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Monday, August 10th, 2009

  • Bayfield County
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      Water Temp: 75-77

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: fished shasta in the morning, then ran over to ruth, great spotted bass fishery.
      City: Redding

      Tips: deep with jigs and tubes

Sunday, August 9th, 2009

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 75-76

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Launched at 7am and caught 7 bass. Biggest was 4lbs. Purple Senko, purple Senko, purple Senko.....need I say more? Fish slowwwwwww.
      City: Fairfield

      Tips: Don't launch at the "free launch" on weekends as the wait was 15 cars long when trying to leave at noon.

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

      Report: Started out first light. The topwater bite was graet with the warm morning.Hit every point from Franks to middle river with a rattling topwater. The bite was ok. then my partner tied on a silent topwater bait and schooled me for the next hour. He landed 7 fish in the 3-4 lb range and 1 decent striper. A very good day for us.
      City: Knightsen

      Tips: The fish seem to want a silent bait over the rattling/noisy spook bait.Fish across the points. There were lots of 5-6 inch shiners in the water. The fish seem to be feeding on them.

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      Water Temp: 75

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched at Orwood at 6:00 AM and headed to Disco Bay. Had one blow up on the frog in Disco but it didn't commit. Started to head toward old river and saw a school of shaker stripers feeding on shad. Partner and I caught about 15 shakers and one black on spooks and crankbaits before deciding to look for some bigger fish. Fished old river and rock slough the rest of the day and got 7 or 8 blacks, mostly in the 1-2 pound range. Pulled up to my favorite tree and stuck a pig on the drop shot only to have her come off right at the edge of the boat. One quality bite all day and she came unglued. Whatever we threw only seemed to produce bites when it was fished very slowly.
      City: Brentwood

      Tips: Slow down...and stay away from the first dock as you enter Cruiser Haven. Some idiot didn't like us fishing near his dock so he decided to break out his shotgun.

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      Water Temp: 70's

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished out of B&W, headed towards potato and white's. Caught a few on a persuader double-buzz in the morning, then went to throwing a frog. Gave up after a half-dozen fish missed or wouldn't commit!!! Started punchin',stuck three and missed one good bite. Went back towards B&W and fished around lighthouse, stuck three more on a senko around the docks.
      City: EG

      Tips: Overall the delta bite seems a little sketchy. Try punchin' when you find decent water cause the frog is gettin' thrown a little too much in this area!!!!!

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I fished my second small tourney last night (Angler's Choice) from 6 to midnight with my friend Mike Sperbeck. We also fished Fri afternoon/night. Results were pretty much the same - about 16 1/2 lbs Fri and we were probably 5th in the tourney with 18.25 lbs. I did get 3rd big fish at 5.99 lbs! Don't they round those off to 6?!!!! No 9's like the previous tourney - I think there were 2 just over 6 lbs. Fri afternoon I got a 4 1/2 on the Piranha swim jig (white) and the 5.99 on a black/blue swim jig. We basically fished the whole lower lake arm except for Jago. Finally did see lots of Silversides, but they were rather small. Most of the really green algae has cleared some because of a few cooler nights and lots of wind Thurs. NOT SO at the Red Bud ramp. Yuk!!! I'll bet those tourney bass were thrilled to be released in that stuff!
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: There are some areas that are holding quite a few bass, but they are pretty scattered. Finding the bait does help. White crankbaits, spinnerbaits, buzzbaits, and swim jigs are working better now. Lots of bass holding at 20 feet, give or take a few. Jig bite seems to be a bit slower, but we did catch some on jigs. Brush hogs and Power Worms continue to work at night. A black spinnerbait might be the trick for a better quality night bass as we get into fall. Try to "tick" them through the weeds or slow-roll them around drop-offs.

  • Trinity County
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      Water Temp: 74

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Lake is down more than 100 ft from full and dropping about 4" per day the three days I was there. With all the cruisers and jet skis the water is muddied up and fishing is tough. Mud line develops as early as 10am when the skiers hit the lake. Found a few fish near steep banks using dark colored plastics. Everything is out of the water including the rock plies up at the north end.
      City: Walnut Creek

      Tips: Go to Shasta instead. Trinity is only at 45% of capacity and still falling.

Saturday, August 8th, 2009

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 74

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: launched outta ladds and after a ride over to king island then back to ladds to put the plug in the boat b4 we sank than back over to king island we got 27 fish dropshottin arrons magic and mmIII's nothing over 3 lbs. huzban got 3/12 on cranberry marble frog. off the water by 11 am ... wheres all the big fish?
      City: stockton

      Tips: frog fish cam in open water...never put down dropshot rod for the rest

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      Water Temp: 82

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: LAKE IS DOWN TREMENDOUSLY SINCE MY LAST TRIP. THANKS A LOT GREEDY SO CAL!!! IT WAS ALSO VERY MUDDY. SOME HIKERS TOLD ME THAT THERE WAS A GUY ILLEGALLY POWER DREDGING FOR GOLD FURTHER UP THE BEAR ARM, GREAT. ANYWAY WE ARRIVED AT 2PM AND WE WERE OFF AT 7:30PM. THE FISHING WAS OK ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. MY WIFE CAUSGHT A NICE 2LB LARGE MOUTH, A 1LB SPOT AND A THREE POUND CATFISH,ALL CLOSE TO SHORE ON A WITCH'S T DARTER HEAD WORM ME JUST ONE 1LB SPOT ON A MM2 SHAKEYHEAD. ALL FISH CAUGHT IN THE SHADE IN THE BEAR ARM.
      City: W.SAC

      Tips: POINTS AND SHADE.

