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Friday, September 9th, 2011

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      Water Temp: ??

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Took the pontoon boat out on Saturday of Labor Day weekend and this Friday. Caught fish on jigs, paddletail, dropshot, senko and hags tornados; got a bunch of swirls and misses on the repo man and transporter as well but no takers. Bigger fish came on jig, deadstickin it. You can catch fish at will off of main/secondary points in 20 ft range on a dropshot, lots of dinks - margarita and morning dawn chartreuse.
      City: Sacramento

Wednesday, September 7th, 2011

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

      Report: On the water at 7am and weighing in an 11.2 pounder and a 4.5 by 8am before releasing. Missed another large bass I thought I stuck well but it came unbuttoned after a short fight. Went back out after the picture and caught another 13 fish by 11:30am, although nothing went over 3 pounds. Missed more bass than I caught.

      Tips: It was extremely hot and calm, a combination I have found that works for me on this lake. Don't be scared to throw a weird color or a bait you would not normally use. I took a chance and combined the two in one lure and got rewarded with my 2nd 10+ pounder, both out of this lake. Use heavy line. The big gal got me in some wood a couple times during the fight and I had to ease off a little to unsnag her. I never would have landed her in the area I was fishing with light line.

Tuesday, September 6th, 2011

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 72

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Great day in whites caught 22 fish with best five right around 19 pounds. Frog bite was good north of ski beach and bass are on a BIG TIME shad pattern. Threw kvd's 2.5 shad pattern cranks all day and knocked them out. When current stops make your way out towards the mouths of the main channels and crank the current. Found a few dead shad spit up in my livewell so throw shad patterns it was a great day on the delta.
      City: stockton

Monday, September 5th, 2011

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 70 - 75 degrees

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: The Custom Valco "BASSBUSTER1" stayed in the garage today as I was invited by a co-worker/friend to go fishing in his bass boat today. We concentrated in the 14 Mile Slough and Disappointment Slough areas. The challenge was looking for calm water to fish and staying away from the crazy holiday boating traffic. We were in the water by 7:00 a.m. and out by about 5:00 p.m. I concentrated on flippen/punchen the heavy cover with sweet beavers and pitched the edges/pockets of the heavy cover with wacky red senkos from the back of the boat. My friend had texas rigged his senkos using black/red flake and also using my red senkos. The bass were preferring to be located under the heavy cover around shadede areas and close to current preferably. 8 bass were caught today, largest went 5 lbs. caught on the wacky red senko pitching to the the shade of an overhanging tree in the disappointment slough area. The bites in the hyacinth were aggressive as I noticed I had spooked a cuople frogs out of the areas I flipped/punched the sweet beavers (Oxblood 3/8 oz wt & Black/red flake 3/4 oz wt.)
      City: Stockton

      Tips: With all the heavy boat traffic today we concentrated around the heaviest cover we could find. Working the edges and pockets first for the aggressive fish first then moved in closer to flip/punch the heavy cover where the bass had buried themselves in to get away from the "Holiday Shock".

  • Trinity County
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      Water Temp: 75

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: OK.... What did you guys do to the lake while I was gone? Yeah, I know you filled it up (which is pretty cool) but where did you hide the fish? I know it's the dog days and all that, but the fishing has been pretty sucky from what I could see. Anyway I'm back to Maine for a few weeks, then I'll be back to try to figure out where they all went. Late Oct ought to bring on a topwater bite. I'll let you know.
      City: Weaverville

Sunday, September 4th, 2011

  • Mason County
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      Water Temp: 76

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Labor Day weekend and the lake was really crowded with wake boarders. Fished 2 hrs from 2-4 Pm. Caught 10 bass all under 2lbs. With the boat traffic coming very close I was surprised to boat any fish. The pattern was mud lines. Caught all fish on a drop shot 4" worm shallow along mudline breaks. Was teaching an 8yr old how to fish so he got to reel in a lot of fish and is "hooked" on bass fishing so to speak.
      City: Foster City

      Tips: Fish mud lines shallow with drop shot. Wind & boat wake induced waves from deep to shallow water helped position the fish

Saturday, September 3rd, 2011

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 82

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Made two afternoon trips 9/1 and 9/3. Bite is not wide open ,but not bad. Best fish on 9/1 was a 3lb. spot and 9/3 was a 4 lb. spot. TYhe lake is super healthy and so are the fish. I have not seen summer bass this healthy in a long time. Lake is laoded with shad.
      City: Sonora

      Tips: Best fish came on 3/8 Sculpin and Xmas Tree Pro Guide Jigs. Best depth is 8 to 20 feet.

