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Wednesday, October 8th, 2008

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 71.8

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished for a couple of hours, caught 6 lost 4. Shad are in a lot of different areas off of the main bodies. With the water so low, its a good time to check out areas normally under water.

      Tips: More info. at www.fishwrangler.net

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 69

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went out on Tuesday and started of with a good crankbait bite using Spro Aruku Shad. Worked the rock piles on the Southfork side of the pennisula using the wind to drift us thru the area. After that bite shut off we switch to plastics fished on Carolina rig, Drop-shot and dart head. Most were spots up to 3 lbs with a smallmouth and largemouth mixed in.
      City: Sac

      Tips: Stay on the main body for most of the action.

Tuesday, October 7th, 2008

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

      Report: I keep hearing about a top water bait called "vixen". Is it a popping bait, or a walking bait? Can someone tell me who makes the lure.
      City: san mateo

Monday, October 6th, 2008

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

      Report: Want to go out for stripers, can anyone give me location and what do? I am a beginner with stripers and want to learn.

      Don't sell the farm, just a piece of the pasture.

      Please email me.
      City: Sacramento

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: 3 of us went from 12-6 pm. caught 6.5# striper on deep dive crank and a few shakers on bait. located in whiskey slough.

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

      Report: fished aqueduct at billy wright and I-5 and started before sunrise and stayed 3 hrs and caught only 2 stripers and dthere were 12" and 15" nothing else,
      City: los banos

      Tips: used anchovies

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: dingy on the water early. trolled the back by the third dock. caught 1 nice holdover followed by a 6 kilo carp which inhaled a drifted circus peanut.
      City: newark

      Tips: fish this lake early. Rumors of mitten crabs in the arroyo.

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

      Report: Anybody launch at Bridge Bay lately and does it require 4 wheel drive? Thanks
      City: Paradise

Sunday, October 5th, 2008

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 70

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Friday morning I took Roger and his grandsons Austin and Mackenna out for a day of fishing. It was
      a cold overcast morning and stayed that way most of the day. We headed out towards the
      vineyards stopping along the way at some key points. Mackenna who is eight landed the first
      fish which weighted approx. 2.5 pounds. He also brought in the second fish that weighted almost
      2 pounds. Austin (who turned 12 that day) landed the third and fourth fish. Both boys did very
      well for the day. Roger really didn't get much of a chance to fish since he was busy taking pictures
      of the boys reeling in their fish and netting them. That evening I went into my favorite cove which
      is slowly drying up and only threw top water with no luck whatsoever. Saturday I went to my cove
      again and caught some nice bass on suspended baits by River2Sea and again no hits on top water.
      Saturday evening I fished with my buddy Albert for awhile and caught a six pound catfish. Sunday
      my friend Steve and I headed out at first light toward the Ranch House. As we trolled towards the
      vineyards we tried top water baits along the way with no response at all. Steve caught some bass
      with the River2Sea suspended bait which also landed a couple of trout (see photo). Sunday turned
      out to be a tough day of fishing. We would see fish break, throw into the boil with no rewards.
      Most fish we saw on the screen were suspended. It was still a great weekend of fishing and should
      only get better. 'til next week............................................good fishing!!!!!!!!
      www.fishingconnection.net If you have any fishing stories you would like to share please email me
      at bestguide@hotmail.com or call me at 650-583-3333.
      City: Napa

      Tips: will get better

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      Water Temp: 73

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Put in at Markley at daylight, some topwater going on, but mostly dinks. Got 3 spots and 1 LB to 2.5 in 25 feet of water. All fish over 14 inches. All on dart heads. Only had 5 bite all day.... hoping it would be better after the rain on Saturday.
      City: Woodland

      Tips: Very very slow retrieve on deep points.

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 69-71

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: 3 different water clarities depending on where you go. Caught 2 fish in the clear water but caught more fish in the greenish, stained water. Caught 1 fish in the muddy water. Fishing was neither great nor bad due to change in barometric pressure from yesterday's low to today's high.
      City: Cameron Park

      Tips: Didn't catch any on plastics because I didn't throw plastics.

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      Water Temp: 68

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: fished saturday and sunday (hook tournament). very tough bite. caught 2 fish over 6# on frog and buzzbait and missed 2 more that were in that weight range. caught about 5 others but nothing of size. talked to few guys after the tourny and they all seemed to have a tough time getting a bite.
      City: carmel valley

      Tips: get out there at day-break and throw a frog or buzzbait, great blowups!

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 72

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: DD, how about we tell it like it really is??? I didn't ask your release boat to take out my fish. They asked me if I was with my club or with the belly boaters. I replied by stating I was with my club. That is when another guy said I'd have to pay for half the boat to have my fish released, which I replied no. After I released my fish a couple of guys made weak threats stating they were going to call Fish and Game on our club and asked what club I was in. I replied that "I wasn't in his (four letter functional) club and he should mind his own bussiness". I then "walked" away. You guys should have minded your own business as we did. We didn't butt into your event, we showed your float tubers curtiousy by not crowding them on the water or rocking them with a wake. Maybe nobody called Fish and Game because you guys were the only people in violation... 1. No lights on some of your vessels before safe-light. 2. The required mussel-check stickers on most of your vessels. and 3. Illegally transporting fish around the lake in aerated ice chests(livewells must be emptied when you leave a launching facility). But, we don't really care as we were there just to have a great time fishing as I'm sure most of your guys were, too. It's a shame that a few guys with chips on there shoulders gotta try and ruin the days of others.

