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Friday, July 13th, 2012

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      Water Temp: 80

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Lots of fish in the dink to 2 pound range on the dropshot. Just look for bait with fish under them and drop down. Caught them from 15' to 28' on 4"-6" worms. #4 line seemed to get more bites than #6.
      Stripers also busting shad here and there.
      Water is at 673'.
      City: Santa Rosa

      Tips: Lots of wind and other water craft, so be careful.

Tuesday, July 10th, 2012

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 73-75

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: launched from Holland riverside 6 AM, LOW INCOMING TIDE.First spot only produced 2 small fish, second spot was zero, throwing senko and crankbait, ran to the south end of franks trak and stuck a 6 or 7 on 6 " senko fish was right up against the tullys, scooted over to the little tully island across from Holland Cut and the crankbait bite WAS ON!! caught 20-25 fish cranking a red and black Norman DD10; caught fish on every cast, tide was high still incoming.
      off the water at 11:45
      PeteD
      A.K.A. Procraft Pete
      City: Martinez

Monday, July 9th, 2012

  • Plumas County
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      Water Temp: 69*to 75*

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Provided by: profisher65
      So here is my fishing report from lake Almanor.  I was on the water @ 6:30 am and off by 7 pm. I started on the south east shore line throwing a 2 1/2"  Rapala jerk bait. I caught some smallies not much bigger than my bait. Lol. I noticed the the fish I caught were spitting out lots of 1/2" bait fish so I headed north and started drop shotting the Autumn Rose 3", and man what a difference in the bite. Every cast I was getting hit yet they were all 12" to 13" inches and I need 15" or       Bigger to win this up coming tournament. I decided to switch to the 6" bluegill pattern Atomic bait. I wasn't as sure about this pattern yet I'm glad I gave it a shot. I started getting the bigger fish. My best five weighed almost 12 lbs. awesome day on the water 20 plus caught. I'm telling ya getcha some of those Atomic Custom Baits @ atomiccustombaits.com. Good fishin.
      City: Carson city

      Tips: With the amount of bait fish it is a real finess bait so drop shot with 1/4 oz weight and a small bait 2" to 4" for a lot of fish or a 6" bluegill pattern for the bigger fish. Fish the first drop offs in 10' to 15' of water on the south east shore line. Good fishin!

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 74 - 78 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 off the water by 2:00 p.m. Basically no money, no gas, so no go any where. I stayed local and started fishing the mouth of Smith Canal and fished my way back to the luanch ramp. Mojo shotting Zoom Trick worms and wacky rigging them too. The best action today was back in the cove of the sail boat club where there was a good frog bite. Still some spawning going on as I hooked 3 pounder with the wacky trick worm the 8 pound female followed the male during the fight so I picked up my drop shot rod during the fight with the male. Hooked her also so was fighting two bass at the same time with two spinning rods. I sure wish I had the video camera running today becuase it would have made an awesome video. Ended up with 12 bass today with total wieght/5 fish limit of around 18 pounds.
      City: Stockton

      Tips: Be prepared for the unexpected. I always have a primary rod(currently in use) and a cuople secondary rods ready for a quick change. Example: If tossing a buzzbait and miss the hook up, slow the presentation down by using a Zoom Super Fluke. Just about works every time for me.

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      Water Temp: 70+

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched from Franks at 0800 and fished on the north side of Franks at the tullies and then moved to the San Joaquin and fished the shore tullies and island tullies across from Libordi Shoals and across from Venice Island. 7" senko green straight no weight and 5" senko green wacky with weighted hook. Later in the day switched to a 5" crawdad color for the wacky rig. 25+ fish from dinks to 3+ lbs.
      City: Morgan Hill

      Tips: Fished some of the same water when retracing path back to Franks with the differant color wacky rig and had good results.

