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      Water Temp: 77-80

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Whew! The best ishing I've had in my lie! Drove up Friday night ater work, got on the water at 10:30. First ish @ about 11:00, 5 lb. 4oz.. Lost one about eight right at the boat at 12:00, got a very clear shot o her, beautiul ish! We continued catching one every ew minutes until about 2:00 when the moon came up. most in the 4~5lb. range, only two less than 3lb.! Ater dawn went over to shag and Teduardo stuck an 8 pounder on a jig. that was an awesome ending to night one. Saturday night was the night I'll never orget! On the water at about 6:30 p.m., went over to konocti to try the rog bite. Walker, Texas Ranger stuck a 3 pounder on the roggy in open water near the mouth o a bay, and the Yeemeister got one almost 4lb. on the Senko. Headed rom there back to the main body and I got a nice 5 lb. 8 oz. on the brush hog. Continued to ish with limited luckor the next ew hours. Stuck one 4 lb. 9 oz. at about 11:00. Next headed to shag at about 12:30. From the report I just read, we were just a ew minutes late! Someone had already snaked Mr. Walker's 10 pounder. Stayed there or 45 min. with no bites, so went back to our irst spot. Missed a ew bites here and there, slow ishing. Stuck one about 2.5 lb. on a giant zipper worm that a local bait shop had sold us on that morning, dang worm weighs about a pound!!! At 4:15, I caught my largest ish to date, an 8 lb. 2 oz. hawg! I hadn't even caught my breath when I stuck a 6 lb. 12 oz. ish at 4:25. All in all, it was the trip o a lietime or me, I had a ive ish bag well ove 28 lb on Sat. night!!! All my expectations were met and exceeded, I only the Texas Ranger's 10 pounder had come out to play it would have been a perect trip. Perect weather both nights, shorts and t-shirts, water like glass or most o the time. Must have seen 200 shooting stars, too! First time night ishing or me, deinitely won't be the last. Thanks to Craig, Steve, and Ted or an awesome weekend! OUT!!!!
      City: sacramento

      Tips: The big ishies came on slowwww, big plastics or jigs. The Brush Hog seemed to be the ticket or me, lots o Smelly Jelly didn't hurt. It seemed the bigger the ish, the lighter the bite was, be ready or the pressure bite.

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      Water Temp: 74

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Just a quick ollow up to my previous report. Fished two guys Saturday - started at 7:30 AM, showing them the lake. The jig bite held up well, as we had an 18 1/2 lb limit by 10 AM. - 5-3 was the biggest. No big ish. We missed several because o the wind. Bite really shut down or us ater 10. Tried some weed beds north o Konocti Resort and I got a 3 lb rog ish. Too many weekenders having un to ish seriously. Went to some weed in Konocti Bay and client got his irst Senko bass (#194). I had a 8 to 10 lb bass ollow my rog TO THE BOAT! She looked at the rog, looked at me, and decided "not today". That is something you don't see everyday! What a sight!!
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: I have caught several rog ish lately - but it still is very slow. I am using the green Snagproo rog i anyone wants to know. We have tried other colors but green seems to be the ticket. All three o my rog ish at the rally were on green.

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      Water Temp: 74-79

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: The wie and I camped at the State park or our days. Tough ishing, ROUGH WATER!!!! Made or some exciting boat rides. Was hoping the rog bite would be on...NOT. Tried to piece together something, just a ew small ish here and there, mostly docks with Senkos. Finally, on the last day o our trip and the last 1/2 hour o ishing, rog bite. Put two our pounders in the boat (each with 20 pnds. o weeds) on back to back casts. Each made a big hole blowing up on the rog, then a quick cast back to the hole and KABOOSH!!!! Two minutes, 8 pounds. I am totally impressed with the 50 lb. Power Pro braid. Even though the ishing was tough, still enjoyed it... hey it's Clear Lake. Good luck........Jig-N-Pig
      City: Hanord

      Tips: Stick with the rog now, it is starting to come on. Docks are good, shady side with a.... Senko, dang those things.

