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Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 78

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: great day boat caught 35

      drop shots with babybrush hog with red/purple

      went with richard pounds for half day and later went on our own boat

      Tips: go work at nice and lakeport along the weeds and up along docks

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 69-73

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: JUST A NOTE TO SAY THE SPAWN FOR LARGEMOUTH IS NOT OVER AT PARDEE CAUGHT SEVERAL BETWEEN 4PDS AND 8PDS IN THE LAST COUPLE OF WEEKS ALL IN DEEPWATER COVES AND POINTS ALL ON SENKO TYPE PLASTICS CAUGHT A 11PD 3OZ AND A 13PD 11OZ SAME DAY PICURES GIVEN TO MAIN GATE OPERATOR WHEN I LEFT. ALSO MANAGED A 30INCH BROWN TROUT SAME LURE PICTURE GIVEN TO MARINA.
      City: ANTIOCH

Monday, June 22nd, 2009

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 68

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I agree with what the last poster said. These reports really help me as far as what the fish seem to be responding too since I can't get out to the delta all that often. If gives me a starting point as far as what to use. I'm not on here looking for spots and if you are then that is the wrong reason. Get a map and start marking, that's what I am doing right as we speak. If someone wants to share where they are fishing then that's up to them, I would not do that. And one other thing, I swear some of you go out of your way to write in slang and to incorrectly spell every word you can. It's no big deal, but if you are complaining about something you might get more listeners if you at least put some effort in.
      City: Davis, Ca

      Tips: The frog bite in the delta was on two days ago. They are in thick and I mean THICK mats of weeds. So thick that there will be a lot of misses because the fish can't get through but be patient, it's a kick. Also a moderate jig bite on tules with steep drop offs.

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

      Report: Fished from 6AM to 1PM today and caught two fish. Caught an aprox. 1 lbs largemouth off of a green x-mas colored roboworm drop-shotted while drifting, located not far from the boat launch in front of some reeds. Caught a 1.5 lbs largemouth at the middle of the dam with a silver rat-l-trap.
      City: Livermore, CA

      Tips: Fish before noon and later in the evening so you don't cook!

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 73

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: on the water 6:15 dropshot and darthead no reaction off the water 10:30 9 bites and boated 6.
      City: Roseville

      Tips: alot of carp fry all over the lake all fish caught very fat chunks alot of small fish shallow.

Sunday, June 21st, 2009

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 67

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: The Junior BASS club (River Ratz) out of Rocklin launched out of B&W at 6am. Winds blowing but the spinner baits and speed trap was the way to go on those rocky banks. The first hour was 7 bass, three stripers and lost four at the boat. I made it a three fish limit with a 6 hour tourny so that they can learn about the culling method if they got more. The Juniors did real well for most of them not ever being their before but the boaters were from Basin Bassmaster of Loomis club. As the tide died and the winds stoped so did the fish. We had two limits, two with two bass and 1 with 1 one.
      City: Rocklin

      Tips: Take advantage of the wind and use it in your favor to hit those banks that have the rocks with some tullies. Crank and cover more ground.

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      Water Temp: 70-73

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: 4:30 a.m. launch and 100 M.P.H. winds. Well maybe not 100 but REAL big wind. Found a little place to hide and fished about 200 feet of bank with the boat against the rocks. From 5:30 to 6:08 I caught a 2, a 3, a 4, and a 5.5 largemouth. All were good looking fish. By 8:00 a.m. I had a respectable limit. I caught them all on the big fat Senko.
      City: San Leandro

      Tips: Early launch insures you tearing up your spots 1st. Enough people know the area I fish. Exactly 0.3 miles from the barn, third tree on the left, exactly 4.3 feet off the bank durning the 4 ft. tide right under the clouds. Just kidding about the spot but the Fat Senko was working. Last digits 297 bi fat green pumpin Senko.

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: forgot to check

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: hit rocky points at the submerged peninsula; 2.5lb lm on darter head/aaron's magic; noticed lots of fry so figured they might chase a reaction..one chased my lc staysee but didn't commit; lots suspended but points showed alot at bottom from 11-20ft. not enough time to work the points before the heavy wakes from the boarders move you around; wind was up.
      City: Folsom

      Tips: cross rocky points with darter, c-rig.

Saturday, June 20th, 2009

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 73-77

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: After a bit of a hot spell in the valley, I thought the top water would kick in. I started with spooks in the wraggs canyon area. Missed a few before hooking up with a few spots, then started casting a fat free shad across points and around wood. That did not produce. Again tied on a drop shot rig and worked the same area and caught two lgmth in ten minutes and four more in the next hour and half. After graffing a school of bait fish in 35 feet of water with fish feeding on them in the main body I hovered over and dropped a tube bait and hooked up with a bunch of 1 and 1 and half pounders.
      City: Napa

      Tips: I just kept casting and casting until I got strikes with the spooks hopping they would turn on. Most of my fish were quite deep considering its June. Good Luck.

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

      Report: Youngsters Yall aint got no spots, yall just found somebody elses "SPOT" LOL JUST FISH !
      City: Tracy

      Tips: Frogs FROGS FROGS!!!!

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      Water Temp: 72

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Dbt club held a half day turkey shoot out of whiskey slough marina on sat. Had a great time lots of fun!
      We caught fish on big baits on top, drop shot, senco, & frogs.
      With a couple members catching 6#+ fish.
      Awesome little event with all members sharing info &techniques no secrets here.
      City: San jose

      Tips: fish were on inside of weedline early on a falling tide for me. Green pumpkin senco rigged wacky!

