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Wednesday, July 25th, 2012

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 75 - 83

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Wednesday 7-25-12, my buddy and I launched from Rivers End Marina at low tide (7:00 AM) and fished Coney Island. The tide had just started moving in. However, I don’t think it was the tide making most of the water move in but it was the large pumps at Rivers End. The last time I fished there, I actually saw the water running in the wrong direction, that is, toward the pumps rather than out as would be expected for an out-going tide. We ended the day at 3:30 PM with about 38 fish. One was 3 lbs 2 oz, a few were in the 2 – 3 lb range, many were in the 1 -2 lbs range and perhaps 7 were dinks. The first fish I caught was with a Texas-rigged 6-inch Senko. Then, because I missed hooking 4 fish in a row, I dropped down to a 5-inch Senko and started to catch fish again. Now the only problem was that I was only catching one or two fish per Senko before it broke in half. The solution was to rig the 5-inch Senko wacky style using an O-ring around the Senko. Problem solved. My buddy caught most of his fish drop-shotting a 6-inch RoboWorm. We found most of the fish stacked on a ledge where the water dropped very rapidly from about 3 feet to 10 feet. This ledge can be found close into shore or as far as 150 feet out in the middle of the channel. Just look for it with your depth finder. Fish were also caught around points with weeds and moving water.
      City: Pinole

      Tips: To save Senkos, rig them wacky style with an O-ring. Make sure the O-ring fits tightly around the Senko. If not, the Senko can slip out of the ring during the cast and be lost. For the hook, I prefer one with a wire weed guard that loops over the point like a Falcon Hook. Just make sure the loop of the guard is adjusted so it doesn’t get caught behind the barb and prevent it from opening when setting the hook on a fish.

Tuesday, July 24th, 2012

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 76

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: This is more of a Thank you than a fishing report. I happened upon a fisherman near Disco Bay, who was generous enough to share some topwater tips with me.I was able to utilize some of his tips and catch 5 fish on a popper, which is alot for me. No big ones, but they were fun. Anyway Byron, thank you for sharing your knowledge and I hope to see you again.
      good fishing!

      Johnny
      City: orinda

      Tips: keep it chugging.

Monday, July 23rd, 2012

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 84

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: For the past two weeks, fishing has been fair to good. The weather is getting warmer which intern makes the sureface water warmer and the fish go deeper for cooler water. The sureface was up to 84 degrees.
      City: Napa

      Tips: Wether the water is warmer or cooler fish look you and I still got to eat!!

Thursday, July 19th, 2012

  • Ventura County
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      Water Temp: 77-79'

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Hot summer day. Fished dead horse with topwater, drop shot first thing, no takers. Set up near dam with Berkley Havoc blk/blu Skeet Pit Boss 3/4 bullet weight flipping into grass. Caught a 4 pounder using a 1-2 jigging. Fish hit perfectly after secong jig and hard too, set the hook immediately. My only one for the day, but a goody!
      City: Oxnard

      Tips: Watch a video of Chris Lane when he won the Bassmaster classic 2012 flipping the Ugly Otter and use that style, it worked for me. I hadn't fished in a while, but I wanted to put a recent report. Flippin' in the grass with a big sinker and creature.

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 73-76

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Last week fishing was good but this week the bite has turned to HOT. My clients Thursday boated an estimated 75 bass from the bracket to a 2 1/2 lb large mouth. Many over the bracket on reaction baits and then senkos and worms in the afternoon with the reaction bite still on. It was a great day with fish all day even with rain in the morning. Hard to beleive it was July.
      City: Paradise

      Tips: I look forward to this time of year for the reaction bite and it is on!!

Wednesday, July 18th, 2012

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      Water Temp: 78

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Thanks Mark By the way I did release it so someone else can experience that fight it gave me
      Tight lines
      City: Atwater

Tuesday, July 17th, 2012

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 75

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Started at 5:30 am, got some slaps on a spook, no hookups. Back seater on Dropshot with basstrix style worms started catching right away. Fish early am were on windy or deeper side of long tappered points. Switched to a small cranck and picked up fish inmediately. Moved arpund as bite slowed and picked up a few on underwater humps with a jig and the drpshot. Moved to a rocky bank with big boulders and sandy bottom and picked a school of very active fish, dartheaded 5 inch worm worked best. Great day out. 20+ fish around 9 lbs for best 5. This lake is healthy and fun to fish
      City: Oakdale

Friday, July 13th, 2012

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 77 - 80 degrees

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Luanched the Custom Valco "BASSBUSTER1" out of Ladd's about 7:30 a.m. and was out of the water by 2:30 p.m. My original plans was to run to Disaapointment and White Sloughs today, but never made it that far. The bite was on in 14 Mile Slough between ski beach and "T" intersection that would lead to LVW Marina or Disappointment Slough. The awesome bite lasted until about 11:30 a.m. Between 7:45 and 9:00 a.m. I had 13 buzzing swimbait bites. Lost a duoble digit at the boat. I lost several so I no longer had confidence in the treble stinger hook I was using and switched back to single trailer hook. Today I had a total of 56 bites and caught/released 24 bass ranging from 2 to 7 pounds. The bite was wide open using buzzbait, spinnerbait, california swimming jig, flipped/pitched black jig w/sweet beaver trailer, punched strike king green punkin tubes, zoom super flukes double rig, mojo shot zoom trick worms, and most fun I had with was good blow ups was using my white frog as an open water topwater bait during the bottomed out low tide. I stayed in the main slough most of the time, but did catch a few of the bass in the two cuts flipping my jig along the outside weed line.
      City: Stockton

      Tips: Just about any thing and every thing worked today.

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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.