Friday, September 2nd, 2011

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: ??

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Friday after work from about 4pm till 8:30pm in the Warm Springs area. The top water bite kicked on after 5pm using poppers, buzzbaits and a frog. We caught several nice bass up to about 3 lbs. The bite slowed as it got darker.
      City: Rohnert Park

      Tips: Look for the grass areas along the shore. Fish the edge of the grass or over the top with a frog. If you find grass on a point spend some time there. There is a lot a bait jumping in the evenings so keep your eyes open for surface action.

Thursday, September 1st, 2011

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

      Report: Fished White's Shough this afternoon/early evening for a good frog bite before the current quit. More blowups than hookups, sadly. Fish really weren't eating the bait, just merely slappin' at it. My girlfriend stuck a 5 and a four, all the rest were average delta keepers.
      City: Dixon

      Tips: Stay with the current

Wednesday, August 31st, 2011

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 80*

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Tues and Wed in Rattlesnake/south end. Tons of dinks, with a some good fish thrown in. The little guys seemed to be closer in to the tules, though there were exceptions. Got them on everything, small 4" senkos, jigs, curly tail worms. They really liked the jig, got most big fish dragging jig slowly on outside weedlines in about 15'. Whalen cove and thereabouts was most productive. Two 30 + days, lots of 1lb fishsticks. Keeps it interesting though! Big fish about 4 1/2, with 9-10 fish 3lbs + - over the two days.
      City: Clearlake Park

      Tips: AM and PM best, they really turned on at dusk. No crank/blade/swimbait bite to speak of. Senkos in rainbow trout and a blue color I found in the bottom of my bag (?). They seemed to want some brighter colors on senkos, but were hitting the old green pumpkin jig/rage tail trailer.

Tuesday, August 30th, 2011

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

      Report: We fished the County Park area from our float tubes between 9AM and 6PM. We fished up against the tules with drop shotted Roboworms, as well as some house docks. We pulled in tons of bass, but most were non-keeper sized fish. The most notable fish were 5-15, 4-9, 4, and 3 lbs. A few other good sized fish were lost too. The rest were basically little dinks at 10 inches and below.
      City: Livermore

      Tips: Drop shot Roboworms - in Folkestad Special, Margarita Mutilator, and Morning Dawn colors - right up against the tules. The deeper and thicker the tules, the better. Fish it slow and keep an eye on the line for movement. Focus particularly on the east-facing side of tule points leading into creeks and small openings - this is where all of the bigger fish we caught were residing.

Monday, August 29th, 2011

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

      Report: Launched at Capell's around 11:00. Algae Bloom is starting to take over the north end of the lake. Fished Putah Creek most of the day. All you want on the 8 inch fish on the dropshot. Two nice keepers on the Dirty Jigs Swim Jig. Fun Day all in all.
      City: Dixon

      Tips: Find the bait in cleaner water. 20-25 Feet with the bait and you'll find the bass. Wear Sunscreen!

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 72 - 76 degrees

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Luanched the Custom Valco "BASSBUSTER1" out of Ladd's at 9:00 a.m and was off the water by 1:00 p.m. With the short time frame today I went to 14 Mile Slough first checking for any top water action during the out going tide. Nothing, moved to one of the cuts along the shallow flats and got a cuople blow-ups with the frog, but no hook ups. When I finally reached the cut I wanted to fish there was about 200 yards of floating hyincinth weeds to flip/punch. Ended up with 10 bass, largest went 8.3 lbs with my best 5 fish limit just over 20 pounds.
      City: Stockton

      Tips: With the high blue skies I decided to work the heavy cover flippen /punchen sweet beavers. Be safe out there.

