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Sunday, December 28th, 2008

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 45.6-47.1

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Lets say the bite isn't red hot, but we boated 30+ fish today to 4.5lbs using Jumbos. Fished from 8-4 in the south end of the lake (15-30' depths). If you want to take someone over just for some fun without working your tail off for a couple of bites on artificials, pick up some Jumbo Minnows and hang on.
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: The water is cold, let the fish run with the bait before putting the hammer to them. For you purists out there... Don't knock it till you try it :)

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 51 degrees Sout

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: No takers on reaction baits. Went up s. fork caught all spots 2-3 lbs in no deeper than 5 feet. All on plastics. A lot of algae.
      City: sac

      Tips: majority of fish are holding no shallower than 70 ft up river. That will change as the days get shorter.

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      Water Temp: 45

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Decided to get out on the lake and see if these rains helped. The lake is up and looking pretty good. Much easier to launch now. Its still very clear and the bite sucks, period!!! What happened to a few months ago when I was catching dinks all day long??? Would have jumped for joy if I had even one today. I'm not even graphing fish now. This happened last year and finally it broke open. I would suggest Sonoma or Clear Lake if you want fish. Seemed like ever cast I had some kind of slime on my lure, not much fun.
      City: Santa Rosa

      Tips: Wait for more rain. The rain helped but this lake is in a dead mode. I wouldn't waste my time until after the New Year.

Saturday, December 27th, 2008

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

      Report: fished franks tract today only caught 1 fish and it was a nice one. the rip bait/reaction bite is all i can get going lately. no takers on the jig or drop shot. is anybody catching jig fish? if so how? white jigs (shad patern) or standard brown or black?
      City: bethel isl

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      Water Temp: 45

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched out of Paradise. Partly cloudy with slight breeze. Fished outside weedlines in 10 feet of water with a Lucky Craft suspending Pointer all day. Caught clone 1 and 3/4 lb bass with the bait just suspending there on the weedline. You just see the line swim away during the pause... Water cold and clear, even after the recent rains.
      City: Manteca

      Tips: Bites are few are far between. Sharpen those hooks! All fish were barely hooked, didn't need the pliers at all!

  • Nevada County
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      Water Temp: 45

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I think the falling snow killed the bite, My friend Don And I worked our butts off for two fish that came on jigs. One of them in 35 ft. the other in about 12
      City: auburn

  • Mariposa County
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      Water Temp: 54~55

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Bass on rocks, in the river, in the creeks, basically everywhere ... key depth is 15'. That's the depth where the bait were today.

      However, if you REALLY want to have some fun. The trout action is OUTSTANDING. I caught a limit in 1/2 hour on a small ripbait (~10' diver). Couldn't catch any bass on it, but the trout was all over it.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Get a limit of trout for dinner and go catch a bunch of bass. Overs are tough to get though! :(

Friday, December 26th, 2008

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 47

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Beat my brains out for bites from 11am till 5pm.Fished from Jago to Konocti and points nearby.Headed back, hit pump-house skuned!!! and finally No-Name Reef.Stuck one on the spro lippless<(4 lbs)and two shakin the Mavrick worms,One 4.5 and one 6 on the dot!!!!!Seventh stop and it was yards from the boat-lift!!!F@#$K
      City: lower lake

      Tips: Dunk Shiners if You want to catch a-lot-o-fish!

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 49

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched out of Granite Bay ( Very easy just single boat launch ) Went to south fork first thing and nothing water temp back there was 45 degrees. Came back out on the main body and found bait fish in 20-25 ft of water and drop shot a sexy shad worm. Ended the day with 6 and my two friends each had a fish a piece. Biggest was a couple of pounds.
      City: Antelope

      Tips: Find the bait and slow shake the worm and wait for the tick.

Thursday, December 25th, 2008

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

      Report: Hey Vern I though the ramps were out of the water. And I though Jimbo was strange. With that I say......... Merry Xmas to all the Folsom Dudes.
      City: Granite bay

Wednesday, December 24th, 2008

  • Leon County
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      Water Temp: 48

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Amar, all you've got to bring is some gear for drop shotting/shaky head jigs, and some wacky rigged senkos( i prefer greens here). Robo worms for dropshot and your favorite shakyhead worms. The fish here are real finicky about what color they want and presentation speed, so switch it up. Other stuff works to but for numbers this is the way to go. Well as for right now the fishing is dead, I went to try some deep jigging for a few hours but no takers, too cold. And to top it off nobody on the lake could get a trout to hit for anything.
      City: Benicia

      Tips: Fishing really isn't that great right now for bass, but in spring when the water is around 67 degrees and your timing's right it can be ridiculous here. just don't get used to it. My best day last year was around 23 or so bass over 3lbs biggest of the day coming in at little over 8. It would have been something like double that but I ran out of all my greenish colored senkos and all I had left was flouresent pink. I have never seen a day like that at this lake and I fish here since before I could hold my own pole.

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Thanks Troutman and Burben. I'm probably gonna head out there this weekend. I'll make sure to get there early so I can get on the dock.
      City: Fremont

Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 55

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished south end of the main lake, north end of the narrows, and Big Island area. The water is extremely clear. No muddy runoff yet. Me and my partner fished from 1030 AM to 130 PM. Caught 4 Spots to 1-1/2 lbs. on jigs and shakey head worms.
      City: Fairfield

      Tips: Fish slow. Pressure bites.

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 49

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went out from 8-12 threw swimbaits the whole time ended up with one for 6.4 Best christmas present I could've asked for!
      City: Clear lake Oaks

      Tips: put in work and hope for the best...watch out for rocks and Merry Christmas!

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

      Report: I came here around 3:30 after fishin at shadow cliffs for a couple hours and catchin a 4lb trout in the first 10 minutes and then nothin after that. We fished the south end and I caught 9 trout and my buddy caught 2. They were hittin on pretty much everything i threw at them-spoons, inline spinners, small crankbaits, floating rapalas. It was gettin bite after bite for almost an hour then it died down around 5pm.
      City: Fremont

      Tips: Most of the trout they plant will stay in or near the south end most of the winter for fear of the stripers in the deeper parts of the lake.

  • Fresno County
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      Water Temp: 58.9

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fish deep, slow and small. cought one about 2.5 lb. The rest were from one lb to 1.5 lb.Drop shot from 45 feet to 70 feet. Good luck after this big storm.
      City: Madera

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished from 1pm-3 and caught a 4lb trout on white power eggs and a night crawler. I was also throwing spoons and Kastmasters with no luck.
      City: Fremont

Monday, December 22nd, 2008

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 49-50

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Cold air temp early and wind picked up a bit making it colder. Hit main body then up river in south fork. No takers but plenty of bait.Left at 10:30. Some guy at ramp was catching planters on a spinner one right after another.
      City: sac

      Tips: East wind in winter can be negative.

  • Merced County
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      Water Temp: mid 50s

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: fished that sun. 12/7/08 on the water at 6 boated 3 keepers up to 22 in. by 615.. had landed 7 by 930 all top water pencil popper partner throwing a spook biggest went 27 in. at 6 1/2 lb.
      City: salinas

      Tips: bites came as lure was dead in water

Sunday, December 21st, 2008

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 55-57

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Went out with my fishin buddy John. Rain all day light winds fished mostly in the narrows and a little bit on the main lake. Ended up catching around 14 most were spots with a few smallmouths, all were decent size 2-4 pounds. caught them on drop shot and jigs. brown/purple jigs and prism shad straight 6"worms.
      City: San Mateo

      Tips: find area's of thick structure, baitfish by structure would be a bonus, good luck have fun Merry Christmas.