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Friday, August 10th, 2012

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

      Report: Caught a 5# largemouth yesterday in 1/2 day of fishing in the middle of the lake on the south end over 30' of water on a Spook. I was following where a sea gull was chasing baitfish. Fish hit 2 pulls of bait after splashdown on my 1st cast with the topwater. Only had one other bite. Landed 3 on Thursday up to 2.75#. Biggest on the Spook, a 1.5# on a huge worm shallow in the weeds, and a dink on a crankbait. Had 2 other blowups on the Spook and another miss on the crank.

      Tips: Not many fishing for bass but guys trolling 15' deep in Heron Bay reportedly pulled in 15-20 smallmouth.

Thursday, August 9th, 2012

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 78

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: on the water at 4:30am off at 9:30am. Looking for that early reaction bite. 2nd fish was a 3.5 spot on a modified black buzzbait. Caught 6 more in the first hour all weighable spots.Fished steep chunk rock keying on projections, points, and sides of points. Would not eat spooks, blades or rip baits. Found alot of bait and suspended fish on the side of points and no they would not eat an A-Rig. All buzzbaits.
      City: Norcal

      Tips: Stay on the chunk rock and then run shade. Get on the water in the dark and get off early.

      Good Luck

Monday, August 6th, 2012

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 79

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: The past two weekends have been very productive at the lake. The weather has been perfect and the fishing has been great. After going through a spell of catching bass under twelve inches this past weekend we landed some really nice size bass (see photos). My son Henry caught a 7.5 pound largemouth bass on a spinner bait going against the weed line. Not five minutes later his wife Sarah landed a 6 pound largemouth bass using brass and glass with a five inch senko worm. Both of these fish were caught in about four feet of water. My daughter Helene joined us later in the afternoon and within a twenty minute period she had landed three nice size bass. Not to be left out my wife caught a good size small mouth bass and a nice trout. It was my son's birthday weekend and we all had a good time on the water. On Monday I took Darren out for the day. I headed towards the Narrows and we fished the east side of the lake. The most enjoyable fishing for me is topwater and we were able to throw into a boil of feeding fish and get hit hard in their feeding frenzy. We went into the back of the ranch house cove and with my new pair of Hobie polarized sunglasses I was able to clearly see into the water and see the structure and fish luring in the shadows. We fished our way to the vineyards and I showed him my hot spots there. We headed back fishing the west side to Capell Cove and ended the day in that area.
      '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

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

      Report: This is a test for my computer.
      City: Yuba City

Sunday, August 5th, 2012

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 78

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Slow fishing. Muddy water due to traffic and wind. 2 sinks and a 3 lb LM. Very little activity on the surface. Lake seems dead for past two weeks. Water has dropped at least 4 feet from two weeks ago. Hopefully there will be enough water for the fall bite.
      City: Fairfield

      Tips: Fish your strengths. Drop shot in deep water is not mine.

Saturday, August 4th, 2012

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 78-81

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Troys report is pretty much dead on. The bite is not wide open but if you cover enough water you will find fish willing to bite. Friday fished from lakeport to shag, I had 7 fish mostly junk fishing biggest 4 lbs on a buzzbait. With the front coming in the next day I decided to stick with mostly topwater and had a much better day 11 fish alltogether, biggest 6.5 lbs on the buzzbait again and the frog bite was real good catching 6 of the 11 fish for the day.5 biggest in at 21 lbs.
      City: Winters

      Tips: Cover as much water as possible the fish are holding in small areas and sticking once you find them. I used the buzzbait to cover water and find fish then worked the area with the frog then later in the day returned with a punching rig for a few more.

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 80

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went fishing both Sat and Sunday up the pit arm. did well on Sat boating 15 dish and all were over 12 in which is good for me at Shasta. Fishing a Sammy type topwater bait in a white/chartruese color and following with a red worm dropshot rig. Sun. only fished for 2 hrs and boated 3 fish with one dink same pattern.

      Tips: Have fun and enjoy the scenery.

