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Wednesday, July 24th, 2013

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      Water Temp: not sure

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I fished form 7:00 to 10:30, the lake is LOW!. A few more weeks and i will not be able to put my boat in the water.
      I fished main, bear river arm secondary points. I had a great day,cought 4 largemouth, 4.6 to 7.7lbs,three spots 2 to 3.6.
      All the bass were cought on plastics, watermelon color in 10 to 15 ft.

Monday, July 22nd, 2013

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 75-79

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the high to the low tide down south. Had good topwater action all day on Plopper, Buzzbait, Frog, Buzz Frog. Fished tulle islands and banks, but most fish were caught on the north facing bank of tulle islands.

      Tips: Stay off the bank when fishing the topwater. They were out in the weeds.

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 75-80

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Weather: clear hot around 100
      Lake Level: still dropping about 3 ft from full\Best Depths: 2-30
      the shallow flip bite is not happening,jig bite south is good, i fished twice last week and we caught them on buzzbaits, ricos,rovers, jigs, dropshot, shakey head
      Events: bbt again this week
      Guide Information: clearlake outdoors\Name & Number: 707-262-5852

      Tips: midlake water is in great shape

Sunday, July 21st, 2013

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 78

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Started off on the west side of Franks throwing blades and picked up a couple small keepers, moved to rip rap bank near Quimby Island and stuck five or six on purple/brown Berzerk Baits 3/8 oz jigs with yamamoto twin tail trailers in green pumpkin.
      Moved into Mandeville and started throwing buzz baits and blades, we caught another ten fish and culled up to a twelve pound plus limit!

      Tips: Fish first major break off the rip rap banks working into the current.

Friday, July 19th, 2013

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 78

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished out of Stockton. Stayed on main river throwing top water for first few hours. Several fish and one that went 8+ lbs on a Persuader buzz bait. Went deep with shakyhead plastics and found most fish relating to rock/weeds.

Wednesday, July 17th, 2013

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 73-76

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I had a chilly Tues trip with a father and 2 grown sons. Foggy until about 10 am - weird. Bite was slow in the morning but improved some as the sun appeared. Quantity wasn't good but the quality was - including one of the sons in a 20 minute battle with a 13 lb catfish - on 6 lb test!! Wow!! They caught several good bass from 2 1/2 to almost 3 1/4 lbs - and some smaller ones. We were fish the west shore of the main body.

      Tips: Only could use single hooks with 4 in the boat, so Robo worms were the ticket. Even the catfish liked the morning dawn Robo worm!! MMIII and prizm shad were the best colors - about 15 to 25 feet - on points.

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 77-82

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Sunday-Wednesday, water is clear in the south. Fished the usual spots, Jago, Jones, Konocti, South of Buckingham. Fish were mostly caught on jigs, power worms, & some top water with a few blade & crank fish thrown in. We did our best evening to night. Fished all the way through to sunerise on Tuesday night catching 4 good topwater fish in the 4.5-5.0 lb range. They were hitting the Splash It 2 from Don Iovino for us. No frog strikes. We also managed a few topwater fish each evening using the same lure. They still are hitting the jig well around rocky structure in the 10 - 20 ft range. We averaged 21-22 lb limits each day boating around 12-14 fish each session. Weds. nite was the best as we boated 17 fish. The Silversides are starting to form balls. They're still small but should grow fast & swarm the lake again this year. Reaction was spotty, but as the baitfish flourish, the reaction bite should get better!

      Tips: Fished the jigs a little faster with pronounced hops! The fish would just grab it! Still very few senko fish for us which is puzzling. Move around alot & pay attention to your graphs!

Monday, July 15th, 2013

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 75-80

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Weather: clear warm stable
      Lake Level: still dropping about 3 ft from full\Best Depths: 2-30
      everything is working , the water is clear midlake hardly any alage around konocti resort,parts of north lake the bloom is bad
      Events: bbt coming up
      Guide Information: clearlake outdoors\Name & Number: 707-262-5852

      Tips: jigs,chatterbaits ,dropshot ,topwater ,cranking

  • Alameda County
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      Water Temp: 76 am

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: 2 largemouth just under 2 pounds each on plastic worms 12-15' deep outside weed lines, one south end other in the narrows, before it got windy at 9am. No bites north end. Had a few other bites on the worms and a couple on a reaction bait in the wind. Trout guy was cleaning 8 fish and talked to another who had a striper caught on a swimbait. I threw a swimbait some but got none.
      City: dublin

      Tips: Move around and fish the conditions you're dealt with.

Friday, July 12th, 2013

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 74-76 degrees

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished July 12-14 around various parts each day. It was pretty windy and cooler on Fri from the prior days, and Sunday. We tried some topwater but thought the cooler winds would shut it down. We got nothing except Sat when there was a warming trend. Most everything was on cranks and senkos on inside weed edge. Seems more fish were around grass, not around tulles, at least for us.

