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Monday, October 13th, 2008

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: 66

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Well since i have been a 10 yr + berth holder ,I try to go camping @ least twice a year..usually start back by yorty work way up as water drop's...This time of year especially with water level's..so we camped @ WARM SPRING'S...60 ft to water @ least...First night 3 fish ...all caught on minnow's...by the way don't even waste your time or $ @ dry creek store buying minnow's they die??..alway's small..go to Petalume Sport & Dive... truck them up with a aerator...we were there from monday 10/13 thru friday 10/17...second day trolled with everything all depht's all area's..nothing every one i talked too same story...so i said it's worm time on bottom lot's of sunfish ...one small bass ....back to camp finally found crappie...4 ft off shore by some old bush's...all on minnow's...one squaw fish less in lake...third day throw topwater's early 6 to 9...nothing to brag about got 4 all small..bass..how-ever that night got a nice cat-channel about 12 lb's..wife had fun landind it..fourth day decided to get brave & run down to yorty...be careful lot's of timber 3 to 4 inch's under water..caught one nice trout trolling on top about 100 yrd's behind boat with #5 rapala broken back..
      City: San Rafael

      Tips: lake is getting ready to pop..seem's like bite is early @ on top..if your camping on warm spring's arm beware of boar's...

Sunday, October 12th, 2008

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 64-67

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Wind made it impossible for me to get out of Capell cove and made it difficult to control the boat with my whimpy 12 volt trolling motor. But hey its better than sitting at home watching football! Did manage a 6 pound catfish on a jig and two 2 lb bass on a sexy shad.
      City: Sonoma

      Tips: If the wind stays around, know you not going to get too far if you launch @ Capell, Waves were 4 foot easy. And a 12 volt trolling motor is no match for those 30+ mph winds.

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 56-60

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished yesterday at the Delta only to find the fishing was tough!! The NCCC was won with a combined weight from SIX two man teams of (23/30 fish) for 48.9 lbs. The second Place team had (23/30 fish) for 48.6 lbs. The weight for this event is usually double that. A lot of teams without limits and the the wind never stopped blowing. The water temp dropped to 56 degrees at Russo's at blast off and warmed only to 58 degrees by weigh-in.

      Tips: Stay home!!!!

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 67

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I was up at Rodman last weekend and ran into the county workers hooking the carp from the shore line. I asked what was going on with the die off. They said it had something to do with the vegatation dieing off and the lack of oxygen and the fish not getting any. Other than that the fishing was really bad. I caught 7 all day on a jerk bait. The biggest went a wopping 6 inches. What a bad day.
      City: Santa Rosa

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      Water Temp: high 64 low 52

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Hello all, Well we just back from 3 days of clear lake and it was BRUTAL!! we threw everything and got a total of 4 fish in the boat!....little ones at that. I really don't know what is up with Clear lake this year. On top of that the smell of the rotting carp was at times tough to take. Maybe that has something to do with it, has anyone heard what has caused the die off? the only good news was we laughed alot and made fun of each other for sucking so bad at fishing. Even the tournament guys had very little action.
      City: martinez, ca.

      Tips: Keep Laughing when all else fails

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: catching small fish all day probably about 25- 10 inchers on senko and red eye shad. also caught a 1 3/4 lb bass on a swim senko that fish folled it all the way to the shore i only had like 3 feet of line to set the hook.
      City: THA P

      Tips: swim senkos, reel slowwwwwly. and red eye shad lipless cranks reel on top off submerged weeds and rip it over them kind of yo-yo style.

