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Tuesday, December 11th, 2012

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 58.9

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Spooned 4 hours for bass. I did horrible. Overall for me this was the worse spoon bite this fall in my 7 years fishing Berryessa...
      City: Elk Grove

      Tips: Water starts to stain up around Big Island. Be careful 1/2 back in Putah Creek...quite a bit of debris including entire tree trunks...

      Until next year

  • Yuba County
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      Water Temp: 54

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I made a quick 3 hr trip today, mainly to try my new G. Loomis NRX rods. I only used 2 models, hooking 2 bass - a 2 1/4 and 1 3/4 lb. The rods felt great! I did hook a bigger one, but lost it. As I was leaving. I made one more cast with a D%M Piranha swim jig (craw color) and got a good hit in about 15 feet of water - and I even landed her! She was a spot just shy of 3 1/2 lbs. Nice short trip!
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: The lake has come up some 20 feet. It looks great but still fairly dingy. I would use some type of bladed bait or bulky bait. All my bites were about 15-20 feet deep. Got the first 2 drop-shotting Robo worms in the main body.

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

      Report: Fished today, ended up with 13 spots, nothing of any size, maybe 14 1/2 as the largest. The Coho salmon plants were hitting our roboworms, ended up landing one, small about 9-10 inches. They hit worms like a machine gun firing, Tat, tat, tat, fast. Worms and hooks seemed a bit large for them. North fork full of wood, nearly like a log jam. Fishing way off, all our honey holes very slow. Weather will probably hold us off for the next trip till next year. We'll try to get out, but not likely. Lake water still rising.
      City: Magalia

Monday, December 10th, 2012

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      Water Temp: 60

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Water level dropped for incoming rains. Water clearing. 6+ lb. on Jig n' Pig and a couple 2+'s on suspending jerk baits. Targeted steep banks with rocks.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Caught several 2-3 pounders on craw pattern deep diving crank baits while grinding the rocks before the storms. Trout feeding on surface, time to get out the big swim baits!

      With water temps. dropping, its time to get out the big jigs and s-l-o-w down!

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 52-55 still!!

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Weather: clear calm lake has been like glass
      Lake Level: 3.38\Best Depths: 2-30
      Midlake is still clear ,muddy down by redbud and by rodman, I went out sunday and we caught fish to 5.5# on minnows. The local club tournament was won on an a rig with.23#
      Big Bass: 2-30
      several 9 # caught at night
      Guide Information: 707-262-5852\Name & Number: clearlake outdoors\Pricing Specials/Open Dates: clearlake outdoors, Mention this report and get your minnows at $11.00 a dozen

      Tips: A rigs , big swimbaits, lv 500 has slowed,

  • Alameda County
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      Water Temp: 60.5

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Threw ripbaits till sun came up-nothing. Moved to Swallow rock and caught 2.5lb on a dropshot. Switched to brown/purple 1/2oz jig and it was on. Caught three more 2lbr's and my DelValle PB of 9lbs. Fished my way toward the dam concentrating on steep rock only to catch a few under sized fish. All fish were caught at 20-30ft. Picture of fish in photo section.
      City: Brentwood

      Tips: For me it was a brown/purple jig right after the sun started warming my hands up. Fish hard in the morning. Afternoon slows down.

Sunday, December 9th, 2012

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 50

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched 715am B&W; water on s.moke and san joaquin is muddy and lots of debris. worked dark senkos, big bite baits kriet worms, jigs, beavers, nada. was gonna try black spinnerbait but left spinnerbait box at home. tried st francis yacht club entrance and picked up a 1-lber on a black/red flk senko right at the tules. couple more hits there but nothing else on the hook. went to look for clearer water but couldn't find it so called it a day around 1pm.
      likely won't be back for a while but sure would like to see some other reports if anyone decides to go!
      City: folsom

      Tips: nothing to offer but would welcome some for these tough conditions! isn't anything dark/black in muddy water the recommended offering?
      guess i'll try my backyard lake (folsom) ... it's tough there too but least i'll save on gas.

