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Friday, August 26th, 2011

  • Mendocino County
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      Water Temp: 80 -82

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: BY FAR the EARLY morning hours is the best time to fish... DUH? I have been fishing the evenings as of late and have been doing pretty good... BUT, I finally got a chance to get out the water @ 5:30am, and boy, oh boy, the bite was on !! Topwater 'til about 7:00 - 7:30, and then went to dropshot. Scented (green) worms was the ticket. Move the hook up to about 3 ft. and just slow dragged it along. It's all done and said by 10-10:30 am.
      City: UKIAH

      Tips: Fish ----> Crappie Cove - Barn Cove - points along the west side, the south end of the dam and the south side of the big island (Treasure island) keep it movin' 'til you find the fish. thanks Don
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Thursday, August 25th, 2011

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: wat up w tha phish? yall aint postin on here
      am I the only one catchn em here comon we gota help eachother out pablo is no joke hella hard to phish but sum hoggs in there
      City: richtown

      Tips: use bigger bait to stay away fron the little 1 to 3 lb phish got alot of 5lb plus spots in here

Wednesday, August 24th, 2011

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

      Report: Caught 5 bass and a crappie. The crappie and a little bass hit a crank within the first few casts. The others were cauht pitching baits to shore related cover. Missed one good one by snapping off a worm and 8# line on my spinning reel and another large one when my BPS baitcaster failed during a hookset.

      Tips: Was on the water by 7am and done catching by 10am when the nasty wind started, so go before you get blown off the water. I used see and catch them deep in the summer but have been very unsuccessful here for years now, so now I mostly fish shallow stuff so I at least catch some.

Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 75 degrees

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Started off the morning in Willie's cove caught a 6lb. largemouth at about 8:00 on topwater. The rest of the morning caught 50 bass between my wife and I. All dinks and then ended the day with a 3 lb. spot on topwater in skiers cove. Water was like glass all day. Worked drop shot, wacky rig and fluke all day with topwater but only topwater baits caught the fish. Surprised to see lots of large fish with their nose on the bank in the mid day sun.
      City: Napa

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

      Report: Stupied Dresses, i havent fished clear lake in two years. Tournys are not the problem it's careless tourny directors he could of provided ice for free to the anglers after live well check for a 1.25. com on man

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      Water Temp: 83

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Re: R-TRUTH I too have heard the report of the “fish kill” as a result of the FTP tournament this past weekend. This was very unfortunate and yes this could have been avoided. By no means was this the intent of any of the anglers involved such as myself or “Vince”. FTP has a lot of well respected members and Vince has done a great job, though at times can do better. Education is the key here to help our fisheries. DFG should limit the number of tournaments at Clear Lake period! I’m sure you fished in 6 maybe 7 events this last year at Clear Lake. Really, do you think that is wise to do for a lake that just gets hammered such as this one? Face it you can find a tournament at this lake more times a week then poker games in the casinos.
      City: Redwood City

      Tips: The bigger fish have moved to the Oaks. FTP don't let this happen again.

  • Trinity County
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      Water Temp: 76-80

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished this last weekend,(Sat) caught nothing but dinks up until 530pm til 730 we caught 8 keepers 1 1/2 to 2 lbs. Sunday am we only caught 3 keepers (small). Off water at 3pm sunday.
      Seen other boats but no other reports!
      Thanks for all past reports
      City: Red Bluff

      Tips: Caught all keepers on steep shaded shale banks 30ft. Tubes (Dry Creek, Crazy Eddy)
      We threw everything in the box, this was the only producer. (north of Captains Point)

Monday, August 22nd, 2011

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 71 - 81 degrees

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Luanched the custom Valco "BASSBUSTER1" at Ladd's about 9 a.m. and was off the water by 8 p.m. Started out worken deep water out in the turning basin looking for deep largi's and stripers. The delta wind came up pretty good so after landing a 3.5 pound LMBass on a duoble willow white spinnerbait went to look for calmer water. I decided to camp most of the day at LVW Marina in 14 Mile Slough to get out of the wind. There was a whole lot of floating slop growing back there and thr frog bite was on. I flipped/pitched/punched sweet beavers as a back up if I missed the blow up on the frog. 14 bass up to 2 lbs. was cuaght back here. By 6 p.m. I decided to head back, but wanted to fish the evening topwater bite on the way. Caught 5 more bass using a chrome/blue Strike King popper.
      City: Stockton

      Tips: When the bass did not want the frog or the blow up wasn't a hook up I switched to punchn' the sweetbeaver into the floating slop.

