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Friday, November 28th, 2008

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      Water Temp: ??

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fishing from the bank from 8 am to noon, I picked up four fish. Two decent keepers of about 15" and two dinks. All fish caught on a shakey head rigged 6" red Roboworm.
      City: Mountain View

      Tips: Work the jig head rigged worm SLOW. Interestingly, the bites came amazingly close to shore.

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

      Report: This is the first time I've been skunked here since my rookie years. Not a good feeling. Didn't even get a bite. I usually fish from the shore on the south end or in the narrows. I've been coming here the past couple of months and catchin a limit of trout almost every time using white power eggs and a night crawler and throwing spoons and kastmasters. Good sized ones too, 2-3 pounders. Best time to fish this time of year is from about 1pm to 5 or 6. No sense gettin up early, the fishing is just as good if not better in the late afternoon to evening. Never had much luck here with bass though.
      City: Fremont

      Tips: If you guys have any tips on catchin bass or stripers, let me know.

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 58

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Started in main body (zilch) not one bite on reaction baits. I later went up river in south fork (zilch) not one bite. I worked back out towards main body past Brown's (zilch). I could see plenty of fish, I could feel my bait touch them, but not one taker. Went home.
      City: sac

      Tips: Sometimes cold fronts with no surface action (wind) results in lock jaw. Did not drop shot or other finese methods.

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 57-58

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: A bit tougher on Friday. Caught 22, partner 9 on 4 inch worms rigged on 16th oz texas rig and 1/8 oz dart heads. 6 fish over the slot with another 19 inch spot. Only one largemouth but it was over 3 pounds. Big fish came early, and a bunch of the typical 14 1/2 inch Oroville clones. Most fish came off the main body, a few in the Middle fork. Fish were located between 15 and 35 feet.
      City: Woodland

Thursday, November 27th, 2008

  • Leon County
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      Water Temp: low 60's

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: im really looking to do some local bass fishing at lafayette this weekend. i know theres an enormous population of bass in there- i nearly caught a 10# just off the side of of a dock next to the tullies. i just need some advice as to where all the bass are now and what baits are hot. Anyone got any about lafayette right now?
      THANKS :)
      City: el cerrito

      Tips: I can NEVER catch one of the million 6-12 inchers on anything in my tackle :(
      (oh, and if someone can give me any helpful advice about the above, ill tell u the hottest trout and catfish spot on the lake right now.) ;)

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      Water Temp: 55

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Thought I would try my luck before Thanksgiving so I headed out first thing in the morning. Nobody else on the lake and the lake has really cleared up but is still very low.

      Found a few dinks but nothing else. Again this lake needs a real nice storm to get it going. The fish have seemed to move up to towards the shoreline, because I'm not graphing them in the normal drop off areas.

      It looks as if the weeds are gone, but they are not!!! Almost every cast comes back with mush or weeds.
      City: Santa Rosa

      Tips: Stay away until we get more rain. Clear lake is busting open and I wouldn't waste my time here yet.

Wednesday, November 26th, 2008

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 57.9

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Whiskey and Mildred's. Saw them on graph but not biting. Top water, crank bait, and vertical jigging had no effect. SAW A BIG SEAL IN WHISKEY! Caught one on top water but was a keeper. Remember catch and release.
      City: Tracy

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: nice fish. beat my 19 pounder easy. ive been trying to go to hook to get a punker for a while now. and my spro BBZ1's third joint broke offf so i got to send it in but i got my hudddleston now.
      City: THA P

      Tips: big swimbaits

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 58

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished a 100 yd stretch in main body until 1000. Fish abruptly stopped at 0915. From daylight until 0915 the action was furious. 5 lbder on rip bait, a few nice ones on very deep crankbait, a few on jigs, a few on darts, etc. It didn't seem to matter.
      City: sac

      Tips: As soon as heavy wind and rain moved in, the action stopped.

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 62-63 Degrees

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished on Saturday, caught about 7 fish total. Big fish of 5.84 pnds came on clear sexy shad Strike King King Shad. Got him on incoming tide on weed edges. Just ripping the lure and letting it float up, about 3-4 second pauses. Caught other fish with same pattern with Strike King #5 Sexy Shad. Caught other fish flipping green pumpkin/watermelon double wide beaver on tule edges during morning outgoing. Over all tough bite.
      City: Fremont

      Tips: Fish slow with cranks and deadstick plastics, if you don't get bit on plastics while dead sticking for about 5-10 seconds, pull your plastic out and move on.

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: One of my fishing buddies took me to Clear Lake last night for some fun fishin' and it was still fun. We didn't do the twilight bite - starting about 8 pm until 1 am. He even let me catch the biggest which he never does! The biggest wasn't very pretty however, in fact looked like she had recently spawned, no kiddin'! Big mouth, quite skinny, and weighed between 6 3/4 and 7 lbs. Nothing like the great shape the other previous big ones have been. We boated 22 bass for a nice limit over 25 lbs. Would have had a lot more but my partner lost more than he deserved! The bite really slowed after 10:30 pm - talked to another angler and he said the same thing. Since the weather is historically warm this time of year, small bass are still around. I caught a 10" bass - you never see those this time of year! We fished from the back of Konocti Bay to Kono Taye.
      City: Yuba city

      Tips: I did something last night that I was determined to do no matter how good the plastic bite was. I fish a Booyah Boogee Bait (Chatter bait type) and it worked well, catching 4 of our biggest fish. I was using a 1/2 oz model and caught the bigger fish about 15 to 25 feet on that bait. I would isolate individual deep rocks and swim the bait over them. That worked several times. At Kono Taye, I ticked it over the tops of weeds and a 5 1/2 slammed it - best bite of the fall! Something different is always fun!! Brush hogs and jigs worked well too. Fish seemed a little deeper last night overall.

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: 24 lb. 10 oz. Striper on Lunker Punker. Stripers chasing Trout all over the lake. To you non believers, see the pic on the bulletin board at the lake or @ "NorCalFishing.com"
      City: Antioch

      Tips: Toss big baits. Jerry Rago 10" tool had a couple of followers all the way to the bank.

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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