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      Water Temp: 52-53

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched B&W 7:15am and started on S.Moke tule strips working anything dark in the muddy water...nada. Moved to Little Connection Slough by H&H....nada. Moved to St. Francis Yacht Club, picked up 1 keeper on blk/red flk senko (water was a tad less muddy...more like stained). Nothing else so quit at 1:15pm since everything was muddy water.
      City: folsom

      Tips: Need help on delta muddy water...any insights / tips are appreciated. Talked with a couple other bass boats and they had same result. What's the method for muddy delta water?

Saturday, December 8th, 2012

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 54-56

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Mike Sperbeck and I hit the lake yesterday - out of Red Bud - from 5 pm 'til midnight. It was a quite frustrating trip because it was the second day of the weather change (cold air mass) which definitely affected the bite. Air temp was 36 degrees when we left. I started out with a near 5 lber, lost another big one, and Mike had a big one on a swimbait - which he lost. That was how the evening was to go for us. We only landed 6, but missed or lost about 15!! They would just nip the bait - sometimes very aggressively. We would set - and nothing there! And I lost my monster of the late fall - maybe between 8 and 10 lbs. Again - jumped - and spit the hook. The good bites did keep us fairly warm - our first cold night with fog forming on the lake as we left. All of our fish were 3 to 15-20 feet deep - up some with the warm rain. We used jigs and Berkely Havoc baits most of the time. We just stayed in the Clear Lake arm.
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: We are supposed to have a major weather change by Wed. An northern storm is predicted with some very cold weather to follow. As the lake stabilizes and cools, the bass probably will move deeper and we will need to fish more slowly. Last night we saw something that most of you haven't seen. As we returned to Red Bud, the lake was dead calm with a winter silver-like sheen on it as fog would rise off the water. I have seen this many times before - it is like looking at a huge pane of glass made of silver. It reflects off lights on the shore. Absolutely gorgeous - but cold!!

Thursday, December 6th, 2012

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

      Report: Couldn't get the boat out, so shore fished at Lime Saddle. Fished 7:30am to noon. Ended up with 22 spots. Two 15 inch, 2 14 1/2 inch, the rest 12-14 inch. Fished Texas style roboworms 4 1/2 inch. Lots of floating wood in the water. Very few boats out on the lake.
      City: Magalia

Wednesday, December 5th, 2012

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

      Report: Got out on the water around 11 when the rain started to die down. Water wasn't as clear as it usually is so I fished shallower than I have been using 1/2 oz jigs. Caught 2 right off the bat in the 3 to 3.5lb range a rock wall. Went to the dam area and got a 4lb smallie on a shallow point and a 3 lb smallie on a steep rock bank both on the same 1/2 oz jig. Worked the area a while longer a got a couple more more lm. Jig bite started to slow so I found some deeper water and worked a drop shot and a spoon. Got one lm on a drop shot in 30 ft of water and got 2 catfish on a spoon is 60 ft of water. Overall great day, first time I had felt I had something worthy to post. All though I do appreciate when others post despite not catching g anything.
      City: Livermore

      Tips: I think the weather had more to do with the bite being on. All the fish were extremely healthy and plump with very sharp teeth. I went out the previous week and got skunked during a day with bright blue skies and light wind. The rain really helped the fish start to feed.

Tuesday, December 4th, 2012

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: DFG planting this week. I went last week and had a limit in about an hour on a mira shad. All nice trout to 16 inches
      City: lakeport

      Tips: fish shallow early then go deeper later . nightcrawlers will always catch fish up there
      Bitzy minnows and mira shad are my go to baits

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: around 55

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Weather: rainy 50s- 60s
      Lake Level: 2.90 and rising!!\Best Depths: 2-30
      big swimbaits , lv 500, rip baits and A rigs are all working
      Big Bass: 2-309
      gary and mike collins weighed a 36# limit with a 9# kicker on 12/1
      Guide Information: clearlake outdoors\Name & Number: 707-262-5852

      Tips: get out and fish the big fish are biting!!

