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  • Alameda County
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      Water Temp: 40'S-50'S

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I WENT OUT TO CHABOT AT ABOUT 2:30 WITH MY NEW CITICA REEL WITH A VIPER JIG WITH A ZOOM BLACK WITH RED FLECK PORK TRAILER TIED ON. I FISHED FOR ABOUT 40 MIN WITH OUT A BITE. BUT THEN I FELT A LITTLE EXTRA WIEGHT WHEN I WAS REELING SO I SET THE HOOK LIKE BILL DANCE.AFTER 3MIN I GOT IT TO THE SHORE. THIS WAS THE SCARY PART. I LIPED IT AND PULLED IT OUT OF THE WATER. IT WAS HUGE! I DIDNT THINK ANYONE WOULD BELIEVE ME SO I RAN IT 1 MILE TO THE MARINA OCCASIONALLY STOPPING TO LET ME AND THE FISH CATCH OUR BREATH. WHEN I WIEGHED IT IT WENT 13.1!!!!!! THEN I RELEASED IT . IT LIVED!AFTER THAT WE RAN BACK AND I CAUGHT A 1LB THEN A 2LB. NOT A BAD DAY EHH
      City: CASTRO VALLEY

      Tips: FISH JIGS OR WORMS IN A CRAWDAD COLOR SLOWLY

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      Water Temp: 40'S-50'S

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I WENT OUT TO CHABOT AT ABOUT 2:30 WITH MY NEW CITICA REEL WITH A VIPER JIG WITH A ZOOM BLACK WITH RED FLECK PORK TRAILER TIED ON. I FISHED FOR ABOUT 40 MIN WITH OUT A BITE. BUT THEN I FELT A LITTLE EXTRA WIEGHT WHEN I WAS REELING SO I SET THE HOOK LIKE BILL DANCE.AFTER 3MIN I GOT IT TO THE SHORE. THIS WAS THE SCARY PART. I LIPED IT AND PULLED IT OUT OF THE WATER. IT WAS HUGE! I DIDNT THINK ANYONE WOULD BELIEVE ME SO I RAN IT 1 MILE TO THE MARINA OCCASIONALLY STOPPING TO LET ME AND THE FISH CATCH OUR BREATH. WHEN I WIEGHED IT IT WENT 13.1!!!!!! THEN I RELEASED IT . IT LIVED!AFTER THAT WE RAN BACK AND I CAUGHT A 1LB THEN A 2LB. NOT A BAD DAY EHH
      City: CASTRO VALLEY

      Tips: FISH JIGS OR WORMS IN A CRAWDAD COLOR SLOWLY

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      Water Temp: 40'S-50'S

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I WENT OUT TO CHABOT AT ABOUT 2:30 WITH MY NEW CITICA REEL WITH A VIPER JIG WITH A ZOOM BLACK WITH RED FLECK PORK TRAILER TIED ON. I FISHED FOR ABOUT 40 MIN WITH OUT A BITE. BUT THEN I FELT A LITTLE EXTRA WIEGHT WHEN I WAS REELING SO I SET THE HOOK LIKE BILL DANCE.AFTER 3MIN I GOT IT TO THE SHORE. THIS WAS THE SCARY PART. I LIPED IT AND PULLED IT OUT OF THE WATER. IT WAS HUGE! I DIDNT THINK ANYONE WOULD BELIEVE ME SO I RAN IT 1 MILE TO THE MARINA OCCASIONALLY STOPPING TO LET ME AND THE FISH CATCH OUR BREATH. WHEN I WIEGHED IT IT WENT 13.1!!!!!! THEN I RELEASED IT . IT LIVED!AFTER THAT WE RAN BACK AND I CAUGHT A 1LB THEN A 2LB. NOT A BAD DAY EHH
      City: CASTRO VALLEY

      Tips: FISH JIGS OR WORMS IN A CRAWDAD COLOR SLOWLY

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      Water Temp: 40+

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: i went ishing at 2:30..... ished or about 40min with no luck........then 40 min later i got a bite.....bam, i set the hook and aught it......ater about 3 min i got it up to the shore. it was huge i had orgot my camera and i thaught that it could have been some type o record so i ran over a mile occasion ally stopping to let me and the bass catch our breath to the marina. they said it was 13 pounds one ounce!!!!! ater i released it i ran back to my spot and ished or another hour. i caught 2 more-a 2lb and a 1 lb the 2 and the 13 were o a viper brown and red with a zoom trailer. not bad eh?!
      City: c.v.

