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Sunday, October 14th, 2012

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 70

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Took the family out for a few hours late afternoon. After around 4pm we found fish slamming bait in the North Fork outside the 5mph buoys. We ended up with a mix of 14 spots and smallmouth up to about 2 lbs, with several others lost at the boat. All but one were caught on Scroungers with silvery bait fish-like trailers (e.g. Tiny Fluke). A fun afternoon!
      City: Foresthill

      Tips: Couldn't get 'em to go on topwater, but the Scroungers were working. We found the most fish when the boat was in around 20 feet of water. Watch for the boils!

Saturday, October 13th, 2012

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

      Report: Poor day!

      Big Break, Sherman Island, 3 mile. Top water, fish traps, rattle traps, Kitech swim baits, crank baits, Senko's, brush hogs...nada! 2 ticks that's it.

  • Mariposa County
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      Water Temp: 73

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished local club tourney on Sat 10/13 and had a pretty good day - only 5 fish over 15 - but 12.6 lbs with a 4.6 kicker - caught on a custom jig at 9:30 in 25 ft of water (main lake point) top water was the key - chasing shade in the narrows - walked a Lucky Craft Sammy at a good pace for keepers. Drop shot bite was not that good and other had a tough time with 2nd place in at 6 lbs and all others with 1 fish for 10 boat tourney
      City: Manteca

      Tips: Top Water in shade early - then switch to brown/brown jig on main lake points.

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      Water Temp: 68 to 73

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Good fall bite happening, topwater,dropshot,swimbaits. Bites were in 20ft. of water for dropshot and topwater around wood. Your favorite baits should work... A 13 lber was caught in Future Pro this weekend on a swimmer. Goodluck and post for the next guy.
      City: Fremont

      Tips: We used Iovino's poppers and Robo worms.

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

      Report: Dana and I fished our regular Tuesday 1/2 day trip. Launched 8am, heading in a tad past noon. Bitter cold wind first couple hours. We ended up with 22 bass, most in 25 to 35 feet of water. Robo worms as our normal bait. Most fish caught in the north fork or the way to it.
      City: Magalia

Tuesday, October 9th, 2012

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 70

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Weather: clear cold mornings with a chance of rain
      Lake Level: 1.39 above rumsey\Best Depths: 2-25
      still have to move till you find a school of fish
      49 pounds to win Triton tournament
      swimbait bite is getting better but fish your confidence baits
      Big Bass: 2-2510/06/2012 - 10.06
      10.06 on sat in triton tournament
      Events: BBT TOC this coming weekend
      Guide Information: clearlake outdoors\Name & Number: 707-262-5852

      Tips: lv 500, jigs, swimbaits and some topwater

Monday, October 8th, 2012

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 70 - 72 degrees

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Luanched the Custom Valco "BASSBUSTER1" out of Ladd's about 10:00 a.m. and was out by 5:00 p.m. Started fishing at the Turning Basin and fished my way out into 14 Mile Slough today. A total of 15 largemouth bass and 23 stripers. I used the Delta Schooling Rig (aka Alabama), chrome/blue Rat-L-Trap, white/sparkle tubes, and white Senkos. Late in the afternoon there was an awesome white senko bite along the rock walls in 14 Mile Slough. The best fun I had (junk fishing) was with my Delta Schooling Rig. Found a school of stripers feeding on the flat near Dad's Points. The LM Bass were cuaght along rocky points to coves and river mouths.
      City: Stockton

      Tips: Rig up to fish mutiples species. I was hoping to run into some salmon and that would have made the day. :-)

Sunday, October 7th, 2012

  • Mason County
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Anderson is now CLOSED, water level too low to launch. Won't reopen till 14 April 2013.

      This leaves Calaro which was a ZOO on Sunday.
      City: Monterey

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 68-70

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Wow. Deltas on fire! Went out of Rivers before light. just before sun up, little shad are jumping around like popcorn.... everywhere. Caught a bunch of striped bass on top water, no size, but what a blast! sore thumb and a stuck finger. ha

      Not too many people were out, and ski boats are finally starting to dwindle.
      After the striped top water fun, caught a few on a rattle trap.

      Tips: If you've been waiting for the bait fish to show up, they're here :-)

Saturday, October 6th, 2012

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 72

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Water temp 72 in the AM later in the day 76 in places. A lot of followers with swim baits s-wavers,small swim baits etc,found jig fish near larger rocks in 35ft,dropshot fish using your favorite colors working. Shad balls 50ft begining to bunch up on the outside of coves,largies not far from them just waiting for the right time. Lake is down, good time to take pictures of your hot spots to remember for the up coming year.Mostly 2 lbs with a few larger ones chasing but not commiting just yet. For me between 11 to 12 lbs best 5. Good Luck and have FUN. Remember wear the live vest lake level is down.
      City: Merced

      Tips: Find the birds,finds the shad,catches the largies. Enjoy the day,cooler days and nights will be turning them on more. Keep a eye on the surfuce their chasing.

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 70

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Bass Busters of Yuba City fished a 2 day end of year tournament. It was a tough bite for sure but definitely plenty of fish. Conditions and patterns changed between sat and sun. It is safe to say the tournament was won in the North Fork. Our new season kicks off in November. please email if interested in joining.
      City: Plumas Lake

      Tips: Most fish were caught on isolated rock piles or open sandy banks. Throw a jig, worm, or a crankbait in the wind and you will catch em!

