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Saturday, June 22nd, 2013

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 75-78

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Darn!! This would be the perfect report if I hadn't broke off a trophy largemouth right before dark. Why I still was using 8 lb test - I don't know. My client and I decided she was 7 - or bigger. Anyway, the trip was about my client - a good fisherman on his first night fishing adventure. He says he didn't even know about night fishing until I suggested it to him a few weeks ago. He caught 4 of our five big bass - his biggest largemouth at 4 lbs 10 oz. His biggest topwater bass was a 3 3/4 lb largemouth. In addition to his other 2 other good largemouth, I caught a 4 lb 2 oz spotted bass about midnight - my biggest spot ever at Berryessa. It was a quality late afternoon/night trip with quality bass and a stunningly beautiful full-moon night. Now - about that one I lost.....!!

      Tips: We fished several areas in the main body only and found the bite to be somewhat slow - but consistent. In spite of his good trip - he did miss several fish. Most of our action was on main lake points or submerged steep drop-offs and ledges. Average depth was 10 to 25 feet. Bass seem to still be in post-spawn mode as there was no sign of any fish chasing bait and only heard 2 fish surface during the whole 7 hrs. The big fish was lost on a black 7" Berkley Power worm and all the after-dark bass were caught on that bait. It is my favorite summer bait at Berryessa.

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 72

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched out of River's End around 6:30AM. Fished the sloughs around Clifton Court and Coney Island until 2PM. At one point ran up to the tule beds around the train tracks and caught a couple dinks on weightless green pumpkin senko. Marking fish everywhere but could not get them to bite. Threw LV500/150, LC Flashminnow, A-rig, chatter bait in bluegill pattern and senko mentioned above. Is anyone else doing better around this area?
      City: San Mateo

      Tips: Don't fish with/around me. I'm bad luck apparently.

Friday, June 21st, 2013

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 69-71

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: launched b&w 630am; a few bass boats ahead of us. started around the bend on the moke. water was colder than last week...69deg... had 1 bassboat with some cool guys who just chatted up with us a bit...they had just lost a good one. then they moved across to work the rock wall. my bud and I continued on down past the first dock and on to our fav tule islands....a few dinks but nothing...wind was really picking up. managed 2 good keepers and about 5-6 almost working a lighter crankbait (little mini speedtrap) on spinning gear right up against the tules....cranke twice as soon as the bait hit the tule wall, then stopped and waited...if I didn't get hit, cranked 1 or 2x and would get hit. the earlier bassers came across to us about an hour later and said it was wide open along the opposite rock wall. they reached in and showed us a nice 2-3lber, one of many they said. they went back and we moved on to same side but further down. only managed a couple of barely keepers. so we moved up to sycamore but nothing there...wind was still crazy. moved out to the main slough outside of sycamore and picked up a solid 3lber on blk/red flk senko. decided to move back to main moke and whaddya know, the wind throttled back so we worked some fav hotspots for a total of about 30, about a dozen and a half keepers...water at this point was 71 degrees, still not warm like last weekend but sun was out and it got em movin' around. I even picked up 2 at 1 time on my Jackall Aragon jointed squarebill.... 1st one hit, then 2nd one tried to take it away....lots of fun!
      City: folsom

      Tips: if crankin, throw right up against the tules and just crank 1-2x and stop/pause, the slow roll or crank a couple times. if they're in those tules, they'll come out and take it. also waited for the warmer late morning early pm to throw cranks against the rockwalls and posts....many bass had crawfish in their throats and were bloated from feeding. you'd think they were still ready to spawn .... even the 1-12 inchers looked like they had eggs, but it was just a fat belly from gorging on craws.

      ok, well, hope all the pro-ams out there aren't laughin' at my report....but it's what got us some fish on the hook today....a good day.

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      Water Temp: 70

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched at 8 when the ramp opened. Missed whatever top water bite there was. Threw rebel pop-r anyways on the east side across from ramp near the trees but no luck. Partner got a dink on Rapala floating jerk bait, green olive herring pattern. Cranked the shore with shad pattern 12' diver but no bites. Hit the point just after the no wake zone at the north end. Marked a bunch of fish but no bites. Pitched the weed bed just after the point, still no bites. Jerk bait on the dam with flashminnow, got bit but he spit it out! Water was gin clear up there too. Hit the inlet at the north end and got a couple bites but no hook ups.
      City: San Mateo

      Tips: None. Got skunked!

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 74

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: hit the lake about 7 for the first time ever. threw the kitchen sink at them from shallow to bout 30ft and not a lil nibble. as it was the first time we fished up the river till around lunch time. great looking lake just have to find the right cover and structure then things should change

Thursday, June 20th, 2013

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 72 to 75 surfac

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: The lake is currently 55.50' from full pool and dropping. The bass bite has been fantastic on brown or green pumpkin tubes & senkos as well as ripbaits and topwater. Lot's of keeper size fish are being caught with the occasional 3 to 4 pounder showing up

Wednesday, June 19th, 2013

  • Plumas County
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      Water Temp: 65-70

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished with the family for a few days last week; first time at Almanor. Wind and a smallish boat kept us from exploring much of the lake, so we spent most of our time along the rocky east shore near the dam. Best day was Tuesday when the 3 of us boated 33 smallmouth. Nothing big -- up to 1.5lbs, but still fun, especially for my 10-year-old who caught 15 of them. Most came on various shad-colored dropshots (Baby Bass and Hologram Shad Roboworms, Baby Bass Crosstail Shad, etc.)

