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Sunday, June 20th, 2010

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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.

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      Water Temp: 75-79

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: We fished the Narrows from 4 pm until 8 pm. What a disappointment. We only caught a hand full on 4" shad worms (dropshot & shaky head). At least the fish were bigger than average. We caught our fish about 15-20 feet deep. We had a nice breeze and stained water on a lot of the points. We cranked and jerkbaits on and off while the sun was up and for 1 hour when sun was down. We did not get one bite. We should have fished the morning, but because I worked swings, it is tough getting up. I think the fish are going deeper and the fish are in transition. The lake is turning over....and to top it all off - too many wake boards/jetskier even though it was Thurs...
      City: Elk Grove

      Tips: None. I quitting until the fall...

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 68

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Consentrated on 15-20' depth, and then moved up and back. Could not find em. Two fish all day, one SM and one spot --nice 3 1/2 lber but beat up looking. So much water in the lake that it is hard to find my spots because they are so deep now. The peninsula is gone! Tried frog, worms and senko. Wind blew good all day. Sure is pretty tho with all that water and no bathtub ring shoreline.
      City: Folsom

      Tips: wish I had some!

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 68-70+

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Started out of Centimudi and fished up to Digger Bay, fish were deep only got about 10, mainly on green and reddish worms, 4" greenpumkin senko's did will also. Head over to Dry Creek area, got one over 3lbs. got another 20+ agin all but 3 were over 12". Fish were mainly 15+ deep, only shallow fish were in mud lines. Biggest surprise was, 90% of fish were smallmouths. Saturday went out of Jones Valley, weather was cooler at first and light wind, took awhile but the bite stared, Greenpumkin 4" senkos, and green and reddish 4" worms, had to stay in the 15+ range and secondary points did well. Baby Bass color did will also, Only 1 smallmouth, other 20 plus spots over 12 and up to 17". Two good days, Boat traffic picked up when the weather got warmer, good thing was it made mud lines, which made a good area to fish.
      City: Redding

      Tips: Had to keep trying different colors but once you find the combo, it worked alday. Had to stay in the 15+ foot depth, or shallower in mud lines.

Thursday, June 17th, 2010

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went out with my brother around 1630. We went over by the arms next to the marina. We were throwing crawdads with a bullet weight. My brother caught two on the crawdad with the biggest around two ponds. Very windy day, really worked the trolling motor to stay were the fish were. Was only out there for about two hours. Too windy.
      City: red bluff

      Tips: Crawdads worked well. Black with green claws. Missed a few fish

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

      Report: Went out to Delta couple days ago fish around Orwood and Holland. Caught couple small frog fish and had some blow ups. Tried disco bay with no result at all. 5.5lb was the biggest of the day I caught, the fish was hiding in the tullies. Overall still pretty slow for everybody else.
      City: Fremont

      Tips: No Tip. Junk fishing is the key!

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      Water Temp: 71

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished south delta all day, started on tulie island south end of woodward with no takers. Moved back to entrance of woodward fished our way in, my buddy caught one and i snapped one off on the hookset. We jumped around the tulie islands in the area with just one bite on a jig wich i lost because i didnt check my drag, didnt bury the hook on the set. We moved further south to Coney island, last two hours of out going tide my buddy gets on a good buzz bait bite while i was throwing a frog, i had two good blow ups on the outside edge of weed/cheese matts before i lost my frog up on the rocks, then tied on a buzzbait and helped my buddy out with that bite. We got 6 fish on the buzz bait and missed 6 others, best 5 going 13lbs.
      City: Modesto

      Tips: All fish came off tulie/rock banks, the buzzbait fish were holding on tulie clumps outside the weed/cheese matts.

Wednesday, June 16th, 2010

  • Yuba County
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      Water Temp: 70

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Great fising trip with my 25 year old son today. 20-30 fish between us today. Several over 3 pounds with the biggest pushing 4, caught by son on a 6" Junebug lizard on a 1/16 ounce weighted hook. Downsized tubes also pulled out several nice sized fish.
      City: Reno

      Tips: Remember to watch your line. You don't always feel the bite. If you feel anything, "Set the hook, and ask questions later".

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

      Report: Hey Don P, thanks for the info, we spent a great four days at the lake and cought in the dozens of fish, the second night was the best senkos did ok but the real bite came from dark red and dark blue tubes. The bit was on from before sundown untile the sun came up the next morning. And yea we released them all. Thanks again. And by the way the most active area for this trip came from going past the green bridge, hooking a hard left and down about a mile or so around the corner.

Tuesday, June 15th, 2010

  • Plumas County
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      Water Temp: 69

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: The year of family and PBK ( aka ) Phoebee. Pbk hammered them. Me not so well. Awesome weather great fishery
      City: Mountain View

      Tips: Claim to fame schooled Pete Howell( PBK K one night on rock wall throwin favorite jig and rip bait. He is one of californias best so it made me proud.

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 63-68

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: fished out of B&W Area and fishing was slow
      Caught a small limit using chatterbaits and dropshots.mainly trying stay out of that Wind again.The only pattern that was consistant was the fish were all holding at least 10ft of water on outside weedlines and the tide was outgoing most of the day.
      Good luck,be safe
      City: Woodpile

Monday, June 14th, 2010

  • Ventura County
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      Water Temp: IDK

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Ya threw the swimbait for nad, then we switched to a senko. Hammerd two 5 pounders back to back castas, then some more small fish from 3- 2 lbs.
      Ya the fish are in 10 to 20 feet ow water.
      City: ventura california

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 70s

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: awesome day out on the kayak. caught 15 fish from between 6am and 1pm. biggest was almost 3 lbs. caught them on pretty much everything but the kitchen sink. guy about the float tube, go to the free launch ramp and just go up and down both sides of the bank. good luck!
      City: modesto

      Tips: throw it all, try everything u got