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Friday, June 3rd, 2011

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 60

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Excellent day of fishing.Launched out of a little northern delta ramp.Caught 13 bass in 3 hours. I know there's some sceptics that will read this but most will believe.Pouring rain with 20mph winds. Best 5 went 17lbs with a six pounder.Everything was caught with red crankbaits,square and standard bill.Riprap with any wood in 4-10'was the key pattern.I had two other good days two weeks prior with a simular pattern.The best action was outgoing tides.I'm sharing my report because I have been able to figure out a pattern prior to fishing through all of the previously posted reports.Thanks
      City: galt

      Tips: eat tuna not bass

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 59-61

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished South Fork. Caught most of our fish near rock in less then 20 feet of water on spinnerbaits. Tried plastics but spinnerbait with chartreuse and white or blue and white coloring worked best. Didnt have much success in the willows. Caught around 30 for the day. My brother caught about a 2.5 lb red eye bass.
      City: sacramento

      Tips: Fish wind blown points and coves. try to find some larger rocks in the coves and have some fun!

Thursday, June 2nd, 2011

  • Santa Clara County
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      Water Temp: 63f

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: It was slow in the morning but picked up with the wind. On a sexy shad robo worm I got my lake best of 9lb-8oz.My 85 yr.old fishing partner did a great job with the net.
      City: San Jose

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: 61-63

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished yorty creek area. Jigs,brushogs and lipless crankbaits. Saw several fish still guarding beds but most fish in 5-10 feet around wood.
      City: Novato

      Tips: Try everything.

Wednesday, June 1st, 2011

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: Low 60's

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: The lake is just under 2' from full pool. The bite has been pretty decent despite the recent storms that we have been getting. Bass are still being caught mainly on soft plastics such as weightless wacky rigged Senkos, tubes and 6" straight tail worms on 1/8 to 3/16 oz. dartheads fished from the shoreline out to around the 20' mark. The water in the Squaw and Pit arms of the lake has been running a little dirtier than the Sac and the McLoud. Bass are still in all stages of the spawn. Look for staging fish waiting to move up around 20' deep off of steeper drop off's, Spawning fish on long flats from the shoreline out to 15' and post spawners around the willows.
      City: Shasta Lake

      Tips: If you are planning on heading out give us a call at 1-800-462-3917 or 530-275-4939 for the latest info on how the lake is fishing.

Tuesday, May 31st, 2011

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

      Report: Met an elderly Chinese man named Tom who told me he has caught hundreds of LM bass at this lake over the years. He told me the secret to catching them and gave me one of his special lures. I went back the next week and caught a 2 lber off the boat house dock.

      Tips: They're in there so keep trying. Please catch and release.

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 58

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: fished lake pillsbury from the 29th thru the 31st. the first night i fished from shore with my gf and caught one 1 pounder on a white rooster tail, and a small sunfish. the next day my buudy showed up with the boat and we went out for a couple hours. the wind dam near pushed us off the water at 130. we were out for about 2 hours, and only graphed about ten fish. we could not find them. the didnt seem to be shallow, or deep. the next day me and the gf went out to the same spot i got the small fish the pouring rain, i got a 3.5-4 pounder on a 3 inch fluke, and that was it. not too productive, we couldnt seem to locate fish. didnt even get to kill any squaw fish
      City: ro po

      Tips: im not really sure, find the fish i guess, then go from there. good luck

Monday, May 30th, 2011

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

      Report: All these weird weather patterns are causing real tough bite. I fished mainly Kelsey creek and other nearby sloughs due to the high winds and wave action. I tried a variety of plastics, but in the end a green pumpkin senko seemed to be the ticket. I caught three bass, ranging from 4 to 6 pounds. Target tules with weed growth in front, and don't fish too close to the cover, the fish seemed to be real finicky.
      City: Corte Madera

  • Riverside County
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      Water Temp: 67-70

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Just a quick report on DVL. I got out on the lake from 9:45 - 4:30. I caught 6 fish, 5 keepers and 1 short. All the fish came drop shotting pink worms on the south side of the lake from 5-25 feet. The senko bite that I had expected did not materialize.

