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Friday, October 17th, 2008

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

      Report: Put in at Granite Bay Early.

      Fished split-shot and drop-shot Using 4"/6" RoboWorms from 15 to 20ft.

      Lots Of bait balls on scope, but action slow. total of 4 fish for approx. 8 lbs.

      17 trailers in lot when I Pulled Out.
      City: Carmichael

      Tips: Fish Slow, and use scope

Thursday, October 16th, 2008

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

      Report: Fished upper Sac. Landed 50 Bass to 3# used jointed shad raps. Best results in Elmore Bay, all around island.
      City: Redding

      Tips: Shad immation Rip or crank baits.

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: caught limit on blades,limit on spoons,limit on jigs,3 fish on top,the best fish came on a spoon,the most fish on spinnerbait and a in-line spinner good fishing to all
      City: Redding

      Tips: everyday really changing fast,baitballs one day jigs the next.

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 71

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Went out with my 4 year old today. Weather was great fishing was so so. I had a feeling with the full moon and high pressure it would be. Now I got my escuses out of the way. I stuck with a grass pattern all day and it produced 15 fish up to 3 lbs. Best 5 at 12 lbs. The bigger fish have yet to move up.
      City: Vacaville

      Tips: I cought fish on top water, lipless crank, spinnerbait and a diving crank. The topwater produced a better average size while the lipless cought the biggest a nice 3 lb SM. My son cought 3 on his brush hog. The fish were few and far between no area better than the other, flats, points and weedlines. I did notice a ton of fish suspending on bait that the trout were pushing. If the water cools a little more it should take off. They are just not in a fall pattern yet.

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

      Report: Stripers are slowly working there way into Disco Bay. Be catching them. Fish on.
      City: Discovery Bay

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Is this lake closed due to water,, I would like to know.
      City: los gatos

      Tips: Hey guy's only a few lake's open..keep them dry and don't bring in a shit stinkin' shell fish that will kill the lake.. Hey A Note..I still to this day.. after fishing for so many year's havent double digit on a bass..Over forty year's ..when I get it..Weigh picture it and let it go... Fish safe my freind's and vote

Tuesday, October 14th, 2008

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

      Report: Not a report, just a response to Martin on the boat ramps; my big brother told me that Granite Bay is down at it's lowest point and it's one boat at a time.
      City: folsom

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Split Shot plastic 15 to 20 Ft. Had a Poor Day.


      I know Brown's Ravine ramp is open, but can anyone tell me if Granite Bay's ramp is open?


      Thanks in advance
      City: Carmichael

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

      Report: Fished pit arm, caught over 40 keeper bass on the new brown jig I blought at phills. Its called pit river craw. My biggest fish was over 3 lbs. I've never caught so many fish on a jig before.
      City: shasta lake

      Tips: The eyes in the jig glow.

Monday, October 13th, 2008

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

      Report: Top Water Bite was on!! got at the lake at 6am (Had to wait a bit longer for someone to open the gate) and fished the rest of the day till about dark. Threw Spooks ALL day. That was the only lure i used. Lost a fish early on at the point nea the docks, the fish still has my Bleeding Shad Super Spook, so someone might end up with a nice lure soon!! Spooks in Baby Bass, Frog, and just about any other pattern worked for us. we fished just about all the Arms. The Carson (I think the name of it is) seemed to produce the most fish. Fish were all very shallow. There is a lot of trees sticking up as well to throw the spook around. Caught a lot of fish, all throughout the day. most fish were over 3lbs and also caught quite a few 4 pound fish and a couple fish that went about 5 pounds.
      City: Lincoln

      Tips: Super Spooks, most of the fish were goin for the bigger Spooks. Cast as close to shore, let the Spook sit for a bit, start working it and wait for the blow-up!

  • Mason County
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      Water Temp: 70

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Ed and I get to the lake just as the gates open at 8am. While driving down the boat ramp, we noticed the five foot decrees from where the water line was a few weeks ago. Let me tell you, the water level was not the only thing that changed. The fish were behaving completely different compared to my recent trips. In spite of the warm weather, most of the grass has vanished. As a result of the grass dying off, the bass have really started to scatter. Points, coves, main lake, or the ends of the lake, wherever we went we picked up a few. The key right now is to find the bait that is balled up, whether that is in 5 or 50 feet.
      The first two hours we moved fast and threw reaction baits, such as topwater, crankbaits, and ripbaits. Only catching a few small fish, we soon realized we needed to slow down. Using a 3 inch senko on a drop-shot Ed caught several fish, including one just under 5lbs and one just over 3lbs. At 5pm, before we headed in, we came across a school of bass busting bait. Casting poppers to the shaded main lake point we caught a few more, leaving the days total at around 20 bass.
      City: San Bruno

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

  • 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