knowing what when and where to use it makes a difference.

Thursday, September 5th, 2013

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 70 ish

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Went tubin in Sevenmile for decent action. Two punching, several smallish bass on red bomber crank and a couple on senko. Lost a big fish on frog fly right before dark after it buried me up in the grass. One dink on buzzbait. Red crankbait was the best.

      Tips: For me, low tide is a good time to dropshot. If its early or late, topwater. Dropshot 6" roboworms on a 1/0 roundbend offset shank hook to make it weedless. Drag it or hop it vertically outside the grass. Topwater work around the top of the grass with a buzzbait or frog. Strikes may come way out off the bank.

  • Alameda County
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      Water Temp: 74

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Calm from 7-10am when I caught a 3#lm pitching a softplastic along the weeds. Huge winds after that but I stayed until the afternoon. My optimism almost paid off, too. The wind sometimes positions the bait in the eddies so I was throwing a big shad crank and I finally got one of those bites again where you set the hook and you don't move the fish at all. Played it briefly but when I got the bait in only one hook, the only dull one, had flesh on it.
      City: dublin

      Tips: Get out and try even when conditions are bad. You just never know when that monster will hit. Even though I missed yet another chance it made my day all worthwhile.

  • Butte County
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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went fishing today, launched at Lime Saddle about 6:30am. We ended up with 10 fish, no large ones, all 12-14" with one being a small mouth. Fished till the WIND BLEW, hard this time, no fish after 10:30 am. Most fish in the 20-30ft range. Lake is down 137 feet. Launch ramp is a killer, looks to be 600-800 feet long. Fished mostly roboworms, Texas style, shaky head and some drop shot.All caught fish.
      City: Magalia

      Tips: Anyone with a boat looking for a fish partner, let me know, I'm available 90% of the time. Email me at Jewelweaver@earthlink.net Lets go fishing.

Wednesday, September 4th, 2013

  • Solano County
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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the Mokelumne south of Hwy 12 and Potato Slough. Very windy at times but managed several bass - around 15. The largest was 3 lbs. The bite seemed to turn on and off so it was either very slow or lots of action all at once. A couple were caught on a red speed trap (including one small mouth from a rocky bank) but the rest were on plastic worms with wacky and Texas rigs about 50/50.
      City: Stockton

      Tips: The worm fish were either at the base of the tules near moving water or just outside the weed line.

  • Butte County
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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Launched at the spill way today about 6:30 am or so. Fished the main lake mostly, got 12-15 fish (lost count) Jeff got a 2 1/2 pound large mouth as the largest. A couple were small mouth and also got one small cat fish on a roboworm. Jeff got a couple small ones on top water, me a couple small ones on a swim bait. Not a bad trip, lost 3-4 fish. Boy, the water is sure getting low!!Great trip, thanks Jeff.
      City: Magalia

      Tips: Anyone with a boat looking for a fish partner, let me know. I'm available most of the time if not fishing. Email me at Jewelweaver@earthlink.net