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Saturday, November 8th, 2008

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: 62

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished a club tournament today. TOUGH DAY. With a 4 fish limit rule, winner of 8 pound only. Fish are lock jaw, with only a small window of oppurtunity to catch fish through the day. I caught 2 fish only. Fished deep and shallow. Caught 1st fish about 9 AM, with brass/glass, green pumpkin/red flakes Zoom Brush Hog. Fish was caught in less that 10 feet of water, on wood. Second fish was on green pumpking jig with a green pumpkin/watermelon Yo Momma trailer. Same area. Drop shot was actually inactive!!! 1st place caught fish in the same areas with a ghost minnow LC Staysee...
      City: Fremont

      Tips: Fish slow, but cover as much water as you can. Fish are not deep yet are in 10-20 feet of water with wood...good luck and tight lines...

Friday, November 7th, 2008

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 61

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Caught fish (ie. Sm bass, Lg mouth bass, catfish and two hard heads) on shacky head, flick shake, zara spook, spoon and frog. We spent most of the day in the vineyards, but traveled around a lot looking for bait. Found some bait early off a point in 60 feet of water. We came back to it at the end of the day and used spoons for a few fish. We had to work hard for 11 keeper bass. Frog fish was caught near the weeds.
      City: millbrae

      Tips: Fish slow and shack the worm as soon as it hit the water. Fish want an active bait.

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Look for balls of bait in the Narrows off points. Spoons fished down through the bait are doing good. Drop-Shot Robo worms in Arons Magic or Prizom Shad are also doing well. If you like reaction baits try the early bite on the flats with Zarra Spooks or Don Ivino splash-its. Most of the fish have been spots out of the Narrows.
      City: sacramento

      Tips: Move around and look for surface activity early. Then go deep.

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

      Report: Save the Delta!!! EM of California will hold a free work shop on remediation of waterways,ponds ect. Organic Biotechnology (EM) has cleaned water world wide(Seto Island Sea) and offering this new technology FREE . We can no longer sit back and see this Sacred River die.Like Prospect Island we can make a "CHANGE". Come Up to Napa Sunday Nov 9,2008 10:00am call for more info.510 708- 6975
      City: Napa

      Tips: The use of EM starts the food chain and supplies Effective Microorganims(EM)to plankton and other micoorganisms bringing in baitfish that our prayed on by peditory game fish we all know and love. Make you own hot spots and clean the river at the same time.

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

      Report: Save the Delta!!! EM of California will hold a free work shop on remediation of waterways,ponds ect. Organic Biotechnology (EM) has cleaned water world wide(Seto Island Sea) and offering this new technology FREE . We can no longer sit back and see this Sacred River die.Like Prospect Island we can make a "CHANGE". Come Up to Napa Sunday Nov 9,2008 10:00am call for more info.510 708- 6975

      Tips: The use of EM starts the food chain and supplies Effective Microorganims(EM)to plankton and other micoorganisms bringing in baitfish that our prayed on by peditory game fish we all know and love. Make you own hot spots and clean the river at the same time.
      City: Napa

      Tips: Save the Delta!!! EM of California will hold a free work shop on remediation of waterways,ponds ect. Organic Biotechnology (EM) has cleaned water world wide(Seto Island Sea) and offering this new technology FREE . We can no longer sit back and see this Sacred River die.Like Prospect Island we can make a "CHANGE". Come Up to Napa Sunday Nov 9,2008 10:00am call for more info.510 708- 6975

      Tips: The use of EM starts the food chain and supplies Effective Microorganims(EM)to plankton and other micoorganisms bringing in baitfish that our prayed on by peditory game fish we all know and love. Make you own hot spots and clean the river at the same time.

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

      Report: went to forebay after work and fished an hour and caught one striper 19" .......
      City: los banos

      Tips: top water

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: went to forebay after work and fished an hour and caught one striper 19" .......
      City: los banos

      Tips: top water

Thursday, November 6th, 2008

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 59-61

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Took off from paradise point! Went out to franks! Ken got some striper and a nice 5.6lb bass. I picked up Two striper> Fished aroud Franks. Then picked up one more striper. died off then when the sun started to set Ken picked up a bass I broke one off and Then had to get off water.
      City: Riverbank

      Tips: Delta is clear First time I have seen it so clear.

      WWW.Basskickin.com to come out fishing with me

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched out of Winpy's Thursday. Went South and fished bends and pockets. Finally went into hog looking for monsters. I threw all top water all afternoon and had several swirls and hits. Only one stick though and it felt pretty good but took me to the weeds and escaped. We fished to the back and had 0 hook ups on stripers. Finally at dusk, we were running out and saw the fish coming to the surface. I threw a vixen and a pencil popper. Both produced largemouth. When it was just about dark, I hooked up on a legit 10 pound striper. Landed him on bass gear. That was the evening. 5 fish.
      City: Sacramento

      Tips: I caught nothing Weds and Thurs got better. Hopefully it's about to be on. Top water for stripers and look for moving water in the afternoon. Good luck

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      Water Temp: 59-61

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Rain did not muddy up Rio Vista Area too much. We trolled incoming tide this morning and did pretty good. 10 keeps & 20 shakers, some double hook-ups. Nothing over 5 pounds, but it was still fun.
      City: Elk Grove

      Tips: They preferred the shallow yo-zuri F8-GHIW Blue & Black back & Holo side & Silver belly (Herring Style Colors)today

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      Water Temp: 59-60

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: first fish in the boat was an 8#er on a chatter bait.. went down hill after that managed 4 more fish 1 would have kept. i could see my bait 8 foot down. but here's the kicker they are taking the wing dams down in middle river.
      City: san ramon

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

      Report: Alex, don't give up. Talked to several very good fishermen that have been fishing Don Pedro for a long time and it was a TOUGH bite yesterday. Post front conditions w/ blue skies make for tough fishing conditions at Pedro. At least you got to go fishing.

