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Saturday, December 27th, 2008

  • 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.

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

      Report: Mr Tkboogie thank you for answering my question. I was curious about the area you were fishing. Thank you for the tips! Now if I only knew where I should concentrate on catching stripers OVER 10 lbs. I've been catching lots of 18 to 30 in. but nothing over. I guess I should throw bigger lures. I've been fishing the flats like many others and caught two LMB that were about 9 lbs. and the other 10 lbs. by accident in dutch slough while throwing a swimbait! That really made my day! I bought a couple of super magnum 9in. zara spooks. A black zara and a trout pattern spook. I Guess I will be trying those as well as a MS SLAMMER. I just wish I knew where and what depth I should throw them.
      City: san mateo

Saturday, December 20th, 2008

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

      Report: on the water about 8 a.m., cold and overcast start, 3rd or fourth cast HUGE blow up on a vixen off a ledge north east of franks on a tule island, not sure if LM or striper, it did'nt return. resorted to drop shot @ old river for a limit of dinks. I took my 6 yr old son, we had a blast! Nothing on a shad crank, had a wack on a DANDY BAITS green pumpkin (BUD) jig with paca craw trailer. Other than that, pretty tough.

      Tips: post front conditions made it tough, don't rule out topwater....yet. dead stick 6" worms checking line often.

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: On the water around 1030. Idled out and found fish in 14 ft of water in a small area in the middle of the lake. One fish on small plastics, on the bottom, picking the bait up and letting it fall. Kept fishing toward the south launch and hooked one more but came off. Partner had a few bites but could not get them hooked. Didn't have a chance to talk to the other three boats that were there so not sure how they did until I read Tims report.
      City: Lincoln

      Tips: small shaky head or football head with small plastics. I would drag this and pop it off the bottom drifting slowly on 10 lbs line.

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      Water Temp: 47

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: You can launch from dirt ramp but with one person you will be getting wet unless you take rubber boots. Fished from about 10 am to 2 pm with on bump on a jig. Talked to two other boats on the water and a couple of shore anglers all had no bites. Deepest water I found was around 58 feet and will over 100 feet down. Saw a ton of fish suspended and should have tried spooning but didn't.
      City: Lincoln

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 56

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: foggy and cold. drop shotting and jigs, with jigs getting the better two. caught 15+ trout on spinnerbaits and luckycraft pointers in rogers creek.
      City: waterford

      Tips: take the kids out for some easy trout, any minnow plug should work. be carful in the fog

Thursday, December 18th, 2008

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 2

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Granite bay launch ramp end at 368 feet, not 369. May not be important to the regulators, but to us bass fishermen it is very imnportant for our invested equipment.
      City: sac

      Tips: Precisement is a part of our sport.