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Tuesday, September 28th, 2010

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Just so you know, I'm not hatin on anyone. I have fished here for a long time and know you don't just show up, make a few casts and land 5-10 pounders every day no matter how avid you are. Sounds a little fishy to me. Seems like you guys should be fishing tournaments not Spring Lake.

Monday, September 27th, 2010

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

      Report: Fished inside Big Break from 9 am til 11 for nothing. The water was skinny, but I wanted to try to get something on top. Frog-0 Popper-0, then went to Sherman Lake and tried the same, for same results. Guess I need to get up earlier, oh well always fun to be on the water

      Tips: Don't ask me I got stinky

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      Water Temp: 71

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Delta was tough over the weekend but we were able to get a few using spinnerbaits shallow.

      Tips: Keep moving and be persistent. TueKid - Go back to school so you can learn how to write and spell!

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: Water Temp. 70-

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: The bite has been much better this last week, over the weekend on a 1/2 day guide trip we had close to 20 fish and the best 5 went around 20 pounds. Fun fishing I had some good limits without having to run around much work to hard. With warm weather cool nights and not much wind the fishing has been great.

      With the bait fish everywhere it takes some time to find the fish that are willing to bite but when you find them they are easy to catch.

      We fished mostly swim baits and worms. Hippo Swimbaits, Frogs, Persuader Football Head Jigs, and Worms will all catch fish now.
      City: Clear Lake

      Tips: Tips: Try the rocky areas close to deeper water and docks, some docks were better than others. Fish the swim baits around cover and throw the frog in the heat of the day.
      Best colors for the Jig, brown/purple, swim bait colors, Hitch/Shad, and the best worm color was green pumpkin.

      Have fun ! .........StevePerkinsFishing.com

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      Water Temp: boiling (heat &

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: spring lake was on today.caught 14+ fish.lost a giant!!!!!! topwater,flukes,buzzin and sencos.fucking enourmous blowups for 8 hours.seen something try to take down a mallard,thats the third time ive seen that in a week!!! GIANT BASS!!
      City: rosa

      Tips: get ready set your drag! insane feeding frenzys for a few days in a row.try topwater its been good. oh yeah mfb - some of us do fish tournaments and some of us grew up on our local lake,some of us come to visit the lake,some come to rape the waters of the fish,some of us do well and some others sit on there couch complaing disbeleif all day about people that are catching toads!! i could give two shits less then what anybody believes.i just wish more people would hate fishing here.disregard my report above i actually got skunked today. tip -try different lake!!! LOL. i hate this lake.

Sunday, September 26th, 2010

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 68

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Launched at New Hope and went straight to Mokulemne by B&W; incoming tide. Worked tules and outside weedbeds with red lipless cranks and speed trap. picked up numerous dinks and a few 1.5 - 2lbers. Brother picked up a few on senko, beaver, and rattletraps. went back to sycamore and beaver slough...zip on low-tide. passed up hog slough and saw report that it was good.
      City: folsom, ca

      Tips: not much to offer...just tried different things and as tide went back out, worked outside edges of weedlines to pick up a few more. used stop/pause/go retrieve with the speedtrap to pick up the 1&2-lbers.
      ... just my report. good fishin' everyone!

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 73

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I went out after work today and caught several fish on a dropshot and senko. The water is very clear! I found better fish in 30-35 ft. Once the shadows hit the water I caught a lot of nice bass on top-water.
      City: Redding

      Tips: Baby bass colored plastics. The best top-water lure for me was "The One".

Saturday, September 25th, 2010

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I'm fed up! A few days after the first trout plant started going, went about 6 times since. been fishing for them all month long it seems. Powerbait, nightcrawlers, marshmallows, u name it. No bites, no nothing, just very long dissapointing days and nights. Fished for catfish a little as well (during evening) and still nothing..Maybe the water is still too warm, I dont know what that guy below me was talking about. His friend caught a single trout one evening? Bullcrap. All the times ive been out there for at least 11 to 12 hours without a single bite as of yet. Hopefully it picks up.
      City: Livermore