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Does anybody ever post a current fish report on this site any more?
      If not where may I get an accurate lake report for Shasta Lake?
      City: redding

Friday, August 3rd, 2012

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 71-72

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Launched New Hope 715am; headed straight to Sycamore area, island just before it. Picked up several barely keepers, 1 and 2 lbers on downsized shallow crank in red craw (rick clunn rc2) which i had to use spinning gear, and 1/4 oz red eye shad in red craw w/chartr belly. picked up a few more along the wall and tules with junebug senko. ran up to mokulemne to fish the tules and picked up more 1 and 2lbers with the shallow cranks and senkos...junebug senko brought in a 2.9 which was best for the day. nothing real sizeable. also threw spro frog (green/white belly) and had 6-7 blowups and only 1 took it down.. 1.5lber.
      City: folsom

      Tips: we worked the cranks at diagonal from tules out crossing the weedlines. hits came between tules and inside weedline or just as it passed over and just past the outside of the weedline. senko hits came inside the weedline or just outside as it dropped after dragging it across the top.
      please post your reports without the smack talk. thanx.

Thursday, August 2nd, 2012

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 80

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Well, good day today, caught 5 bass, both lg mouth and small mouth. The largest was caught on a brush hog / about 2 lbs. The rest were on minnows.

      Never caught more than one at any location, just kept moving. Its been a long long time since I caught and released 5 while fishing Berry.w
      tx al
      City: Esparto

  • Lake County
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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: The Fishing at Clearlake still remains fair with very little changes from the typical summer patterns currently working. We are starting to see big schools of juvenile bass (three to four inches in length) congregating in the backs of marinas & protected coves. As the summer goes on & the lake level continues to drop, these juvenile bass will begin to make there way out into deeper, more oxygen rich water, which in turn should improve the topwater & swimbait bite. The North end of the lake is still heavily weeded over so keep on the move untill you locate the fish. If you should get a blow up or catch a fish, chances are ther are more fish in that area, so fish it thoroughly. Your best bet for being successful in the north end is to get on the early morning topwater bite which happens pretty fast like 5:30am to 8am and use buzzbaits & Super Spooks. Mid lake & the south arms have been kicking out some decent numbers of fish on deep rockpiles and docks adjacent to deep water with crawdad pattern jigs & crankbaits. There has been some fisherman doing well fishing at nite at places like Shag rock & Henderson point using dark colored jigs & drop shotting worms. The Catfish action is definantly hot right now with fish ranging from five to fifteen pounds being caught on cut baits & nightcrawlers in both shallow & deep water all around the lake. One thing is for certain, there has been very litlle fishing pressure out there. The lake has been like a ghost town mid week with very few boats on the weekend. Troy Bellah (Clearlake Outdoors)
      City: Lakeport

Wednesday, August 1st, 2012

  • Solano County
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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Way to go MF Kenny, Your report was so obnoxious you actually managed to shut down the reports page. Just keep your illiterate thoughts to yourself. I think we will be just fine without that huge steamer you submited as a fishing report.

      I launched out of New Hope and headed down the moke at low tide. I was suprised how clear the water was and as I move back in Hog, it cleared even more. It was a cool to see the holes in the hydrilla way in the back. I threw a whith 3/8 oz chatterbait with a 3" lake fork shad swimbait as a trailer. Tons of fish in the 1-2 pound class in the holes. No takers on the frog but a couple blow ups. I moved to the main Moke and started to really catch them on the chatterbait. Started to find fish on the frog as the tide came in but nothing big. Topwater bite didnt really happen at dusk but a pretty good day overall.
      City: West Sacramento

      Tips: 3/8 oz chatter in white with 3" shad lake fork trailer where you find current. Ish fat frog in Da Man worked pretty well. I think the big ones are deeper but in the same areas with current. Good luck. Submit reports not garbage.

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

      Report: Caught 4 LM yesterday, biggest was just under 8#. Caught 2 today in half a day of fishing. None of the other LM went over 2# and all fish caught on a deep diving shad crainbait thrown tight to shore and worked out deeper. The biggest hit on the splashdown 1 foot from the steep bank. All were caught in the shadows.

