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      Water Temp: 49

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished ABA and bite was tough. Started in north end o lake hoping or warmer water and ound none. Cold ront and all. HookSetR stuck three ish and two came unbuttoned on the DUH jig. I caught one. We weighed in two ish or 5#'s.
      City: belmont

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      Water Temp: 53

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Sautrday-Bright clear day. Hook and I launched out o Library Park in Lakeport. Fished sparse tules by Lakeside (?)and I caught 3 LMB in the 2-3# range in the irst 45 minutes throwing a big junebug brush hog. Ran up to Rodman and ished the tules down about 300 yards. HookSetr caught about 8 ish in the same # range. His biggest went 5-6#'s. Caught all his using a 3/8" DUH jig with a Yamamoto twin trailer.Sunday-Miserable conditions-Windy and rainy. HookSetR and I only caught a total o three ish. The only ish I caught was an 8.08#er on the scale using the DUH jig.
      City: Belmont

      Tips: Fished sparse tules all the way back to the boat. Boat was in 5' water, casted to 2" and worked through tules

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      Water Temp: 50-53

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: ished the south end o the lake north o the boats workes cought 4 ish 2-4lbs 2 on blades & 2 on jerkbaits. kind o slow. ish were in 6-12t. o water. ished rom 8am till 2pm .no rain no wind just a nice day.
      City: Clearlake

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      Water Temp: 47-51

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Got into lot o good ish, Rippin a Pointer 78 and Staysee. I ished the south primarily o o rocky banks w/deep water. I kept the boat in 14-20 t. Earlier in the week, I cranked a Chartreuse 7aBomber and a Norman Suspending Deep Diver in Red. The better ish came o the Pointers and Staysee. Ater cranking in down I twitched the tip slow, like shaking a worm. Later in the week the ish liked the ast Rip. On one bank I got a limit o ish rom 3-7lbs. in 30mins. The colors that worked or me were Black Aurora and Chartreuse Minnow.
      City: Antioch

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      Water Temp: 49

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: FISHED MONDAY EVE-NIGHT WITH LARRY HEMPHILL WENT OUT OF LUCERNE AS THE WIND WAS BLOWING.CAUGHT ABOUT 12 FISH BY DARK . I GOT A COUPLE TO 4 LBS WITH JERK BAIT. THEY WERE HITTING WHILE THE BAIT WAS STOPPED. THEN WE CAUGHT THE REST ON JIGS.. BLAC/BLUE.. AFTER DARK THE MOON WAS SO BRIGHT IT LOOKED LIKE DAYTIME. A COUPLE BITES AFTER DARK BUT NO FISH IN BOAT . WIND BLEW ONE DIRECTION AND WOULD BE COLD. THEN IT WOULD SHIFT AND IT WAS LIKE A SUMMER WIND.. FISH IS SLOWING DOWN FOR WINTER.....
      City: SUNNYVALE

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      Water Temp: 51-54

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I ished with my younger brother on Monday and Tuesday. We arrived late monday and didn't start ishing until ater dark. Wind was howling so we didn't get to ar rom Rattlesnake but we managed to ind several quality ish including a 7.6 or my brother. Day ishing on tuesday produced lots o dinks to 1.0 on grubs and only three quality ish to 4 lbs on Crankbaits. Tuesday night was lat calm and some haze blocked the moon a little. We got to ish all around the lower hal o Rattlesnake arm and had a lot o bites only seven in the boat to 5.8 on worms, jigs, and crankbaits. I came back down on Friday to ish with Larry Hemphill. We started early and threw crankbaits a little or no ish. We started throwing jigs as the sun was lower. I had three bites until dark a 7lb 9oz, a dink, then a 7lb 6oz. Not a bad start. We at dinner at Konocti or an hour then went back out and headed south. We stayed on a quarter mile stretch most o the night and landed a total o 19 ish. I landed a at 8lb 10oz ish and larry had two 6.5 lbers or our best ive at over 36lbs! Best ten were just over 60 lbs!! Truly an awesome night.
      City: Arcata

      Tips: When there was cloud cover and the air was warm the ish were eeding well. As the clouds moved on the bites were much harder to come by. All ish came on jigs with grub trailers and 8"-10" worms. The bigger ish are just starting to eed, several were still rather skinny.

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      Water Temp: 54-52

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I used a pointer 100 minnow/ghost all day to try it out while my partner used jerk baits and cranks. We came up with 15 ish. Rocks/weed near deep water was our key. A ew ish came rom docks. We had two nice ish 6.7/5.2 rom the pointer minnow. It was cloudy and about 50 degree's with a strong wind on the main lake.
      City: marysville

      Tips: Pointer minnow (ghost) ish it slow with a jerk and twitch combo. Any water depth we ished produced.

