Submit
Report

Northern California Lake Fishing Report

Limit:

Friday, February 24th, 2012

    • By

      Water Temp: 53

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: rite on glad to see others post. Fishing here is gona be slow for a bit still even when water temp goes up they still will be dificult to get, not many fish in the lake bad managment in the fishery. Yes there are alot of big spots in here mainly because the lake was so low for so long due to dam retrofit but there is still some big largemouths here aswell. Was out on sunday got only one a 5 lb spot. I fish this lake every weekend and you will get fishon drop shots and carolina rigs but generally small fish if you want to get hawgs be quiet and fish all terrain, very your speeds not alot of bass anglers so slow isnt always best i get alot of big fish flippin and power fishn but you have to be openminded untill spring worms and shad immitations work best deep channels w shallows near by, also for best results start early fish will shut off at 11 am good luck
      City: richmond

      Tips: be persisstant and keep this report goin

  • Sonoma County
    • By

      Water Temp: 52 to 57

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: The lake is at the lowest level since it opened for this time of year.It looks like November level. All the spots normaly fish are thirty feet up the bank.Fishing is not bad if you can figure them out.Only caught two in the 4lb class on Monday. Fished with Gene on this day and he schooled me.Six to one. Most of the fish were in the 2 to three pound class..
      City: Santa Rosa

      Tips: Gigs senkos and shakeyhead did the trick....

Thursday, February 23rd, 2012

    • By

      Water Temp: 52-56

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Crystal Clear water. Amazing clarity. Fish remain deeper (20-25 feet) moving up shallow later in the day. We caught nice 3-4lb fish in 10ft of less - but only after 4pm. Everything else was deeper. Find 20-25 ft water near deeper water, we got bit. Slow rolling spinnerbaits, jigs, plastics.
      City: Pacific Grove, CA

      Tips: If you want to get bit, fish SLOOOOOW. Not a single bite on anything moving too quickly. Mixed bag on size, a few fish in 1.5lb range, many 2-2 1/2 lb fish; a few 3lbs and better. Did find fish in 15-20 when the wind kicked up.

    • By

      Water Temp: 55

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Tough Day!! 1 on Dropshot and 1 on Jig! The Jig fish was a 3.5# Largemouth! Water was muddied from all the wind from All directions!! Water temp still cold but warming, 52 when started and reached 55 at the end of the day. Lots and Lots of Trout jumping everywhere we we went all day long. Saw an 8lb trout caught and lots of 3-5lb trout caught! The Bas fishing will get better the closer we get to April with the weather getting warmer the fish will up to spawn! Hope this Helps!
      City: Pinole

      Tips: Fish SLOWLY!!! Both fish came when just dragging slowly! Probably better for trout for now until water heats up to over 60 degrees! Please Post a report about your day, Every little bit helps everybody! Until next time Good Luck!!

Monday, February 20th, 2012

    • By

      Water Temp: N/A

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Didn't fish just went out to get info and prices for the year and get a feel for how the lake looks. It looks Great, water level is only 5ft from spillway, clarity is approx 2-4ft! Heard of some bass being caught and saw quite a few trout caught. Prices are reasonable not anything rediculous like they used to be!! If you plan on going quite a bit, do yourself a Huge favor and purchase an annual parking pass. It will save you $$ if you go often. Look forward to actually do some fishing this week after what I had seen today!! It looks Really Good!!
      City: Pinole

      Tips: If you or anyone you know goes fishing here for the day or often Please Post a Report! I never have but decided to start doing so and try to get something going for this local Gem of a fishery!! Monster Largemouths and also Magnum Spotted Bass!! That's Right, Magnum Spotted Bass!! The spots have taken over the past few years and have turned into Mags!! 4+lbs!! Let's get an active report column goin on this place, can't be just one person doin it, gonna take lots of help! So until next time, Hope this Helps and Good Luck!!

