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Wednesday, August 26th, 2009

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 75

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: We were going to Clear Lake but heard the algae was worse than ever so decided to go back to Oroville.
      On the water about 6:30 and started with a Vixen but no takers. Changed to the tube and partner a drop shot rig. We both started catching keeper fish almost immediately. They were anywhere from the bank out to 20' After about a half dozen or so 13" plus fish, we both wondered where the "horroville" dinks were. The last trip we had to work through them to find keepers and this trip we had not caught anything under 13" so far! Partner finally got one dink and we figured here we go. Got off the water at 3:30 and the total was 17 keepers about 3 dinks and more than 5 over the slot! Somewhere around 9-10# for the best five. One of the best summer days so far. Bite remained steady all day and we only moved once to fish in two areas.
      City: RosevilleRoseville

      Tips: Fish came on tubes, darter, dropshot, and even a jig. Nothing on top water, cranks or blades. Usual Oroville colors worked.

Tuesday, August 25th, 2009

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 69 deg

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Had a last minute ok to take my kid fishing. Off to wimpys we went close to home. Started at 2pm fishing right there in the mokolumne. Current is really moving again up there so i started looking for fish outside the weed edge in the current it diddnt take long pow a nice one on a spinner bait and a Florida Strain fat little bass with a creen colored craw in his mouth. Started flippin a new Berserk Baits Big Brawler watermelon red flake, flipping near wood and bamm! They were on it. Every fish I hooked my kid would run up and make me let her reel it in. She is 6 this is awsome she has some RB BASS in her DNA. Continuing up the mokolumne I started cranking near wood and POW the spotties came alive. Caught a few fish and my kid wanted a boat ride. So off we went out to the locke and up the Sac River. We went near the mouth of sutter slough and started cranking for little smallies and they were all little except one good one. Down to Steamboat we went and started using tubes and caught a few good ones on the switch of the tides. Moved out to the sac and watched the bankers keepin the smallies on night crawlers. Well its there right. we caught a bunch more little ones on Persuaders popping walker in a shad color. We had fun for a 5 hour trip Daughter and Dad little boat traffic and a lot of small fish. We caught northerns,floridas,spotties and smallies really cool.
      City: Sacramento

      Tips: Smaller line, smaller baits, light action rods, crawfish and shad patterns cover water..

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 79

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Took the wife and son out Tuesday afternoon. Little cooler than had been but nice. My son caught the largest, just 3lbs on a brown and black grub in les than 10'. we caught several fish in the 14" to 16" with the one over 18" I was using watermellon red with chartuse tail 4" worm. My biggest was a 16" smallie. all our fish cam in less than 10" The wife went swining and took pictures. We all had fun.
      City: Oroville

      Tips: 1/8" darthead brown grubs and watermellon red flake worms. Bit was pretty much open. Have fun.

Monday, August 24th, 2009

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 73

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: fished 5 hours and nothing went to woods creek and used senko's,drop shot,brush hogs,rattle trap,sara spook,and crank bait.and nothing at all.but the weather was nice....thank you jesus...
      City: los banos

      Tips: huh !

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Started at @ 8:30,worked the south end and around the island til shortly after noon. 14 fish total with about 7 of keeper size. Biggest fish went 2.76 lbs.
      Jigs and senkos close to the bank.
      City: Santa Rosa

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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Bank fished with a Texas-rigged 4" Robo curly-tail in Aaron's Magic for 4 fish. 2 dinks off the old ramp at the picnic area early, 1 fish about 1-1.5lb from the parking lot side of the dam, and finished up with about a 2-2.5lber from the old land-slide structure near the point across from the picnic area. All fish came out of 6-8 feet of water near areas holding lots of fingerling baby bass.
      City: sunnyvale

      Tips: Every where I got bit, there were schools of young bass and the Aaron's Magic curly tail sure seems to resemble a baby bass!

Sunday, August 23rd, 2009

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 73-74

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: In the spring the delta GIVETH, in the summer the delta TAKETH AWAY!! LOL
      City: modesto

      Tips: I hope these bigger fish make an apperance come fall.

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      Water Temp: 82

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: On the water at 7:00 off at 12:00, went up the Bear Arm. Caught 3 on a topwater torpedo, one on a texas rig and one on a Senco. Fish ranged from 1.5 to 3 pounds.
      City: Roseville

      Tips: Fish slow!!

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      Water Temp: 78 -81

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished for stripers 5pm till dark, one boil up about 30 sec. thats it for the day. Lots of bait,could not get a bite. The only boil we saw were small fish maybe 12-13 inchs.
      City: Valley Springs

      Tips: Don't know what to say , could not find fish,any where.

