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Sunday, May 31st, 2009

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 70-74

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: fun fished with family,two boats ,thu. pm - sun. noon. average 10 per rod per day. most fish 16
      "-17" with 7 fish over 3lbs. on sun. 11
      am my 70 year old dad stuck his best ever at 9lb2oz spawned out monster. what a thrill for all of us.
      City: dinuba

      Tips: most productive was a 5" grub swam through the weed bed near the state park. shad colored jigs worked well also. monster came on a nat. shad senko near shag.

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

      Report: CORRECTION from last report: "NewYork Cove water very stained. Fairly clear except the mudlines caused by the boaters..." Meant to say "Fairly clear in all other areas fished..."
      City: folsom

      Tips: none

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Windy and somewhat cold morning..tried the rocks by Beale Pt...one tick, no go on dropshot. Next tried rock/sandy area by new construction outside Dike 8..good signs, no go on topwater, darthead, dropshot, c-rig. Up south fork to various coves. Finally hit 2 on senko way deep in NewYork Cove..against the bank..thought we found a pattern. No go rest of the day. Alot of boaters..NewYork Cove water very stained. Fairly clear except the mudlines caused by the boaters...tried pulling lures through the mud to clear water...no go.
      City: Folsom

      Tips: Have none again...I'm hoping someone posts the stuff that works...and where...we think we shoulda gone to north fork.

Saturday, May 30th, 2009

  • Santa Clara County
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      Water Temp: 73

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Don't waste your time. Got to Calero around 10am because I went to Anderson first and didn't know you have to have reservations on the weekend if you want ot get in before noon. That is the stupidest thing I have ever heard. So Ran over to Calero and no one was there. Fished ofor 3 hours and nothing. Not even a bite and i didn't see anyone catch anything other than weeds. Saw 4 dead fish thats it. The water at all these lake are wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyy to hot now. 73 degrees. Gez thats a heated swimming pool. Wait for a while or go up to Berryessa where that water is cooler. This was my first tiome at Calero and probably my last. Small lake and kinda boring lake. Thats fishing though.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Wait for water to cool.

  • Alameda County
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      Water Temp: 72 degrees

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: overcast til 9am. wind picks up around 10am.
      threw rattle traps in the south end. one largemouth, one smallmouth, one trout. the catfish are starting to show up. the weedline is showing up. hardly any shore trout fishermen in the south end. most of the boaters went toward the dam. off the water 12:30pm. air temp 74 degrees.
      City: Fremont

      Tips: early to bed, early to rise.

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

      Report: Fished May 29th and 30th. Found good action in the north end using Maverick BH Minnows and Skinny Dippers, anything with blue and silver or both.
      City: Eureka

      Tips: Keep everything on the bottom and move slowly

Friday, May 29th, 2009

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

      Report: Great day on the lake with my 4 year old. Started out on the main lake east shore looking for spawning shad, this event happens around this time of year. With the chop on the water it was very hard to spot them. Found a area out of the wind enough to spot them and then it was on. All fish came on a Vixen to first cast into the resulted in a double hook up with a pair of 2.5 pounders. This is the first time I cought 2 at the same time on one lure. I was able to stay on them for awhile ended up with 10 fish out the group not a dink in the bunch all ran from 2-3.5lbs. Ran around for awhile and neaver found another group of shad cought one hear and there on the same lure all solid fish on the topwater not one fish under 2lbs. I think my son let me reel in 3 of them. Finished out in the south end worming for spots my son likes the spoted bass for some reason. Ended up with 20+ fish for the day best five at 15lbs.
      City: Vacaville

      Tips: If the shad are spawning you will need to fish very shallow. 6"-3' I had the boat sitting in no more than 8' of water and putting the bait right on the bank. Some of then pushed a wake as they chased the bait.

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I was once taught by Don Paganelli and find his teaching method is very good. Even to this day , when I call looking for pattern n answer to some of the lake/delta question. He alwayz picks up n are happy to answer any question. He doesn't hold back on info. Thnks Don !!!!
      City: elk grove

      Tips: Tim......

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      Water Temp: 74

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Took a trip out yesterday and on our first stop in the narrows we caught fish on topwater baits. The fish were chasing bait and most were small, up to 1 1/2lbs. Then we moved up to the main body and started throwing grubs on a 1/8oz darthead working it out from the weed edge into deeper water. This was the hot deal of the day as they caught about 20 fish up to 3 pounds. Most of the fish were spawned out Largemouth with spotted and smallmouth mixed in. Only saw 4 other bass boats all day.
      City: Sacramento

      Tips: Work those grubs sloooooooooow. The tail will do all the work.