Friday, September 24th, 2010

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Got started late but still found some nice fish willing to hit a 1-3/4oz.morning dawn spoon in 35 to 45ft. After they wouldn't hit the spoon, I drop shot a 4" Basstrix Smelt flashtrix in the same depth a caught a few more. 4 smallmouth and 8 spots. most were bettween 2lb. and 3-1/2lb.
      I checked several areas were I usually spoon fish this time of year and they are close but not yet on a crazy spoon bite. There are small shad all over the surface but the big shad are still deep.
      Talked to another fisherman that said he had caught a few nice fish on white spinnerbaits in 8 to 10ft. on rocky points.
      City: Sacramento

      Tips: Look for deep creek channel breaks and flats that break off in 35 to 40ft. Places where they can push the bait up against and good ambush areas.

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      Water Temp: 73-75

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Mike Sperbeck and I decided to check the night bite out last night. We started about 5 pm, fishing the main body. We caught a lot of bass - most of them being dinks. One smallie was 1 1/2 lbs. I had a spot that I wanted us to fish just before dark - hoping for the eternal "big" bite! How often does that actually happen - seldom! However, last night it happened!!!! Mike was fishing his usual small Beaver on 6 lb test. Why he fishes that light line before dark I'll never know! Each to his own!! Well, just before dark, something over 6 lbs bit, and the fight - and wait - was on! Seemed like she made it to the bottom of the lake and then came the slow process of working the fish up. How's the 6 lb test holding up? Just fine - so far! Mike is really doing a great job! Finally we see a toad and she is in the salmon net on the second try. I love it when you have to use both hands to bring a bass aboard! She was a beauty at 8 lbs 13 oz! Quick photo that will appear soon on the photo page and back in the water she went. We actually had to needle her since she went so deep. After dark, as the moon was rising, the bite was pretty good for mostly largemouth to 2 1/2 lbs. Our best 5 - about 16 1/2 lbs. As the moon got higher the bite died and we left about 11 pm.
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: Again, spooning was not so good. Hard to find good concentrations of bait. Drop-shotting a Basstrix Flashtrix minnow seems to work better. Robo worms were working for smaller bass. An evening topwater bite has not worked at all for me yet. Surface is dead in the evening. Do NOT worry about the baitfish supply at Berryessa!!! With an absolutely flat surface in the narrows yesterday afternoon - very small shad were visable on the surface as far as the eye could see. Only little bass chasing them. Fishing should improve when the water temp drops to below 70 degrees.

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 73-79

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Launched out of russos fished from 6 to 4 started off in morning flipping sweet beavers and throwing spinner baits on the south end of franks caught 15 fish by noon some small but most were quality fish water was clear but fish were holding in tules. Stayed in the tract all day flippin and throwing spinner baits moved to north end a landed big fish of the day a 6 and a half pounder on the spinner bait. Good fishin to all hope this helps someone out.
      City: oakley

      Tips: flip and blade baits

  • Alameda County
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      Water Temp: 62

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Magical day on Lake Chabot Wednesday -- a 10+ fish day! Sunny, cool and breezy, just the perfect weather to disarm LM bass from all predators. Alder Point is producing consistent bites as usual at this time of year. The bass were hitting on jigs, roboworms, and senkos. Enjoy while the good weather and feeding frenzy last.
      City: Richmond

      Tips: Dropshot with purple/brown roboworm, green/pumpkin senko, blue/purple jigs with football head all work well.

Thursday, September 23rd, 2010

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 68-74

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Hadn't been up since the first big algae bloom and reading all the crappy fishing reports.I called Clear lake Outdoors and talked with Jimmy and Jan they said the bit was picking up. My brothers and I had a chance to fish together,since we hadn't in quite sometime.
      We got some Jumbos for the oldest brother who doesn't bass fish and my other brother and myself used artificial.
      The Artificial bite was tough in the morning.It was pretty much all Jumbo Minnows My brother had a 15,12,7,lb Catfish and alot of Largemouth.
      In the Afternoon the Artificial bite picked up Big Time.Both of my brothers got their personal best Largemouth,my oldest brother using a Jumbo Minnow had 7.4 oz. My middle brother we call "Hog" caught his personal best. 11.2 oz on an artificial,all I could manage is a 5,lb..but we did catch two 5,lb on back to back casts on the same piece of structure.
      It was the Best day these 3 brothers ever had (fish wise) together on this lake!!
      Good Luck Be safe
      City: Woodpile

      Tips: The Odd thing about this day on the lake was how finicky the bass were on what artificial the were willing to take..while by brother was catching fish I tried every other bait I had except the one he was using trying to match his catch once it was obivious the he had THE BAIT I switched and starting catching also...so keep experimenting when if you have the opportunity.