Saturday, August 20th, 2011

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

      Report: Rooky on the Delta, but fished it 3 times in past 9 days. Launched out of Paradise and Brannon Island. Tied into many on drop shot at base of tulies with Aaron's Magic, Morning Dawn and Oxblood Robo worms. Caught many on rattle traps in Franks Track. Had a couple of blowups on frogs in the moss. Zip on punch, but can see the potential. Caught approximately 28 fish in 3 trips, not a single keeper. Where are the Toads?
      City: Sacramento

      Tips: If you are not familiar with the Delta 1.Take GPS. 2.Learn how the tides effect the fishing. 3.Learn how to deal with the wind. 4.WATCH OUT FOR UNDER WATER OBSTRUCTIONS they are rarely marked. 5.Take a phone. 6.Wear your life jacket. You're shRing the water with some BIG boats and ships!

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

      Report: 100 dead fish!!!!!! wow good report Dave. future pro is for RETARD's..... all what vince cares about is vince... the dept. of fish and game should close him down and the irs should audit him

      Tips: always carry a extra bag of ice, reguvenate and a back up double a battery operated air reator pump. it's like 8 bucks at bass pro's.

Friday, August 19th, 2011

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 69-72

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched at NewHope 6:45am; straight to low-tide Mokulemne for topwater/frog...nothing at our fav submerged weedbeds so tried crankin'. Put one nice hit on the hook and it went airborne to throw the hook..nice 2lber. That turned out to be my last one for the day. Big brother was changing up from cranks to jigs, senkos and he picked up a few 1-2lbers in Georgiana. Then we went to our island at Sycamore and worked the snot. Lots of blowups and we just couldn't make em stick...waiting the extra second or two and make sure they had it in their mouth put the pull on the rod but they were still spittin' it out..just couldn't put a fish in the boat. Bro nailed a nice 3lber punchin the snot. Kept workin the ouitside snot for many more blowups but nothin' into the boat. Our trolling motor is only 55lbs and we push-poled alot and lost fish. So went to Hog, then Beaver and just like RiverRon, a big frog nailed my Spro. By frog standard, it was a keeper! Pic posted.
      City: folsom

      Tips: No tips from this skunk...but my bro hit on Junebug senkos and craw beavers.

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      Water Temp: 73

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Little Potato Slough with best results on the outgoing tide. Caught several on a lipless crankbait and also on a Robo zipper worm. Largest went 3.5 lbs. Of course an even bigger one unbuckled at the boat. I also caught a giant frog while fishing the mats with a Spro popper frog. That was a first for me. My artificial frog happened to go right beside this big fella and to my surprise the real one sprang on it. It looked real funny with my lure sticking out of its mouth. Gives a whole new meaning to how well the frog bite is.

Thursday, August 18th, 2011

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: N/A

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: To add to some people being alarmed over dead basses during FTP tournament, I had seen so MANY dead basses at three of their tournaments in the past that the lake looked so white with their bellies being up on surface. And one of that events was in early June, with cool weather! It BROKE my heart and I have had reported to DFG, and apparently they did nothing.
      I fish average of 10 tournaments a year for over a decade now, I had only ONE dead bass in my livewell out of those over ten year as I am really careful with my livewell. I NEVER liked the idea of ice as they melt too fast and different water than the lake, causing more stress on fish. Use solidly frozen water bottles, bring about 8 frozen bottles, they will keep your ice chest cold, and handy in live well. Also, I add some hydrodixe proxdien (?), about one oz. to every 3 gallon, to sataure the rich oxygent in live well...Also, everybody in tournament should know how to do the 'fizzing'.
      City: PARADISE

      Tips: Come on, STOP fishing if needed to take care of your babies in your well. And tournament rules should be, NO COUNT ON DEAD FISH!