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

      Report: stopped at forebay after work and fished for one hour and caught 20" striper....
      City: los banos

      Tips: top water

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

      Report: hows the fishing?
      City: Eureka

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 63

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: very clear water >12ft. wind 5-8 NNW. I fished from 6 am to 10 am. Limited myself to the graveyard area and flemming bay areas. I did so badly I considered dropping my gear off at play it again sports. I tried a known sucessful spinnerbait, a few crankbaits, drop shotted and despite my inexperience I Jigg'd with a 3/4 oz brown craw jig, before I gave up.... Arghhh! When does Play it again sports again close?
      City: Atwater

Tuesday, November 4th, 2008

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

      Report: RUMOR GOING AROUND THAT THERE WAS A 79 POUNDER STRIPED BASS CAUGHT RECENTLY.HOW TRUE IS THIS.66LBS.IS THE WORLD RECORD AND IT WAS CAUGHT OUT OF THE 4 BAY RIGHT.ANY INFO HOLLER BACK, THANKS
      City: PLANADA

Monday, November 3rd, 2008

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 62

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Launched at Red bud at about 6:30AM drizzling and wind abaout 8mph out of the North and hit all my favorite spots for zip. My first ever zero at CL. Saw fish jumping early down in the lower end and threw buzzbaits, poppers, spooks, rattle traps, blades and even ripped. Had 1in. silversides stck to my trebles on every cast. Fished Jago and other rock walls and points east & west side fo Konocti Resort for nothing using drop shot and jig and r-trap and blade. Fished the docks around windmill for zip. Went down into rattlesnake and spent time on spots I know on both sides fishing mostly 10-28ft for nothing. Had a 3lber chase my rip bait as I was pulling it out of the water right at the boat. Got a few tic tic bites on the DS but nothing stuck. Went into Henderson/Horshoe and ripped and cranked and threw blades for nothing. Last stop at Baylis and couldn't do anything there. Maybe the storm the day before shut everything down but SHEESH it was tough. Wind never stopped but also never got over about 15. Off the water at 4pm. You haven't seen many posts lately and now you know why.
      City: Santa Rosa

      Tips: Any tips would be appreciated

Sunday, November 2nd, 2008

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 64

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Charlie and I launched out of Big Break Marina at 7:30 am. We were in between fronts, and the weather would change back and forth from dark to clear skies. As we exited the harbor and made our way out into the main channel, I could see that the tide had just peaked and was just starting to push back out toward the San Francisco Bay. I made a short drive over to the north side of the Antioch Bridge. On my fish finder I could see stripers at 12 feet all over the bottom, but they would not touch anything we had to offer. Next we fished the south east side of Big Break. There was an opening where water was coming in from Dutch Slough. Fishing scattered weed beds we caught a few stripers and a largemouth, all smaller fish in the two pound range. While traveling in Dutch Slough towards Franks Tract, we fished a couple nice weed flats. Seeing a few larger fish bust on bait, we would fire out our top water lures, hoping it would land right on the stripers head. Charlie got smashed by one in the 10 pound range, but it came unbuttoned pretty quick. Later we made out way through Sand Mound Slough and into Franks Tract. Using Berkley hollow bodied swimbaits, we picked up a few more schoolie sized stripers, just as the tide started to make its way back in. Charlie then ties on a Mission Fish swimbait and catches two nice largemouth bass, 5.2 and 4.0 pounds. By this time it is getting dark, so we make out way back to Big Break Marina.
      City: San Bruno

      Tips: <a href="http://www.russnyders.com/">Rus Snyders Guide Service</a>

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      Water Temp: 62

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Another day of mediocrity. Fished against my buddy again. Launched out of B&W. The day started out good nailed a two pounder on a spinner bait followed by a one pounder on a Senko. It was all down hill after that. I caught 7 dinks on an assortment of baits, spinner bait, drop-shot, and Senko. Fished mostly the Mc River and Sycamore Slough. I also hit potato Slough and the mouth of Franks Tract. Talked to other fishermen they all stated that it was a tough bite. Luckily my buddy was equally inept. We both ended up tying with 3 pounds a piece. I hate ties!!
      City: W.Sac

      Tips: ???? I think the quick change in temp slowed the bite. Hey that's a good excuse!!??? I saw some guys rippin the main channel? They only had a few fish but they had size. Next week Berryessa. Hopefully the lake has turned over by then. I'll be calling my good friend Al over at Fisherman's Werehouse for tips.

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      Water Temp: 62.4

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: All I got to say is tough bite on the river. Threw top water most of the day, along with lots of other baits, but no takers. Commited to top water conditions seemed perfect.
      City: Turlock

      Tips: TOUGH BITE!!!!