      Tips: ish jigs or worms really really slow!!

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      Water Temp: 40's-50's

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: i went out at 2:30 and ished or 40 min with no luck. then out o no where i got a bite......bam ater 3 min i got it to the bank.....it was 13lb's i ran over a mile to the marina to get it weighed.....it lived!!!!!ater i released it i ran back and ished or another hour. i caught 2 more ,2lb & 1lb all o o a brown and red viper jig with a zoom pork trailer
      City: castro valley

      Tips: use jigs or worms....ish slow!

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 70-72

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went out from 7am to 12:30. Caught several fish all one pounders all on shad crankbaits: Fat free shad, Speed trap and a wiggle wart. Fish were suspended and caught in about 8' - 10' of water. No bites on spinnerbait, drop shot or senkos. It was overcast in the morning which burned off around 10 and it was breezy all morning. Lots of fisherman out but not a lot of catching.

      Tips: Replace stock trebles off cranks with premium treble hooks.

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Whoops I mean 2004. Not 05. Sorry

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: i ished near the the corner o the dam. got out right beore sunset hoping or some to hit my spook. but nothing. i switched to a texas with a hawg. a ew bites but no hook ups. switched to the senko and had a lot o nibbles, ?? dont know why i didnt get hooked? probably little guys. well guys, guess we are all waiting or the all bite eh? good luck to all
      City: san jose

      Tips: try weed less anything and spinnerbaits. november looks pretty darn good.

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: the cold weather probably put these ish o. or, my choice o presentations was o. anyways, 1 ish about 6 inches ater 5 hours o ishin'. this lake can get pretty tough.i bacically sucked today. better luck next time.

      Tips: last year about the same time spinnerbaits and rattle-traps did the trick.

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Stopped to ish or two hour and got 4. All about 2-3 pound range. All spinner bait ish. Had to leave but bite was on!
      City: sj

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: City: GRANADA HILLS

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

      Report: Hey Mr. Pinole - thank you! Glad someone else was brave enough to post, har!!!

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      Water Temp: 55

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Congrats to Joe Miller and partner on tourney win last weekend (previous report)! Last night I again guided 2 of the 3 previous guys from my last trip with them a week or so ago. They couldn't get enough of Clear Lake in one trip!! We started at 4:30 pm out of Red Bud and found the bite to be very slow. I was trying to see if the D&M Piranha swim jig was working and stuck one over 5 lbs right away. The client new to bass fishing got a keeper right after on a brush hog. Good start I thought! Wrong!! The next 7 or so hours were weird. Perfect night weather, good water and air temp with maybe too calm water. We all hooked and lost fish after fish - nearly the whole trip. A few good fish were landed - and get this- first time - NO dinks. Maybe winter is here. We were going to fish 'til 12:30 am. Finally - at 12:15 am - the BIG event happened! The client that caught all the good fish on the last trip sets up on a fish with his newly installed 10" Berkley Power worm - I think red shad color. I only had my Oroville net since I lost the bigger one a while back and the new one isn't here yet. I looked at that fish in the black light and said to myself "Oh No!" I did get her in the net on the first try and then yelled "OH YES!!!!". She went 8 lbs 2 oz! His 5 biggest bass in the last 2 trips with me are a little over 26 lbs. Great Client, har!! He doesn't mess with "them" small guys!! At 12:32 we started back to the ramp - photo shoot done and big bass swiming away saying "what happened?"
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: I guess my tip is "never give up" - and my clients didn't. They were self contained and used their own baits. The bass were equally unimpressed with anything we threw. I had 2 big bass nail the swim jig - I set - nothing! Clients same experience! With Manny's big fish, our 5 best were nearly the same as Joe Miller's tourney weight - about 25 3/4 lbs. Most action was 10 to 25 feet. Nothing shallow in spite of no moon.

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Was out about an hour on the float tube. Wacky rigged senko on a 1/16 darthead snagged me a 3 pounder. Water is nice and clear here in the south end of the lake. But its the same old story, fish slow, or just bring a case off beer and a can of worms and then its always a good day.
      City: K-ville

      Tips: Back in the fishing game and looking for fellow float tubers to fish, Clear Lake, Highland Springs, and Lake Mendo.

