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Saturday, December 25th, 2010

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

      Report: Hey Ray-right now, your best bet is to use electronics and find fish on offshore rock piles and ledges, though you will find fish suspended around deepwater docks. There are various opinions on techniques to use, but one thing I've been successful with is to either darthead (for suspended fish) or T-rig (fish on the bottom) a very small black, pumpkin or natural shad curly tail worm and drop it on graphed fish, then just stay on top of 'em for awhile. Use the minimum amount of weight you need to get down to them. Also, the Duh Spoon in morning dawn color is a good one, as is yo-yo-ing an LV 500 when you find a school. Big swim baits and deep cranks fished slowly across points will work as well. Hope that helps.
      City: Clearlake Park

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: How is the fishing on Clear Lake this time of the year. Just moving out to CA from FLA and wanted to see if anyone had any recommendations and/or tips for fishing Clear Lake during the winter. Thanks and Merry Christmas.
      City: Fairfield

Friday, December 24th, 2010

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      Water Temp: 53.4 to 56.7

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: The lake looks like it has come up 15 to 18 feet since the last major storm. The bass havent seem too let up on hitting jigs and drop shot rigs in 18 to 35 feet of water bass range from 11 inches to 4 pounds. Football head jigs in 3/8 or 1/2 oz Pumpkin green/black green crystal Trailer used were 208 yamamoto watermelon red/black flake single tail 5" grubs. The bass were around or on rock piles on flats and dropoffs. BE CAREFULL ALOT OF FLOATING WOOD AND SMALL LOGS CLEAR AROUND THE LAKE. Trout fisherman were few and far between today.
      City: madera ca

      Tips: Fish slow the bite is soft bass are scattered in some areas. If you can keep in contact with the structure your fishing you will catch bass.Also the bass are on the flats in 18 to 25 feet and long cast seem to work good with a slow crawl with a jig back to the boat.

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 52

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Merry Christmas everyone!! I went to the lake this morning for a few hours with a former student of mine and good Oroville pro - Kelly Eagleton. He bought my previous Ranger boat - weird riding my former boat! After two days of fog and little rain, it seem the bite had slowed a some after a good bite earlier in the week. We fish main body and north fork for about 9 or 10 fish - all about 2 to 2 1/2 lbs. Lost several. I got some jig and worm fish and Kelly wormed all of his and one on a spinnerbait. That bait was not on for Kelly today. All our fish were 5 to 30 feet. I was most impressed with the girth of these spots - they are eating!!
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: Bites were on points but also on flats near points. It was interesting to pattern fish on deep and shallow structure. A creek channel or two we worked did not produce a bite.

Thursday, December 23rd, 2010

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 54-56

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Started my A.M off in skiers cove graphing baitfish, jigging duh spoon and tossin deep divin cranks around points. NEVER got a bite. Happen to have a couple dozen LG minnows, so I went deep off the bottom and under a float about 6-7 feet. NOTHIN.
      City: Napa

      Tips: It was a real nice day up there. I did talk with a few guys who were picking up a few fish jiggin. As well as a few guys getting them on drop shot. Lots of guys catching good numbers of trout.

Tuesday, December 21st, 2010

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 47.8

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Day was rainy and windy. Fished breaks and rocky points. Caught a 4lb. largemouth in 4 ft. water off of a break the first five minutes of the day. Using a suspending rip bait. No other fish, missed one off a rocky point. Tried to fish the bridge pilings but it was too windy to stay on them.
      City: Weaverville

Sunday, December 19th, 2010

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

      Report: Forgot to mention Trinity's water temp. 47.7 Interesting that when I went to Whiskey Town on 12/21 the water temp was 47.8

      Real anxious to get out on the norht end of Trinity. I'm looking for a contact person in Trinity Center to get boat ramp info. I talked to a lady at the Jaktre store and she informed me that they are closing their doors on 12/31. This is who I used in the past. Any ideas.
      City: Weaverville

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      Water Temp: 47.7

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Had a few extra hours so I went to the south end of Trinity. Atempted to fish the rock bluffs in Papoose but the wind was blowing too hard to finesse fish. Yo yoed a lipless and spinnerbait with no luck. Made my way to Covington Mill to get out of the wind and rain. Less wind but continued rain. Fished creeks channels with suspending rough, jigs, and plastics. Nothing.

      Bentrod-Couldn't launch at Trinity Center on 12/21 due to a report that there was snow on the roads in Trinity Cneter. I went to Wiskey Town Lake and caught a 4lb. largmouth within the first five minutes of the day off a break. Caught it on 4 ft. water with suspending Rapalla. Only other action was a hit on a suspendign Rapalla against a rocky bank.
      City: Weaverville

Saturday, December 18th, 2010

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 52-54

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fishing getting alot better small swinbaits in the little cuts with running water 1/2 oz brn jig on under water island tops getting them two big backbone has a good spoon bit. had about 10 keepers for about 91/2 pounds. with alot of short fish. The big rain storm was nothing at the lake.
      City: redding

Friday, December 17th, 2010

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 46 - 50

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished along dam. Picked up fish on graph. No takers though. Moved on to points on south facing side. Found water a bit warmer, caught two, boom,boom. that was it. Slow draggin' a watermelon-candy lizard. It sure is B E A U T I F U L UP ON THE MOUNTAIN! We are blessed to live where we do !
      City: UKIAH

      Tips: Take the road up real slow. If you do, you'll be alright. Make a day of it. DRESS FOR THE WEATHER. It's cold this time of the year. The bite was very soft, stay in contact with your lure. WATCH FOR THE BALD EAGLES! GOOD LUCK !