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      Water Temp: 69'-75'

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Spent the weekend at Clearlake, looking or a toad. Fished with a super guide, Keith Clow,(thanks Keith),who taught my partner and I alot. Unable to establish anything but a crank pattern as the winds were terrible. My partner rolled a 6-7 lb. on a spinnerbait early in the south end near a dock. I caught a three on a crank and another came undone. Keith caught two three's on cranks also. Mostly points and rocks. Had a pretty good breakast at Konocti around 10am. Keith did alot o talking, adn I was all ears. Yesterday, my partner and I went out in my boat. We hunted and pecked till 1:30, and scratched out seven bites or our ish. Three came undone. Fished the north end,lipping senkos and jigs. Later lost a our plus that got tied up in the weeds. It appears that the weather at night is cooling down, so the ish will be moving up in mass soon. They say the bite is best in October.
      City: San Leandro

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      Water Temp: 79

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Just returned rom 2 night and 1 day trips at Clear Lake. I ound the daylight hours to be better than the night hours. This past week the night bite went slightly south - not anything (or me) like it was last week. Yesterday I took a ather-son team out at 12:30 PM and we rogged or about an hour - no luck. I had landed a 4 1/4 on a rog the previous day. The wind was really getting bad, so I thought it was time to try my brown/orange Rodstrainer jig with #180 Yamamoto grub. While my clients worked a brush hog and a Magic Worm, I tried the jig around Rattlesnake Island and had 2 bass or over 7 lbs in 5 min! "Dad - do you want to try a jig?" "Sure", he says! So, ater some instruction (how to ish them in heavy rock) he proceeds to miss two, and then at 3 PM, he sets the hook on a bass that I soon realize is not the size I was catching. Ater a terriic ight, I net an 8 lb 2oz beauty or the newest "convert"!! He announces "I really like jig ishing"!! First bass on a jig, ater maybe 20 casts - I guess!!! I mentioned 3 PM because how many 8 pounders are caught during the middle o a hot August aternoon? We landed two more or a tad over 21 lbs or the ive best, had one small one and missed several because, by this time (5 PM) the wind was unmanageable. I wisely had decided not to go up the lake - by 6PM the lake was the roughest I have seen this summer. The previous night, another client and I started in the south end with rogs - I had a big blowup, but missed it. Client started using a Senko in weed patches and soon hooks a 5 lb 3 oz bass - good start. As it got dark, I started throwing a white Terminator spinnerbait and catching some nice bass very shallow - he put one on and got one too. They ranged rom 3 1/4 to 4 lbs. We got a 2 1/2 lb jig ish right ater dark. The wind came up ater dark and hampered our ishing the rest o the trip. I was amazed - we only got two bites ater 10PM. But in a two hour period we had 6 bass or 20 lbs. The night beore, great clients but slow ishing. we got 6 or 7, mostly worming on rockpiles. The biggest was nearly 4 lbs on a buzzbait near Buckingham. Many have complained about the ishing at Clear Lake this past month, and rightully so. It seems to be very hot or cold - moreso than in years past. I think the Jitterbug lures that were used in last Saturday night's tournament win say it all - don't be araid to try something new and dierent, or old and dierent!!
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: I you hear the delta breezes (in Clear Lake dictionary, HURRICANE) are kicking in, go there prepared or the worst. Remember, the winds hit Clear Lake a day earlier than they hit the central valley. The jig bite will get better as all approaches. Client caught a crawdad on a plastic work the other night! The crawdad population has really increased this year.

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      Water Temp: 80?

