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Sunday, June 14th, 2009

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 72

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched out of Indian Beach on Friday. Stayed on the south end throwing frogs and dropshot with baby brush hogs, only 3 fish in 8 hours. Called Ross England, he said the south was dead, and head north towards Lakeport, he also added to throw senkos. Started Saturday morning @ Lakeport throwing watermelon candy senkos, had a limit in 45 min. Biggest going 4#. Nothing bigger all day but alot of fish on the line! Had a blast out there on the water, THANKS ROSS for the tips!!!!
      City: Carson City

      Tips: Right now everyone is catching fish on either senkos, flukes, or frogs. All the action is up north NOT south!

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      Water Temp: 74-76

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Crystal Clear Water. Temperature absolutely perfect for active bass. Bite was wierd. Out of 3 days of fishing we had very few bites, very few fish. We were at least 90% in the bite to catch ratio. Lost a couple of nice ones in there too. We caught only on plastics - worms, double tail grubs, etc. Not as much as a bump on cranks, spinnerbaits or topwaters.
      Fish caught were in 18-23 ft of water with an occasional fish in shallow (10 ft or less). Lite bite too... they were not pounding it like they normally do at Eastman this time of year. TONS of fry on the lake... in fact, we keyed in on the only pattern we could muster up - the were feeding heavily on those fry. They would chase a school of fry to surface or bank... fry would be busting water, than a bass would roll on the school gorging away. We were able to throw to that sometimes and get a bite/fish.
      City: Pacific Grove

      Tips: Every fish we did manage to catch was spitting out tons of the said fry... clearly, they were after the easy gorge meal and not too into my cool collection of lures. In hindsight, I should have brought up a bucket of those gulp minnows to match the tiny hatch. Normally, I can always do real good here; this trip was strange. Temps were wierd too... full moon over the weekend... all could have played a factor... then again, maybe my gameplan sucked... most guys i talked to were getting similar action... 1 or 2 here and there.
      Lake sure was beautiful though - saw an eagle and saw a coyote Saturday morning at 5am cruising around launch ramp area.

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 70

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: At dawn, we worked the South Fork with poppers, spinners, and crack baits. We worked down the coast along Dyke 8, and nothing. Before we came in, and to kill some time, we started working in the coves up the Granite Bay shoreline. Got 1 small bass on a Lucky Craft crankbait as we were about to come in, and literally on what was going to be my last cast of the day.
      City: Folsom

      Tips: Lately, you just need to be very lucky.

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 69-72

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Sunday I took the Mrs. out for a fun day on the Lake. We started out a tad late but 10:30am was a great start. The Lake was beautiful and lots of activity. We went out of Lime Saddle and found fish on step walls of the West Branch, down the slot on ponints and walls, on the main body points and mud lines and on walls on the South Fork. We took Spots,Large Mouth and Smallies on a variety of gear. Drop shot with Robo Worm AYU, Dart head worm, Gitzit tubes, Rattle Traps, and Yamamoto Senko's in the natural shad.
      City: Paradise

      Tips: As the weather stablizes, the lake will start fishing better and better. Right now move to find the bait fish or find the bass that are feeding. Keep changing things to find out what they want.

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      Water Temp: 73-75

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Met my buddy Scott out at Oroville for our first try at the lake. On the water about 8, fished till about 5:30. Total we put 7 fish in the boat with five decent keepers (probably 8.5-9 lbs.) in the boat by 3:00.

      Started off up the North arm, about 45 minutes in picked up the first fish on a Izzy Rigged Flirt 4.95 - Dirty Sanchez in about 15 ft. Went almost 4 hours without another bite. Just a short way out the East arm, a non keeper. Ran to main body and found a nice pair of small coves with stained water, picked up four keepers on football jig - rootbeer/ green, izzy rig (same as above) and a brass/glass rig with a 4" pumpkin/orange MGM worm.

      Ran a short ways back up the North arm into another stained water stretch, saw lots of fish busting the smelt, but only coaxed up one non-keeper.

      Long day on the water, but all in all, a success for flying blind on a new lake.

