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Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 69-74

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: June 16th through the 23rd

      This last week I have been fishing the Red Bud and Rattlesnake arms to the Narrows.

      The fishing has improved in the last few days and I'm catching some nice fish from 3 1/2 to 5 1/2 pounds on soft plastics, Jigs and frogs, and my friend Cody got a nice one on a crank bait and he got a 20 pound catfish on a split-shot.

      I have been pitching the shallow cover, and fishing the Swimbait in the weeds. There is some action on the offshore rock piles that will improve when the bait starts to move around.

      StevePerkinsFishing.com
      City: Clear Lake

      Tips: Slow down, make accurate casts and fish every piece of cover thoroughly. Best colors for me have been green pumpkin, purple and black. For the Swimbait I have been fishing the Hippo Tackle 5" Shad or Hitch color with a 3/8th oz weighted hook to get it into the thick weeds.

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      Water Temp: 73 to 76

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: There is a descent bite on bass to 3 pounds in 17 to 25 feet of water on jigs or baby brushhogs. You can also catch a few bass on rico's or buzzbaits in the early morning or late evening. Traffic is lite during the week.
      City: madera ca.

      Tips: Dont get in a big hurry fishing a jig or the hog the bass are in the coves or any rock structure and brush piles and around standing trees.

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 71-73

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Since I just did a report, I will make this brief. Another half-day guide trip with two anglers that have done a little bass fishing. I thought drop-shotting would work well for them and it did for the most part. We had cloud cover early and I thought it would help the bite, but the spots were a little lethargic this morning. You would set the hook and they had already spit the worm. Weird. One of the fellows did catch one over the slot - barely - his first one of the day. We just fished the main body and a little of the middle fork. We just used 6" Robo worms and morning dawn w/ chartreuse tail was again the winner! Green craw was second place. Salt & pepper w/ chartreuse is starting to work also. Fish were deeper on a cloudy morning - go figure!
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: Maybe because of the lack of much hot weather, the lake is VERY clear - at least in the areas I have guided lately. Visibility is well over 10 feet! Finally saw some bluegill today - along with another small largemouth - and some BIG carp! They are lovin' all the underwater weedbeds! The slower bite could be blamed on the clear water with a totally flat lake - not a breath of wind!!

Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 72ish

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Was fishing muddy to stained water the past 2 weeks with little success. Monday fished pretty clear water and what a difference clarity makes. Had 5 for 22lbs with 4 of them on topwater. Fished incoming tide from 10 to 3.
      City: Brentwood

      Tips: Fishing clearer water was key Monday. But, that can change...hell, it probably already has.

Monday, June 21st, 2010

  • Mason County
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      Water Temp: 70-ish

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Shore fished near the damn. Arrived around 5pm and fished till 7pm. Only a few boats out but there wakes still made for murky visibility. Started out with black/red and white/red spinner baits and a shad minnow rap. No interest. Finished off with wack worm drop shot and t-rig worm with also no interest. One of those days....
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Shore fishing has been pretty rough these past couple of weeks. Need a boat for Anderson unless going for cats near E. Dunne bridge.

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 75

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Got on the water late,5:45am. Threw G-splash 85 Ghost minnow all day getting 3 fish, 1 spot 2.5#, 2 LMB 3#& 4#. Deep Lil N got 3 1ea. smallie,spot,LMB. 1 on spinnerbait LMB (white&gold)3.5#. All in all it was ok to land all 3 fish that bit the popper. We were all over the lake on the westside and north.

      Tips: Keep throwing it 'til your arm falls off. Lost a few on a senko at the trees in the north end. Oh, and where is the water at?ts down 1.5-2' from 2wks ago.

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      Water Temp: 70-74

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished this morning from 0630 until 1100. Top water in the early AM with fish playing with my sammy but not hooking up. Wormed fish the rest of the morning for 6 spots. All taken in about 10 feet of water. Yellow dog, over and out..
      City: Penngrove

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

      Report: Probably a sacramento pike aka squaw fish. They are no good.

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 73-75

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Dennie and I got a late start, but a darter head and a split shot with a robo worm in all colors let us boat 30 plus bass. Most we caught were around 18-21 ft. Our best five were around 12 lbs.
      City: Rocklin

      Tips: fish slow and stay in the zone

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      Water Temp: Warm

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Slow for Catfish. Should pick up with more plants. Caught a 22 1/2'' 4 lb. 4oz. Catfish and thats it.
      City: Pleasanton

      Tips: Chicken Liver

Sunday, June 20th, 2010

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 70

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Sunday morning the winds died down for the Junior Bass Club, (NorCal Bass Ratz). The cold front that blow the day before made it tough but the Juniors still came in with their limits of 3 bass. Not big but a limit. Senkos worked the best for most in and around the rocks with tules. With only 2.5 ft tide moving work it slow.
      City: Rocklin

      Tips: look for those bass that are holding tight to cover.