Saturday, August 22nd, 2009

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 72-76

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: This was my first trip to the Delta. What a fishery started at 6:15am. My second cast produced a 3lb largemouth followed by 7 more 1 to 4 pouder's. All this in a quarter mile stretch of seven mile slough. After a lull in the action.I spotted a school of strippers pushing small fry to the surface. I quickly pick up a lucky 13 and before it hit the water it was fish on. I caught 7 strippers before the action stop. These fish were all carbon copy two pounders. What a place I will be back and back often. I never started the big motor and only traveled two miles from the dock. fished for 3 hrs then off to work.
      City: Napa

  • Ventura County
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      Water Temp: 78

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: went out today and threw no other than my spro bbz trout colored. well it was kinda weird today. probably had 15 one pounders following it and i caught a 3 and a half. that was it

      Tips: maybe throw some sammys

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 76

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Prelude finally comes true as thought by past experience on this lake. Five or six limits off one spot up to four pounds. One smallie, rest were nice spots. Plastics worked great. Bigger fish were feeding shallow, smaller ones later on a little deeper, 25 35 ft. A friend pulled up and fished along side of me and caught swiftly about five, then the wind kicked up and we left for sheltered areas.

      Tips: They are there and fat, feeding on bait. Concentrate on windward areas that concentrate bait balls. Darts or jim's special .

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 76-78

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: The bite is difficult. Fished split shot and darter heads in various colors. Most bites came in early morning. Caught a lot of smaller fish around 11"-12" from depths of 10'-25'. Fish over the slot were far and few. Should have fished more reaction baits in deeper water for larger fish. The lake is dropping approx. a foot a day so the fish are suspending.

      Tips: Split shot and darter heads produced a lot of smaller fish. The bite turned off around 11:00am for us. For bigger fish I would try a Deep diving crankbait or slow roll a deep diving spinnerbait. The fish were throwing up a lot of shad at the boat. Look for cooler water. The bite is tough right now.

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      Water Temp: 74

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Caught 2 small fish off the lifeguard dock. Talking with other fisherman out on the lake, no one seemed to be having luck...
      City: American Canyon

Friday, August 21st, 2009

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

      Report: Got on the water around 4:30am. Broke off really big stripper at the boat (i forgot the net! Roll Eyes put around 15-20 bass in the boat most around 2-3lbs and 10-12 strippers in the boat most around 1lb, maybe 1.5lbs. All of the bass were caught on Dirty Jigs, shallow cranks in craw colors, and spooks. It was so calm all day out there it was weird....... and the water is extremley clear. All in all a really fun and exciting day, strippers are moving in, there are wolf packs of little guys running around, eating any lure you throw at them.

      Pic of the big girl for the day!!! my partner had a hog on but it broke the line on his fairy wand, i mean spinning real. 8lb test? on the delta?

      [IMG]http://i204.photobucket.com/albums/bb269/MM_145/Jims%20Fishing/100_1908.jpg[/IMG]

      Tips: Fish hard, they are hard to find. when you find a patten stick to it

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Sorry to use reports forum, just trying to get the word out...
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      BBQ ,Raffle,Seminar with Randy Pringle all follow day one weigh ins.
      $150 entry $10 ins $20 options $20 BF

      Youth angler big fish awards and many cool prizes dont miss this event...

      go to www.rbbassfishing.net to get entry form

      Thanks See ya there RB
      City: Sacramento

      Tips: Pre sign for early take off on day one!!!!

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 83

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Richard, shore fishing at folsom can sometimes prove to be very tough at times. Because of all the boat traffic on this lake this time of year, the fish hold deep to structure and then about an hour before dark they surface and feed like crazy! Your best beat would be throw some kind of a senko VERY SLOW and really close to cover ex. tree's, rocks, or anykind of cover you can cast to from a pretty good distance away! In the morning or late late in the afternoon try a top water bait lucky craft sammy, zara spook, popper and try and find some active baitfish schools and your bound to hook-up!
      City: Folsom

      Tips: If all else fails.. Grab you a 12 pack of coors light and catch yourself a good BUZZ!!! lol works for me everytime!!!

Thursday, August 20th, 2009

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 72-76

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Took out a couple of great guys today and enjoyed a nice day of fishing without all the summer boats and waves. Kept it simple today and used jigs and crank baits to get our bites. Points and rocky walls produced some nice bass on Paradise Tackle Jigs in the green/brown skirts and watermelon/black flake twin-tail trailers. Also plain hula grubs worked as well. On steep walls, Lucky Craft lipless crankbaits in the Chart/blue and the Char/Shad produced and also the Normans DD22 Sour Grape produced bass over the slot
      City: Paradise

      Tips: Fish during the week and avoid the weekend if you can.

  • Bayfield County
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      Water Temp: 77

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Rumor has it that there is not enough calcium in Ruth lake to support the mussel. It appears the H.B.M.W.D. wasted a lot of money and time be for they had all of the facts and test back. As for the boat inspections it sounds like somebody missed a livewell full of spots. I wonder who inspected old Spotchasers boat
      City: Eureka

Wednesday, August 19th, 2009

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 78 to 80

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Wife & I launched at 7:00 am from Red Bud. The algae bloom is still on - not at gross and a few weeks ago but very thick. Didn't catch our first fish until almost 8 :00 am them caught them pretty consistently until 1:00 pm. Then slowed down and got hot so we called it. Tried shad crank baits early with no takers, then went to drop shot, Senkos, and brush hogs. Caught 9 and wife caught 3. Best 5 - 18 lbs. Fish were fat and healthy. Most were shallow near tulles; we did get 4 off shore in 20+ feet.
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: The algae allowed us to fish closer but because the fish couldn