Sunday, July 8th, 2012

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 82

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: This report covers the last two weeks of fishing at Lake Berryessa. I took my buddy Albert out with his two grandsons who call him Opa for the day and Albert tells me they are still talking about it. The boys names are CJ and Daniel and they had a good time and caught some nice fish (see photos). The next morning I took out Kenny and Larry for a full day of catching fish. They both are fishermen and I brought them to spots they never knew existed and they did very well. In all they landed over twenty fish and nice sized ones and learned some new techniques in the process (see photos). Early the following morning my friend Roger and I set out for a full day of fishing. I took him to many of my favorite spots on the east side of the lake and we ended up at the vineyards. He loved it there until the wind picked up. He caught two nice size spotted bass using a spinner bait and a grub for a trailer. We ended the day with limits (see photos). Kevin and I fished the following day and the water temperature was eighty degrees. We caught and released just under thirty bass and limited out on trout. It was a very successful day (see photos). Today I fished on my own on the west side using only senko worms and brass and glass and my largest fish was a 6 pound large mouth bass (see photo). As you can see it was a very busy couple of weeks but lots of fun and great fishing with nice people. 'til next time....................................................................good fishing!!!!
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      City: Napa

      Tips: brass and grass called them pro cure made them want to eat sharp hooks made it easy to set.

Saturday, July 7th, 2012

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 72-75

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: At S. Victoria by 6:30. froggin for 15 minutes with no blow-ups so went to Gr/prpl flk wacky weightless Senko. Slow to get hits in 2-5 ft but did get them. DK purp liz. also worked. Tried the rest of the tackle box off & on but nothing consistant. Outgoing tide was fierce and dictated how we fished. Also hit N.Vic, Middle River, Mandeville Is & N.Midred. Same dinks with an occasional 2.5 to 3.5. Oh yea, the Wake boats were fierce also.

      Tips: 4 ft tides means fast water. I should have planned for it.

Friday, July 6th, 2012

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 72

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: launched late (730am) at new hope...i put water clarity as clear but it fluctuated from semi-stained to clear in different areas... worked tules, cuts, and rip-rap throwing lipless cranks and speedtrap in red craw... picked up numerous dinks and 10-11"ers over weedbed tops with an occasional 1.5er... started working senkos in blk/red flk and junebug...picked up a couple nice 2.5lbers and one 4lber. Ended the day with nine decent keepers and at least 20 barely keepers...fun day on the crankin' and senkos.
      City: folsom

      Tips: not really sure but all of the above is what worked for us...didn't try topwater but felt like there coulda been some blowups. stayed with the favs...crankin' and senkos.
      btw...unless there's some kinda secret code, not sure if the prev report was just trying to be funny and hopin' it wasn't meant to be worse. would appreciate just real reports here. thanks.

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      Water Temp: bbq sauce

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched outa clifton court harbour about o100 hrs. Drop shotted used condoms around submerged cadavers. Hooked a very suprised phillipino fisherman, still in his boat!
      City: Newark

      Tips: pump on baby

Thursday, July 5th, 2012

  • Plumas County
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      Water Temp: 71* to 74*

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: So let me first say this report is for Antelope lake,ca just east of Almanor and I think for being a small impoundment it offers great bass fishing and me and Barry jr. caught two of the three spiece of bass. We caught them all on the drop shot again in the 4" Autum Rose and Desert Rose hand pour by Atomic custom baits and strike king shimmi stick in green punkin. Between me and little B we caught about 15 fish and are best 5 wieghted 12.13 lbs not a bad day for the first time on that lake.
      City: Carson city

      Tips: fish the south end of the lake for the bigger bite!

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 84

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished 2 days over the 4th. Tough bite. Caught 15 LM and spots all in the river area. Inconsistant top water bite AM and PM. Biggest fish 4+ on top water. Once the sun got high switched to dragging a carolina rig in 15 ft off points and caught fish. Picked up several on crank bait. Nothing on drop shot.
      City: Foster City

      Tips: Top water AM and PM. Carolina plastics the rest of the day. Try crank off and on all day on rocky shore.

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: 22 inch bass now will go 7 to 7 1/2 pounds that same fish with eggs 8 1/2 to 9 pounds
      City: madera ca.

Wednesday, July 4th, 2012

  • Mendocino County
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      Water Temp: 75

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Lake Mendocino just keeps getting better and better !!! We have been catching more quality and quantity of bass.... The smallmouth bass have really, really exploded in population ... We have been hooking into about 5 smallmouth's to every largemouth. They have been getting larger too. Pretty much landing a 4 - 5 -6 pounder every outing.. 80% of the time we getting them drop-shottin' . There is a good topwater bite EARLY. 5:15 am to about 7:00 am. POPP'R's have been working best for us. for more information go to 4reelfishin.com
      City: Ukiah

      Tips: SSSssshhhhhh, don't tell anyone. :)

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2012

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 75

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the outgoing tide in Disappointment Slough. Several dinks. Two had crawfish still in their throats so I switched to a red shallow crank and a red lipless crank. More dinks. Went to Potato Slough when the tide starting coming back in. Caught several keepers up to 3 lbs – mostly on a sexy shad shallow crankbait close to rip rap and weeds.
      City: Stockton

      Tips: There are lots of boats and wakes to deal with due to holiday crowds.

