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Sunday, September 13th, 2009

  • Ventura County
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      Water Temp: 78

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: thought it was about the time to put down the swimbait and start throwing my trout punker. started throwing it over points and secondary points. made mulitple throws to each point. im talking 40 times. i caught about 10 biggest goin 6. lots of 3s. should get better when the water gets a little cooler.
      City: san diego

      Tips: throw baits on points multiple times

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

      Report: Took a nice 7lb. 14 oz. in less than two feet of water on black revenge jig. The day was made even more special fishing with Dad and sister from Japan.Found the boats to be adequate and staff friendly.
      City: Monterey

      Tips: This lake has never been known for numbers of fish but it does put out a few nice ones from time to time. Be patient and slow down.

Saturday, September 12th, 2009

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 76

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Late report because of tourney Sat. 7 lb spot on swim bait and a 5lb spot on one ton. left at 9:00 a.m. because of weather.
      Swim bait,with treble tailer, money minnow.one tons, green pumkin, 2/0 Owner with modified creature.
      Last saturday had 27 pounds for a limit. kept it quiet because of tyhis weeks tourney.

      Tips: Always use a dropper hook on your swim baits even if other s say you don't have to.
      Big fish are still in the deep 40-60 foot drops, migrating up and down to feed.Reason being, dropping water levels and warm water temps.
      Early shallow, later deeper.

Friday, September 11th, 2009

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 74-78

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Launched at 7:30, hit the first spot and found a bunch a fish at 35', but couldn't get them to bite. Caught one on a spoon, but that was it.
      Spent time on the shore with my other and dog. It was very relaxing and nice to watch 11yr Sadie swimming, shaking and rolling in the dirt. Didn't spend a lot of time fishn, as this was the dog's day. Did see enough bait on top and periodic feeding fish to encourage a fishing trip next time. Called it a day @1pm, it was about a 100 degree and Sadie was tired. Only caught 2 keeps, and some dinks, but there were signs of life.....thanks mike

      Tips: Keeping moving around until you graph fish or see activity on top. In the areas I saw nothing, I got the same. When there was activity, usually we would get a boil or two or some small fish. East side had more activity than the west side.

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 75.5

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: got out on the water around 9ish this morning and had a great day. In the frist hour boated 5 keepers and it went up from there. Lost count by noon. When I got tried of throwing Sinkos would toss Kelly prop bait. Mostly caught dinks on the Kelly but was fun. Lost the largest largemouth that I had ever hooked around 3:30. Went back an hour later but was not there. Tied did not really matter because I caught fish on the incoming, dead still and out going today.
      Fished the main river San Juan around Disappointment.
      City: dixon

  • Mariposa County
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      Water Temp: 76

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: fished from 6 am to 11 am. Clear, sunny day and calm water. only about 20 boats on entire lake. Wind picked up at 10 am but just enough to push the boat, not alot.

      Bass are shallow feeding on shad, with several boils seen on the western side of the lake including mcclure point, the dam and s. barretts.

      Alot of these bass are very small 4-5 in. but they are sorting by size and I got into a pack of 14-18 inchers weight up to 2 lbs. on a shallow rocky main lake point. at the time I was using a DT-6 rapala in shad and I didn't even get to reteieve it, they just clobbered it.
      City: Atwater

      Tips: Wind, shad boils, shad imitators... priceless

Thursday, September 10th, 2009

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Evening topwater bite is strong at the moment. Zara spooks caught 4 Largemouth one 3 1/2lbs. Dropshot robo worms with a slow return. Senkos with no weight. Decent bite at the moment!
      City: Escalon

Wednesday, September 9th, 2009

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 75-80

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Rick Tietz and I hit Berryessa today to tune up for our upcoming spooning seminar at Fisherman's Warehouse tomorrow night - 6 pm! We are very excited to do the seminar now since we had an outstanding day!! About 4:30 pm we found a school of bass feeding on shad and we had non-stop action for about an hour, using 3/4 to 1 3/4 oz Blade Runner (Duh!) spoons. They were still biting but we had to leave for home. We had 3 or 4 double hookups and several good fish. We caught smallies up to 3 1/4 lbs and several quality largemouth and spots over 2 1/2 lbs. Most were above average size school fish. Our best 5 weighed over 14 lbs. I don't really know how many we caught in our 7 hr trip - somewhere between 40 and 50 bass. We also got into a good spoon bite earlier, around 1 pm. We were fishing the main body from the mouth of the narrow to Putah Creek. Black/white and morning dawn colored spoons were our best colors.
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: I did drop-shot 2 nice bass on MMIII Robo worms, all the rest were on 3/4 to 1 3/4 oz spoons. Yes, our arms were sore at the end of the trip. Most of the bass were suspended which forced us to work the spoons at different depths rather than the usual lifting off the bottom. That takes a little more skill but is more fun since you are always guessing if you have a hit or not. Most of our bass were at the 40 foot depth, but we caught some from 25 feet to nearly 60 feet. I thought the bite was really special for 2 days after Labor Day weekend.