      Tips: red crankbaits on rock walls. Senkos on inside weed edge.

Thursday, July 11th, 2013

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 81 - 83

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Thursday 7-11-13, my buddy and I launched from Russo’s(6:00 AM) just before high tide and fished Frank’s Track all day. We didn’t find fish until the tide started going out. The bite lasted from about 8:00 until about 2:00 when the tide went slack. Almost all fish were caught on Tule points facing into the current. Most were caught on wacky- style Senkos on a heavy duty drop-shoot rig. About a ¼ oz sinker was needed to hold the Senko down in the current along the Tule line. We finished at about 2:30 with more than 20 fish. The largest was just under 4 lbs. Only a couple were dinks. We did try several other techniques with limited success.
      City: Pinole

      Tips: Fish points facing into the current. Eat your lunch/snack at slack tide.

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      Water Temp: 71-72

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Launched B&W around 10am; worked Moke toward Tower just crankin' a suspending Cordell Spot in Texas Red around piling and log structure; picked up 9 keepers and a whole bunch of spunky 8-10 inchers. Also picked up 5 keepers on Senkos...junebug and monster shad. Windy at first but fortunately it settled down to a breeze. Outgoing tide. Quit at 2pm to beat traffic.
      City: folsom

      Tips: Worked any structure we could bump the crankbaits and worked tule cuts with the senkos. Also threw cranks to rock walls and either burned them over the weeds or if there was weed clumps, just slow rolled em past the weed clump...got bit as it passed about 10ft off the rocks. All fish had fat bellies with craws in them.

  • Alameda County
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      Water Temp: 78 am

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Late start caused me to miss the overcast calm. Fished the calm sunny for 1-2hrs. before the hurricane winds came up. Mostly soft plastics in the south narrows in the calm and deep crank and swimbait in upper narrows got me nothing. Tried north end hiding behind the mountains and got me 2 1.5# lm on back to back casts deep on brown plastic worm. Tried area for an hour and a halve and got nothing else, even on wacky Senko.
      City: dublin

      Tips: Saw the big bass shallow but couldn't fool them. Move around until you get the biters. Both bites I got the line was swimming off.

Tuesday, July 9th, 2013

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 70-75

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Weather: clear stable, highs around 90
      Lake Level: dropping\Best Depths: shallow bite is good but so is the 15-20 ft range
      jig bite in deeper water is on!top water bie is spotty, you can catch fish numerous ways
      Big Bass: shallow bite is good but so is the 15-20 ft range9.10
      richard pounds had a 12 year old client catch a 9.10 on a dropshot last week
      Guide Information: clearlake outdoors\Name & Number: 707-262-5852

      Tips: fish your strenghths

Sunday, July 7th, 2013

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 82

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Hope everyone had a great July 4th!! My family and I enjoyed the holiday doing one of our favorite things ______fishing!! It was extremely hot on the 4th with temperatures reaching up to 113 degrees on the lake so I decided to wait till Friday morning before heading but my son and his wife were out on Wednesday and Thursday (they love the hot weather) and scored good size bass up to 4 pounds each day. Friday early morning Albert and I headed out to the Narrows. We followed the shoreline into the Narrows and at each point we hooked up fish most of which were not keepers but still fun to catch and release. We trolled from there to the Vineyards picking up more fish along the way. I was surprised that the bass were so active considering the heat and the surface water temperature which was at 82 degrees. We had a great day (see photo). The next morning I started out in the same location in the Narrows with Steve and his wife Amy who were visiting from Florida. This was the first time they had fished for bass. Amy caught three bass one after the other right off the bat. Steve wondered why he wasn't getting any bites. Amy said she say a fish jumping ahead of the boat and I told Steve to cast beyond the fish and bring it in slowly and sure enough that bass hit the bait with a whollop and Steve landed a 6 pound large mouth bass. (see photo). He cast out again with no luck. Not willing to give up on that spot he cast out again and it paid off he hooked a 10+ pound bass which gave him a good fight all the way to the boat where the line snapped just before we could net him. We changed from crankbait to worming with brass and glass and a senko watermelon with red flakes worm. He hooked up another good size bass but never made it to the boat. He had beginners luck all day long and really enjoyed himself. 'til next weekend...............................................good fishing!!!!
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      City: San Francisco

      Tips: don't give up on a spot if you see fish on it.

Saturday, July 6th, 2013

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 78

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched out of Orwood again at 6:15. Immediately got bit just outside of the no wake zone. Ran over to Bull Frog marina and picked up another. Overall I boated around 15 fish but only 8 kept. Partner boated around 10, 5 keepers. Most were on the levee breaks and weed lines (or combination of both) around Little Mandeville and Mildred Islands. Most were on LV150 shad but some on plastics and jerk bait (ghost craw, shad, ms American shad). Several stripers but all shakers. Also fished the flooded timber at north and south ends of Mildred. Water was gin clear. Fishy as hell but no takers. Need to figure this out.
      City: San Mateo

      Tips: Breaks: Look for moving water, throw into where ever the water is deflecting. In our case it was a weed line.