      As for the "report" part. Fishing was a bit tough. Most of our fish were caught cranking and on plastics. 7 lber was big fish, with half the boats bringing a fish close to 5 lbs. to the scales.
      City: Rocklin

      Tips: Have fun fishing and don't let people like DD bring you down(he probably blanked anyhow)---<'}}}><

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      Water Temp: **

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: fishing north side of clear lake and caught fish off the crankbait. I think the lv's were working well. I caught size more than quantity. I had a 3lb average a long with a nice 5.91 lber.

      Kickboat baby.(SCBBBC tournament put on 40 people)

      sucks is that we paid for a $$400 release boat and another tournament was giving there fish to our release boat. guy ran away quickly.
      City: santa rosa

      Tips: email me.

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      Water Temp: Off the Dock :)

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Yes, Dead carp everywhere, from 4-40 lbers, funny no smaller ones than that that I could see, either they are to healthy and not dying or the bass ate them while they were dying:) Ok I was visiting family so could not take the boat on this trip but was able to put in 45 min in the AM 10/4 and got 1 3 lber on LV 500 off Red Bud Pier tossing it as far as I could traight out off the tip of the pier, could not get any fish close to shore though there were lots of silversides close to shore, 10/5 got in 2 hrs in the AM at the same pier for 3 fish to 3 lbs, this time I went directly to the end of the pier and fan casted but not a touch so I was about to go to the next dock when I saw silver sides boiling next to the dock I was on, I tossed my LV 500 just past the boil and 3 cranks later I had a 3 lber on, took her off and did the same thing, 3 to 4 cranks later another 3 lber, took her off and repeated and 3-4 cranks later another 3 lber, I have not had 3 back to back fish to 3 lbs in 3 cast in let me see, last fall!!! Like the post before mine, it looks like fall has arrived with a better bite, I did speak to a few guy in bass boats that had strugled for limits, I think the bass are wolf packing so you have to find the pack, so use those search baits and than use those baits until the don't want it any more and than drag a Sweat Beaver or sorry yes that drop shot rod, don't tell me drop shots don't catch big fish, I got a 10 lber last year and a 7 and 8 lber this year on my beautiful shimano crucial drop shot rod!! I am going back up this week end for 4 days with my 4 year old son, I think we are going to be on to something!!
      City: San Jose

      Tips: I agree with the post before, the fish seam to want a fast moving bait, I tossed my favorite color senko and they would not touch it, I only took my fav bait casting rod so I only power fished. I tried a pointer but they did not touch it. I will be using my LV 500 along with some of the lures on the previous post, got to love this web site!!! Tight lines and God Bless!!

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: got a bite 5 times from a bass that didnt want to take my frog it just kept poping it up. then went to the boat dock and threw red eye shad and caught 2 little ones and lost a bigger one it looked like it was a striper when i saw it.
      City: THA P

      Tips: rip lippless crankbaits over the tops of submerged weeds. frog bits turned off alot since last week. stick to baits in a baitfish color.

  • Merced County
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      Water Temp: 65

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: went fishing with my wife and grandson,and fished calif aqueduct off of billy wright rd and caught 3 stripers,biggest was 16",fished 2 hrs and people nnext to us caught a couple,got dark and went home,
      City: los banos

      Tips: got any? we used anchovies,

Saturday, October 4th, 2008

  • Santa Clara County
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      Water Temp: ???

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Anybody have an empty seat in your boat tomorrow? I really wanna do some bassin, but my Tracker is about 150 miles east of me. Even if it was here, I wouldn't be able to fish since the trolling motor is dead. I'll be glad to split the expenses and buy breakfast, lunch, or dinner. I have all my gear with me(3 rods and a box), just need a backseat. If you're willing, call me at 408-892-5294... I know some of you will be mad cuz this is not a report, but in my defense, Mr. Webmaster doesn't want to reply to my email about why I can't log in.
      City: San Jose

  • Mariposa County
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      Water Temp: 72

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Tried jerk baits with only one bite in three hours, tried swin baits, crank baits, top water, only got a few dinks (10" not keepers) on crank bait at the back of the lake. Moved to Cottonwood and threw everything, got a 4 pounder on a brown Strike King jig, and a couple of small keeper blade fish. Tough bite but one very nice jig fish.
      City: Merced

Friday, October 3rd, 2008

  • Ventura County
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      Water Temp: 65

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I had some good luck at Casitas fishing the shorelines. I was lucky to hit a 6 pound bass and a pair of 5's and 4's and had a few blow-ups also. I was using baby bass flukes and super flukes in the same color. the bigger bass are chasing bass fry everywhere.You know me,I threw big baits with no luck. Flukes were the ticket today. good luck Chief
      City: Camarillo

      Tips: I also heard that the white flukes are working also.