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Monday, July 4th, 2011

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 78

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: The past ten days have been very exciting. First I took Carla and her "bachlorettes" out for a day of fishing and partying. The next day I took out Sarah and decided to head towards the Ranch house. We trolled in one of my favorite areas and she was bringing bass in one after the other. Instead of continuing on we trolled the same strip over and over until she caught her limit (see photo). The next day I took out Kevin and decided to try the same strip again. He also caught fish but it took him awhile to get into the flow of landing the bass. He also tried topwater lures with no success. I believe with the amount of holiday boat traffic that it turned the topwater bite off. The following day Megan and I headed out with hotdogs because she wanted to catch some catfish before we fished for bass. She ended up catching a couple of catfish, a squawfish (sacramento pike) and a few bass. Lastly I took out Dan who ended up catching a good size catfish, bass and trout. My buddy John told me he caught two nice bass from shore using a senko. The water temperature is 78 degrees and the visibility is 10 feet down for sure. All in all it was a very good weekend for fishing. 'til next time.........................good fishing!!!!
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      From: bestfishingguide@yahoo.com
      Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2011 20:15:55 -0700
      To: pkilkus@gmail.com; estersilberberg@hotmail.com; bestguide@hotmail.com; bunniez912@yahoo.com; henry18@pacbell.net


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      City: NAPA

      Tips: I snorkeled on my favorite points saw lots of fish

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 80

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the 4th Holiday weekend. Caught 25-30 bass mostly spots. Caught several really big fish. Lagest was 9lbs, then a 5lb, a couple of 3-4lbs. Bite was actually pretty tough with the boat traffic. Fish were all shallow on points. Biggest fish were taken on top water, PopR and Jitter Bug late evening. Lots of AM fish caught on shallow crankbait and C-rig plastics.
      City: Foster City

      Tips: No top water AM. Look for shallow points with weeds. Start with shallow crankbait then work the productive areas with Carolina rig. Fish were 1-5 ft deep.

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      Water Temp: 73-79

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Great to get back out on Lexington! Had a good first day caught(and released 7) Had success pulling a white spinner through stick ups and flipping a T-rigged Sweet Beaver. Lake is full of baby (4") bass. 3 of my seven were not much bigger than the spinner bait! The rest were decent 2-3#.
      City: Monterey

      Tips: Seemed to be eating little green backed white bellied crayfish.

Sunday, July 3rd, 2011

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: 72-74

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Hot and very bright and sunny day. It was more windy than I prefer to fish in my canoe, but the direction of the breeze was suitable to good shoreline drifts in most areas. Caught about a dozen fish. Although most were small, I found a 4 1/2 pound largemouth and a two pound smallmouth. The largemouth were caught on a drop shot with 4" senkos and I caught several smallmouth on a KVD Tennessee Shad crankbait.
      City: Santa Rosa

      Tips: Try new fishing methods. The battery for my trolling motor died, so I was forced to change how I was fishing. I switched to a Texas-rigged senko on a drop-shot and fished the outer edges of weed beds. The bigger largemouth were in 6-10 feet of water. Since it was windy, the shorelines in and near the main lake had muddy water late in the day. Since I was paddling and drifting back to Yorty Creek (fortunately the wind was blowing in a favorable direction), I casted the crankbait and caught quite a few smallmouth. They were suspended in deeper water probably 30-50 feet from shore.

Saturday, July 2nd, 2011

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 71-76

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Mike Sperbeck and I made a return trip to Clear Lake last night to see if we could keep the night bite going. We did. He started the trip at dusk with a downer - losing a big fish! I started with the hot hand and then he took over. We fished for about 5 hours, 'til 1:30 am and we each boated 6. Our best 5 was almost like the last trip - about 25 lbs. His best was 5 lbs even and I landed a 5 lb 9 oz and a 6 lb 7 oz beauty. Only 3 of our bass were under 3 lbs. The best bite was during what is supposed to be the slow time - the hour after dark. Go figure!! The bite really slowed after 11:30. I caught the biggest on a D&M Piranha swim jig w/ 6" Yamamoto grub trailer. The other were caught on Senkos, Power worms, and brush hogs. Fish all seemed to be from 10 to 25 feet.
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: We tried some topwater and buzzbaits at dark when we started, but no takers. I think Mike is fishing an upcoming night tourney, so I will end the report here.