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      Water Temp: 79-80

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: OK, anyone that is fishing Clear Lake may say 4 plus foot of vis, yes if you move the 1/16 inch to 2 inch thick algae on the top of the water the water under neath is very clear :)You can find water with out aglae but you have to look for it, in fact up north on Hwy 20's side it was very clear. Ok lets get to fishing,I found fish in 1 to 3 foot of water up next to rock, it was hard to believe that 1 to 3.5 lb bass were feeding on those tiny silver fish but they were. The bite was getting better and better as the week went on from what I heard, I would says this week end should be good before the new moon, I don't want to give out to much info because I think my self and one of my kids may start fishing a tourney now and than but I will say small plastics in dark colors were the ticket for my 6 fish to 3.5 lbs in 3 hrs of fishing 8/14.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Don't be afraid of the algae, in fact fish it, the fish are using it for cover and that is why I was catching fish in 1-3 ft of water when there was 30 plus feet right next to it mid day in August on a lake, you would think you were fishing the Delta. Take a Kid fishing !!

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      Water Temp: 58-62

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: The spawn is in full swing at Clear Lake with the water temps from 58 to 62, a few days of warm weather should bring another wave of fish up.

      The pre-post spawn bite has been good for me using Jigs Soft Plastics and Swim Baits fished in staging areas with some fish from 5 to 8 pounds and a bunch of 3 to 4 pounders.

      Look for the top water bite to pick up soon
      City: Clear Lake

      Tips: For me the key is to slow down and fish every piece of heavy cover flippin and pitchin shallow or fish swim baits, soft plastics and jigs in the staging areas for the pre-post spawners.

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      Water Temp: 65-69

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: We fished Sunday evening on the 9th after we checked in and got settled! About four hours which produced five fish in the three and a half to five pound range! Drop shot (2), Jigs's (1) and Senko's (2)!

      We quickly found that if it moved they would not hit it! Dead sticking was the only thing that would work! ...

      Monday was the weather day from Hell! Cold, Rain, Hail, and the brutal North wind that turns Clear Lake into the sea from Deadliest Catch!!! :) We still managed 10 nice fish which turned out to be the best day with a five fish limit of 20-25 #'s even though we wussed out and went in in the early afternoon frozen!!!

      Tuesday With the High Pressure we only managed four fish!

      Wednesday was a very nice day with temps around 75 in the afternoon and we connected with 8 fish!

      Thursday was hot with afternoon temps in the low 80's but we could only catch three fish for the day with the biggest at 6#'s!!

      We had a great time with no problems at all, just wish that the fishing would have been a bit better!! We talked to several tackle stores and all said the same,, "The bite has been tough!

      All fish came from dropshot and wacky Senko's on my part with two on a 4" Paddletail swimbait! My partner caught all of his on a texas rigged Senko!
      City: Lakeside

      Tips: For us, if it moved they wouldn't touch it, but that was right after the cold front!

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      Water Temp: 60-66

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Tough!....we fished from rattlesnake to long tule point and back and couldn't get the skunk out of the boat
      good luck be safe
      City: woodpile

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      Water Temp: 53

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished this evening and Friday evening.Friday was a Minner only mission with a double hook up
      on balis point,(both 4lbs)and few smaller ones .tonight fished off the dock and stuck 4 fish in 7 casts on the trusty brush hog(big one was around 4)diddent expect to get bit in this weather.fun! Water has come up about a foot. and still rising!
      City: lower lake

      Tips: If your fishing in the daylight hours just brake down and drag shiners.(somthing I rarely do) nightime is easy to catch em on swims and jigs.

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      Water Temp: ??

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: THANKS ALOT catchbigones!! YOU REALLY SOUND LIKE YOU KNO WHAT YOURE DOING, AND ILL DEFINITELY TAKE YOUR SUGGESTIONS INTO MIND.
      City: el cerrito

      Tips: IF U NEED A TIP FROM ME ABOUT ANYTHING FISHY FEEL FREE TO ASK EVEN THOUGH I PROBABLY SUCK COMPARED TO U LOL