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

      Report: During the first half of the day, we fished the State Park area from our float tubes and targeted mostly the offshore weed beds. We tried using spinnerbaits, topwater, crankbaits, jigs, and drop shot worms, but were unable to get even a nibble. We're guessing the lack of bite had something to do with the annoying air boats spraying the weeds. With the air boats causing a racket out on the main lake, we moved into the creeks, but had no luck there.

      During the second half of the day, we moved to the County Park area and fished up against the tules with drop shotted Roboworms. We finally found tons of bass, but most of the bass were non-keepers.
      City: Livermore

      Tips: Drop shot Roboworms - in Folkestad Special, Margarita Mutilator, and Morning Dawn colors - right up against the tules. Fish it slow and keep an eye on the line for movement.

Sunday, August 28th, 2011

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 73-76

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched out of Holland riverside, fished till 1:00 pm
      caught between 15-20 dinks (no Keepers)bites came on red craw speed trap and green pumpkin senko with red flake, where are the bigguns? Weather was great.

      Good luck.
      I threw other wake baits and the frog with no takers.
      City: Martinez

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      Water Temp: 72.6 to 77.3

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Went out of Russo's at 5:45 back by 1:00. Caught over 40 fish. Mostly small. Morning bite was red spinnerbait, craw speedtrap and watermelon with red and green flake Senkos.
      About 11:00 the watermelon Senko bite stopped so I switched to Junebug Senkos with a 1/16 nail weight and the bite was on again. The best fish, 5.38#, came at the end of the day in the shade of a dock using the weighted Junebug Senko.
      Last weekend the Senko bite was on either red or orangeish red ones (ugly). I could not get a bite on the colors that worked today.
      The water fished today was clearer than last weekend.
      Best 5 would have only gone 15#. Good Day since I was only fun fishing.
      City: Antioch

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 73-76

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: On the water when the gate opened. pop'r, spinners, shallow cranks and buzz baits with minimal action,six small ones up to 1 1/2 pounds. Tied on a weightless texas rigged senco and caught a few more and one that went 4 pounds. Off the water by noon.
      City: Napa

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      Water Temp: 79

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Launched yesterday at the D dam around 5:30 am,started to the right of the launch ramp with some Staysee 90's had a few hits with 2 hook ups,my buddy was throwing a top water and not even a boil.We then switched to plastic worms and the bite picked up great,had about 5 fish by 7am,fished till about 12pm.Finished the day with some descent bass,biggest was about 3 1/2 lbs caught near Pebble beach on a 8" straight tail worm.
      City: Turlock

      Tips: Most of our fish came from shaded cover and deep pockets in the tully"s.

Saturday, August 27th, 2011

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 79-84

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: A friend and I tried the evening bite and sampled a little night fishing. Bite was very slow - lots of small bass. I did get a nice smallie on a dropshot Robo worm. She had an above average girth and went a little over 3 lbs. About 30 feet deep. We got another nice spot just before leaving - again - almost 3 lbs. Caught a nice largemouth on topwater before dark and lost another but that bite was dead. Slower fishing than I expected but some quality fish anyway. Night bite was nearly dead.
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: All fish were caught on the main body - west shore. Bass were 20 feet or deeper except for the topwater fish.

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 73

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Took my dad out on my new Triton for a few hours to hook some morning bites. Cranked on an isolated tule island and got a keeper that was out in front of the tules sitting in a grass bed. Next stop was Sycamore slough. Same bait, landed another keeper on the outside weedline between two tule islands. Meanwhile, I grab Bobby's Buzz Frog and threw it over a mat. Hooked a 4 pounder as soon as it came off the mat and ran across the weedline. Went across to the rip rap and cranked on some isolated tules and hooked into another keeper. 3 hours, 4 keepers, new boat and fishin with my trash-talkin dad. Good morning
      City: Oakley