Friday, July 1st, 2011

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 79

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Hello Steve Johnson, I've been fishing berressa for many many years. You may want to use a lots of light line because of the water clarity when using plastics unless you're using top water. Look for weeds in the east side of the lake and thwow spooks around cover early in the morning an late even. I'm sure you probably know about that already. Try using small dart heads around islands , points and bluffs. I usually use 4 1/2 inch strait tail worms on a 1/8 oz. darthead in morning dawn,original green weenie, and oxblood colors. Try small ring worms too in salt and pepper and also grubs in smoke color. Fish the windy ares in points and wind blown in coves, especially weeds for large mouths. With the water always being so clear I always use 6 lb. test to get more bites. Also use 4 inch sinkos in natural colors to shad colors an make lond casts.
      City: san mateo

      Tips: When fishing this lake,Fish a lot of islands. There aren't too many but there is some to fish. You may try some islands on the north west end of the main lake. The smaller baits will get yopu more bites. Just make sure there is always deep water close to where you're fishing. They hang around the ledges.

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 75

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Launched out of H&H at sunrise. Caught 8 fish in 2 hours never losing sight of the marina, with a 3lb 8oz and 2lb 9oz holding tight to the tule islands. The bite slowed for many hours, with just a few more small fish in White Slough. Fished Sycamore Slough from 2:00 to 4:30 for 9 more fish, mostly dinks outside submerged weed-lines, with a 4lb 8oz tight to the tules mixed in. Ended the day with 19 fish, best 5 just under 14 pounds according to my scale.

      Tips: Primarily used Texas-rigged 5” Senkos, slow retrieve or dead-sticked. Red Shad or PB&J colors in the morning and Green Pumpkin or Watermelon in the afternoon. Water clarity in Sycamore was 5+ feet.

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      Water Temp: 76

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched 7am New Hope..high tide chocolate milk through Hog Slough and lotta flotsam/debris through to the Mokulemne/Tower, plus lots of skiers and old fogies zippin' around in their inflatables, no manners!
      OK, fishing report: Started at fav B&W tule strips and picked up a few 12"ers on red-eye shad and speed traps. Drifted down on the opposite rockwall/weedbed side and picked up a few more 1-2-lbers on kvd 1.5 in sexy shad (I really didn't catch anything with this crank til yesterday)...drifted to our fav single dock and picked up a few more 1-lbers after switching to red/orange craw speedtraps. Water was churned up pretty good and tried to go through White Slough but that's when the old fogies in inflatables just zipped within 10 yds of our boat without even blinking an eye, one even stared at me like "What?"...so at that point, we knew it was time to just get off the water and let the holiday boaters have their fun.
      City: folsom

      Tips: Speed traps and lipless cranks (we prefer Red Eye Shad in 1/4oz craw colors) along tops of submerged weed patches.
      Share the water with manners. There were many wake, ski, and large craft who slowed down as they passed us, but that many more who didn't see the need. Yeah I know, if we can't take it, don't get on the water.

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      Water Temp: 79 degrees

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Got on the water the water about 7:45 p.m. to beat the heat. Started on the south end of the lake throwing a c-rig. My partner picked up a couple of 2's with a c-rigged brush hog. Moved up to the north end of the lake at dusk. Started throwing blades and buzzer with no luck. Switched to a black and blue jig. Hooked up with and boated a toad that went 7lbs. Not longer after my patner hooked up with a good one that broke off at the boat. I caught another about 3lbs. and broke one off on the hook set. Got off the water about 12:30.
      City: Fresno

      Tips: The fish wanted a slower presentation. Check your line frequently the rocks really tear it up.

  • Riverside County
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      Water Temp: 75-78

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Got on the lake about 1:00pm, HOT! Went straight to the island with my grandson to fish for blue gil, I cranked the rocky points with a Strike Kink seried 5; chart/shad ten to fifteen feet while we were anchored up. I stuck three all about two pounds with repeated cast to same area.
      City: DHS

      Tips: Could not get bit on anything slow, crank all rock out croppings with multible cast...10 to 15 cast to each spot from several different angles.

Thursday, June 30th, 2011

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 70-75

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Had plenty of fish blow up on a frog early but couldn't keep them hooked. Tried following with Senko and no takers. Switched to plastics around 9:30 and caught one 6.9 on fourth cast. Figured I had it dialed in now, but only a few strikes and one to the boat that jumped off just as I was ready to flip him in. But the one fish will hold me over until next time.
      City: Sonoma

      Tips: Don't stay away from the water for too long. I have not spent much time fishng this year and as you can tell from my report my bite to hook up ratio sucks. Caught the 6.9 on a new Big Bite bait called a flying squirrel. Check them out they have some great baits.

