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Sunday, June 28th, 2009

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 77.8

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Took a friend out for his first bass fishing trip and hooked up pretty good. He caught the big one of the day at 5+ and I lost the big one of the day, 8+ at the boat. Jigs and Beavers were the ticket for us under docks.
      City: Sacramento

      Tips: SLOW

  • Mariposa County
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      Water Temp: 74

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Started at 5:50 am with top water and only had 2 slap at it. After an hour of nothing Steve Melander of Berserk Baits switched to drop shot and had three with in 15 minutes.

      I finally switched over an hour later and we took turns catching a lot of smaller fish (good to see the population is thriving). Finally hooked several keepers from 9:00-11:00

      The big bass have gone deep and are not active
      City: Fresno

      Tips: Slow it down

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      Water Temp: ????

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: first time to this lake. Went there and did not know where to go. caught three fish. all off jigs. biggest was close to four pounds. fished for 4 hours. did not know where to go and there was a ton of shallow water. inches deep. if u find deep water you will catch fish
      City: Brentwood

      Tips: find deep water and throw bottom baits. nothing on spooks cranks or swimbaits

Saturday, June 27th, 2009

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 73

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: One HOTT day on the water for the Basin Bassmasters. Blast off was at 5:15am and by 5:55 I had my limit of five. Using frogs, spinner baits and speed trap along the rocky banks with tullies. The tide was coming in and high was at 9 am. When the current stops have lunch or move to your next spot, but stay in the moving waters and deep water close. Senkos picked up and with winning weight of 17.86 and only caught on Senkos. Put the frogs way in the back as far as your arm can put it and hang on. With this heat coming on the frog bite should get better.
      City: Rocklin

      Tips: Flip Senkos anywhere in a watermelon red flake, green pumkin and black/blue.

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Yeah I know Dom but it sounds good lol.Actually im just fishing somebodies old water that is new to me but this has also gotten me to learn the Delta.Now when i launch i dont really have the fear of getting lost i used to, that fear really limited my fishing.I have done MUCH better on the Delta this year,Istarted fishing this year in March and up to this date i have caught way better quality and quanity fish than i have the last three years. Its been an awsome learning experience (including hiring Cooch for a day) and am looking forward to continuing my education out on the Delta.
      City: Modesto

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 76-80

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: How could back-to back Friday nights be so different? Last week - howling, dangerous cold winds, but a pretty good bite. Last night - flat, hot, smelly, and a slow bite. That's why I smile when clients ask me how the weather is going to be when they book a trip. I took a local for a half-night trip, showing him some good areas in the south end. Pretty good fisherman with a previous 11 lb CL bass to his credit! There were some willing bass, but the bite was slow as the evening bite often is during hot weather. He lost his first bass - on a buzzbait - and all the others he hooked. They looked good in the black light when they jumped and spit the hook! I think his hookset was ok - they just wouldn't stay on. This was his first time with a black light and he liked it! I tried several different surface and sub-surface baits but they were hard to work in the weeds and algae. However, the Blade Runner weedless Paddle Head worked very well with the Basstrix swimbait. It came thru the weeds just fine. The Piranha swim jig got lots of hits but most just wouldn't stay on. Very frustrating - hit after hit but they would not inhale. My client learned to work one pretty well and had a hit or two. I'm assuming the bite would have gotten better as morning approached. That is usually the pattern after hot, windless evenings.
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: I just had my 520 waxed and it seemed to help. I cleaned it pretty well after we pulled out with some stuff I bought from Bob Higgins and I washed it again when got home (3am!). She looked ok today. Boy, did that junk bring back memories of the late 80's!

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 75-77

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the north shore east to conn valley towers. Thru top water, but did not get any hits. Tied on a weightless night crawler and started in the tullies. My partner caught a nice bass right off the bat and I caught two nice blue gill fairly quick. Fished for 3 more hours and we caught ten or more fish before calling it a Day.
      City: Napa

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

      Report: fished the south and north lakes. zilch. threw senkos and small swim bait from the piers. outside temp was in mid 80's. water clarity was split pea soup (color). On the north shore, fished by the ramp off the pier, again, zilch.
      City: South San Francisco

Friday, June 26th, 2009

  • Alameda County
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      Water Temp: nice

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: got skunked..nothing here..went after bass.not worth coming here.. boats are terrible so is the dock boys..very bad service..
      City: fremont

      Tips: go to a real lake that has more areas to fish than just around the marina

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 70-75

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Hit the water at 5pm started out by the dam threw everything nothing! Went to browns and caught a 5 pound on a jig in about 20 feet. Then for the last hour threw a spook and caught a 2 pounder and missed one also. Lots of boats racing around us made it hard to stay vertical. But still had a good time anyway.
      City: Elverta

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      Water Temp: warm

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Early bite, left at ten. Spots and smallies in abundance. Wind was just right. Fished one hole all morning. Five or six limits up to three pounds.
      City: sac

      Tips: Find a pod of fish, set your anchor and stroke-um. Plastics, reverse carolina. colors did not matter however, pumpkin did good.