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished WCB Hot August Night tournament with Wayne Howenstine. We really had one o those dream nights. And most o the credit goes to my partner Wayne. He located those ishand I was ortunate enough to be able to come along and help catch 'em. We had a very good night, we executed well and did notmake any mistakes, not did we lose or miss any ish, other than a couple o missed worm bites. Many o our ish came right a dusk andat irst light in the morning and indeed they really did come on jitterbugs, black and red & black. Wayne caught our big ish, a 9.12 on ared and black zipper type hand pour and we also caught quite a ew ish on a red shad 7" Toledo Tickler worm rom ReAction Lures.We started out the evening with a couple ish on Senkos and then the topwater kicked in and we had a limit and culled one by about9:30. We then moved around some and caught another keeper that didn't help. We ished a couple areas where the wind was reallykicking and that deinitely made things tough. Fortunately or us our prime area was somewhat sheltered. We weighed in 19.21 at theirst weigh-in and I think we were in 2nd place ater that. Started out the 2nd hal with a 5.5 on the Tickler and then had a long dry spelland battled the wind some more, then moved into a more sheltered area where we quickly inished out a limit on worms, but 3 wereairly small. The Limit ish was completely blind and probably weighed 7+ in it's hay day, but was only just under 5 now. Then Waynestuck the big ish. Then about 5:30, just as the sky started to show signs o daylight the topwater bite kicked in again and we were ableto cull out all o our small ish. We actually culled a couple 4+ ish and and the last ish we caught which I would estimate to be close to4.5 we realized would not help us! We very nearly had that dream goal o 5 bags at the weigh-in, but settled or 4. Our morning weightwas 29.77 and we just edged out Jim and John by .25 All in all it was a night I will remember or a long time. I really want to thank Wayne or inviting me to join him, we worked very welltogether as a team and each had the other running or the net. I also want to thank West Coast Bass or putting on the tournament. There are not many sanctioned night tournaments and I sure do lenjoy ishing them even i these all night deals are a bit o an Iron Man! Maybe we can get Red Bull to sponsor a night circuit! Also wantto thank the Clear Lake volunteer patrol or looking ater our stu while we were ishing.
      City: Marysville

      Tips: Topwater, jitterbugs and buzzbaits at last and irst light. Ribbed type worms such as ReAction Lures Toledo Tickler in blacks with red or junebug. Fish near deepwater, but try shallow.

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      Water Temp: 78

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Well, I was worried the cooler weather would slow down the bite. We tried topwater a lot Tues and Wed evening - not even a roll. But everything else was ine!! We caught 11 on Tues and 15 on Wed - 21 1/4 and 25 1/2 lb. ive ish limits. I don't know what is happening to me, but the jigman is turning into a spinnerbaitman!! I had more un with spinnerbaits the last two nights than ever beore. However, the ish were averaging only 3 to 3 1/2 lbs. I inally got a 6-7 on one at 4 am last night. I am using the night 1/2 black Terminator with a 5" #136 Yamamoto grub trailer. I don't know i they have always worked that well, or i I am just getting with the program! As I have mentioned previously, I am doing very well or large ish on white Terminators during the day - over rockpiles. The bigger ish are still coming on Weapon jigs/Yamamoto grubs (a 7-3) last night, and 10" Power Worms and Big Dipper Magic worms (6"). Spinnerbait ish are running smaller at night - at least during the cooler nights. Maybe because o the cool o, there has been no night "bite", just "pressure". That may change by this weekend as it warms back up. I have been ishing all over the lake rom the narrows south, and have ound the ish near rock and tule edges, especially i they are next to rock. We did get some deep (25 t) ish to bite Tues night - client got a 6-3 and I got a 5-3 back to back. South end (Jensen) was a disappointment - didn't do well in that area. Good luck to all who are ishing the tournament! Out o respect to all my riends ishing the event, I won't be speciic about certain areas in this report.
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: I still say to ish slow or the bigger ish. Look or shadows. Do try crankbaits and spinnerbaits or numbers.

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      Water Temp: 77-79

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Never really got a pattern going and had to work hard to get some ish. Got one spook ish each morning in Nice, but they were small (about 2#s). They came o brush in about 3-5 eet o water. Caught 2 ish out o Horseshoe bend one lipping a jig to tules and the other was a 5# that hit a blade I was working through a weed bed (Should have been using a rog). I had another ish about 3.5# hit a jig I was working slowly on Shag Rock in about 15 eet o water. I never did get a bite on a buzz bait. Did have 1 or 2 cranking tules with a craw colored crank bait.
      City: Brentwood

      Tips: Frog bite seemed to be picking up as the weekend progressed. Fish seemed to be well ed and only having to become active or brie periods to get their share o ood. I would agree with Cooch that you may need to trigger a response rom the ish.