      Tips: Cover water. Tube, carolina rig, jig, swimbait all wasted a lot of my time before going for reacton strikes. North end is better than south end per my last 2 outings the past 2 months .

Tuesday, July 31st, 2012

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 80 degrees

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Well finally got the "Stink" off my fishing pole.
      Caught one (1) lg mouth @ 2 lbs 6oz. Much nicer
      size than I usually catch! Used a 7in plastic worm tea color rigged "Carolina". The cast was 6 in from
      the shore line and must have hit him on the head, scarfed it up pronto. Sure could handle about 5 of them!
      tx al
      City: Esparto

  • Lake County
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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the lake Friday evening with buddy Mike - up until midnight.

Sunday, July 29th, 2012

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 78-79

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Finishing the previous mini-report, Mike and I found the bite to be pretty good. I had a slow trip - only landing 2 - but caught the biggest - a bit over 5 lbs. Mike had a great trip landing around 12 or 13 - several in the 4 to near 5 lb range and brought a 6+ to the boat which broke his line! Our limit was 22+ lbs.
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: I fished a frog quite a bit up to sunset without a hit. Sad! The worm and Senko bite was pretty good. After dark we found fish quite shallow - hitting Berkley Havoc baits and brush hogs. The hour before dark produced the best bite- after dark was spotty. We pretty much stayed in the Clearlake arm.

Saturday, July 28th, 2012

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: who cares

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: tide smide get out and fish topwater tight on rocks ton of blow ups bigger fish we eat a frog you want a bunch of dinks throw a senko deep water tullies throw a jig nailed a 6 slow down fish are there work frog slow over weeds fish will eat it got a 3& 4 slow down and enjoj aint put egos aside aint nobody KVD out here all you guys with 250 on the back of your boat dont mean nothing so just shut up and fish
      City: brentwood

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      Water Temp: --

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Thank you Fresnobassman for your tip on using shrink tubing to rig Senkos. I think this is a great idea to prevent Texas rigged and wacky hooked Senkos from breaking. I will definitely try this the next time I go fishing. I will also add that shrink tubing comes several colors so you can try to match it to the Senko. The innovativeness of fisherman always amazes me. I also appreciate your willingness to take your time and share this idea with many other fishermen. Personally, I also enjoy helping or sharing information with fisherman out on the water or at the dock.
      City: Pinole

Friday, July 27th, 2012

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 78 - 79

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Friday, 7/27/12, the good thing about fishing Friday was the beautiful day on the water that my buddy and I shared. The only issue was that we were fishing but not catching. We tried North, East, South and the Narrows and if we would have had more time, we probably would have also fished on the West side. We did manage to catch a few small fish in about 10 feet of water. And according to other fisherman at the dock, they were having about the same success. We caught our small fish drop-shotting Roboworms. The guys at the dock said they were using Senkos. During our search for fish, we observed on the fishfinder many large bait balls. These were usually in at least 20 ft of water. Almost always, there were a group of diving birds nearby. Deep diving crank baits and swim baits were pulled through these bait balls with no success. Perhaps, jigging a spoon might have worked but we didn’t try this.
      City: Pinole

      Tips: Does anybody have any tips on how to catch summer fish on Lake Berryessa?

Thursday, July 26th, 2012

  • Solano County
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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: We fish the Delta frequenly and noticed the tip on using o rings on senkos. Try our method of using a short piece of shrink tubing. 3/8" will work for 5 and 6 in. senkos. just cut pieces of tubing about 1/4" long and work it up the senko from the pointed end. you can strech the senko slightly while installing. the fit is tight. run your hook into the shrink tubing about 1/8" and back out again. the hook sets perfectly perpendicular to the senko and the shrink tubing is super strong and can be used over and over again. you can catch several fish on each senko this way. its a great alternative to o rings and the worm cant slip out. works great. heading to delta sat. will report then...good luck guys.
      City: fresno