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      Water Temp: 70-76

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: CLARIFICATION to previous report ... when it warmed up, we went back to crankin' so when we started finding logs and tule structure that looked like it would give a bass some cover, we hit it. I love this cordell suspending spot... it will just sorta float til you work it, then crank, pause, crank pause.... they didn't hit on the pause, they hit on the next crank. go figure!
      City: folsom

      Tips: all in the prev report. well, that worked for us. the pro-ams were probably knockin' em out on other stuff but we got em on senkos and cranks when the above water temp got warm. (74-76). off to east cape for tuna/dorado/roosters/aj's/whatevers.... tight lines everybody!!! even the guys that don't wave back.

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      Water Temp: 70-76

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched B&W 515am...kinda cold and windy. Was expecting the crankbait bite to be on but only an occasional dink. Moved on down the Moke and when it was apparent the crankbaits weren't what they wanted, went to senkos and curly tailed plastics. Immediately picked up 3 one and possibly two pounders. OK, kept workin' the plastics til it started to warm up and in that time, picked up several almost keepers and about 3 more solid keepers. Also lost what looked to be at least a 4lber, possibly bigger but the way it jumped and shook out my senko, just looked bigger than what we were catchin'...and that was in 3ft under a log. Got warmer and we found another log... I picked up 5 keepers including a 2lber and my bud picked up a nice 3lber. I kept workin' that log at different angles (my tracker 185 only has a 55lb minn kota so I make the movement work for us by hitting different angles) and for whatever reason, we got about 8 decent fish outta that log. just kept movin' on down the Moke on one side and looked for logs and pilings all along the way. picked up a few more here and there....called it a day around 2:30pm after everything was just churned up from the huge cruisers and wake boats....everything just sorta shut down cept maybe an occasional dink.
      City: folsom

      Tips: We looked for shaded or structure type tules and would throw cranks (I used a suspending cordell spot...love it cuz it won't just sink if you miscast it and you can stop and it'll just sit there and drive em crazy)....anyway we threw the cranks right up against the tules, then slooooow retrieve til they cleared the weedline at a diagonal path....i'd get hit 1. right at the tules 2. just over the weedline/log 3. just past the weedline or log if I paused. bam!~
      FUN DAY! and my truck didn't get broke into again. Louis, bud at B&W came out to talk to me about my break-in 2 weekends ago. He's watchin' and checkin' the camera tapes. Also, I got buds that are LEO and CO. word's out.... maroon Camaro perp. and B&W is being watched now.

Wednesday, July 3rd, 2013

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 75-87

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I returned to Clear Lake after several trips to Berryessa. I guided a guy-gal team that I have taken before. We started at 7pm in the killer heat and humidity out of Red Bud - temp 103! I looked for a shady spot and they started fishing. Within 10 minutes - no one was more surprised than she was - she had one on and I netted a fat 3 1/2 pounder! Good start!! She is just getting into bass fishing. Up 'til about 11:30 pm we hooked bass after bass - and I emphasize hooking! He is a good stick but could not stick 'em last night. But they did boat 6 or 7 between them and I got 6 or 7. We had a 20 lb limit in the first hour - our biggest at 5 lbs. Then it really got weird - very weird! The carp stopped rolling, it got very quiet and the bite simply died!! We could only hear an occasional bullfrog. He caught the only bass for the next 3 hours. They did miss a few bites, but that was it. Rare to see the lake that quiet, and it got as calm as it usually does in the winter. Flat as a pane of glass!!

      Tips: We used all kinds and sizes of plastics. They brought their own stuff. The stubby things seemed to be what they wanter - hogs, beavers, Havoc baits, etc. The Dead Ringer and Power worms worked before dark, but not after. We tried a little topwater but I think surface temp was just too warm. We did find 89 degree surface temp. Bites were about 10 to 25 feet - weed edges and rocky areas.

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 81

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Launched 615 at Dike8/Folsom Pt and headed straight to N.Fork. Worked points and shoreline with rocks and boulders using mid-diving cranks and dropshot for 8 keepers, 4 lost at boat, and about 20-25 dinks and 8-10inchers larger dinks that hit hard and fought like smallies. off the water by 230pm; pretty decent for a Wed, even with the ski/wake boats.
      City: folsom

      Tips: Worked boulders at points and rock faces in 10-20ft dropshotting. Most of the keepers came on dropshot but a choice few on mid-diving cranks. crank pause crank hard pause triggered several bites. dropshot hits were subtle and rod would just load up, then pull back hard. fun half day.
      get out early, then off between noon and 2latest and you won't get too bothered by the boat traffic.