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      Water Temp: warm

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Tues Aternoon My nephew, Jigman catches a 1/5 under dock on darthead worm. A long time later, I catch a 5.5 on a 3/8 rodstrainer jig in 25 t on Henderson pt. Jigman catches another 1.5 and a 4 lb catish here. West o anderson island + got a 6.0 on a 6" darthead worm. Only bite here on about 25 docks. Flipped trees in south end and biggest here went 7.3. Night bite gave up two 2 lbs right ater dead dark. Pretty slow till 2am when I get a 6.3 then Jigman bangs a 7.5 in narrows. Broke my new inwick liting a 4.5 into the boat later near anderson Island. Several rockpiles in rattlesnake gave up 1.5's by 4 am as jigman is sleeping on back deck.Wed, 7/19 First ish o o deep rocks was an 8.0. Awesome! My best big ish trip in some time. Caught one more o o deep rocks and 2 o docks but lost 2 or 3 more. Let or YC or sleep and recharging. 7/20 Arrived @ 3pm. Bought jigs with too small o hook and still lost 2 ish when they jumped ater opening up gap.night bite sucked. 4 bites, 5.5 biggest.7/21--noish by 11 am. ater lunch, we banged 3 to 4 lbs on senkos.
      City: Yuba City

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      Water Temp: 79

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished an all night club tourney and the action was very slow. 13 boats and only 3 limits. No top water action until about 6 am. My partner caught 4 ish to 7.5 lbs using baby brush hogs. I did manage an 8 lb catish on blades at 4:30 am.
      City: Rohnert Park

      Tips: Stick with baby brush hogs or jigs around rocky points down to 20'.

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I any body knows where I can ind Optimum swimbaits online please E-mail me!

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      Water Temp: warm!

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: First midday trip in some time or me. Got an early start as I started ishing with my twin 9 year old daughters at 11 am! Cranked a 1.7 lb crappie irst thing. Figured ish might be hanging under docks so I headed to my best dock on the lake with a 6" worm on a darthead....nada! Fished about 300 yards o deep docks and got irst bite 150 yards through the set. Set the hook and it took o. My daughter reeled it up and screamed when it broke water. The darthead was not even visible in the ishes mouth. The thing looked between 8 and 9 lbs. As I went to grab it, out comes the hook and ethyl swims o. I I would only have ought it mysel....... I elt good giving my kid a chance though. 150 yards and 10 docks later, bite #2. Set hook and it takes o or deeper water. Hmmmmmm....Dad needs to see how big this one is. Both girls scream when ethyl #2 breaks the water. She goes 6.0. I was happy as a stuck pig! Ran to some other deep docks. Threw a 1/4 oz rodstrainer jig on a piling in 20 t. Feel pressure, and other daughter reels up a 3.4lb. I had 2 other jig bites on steep bank here but came up empty on the set?????? Wheeler PT yielded 2 more empty bites....still dont understand what happened. I dont catch many small ish on these jigs here. Head to my secret lippin hole and bang another 3.4, 2.3, 2.3 and a 2.0. Dump 2 more about 2 lbs on brushog in heavy cover. Let @ 6:30 pm w/ best 5 going 17.4 lbs. Very enjoyable day w/ little i any boat traic on a Monday!
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: Purple ghost 6" and brushog. I saw 3 ish eat brushog in willows and caught all 3.

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      Water Temp: 68

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Preished on Saturday then ished ABA teams on Sunday,solo. Caught some ish around tules and the ends o docksusing watermelon Senkos in size 9. Saturday boated 2 bass,but elt several ish, and didn't set the hook (purposely)On Sunday, caught only 5 bass or 11.41 pounds. Most omy ish were caught o Long Tule Point. The water clarity was about 1 oot. Pitched the senko, let it all to the bottom, twitched it a couple times then reeled up.It takes time to do all this along the bank and go over it, again and again, but it was the only pattern I had.
      City: Lincoln

      Tips: Fish are at the start o the post spawn blues. Look or deeper water patterns. Dock ends, rom what I hear, are starting to produce quality ish.