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: All I can say about today is WOW. Went ot at 6 am and in the first 20 minutes, I landed a 4, 2.5, and a 9....yes a 9! These 3 fish hit a Lunker Punker. The rest of the fish got progressively smaller. Off the water at 11:30...Great Day!
      City: Antioch

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

      Report: Cedar Stock Resort is in, try that place
      City: Weaverville

Saturday, October 11th, 2008

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: na

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: launched out of new hope fished the mokulemme slow for the first couple hours then thee spinnerbait bite turned on caught a lot of smallmouth up to 3 or 4 pounds almost all keepers on spinnerbaits chatterbaits crankbaits jerkbaits and shakeyheads
      City: sacramento

      Tips: fish your plastics very slow or drag a grud or robo slow but burn the spinnerbait close to the surface most of the time you can see the fish come up for it medium retreive the crankbait swim it past secluded weed patches 4-5 foot diving bait is probably your best bet

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 69.0

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Started in cannon area near flume, Vry windy,no reaction bite at first,started throwing jigs,2nd cast 3lbr off lrg bolder point in 20ft water.Rest of the day bouncing lrg bolder points only average 1to2 lb fish. Spnrbait fish tight to cvr on bank in afternoon,no size to speakoff for us. Watched FPT Tourn weigh in,Awesome job done by TD and Staff,Great raffle,Top Anglers did a great job on windy day.
      City: Merced

      Tips: For us brn/purple,grn punk/jigs,20ft shad color spnr/baits close to bank.Mix tech from top to bottom for FPT anglers, lake wide open you just got to keep the line wet.. Good Luck!!

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      Water Temp: 68.3

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Skunked. Periodically very gusty. Had a blowup on a frog in the back of the lake near an isolated grass top 20' off the bank, but that was it. Nothing on cranks, blades or jigs.

      Around 2pm I slipped and put my hand down on a Rapala DT10 and sank a hook into it. Nice sharp hooks. Figured that was a clue to call it a day and visit the local Emergency Room. Big shot of Novacaine (ouchy), hook cut out, tetanus shot and I'm on my way. Not a good day, but still better than working.
      City: Monterey

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 64 west side to

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Went out all day 10/11 Sat and caught 18 between 2 of us. All but 2 were very small (1 1/2 pounders) The other 2 were almost 3lbs. Did well with dart heading-6" margarita Mutilator Lipless crankbait did ok. Several on the flick shake. Rippen early in the morning with a little luck. Sat, the wind was pushing the boat quite a bit. The trolling motor got a workout. The wind was so bad sat afternoon we went in about 5pm.
      Sunday went out for just a few hours and caught 8.
      There was no wind at all on Sunday. Most all of the fish were at the 12 to 15 foot range. A few were right on the shore. This lake is VERY LOW. Hope we have a wet winter to fill it up.
      City: Elk Grove

      Tips: Stay around 12 to 15 foot deep. The bite was light on the dart head. Give it time.

Friday, October 10th, 2008

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

      Report: caught 1 good topwater bass,other than that i could not get it together,black shad jig caught rats on baitballs,pit craw caught rats on walls,watermelon craw starting to get more fish but no size. had fun but alot of work for 9lbs and change.
      City: Redding

      Tips: throw alot of stuff,the bigger fish have to Eat so they are SOMEWHERE.............

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: I know the water is down but,,october is a great month for this lake,,, cought some good one's about this time...
      City: los gatos

      Tips: Mr. Reid I don't think your lying..Maybe stretching the truth,, You weighed them and took picture's (I hope... )If it's true ""Congratulation's!!!!!!!!!!" good job!

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

      Report: Does anybody know if Trinity Center launch ramp is still in the water?
      City: Eureka

Thursday, October 9th, 2008

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 72-74

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: It was a little tough launching my Ranger 520 by myself but it was ok. I fished from 5 pm to midnight and the fishing was good before dark and fair after. I used my favorite Chug Bug topwater lure and caught several nice bass to 3 lbs 5 oz. A few were chasing bait. I was fishing the Jackson arm. After dark I got 5 bites and landed 3 up to 4 lbs - all on brush hogs. Some were shallow and the biggest was about 15 feet. The half moon was bright and slowed the bite I'm sure. I should have stayed 'til after the moon set, but I had to go.
      City: Yuba city

      Tips: There is plenty of structure to fish and weeds arn't much of a problem now. As I was bring in one of the topwater fish - a big bass followed it to the boat - THAT would have been fun! Water color is excellent and lots of old trees now showing to throw your topwater around.

