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Friday, October 3rd, 2008

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 70 After rain

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Anchored on same spot as last few weeks, they really turned on. Left at 10:00, thumbs cut up and tired of so many hook-ups.
      City: sac

      Tips: 4 lb test, okuma miniture, drop-shot lamigas did the trick.

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      Water Temp: 72

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Moved around the South Fork side of the lake on Tuesday and found most of the fish on rock piles just of the main channel. The reaction bite had fallen of but with this cooler weather should turn on again. Caught Spots up to 3 lbs. on Carolina riged worms, Drop-Shot and Dart head.
      City: Sac

      Tips: Stay in the Main Body

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

      Report: Went to the spill way ramp and it is closed. Headed back to Bidwell still open small one lane dirt and rock steep launch. Fished from 8:00am to 2:00 pm had 25 fish all 14" 17" bigest one 2.3 lbs. All fish came on worms and leaches in arons magic in 18' to 23' of water. We saw only one other boat the whole day, rained 11 to 2 great to see some weather
      City: Loomis

      Tips: main body points

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

      Report: went trolling for trout early. nothing. tried every trick in the book. decided to target carp and within an hour i had 2 nice ones for the dinner table.
      City: newark

      Tips: don't even think trout here this time of year. carp are willing and tasty. corn, bread, and of course my special recipe dough witch will be available on ebay soon.

Thursday, October 2nd, 2008

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 69

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: We were there today and we caught 9 keepers and one crappie. We moved around alot looking for bait and fish on the graph. When we found what we were looking for it was easy but it wasn't easy finding what we were looking for. haha.
      City: Millbrae

      Tips: top water spoons and small plastics is what we used

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      Water Temp: 74

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Took my 4 year old out to check if the fall bite has started. Well it has fished from 0700 to 1230 with 27 fish total all of them running from 1.5 to 3.5 lbs. Nothing real big yet best 5 at 14lbs. Wind made it hard to fish the way I wanted to, also very hard with a 4 year old. So it ended up being a junk pattern day.
      City: Vacaville

      Tips: Tried topwater first thing cought a couple SM. Wind came up and tried a crankbait cought 5 LM and SM. Changed over to spinnerbait and that worked then around 10 the bite slowed and cought some on drop shot from 15-30 feet deep. Then I noticed some action on a weedline but the bait they were chasing was smaller than the baits I was throwing. I changed over to a Lucky Craft popper and they just started pounding it. My son did get 4 bass on his mojo rigged brush hog.

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 71

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Dont Blank very often but fished 7am to noon. nothin. Guy that launched and returned same time...nothin. I didnt even get a bite. Found TONS of siversides. TONS!! It was windy and a front moving in which didnt help.

      Tips: Threw everything, everywhere.

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      Water Temp: 73

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Low, Low water. I fish this lake at least 8 times a year with the Fall usually the best trip of the year. This year it was minimal only 15 fish in the 12-15 inch range realistically. 1 fish 18 inches about 3-1/2 pounds on a worm. Most fish in 10-15 feet of water. Decent Crankbait bite with a stop and go retrieve. My best success at Eastman has always been with worms and grubs in a green-ish color. Alge bloom is definately in effect. Saturday after the rain, bite was off. Only 1 on a crankbait. We need HUGE rain this year to fill this bad boy up for 2009. This lake rocks when it's on!
      City: Pacific Grove

      Tips: Motor Oil, Watermelon, Green Weenie colors and stop and go crankbaits. I did not get any spinnerbait action or topwater... both of which was suprising.

  • Mariposa County
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      Water Temp: 74-75

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: McClure is low,low,low. Old Dam is now 5' above water. Weather was nice, overcast, and slightly windy. Fished Temperance, Old Dam, and the rock walls around the dam. No bites on plastics, top water, and drop shotting. We went upriver to an area next to where the old railroad runs around the lake. I tied on a Luckcraft Pointer in Chartreuse Minnow color and caught 13 fish from 1030-1230. Most were small, @8-9 inches, but did get a 2lb and a 3lb spot along some rock piles. Saw lots of bluegills jumping and trout seemed very active.
      City: Merced, CA

      Tips: Until we get some rain, and the lake gets fresh water, the fishing is going to be challenging. Foe me, if there's any wind, go with ripbaits and blades near rocks. The water was fairly clear upriver, and most of the hits were 10-12' from shore. The fish finder saw fish suspended from 15-30', and going shallow to attack my ripbait. Hit rocky points and shelfs. I prefer LuckyCraft Chartreuse Pointer minnows. As my buddy Anthony Tonachion says..."You can never go wrong with Luckycraft".

