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Thursday, September 13th, 2012

  • Yuba County
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      Water Temp: 76-79

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I made my first short early fall trip to Collins yesterday afternoon since the summer crowds are now gone. And - I was almost a hero! I was throwing my favorite Chug Bug topwater bait in the evening and hooked a big bass - well over the 5 lb range, but quickly lost her. There was shallow rock present and was lucky to get my lure back as she frayed about 2 feet of line on the rock. I lost another good one in the 3 to 4 lb range. Overall, the bite was slow. I caught 3 dragging a morning dawn Robo worm, and one on topwater - and a bluegill on topwater! Bass were all in the 2 lb range. Big fish might be about ready to show - probably another 2 or 3 weeks. Water need to cool a bit.
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: Look for areas that have a deep drop-off. When the lake drops, there are a lot of flats that just don't hold fall fish. The jig bite well pick up soon. I saw some shad on the surface, but only a few bass chasing them.

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Water is too low to launch trailer boats.
      Car Tops and float tubes OK.
      City: Monterey

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: 69 - 72

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Saturday, 10/13/12, We started fishing halfway back into Cherry Creek with top water baits. A couple of small ones were caught. As the morning sun hit the water, the top water bite turned off. A lot of fish were observed on the fish finder in 15 to 30 ft of water along with a lot of bait balls with fish near by. Multiple techniques were tried to catch these fish. Only a small 4½-inch RoboWorm worked. We even found that a 6-inch worm of the same color did not work. Very few fish were caught further than halfway back into the creek. Our fish were caught in the first half of the creek, also just outside the 5 mph zone and on the south west side across from Cherry Creek. More fish were generally caught in areas where the bass were breaking water chasing shad. We ended the day with about 30 fish. A few weighed 1 to 1½ lbs. with one weighing 4 lbs 3 oz. All the rest were in the 8 inch to 13 inch range.
      City: Pinole

      Tips: When fishing with artifical worms, size matters. If the fish are not biting on larger worms, down size. The opposite sometime also works.

Wednesday, September 12th, 2012

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 68

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Today we fished some new water in the west Delta for stripers. We fished with Rat l traps, jerkbaits and swimbaits. Caught all our fish with Rat l traps and swimbaits. We covered a lot of water from 12 to 6pm and ended up with 12 fish to 13lbs. most in the 3-5lb range. Yesterday evening around 630 we caught black bass and stripers at the bottom of the tide at Big Break. We caught a keeper black bass and had a giant striper hit it at the boat. That was exciting!
      City: concord

      Tips: For stripers: cover water either shallow flats near deeper water or shallow cuts along the main river. slow roll the swimbait. I like white or pearl fish traps.

Tuesday, September 11th, 2012

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 74-77

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: What a weird day out on Folsom. I went out with a buddy at 7am didn't catch a fish til 11:30 tried plastics,jigs,wakebaits,swimbaits and the A-Rig with Nothing!! Then we figured it out and I caught a very nice spot it weighed 4.13 burning a dd22 shad I mean the onlyy way I could get bit at all was to get that instinctive reaction bite reeling that thing fast. Ended up with 13 fish total off the water by 3 it was a lot of fun hope this helps you guys during this tough bite right now... Tight Lines!!
      City: Orangevale

      Tips: Fish 10 to 25 feet on any structure you can find which is pretty muchy only rock buecause of the water levels then you need to put the motor on high an cover some serious water till you find them once you catch them stay and work that area harder...FISH ON!!
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Monday, September 10th, 2012

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 71 - 75 degrees

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Luanched the Custom Valco "BASSBUSTER1" out of Ladd's today around 8:30 a.m. and was out by 2:00 p.m. Fished 14 Mile Slough using Rat-L-Traps, blk/red jigs, and mojo shotting zoom trick worms. Big LM bass went 3 pounds on the jig. Searched with the rat-l-trap then slowed down with the jig or worm. Tried looking for stripers also in main channel using my delta schooling rig and had a jigging spoon ready to go as a back up. Water temps are still a little warm, need it to drop into the 60's again.
      City: Stockton

      Tips: Transition time is coming, it was mostly a finesse bite for me today. Have fun and be safe out there.