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: We tried to beat the storm on Sun but it was already rolling in. Strong winds and heavy rain all aternoon but we still managed to catch around 15 ish rom 1-2.5 lbs in the rattlesnake arm. Most o them bit small pointer minnows and crankbaits in windblown pockets. Monday the wind started blowing out o the North but didn't get to bad. We ished rocky points and rees with cranks and jigs mostly and caught about 10 ish up to 5.4 with the best ive going 17-18. Not to bad or the day ater a major ront. We tried some night ishing at the areas we had bites beore but only had 4 smaller ish. On tuesday we decided to give the north end a try or a ew hours in the morning. It was partly cloudy with no wind but a little chilly. We concentrated on deeper rocky areas and caught ish on crankbaits and jerkbaits. Not a single bite on worms or jigs. Smaller ish were up around the docks, but we ound several good ish to 5.3 with a 16 lb+ limit. Also lost several heavy ish on cranks. Wished we could have stayed or the aternoon bite!
      City: Arcata

      Tips: With the water temp dropping pausing the crankbaits and jerkbaits a lot produced more bites. Jig bites came on a slow drag.

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      Water Temp: 61-63

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Saturday, Monday and a couple hours Tuesday morning.Several ish but all small. The best two were 2 1/2 lbs each.Fished mostly the south end. Water level down 6-7 eet andtemperature dropping. Caught our dragging peanut butter and jelly colored worm in 15-20 t on points. The rest cameon red Strike King Diamond Shad and Norman Deep Little Ncrankbait in shallow around docks. Could not get bit on deeprock piles.
      City: San Ramon

      Tips: Water level way down. Be very careul.

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      Water Temp: 64 - 68 F

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: The Float Tube/Kick Boat Invitational was held out o Rodman Slough on October 22 & 23. Winning weight was 24.07 lb, anchored with 9.65 lb big ish on Saturday. Second place was 24.01 lb, backed up with Sunday's big ish o 6.46 lb. Third place was 17.83 lb, ourth was 16.51 lb, ith was 13.98 lb, sixth was 13.87 lb, & 7th was 11.73 lb. Bite was tough or many olks. The lake level is down several eet, & heavy weeds are still present, constantly ouling many presentations. Nevertheless, lots o nice ish were caught, including two others in the 6 lb + category, one over 5 lb, and another just under 5. Great meeting o the Sonoma County Belly Boat Bass Club & San Jose Bass 'n Tubes. 21 anglers participated. Congratulations to Rob Belloni o calishing.com, who won Saturday evening's casting contest.
      City: Santa Rosa

      Tips: For more details, check out San Jose Bass 'n Tubes @ members.xoom.com/je_sxx, the Sonoma County Belly Boat Bass Club @ www.tweenit.com/scbbc, and calishing.com. Thanks to our many sponsors: Flowmaster, Uncle Josh, Bill Lewis Lures, Luck "E" Strike, Long's Drugs, The Outdoor Pro Shop, Lakeport Tackle, G. Loomis, Fenwick, & Luhr-Jensen.

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      Water Temp: 65-71

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished WCB TOC this weekend.Lots o wind on Sat.and only 2 ish or 6.99.Sunday was much better with 5 ish or 19.6 total and a 7.94 kicker.We stayed south all weekend,caught ish shallow with white and blue/chart speedtraps and also had a deep jig bite on rockpiles using brown jigs with #164 blue yamas twin tail plus black/watermelon yamas twin tail trailers.Most our better ish came on the jigs.Rock,wood and any hard stu produced.The lake has been hammered so slow down and work your spots slowly.Dan B.
      City: Carm. Ca.

      Tips: Crank your speedtraps slow and ish tight to cover.

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      Water Temp: 66-75

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the 100% Western Team Roundup. WOW! 283 boats and it was still great. Fishing was slow or many. Mike R. and I ound a pattern that produced 9 ish 1.5-3# or a 2 day limit o 18+. We just couldn't get the bigger ish we needed to round out the limit. All our ish were caught on blades ished on weed lines/patches in 3.5 - 9 eet o water. We ished the north end o the lake although some good ish came rom the south end also. Fish seemed to be concentrated on key structure and weeds. The weeds are dying o ast.
      City: Brentwood

      Tips: I you need small ish to round out a limit try small shad pattern blades ished close to weeds.

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      Water Temp: 73

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: American Bass Anglers Two day team tournament launched rom theAnchorage Inn- 6 boats.The lake level is down quite a bit, blue algae was at the north end o the lake, there were alot o silversides and babycat ish dying on riday. The weather was great, I ran to hendersonirst thing Sat. Morning to beat the 100% crowd, all those lights on the water looked awsome, didnt stick anything at Henderson,went to the other side o Konocti and picked up two ish. one on a brown Jig and one on a slider rig, red 4" worm, picked up two ishon a brown and black slider worm on sunday, inished 4th,First place had 25+ lbs or two days, not bad, they splitshottedworms, sunday they caught three rippin,seemed like alot o boats were heading south on Sat.
      City: Martinez

      Tips: I you ish Clear lake stay at the Anchorage Inn.Great hospitality and service with a smile.Lets hope we get some rain soon.Procrat Pete