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      Water Temp: 66-69

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launced at New Hope and started at Beaver Slough; brother picked up a couple with a beaver tail (just a coincidence) on a football jig..took it on the fall. Zip for me trying t-rigged senko, lipless crank, money frog, and dropshotting Then moved to Little Potato Slough from the Tower Marina; brother picked up a couple more on the beaver working the tules. Moved to our fav spot along Mokulemne and I immediately picked up 3 on 1/2 oz gold/black Red-eye Shad, then 4 more on 1/4 oz orange craw Red-eye Shad. Lipless cranks seem to work for me on Mokulemne. Bro switched to same and picked up 3 more. Had three 2lbers and one 3lber as my decent fish; bro had same for his decent fish. Others were barely keepers but still fun to catch! Note: Also picked up a really weird looking fish..bass green color but long and skinny like a smelt or a hake but it took my lipless just like a bass...it threw the hook at the boat so didn't get a good look or a pic of it...anyone know what it is??
      City: folsom

      Tips: Beaver worked for my bro, tossed between tules and weedline or just outside the weeline. My lipless cranks picked all mine up, tossed right at the tules and in the "tule inlets".

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      Water Temp: 70

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: fished from 8-3 20 fish all spotted bass 3lbs biggest rip baits, med to deep cranks threw everything else with no succes no topwater bite fish shallow 5' or less in morn fish were 10 to 15 ft in afternoon.

      Tips: find good structure the fish will b there

Saturday, June 19th, 2010

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 76

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: First night trip to Amador in 3 years. Pretty good evening. Started at 4pm; had a small limit by 4:45, then it died till about 9pm. Caught alot of fish between 9 and midnight. Bite died again at midnight so we left. No fish bigger than 3 lbs. Will be back in July or Aug. on a full moon.
      City: Sacramento

      Tips: No secret baits on this trip. Just basic dark baits. Caught alot on blue/black hula grubs and bigger fish came on 7 inch black power worm. Tried swimbaits and cranks, no takers. My partner did get one a a zara spook. $32 to get in. Wow!

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 74 Degrees

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Launched from Northshore and fished main body for first hour but no action. Fished coves in the main channel and started catching some small spots. Most fish came on drop shot and shakey head. Caught one small mouth and a few spots on top water. Biggest fish went 3.5 lbs. Off the lake by noon.
      City: El Dorado Hills

      Tips: Mostly a finesse bite.

  • Ventura County
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      Water Temp: 72

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Slow morning catching fish. Did have them hit on senkos and also Super Pintail Shad baits. Hit points 10-20 ft deep water. Making sure to deadstick.
      City: Ventura

      Tips: Catch and Release

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      Water Temp: 75

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished a couple days this week. Fish can be caught on several reaction techniques until 9am then the bite dies off. Finnesse with plastics after that. fish are in all areas of the water column, but a few bigger fish are 15+ft deep.
      City: clovis

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 69-73

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I think summer has finally hit Lake Oroville! Lots of small bass 9 to 12 inches starting to show. I guided a couple of great people yesterday morning - a guy and gal who wanted to learn more about bass fishing, not having been too successful on their previous trips. Learn they did - and catch they did too!! As we started out from the dam, I made a sudden turn to the left to a spot that now looked good with the higher water. I love instinctive impulses - when they work! His first bass on a green craw Robo worm was a 16 1/2" spot. Nice! We continued to work the main body during rather tough conditions - clear water and no breeze, catching a few in shadows! We moved to the middle fork as the breeze - then wind- picked up - and so did the bite. I was so happy for the nice lady - she landed 3 bass and lost several. She was excited! He did very well with 8 or so in the boat. I tried to keep up with the best color "of the hour" - switching Robo colors for them as conditions changed. I caught 12 or 13 also, including 2 barely over the slot. I was happy for the very willing bass - I know my clients had lots of fun and said they learned a lot.
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: At 76% capacity. Lake Oroville it starting to look like her 'ol self - until you get next to the bank and look up. Still a ways to go! I worked with them on split-shotting techniques to get them going, then I tried to see if drop-shotting was happening. It was!! Retied their rigs for dropshotting and that was the answer for the morning. Lots of action. It was interesting to me that there was no surface action what-so-ever until one fished rolled at 11 am. No bird action - just quiet out there. Out action came on hard-pan banks at about the 10 to 30 foot depth. Morning Dawn w/chartreuse tail was again good along with green pumpkin and Aaron's Magic w/ R&B flake.

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

      Report: heading up to triniy for the first time anyone have advice on patterns, where the fish r and what they r doing? going this upcoming week. thanks
      City: castro valley

Friday, June 18th, 2010

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 71-74

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: My last couple of trips up here, have been not as successful as usual for this time of the year, so my buddy, hOOver felt sorry for me and took me to fish his hot spots. His last 2 trips he caught 20 and 35 fish respectfully. Nothing over 2, but that's fine with me. We launched up at Putah Creek and fish the Creek for most of the day. We hit all of his "hot" spots and didn't do well. It was weird, as we saw only 1 bass boat and didn't boat many more fish than that.
      We fished from 8 - 3 and boated 6 fish and had less than 10 bites. Our few fish came shallow and scattered and all on plastics. We threw jerks, blades and topwater with zero bites. Usually this time of the year, it's usually easy, but this day was anything but that. We marked fish in the 15-20' range, but couldn't get bite fishing deep. Went over to the east side and there were also no boats there, but there were dead carp floating around.
      Nice day to fish with a friend and to have a few cold ones, but the fish didn't want to play. If anyone is having better luck with this off year, I'd appreciate your comments....
      City: orinda

      Tips: Probably my next trip there will be to try the narrows and fish the rocky points. Good company, a good lunch and a few cold ones still make it a good day.