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Tuesday, November 25th, 2008

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Went fishing about 8 am. very low water, fished spinners, crankbaits. not one hit. Saw a big fish jump by the row club dock, and that was the only action.
      City: Los Gatos,Ca

      Tips: bring dynamite to catch fish.

Monday, November 24th, 2008

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 58

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched out of Miners slough. There were lots of people on the water for such a cold and cloudy day. A buddy and I found some fish in very typical places. We caught 15 fish up to 10 pounds all around 5 points.
      City: Sacramento

      Tips: Rat L trap. Burn it. They are starting to really feed. Also, my traps were just getting trashed and all the chrome kept coming off after three or so fish from the hooks scratching. The fix is easy. Get some clear coat nail polish from the girlfriend or wife and put a couple coats on your chrome Rat L traps. It does not chip and I used just one trap yesterday and it still looks brand new. it was sweet. Good luck.

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      Water Temp: 57

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: WE GOT ON THE LAKE AT 1:00 FISHED TILL 6:00.MY FATHER AND I CAUGHT 15 FISH.THESE FISH ARE SO HEALTHY AND PULL SO HARD.ALL BETWEEN 2LBS-2 3/4 LBS.THE BASS ARE RIGHT ON THE BANK EVERYWHERE.SPINNERBAITS,SENKOS,PUT THESE FISH IN THE BOAT.
      City: PLANADA

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 58

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Had the south fork to myself today. Sit on structure caught some good bass, when they slowed, I turned to the other side to fish a lot of bait and caught some decent one there. Back and forth all morning. Great day.
      City: SAC

      Tips: When no one can catch you on your spots, go get em.

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Looking at the marina web page this morning and we are getting dangerously close to not launching boats. Current water level down to 370 feet and dropping slowly. Once it hits 360 feet, the lowest ramp located in Granite Bay will be close to being out of water. There are NO other low water launch ramps that I'm aware of so if anyone knows of any please advise.
      City: EDH

      Tips: Lets PRAY for Rain!!

Sunday, November 23rd, 2008

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      Water Temp: 56

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: We got on the water about 6am fished till 4pm.The water still has a lot of algea (green slime)on top. Fishing was slow,we caught 7 fish. My buddy Anthony Tanachion caught 6 in the 2 to 3 lb range and I caught 1 10lb. My new personal best!
      City: LeGrand

      Tips: We used topwater and spinnerbaits in the morning. Worms and jigs the rest of the day.

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

      Report: Got out for a few hrs. today (1200-1500hrs) just to run the boat around a little bit. Stopped and fished some main lake steep walls, rocky points and caught around 10 bass - 2 largies, the rest spots on dropshot, darthead worms. Had a few slaps on my spinnerbait but dropshot was definitely the way to go today.
      City: Atwater

      Tips: Had the boat in 40'of water and casting to the bank. Rocky points, steep rock walls were best. Fish were in 20-30' range hitting on the fall - slow presentation.

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 54

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: 30 fish up to three pounds in middle fork on rocky points from bank to 20 foot using dropshot rig Fluks and 4" Robo Worms.
      City: Fairfield

Saturday, November 22nd, 2008

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Tough day overall, but I did get three fish... 2.5, 2.5 and 5.5 lbs. While I tried lipless cranks, jigs, c-rig; all three fish came on a red 6" shakey head rigged worm.
      City: Mountain View

      Tips: I fished the shakey head worm just outside the weedlines in 10+ feet of water.

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched out of Brandon Island, stop and fished the San Joaquin because fog was really bad. Caught 3 keeper Stripers biggest was 4# on pencil popper on the east wall between False river and Big Break. Ran over to the out side of Big Break no bites. Headed to Franks around 12 got 2 Strippers there on traps. Went up river to the Duck pond got 2 more small strippers and one large mouth. Slow day, small fish but still better then putting up freak'n christmas lights.
      City: Acampo

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      Water Temp: N/A

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: As usual pretty slow, but between 4:30 and 5:00pm managed to catch a nice 3 pounder. Then hooked an 8 lb. plus in close (actually too close) in the same area, but it broke off.
      City: Bay Area

      Tips: If you guys catch a toad with my favorite lure in its mouth, that's the one really working right now :)

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 56

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Started out from big bass spot with swim bait and got hit three times, but no hook up. Tossed one tons, did pretty good on keepers to four pounds. Moved to main body took a few, went up south fork and finished the mornining with a few more. Nothing exciting, just nice pleasurable day of getting out.
      City: sac

      Tips: Most fish were cruisers on flats next to main channels, did not fish for pods.

Friday, November 21st, 2008

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 61.5

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Well, this was my first fall trip to Berry. My goal was to only fish where I found a decent amount of bait. I mainly wanted to see how much bait I could find. I did not find much. I caught a few few fish in the spots were I found the bait - dropshoted most and spooned 1. A mixed bag of spots, sm, & lm. Overall though I stuck to my plan and ended up not getting my line too wet. I looked for bait for 5 hours and only fished for about 1 hr. I hope something changes over the next few weeks or this year will be nothing like last year...
      City: Elk Grove

      Tips: Just about as the the post says below fish were from 20-40 ft.