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: We (CVBC) launched out o Redbud Saturday evening or our night tourny. My boater pre-ished the rocky points the night beore and got zero. So we decided to head towards Lucerne and Nice and lip the docks. Cruising right along to our irst dock when we get lagged down and someone needs to be towed in. Oh well, what can you do. Start ishing at about 8PM. Boater misses 2 ish right o the bat. I stick a 4.5-5#er on a 7" black power worm T-Rigged. Caught two more on a Junebug Brush Hog. Switched to wacky worming a Iovino S20C around the pilings. One ish broke me o. Boater had a pretty good night. He was throwing the 7" single tail Yamamoto grub T-rigged with a 3/16 oz. sinker. You know, the grubs Yamamoto were GIVING away in at the Rally. His biggest went 5-5.5#'s. He lost several BIG ish as well as I. But...so goes ishing. Overall a pretty good night.
      City: Belmont

      Tips: Flipped docks and pilings with medium and large sized dark plastics

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      Water Temp: mid 70

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: We made it down Sunday aternoon lake looked great until we put the boat in behind Rattlesnake. Wind and waves came up as usual. Looked or some topwater ish in protected areas but only had one blow up on a buzzbait, tried to hold worms and jigs on some deep rocks in the wind with no luck. took a break at konocti at dark and then night ished until about 3 a.m. or 9 ish in the 2-4 lb range all on worms.I got up at 9 mon. morning and started ishing some weed mats hooked one out o three blowups but she was a pig, 9lbs 1oz, by ar my best rog ish. Moved out to some rockpiles and landed a couple 1-3 lbers. Mon evening wind came up again and we went exploring on the south end struggled to catch some 1-2 lbers but I got a 5+ on a buzzbait right beore dark. Night ishing slowed down a little but we added 5 more up to 4.5 lbs. Tues morning ished in the narrows or 4 more average ish.
      City: Arcata

      Tips: We got more bites at night on 7" worms compared to bulky 8" or 10" power worms. A ew ish hit cranks at night though.

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      Water Temp: 74

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Great,Caught my ish at rock walls around lats with a black and white tube jig, which matched the bait, also caught ish in horseshoe bend- lipped one on a tule area near rocks, one was caught on a 4" predator brown paddletail worm way in the back o horseshoe, also caught ish o Hyway 120 with the tube.What a weekend!
      City: Martinez

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      Water Temp: upper 70's

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Caught some good ish during weekdays, bite was tough or me on weekend.White buzz bait between the poles at Rocky point produced ish each day and night.3" smokin shad tube bait on dart head around rock piles anddocks ater sun up. Watermelon brushhog dragged around deeper water during the day caught most o my better ish
      City: Tracy

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      Water Temp: 70+

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Wow! Outstanding ishing...caught good ish on deep docks in north end on rogs, spooks, cranks, plastics and jigs. Best ish was 7.66 and had many 4+ ish on jigs - black/red 1/4 oz Guido bug design with Yamamoto twin tail grub trailer (watermelon/red lake). Also, got some good ish on june bug Zippers with 1/4 oz bullet weight pegged 2" up. Used Real Craw liberally on all plastics and jigs.
      City: air oaks

      Tips: Fish thoroughly and slowly.

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      Water Temp: 70-75

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Lots o bites and about 10 to 15 ish each day 1-3#. Could not ind the big ish. Weather ranges rom calm and sunny to windy with drizzle and hit everything in between. Fish seemed to be holding on hard structure. Rock banks with tulies mixed in and tulies with wood mixed in. Could not get ish on pure rock banks or pure tulie banks (except at irst light). I only tried 1 to 9 eet deep, hard to break Delta habits. Had some good ish under docks on zipper worms. Nothing on rogs and I was bummed about it.
      City: Brentwood

      Tips: Colors or plastics did not seem to matter much, caught ish on every color I used. PB&J, Brown/orange, Rythm and Blues, and some others. White buzz bait at irst light. Brown and Orange jigs/trailers.

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      Water Temp: 58-64

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished two day club tourney with CVBC last weekend. the wind last week really messed up the bite,buuuuuut, some quality ish were caught by a ew .(not me) On Sat. the winner caught most o his 22+ lbs, w/a luke in the Lakeport Key's. On Sunday he cranked a deep diving crank bait at theSouth end,in the deeper water. He ended up with over 40 lbs. Not bad!Actually, the top three had good weight, over 30 lbs. There are sight ish that were starting to move back up. There should bean excellant lip bite this weekend. Brown/brown jigs, green lizards, Baby Bass lukes. Our new prospective member Tommy P, led our tourney on Sat, with 25 lbs. and a 10 lb kicker. Not bad orhis irst tourney.But he ished with me on Sun. and only boated one keeper.(I swear I didn't backseat him, hee hee.) I kinda wish I was goin back up again this week. Good luck to the WON.Tips Fish will be shallow,please put em back alive.
      City: San Leandro