      Best fish of the week was a 3-6 smallie I caught from the dock in front of our cabin on a Ghost Minnow Pointer. Surprise of the week was a 2.5lb Brown Trout that grabbed a Margarita Mutilator dropshot.
      City: Foresthill

      Tips: Dropshotting in the rocks -- bring lots of weights!

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 75-78

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Monday morning is not my favorite time to guide in the summer, but 2 anglers from Texas - visiting California for the first time - needed to go Monday. Turned out to be alright for our 6 hr trip. After a few small bass, one of the fellows nails a nice 3 1/4 lb largemouth. I was throwing a small Berkley Havoc bait off to the side of a rockpile while they were fishing the top. I got a great bite and was shocked to hook a good fish - thot I was at Clear Lake! Turned out to be a 5 lb largemouth! What is going on??? The bite kept up for awhile as we landed about 10 bass - best 5 around 17 lbs! Nice!! They were excellent anglers too. Another trip Tues morning with a big weather change - cold wind and much slower bite. One of the guys did land an impressive (and beautiful) hybrid bass (smallie-spotted) about 2 3/4 lbs. Great coloring in this fish - I got a good photo. They missed several bites (lost one or two nice ones) in the wind and wound up with only 7 or 8 bass. Hard to find anywhere to get out of the wind. As they say - what a difference a day makes!

      Tips: My clients did some drop-shotting but the bass seemed to prefer a Texas rig. Bites were easier to feel Texas style in the wind - they had to suck it up. We found most quality bass on off-shore structure and points. Nothing on walls. Clay banks with small rock were best. Two of my favorite areas produced nothing! Saw some bait on main lake points and lots of suspended fish. Almost spoon time??

Sunday, June 16th, 2013

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 68-75

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the 4 days after the WonBass open. Spent alot of time looking for clear water as the algae bloom was getting thick in most areas.Caught fish on whopper plopper where the weeds haven't broken the surface. Frogs worked in the late morning but bite died after 1 for some reason. Dropshotting MMIII caught a number of fish.Jig bite is iffy but got a 7 on green/purple.

      Tips: Fish soon. By August you'll be able to walk accross the lake on the weeds. As stated below,
      if you caught fish on a lure here before try it again. It will probably work. Most of my fish were relating to tules.

  • Alameda County
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      Water Temp: 72.6

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Went out with the family so didn't get on the water until 10:30. Didn't have high expectations. Tucked just inside of a cove on the south side and marked fish the whole time. Threw orange belly craw lipless, green craw Strike King 3XD and LC MS Shad (can't remember the model but dives to 20'). Nothing. Marked fish all along the shore especially at the mouths of pockets, cranked the damn then the trolling motor quit so headed in.
      City: San Mateo

      Tips: Can't offer any tips as I haven't caught anything at Del Valle yet. Will hit it earlier next time though.

Saturday, June 15th, 2013

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 76-82

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I fished alone Thurs late/afternoon 'til about midnight. The overall bite was pretty good before dark and slow after - though it might have gotten better after midnight. I caught about 15 bass up to near 3 lbs - most of them around 2 - 2 1/2 lbs. I caught a few on snag/proof green frogs, #301 Senkos, and 10" Power Worms. Also had a fair topwater bite but the north wind kind of killed that bite! I caught bass everywhere except Rock Creek - that arm was dead. I caught a few hrs sleep and started about 6 am Sat morning. Topwater was on! My first on a Storm Chug Bug was a 5 lb 6 oz beauty and the next was about 4 3/4 lbs. I caught a few more on topwater - then Senkos. About 8:30 am - off to the lodge for one of Laurie's great breakfasts!! My best 5 for the 2 sessions was about 17 lbs. Not like the 'ol days - but decent!

      Tips: I thought the previous report was accurate. I found the fish about where he had described. The topwater fish were on steeper walls with a little weed under the surface. I could not get a crankbait hit to save my life! Senko bite was on steep banks. I missed a big fish on topwater late in the evening AND again in the morning - once on a topwater and then on a Senko. That would have been fun!!