Thursday, June 25th, 2009

  • Mason County
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      Water Temp: 74

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went out after work, bite was solid, caught 20 fish in 4 hours. Most of my fish came on a drop shot with 4.5 inch oxblood red flake robo worm. Did manage a couple of fish on a shakey head with a 6 inch oxblood red flake robo worm. Almost all my fish came on points in 2-25 feet of water. Best fish was right at 2 lbs, with most in the 1 lb range. Fish were bunched up, if I would catch one on a spot, I would stay and catch 3 or 4 more in 5 or 6 more casts.
      City: Hollister

      Tips: Had my best luck just letting the drop shot sit. Seemed like the fish wanted a pretty subtle presentation. I usually fish a drop shot pretty fast and keep it moving, fish seemed to want is just sitting still.

  • Santa Clara County
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      Water Temp: 70's

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Six boats on the lake everone we saw fished hard one fished boated. The big "C" is sleeping.

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

      Report: Did well on good numbers of 2.5 to 3 pounders. Had one six pounder. Shade and end of docks seemed to be the ticket. The south end and Rattlesnake are hammered with algae. We launched at the Oaks ramp, when we left at 2:30 I was afraid the motor was going to clog with the stuff.
      Mid lake and North the water is good. If you can find lanes and points in the weeds 8'to 10 ft that will work. Hard to find that , there is way more grass than I have ever seen here.
      City: Granite Bay a.

      Tips: Wacky senkos seemed best ,early morning 1 frog and 1 rico. about 20 on shakey head and senkos

Wednesday, June 24th, 2009

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 76

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Took the day off. Fished four hours in the narrows from 8:00 A.M to 12:00 P.M.. Caught 4 spots to 14 inches. Tried Spook nada, tried Rip Bait nada. Ended up catching 1 on a pearl Gitzit, 1 on a 1/2 oz Spinner bait, 1 on a split shot 4.5 inch sexy shad Robo worm and 1 on a green weenie. Lost a nice one on the sexy shad Robo. Got off the lake before it got too hot!!!
      City: W,Sac

      Tips: Robo Worm's new Sexy Shad Worm is going add weight to a lot of fishermen's weigh in bags!!!!

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

      Report: I just wanted to thank "Fish Trap" for a great report. That kind of a report is all that most of us need to help us on the Delta. Thanks again
      City: EDH

      Tips: Fish, Learn and summit report to help your fellow fishermen. Tight lines

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      Water Temp: 72

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: went out of tracy oasis saturday. that was a mistake. one fish all day. wind was blown about 40mph. There is all this talk about people don;t want other people fishing their spots. There is no reason to tell everyone your spots but I think its not to had to tell people where you launch. I think if you tell people where you launch they can go find their water from there.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: pay attention to the winds. if they are blown' good luck but thats the Delta!!!

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 78-80

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: T-shoot results had Maes & graves 3 fish limit weighing 7.35 lbs. Huffman & Shambre were a very close second with ONE fish weighing in at 7.30 lbs. Tough bite out there with alot of finess fishing going on.
      City: Roseville

      Tips: Keep pluggin' away and the bites will come, light line, deeper water and smaller baits

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 69-73

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: This kinda sums up my last three trips out,we fished up north in sycamore for a couple hours and didnt get touched, this is where the water is a few degrees cooler than down south and the central delta.We fished just the southside of Tower Park and worked our way down Whites and Disappointment without getting touched. From here we headed for Dutch where we didnt get touched either, then we headed for Middle River just east of the bridge and started fishing a stretch of bank and finally started getting bit. We cought some average fished, my buddy lost a nice one at the boat and threw right back in the same spot and hit a 5lber, I missed about four fish. They didnt seem to be hitting real aggresively. Before these last few trips we were fishing the south Delta and were hitting some pretty nice fish, 1 8.7 2 over 7 2 over 6 and a couple 5's. We been spending more time fishing unfamilar water putting in our "time on the water", one of these new spots produced the 2 7's so it does pay off to fish new water, just takes time away from the water that ya know. We will be hitting some of the new water we fished that didnt produce for us cause it has the all the good ingredients that hold fish," deep water near by, tullies, rock, and shallow and deep grass beds" so i knkow it will produce, its just a matter of timing. Im no pro but i hopw this helps.
      City: Modesto

      Tips: All the trips we were throwing sencos,frogs,beavers,worms,jigs,paddeltails and cranks. All the bigger fish came off the sencos, nothing on the jig or cranks, got hit a few times on the paddletail but know real takers

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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Luanched out of B&W about 6:30. Started out with a frog and nailed a 3#er that ate it deep. Threw the frog a bit more then switched to a black and red buzz bait to cover more water. landed 6 more in the next hour up to 3.98#'s. Worked my way south throwing frogs, buzz biat, senko, and punching. Picked up a 2+ on the senko and punching with a beaver and 5 more frog fish to 4#'s. Best five probable around 15#'s. The frog seemed to be hot today and I should have fished it more I just dot't have a lot of good frog water. Punch bite died from last for me from last Friday.
      City: Fair Oaks

      Tips: I have 7 rods on the deck. Frog, punch 1oz. w/beaver, LV 500 red, white spinnerbiat, Senko,3/8oz beaver for outside weed lines, & buzz bait. One of those is going to work to find a pattern. fish hard until you find it.