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      Water Temp: 67-69

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: FISHED TOP SIX SAT AND ABA SUNDAY .. SAT TOP SIX WE FISHED NORTH END OF LAKE OUR TEAM NEEDED ONE MORE FISH TO HAVE LIMITS FOR THE WHOLE TEAM 99 % OF FISH WERE CAUGHT ONSENKOS TIGHT TO TULES. WATER FLAT CALM .. SUNDAY FISHED ABA OUT OF REDBUD. SOUTH END OF LAKE WINDY AND ROUGH ..ROUGH .. TRIED TO GO NORTH TWICE BUT SAFETY DETERMINED TO STAY SOUTH. NARROWS JUST UN SAFE. FISHED CACHE CREEK . GOT 3 FISH FOR 7.42....
      City: SUNNYVALE

      Tips: WHATEVER YOU FISH PLASTIC. DEAD STICK IT. YOU TWITCH IT. FORGRT IT. LOOK FOR LINE MOVEMENT. CACHE GREAT WE CRAKED AND SPINNER BAIT ..

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      Water Temp: 70-73

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: ished two day tourney..no keepers... high visability in water. lots o ish cruising.. ish in our club caught were ishing slow..slow...slow and small...small....small going to lake or top six so will give more ino ater i return
      City: SUNNYVALE

      Tips: slow..slow...small..small....

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      Water Temp: unk

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: new guy on the lake and i need some tips and helpull hints.never ished clear lake beore i moved up here last all.couldn't get any ishing time in last all with new homeand yard to be done.ished buckingham, on the 23rd, andpicked up 4lb 5lb and 3 2lbers sight ishing beds.tried worms, jigs, plastic craws, and inally hit all myish with a gitzit in about 2 hours.late aternoon. i had tobury the jig head inside with hook closer to the rear.lots o strikes but nothing until i moved the head inside.
      City: kelseyville

      Tips: all ish came in 2 eet o water on clear gitzit withmulti colored lake.

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      Water Temp: unk

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: new guy on the lake and i need some tips and helpull hints.never ished clear lake beore i moved up here last all.couldn't get any ishing time in last all with new homeand yard to be done.ished buckingham, on the 23rd, andpicked up 4lb 5lb and 3 2lbers sight ishing beds.tried worms, jigs, plastic craws, and inally hit all myish with a gitzit in about 2 hours.late aternoon. i had tobury the jig head inside with hook closer to the rear.lots o strikes but nothing until i moved the head inside.
      City: kelseyville

      Tips: all ish came in 2 eet o water on clear gitzit withmulti colored lake.

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      Water Temp: unk

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: new guy on the lake and i need some tips and helpull hints.never ished clear lake beore i moved up here last all.couldn't get any ishing time in last all with new homeand yard to be done.ished buckingham, on the 23rd, andpicked up 4lb 5lb and 3 2lbers sight ishing beds.tried worms, jigs, plastic craws, and inally hit all myish with a gitzit in about 2 hours.late aternoon. i had tobury the jig head inside with hook closer to the rear.lots o strikes but nothing until i moved the head inside.
      City: kelseyville

      Tips: all ish came in 2 eet o water on clear gitzit withmulti colored lake.

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      Water Temp: 64-68

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the CVBC club tourney this weekend,(two days).Got lucky and won with 20+ on sat,and 12+ yesterday. Stayed in the South both days. Flipped senkos in the morning in tules,then went sight ishing when the sun came out,Getzits and grubs took care o the site ish.Had a ball and inally caught some senko ish including a 7.4 on sat.The lip bite or me seemed to die when the sun came up. I also caught a couple carolina rigged ish each day while the sun was low.(Brush hogs.)There are still ish roaming,and several on beds in the south.It didn't get pounded this weekend by the other tourneys.I think they mostly stayed in the north. I did spot Cooch working a bed ish though.I hope you got him!!! Anyway,I can't give speciic details as I've got more tourneys up there.This is enough to get someone started.
      City: San Leandro

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I agree with Mr. Mario Kelsay. I think that this lake SUCKS. It isn't even CLEAR. There are only our ish in this lake and two o them are dead.