Sunday, February 19th, 2012

  • Napa County
    • By

      Water Temp: 53

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Weak fishing at berry this weekend. We hit the morning bite between 630am and around 11 and the afternoon bite between 2 and 6PM. Tried for trout and bass primarily. Turns out its a bit too early and the water temp a bit low for good shore fishing, which is all I ever do at Berryessa. We tried everything: hardbaits, salmon eggs, spinners, senkos and even live minnows with little to no results (one bite the whole trip.) We hit the same spots as always, under both bridges, in the coves.. better luck next time I suppose. Can't wait for warming water! Anyone having any luck?

    • By

      Water Temp: 53

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: There are kokanee and king salmon in Berryessa as well as Rainbow trout. Not sure of when or if it is planted. There is a kokanee project that you can see on the way out of Markley Cove. The cages on the left side at the end of the docks are for kokanee. I was there yesterday and caught 6 fish mostly on C-rigged baby brush hogs. The size was really nice with the best 5 pushing 14 lbs. We had a 4 lb spot and a 3 lb largemouth as our largest fish.
      City: Woodland

      Tips: 25-35 feet. Slow presentation.

    • By

      Water Temp: ??

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Heading up to lake next week for 4 days. Anything? Water temp? Jig, Senko, Jerkbait, Spinnerbait bite? Shallow or deep? Any basic tips appreciated. Fished this lake for 25 years, but looking for indicator before first (of many) long trip of year.
      City: Pacific Grove

      Tips: Email or post. Mark? Jig action?

  • Sonoma County
    • By

      Water Temp: 50 - 52

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Since we have been having such gorgeous weather, I was hoping the fish in Lake Sonoma might have moved into pre-spawn mode. Wishful thinking; didn't get a bite. I tried six different colors, sizes, and types of crankbaits, several different senkos, two different Brush Hogs, and two different football jigs with Smallie Beavers and Sweet Beavers. Fished depths from the shoreline to forty feet. Heck, I even tried to slow-troll nightcrawlers for Steelhead. After six hours on the lake and the loss of $40 worth of my best crankbaits, I called it a day. The day wasn't a total loss, though. Hardly any wind, sunny, and temperatures in the low 60s. Beautiful.
      City: Santa Rosa

      Tips: The water temperature around the lake was still pretty chilly. After the water warms up another five degrees, I'll give it another try. Also, the water level is very low and the lake is as clear as it was in September and October. As much as I hate to say it, we need a couple weeks of hard rain.

Saturday, February 18th, 2012

  • Amador County
    • By

      Water Temp: 50-52

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I decided to visit Amador since I was already in Sacramento. I launched at 4 pm, after one of Laurie Lockhart's great burgers!! I planned to fish yesterday because of the promise of cloud cover for the night. As usual this year, clouds came - and went within 2 hrs. All stars out by 7 pm. Before dark, I was fishing the Hemphill Special - a brown/orange Blade Runner jig w/ Yamamoto (#180) trailer and found the bite to be fair in the Jackson arm. My first 2 were hooked at 55 and 60 feet. So much for early spring movements to the shallows!! My next one was a nice one, 4 1/4 lbs, at about 25 feet. My final jig fish was 3+ lbs at about 30 feet. Just before dark I hooked another nice one but lost her. After dark, when the clouds left and the dew set in, I didn't have a bite! I left at 11 pm.
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: My bass were caught on walls and off-shore ledges. Nothing on points. Lake seems down about 20 feet - just guessing. The trout fishing pressure is simply amazing and am not sure what effect that is having on the bass bite. Another father/son team was fishing for bass and said they caught 5 or 6 fairly shallow before dark.

  • Solano County
    • By

      Water Temp: 54

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: First time I've been out in over a year. The fish are coming up for spawn. Saw a few big cruisers. Caught 2 and lost 2 on chatterbaits. My partner caught 2 toads on jigs and 1 hog on a speed trap.
      City: Richmond

      Tips: Black and blue was a killer today.

