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Friday, October 22nd, 2010

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 62

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the east Delta and caught several small LM Bass (all under 1.5 pounds) on senkos (green with black flake) and a small rip bait.

      Tips: Deadstick both baits for at least ten seconds, then give it a little twitch. They hit the rip bait when it is still.

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      Water Temp: 63-66

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I just finished fishing the calm before the storm at the Delta's Won bass pro/am. The first day I had the luxury of fishing with big bass expert Matt Allen. This guys the real deal, and he proved it as he yelled for the net, so I look over and see a 6 lber shaking its head above the surface. Matt also caught about a ten pound striper on some flashy jig, I forget the name, but you can probably find it on his website. The big striper came out of potato slough, fishing the long sloping points. Watch out for the drill rig on the south side canal. We also caught stripers at the mouth of disapointment slough, again fishing points with a little current. The largemouth right now don't seem to be relating to thick cover, they seem to be roaming flats next to deep water, so don't be afraid to throw a rip bait or top water. I did catch fish with a flick shake as deep as 18', so they fish are starting to drop down into there winter locations, but there are still plenty up shallow as well, and there willing to come up and eat a big bait.
      City: Sacto

      Tips: If its cloudy and or raining, largemouth will be scattered and feeding, so stick to reaction baits all day, if the suns out, fish deep tullie ledges with current moving no faster then 1 foot a second. For stripers, fish points with faster moving current, using anything that looks like a bait fish.

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 69

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Basin Bassmasters just finished their last tournament before the TOC. Only three limits came in, winning weight was 12+ lbs. Most of the bass were cought in the main body and some in the nerrows. Drop shot, jigs, split shot with a lizard, worms and darter head. Some reaction fish for some, lipless crank baits. Look for the bait, wood.
      City: Rocklin

      Tips: Fish it slow.

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 64

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Off the chart caught over hundred spots drop shotting and jigs main lake. the best day I have had in years. Talked with guy who never left the 5 mile area by the ramp (DAM) caught 40-50. Find the bait fish and drop shot anything shad color. If using a jig very very slow.
      City: Fresno

      Tips: Look for the bait fish the bass are gourging on them right now.

Thursday, October 21st, 2010

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 68.7

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: on the water 7:30 fished till 12:30 caught 6 bass.bite was very light found fish between 20 to 30 foot around rocks.all fish came on a dropshot.wind came up hard to hold on one spot moved around alot.
      City: Roseville

      Tips: Found big bait balls but couldnt get bit till i moved off of them most fish were around two pounds.try using light shad colors.

Monday, October 18th, 2010

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      Water Temp: 65-74

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: We were here Wed-Sat this week. Lake in GREAT shape; small algae bloom starting to show. Water temps: 69-74 most of the time as W-F was H-O-T. Saturday there was cloud cover and cool morning water was 65-66 until we came off at Noon.
      Tossed a variety of baits - hoping for great Top Water like a few weeks ago, but nada. Worms/Grubs/Hogs/Tubes was the ticket. Tubes were best, but hogs 2nd best for sure. 10 fish on jerkbaits on Saturday with cloud cover. As Mark indicated, 5-15 feet. I experimented with many retrieves, but it was the big jerk and pause that triggered strikes near rocks or any structure. Slower bite for the 4 days than i anticipated, but basically it was shallow and great early and late, late morning thru 1 all dropshot and slow plastic in deeper water ... especially if you find a nice drop off.
      City: Pacific Grove

      Tips: slow down; this is the time of year good Eastman fish are just ticking it light then fighting like hell when caught. I am sure i missed plenty of bites BS-ing in the boat, but many were just line ticks i never felt in rod. Best fish were 3 to 3-1/2 range. Many in 2lb range as Mark indicated. Greens best colors although some on salt/pepper. PHOTO-RELEASE! And folks... the garbage. Pick that sh*t up!!!