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

      Report: me and a buddy met up with my bro at ladds at about 12:30 afternoon. we started the afternoo off at bullfrog neer the bridge. my first cast of the day landed me a dink. it also tempararily gave me bragging rights. we soon moved to victoria where my bro smashed a 6 lber. it was windy as all heck, but i managed to boat one at 1 1/2 lbs. was getting late so we ran to old river where i hit a 3.7 our buddy caught 1 dink. not alot of fish but still fun
      City: modesto

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished with my partner Floor Guy and we had a blast. Caught fish on every reaction bait we threw at them. Fished off wall, tullies and outside weed line. The larger fish were 3+lbs. Expected the top water bite to be better. Caught 30 fish in 4 hours. Caught fish every where we went.
      City: San Ramon

      Tips: Reaction bite is on and tone down the colors as the water clears. If you have a go to bait throw it.

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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: caught 14 spots in about 3hrs
      City: fremont

      Tips: use plastic worms..fished bottom at near rocky points... stay away from boat lauch area.. to much activity there..

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      Water Temp: 70

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Would never had made this trip, except that a bunch of family and friends gathered for an extended holiday camping trip. Sorry to say, our kill rate on rattlesnakes was much higher than our catch rate on bass: Smallmouth C & R = 1
      Rattlesnake kill = 6
      Water in the North end "at least" a mile down. We were throwing buzz baits in areas that normaly would be 25-30 feet underwater. Did manage to GPS some nice rock ledges and drop offs should the water level ever reach previous levels in my lifetime.
      City: Sebastopol

      Tips: Go somewhere that you are not required to side mount a 357 or 45 everywhere you go due to rattlesnake infestation......

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 65-78

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Took a great guy out to the After Bay today. The bite was a bit slow but he managed to boat 13 largies the biggest at about 4lbs. The best pattern was throwing senko's on the reeds.
      City: Paradise

      Tips: Natural shad and baby bass senko's were the best colors.

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Tubed in one of the back ponds for an hour or two in the late afternoon. Landed 3 bass, each were about a pound. All the strikes came from soft plastics.

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 78-83

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: This is not much of a report because of the weather conditions. The Sierra Thunderstorm clouds drifted west over Amador and beyond, totally shuting off the bite. I have seen this many times at Amador and other lakes with these conditions. Don't know if this is the highly charged air (lightning) or air pressure - but the results are consistant. For example, we threw every type of topwater before dark and didn't have a sniff! That is not normal this time of year. Rick and I have 70+ years of combined experience on this lake - to no avail sometimes!! We caught 5 up to 3 lbs and missed just a few. Power worms provided what little damage we did.
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: One can usually tell when this is happening - all life stops. Only 2 or 3 fish came to the top during the evening. No bait, no fish, no bird activity, few crickets, deathly quiet - except for airplanes coming and going. I don't remember anytime in the past 30 years with this much daily thunderstorm activity with heavy rain. It will keep the fire danger down!

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      Water Temp: 64

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Saw a few small males moving up but no luck....for Bass. Managed some very shallow Catfish, biggest was 16.64 lbs. on a "Redeye Shad".
      City: Antioch

      Tips: A couple more warm days, and we should see more fish up on beds.

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 70

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: yes u can catch them off drop shot but not seven inch senko.

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 65-73

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I took out a great guy out Wed. who wanted to learn bass fishing. He is a fly fisherman and really had a great time leanring new methods of fishing. The top water action was still on in the morning and the bite was very good. After the Sun was on the water the bite changed to tubes and senko's. With 30 bass on his first time out with around 6 over, he was pretty excited.
      City: Paradise

      Tips: Vixons or spooks for top water and tubes and senko's worked best on walls from 5-30 ft.

Tuesday, May 26th, 2009

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

      Report: Auldridge- When you launch and go to the left of the lake instead of the right when you caught the beauty there are 2 coves on your right back to back. The second one is rattlesnake. I believe the fish are deeper because the water was so warm. Going to go again Saturday but for a couple hours. The wife is coming along so you know how that is... COngrats again on that awesome fish.
      City: San Jose