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 72-74

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Took off early 345am to launch at B&W thinkin' plenty of time...ran smack into Angler's Choice tourney so just grabbed a parking spot on the grass and waited for them to take off...noticed majority took off to the right under Hiway12. We launched about 5am and went left to the Moke and our fav tule strips and started crankin' a red craw speed trap; buddy loves to go light like Jarrett E (light spinning 4lbtest) so he was throwin' a little rebel diving crank (like what you'd use for trout). We both were nailin' shaker stripers left and right but no blacks. Moved down to second set of tule strips and picked up some 1lbers and then 15ft from the boat a 4lber hits his rebel...he plays it for about 7-8mins and we boated it. Immediately after he drops it back in, I hook up with a 3lber on a blk/red flk senko. We picked up about 5more each, avg about 1-2lbs...he continued to crank with the rebel and sometimes a red craw lipless, me on the senko and sometimes the speedtrap. Picked up a 22" striper on the speedtrap. Went to sycamore but water is muddy/stained all over there unless you go way in but we didn't connect so we moved back to the Moke and continued to slam the 1-3lbers at various areas of the tules. Fish were full of crawdads and hittin' cranks...I even downsized to a small Rick Clunn red craw square bill and we just had fun on the light tackle. My power drive trolling motor steering died (I know, better to have cable) so we called it a day about 2:30pm.
      City: folsom

      Tips: Since the ratio of hookups was about 3 or 4 to 1 in favor of my bud, I downsized and found them nailin the small baits...even the almost keeper stripers we got (5 were 17.5") were on the small cranks. After seeing small fry, crawdad tails, and pinchers stickin' out of the small bass we were getting, we knew they were on a feeding binge on craws and tiny baitfish so we threw smaller cranks. we weren't really concerned whether the big ones bit...we've caught many PBs on tiny baits. we just wanted to hookup and have fun. btw, DFG was out in force and checked us after watching us gettin' slammed by the shaker stripers. They were very cool.

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Spent most the day inside and outside of Mildred. Caught 19 fish on 5 types of baits. Texas rigged with brass n glass Yamamoto craw and senkos produced most the fish. Caught a few cranking and on spinnerbaits. Best 5 went 12-13 lbs. Couldnt catch any decent fish.
      City: Lafayette

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: 71

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the Redwood Empire Bass Club tourney on Saturday. We fished in Yorty and Brush creek. Found a little top water action before the sun hit the water catching a 7 & 4 pounders. Then started throwing small swimbaits and flukes. Caught a lot of fish but most were under 12".

      Tips: Bait fish were busting the surface everywhere and saw a lot on the graph. Slow roll the baits in 8'-10'. Watch your graph for fish.

Friday, June 14th, 2013

  • Alameda County
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      Water Temp: 72 am

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: 4 in the boat 2-5# largemouth on soft plastics 2-11' deep. Tried topwater and swimbait early for easy and quality fish but nothing. Had a fatty 8#? come up on my big swimbait later in the day during the huge afternoon breeze but it didn't like seeing me and my boat. A little breeze off and on to move the boat along most of the day and enough bites and size made for an enjoyable day. Saw two other boats catch at least 1 or 2 going down shore before me so everyone seemed to be catching them.
      City: dublin

      Tips: Don't dismiss fishing shadows on this lake and use heavy enough line to get them out. I caught them in weeds and wood.

Thursday, June 13th, 2013

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

      Report: Went out with Dana today and fished the west fork from 6:30am to 11am. Fish were deep, or maybe might say normal this time of year. Most fish caught 25-35 feet deep, fished roboworms, earthtones. Dana got 7 spots, me 8 spots. Most 13-14" or so, largest 14" Giving up on the west fork, bite was slow and hard to locate fish!! Next trip to north fork, has to be better then the west fork.
      City: Magalia

      Tips: Anyone with a boat that would like a fish partner, let me know. I'm available 90% of the time. Email me at jewelweaver@earthlink.net

Tuesday, June 11th, 2013

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 71.6

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Got on the water about 8:00a. We fished around Mildred Island during the rest of the incoming tide and the outgoing tide. Caught about 20-25 bass, only 10 were keeper size. Biggest bass was around 2.5-3.0 pounds. Caught most of the fish on chatterbaits fished over the top of weeds. Also caught fish on a frog, buzz bait, and crank bait.

      Tips: We tied our lures directly to 65 lb braid. Caught the biggest bass on a white/chartreuse chatterbait that dove to the bottom of the weeds. The braid cut the weeds as I pulled the bass out. Doubt I would have boated the bass if I was not using braid.

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

      Report: Went shore fishing at Lake Oroville yesterday at Lime Saddle. Thought I'd fish late from 5:30pm till dusk, about 8:30pm. Thought I could get away with fishing the docks since no one was around to kick me off, wrong!! About 7:45 the owner showed up, kicking me off, he had a cop wanna be attitude! Anyway, got 7 spotted bass, most 13-14" or so, forgot my ruler this trip. Calm water, but sun glare was a killer. Better fishing in the early mornings. Seems as if dock fishing is going to be hard not to get kicked off!!!
      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

Monday, June 10th, 2013

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 75 +

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Weather: 110 degrees on sunday 75 and thundershowers today
      Lake Level: dropping\Best Depths: 1-30
      topwater should be good with this cloud cover!!
      you can go out and junk fish and catch em on 10 different baits
      Events: WON Bass 3 day open starts today at KVC,
      Guide Information: clearlake outdoors\Name & Number: 707-262-5852

      Tips: I fished last week and we found em shallow,buzzbaits,jigs , chatterbaits ,swimbaits whopper plopper ,all caught fish

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 76

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: This is to correct temp and visibility from earlier report. This is my last report until Westernbass fixes problems with entry. Tried contacting both the Webmaster and the other link under contact but never got a response.