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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: i fished the north west part of the lake about 200 yards off shore off a point, i was actually trolling with my dad for Kokanne/steelhead. We hooked into a school of smallies and every pass we made atleast one of the rods would go down. It was probably about 30 feet or so, just try to make a long cast let her sink and reel it in real slow, with a little chrome hopkins spoon and hang on. I have also caught a 4 pound spot like that on Yessa
      City: napa ca

      Tips: good luck and let me know how it went

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

      Report: Hiked to Ilsanjo again today. Caught around 12 fish. Nothing big like last week. Only about 3 keepers total. Senko's, Roboworms, & crankbaits all worked. Biggest was probably 1 1/2 pounds. The water is up alot from last year, but it's still far from full.
      City: Santa Rosa

Tuesday, September 8th, 2009

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

      Report: Hey Mike,

      One more question: how deep?

      thanks,

      worm

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 74

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Got on the water @ 7:30 AM. Started punching matts, weeds, hyacinth and pennywart. Buddy and I ended w/ a 2#, 4# and a 9# til 2 PM. Then went out to Franks to do some striper fishing for a few hours. Buddy caught a 8#. Went back to the sloughs and start throwing lunker punker, hooked a 7.3#. Our best four 22 plus lbs. Not a bad day at the office.
      City: SaCToWN

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      Water Temp: 75

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Started at 6am to 12 noon. Tough bite. Big moon, labor day pounding, and 10 degree weather change may have had an effect. 8 bites total. Best 5 went 12 lbs.
      City: Madera

      Tips: Algae is the worst its been over the last two weeks. Fish are stout and eating well. Very healthy. Fish are all over the place. Look for structure. All fish went on brushogs. Could not get any fish deep. Everything was in 3-5 ft of water.

Monday, September 7th, 2009

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 70-72

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Lauched from Big Break. Gin clear, nutrient poor water with 5-8 ft. visibility made it an unusually tough day on the water. I spent more time running around in an attempt to find some good stuff, but at the end of the day, I only caught one 16"er flipping tules near deep water with current.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Fish harder.

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 73

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: fished rattlesnake from 5 to 12 caught 12 total.one on spinnerbait one on chatterbait and the rest on jigs.
      City: auburn

      Tips: got alot of reaction strikes while reeling in the jig.

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      Water Temp: unknown

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Took my daughter and wife to back ponds not much action there. we caught 2 small ones under size and that was fun for my daughter and of course we threw em back.
      I met a cool guy and his girlfriend and their pitbull the guy was really cool if you see this post try to pm me i'd like to fish with you sometime or chat it up about fishing like we did that day .
      City: Fremont

      Tips: back ponds not really worth the time but mainlake should get better once the weather starts to cool off.

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 78 - 80 degree

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Great long weekend at the lake. Fishing was decent in the evening. Not much going on during the day. Had a good moon going so night was best. Cranking was working best for us, Olive Shad pattern. Plastics not as good as usual, still got some fish on Green Pumpkin twin tails.
      City: Fernley,Nv

      Tips: Make sure everything is in order. Got checked for the first time ever by the rangers. We had everything in order, score one for us. They were very nice. No good fishing tips from them. They were scoping for hunters, so their focus was so much on us.
      Be safe.

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      Water Temp: 71

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: caught 8 biggest 4lb 8oz on rapala dt4 shad color south end of lake near swimming lagoon
      City: santa rosa

      Tips: crank, crank, crank

Sunday, September 6th, 2009

  • Ventura County
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      Water Temp: warm

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Hit the lake on Sunday. It was crowded and a fair number of boats out...Fished the earlier morning topwater bite for nada. Eventually hunkered down and fished a jig in about 20-25 ft of water and pulled in 5 before calling it a day around noon

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 78 deg.

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: 25 fish caught total. 3 to 5.8 lb. fish. All fish caught on a Revenge 1/2 oz. spinnerbait. Purple metalic shad. First time on this great lake. A few caught on front corner of docks or casting past a docked boat and moving my boat so that bait ran under the docked boat. All others caught off rocks in 2 to 6 feet of water.
      City: Las Vegas

      Tips: Coming in cold I first stopped at Clear lake Outdoors Tackle Shop at Soda Bay. I would like to thank the boys for hooking me up with the spinnerbaits that led to my success.