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Tossed plastics in 20-30ft off shore. Deadsticking was only presentation that worked.
      All were smallies over three pounds. left at 10:30.

      Tips: This is thr prelude to other species of bass to move up in quantities. It happens every August.
      Get to know your home lake and it's characteristics.

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      Water Temp: Term broken

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: tough fishing. smaller fish (.75 - 1.5 lbs) seemed to be schooled of points 15-20ft deep. bigger fish (one 5 lbs and two 3 lbs) came 3-10 feet off of structure close to deep water.

      Tips: stay cool and jump in the water

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Looking for striper reports, is it worth the trip? Are the boils holding??

      Thanks

  • Riverside County
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      Water Temp: 79

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: On the water late, launched at 1pm. Way too hot! A lot of bait fish in the water, but did not see many cruisers. Girlfriend, aka drop shot queen, get one solid keeper of a shad colored worm. I toss a Jackall ghost minnow SP rip bait. I get five LMB, biggest was 3lber, and one nice striper. Water is dropping, but still pretty high and clear. A few weeks back, the frog bite was outstanding!
      City: Sun City

      Tips: Find deeper weed lines and grass. Toss a suspending jerk bait in a bait fish pattern. If you find any good looking frog water, toss the black or brown frog. This place has really big bass!

Friday, August 7th, 2009

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 70deg

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Took one last trip to the North Delta Sacramento River. I had a freind who had not Bass fished in a long time. We went up and started throwing crankbaits and before long we were into the Smallies. Small Crawfish cranks in orange /brown or Red worked fine. Caught fish rippin and on buzzbaits. Most fish were smaller this time around but we killed them until 1pm.

      This trip I caught,Largemouth,Smallmouth,SPotted,and StripedBass as well as a crappie all on crankbaits.
      City: Sacramento

      Tips: Fish the outgoing tide were trees are sparse on the bank with current and rip rap. 8 lb test small cranks in natural color craws.

      Right now the crawfish are dark redish brown on top with aqua blue on the sides and really red orange on the bottom.....match it!!!6-8ft diving.

      see ya at the 2 Day Tidal Challenge Sept 12th-13th at Russos!!!
      go to www.rbbassfishing.net for more info on this event.

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      Water Temp: 72-77

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched outta Tower Park 6:00 am hit the wall straight across from the ramp, i started with a spook, mt brother was throwing a red with darker green back speedtrap and my buddy throwing a spinnerbait. I got nothin on the spook, my brother hit three keepers on his speedtrap and my buddy got nothin on his spinnerbait. So i tie on a red yozuri and hit some smaller fish, then right outside Tower Park i get a keeper. We move to sycamore my buddy lost one on a frog and missed another, i got nothin punchin and my brother got nothin crankin. We move to whites and get nothing. At the end of the day we move back to the wall and fish our way back to the ramp, i missed two on a buzzbait, even had a trailor hook, my buddy gets three blowups on the frog with no hookups. Fish dont seem to be very aggresive on the top water.
      City: modesto

      Tips: Tips?? just look at my report and take it as what not to do lol. Delta in the summer has got me STRUGGLIN!!!!!....a lil help??

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      Water Temp: Not Sure

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Boat was kept in the shop a little bit longer than I thought but still had the urge to fish. So I blew off the dust on the float tube. Got out there later than I hoped to but was greater by two nice 17 & 18 " fish right off the bat. Caught another 10 or so before getting sea sick from all the wake boarders coming down the channel. Threw worms all day TX rigged & Carolina rigged. Margarita Mutilators 4 1/2"
      City: Livermore

      Tips: Slow down, slow down, slow down. Get out early before the yahoos muddy the whole place up.

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 76-78

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Started out at 4:30 and headed north tried drop shotin' nothing kept going north and fished rock walls and piles then at 7:00 off a rock wall caught 8 in about 15 min biggest was 3# most were 2#,spots and 1 smallie. All caught on DT-hula grub then. Then tried some top water plenty of blow ups but they were so small they couldnt hook themselves. I was not expecting things to go as well as they did considering how things are going out there but i had a great time. But still going to spend more time at the delta, but its nice to run out to folsom for a quikie after work.
      City: Elverta

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      Water Temp: 75

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Well, I said I'd take a break but just thought the slight weather change below 80s-90s might bring on a bite......NOT! Saw lots of fish anywhere from 7ft to 40ft. Lots at 25-35ft. Caught my best 6"er of the year! Oh, what a NICE HIT! And then the reality hit me that it was only 6inches. Gotta love Folsom Lake for bein' 5mins from my house....keeping me from going elsewhere!! Delta, here we come!!!
      City: folsom

      Tips: Sorry, anyone getting excited over a 6" bass is not qualified to give tips. 6 HUGE inches!!!!

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 76-80

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: I took out a wonderful family for a half day Friday. As a guide the most important objective is to give your clients a great, fun and happy experience and with that, catch some fish. Well I had such a great time with this family as they were learning how to fish and how excited they all got for each other catching bass. I keeped it simple with shakey-head Robo worms and twin tail grubs jigs to get the bites for the family. We fished in the main body on the points and rocky walls and a little on the North Fork in mud lines. Lots of high fives and photos of fish and fishermen for jobs well done. It was a great day.
      City: Paradise

      Tips: Bites came from 5-30 ft. The watermelon/red flake and watermrlon/black flake twin tail grub jig worked the best for the day.

  • Ventura County
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      Water Temp: 75

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: For some good topwater at Lake Piru. I caught 10 bass 4 on the Deps buzzbait, 4 on Senkos and 2 on Sammies. my best fish was on the buzzbait, about 4 pounds.
      City: Camarillo