Monday, September 20th, 2010

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: To MFB,dont hate becuase you struggle on such a fantastic lake that produces huge fish for the people who put in work.I've seen and taken the pics for i love fat girls. come out some time and ill be more than willing to show some big bags.we post these reports to help avid anglers to get bit when times are tough,every body has those days where you cant get bit. we dont make this shit up.
      City: rosa

      Tips: CATCH AND RELEASE and put in your time

Sunday, September 19th, 2010

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

      Report: Fished from 3:30 P.M. to 6:30 P.M. out of B&W. Stayed close to the marina area. I caught 3 dinks on a red Speed Trap and 1 dink on a 6 inch Senko. The Senko was bigger the the fish!! Wifey caught a 2lber and a dink on successive cast using a Swim Bait. She's good!!! I still can't catch a fish on a Swim Bait!!
      City: W. Sac

      Tips: Where are all the hogs??!! We launched during the end of a Tourney. The winning weight I was told was around 17Lbs. I remember when 20Lbs was the minimum you needed to cash a check!!

      Going out next week with my son hope it gets better.

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      Water Temp: 73

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Wait until 8:30 am until the fish start to bite. That's what the Junior Bass Club ( NorCal Bass Ratz) did for their tournament. The water is low, but the fish are in 25-40ft of water right now. Top water in the late part of the day. Dater head with a sexy shad, Jigs, lipless crank bait and a drop shot.
      Winning weight was 11.58 lbs for the big bag of five fish.
      City: Rocklin

      Tips: Work Rock Creek and the main body....

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

      Report: folsom sucks!! two lookers on the buzzbait and spook then after that nothing. we dragged, droppshotted,threw blades,cranks and reaction nothing
      City: rocklin

Saturday, September 18th, 2010

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 68

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Rattletraps (red) were the ticket for us, just inside the Mokulumne and in Potato Slough. Couldn't get anything else to go. Just keep chucking and cranking the rattlebaits with a mixed cadence until you're sore, and they'll produce (well, at least 2 weeks ago and during our club tourney yesterday). Most of what you get might be small, but the keepers are there as well. Just keep chuckin and crankin (outside weed lines on outgoing tide was best for me on both dates). Yes, you'll probably be pulling weeds off just about every cast, but keep the bait above or adjacent to any weedbeds you see and the fish will hit, here and there---not saying it's wide open by any stretch, but it's 'fair to good'.
      City: San Rafael

      Tips: Red red red red red / crank crank crank crank crank... If trying to get into the topwater stuff, try to get out super early and time it so your early outing coincides with the high tide (use charts at http://www.deltaboating.com/tides/tidesj.html to plan... looks like next Friday/Sat will put the high tide around 6am so go get 'em with topwater first thing, then switch over to the rattlebaits and see if those are still workin!)

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      Water Temp: 65'

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Early am, found shad poping and caught them on top water and one on jig. No size, just one 2 lb and the rest dinks. Fished main river, rocks. As wind picked up, fished inside pockets along tules with spinner and cranks. Plenty of dinks - 11".
      City: ssf

      Tips: Tough fishing to catch keepers. Didn't matter what color but as wind picked up, fish were chasing cranks and spiiners. When wind died, top water was good.

Thursday, September 16th, 2010

  • Mason County
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      Water Temp: 72

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: on water at 5 off at 6:30 boated two fish to 2.5# both on 5" sencos on wind blown points. lots of baitfish. first time on lake in 5 years. dont usually get the boat dry enough for the inspections down this way. lot of fun for an evening
      City: san jose