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

      Report: Got two this morning, weather was cloudy and cool,worked a senko whacky rigged. 2.5 and a 2 pounder, weren't giant fish, but got 'em into the boat!! Released both for anther day..

      Tips: fish were in 20-30 feet along the rock lines, second smaller one felt like I was hung up, but then put up a fight the closer to the boat he got.
      water temp was 68 and stained.

Sunday, October 17th, 2010

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: A good friend and i have been fishing the Shore the past couple weekends, early morinig to about 11am. Spot is just before Markley cove, park in cutout and walk down. Been getting lots of spots,small and largemouths but very few keepers. Lots of action. Perfect for taking kids! The walk down to the water is tough, be careful!. Take your kids! they will love it!
      City: Vacaville

      Tips: Catching all fish on small Panther Martin's and Rooster Tails in various colors. Fish seem to be in 15 to 25 feet of water. Tried robo worms, popper, and various spinner baits with absolutely no luck. Average catch is 10 to 12 fish around 10" to 16" inches length. I'm Going to try the old school method this weekend. hook, nightcrawler and bobber.

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 68.4 - 66.3

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the Restore The Delta meet. Cold, Wet, Cold, Wet.. What can I say. Fishing was really off. 28-30 boats on hand for the charity meet. Launched at 7:10 and headed to Mokelumne River with little to nothing. Over to Bradford area and picked off a few dings with a punch bait and a jig, worked the boat docks with nothing, headed towards False River and hit a pocket of small fish but no keepers. Windy wet and called it a loss. Headed in, loaded up at 10:30 along with several others on the way out and home. Hit the 580 and headed to Bakersfield. Expensive day of nothing. Hey! Whats with the $10 buck launch fees?? For that kind of fee, they need to improve the launch and parking areas!
      City: Santa Maria

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 67-70

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: I read the last couple of posts and one stuck out. It was from Bass Girl. I noticed the link you added and it was about the Triton Owners tourney we fished earlier in Oct. I can attest to the very tough bite. My partner and I found a really good pattern and a really good spot. We ended up with 46+ for the 2 days. We pre-fished all week and found NOTHING for a back up pattern. It was all or nothing for us but it worked out. I was not shocked on how many zeros during the tourney there were because of how hard the pre-fish bite was. Anyway if you look hard enough and stumble on the fish it can happen in a hury. Trust me on this.

      Good luck,

      Mike
      City: enumclaw

      Tips: Keep moving until you find the ones that are feeding

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      Water Temp: 68

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Heard the bite was terrible, and it turned out that way for us too. USAC with 130 boats and 30 blank and a few with 1 fish? Wow. So we have a small club event on Sunday when the Indian Summer weather turned cooler, with AM rain and some wind, and thought the reaction bite ought to turn on. Nope! Probably because there is so much bait to eat. Caught a few 4 inchers on my Sammy 100 and blade, plus a big bluegill on deep crank. Weighed in no fish. those who caught fish seemed to be fishing deep (like 20 plus feet) and fished slow......
      City: Folsom

      Tips: Fish slow and deep, like a summer bite. Heard about a morning topwater bite, but did not get a keeper. Saw a great thrash of a bass chasing bait, but outside casting distance.

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I am not posting a report but I am posting a general reply. The last posting about the 6" fish-you are one of the few "non-guide" posters evidently. All the posts regarding "the bite getting better" are just to get people to hire a guide (the posting guide...)If you click on a few of the links at the top of the page, for instance Bob Myskey or Richard Pounds, you can view photos and determine for yourself just how successful (or not) the fishing is.
      Clear Lake is going through one of its infamous cycles. I have faith it will improve, just as it has in previous cycles. Those little 6"ers might be the next trophy. So have faith and keep fishin!
      City: San Francisco, CA

      Tips: The real fishermen only want honesty and can find it by reading articles such as this one http://www.record-bee.com/ci_16344490?source=most_viewed

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: the arroyo ain't closed 4 stealhead. its closed cuz of all those damn dog lovers. since when wuz the cliffs a dog park.we should have the right to shoot any dog off its leash. hell i own dogs but i show my fellow man respect by keeping them leashed.