    • By

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Is it true that the back ponds reopened to fishing? if so any tips as to fish the arroyo right behind or island pond? Im gonna try and head out there this weekend
      City: Danville

Thursday, February 16th, 2012

  • Napa County
    • By

      Water Temp: 51 - 53

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Thursday, 2/16/12. Sorry for the late report. My fishing buddy convinced me to submit one with the hope of encouraging more people to write reports whether you were successful or not. I tend to only write reports about very successful days. However, both types of reports are a help to others to be successful. My and my buddy’s day fishing was not good but it was ok. All day the water temperature stayed between 51 and 53 deg and the water was clear to 10 ft. in most areas. In the morning, the main body had white caps. So we stayed in protected coves between the Capell Cove launch ramp out to the main body at Spanish Flats. We caught two spotted bass with one being just under 3 lbs. In the afternoon, the wind died down and we moved to the Big Island. Around one small island we caught 3 more fish within 15 minutes. All were on the steep sloping side of this small island. Two were small mouth and the other was a spotted bass. One small mouth was just under 3 lbs. Also, during the day we had several other bites and/or unsuccessful hookups. All fish and bites were in 10 to 20 ft of water on a very sloping bank. We tried crank baits, Senkos and jigs but only drop-shotting worked. Six-inch MM colored RoboWorms and 4-inch prism shad colored shad imitation were used. The total weight of the five fish we caught was 10 lbs.
      City: Pinole

      Tips: If you catch one fish in a spot, there are usually several more there to be caught.

    • By

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Hello Jwoodfisher, I'm not sure what species of salmon is at berryessa. I think its kokanee salmon and not coho. Do you know if you can keep kokanee and kings. I think you can keep kings. Don't oroville have kokanees that you can keep?
      City: san jose

  • Solano County
    • By

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: no blade bite. flipped worms in 6 to 12 feet of water. top of the high today. Fish slow
      City: stockton

      Tips: get out of the wind so you can fish slower

  • Westchester County
    • By

      Water Temp: low as the leve

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished lunchtime today Caught a nice 3.8 # LM Football on a reaction bait. THEN RELEASED HER ( belly full of eggs )Didn't see any fishermen on Rainbow nor a "Bucket " douche-bag fisherman. Wind was about 5mph fish was Lethargic and didn't fight much at all. I consider it a Lucky Day when i get one fish since i can go 10 times skunked. I only fish here cause i live a mile from here. Very tough lake and very few fish.

      BTW NO $$$ from the permits go to BASS it All goes to Trout and maintenance of the lakes. So i pay a fee to feed the trout fisherman. what a crock. Fish often for no Results.
      City: Freekmont

      Tips: Kick over the buckets you see with BASS in them. Make sure you give the "bucket fisherman" some sh_t for taking fish that are minimum of 3 yrs old. Make sure you tell them it's Mandatory Release for all Bass.

Wednesday, February 15th, 2012

  • Lake County
    • By

      Water Temp: 46-50

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched at lakeport with 30 minnows and good hopes. We drove to all the local holes and didn't pick up anything. The last hole we caught 4 nice fish within 20 min, three solid 4ers and one 5. Slow day but great being out on the water
      City: Santa Rosa

Tuesday, February 14th, 2012

  • Napa County
    • By

      Water Temp: 52

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Does anyone know if you are allowed to keep coho salmon at this lake? Also wondering where trout are planted. Which launch ramp? I guessing capell cove. Bass fishing is slow so I just figured I fish for other species.
      City: san jose

    • By

      Water Temp: 50-54

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: got on the lake kinda late today, caught 1 spot in about 30ft, good lookin fish around 2lbs...i wish the story went on but that was the only fish today. i was dargging a couple different jigs. real slow day but it just felt good to get out on the water! if anyone has ANYTHING helpful for berryessa, i could use the help.
      City: Dixon

      Tips: i wish i was the one givin tips, lol but i need em right now

    • By

      Water Temp: up to 54

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Dear Diehard,
      We trolled in six to eight feet of water using a Speed Trap lure that dives four to six feet deep. Please feel free to call me at 650-583-3333 for any other information.
      Thanks,
      Sid
      City: Napa