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 58

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Nice evening on the Delta. Although the fishing has declined over the years, there are still small pods of good size stripers roaming around. We had some very exciting topwater action in the last 1.5 hours of fishing. Nothing like topwater in about 3 feet of water. The fish were racing around as you can see the wake from them and their dorsal fin flared as they were attacking our baits. We landed probably about 10 between 4 to 12 lbs. and we lost three nice ones that would have gone in the 10 lb range along with a number of others all on the surface. A 10 lber is a large fish these days so we were pretty happy.

      Tips: Topwater before dark and rattle traps in the dark.

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 56

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: fished from 7pm to 9pm caght and released 15 bass to 5 lbs fished the south end from konocki to redbud all fish caught from 10 to 15ft on jigs, the bite was all light had to move around to catch 2 fish at each spot, winds were calm then picked up at 8pm with the bite getting better. the bite should get good for the next few days before next week when some foul weather comes in. need to keep fishing every nite until then so I can beat larrys 42 lb bag which should not be a problem in the next 3 weeks keep watch on photo page larry? see you out there?---marty---
      City: Clearlake

      Tips: this time of year the fall bite is taking time to get consistant. waiting for the water temp to hit 52 and stay at that temp for a week or so. the bit is hit and miss so you need to keep on the lake as much as possibe to be on time for the double digit party, whick should be within the next 2 weeks, you need to fish each spot for 30 min or so then keep moving to find a reaction bit: see you on the water. ----marty--

  • Mariposa County
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      Water Temp: 64 Degrees

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Last Minute plan to go fishing at 2:00 P.M...Lake was calm..no fish jumping, cooler at about 60 degrees outside. Started fishing at rocks on East Side of Dam. Caught on second cast with a Natural Shad Senko. The Senko was in 6 inches of water and a 2 pound Black swam up and carried it away. I caught another 2 Pound Spot on the other end of the dam in the same exact way. We proceeded to fish along the Rock Walls all the way from the east corner of the dam to the next "big" cove. Caught 4 more between 12"-16" on #330 Senko hooked wacky style. All baits were moved very slowly, and the fish hit in 1-8' of water. Last spot we fished was in the next large cove past Temperance, and in the back of of a point we caught another 3 Bass of 1-3'. All in all we caught 10 fish in 3.5 hours, so for such a short time..pretty good.
      City: Merced, CA

      Tips: Water is cooling. Slow down the movement. Noticed that the fish were either hitting on the fall, or after the bait settled. Never got a hit on rip baits, or rapid movement of Senko, only slight, slow movement.

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 60

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: using mark's laptop and room since he moved,thankyou mark your dad is cool...we really caught alot of fish most on crawdad colored lures and jigs a white crankbait helps too,got a big one like daves but it was on a popper and fought really hard I dont know how big cause no scale but he was big and was happy to go back in water thank you
      City: sacramento

      Tips: talk to fishermen,they will help you most of the time

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: good lake. catching fish by burning a brown jig off the bottom then let it fall,burn it again it looks like a crawdad hauling buns,at least thats what i think because i am catching little ones and big ones,they really like that brown jig pick the heaviest one for your rod i use a 1/2 and 3/4oz
      City: Carlsbad

      Tips: the bass seem to be chasing things,so move your lure alot

Thursday, November 20th, 2008

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 58-60!

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Good grief - no new reports? I saw some boats last night! Anyway, I just had to make another solo trip last night - fished about 6 1/2 hours for 14 bass. Just before dark my first bass was 8 lbs even followed by a 6.35. I tried not to get excited - good thing. While the early night bite was pretty good, a cold front moved in about 8 pm and slowed the big fish bite considerably - at least for me. All but the 4.92 lber were caught before 8 pm. Still a good limit about 26 lbs 6 oz. Once the cold north wind picked up the size went down - 4 of my fish were from 1 3/4 to 2 1/4 lbs. Yamamoto Kreature baits and brush hogs were my best baits. I fished as much rock as I could but did get a few dock fish. I braved Shag Rock in the wind which I thought might be worth the effort - not a bite! The 4.92 came on the first cast at Sea Breeze near midnight.
      City: Yuba city

      Tips: I didn't catch anything deeper than 25 feet but most were 18 to 25 feet. The bite was very consistant - just a faint tick, which was more than I felt last week. Shakin' and then deadstickin' produced a lot of the better fish.

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: n/a

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: The Redwood Empire Bass Club will be holding their annual open team tournament at Lake Sonoma on Saturday, December 13th. Blast-off will be determined in the order of registration. Entry forms and rules will be available at the Outdoor Pro Shop in Rohnert Park and on our website at www.rebc.net.
      City: Rohnert Park

      Tips: Any questions, contact the tournament director at 4skandys@sbcglobal.net.