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Launched out of B&W at 6:30 and fished til 5:00, fished potato slough, started punchin and stuck a 3.5 with an all the options punch skirt and crazy legs chigger craw, good start to an extremely tough day to say the least, tide was extremely low til about 2, thought the incoming tide might produce but the fish just werent up shallow so i put down the flippin stick and went to the zappu head with a 7 inch berkley hand pour and caught 5 more fish but nothing over 1.5 pounds.
      City: Sac

      Tips: I dont have a temp gauge on my boat but the water is considerably colder than it was a couple weeks ago i had to fish extremely slow besides the one punch fish, big thanks to westernbass tv! i know time on the water is the best way to learn but the techniques ive learned through watching pringle, barrack, cooch and tosh, have put a lot of fish in my boat this year!

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 75-80

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Weather: warm days and cool nights a little smokey from the fires
      Lake Level: 1.92 above rumsey\Best Depths: 2-25
      Lv 500 bite has taken off, everything is working . south end seems to be producing big bags
      Big Bass: 2-2509/09/2012 - largemouth - 8.90
      lots of good weights in the bobs marine.
      Events: I heard 47 pounds won the bobs marine but I havent seen results yet
      lots of events coming in the next two months
      Guide Information: Clearlake Outdoors\Name & Number: 707-262-5852\Pricing Specials/Open Dates: 10% off ,show your ABA card

      Tips: Fish swimbaits, rattlebaits,shallow early then move out, frog bite is better than it has been

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 75

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: On the water early, really slow buzzbait bite with a 5 degree drop in the water temp. Rat bite was slow, caught 2 nothing to brag about. Started to run main lake points and found bait and fish at 30 to 50 feet and tried spooning them with a DUH Spoon. Rick's spoon. Caught over 20 spooning. Look's like the fall spoon bite is getting started. Off the water at 11:00 am
      City: NorCal

      Tips: Move agound until you find them and put it in their face.

Sunday, September 9th, 2012

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 78

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: This past week I took Albert out for a full day of fishing. We fished the west side of the lake and caught limits of bass up to five pounds all on reaction baits (see photos). The late afternoon bite was the best. '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: reaction baits work best this time of year

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Sorry, here is the revised schedule. There will be NO September Tournament! The rescheduled Tournament will be Sunday December 16, 2012. Here's the revised schedule:
      ANGLERS CHOICE
      2012 – 2013 Berryessa Pro Team Schedule
      September 29, 2012 – Saturday(Canceled)
      November 25, 2012 – Sunday
      December 16, 2012 – Sunday(Rescheduled)
      January 20, 2013 – Sunday
      February 24, 2013 – Sunday
      March 24, 2013 – Sunday
      April 21, 2013 – Sunday
      May 19, 2013 – Sunday

      BLAST OFF OUT OF MARKLEY COVE
      FOR INFORMATION CALL DUKE AT (530)795-2659 OR EMAIL dukekalani@yahoo.com
      City: WINTERS

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 70

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: hey riverron...i stand corrected (i think)...if you were in north mokulemne, you were probably legal. i get confused with these regs....
      we launched new hope and fished fav spots from island at sycamore to moke just around the corner from b&w. picked up many dinks and 1-2lbers on red craw and sexy shad lipless and squarebill cranks. that many more on junebug and monster shad senkos either right at the tules or on both sides of the weedline.
      City: sac

      Tips: we worked the area with the cranks and then went back and worked again with the senkos... or vice versa. each time we hit it we'd pick up at least 2-3 on the return. we did this because our boat drifts quick and trolling motor isn't real powerful (55lb) so we miss alot of spots. we also lightened up and even used light spinning tackle to throw downsized cranks and they like those small baits.... fun too on the light tackle.