Thursday, December 16th, 2010

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 52

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Out of Italian Slough around 8 am. Fished inside Italian until the fog cleared around 10. tried everything. No takers. Went to the mouth at the inside of Widdow Island. Nothng on Speed Trap so I went to a Green Weenie. Picked up 3 keepers 1 1/2 lbs each right away but that's it. Fished high tide in Italian on the way out but nothing hit me.

      Tips: Buy a good rain suit

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: just wondering if that old hag park ranger with the painted on eyebrows still works here
      City: parts unknown

Wednesday, December 15th, 2010

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 48 degrees

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Just posting to say something positive regarding the lake level. As it stands today, the lake is up 90' from last years level on this date.
      As long as DWR does not go crazy with its releases the lake could be near capacity by March 2011. Retaining water is not always a bad thing!!!!!!
      City: Oroville California

Tuesday, December 14th, 2010

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

      Report: Looking at what the water level is 2311ft elevation, I have launched from trinity center when its quite a bit lower so you should be fine...please post on how you do...good luck
      City: medford

      Tips: I would try the straight up and down rock ledge shores on the main lake

Monday, December 13th, 2010

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: 57

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Tough bite today. Had about 10 bites between the two of us. Missed a few and and our 5 best was 13lbs. Checked a lot of areas today and the fish did not really want to play. Just keep moving is all I can say until you run into something. Only a few boats out there today. It was perfect. That will all be different on Saturday Xmas tourn. Lol.
      City: Petaluma

      Tips: The thing I like to do is stay moving and look for the hot fish(fish that want to play). Sometimes going back to an area(that you like and you think has fish) that didn't produce earlier might turn on later. Pay attention or you will miss those valuable bites that are hard to come by right now.

Sunday, December 12th, 2010

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 55

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Got on the water around 8:30 fished Portugese Canyon and Little Portugese; caught our first fish 2-1/2 lb about 9:45 in 12' of water on a brown jig, bites were slow and we missed a few. Went to Little Portugese and caught a 3-1/2 lb and 2-1/2 lb on on back to back casts using "Oxblood" sweet beaver in about 10' near some lay-downs; the bass hit the bait hard and inhaled it.
      City: Elk Grove

      Tips: We had the best luck finding fish around some wood structure but you had to fish slow; we crawled the bait, let it sei, gave it a little shake, let it sit. Fish slow.

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 54-55

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched New Hope 6:30am; picked up 9 keepers + a bunch of 8-10"ers on speed traps and dropshot in 8-15ft. At 1-2pm, water was dead calm and stained; bite shut down for us so off the water by 3pm. Surprised us..didn't think we'd get as many as we did. Sure wasn't like this a couple weeks ago.
      City: Folsom

      Tips: Worked the speed trap slow and stopped as soon as it touched weeds/grass...then start retrieve again slowly. Brother picked up 5 (3keepers) in 20mins dropshotting chompers 4" worms. Just kept shaking the worm in the weeds.

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      Water Temp: n/a

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Took Dreyson out today and could do no wrong black/blue jig any cut in tullie berm down current side 11 fish total 2lbs to largest 5.77 just drag it dont lift, dont hop,So if a limit makes you a stud what does a 15lbs+ limit make us
      City: Lafayette

      Tips: DRAG IT

Saturday, December 11th, 2010

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 56-57

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I made a trip to Amador yesterday to check out my new Lowrance HDS-7. Many changes in the last 4 or 5 years!! My HDS-8 is on the way! I did fish for a few hours as the favorable weather pattern (warm, cloudy) was leaving and the skies cleared about 8 pm. Temp dropped and high fog arrived pretty quickly. That will kill a night bite every time. Heavy, moist air is not good for night fishing. I did manage 3 quality bass from 3 1/4 to 4 lbs and one about 1 1/4 lbs. Four bites and four in the boat - I didn't loose one for a change. The D&M Piranha swim jig that worked well earlier in the week at Clear Lake did not produce a bite last night. All were caught on a big brush hog. I didn't fish any worms. All action was in Jackson Creek arm..
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: The lake is still warmer than I thought it would be. I was the only boat on the lake - lonely out there! The two 3's were caught on back to back casts on a point - only about 10 feet deep. And they nailed the bait. The 4 was caught off to the side of a point in about 25 feet of water - no bite. Fishing might get better when the water temp drops a few more degrees. Just my opinion.

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 56-59

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: A tough tournament for some teams, in that the fish were not chewing aggressively, they seemed to be interested but tentative. Considering the Xmas parties and other conflicting tournaments there was a decent showing, we had a total of 14 Teams that fished the third tournament on the Berryessa Pro Team Trail December 11, 2010. Thank