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fishin Is great

      Tips: A lot of complaints Dead fish in the livewell.
      General knowledge during the summer Clearlake is very warm. You should carry extra Ice in the boat for your livewells. Tournament fishing or not, It is you responibility. Not a tournament director or anyone else.
      Use the cold water in the bottom of your Ice Chest. doesn't take much. You need a cold drink also. Keep plenty of cold water and Ice in the boat during summer. For yourself and your catch.

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: 78

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Camped at Skunk Creek in the Cherry Creek arm. Great fishing early in the morning and the hour before dark. Very tough fishing the rest of the day when the sun is high. Caught at least 25 fish. Most were small, but landed several over two pounds with one about 3 1/2 pounds and another about 4 pounds. Although I threw everything including several different colors of Senkos and worms, jigs, spinnerbaits, and flukes, most fish were caught with a KVD Tennessee Shad crankbait fished close to submerged trees. In the late evening I had the best fishing on a Lucky Craft Pointer 78 American Shad fished over submerged weeds. Picked a few fish during the day on a wacky-rigged baby bass Senko.
      City: Santa Rosa

      Tips: The area between Thumb camp and Skunk camp in the Cherry Creek arm has consistently held the most fish over the last couple of months. Another good area with fewer but larger fish is the north side of Yorty Creek near the main lake. You can expect to catch quite a few smallmouth bass using crankbaits in deeper water near the main lake, too.

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      Water Temp: warm

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: It's a sad story this lake has been over fished and not being supervised on whats being taking out. I see time and time again a group of people taking out too many small fry, putting them back and taking them home. I went fishing there yesterday and I was shocked how many people we walking around, talking, riding their bike, walking their dogs, too loud too many people for bass fishing (I thought I was in the city). I was also surprised to see all the vessel that were on the water (boats, kayaks etc.) it's change so much since I was a kid. The only bass I been catching are under a pound. I found another lake which not too many people know about and a Sonoma County parks lake which is awesome to fish at( and I'm not telling you where it is at). Spring lake is for small fish or or coming up empty. (also lots of algae which they just sprayed)

      P.S. That fish in that photo up there is most likely long gone.
      City: Santa Rosa

      Tips: Drop shot rig, roboworms, Trophy bass only way to go. Crank bait early morning or late evenings and to avoid crowds.

Wednesday, August 17th, 2011

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 78

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished north fork early. Caught a 5.1# large mouth on first drop of a Texas rigged 7" natural shad on a Gamakatsu Skip Gap 5/0 hook. Unfortunately I had no more 7" with me. Tried some 6" without the same luck, and the Skip Gap is rough on Senkos. Later, caught a 2# large mouth sith a wacky rigged 5" baby bass, also in trees. Nothing off of rocks.
      City: Granite Bay

Tuesday, August 16th, 2011

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

      Report: Fished white's and little potato sloughs this afternoon from 3:30 to 7ish. Man what a great day. Had good current most of the time and found punch fish in the deeper hyacinth right off the bat. Fished some shallow stuff for two small fish and found the deeper stuff was holding a little better. Came up to a cut heavily matted with the green "snot", put down the punch bait and picked up the frog rod, and didn't put it down after that. Ripped a bunch of delta keepers, two 5's a 6 and one pushing 7. Absolutely amazed me. Fish wanted it fast and walked hard. Most fish were fairly tight to the inside edge, but did catch a couple further out in the mats. Headed back out for the morning's incoming tide hoping to pick up some more quality green heads.
      City: Dixon

      Tips: Frog of choice- Spro bronzeye "redear" pattern.
      Punch bait-Cali420.

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: The north lake has cleared and there are baitfish everywhere.It took 47 pounds to win the future pro two day last weekened. To bad about the guys not taking care of their fish!!( Fish and Game told me there was at least a hundred dead fish after the event)including big fish a 8 pounder dead!!
      City: Lakeport

      Tips: Move around til you find fish willing to bite Guys are catching fish on everything from frogs to crankbaits and everything between

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 75

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Didnt do serious fishing. Was up there for a camping trip and wanted to dial in my new downriggers. Locked on to a few rainbows and 1 squaw trolling in between depths of 35 and 50ft. Was using a seps leader in pink color with an orange spinner behind it.
      City: Rocklin

      Tips: Time of day didnt seem to matter at that depth.