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 68-74

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: I pretty much stunk it up ...caught a couple using Wacky senkos and ChatterBait. marked alot of fish in the 12 to 15 ft range I couldn't get them interested,also had a few blow ups on frogs but they were half hearted attemps.
      Area fished Rattlesnake to Long tule point.
      Good Luck be safe
      City: Woodpile

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 66-68

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I was able to take Cal Kellogg and Sheldon Bright from the "Fish Sniffer" to Pardee Wed morning. The bite was brief, but impressive. We wanted photos so I fished hard too. We lost several but did manage to land 5 - 3 largemouth and 2 smallmouth. Quality was good with the biggest being a largemouth about 6 1/2 lbs that quietly sucked in a Mikey wakebait. What a battle! Monster smallies and I don't seem to get along as I lost another big one - maybe 5 lbs or more. As opposed the the largemouth, this one smashed the topwater bait, but I lost her after a half minute. Sheldon and I did catch two nice smallies on topwater - 2 and 3 pounds. The post-front clouds cleared pretty quickly and the bite died. We all hooked a few more and landed one.
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: The lake is still spilling so "full" is the word. Lots of shallow cover in the water now. Water is fairly clear and will clear even more quickly. Most of our activity was on points and submerged wood structure. Did not fish any off-shore structure. There are probably fish that have moved there by now.

Tuesday, June 28th, 2011

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 72

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched out of ladds ran to back of ski beach and landed 2 off of the dean rojas big bite frogs while flipping. Then ran bout half way to Mildred and fished in the rain for a GREAT TOPWATER BITE!!! I missed a monster that looked to be atleast 8 pounds after he threw my gunfish with larger trebels swapped out!!! WTF? Decided to throw spooks for a greater hookup chance and knocked them out!!! Target outside grasslines on the incoming tide. And at high tide flip that spook as far back as possible without getting tangled. A slow walk was key. I love postspawn topwater.
      City: stockton

      Tips: Topwater and a SLOW retrieve!!!

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 75-80

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Launced out of Blue Oaks, water is about 15ft from going over spill way, level is up into parking area above ramp.
      Started cranking/spinnerbaiting spillway channel with no results. Moved to main lake points throwing drop shot and wacky Senkos. Picked up a couple two pounders on Senko; grnpnk/bf. Moved to Rogers area and kept throwing Senkos with better results; I stuck one about 4# and two others about 2.5-3#s. Brother cranks one a little under 5#.
      I started pitchen Senko to wood (shade side) and got several more. Hooked one that I could not stop, it came out of the water once and it was huge but it came unbottoned.
      Best five would be 16-18 lbs.
      City: Hilmar

      Tips: Pitch Senkos to wood in the heat of the day, fish both sides of main lake points concentrating on the first rocky areas off main lake points.

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

      Report: That's why I haven't been able to locate you, Mr. Gray. You have not been around. I'm in court often and there is a John Gray working there as a bailif, I got excited thinking he was the one. not the fisherman John Gray. I have been posting a lot here hoping that other's would do the same. Also looking for some "like kind" to share that wonderful lake of ours. I have fished a lot these past 12 or so months and am always looking for peopel to share the esperiance with. I will look for your boat while out. I'm in a 1985 Winner brown/red with a 175 Mairaner that has been spray painted gray. If you have been around for a long time you may know the boat and former owner, Steve Hayth. Tight lines
      City: Weaverville

Monday, June 27th, 2011

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 74.5

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Took my 9 year old grandson out on Friday. Launched out of lakeport at 5:30 and fished the county park area for 3 fish to 3#s. Fish caught on Senkos in the tule beds. Headed over toward Lakeport around 9am to check out the shallows and fished over 30+ fish and could not get them to go. Visibility was 10+ feet. My son and I fished the State Park area on Saturday for 5 3-4#s. Once again saw alot of cruisers but could not get them to go. Tried everything. Watched one nip at the tip of my wacky rig. This bass fishing is new to me and it is very addictive. I fished the ocean for over 50 years and now trying to learn enough to be able to compete in tournaments. Very frustrating but fun. Any input on learning more about the sport in addition to paying my dues to the bass gods would be appriciated.
      City: Ukiah

  • Mariposa County
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      Water Temp: 79

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Might be off on date but it was the last Saturday in June. Went twice this week in the evening. Best bite was on walking baits in white but a few on dropshot and senkos too.
      City: Atwater

      Tips: fish late.

Sunday, June 26th, 2011

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

      Report: I am a novice fisherman an not too familiar with Berryessa. Would someone be willing to share with me some good spots to fish on this lake; I have heard that up to Putah Creek by the bridge is a good spot but that is a long run from Markley Cove where I would launch. I would appreciate any input. I'm not so interested in "lunkers" as I am catching more numbers to make the trip worth the drive and have some fun. Thank you for any input.
      City: Carmichael

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 69 deg

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Well went out this Sunday was kinda a sucked tide not much movement caught a hand full of bass nuttin big all around 2 lbs on senko texas style bite was slow but able to land a few. water was low so lots of moss mats along shore pitched along outside of mats no luck I found them inbetween rocks and moss just a narrow strip and sometimes maybe 1 foot but fish were holding there very shallow water saw lots of dinks had fun not the best day on the water but nice to get out .I tossed top water and blades . Water was 69 deg around mandeville and 62 around B&W resort quite the differance. tight lines to all cYa on the water

      Tips: Keep going fishing wait for better tides