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 65-68

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: I will just touch on the carp thing for a second, I would say one out of every 1K died so there will not be a carp shortage and it happens every year, there will be plenty for the compound bow next year I promise:)OK BASS, if you want to catch some biggins, you need to fish from 6 PM to 8 AM just look at Mary's pictures on the photo section(I will post mine tonight) we got plenty of 2-5 lb fish fishing late, the day time bite was tuff to say the least, a few drop shot fish here and there and a LV 500 fish here and there but the easy bite is late and early. I got 13 fish to 5 lbs on swim baits and LV 500 & Sammy's, I got a 3.5 and a 5lber on a Sammy on 4 cast at 7:30 PM, the bad thing for you guys fishing tourney's coming up is that those tourney's are from 7:00 AM to 3:00 and the really good bite is almost over by than. The latest I fished was 8 PM and that was my best day, if I would have done the night thing I think I could have done even better but my boy was thinking about roasted marshmellows and I was thinking about roasted hot dogs with onions at the camp site:)I have got to share a story from this week end, there are 2 guys fishing in a newer nice bass boat, I told them toss a Zara right up to the bank and you will get one and here comes a Dad and son in a 8 foot crawdad with only a trolling motor, son is about 12 years old, they already have zara's tied on, the 2 guys in the bass boat are not tossing to the bank so I said hey toss it all the way to the bank and they still did not do it but the boy was sure listening because he started tossing it to the bank and catching them and the bass boat guys were not, if that does not show you that the boat does not catch the fish nothing does:)
      City: San Jose

      Tips: 3-5 inch swim baits for more bites, 6-9 for bigger fish but less bites (no brainer)baby bass or silver shad, LV 500 in same color or sammy in same color and size as swim baits. One more tip that will make me look stupid but I just started doing the swim bait thing last year, everyone said you better use no less than 30 lb test, but I was to lazy to put that lb test on, so away I go with 14 lb test:(, I lost 2 of my favorite swim baits, one on a 4+ lber and one on a fish that I could not turn, she ripped line for about 5-10 yards and she was headed for poles and I put the brakes on her and she snapped my 14 lb test like it was 4 lb test(could have been a big cat, I hope), I will never toss a swim bait again with less than 30 lb test!!!

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished 2 hours before sunset...only one Bass but went 5.5 on a "VIXEN" topwater bait. Many fish at dark in "inches" of water chasing baitfish...so shallow their backs were exposed....totally crazy! Nothing would hit a frog. Had something hit a "Pointer 128" in trout pattern that spooled me. Couldn't slow the fish down...I think I'm finding Stripers lately. Friday night I will be tossing some big swimbaits on my Dobyns rods with 25 lb. flourocarbon and see what happens. Haven't landed a Striper at the lake in a year and a half. My biggest here is 27 lbs, but landed 6 over 14 lbs over the last 6 years.
      City: Antioch

      Tips: Big baits at dusk....and hold on!

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

      Report: dingy on water early. mooched pilchard for salmonoids. Hooked a hearty king witch vomited baitfish when landed. Lost another at the dingy due to an incompetant and loaded companion.
      City: newark

      Tips: mooch pilchard or anchovy deeeep. let your buddy drink till he passes out or put sleeping pills in his coffee and use his rods too.

Wednesday, October 8th, 2008

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

      Report: Dingy on the water early. trolled damn area with pilchard plugs. hooked a massive specimen witch spooled my reel. spooled up with dental floss and hoped for a topwater trout bite to bust loose. nothing wood touch my beetle tipped with white corn.
      City: newark

      Tips: next time i'll use cuttyhunk or dacron. bring extra line. i think the mint flaver of the floss didn't attract the trout like i thought it wood. i was exited to learn of rumors of a sleeper pike minnow fishery at this lake.