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 75

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Started about 3pm after the Semi pro Tourny.. Cant believe on 17lb to win.. Lake was real windy, Found some calm water by Cache creek Caught 8 in 2 hours. 3 to 5LB I wish I signed up for that tourny I would have won it..
      City: Citrus Heights

      Tips: Caught all bass on Persuader tandem willow White on White Spinnerbait, Fish were all around weeds. About 3 feet of water..

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

      Report: stayed on main body and caugh 13-15 inch bass,plastics and jigs,after 9:00am. caught 3 good fish with carolina rigged floating rip bait,and 2 good fish on topwater.i probably should have thrown a spinnerbait more but i just didn't pick it up.1 little crank fish.i had 10lbs and change. 469,
      City: Redding

      Tips: i am trying different parts of the lake each day i go out,not the greatist stratagy but seeing alot of water.
      good fishing to all

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

      Report: Any recent info on Whiskeytown? I'm in the area for the summer, armed with a float tube, and any advice that would save me some kicking time would be much appreciated.
      City: Anderson

Friday, June 19th, 2009

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 69-71

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: launched out of lazy-m marina around 6am. Very slow day for us today most of our fish came on drop-shot,white frogs and crank baits.Our biggest around 4 pds.A gentlemen asked to borrow our scale to weigh a 9-14 toad caught on a chatter bait with a beaver trailer.

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: fished west Delta with no big fish but lots of fun. Three limits - 2 1/2 to 4 1/2. Fish came on Beaver,drop shot & senko's. Key seemed to be tight to the tullies.Comment to Rico-Basically your rigt about shareing spots on line. The purpose here is to share technics,whats working now,& how your working your water to get results. Giveing away the prime spots you have cultivated is not the deal ,unless someone feels generous enough to do so.
      City: lockford

      Tips: Fising tight has helped me this year. I mean real tight.

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: Can't remember

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Cache creek 6/18 for about 4hrs and nada, fished deeper water outside of Red Bud arm with my Brother, Sister-In-Law and my self, we got 9 fish to 4 lbs on 6/19, we did not start fishing until about 9:30 so we missed the morning bite and left by 6:00 so we missed the evening bite, the wind picked up and my 7 year old daughter gets very scared when we go over those big rollers, my 5 year old son loves it, he thinks its a roller coaster ride :) anyway had to get off the water before my daughter had a heart attach and tells Mom on me :)We got fish on drop shot Margareta Mutalator, Watermellon Senko's, and I got one on a bluegill swim bait on my new Powell 8 ft rod, I was happy to get one on the rod to see how it would feel, the fish was only 2.5 lbs but it felt pretty good even for a 2.5 fish :)Like others have stated, lots of algee in the Red Bud arm, my power trim went out on the 175 Merc so my Brother and I had to get in the water at Red Bud and pick up the motor manually, we than had to go to the car wash and do the Tommy Boy wash off of our selves and my Ranger, it was gross !! Went to a small lake that I will not say because it has tons of bluegill, my Daughter and Son had a ball catching one after the other, it was the best Fathersday I ever had watching that :)
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Don't worry about the algee, just stay off the Red Bud east side of the lake, the wind blows all the algee to the east side of the lake but the west side is fine, drop in and drive to the other side. Now a fishing tip, I got my smallest fish of 5 on the bluegill swim bait, I got my biggest fish of 4 lbs on a 4 inch worm, so go figure !!!
      Actually the answer is dead stick what ever you toss.

  • Merced County
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      Water Temp: 70

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Wondering what the water levels are like, my grandmother just came up the pass and said the waters way down. She said it was damn near drained to the bottom. Is this true? Can somebody give me a ballpark as to how many stories (10 ft) it's down? A few months ago it looked about full maybe 3 stories low. Can somebody inform me? Been thinking about going out there, but the more concentrated the water, the more concentrated the baitfish = less bites.
      City: Hayward

      Tips: Thank you for any info

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      Water Temp: Enough for bass

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: <a href="http://tinypic.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://i40.tinypic.com/2lo3q79.jpg" border="0" alt="Image and video hosting by TinyPic"></a>
      Caught & Released. Gotta love those big bass chewin' on swimbaits. 6/19/09
      City: S.R.

      Tips: Go big or go home. Swimbaits.

Thursday, June 18th, 2009

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 78

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Took POP out fishing for father's day fishing for bass, trout , and kokanee. Fish on the out side of POPE creek n saw smallie blowing up everywhere. Trip me out. Pop got first bit on popper. Then I threw crankbait n got a hit. Another bass swam beside the one that i hook up. Pop threw down a drop shot close to the fish i hook up and BAMMM !! Double hook up. Got pop hella happy. Threw crankbait out again n got another one. Saw another fish with it n pop did the same shit n got another double. It's a trip how spot n smallie mingle together like that. Most of the bass we caught was on crankbait,drop shot, poppers, and then spinnerbait(bluegills colors). We fish around 15-25 ft of water n mostly on points. It's true..Don't know where all the 3 plus lbs bass are at. Last Week we did better with couple 3 lbs n lost one close to 3lbs.
      City: elk grove

      Tips: I think Don be catching all these 3lbs plus bass n hide them on a clove or creek somewhere so his client be catching them.. I think it's time to hire Don again..haha.. Don <--- great guy