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Saturday, August 22nd, 2009

  • 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

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      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

Tuesday, August 18th, 2009

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 69

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: if your not fishing at night in the delta your missin out.. launched out at b&w at 830 pm and started fishing the rocky banks on the n mlkme river just above the georgiana slough and the first 10 cast landed 6 nice largemouth on a spinnerbait off the points.fished up the river and by the time i got to the the lil island up the river we landed 26 largemouth from 3.5 lbs up to the 11.02 toad we got on chatterbait. we ended the night about 2 in the morning with a striper frenzy below the hwy 12 bridge..
      City: sac

      Tips: just roll your spinnerbait slowly down the banks and when you get to the points work it good and youll be rewarded also a chatterbait on a flat will pay some dividends. also whats great at night no more anoyying skiers but dont forget you insect repellents good luck

Monday, August 17th, 2009

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: The water has been shut off and the lake is holding at 13,000 arce feet for now. BIG BASS of the week was 10 pounds caught by richard meza of madera. Most bass fisherman are reporting bass being caught are from 1 to 2 pounds with and occasional 3 pounder being caught.Bass are being caught from depths of 8 to 25 feet of water. Jigs, senko's, brushogs, and crankbaits are all working here right now. FOR MORE INFO 559-689-3255
      City: madera ca

      Tips: For me ill stay with swimming a jig 1/4 oz bullet head jig /light watermelon skirt w/(208)yamamoto 5"single tail grub as my trailer.
      AREAS TO HIT
      Dam area ( crankbaits & jigs )
      Rock pile areas ( jigs,senko's,crankbaits )
      Brush piles areas ( jigs,brushogs,senko,s )
      Dropoffs ( jigs )
      Hump and flats ( jigs & crankbaits )

      Best time to hit the lake early morning or late afternoon til dark.

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 82

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Got out early decided to fish a jig allday caught 7 fish to 5 pounds.
      City: Roseville

      Tips: The bigger fish are deep 20-30 feet rock piles and flats were the key fish slow the fall bite should turn on soon

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      Water Temp: MARINA SHOW 68-

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fishing was awesome...topwater popper bite in early morning across the marina in about 5 feet of water...fish are coming off of 5-10 feet breaks....look for 5-10 feet drops from the shallows...all dead sticking for 3 plus seconds...be patient...caught a total of 4 fish on poppers, biggest 7.5 pound blackie...couple more missed blow ups...Fish are grouped up...
      Once the sun comes up, drop shot shad type worms...we were catching fish on prizm shad and morning dawn 4.5 inch worms...
      City: Fremont

      Tips: slow down...fish are in fall mode already!!! fish are shallow...

Sunday, August 16th, 2009

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 68 deg

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Went out of B&W resort and what a mess Caught a few dinks . Heavy heavy fishing going on in the upper delta Bouldin was packed bass boats everywhere must of been a tourney going on. Launching ramp was full . Anyhow got my lines wet havent been out in a while . Been buisy working . Going to lapaz mexico for 7 days fishing for Tuna in sept Going to try to get back out before i go Hope fishing pressure backs off a little, Might have to go to some ol school spots
      City: Elmira

      Tips: none

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

      Report: Water levels here are way down. Came in about 6am and got nothing. I tried rubber worms and some crank baits. Beautiful day for fishin, saw them jumpin! Just not on my hook :(
      City: Hayward

      Tips: Are there any good places to fish in the Bay Area?

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 75

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Got out early,went up north fork with a couple friends.Topwater was getting punished by dinks,but there was some big ones in between the babies.Fish are fat and healthy for sure.Reaction bite was good.Saw some other bassers catchin' some good fish right on other side of us.Was also on "Bikini Watch" wich was also good.Fishing is fun !!!
      City: Norcal

      Tips: Topwater,ripping,twitching..say no to wormin! LAF

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 77-81

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I fished with five guys that were on a house boat for the three days of food and fun. I took them out to the main body on long banks with a Brown/purple spider jig in 12-20 ft. Most of the bass were sport and a few Largemouth. The bass were mostly in the slot but a few over. Also fished the Middle Fork on small rock banks with a slop and a drop shot with a leach in any color. Just shake and sit and wait for the bite. Early in the morning and most of the day, best bite before dark.
      City: Rocklin

      Tips: bring plenty of leaches and jigs, the rocks eat them up.

Saturday, August 15th, 2009

  • Yuba County
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      Water Temp: 74-79

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Caught some nice 3 lb. 17" spots fishing tubes in about 15-20 feet. Fish were just off bottom hanging under schools of baitfish. Their bellies were gorged. Hadn't fished this lake in 2-3 years. There are definately some better quality fish in here now.
      City: Reno

      Tips: Downsizing for this lake always seems to work better.

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

      Report: Don't go to the lake it's closed unitl further notice. I tried today but was turned away from the kiosk
      City: Lompoc