      Might have been a club tourny out there, lots of bass boats running and gunning from spot to spot and guys checking livewells, wonder how they did?
      City: Lincoln

      Tips: Small worms and natural colors (What a surprise!)
      Work 'em slow.
      Still some pre-spawn females in 5-15 ft. Once those fish start moving again, things should turn back on.

Saturday, June 13th, 2009

  • Yuba County
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      Water Temp: 72

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Went back to this lake for more fun. I anticipated a good bite due to cloud cover. It did not happen. No fish on points, all fish caught in coves. My wife caught 5 Spots to my one. She caught hers dragging a grn pumkin lizard. I caught mine dragging a salt/pep leech. No reaction bite. Tried Spinner baits, Wake baits, and Cranks.
      City: W. Sac

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 68-72 DEGREES..

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: FISHED AROUND GRASS ALL DAY...BRING OUT YOUR PUNCHING STICKS AT HIGH TIDE AND AT OUT GOING TIDE, THE BETTER FISH WERE RIGHT ON THE EDGE OF THE OUTTER WEED LINE...PUNCHED WITH DOUBLE WIDE BEAVER GREEN PUMPKIN/WAT. MELON AND THREW A CUSTOME MADE GREEN PUMPKIN WITH RED FLAKE CHATTER BAIT...2-4 FEET ONLY PEOPLE...FROG BITE SUCKED, GOT ONE BLOW UP, AND DIDN'T HOOK UP...BIGGER ACTIVE FISH ARE IN THE GRASS...LOOK FOR FISH FRY AND SLOW DOWN (KEY) AND THEN START FLIPPING, DEAD STICK WHEN FLIPPING...THEY WILL COME PICK IT UP...GOOD LUCK...GRASS, 2-4 FEET, IN FRONT OF RIP RAP/TULLIES...
      City: FREMONT

      Tips: TOP WATER HAS SLOWED...FISH ARE VERY TIGHT TO COVER...LOOK FOR CLUMPS OF THICK GRASS...TULLIES AND ROCKS ARE A BONUS....

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      Water Temp: mid 60s

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Caught 4 fish by 10:30AM, clouds help. two over 3#s, largest was 4-10. Look for spopts with timber, tully and submerged vegetation. Flipped 4.5" swimbaits and swam them out to the boat. Also check out windy points with sparse tulies. Missed a couple on the frog bite but it was my first time trying the rage toad.
      City: San Ramon

      Tips: Flipped the swimbait to the most shaded spot, let it fall to the bottom and swim them out slowly.
      Don't get stuck in one spot. Some of them look so good but no fish. Keep going.

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      Water Temp: 86

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: slow day on the delt. fished for about 6 hours and only caught 4 fish. lots of dinks bite and dont get the bait. lots of turkeys on the water so watch out. dont go out until the temp hits 100
      City: Brentwood

      Tips: lots of dinks biting. didnt even get a big bite. biggest was 2 and a half. frogs and cranksbaits

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 68

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished in our mendo bassers club tourney yesterday.At blast off i sat sat and watched evryone run south. Not only from our tournament,but also the clear lake bassmasters were launching also. So 35 boats blasted and me and my partner mototred over to curinthien bay about 120 yards off shore. We had some luck with top water. I had several blowups on a frog,caught two off them with the senko. Then my partner stuck a 6 on a big topwater bait. a real skinny post spawned fish.We ended up winning our club deal with 18.88 a good day on the water.
      City: ukiah

      Tips: Top water in the morning. we also had success when a fish rolled, throwing on the boil with a weightless bait the fish would anihilate it. A few on senkos also. But pretty slow.20 fish split between us.

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 74

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished three days practicing for the FPT. Lots of fish however very tough for size.You can catch fish on everything, I caught three bass on a MS slammer wake bait but all of them were smaller than the bait. Went up the river last Saturday and caught around 70 fish, three were keepers. This Saturday fished the tourney and weighed just shy of 8 lbs. All on jigs in the main body on steep walls, probably had around 14 keepers all day. Dropshot seemed to shut off compared to the previous trips.

      Fun lake to fish, I would like to try it next year in the spring when the big girls are more plentiful.O'
      City: Granite Bay Ca.

