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Tuesday, December 4th, 2012

  • 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!

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      Water Temp: around 55

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Weather: 50s rain coming
      Lake Level: 1.26\Best Depths: 2-30
      lots of minnow guys out for a beautiful thanksgiving weekend lake has been like glass
      Big Bass: 2-30
      not many reports coming in
      Guide Information: clearlake outdoors\Name & Number: 707-262-5852

      Tips: lv 500, swimbaits still your best bet A rig is turning on!

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

      Report: Threw 1/2 and 1oz. jigs with just the beaver tail plastics on them most of the day all over the lake where you think they'd be this time of year (more vertical stuff) but didn't get bit. Beautiful day except for about 4 hrs. of wind. Guys throwing trout type baits and soaking anchovies caught a sm and some trout. The regulars said they got skunked the last time they were out, too.

      Tips: Find the guys that are catching them out of here and hire them to guide. The last time I caught a 10+ lm out of here I had maybe 30-40 bites that day, but for me, those days are very rare. Fish for sturgeon-a 100+ was caught recently and a picture of it will be in the newspaper.

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

      Report: lake is not accessable, down 20ft. call so. lake first . 1-800-894-2267
      they must open the gates to test every 5 yrs. lake will go down 30 ft.
      try 2013

      Tips: go somewhere else

Monday, November 26th, 2012

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 61

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Spoon bite still has not taken off for me. Fish still from surface down to 50 ft...
      City: Elk Grove

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

      Report: Fished today with my buddy, got 37 spots. One was 16 1/4" great looking fish (released). 2 other 14 1/2, 14 3/4" close, but not winners. All others 12-to 14" Most from 25 to 35 feet deep. 3-4 were red eye bass, and a couple that had a golden brownish look, figured they must have been a small mouth. All on Texas rigged roboworms. We do an odd thing, we also work a Texas rig similar to a drop shot, seems to work for us.
      City: Magalia

Sunday, November 25th, 2012

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 60.5

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: This past Thanksgiving weekend was perfect. The weather was great the lake was calm and the fishing although not as good as the last few weeks was still great. I took my daughter Helene out on Thursday and she had a very successful day landing eight nice trout and a bass weighing 3+ pounds. Friday I went out with Jeremy and Brandi and it was a tough bite we ended up landing three trout and losing three. My son said the trout were breaking all around but not biting the only trout caught on his boat was by my wife who landed three trout. Saturday I went out by myself first on the west side with no luck and then I headed to the buoys on the east side and trolled to the picnic table. I caught three trout doing that. I tried my luck on bass and landed three the largest was about 4 pounds. My friends Albert and John went to Lake Hennessy and caught a total of four trout (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: NAPA

      Tips: fish hard while its sunny will rain soon

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

      Report: Just had to say thanks to Mario! It's always nice to receive a compliment. I'm sure Dave feels the same way. Reports are always MORE fun to do when the fish are biting!!!
      City: Yuba City

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: no temp

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Couldn't take the boat out decided to fish from shore at Dike8, oh excuse me, Folsom Point. Parked at the turnaround picnic area and walked down to the rocky point on the left. (took advantage of the usual carp fishermen not being there). Started with white fluke/scrounger head and got bumped twice but didn't stay on. started throwing the go-to junebug 5" senko weightless... about the 10th cast rod started moving to the right on the fall, set the hook for a nice 2lber. Threw to the same area and picked up another 1-lber then nothing else. Fun just to be out fishing the shoreline and bonus to catch.
      City: folsom

      Tips: Not much to offer...was only out on a Sunday I couldn't take the boat out. I looked for rocky points and fished the sides, fan casting and twitching the bait on the fall, 2x pause, 3x pause...hits came on the pause/fall.