      For a complete report with pictures please visit my website at
      www.SchneiderFishing.com
      City: Hemet

  • Mariposa County
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      Water Temp: 65

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: First two hours had solid top water bite on popper and white spook. All fish on main lake points and had to let bait sit before they would commit. Then it was C-Rig and drop shot for the rest of the morning with most fish in the 15-20 range.
      City: Modesto

  • Trinity County
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      Water Temp: mid 50's

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went to the north end as all the weeken warriors were leaving after the holiday weekend. Got to the ramp about 1:00pm and the wind was howllin. Decided to give it a try but was blown off the lake 45 minutes later. Fished the ball park (wind blown bank) with no luck. Called it a day.
      City: Weaverville

Sunday, May 29th, 2011

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 65

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Took the boy up the 29th and 30th. Sunday the weather was beautiful with light winds. Lake is prolly 6ft from full pool. Stayed in Potters and North Fork all day catching 1/8oz darthead/4" worm fish all day. Color didn't matter. Most fish were caught in the 10-15ft range. We caught around 30 fish (lost count)with nearly half in the slot and 2 over. Overall weight was around 13lbs.

      Monday was alot windier. Caught 4 keeper spook fish early in Nork Fork. After sun came up, moved to Middle Fork and finished the day in South Fork. Had to switch to 1/4oz darthead due to the wind. Again, color didn't matter. Numbers went down a bit but quality stayed up. Had around 14lbs with two 3 lber's. Don't pass up the most outboard bridge pilings. Good fish holding there.

      Overall it was a great trip with my son. We had a blast catching fish after fish. The smile on his face after each fish he caught will be forever etched in my brain. Priceless!
      City: Brentwood

      Tips: Spent most time in North Fork. 1/8oz darthead with 4" worm in your favorite color shallow should work.

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      Water Temp: 65

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: the fishing here sucks looks soo good though so i keep going back hopin it will break lost a big fish on a swimbait early in the year a few 5 lb spots but nothing consistant anyone on here been to pablo? lets get some reports goin
      City: richmond

      Tips: stay persistant

  • Trinity County
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      Water Temp: low 50's

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Took my daughter out on the south end. Sunny, warm and a lot of people on the water due to the holiday weekend. only caught three small small mouth crankin and rippin. We caught several nice trout on the crank baits. Slow day.
      City: weaverville

Saturday, May 28th, 2011

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 64

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched out of ladds @ 630 fished the back of ski beach caught 2 dinks off of chartruese and white persueder spinners and ran to white slough and caught a nice 4.5 pounder with a black and yellow spro popping frog. But the wind kicked up way to.much and decided to call it an early day.
      City: stockton

      Tips: Watch out for drunk boaters this weekend.

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      Water Temp: 65

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: 2 dinks, one on a shakey head, the other on a crank, both up shallow.
      City: Monterey

Friday, May 27th, 2011

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

      Report: Fished for 4 hrs and caught 10 bass all under 2lbs. Tougher than normal bite. Fish are still shallow 1-10ft. Caught them on crank bait, drop shot and Crig plastics.
      City: Foster City

      Tips: Fish shallow with plastics.

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 63-66

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Got to south end Mildred Is. by 6:30. Fished green tullies near clean water. Tried to stay away from moss. Pitched Watermelon w/red/green fleck worms and Brush Hogs. The further back into the tullies we pitched, the more hits we got. This worked last week for some 5+lb fish but only mustered 2.5 pounders today. Still some bigger cruisers around shallow water.

      Tips: Fish slow.

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 62-64

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: on at 6:30. slow crank bite. only 10 in 1st 3 hours on main body. went to north arm and swithed off between crankin and texas rig robo in light oxblood. consistant for 3 hours then swithed to spinnerbait at 2pm and it was on. fished shallow and fast for 4 hours for 50+. finished off the day with 20 crankbait fish. Been every wknd for a month and had a reaction bite every time. stay with cranks & spinnerbaits and you will be rewarded.
      City: Brentwood

      Tips: a lot of tree needles & leafs in the water made it tough on main lake. Use compact spinnerbait. Cranked with normans deep lil n & middle lil n. sour grape. speed trap in chrome/ black. They will set up shallow to ambush at some point during the day. Keep movin and you will find them. Everything shallow for me

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      Water Temp: 62-65

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: WOW! I heard about big # days so I made my first trip.. Days one started good with 18 by 0930, then died off with the wind till about 3 pm.. Day 1 total= 49.Small mouths were sitting off shore about 30 feet and spots/blacks a little more shallow..Day two started with a little rain and chilly. a little slow in the first two hours but then it picked up.. picked ALOT of fish 20 feet from shore and on the bottom dragging a variety of grubs and plastic worms.. 13 1/2 hours on the lake and the bite was steady.. day 2 total=101 fish between two of us!!..
      City: Atwater

      Tips: Slow dragging bottom retries worked well in the morning, weightless wackky rig in the afternoon/evening was working too. Not much action on cranks or spinners.. Good luck!@