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 73-75

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Depends on where you were at with the water clarity,but most places were 4"+ vis. Got on the water at about 8:15, went through the middle fork and started fishin. Two fish there on D-Head. After a few hours and nothing else, figured time to move. Went into the S.Fork and fished around, and boated one crankin. Then my partner Rich put a nice one in the boat on a jig. Lo'and behold the wind came up, and blew us all over the place. Figured we'd attempt to get out of the wind and wen further into the S.Fork and Rich boated another nice one on the jig, and...that was it, the wind just took os over, and that was the day. Off the water @ 2:45~. Until the wind came up, it was beautiful out there, even with the wind it still was, who am I kidding. Just not the greatest for fishing today.
      City: Plumas Lake

      Tips: Be patient, and work your bait's slow. Pay attention to the line. All the fish we caught were gorged with pond smelt, it's no wonder they were barely interested in what we were throwing.

  • Trinity County
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      Water Temp: 67-73

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: fishing was great caught lots of 3-5 pounders in 20-40 feet of water
      City: cottonwood,ca

      Tips: plastic tubes and 4-5 inch swimbaits fish the plastics slow and deep

Friday, June 12th, 2009

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

      Report: Fished with Scott today and we had a tough day. Caught 12 fish with 4 over 3lbs. The water was as clear as I have ever seen it. Used drop shot, spinners and chatter baits. Tried to stay on the move and stay out of the wind as much as possible. The bite this year is so much different than last year at this time. Fished from Tiki to Union Point. Most fish caught near tullies. Topwater was not productive at all for us.

      Tips: Try different tactics when the bite is not on. Keep changing until you figure out what they want. When all else fails got to your GO TO bait

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 68-72

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: On tip from friend, went way up S Fork to past the bridge looking for bigger fish. Not even a single bite after trying reaction baits, swimbaits, and dartheading plastics. Worked my way back down to just above 5mph buoys and saw some big baitballs but only caught dinks around them.

      So around noon I ran to riprap bank close to Beals and finished with 3 spots just over 2 lbs each. Dartheading 4" shad colored worms. Bite definitely seems a little tougher than a week ago.

      Tips: Drag baits slow on the rocky bottom. Be ready for a softer bite. Best depth 15-20' right now.

Thursday, June 11th, 2009

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 70 +

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fish on flats with 3 blow up on top but bass didn't commit. Went to points with hazard bouys n boated 4 bass 1 1/2-3lbs n lost 2 nice one too. Went to big Island n pull up 2 more. Drop shot seem to get the most hit. Biggest was on a crankbait on slow ..stop..n ..go reeling. Found some green weed bed n got another on crankbait, cast the edge of weed bed n rip the weed edge n stop..thats when i got the hit. Big bass seems to be on points in main body.
      City: elk grove

      Tips: Top water seem to slow down for us, drop shot seems to have the most hit, crankbait then spinnerbait.

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

      Report: i'm going to calero this saturday. any news on how the lake is doing?

  • Alameda County
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      Water Temp: 72

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished from noon till 4:00PM. Should have arrived earlier before the overcast cleared and the raging wind started to blow. Caught 5 very nice 3lbs range LM on carolina senko. The pattern was wind blown creek channel weed points. They were well inside the weed edge in 5-10ft of water tight to the cover. Tried crank and spinner but no reaction bite. Was happy not to get skunked with the conditions and not being able to keep good contact with the line/bait.
      City: Foster City

      Tips: Fish early before the wind kicks in. Work weed points with whatever soft plastic you are confident in that you can drag through the weeds.

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went fishing in my float tube from 10 AM to 3 PM. No luck at all. It was a little too windy for a float tube today. I fished into the reeds on each side of the south shore beach and across from it on the point with a texas-rigged senko and roboworms, and a crankbait around a submerged tree.
      City: Livermore, CA

      Tips: Don't be an idiot like me by using a float tube in the wind! I spent more time fighting the wind than I did actual fishing...

Wednesday, June 10th, 2009

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

      Report: Had the best day at Calero nailing 11 fish within 3 hours! Focused on the east end of the lake working crankbaits around the weeds.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Cloudy day. Nothing on topwater but once I dropped to a shallow running crankbait, it was on!