Saturday, November 24th, 2012

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 54 - 58 degrees

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Luanched the Custom Valco "BASSBUSTER1" about 9:00 a.m. and was out by 2:30 p.m. Not much to report this time due to the fog I stayed and fished around the marina until it cleared. Cuaght my first bass on the "A" Rig about a four pounder and the other 7 bass using my last 6" PLine Kick R Minnow. Finally got to hit the main channel, first checking out the Calaveris River, tried alittle bit of every thing here and no bites. Following my original plan ran out to Big Al's Light 19, could not get it figured out here either, but did manage to catch a small striper on the "A" Rig which I used as a search bait.
      City: Stockton

      Tips: patterns change as the weather conditions change. High blue sky I should of gone finesse. :-P

Friday, November 23rd, 2012

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 59

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Friday 11-23-12, my buddy, his son and I launched from Russo’s near low tide (8:00 AM). Right away, several fish were caught on a Bass Assassin and a jerk bait. After having no luck with a Rattle Trap, I also switched to a jerk bait. At least 2 hours passed before our next bite which was a 4 lb. 2 oz. bass. It was caught on a point at a break entering into Franks Track. From this spot and around the point on the outside of Franks Track where there was deep water, we caught at least 10 more fish on Jerk baits. There were no fish as we moved further away from the point. We found several more similar points with a school of fish on each. Most of the fish were just under size to just keepers, nothing bigger. We then moved to the back of Sand Mound Slough to see if we could locate a school of stripers. No luck after trying for an hour. Next we moved to the North end of Piper Slough along Franks Track. We immediately started marking fish on the sonar and catching small black bass and striped bass on our jerk baits. On my last cast of the day just as the sun was setting, I hooked and landed a 6 lb. 6 oz striper. We ended the day with well over 40 black bass and 6 stripers.
      City: Pinole

      Tips: If you catch one fish at a location stay there, most likely there is a school. As the sun was getting low in the sky, the striped bass bite seemed to turn on. I would assume the same could be said for a good striper bite as the sun was coming up. We also had some striper bites vertical jigging a spoon over fish we were making on the sonar. But we ran out of sun to find out if there was a consistent bite with this technique.

Thursday, November 22nd, 2012

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 59-61

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: After getting my Ranger Z521 tuned up with the good folks at C&C Marine in Sacto, I decided to head to Amador for a few hours of fishing before heading home. I know the storm was clearing and the bite would be tough. It did clear bringing the bright winter half moon and a cold, damp night. Actually, from about 5 pm 'til 8 pm, I did catch 5 bass with the biggest at 3 3/4 lbs. I think I lost 3. The bite was fair at dark and 2 hrs after, but once the cold moist air set in, the bite died - as it usually does. This was the first night of the winter wet dew which soaks everything in the boat - usually killing the bite. That is why cloudy winter nights are best - the warm afternoon air doesn't rise at dark while cold moist air sinks. Bass generally don't respond well to those conditions - and last night was no exception. I did enjoy my new steel trolling motor rope (cable?) made by Danny Miller. It worked great - no more worries!!
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: I tried topwater before dark with no results. I threw Yamamoto Flappin' Hogs and D&M Piranha swim jigs most of the time. I got bites on both but the hogs worked the best. Most bass were on points with connecting flats. All were about 20 feet deep. All my bites were pretty solid in spite of the crummy conditions.

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

      Report: Tried out shore fishing at Lime saddle this am from 7am to 9:30am. Surprised, surprise, 23 spots, 1 15 1/4" 2 14 1/2" the rest 13-14". Nearly ever cast had a hit. Missed maybe 6 or so.
      City: Magalia

      Tips: Fished Texas rigged roboworms slow, light as weight as possible. Better fish are deep.

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: 62

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Epic fishing today, Thanksgiving Day. Huge schools of Shad with hundreds of Steelhead and Bass underneath. Crystal Clear water and the fish were biting well. Caught over 30 bass myself and caught 2 limits of Steelhead between my dad and I. Best freshwater fishinf I have ever seen. Caught on castmasters and 2.5 inch Rapala Countdown.
      City: San Diego