      Tips: keep those damn dogs leashed and take them some place else. trust me they'll never know the difference

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: if u want trout here only use crawlers and mallows and only fish early.bite shuts down early. if u want dog meat fish the arroyo.
      City: dublin

  • Trinity County
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      Water Temp: 65

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Rolfy and I Fished Trinity from 14th to the 17th for smallmouth and largemouth Eddy and his group fished for Trout
      Trout fishing is killer right now they bank fished for lots of nice ones.
      Bass fishing was slow..but we don't fishing this body of water that often...second time in 40 yrs.
      We fished out of Trinity Center and just hung around that area.While the Bass fishing was slow we caught alot of Trout using bass lures.
      Most of the Bass were hanging from 25 to 40ft most of the day we dropshoted those fish they ranged from 1 to 2lbs with the Smallies being the larger fish.
      We did manage to get out early Sat with some cloud cover I tried a Spook and stuck a 7+ largemouth in 50ft of water on a point it made that trip worth While!
      Good luck be safe
      City: Woodpile

Saturday, October 16th, 2010

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 70

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Mark Fong invited me to join him today, to find some spoon fish. We started in an area that I had done well in a couple days ago with Ron Makashima. The fish had moved out of the creek channel and were stageing in 50ft. We caught 8 bass there and desided to head up to the mouth of Pope creek and Putah creek. The schools of bass there is hard to descibe. We must have caught and released 50 to 60 bassand missed dozens of hits. A lot of them 2 to 3lbs.
      City: Sacramento

      Tips: Spend some serious time looking in 45 to 50ft. out side the creek channels. These fish are not on structure. They are in massive schools waiting to intercept shad that are migrating into the creeks to spawn. We used 1-3/4oz. Duh spoons in morning dawn and key lime.

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 68

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: My neighbor took me fishing this morning. We fished his water Hog Slough and Mildred Island. We caught 6 to 3LBS from 7A.M.-12P.M.
      City: W. Sac

      Tips: Fished with the usual tools: Speed Traps, blades and Senkos.

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      Water Temp: 66

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Launch is still in water but if you plan on fishing CFW, get there soon if you want to use the ramp as it should be out of the water in a week or so. Water was crystal clear in the main body but the fish were active although not as much as I had hoped for. Plenty of action on the tube but just couldn't get anything generated on reaction bite yet. Talked to some guys on the lake who were getting hit on swimbait but nothing landed. Weather was quite breezy and thought a blade would have worked better. Numbers for the day were probably 20-25 bass between the 2 of us and biggest a nice 3 lb spot. The fish are feeding as belly is bulging and spitting out shad when coming on board.
      City: Wheatland

      Tips: A tube presentation on 1/4 darthead fished around rock up to 10-15' depth. Worked main body walls as the further we went up river, the less they bit. Good bite right now so enjoy it while you can.

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      Water Temp: n/a

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: We got on the water at 6:30 AM and started throwing jigs in shallow water and then moved over too crankbaits and we landed 10 bass from 2 to 2 1/2 pounds in depth of 4 to about 15 feet of water most bass were holding on small rock piles and shallow dropoffs out off the same rock piles the bigger fish came on jigs. The cloud cover made the difference on the bite. We were off the water by 11:15 am

      Tips: arkie head or football head jigs work the best and crankbaits that run in the 12 to 15 foot range also workrd well.

Friday, October 15th, 2010

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 70

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished rocky points (worms) and submerged humps (topwater) early with no results. Fished shallows around Big Island with no results. Fished West of Goat Island and got bit on topwater and landed a spot on reaction bait. Fished creak channel at vineyard and landed one LM on jig. Very thin!? Mid-afternoon and wanted more fish in the boat so I fished rock walls for spots and landed seven more. Small
      City: Sacramento

      Tips: Take your kids or grandchildren, they will love it!