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Monday, September 17th, 2012

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 72 - 75 degrees

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched the Custom Valco "BASSBUSTER1" out of ladd's today about 9:00 a.m. and was out about 2:30 p.m. Junk fished today for LM bass and stripers starting at the Turning basin and spent most of my time fishing the Calaveris River. Mojo Shotting the bass with zoom trick worms and there was also a white senko bite. Using Rat-L-Traps as a seach lure cuaght bass and undersized stripers up to 18". Small jigging spoons was the ticket for catching mutiple stripers deep between 15 - 30 feet. The key was finding a good concentration of shad and thuroughly work the area.

      Tips: Have have your rods rigged for LM bass and the other half rigged for stripers to be ready for any opportunity that arises.

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 75-80

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Weather: CLEAR COOLING SLIGHTLY
      Lake Level: still dropping\Best Depths: 2-25
      topwater picked up, but everything is working. lv 500 would be my choice, the fish are keying on the baitfish more than crawdads
      Big Bass: 2-25see above
      reported to me this week a9.1 on a senko, two 10 + on bait and a14 on a jig
      Events: BASS fed this coming weekend
      Guide Information: Clearlake Outdoors\Name & Number: 707-262-5852\Pricing Specials/Open Dates: 10 % off show ABA card

      Tips: algae still blooming with the warm weather

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      Water Temp: n/a

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: rating it a 5 star it is on up here now and will stay that way right up till the first trout plant in nov then it well get even better for winter months coming up
      City: madera ca

Sunday, September 16th, 2012

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 70 - 74

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Tuesday, 10/16/12, there were only about 5 boats on the whole lake. My buddy and I fished from just inside Putah Creek all the way back to the Big Island. We marked a lot of fish in 15 to 25 feet of water and also a lot of bait balls. Also all during the day, many groups of bass were observed break water chasing shad. First multiple techniques were used to target the fish in deeper water and around bait balls with no success. Because we weren’t catching these fish, we started targeting the smaller fish that were chasing shad. Even though these fish weren’t very large we had a lot of fun catching them. We found one cove where there were hundreds of these small fish. They attacked top water poppers, and any small worm that looked like a shad. We found that by twitching a small weightless worm, a fish could be caught on almost every cast. We ended with over 40 fish in the 8 to 12 inch range. We only quit fishing because the air temperature went above 90º.
      City: Pinole

      Tips: If you can’t catch large fish have some fun catching a lot of small fish.

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 71

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Another great day on the delta! Throwing the Berserk Baits Mad Shad in the crystal green and crystal red and the Light smoke holographic colors. All thes can be purchased at baitbarn.net http://baitbarn.net/berkleybaits.aspx

      Tips: fish were holding in moving water and tight to the cover

Saturday, September 15th, 2012

  • Mason County
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      Water Temp: 72'-75'

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Started straight across from ramp in the weed patch. Picked up two dropshot fish, both around 1 1/2lbs.. Continued North along east bank picking up a few dinks. Boat traffic was minimal at that time. Wind and boat traffic picked up so we switched to cranking. Worked our way back toward the ramp picking up six fish between 1 3/4-2 1/2lbs. Top 5 around 10lbs.
      City: Santa Clara

      Tips: Fish are feeding mainly on shad. Most fish were caught in the chocolate water between 3ft. to 12ft. Strikes are violent. Very fun! Dropshot slow, crank fast. Tight Lines

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 73 - 78

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Saturday 9-25-12, my buddy and I launched from Rivers End Marina at high tide (6:30 AM) and fished Coney Island. Before the sun got on the water, we tried top-water baits with one fish and several boil ups. Once the sun was on the water, we switched to drop-shotting RoboWorms and wacky-rig Senko’s. The water was really moving fast during the outgoing tide so we needed to use heavier drop-shot sinkers to keep our bait on the target. During this period most of the fish were caught on 6-inch Roboworms on the inside of the weed line. In the periods just before low tide, slack tide and the start of incoming tide, we had good success using weightless Texas-hooked Senkos. We were almost dead sticking the Senkos in openings between the weeds along a long straight levee including a large turn at the end of the straightaway. The bite turned off, as the tide started to move real fast again. We ended the day at 3:30 PM with about 20 plus fish with the biggest going only 2 lb 8 oz. Most of them were in the 1 -2 lbs range with several dinks. We did see multiple large schools of what I presumed to be 3-inch shad.
      City: Pinole

      Tips: To save Senkos hooked Texas style, I tried the method recommended by “Fresnobassman” (Delta report 7-26-12). In this method your hook is pushed through a ¼ inch section of 3/8 shrink tubing that has been pulled onto the middle of the Senko. It really works. I did not break one Senko through five fish. Now, does anybody have a suggestion on now to prevent the tip of the Senko from splitting where the hook is inserted? After having to reinsert the hook several times in the split Senko, I resorted to cutting off about a ¼ inch.

Friday, September 14th, 2012

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 68.4 to 71.5

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Two weeks ago I found a new area for me. It produced 40+ fish, best 5 at 18+# with a 7.43 kicker. Today I got to the area at safe light, fished the area a little with good results. Them expanded the area and found more fish. Best 5 15+. Less fish in the morning but better fish. About 11:00 it went the other way, alot of fish in the 6" to 10" range with an occassional 2-1/2#.

      I had good luck on brown chatterbait, sexy shad speed trap, a small spinnerbait and green pumpkin Senkos.
      City: Antioch

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.