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Monday, August 8th, 2011

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: 82

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Monday 8-8-11, my buddy, his son and I started fishing the main body. But after trying several areas that we knew to hold fish and a couple hours of time, we caught nothing and decided to move to Cherry Creek. We immediately started catching fish on 3- and 4-inch Baby Bass colored Senkos rigged weightless wacky style. My buddy’s son decided to try something different and started to throw a top-water popper. He had immediate success with a 3½ lb large mouth. He stayed with the popper the remainder of the day and to my surprise, caught multiple fish from 3½ lb all the way down to fish not much bigger that the lure. We also tried drop-shotting various colored RoboWorms with very limited success. My buddy, however, did have success drop-shotting a 5-inch Pro Style Senko in Baby Bass color. Most of our fish were caught near trees, on the outer edge of weeds, and over submerged weeds. In total, we caught about 40 fish. Of all of these, there were only about 15 keepers. The main thing is that we had a lot of fun. Hopefully, one boat across from us also had fun. After seeing us with a double header, they yelled to us and wanted to know what we were using. We yelled back and told them. Hopefully they heard us.
      City: Pinole

      Tips: If you like a top water bite, try a popper, stay with it and you may be pleasantly surprised.

Sunday, August 7th, 2011

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 77

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Summer time fishing continues. Tope water baits this week still caught the best, 3.5lb spotted bass. This only last till about 8 am in the main body. The rest were caught on drop shot rigs using Basstrix minnows and Aarons Magic color robo worms fishing points in the main body. Fish seem to be from 25 to 30 feet pushing bait around points.
      City: Sacramento

      Tips: Electronics are your best friend this time of year, so use them. Bait fish are on the move so move with them to stay on the fish.

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 80 +/-

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: On the lake at 6:15 am headed up to the dam and fished the riprap with no luck, fished some of the humps where I saw alot of fish on the graph and caught two small spots; decided to go fish up the river and threw everything I had in the boat with no luck. Fished under the bridge and caught a 2 lb at the piling and then watched two jump off the bridge right where I was fising. Slow day and only had the three bites.
      City: Elk Grove

      Tips: Not sure i have any as I didn't do very well today.

Saturday, August 6th, 2011

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

      Report: The report that follows was meant for Camanche not Anderson. Sorry guys. No spots at Anderson that I know of. I fat fingered the lake address.

      T2

      Tips: Make sure you have the right lake before posting a report.

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 82

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished AM for a couple of hours Sat and Sun. Very slow bite. Picked up a total of 13 fish all spots except 2 smallies. Drop shot robo in morning dawn, a couple on PopR topwater and shallow crank bait were the only producers. Thought there would be a big AM topwater bite and almost nothing. Had one HUGE blow up on a frog in weeds 2 ft deep. Swung and missed. Nothing on Crig plastics. Fish were shallow on points.
      City: Foster City

      Tips: Tips: Fish shallow on points and any shallow water with weeds. Try crank bait drop shot robo worms. Forget top water even though it looks perfect for throwing one.

Friday, August 5th, 2011

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 78

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: went out of red bud boat ramp/the water was a sewagepool,there was no clear water for a mile and a half. turned around and went back to ramp 6 am.my motor was over heating from the sewage in the water. will not fish here again. had to wash out the motor went i got home. now it runs find.
      City: red bluff ca

      Tips: warning to the people that will fish the future pro team,that is going out of this ramp watch your temp ga, on your motor, the tournament spot needs to be changed if i am going to fish the tour on 13 and 14

Thursday, August 4th, 2011

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 78

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished morning from 7 to 11.Boated 6 Bass ave 12", 3 Squaw fish, 1 Trout which was suprising as surface temp in near 80.
      All fish caught on Shad Raps either Plugging or trolling. Nothing biting on Plastics.
      City: Redding

      Tips: Shad Imitation Lures.

Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 73 - 78 degrees

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched the Custom Valco "BASSBUSTER1" at 8:30 a.m. out of Ladd's but had to wait for a work crew to finish cleaning up the weed mess at the docks first. Ran the boat all the way to the back end of 14 Mile Slough and did not start fishing until I reached the Feather River Rd. bridge. The top of high tide was at 9:00 a.m. and conditions were perfect. I worked the floating slop moss as far as I can towards Grupe Park. The frog bite was on ( total of 10 good blow ups) and so was the flippin' bite too. Caught 3 bass on the frog big fish went 3.5 lbs. and she was spitting out little baby blugill in my boat. My flippen rod currently did not have a heavy enough wieght for punchin' so I flipped and pitched sweet beavers in what ever holes I could find in the floating slop moss. Caught 5 bass flippen, biggest was 6 lbs. and gave me a good fight going underneath my boat looking for deeper water. Some spots were as deep as 8 ft at high tide before it started going out. I was off the water by 1:00 p.m.

      To the fella I met the last cuople days in a black Champion from Fresno good luck with the Future Pro Tour Event this weekend and hope I did not stick to many of your fish. :-)
      City: Stockton

      Tips: The larger fish did prefer the flip bite as I went through a whole pack of sweet beavers today (medium size Black/red flake). They preferred the frog presentation at a slow crawl. Remember to watch the real bull frogs as they chase yours they will let you know where the danger zones are. Good luck and be safe.