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      Water Temp: 71

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: First time ever on this lake. Started about 8:30. Had first bass in the boat by 9:00. Off the lake by 3:00 with a total of 9 fish including one from my 7 year old daughter. Way to go Karley! Worms & jigs. Found them in 40' of water. Found them in 2' of water. Found them in coves and on points. Weird, no real pattern. I think the weather helped.
      City: Sacramento

      Tips: Be careful, water is low.

Friday, October 5th, 2012

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 71

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: launched out of Rivers around 2. Fished until sundown. Caught about a dozen fish, not really any size biggest might have gone 3lbs. All were caught drop shotting in about 8feet.
      Heard on the water, the top water bite went off.
      weather was a little breezy and overcast. temp felt like mid 60.
      hyacinth is blocking some passages.

      Tips: Watch out for plugged up throughways

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      Water Temp: 65-67

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched out of Orwood today and caught a bunch of large mouth and stripers on top water baits. My buddy caught our big fish a nice 6.0lber, caught fish from sun up to 2pm. The weather change seemed to really help out. Delta is definitely on fire.

      Tips: Get out and Fish!

Thursday, October 4th, 2012

  • Alameda County
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      Water Temp: 73 afternoon

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: A 5 incher on a 3/4 oz. Rattletrap and a 1# on a big worm were my only prizes today. Both were taken just outside defined weedbed walls in the afternoon. Blanked yesterday so today was an upgrade for me. No wind until 11am each day and then an unpleasant and difficult howling. Tried many techniques and locations. Nothing in south end and didn't try north end.

      Tips: Yeah, tell me them if you caught them. Heard the lake is tough lately from the dock guys so I wasn't alone.

Tuesday, October 2nd, 2012

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 72

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Went out Brown's yesterday and fished from 7:30 to noon for a nice half day trip with a little success. We caught a total of 8 including a nice little 14 inch rainbow which was a total surprise. I caught a couple on a drop shot basstrix flash minnow there are a TON of baitfish thus year we had a fish spitting up what look to be silverside minnows or something but I'm not exactly sure. The rest of the fish were caught on the trusted DD22. It was a fun day up in the south
      fork and cannot wait for the next open seat to get out there again if you have any questions feel free to contact me as I would be more than happy to.help in any way I can. FISH ON!!
      City: Orangevale

      Tips: Match the hatch!!

Monday, October 1st, 2012

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 74 to 78

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: After a slow start fishing was great this past weekend. Saturday morning Albert and I headed out to the Narrows. Using crankbait we trolled towards the Ranch house. The water was as clear as glass and we could see lots of small fish but had no luck catching anything. My son called me and said lunch was ready so we met up with him at Big Island. After lunch Albert and I went deep into one of the coves and set up catfish rods using hotdogs. We fished for bass using flukes, spinner baits, cast masters and whatever else we could think of throwing without any luck. We saw hundreds of bass in the 2 to 4 inch range chasing after the lures but no big guys. I got a call from my son telling me he was seeing large bait balls in about thirty feet of water and in the last ten minutes he hooked up three nice bass. He told me where he was and I said I'm on my way. When I got to the area the bait balls were so huge that I decided to go through them for awhile. Within a half hour or so of going back and forth using deep diving lures we limited out with nice size bass and a trout. On my son's boat he had the same results with his wife Sarah landing a limit of good size bass up to four pounds and my wife Ester landing two big trout up to three pounds. Some people were saying that due to the full moon the fishing was not great but if you look for signs like the bait balls or where the birds are feeding it can change your luck. It turned out to be a very successful day (see photos). '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: search and u will find

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 70-75

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Weather: clear warm no wind in mornings
      Lake Level: 1.54\Best Depths: 2-25
      still a lttle slow, I fished the sunday shootout yesterday (two fish limit) winners had 11.05 we had 10.70 most guys saying bite was tuff , Swimbaits ,lv 500 , punching and jigs
      Events: Triton owners this coming weekend at KVC and they are giving a boat away on Sunday in a drawing
      Guide Information: Clearlake Outdoors\Name & Number: 707-262-5852

      Tips: topwater bite should come back after this full moon

Sunday, September 30th, 2012

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Splashed the tube with bro and friend from 11-5. Slow day overall but I did get a 4.5 lb. spot and a 3 lb. spot. Lost a big catfish and one bass not sure of the species. The bass and catfish all came on a crankbait in the preserve. Low water left all of the good cover high and dry. 67% is not enough for this place. Water is dirtier the further back you go in the preserve. Didn't get much on the deeper banks across from the south ramp.
      City: Concord

      Tips: Bomber crankbait 4A Dark green crawdad. Senko got one bass for my friend.

Wednesday, September 26th, 2012

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 67

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Splashed the tube in seven mile next to owl harbor. Slow afternoon until the last hour of daylight and started catching fish on a topwater frog fly. A 3 lb. first and then a 5.5 on the flyrod. A few other keepers on the fly and a sammy. Flat calm conditions helped the bug get noticed right away. I'm just starting out with the flyrod, it is a blast.
      City: Concord

      Tips: Fish the evening hours with any topwater. Try the flyrod, I alternate between it and my conventional gear.