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Wednesday, November 26th, 2008

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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

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--