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

      Report: On the water by 8am. Caught 3 bass, biggest went around 3 lbs. on a senko in the calm near tules before the white caps hit at 9am. Fought the grueling wind to catch a little one on a worm and another that fought like a 10 pounder on a spinnerbait (and yes, I have caught 10 pounders out of here). Covered a lot of water with the spinnerbait to catch only one. Had 3 or 4 pecks on the worm that I missed.

      Tips: Get out before the wind picks up. Never caught any on a crankbait fishing deeper.

Sunday, July 31st, 2011

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: n/a

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished whites all day caught 25-30 nothing big 2 1/2
      lots on rattle trap and cranking, couple on senko and 2 on top water. couldnt get anything going really guess theres always next Sunday
      City: Elk Grove/ Sac

      Tips: throw ur confidence bait.

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      Water Temp: 75

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished outside walls of Mildred most bites came off of a kvd's 2.5 cranks in brown craw color and lucky craft fat cb shallow cranks in royal red craw wind got strong and and fished the rock walls and did pretty good with persuader green and black jigs with a sweet beaver trailer. Just outside of grass lines.

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      Water Temp: 84.3

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished in the coves around rock piles with small 6" lizard and a 4" bruch hog. We caught four in the morning and four more after lunch time. Most were small 1 to 1.5 pounds. Did a bit of trolling on the way back to the dock without a hit.
      All in all, wife & I had a great day although got a little wet from a passing shower.
      City: Fresno

      Tips: Don't know where the big ones are,any suggestions?
      I really want to put the wife on a "HOG".

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Yorty Crk. early and it was a bit cloudy out, but I thought that would help. Caught a nice 2 pounder early and then it was slow until later in the day. Fish seemed to be scattered, once I caught the first fish I thought I could find similar areas and catch fish, but no go. Had to grind it out to catch fish later in the day.
      City: Santa Rosa

      Tips: Be patient and look out for the Summer boaters. No wake zone what does that mean? Duh.

Saturday, July 30th, 2011

  • Riverside County
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      Water Temp: 78-81

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: The lake is awesome right now, with several ways to catch them. The fish are busting shad, and there is also a great deep bite. If you find the right point or hump you can really load the boat. I'm not catching giant fish, but lots in the three to four pound range.
      City: Hemet

      Tips: Fish real slow with worms and jigs in 30 feet, and try a scrounger with a tiny fluke on the busting fish. Look for structure that is less obvious then a main lake point. If you find something good it's possible to catch a bunch of fish off one spot.

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 79-83

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went from 730am.-300pm. Generally pretty tough, but did catch a few. topaters,wake baits, cranks, and spinnerbaits all got at least one. jigs and drop shot got zilch.
      City: atwater

      Tips: man the water is high and stained....lots of boat traffic.

Thursday, July 28th, 2011

  • Plumas County
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      Water Temp: 69-74

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I was able to spend a few more days at beautiful Almanor last week. It was a short vacation with my wife and family, but I had to fish some - of course! I just fished some mornings and evenings and once at night for awhile. The night bite was very slow except at dark when I landed a good smallie that would have been well over 4 lbs, but after the spawn she was only 3 lbs 11 oz. I didn't catch many during my outings, but the quality was above average for summer. Several were in the 2 to 2 lb 6 oz range. Only a few small ones. Where were all the usual summer dinks? The big one was caught on a green pumpkin Berkley 4" Chigger Craw. Not sure why I picked that bait, but it was the ticket! I spent most of my time on off-shore rockpiles and flats.
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: I fished the east side of the lake mostly but found the best quality on the west side. I did miss one and caught one on the next cast, using a Chug Bug topwater lure. That was it - no other topwater activity - maybe because of very cool weather and lots of wind for several days before we got there. Robo worms were good again - this time it was oxblood they wanted.

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 69-77

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Just hopped around fishing all new stuff from B&W to Victoria Island. Most sucsess was punchin a PayCheck setup w/ a Double Wide Beaver in Blk/Blue
      Fish average 2-3lbs....the Pigs were Biting but could not get them out.
      Good Luck be safe
      City: Woodpile

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

      Report: Hows the fishing? What the temp?
      City: Sonoma

Wednesday, July 27th, 2011

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

      Report: I have been fishing the south end of the lake. Its getting stinky up in here, some spots looks like pea soup. Good news is I have been killing it on topwater. The Buckingham/Konocti area isnt too bad, but try to catch it in the morning. 1/2 oz Snag Proof has been doing the trick.
      City: Kelseyville

      Tips: I have had a some problems with drunk boaters. I fish from a float tube and have almost been hit more than I would like, so be careful friends.

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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went fishing, some algae in the water. Not sure if they sprayed recently, but hopefully they didn't. Fish seemed to be a little more active, but still hiding when they want to. Had I guy in a tube take a picture of a decent one I caught. I guess others are giving it a try even though the fishing is up and down, but mostly down.
      City: Santa Rosa

      Tips: Fish all day long and you might get a nice one.