Monday, July 2nd, 2012

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 74 - 80 degrees

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Luanched the Custom Valco "BASSBUSTER1" out of Ladds around 9:00 a.m. and was off the water by 2:30 p.m. There was alot of early holiday boat traffic today and was hard to find calm water to fish. Cuaght 8 bass today using a shad pattern lipless crankbait as a search pattern and then slowed down mojo shotting same areas with zoom tricks for the better quality fish. Also enjoyed drop shotting the points along the main channel. The Delta Schooling Rig was a "No Go" with the warmer weather and increased boating traffic. Finesse was the ticket for me today.
      City: Stockton

      Tips: Mojo shot black colored worms where the boats chopped up the banks, if found clearer water then swithed to a junebug color. Earlier in the morning when water conditions were calmer noticed shad being chased towards the surface and near the banks.

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      Water Temp: 71.5

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched 715am at New Hope...outgoing tide but still on the high side. Started out at fav island near sycamore... picked up a couple 1 lb keepers and a bunch of barely keeper and dinks...mostly on light crankin'...so light we used ultra light spinning tackle...fun to catch. Moved to Mokulemne by b&w...managed a couple more keepers at the tules and a whole bunch more dinks and barely keepers. maybe 25-30 fish today but only 5 keepers. where'd they go? and low tide + wind + no more catch was the signal to go home.
      City: folsom

      Tips: have none...hopin' someone will offer up some tips on workin' low tide. we tried moving out further and working outside weedlines...all dinks. where'd the keepers go??

Saturday, June 30th, 2012

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 72

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Launched the boat at high tide, found fish shallow near point with moving outgoing tide willing to take a crankbait but they all shook off for some reason, just about low tide started throwing a 5" senko with no takers, switched to a 9" senko wackey rigged and caught three fish and they all had fat bellies, they appeared to want a bigger bait that moved more water.
      City: Martinez

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      Water Temp: 73+

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Wind. And a lot of it. Didnt let up at all. Also morning wasan hour or two of outgoing followed by slack tide. Worked around brannan island and adjaacent slough. I got 2 dinks in.quit early and started drinking
      City: livermore

      Tips: Buy a sailboat

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: 74

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Caught a limit on spinner baits before 8:00 AM, all over 3-1/2 pounds. Not the norm but not the only time either. Fishing it like a jig, pulling it off the bank in to about 20'-25' of water. As the spinner bait action died off, I switched to a Caroline Rigged Brush Hog and had steady action until about 11:00 AM, catching another 9 fish between 2 and 3-1/2 pounds.

      Decided to troll back and caught two small steelhead on a silver Little Cleo behind flashers and a 2 oz. weight, trolling at 1.5 mpg.

      Like I said, not the norm but what a great day of fishing (and catching!). Other anglers reported good limits as well.
      City: Rohnert Park

      Tips: On those calm mornings with clear water, keep a quiet boat, make longer casts to or on the bank, working down the drop. Work with the wind if possible. Work it slow, or if fast, lots of pauses.

Friday, June 29th, 2012

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 70-74

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: This week was filled with fantastic clients from mother/son teams single guys to father/daughter teams. The wind was issue at the begining but we used it to our advantage and put it to our backs and threw blades, lipless crank baits and swim baits. When we could get out of the wind we used drop shot, dart head worms, tubes and finesse jigs as well as swim baits. We took many large mouth and small mouth but of coarse the majority were slot spots. Many 2 lb plus up to 4 lbs this week mainly on the swim baits and on the lipless crank baits. Every day was different and so we had to find out what was going to be best each day. We fished the West Branch, Norh Fork, Slot and Main Body. The best thing however, was how wonderful everyone was.
      City: Paradise

      Tips: Keep changing baits to find out what the bass want for that day. It will probably change tomorrow so be willing to change with them. This time of the year reaction baits are working. Worms always work. Colors may change even during the day. Look for shade, mud lines, trees, steep walls and ambush spots of any nature.