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      Water Temp: 70

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: RiverRon...better check your regs...I don't think the area you fished for Salmon is open. I could be wrong but that part of the Mokulemne might be closed. If I'm wrong, just take this as concerned so you don't wind up with a huge fine from DFG. They'll be waiting at the boat ramps and checking.
      City: sac

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

      Report: Took the kayak out today and fished the south end of the lake from 9 AM to 1 PM. Caught a 1 lbs largemouth from a drop shot roboworm and a 2-10 largemouth from a buzzbait before the winds kicked into gear. Found the two bass in the large groups of grass in the 5-8' range. Couldn't get a bite nor did I see any activity on the lake once the winds started.
      City: Livermore, CA

Saturday, September 8th, 2012

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 78-84

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Friday afternoon I took three people (me, myself, and I) for a relaxing dusk/night trip. Fishing was ok and the night was absolutely gorgeous!! The normal east night breeze forgot to show up and after midnight the last quarter of the moon rose. Talk about peace and quiet in God's beautiful outdoors!!!
      The bite was real spotty, but good quality for early Sept. I saw a few quality bass chasing shad but they would not hit topwater. I caught one on a Blade Runner jig before dark and missed two other - one a good sized bass. After dark I put the 10" Berkley Power worm to the test and most of my hits were on that bait - about 20 to 30 feet deeep. I only wound up with 6 in the boat and 5 or 6 missed bites. They were all from 2 to 4 lbs and looked very healthy. Pretty nice limit around 15 lbs. I caught them all over the lake with most on points. Off-shore structure seemed to be dead for some reason in spite of the fact the lake is dropping. No weedbeds left.
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: I'll bet the first light bite would be the best time period. I was planning to stay for that and then having one of Laurie Lockharts famous breakfasts, but remembered there was a bike event near Rancho Seco and didn't wanted to have delays on the way home. The lake seems to be down about 25 feet and the ramp is at the left-turn section now - but launching is still ok. Though last night was beautiful, there was no surface action of bait or gamefish - no noise from crickets or birds. Very quite night.

  • Mason County
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      Water Temp: 73.4

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Finally got my boat on back on the water after a 10 month hiatus due to my slow progress on recarpeting her.

      Launched around 12:00 and took 3 laps of the lake to burn of the bad gas and get the RPM's back to normal.

      Lake is very low. Island to the left of the ramp is fully exposed. Both the North and South shallow ends are now dry land. Trees to the South of the bridge exposed.

      Was very windy all afternoon. One blowup on a frog in the weeds and that was it.
      City: Monterey

      Tips: Don't let gas sit in a half empty fuel tank for 10 months without putting in some stabilzer. The ethanol pulls water into your fuel tank!

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      Water Temp: 72'-74'

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished North end in 3ft. to 6ft.. Caught one 1 1/4lb. on Robo Oxblood red flake 6in. dropshoting along weed line. Boat traffic was nuts! Got off by noon.
      City: Santa Clara

      Tips: Fall is almost here. The fishing is about to get good. The boat traffic will lessen soon. We hope! Tight Lines

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

      Report: Fished the weekend. Only fished AM and PM nothing mid day. Caught 25 bass mostly spots. There was a hit and miss top water bite and a good crank bait bite PMs. Picked up a 7.4 lbs and a 3.5 lbs LM on a top water plus a bunch of smaller spots. The crank bait fish were all spots on a 1.5 KVD crank on steep rocky banks. Nothing on carolina rig or drop shot.
      City: Foster City

      Tips: Fish top water early AM and after 6:30 PM. Mix casts with a crank bait to see what they want. Work steep banks with large chunk rock close to the shore casting parallel to the bank.

Friday, September 7th, 2012

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 70

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished my spots on the San Joaquin and Potato Slough in the morning and caught several bass on crankbaits but nothing over 2.5 lbs. Decided to take a break around noon to try my hand at trolling for a salmon in the Mokelumne River north of B&W. All of the reports so far said you needed to be in the Sacramento but I decided to try anyway while eating lunch. Fished for about 15 minutes and then wham! The line screamed and a nice big Chinook was on and 20 minutes later it was in the boat. I’m normally a bass guy - this was my first salmon. What a blast.
      City: Stockton

Thursday, September 6th, 2012

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

      Report: The lake level is all the way up to the tules now, a rise of maybe 5 feet in the last few weeks. Fished yesterday and caught 3. A LM on a crankbait early and 2 SM later. Got a SM on the deep crank today and a LM on a worm in the weeds. The biggest was a 2# SM. Had a huge fish blow up on a Zara Spook type lure early today on a point but I missed it.

      Tips: Fish north end. All but 1 caught there.