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

      Report: Lake has come up 36 feet since the rains began week ago. Bass must be scattered due top the rise in water. Off to take the boat out Thursday 12/6/12 and see how it goes.
      City: Magalia

Monday, December 3rd, 2012

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 58--61

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: FISHED from first light, till dark, caught some, none very big...
      DOESE ANTBODY CATCH FISH HERE, THIS TIME OF YEAR????? PLEASE ,IF YOU KNOW A GREAT LAKE, share...
      City: MODESTO

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

      Report: Tried a bit of shore fishing today. Wow, lake must be up 15-20 foot or so. Dirty, lots of floating wood. Roboworms texas style. Got 5 spots, most 13-14 inches early. Moved to fish newly flooded flat and picked up a 14 1/2 inch, 15 inch, 16 inch right in a row. Fished 7:45am to 9:30 am.
      City: Magalia

Thursday, November 29th, 2012

  • Merced County
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      Water Temp: 57-

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Has anyone been fishing the big lake recently? Wondering if there have been any boils or fish being caught on artificials?
      City: Salinas

Wednesday, November 28th, 2012

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 56-57

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Thanks Kam - I love the Z521 - and so do my clients!! I had a client postpone a trip last night, so I took myself to the lake since a warm front was moving in. Well, it was late and I had too much moonlight - until the last hour (midnight) when the fish turned on a bit. The bite was slower than I expected. I missed 3 good fish that gave my Berkley Havoc baits tremendous bites, but I couldn't hook 'em. Wind was a factor. This has been the year of the "5's" for me as I landed another 5-13 and a 5-3, along with a 4 1/4 and a few a bit smaller. About 18+ lb limit, not up to November standards. Got off the water before a drop of rain hit me!! 1.75 inches fell today with a predicted 5 inches over the weekend. And this is only November??
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: I could not find any concentrations of bass last night - just one here and there. Finally hooked a big one on Wheeler, but this Mrs.was one of the "misses." From Red Bud I only went up as far as the old Konocti Resort. Hard to believe - been closed 3 yrs now! All my hits were from 10 to 20 feet - not much shallow activity because of the bright moon - straight overhead during winter. If the rocks let me, I was working my baits VERY slowly as if the water was in the 40's. My first bass was caught on a jig w/#180 double-tail Yamamoto grub. First jig fish of the winter period.

Tuesday, November 27th, 2012

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 57

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Got a chance to fish after work today from 3 till 6:30 pm. Headed straight to konocti bay for a group of shallow fish i found over the weekend crankin. Stuck a 3 followed by a 5+ on the square-bill. The southeast wind died off and so did the bite so i headed back to jones bay and started draggin the lv in deep water and got a couple 12 inchers.finished the evening off at no name reef, where i proceded to have my ass handed to myself by dumping 5 nice ones in a row. The first one was a pig at the boat! Ouch! Ended up finally landing 3 barley keepers just after dark and called it quits. The carp were rollin big time and the bass were still biting when i left....should of stayed out!!!
      City: lower lake

      Tips: Crank the shallow rock.cover water...if you get snagged...do your best not to leave a mess for the guy behind you. Ive lost several fish in yards and yards of other guys lines. Its not that hard to break it off at the bait instead of cutting it off at your rod tip. Hey Larry... sweet boat buddy!

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      Water Temp: 57

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Got a chance to fish after work today from 3 till 6:30 pm. Headed straight to konocti bay for a group of shallow fish i found over the weekend crankin. Stuck a 3 followed by a 5+ on the square-bill. The southeast wind died off and so did the bite so i headed back to jones bay and started draggin the lv in deep water and got a couple 12 inchers.finished the evening off at no name reef, where i proceded to have my ass handed to myself by dumping 5 nice ones in a row. The first one was a pig at the boat! Ouch! Ended up finally landing 3 barley keepers just after dark and called it quits. The carp were rollin big time and the bass were still biting when i left....should of stayed out!!!
      City: lower lake

      Tips: Crank the shallow rock.cover water...if you get snagged...do your best not to leave a mess for the guy behind you. Ive lost several fish in yards and yards of other guys lines. Its not that hard to break it off at the bait instead of cutting it off at your rod tip. Hey Larry... sweet boat buddy!