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 70

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: My buddy and I fished the pitt and found lots of runts. There was bait everywhere, especially at back of the creek. Little runts were chasing 3/4 in. baitfish everywhere. The water would turn into bubbles or foam from all the activity. It was a sight to see! If you want to use up some old plastics, head to the pitt. Use ultra light tackle and have some fun. Get rid of your old plastics.
      City: san mateo

      Tips: Try top water baits,small swim baits, grubs and jerk baits.

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Caught Alot Of Fish But No Size,2.01 Best Fish I Thought With Front, Fish Would Be On It,Had Fun. The Jig Caught The Big Fish,And The Bigger Rats
      City: Redding

      Tips: staywith jigs or crawdad imatations and have something rigged for baitballs.

Wednesday, October 1st, 2008

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 67

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: putin newhope motor wold not start fished up stream about 2 miles in mokelumne on electric took five on speed traps darn four strokes
      City: sacto

      Tips: get a two stroke

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      Water Temp: 70 to 73

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: went out to mildred island at 4 pm and we flipped around and frogged with nothing to show for it. then we went around some areas around mildred and flipped also nothing. after that we went out to a random slough and caught a dink on popper and missed to more. terrible day
      City: brentwood

      Tips: was cloudy for the first time in a while not sure if that had an affect on the fishing

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 75.6

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished 6-days last week & caught 11 bass to 6.6lb
      all on jigs . Nothing else worked for me.
      City: woodland hills

      Tips: All of the fish came after 11 am to dark

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Couldn't scare up any fish on crankbaits or frogs, but slaughtered the bass on dropshot rigs in the last 1.5 hours of daylight. Lost count after about 12 bass. All pretty small with a few to 2 lbs. One BIG blow up on a "Lunker Punker" launched way off shore...might have been a striper...never hooked up. Anyway, back out again tmrrw unless Delta looks good in the morning.
      City: Antioch

      Tips: Hey Kyle...did you end up moving? Gimme a shout if you want to hit the water.

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      Water Temp: 68

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: this weekend is gonna rain... one of these day's I will catch something in this lake.. Hey If it's gonna happen, It might be here...
      City: san jose

      Tips: Blue Floater I tip my hat to you. I won't let anyone know what you use..cuz I know. One of your favorite spot's is off the island, hard to launch at this place.. probably close to home.. take care .. haven't dipp'd a line in over 3 month's ,,gotta reline... good luck to all of you!!!!!!

  • Fresno County
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      Water Temp: 74

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: On the water about 5Pm last night. My Bro hit the 2sd cast with a 3.10lb spot. We fished until about 9:30 most fish came on a drop shot. It was hit and miss until sunset then the bite came alive. Top water netted a lot of fish most in the 6" to 14" with bigger ones mixed into the hits. Dans drop shot worked for him all evening having one break off 6lb test. Blades in Black/red with a Colorado blade slow netted some good ones. The jig and Texas worked good but not the numbers of the D/S. I had some good fish boated big fish on the blade 3.0 lbs. We both had good limits.
      City: Fresno

      Tips: They are feeding in the evening and the bite picks up at sunset and better at night.
      Purple death on the drop shot black blades and sweet beavers on Texas rigs are working as well.
      The main thing is slow just fast enough to feel the blade turning cast as close to the bank as you can. I lost 3 blades in the rocks but, that's where they wanted it.

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 70-73

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished from 10pm to 6am. Caught about 30 fish with about 4 over. Not much size. Couldn't seem to get on any big fish but a lot of 14". Almost all fish were caught very shallow on worms and jigs. Tried numerous depths and areas but most our luck was shallow. No real small ones. All typical Oroville 13"-16" cookie cutters. Saw a huge mountain lion watching us from the hillside near Dark Canyon. Pretty cool. Beautiful night with great weather.
      City: Y.C.

      Tips: Launch at spillway is free right now but a little steep. Not much problem launching with 2 wheel drive but slipped the tires a little.

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

      Report: If you get by the Launch,you will find it kinda nice as you wont find a Zillion people out.I have Been Catching My fish On a Pit Craw jig with a brown trailer and I swim it off the bottom real slow.in the morning I have been catching fish on super spooks and crankbaits and alot of 1 to 1.5 fish on blades,if I see bait I throw a black shad jig or white shad in morning
      City: Redding

      Tips: forget about all the other things.. your right on the water..have a good Day

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

      Report: Tried to sneek in before the rainy weather hit the lake. Went with John and had a good time, great company and fishing instead of working. Only manager two fish, I got one on a spook, Dry Creek and John got a nice pond fish on a dropshot an hour later. Tried Yorty after that no takers. John earned some "Carma" points by giving a ride to 6 stranded boaters back to the ramp and we still only got 2 fish all day.

      Tips: Try catfishing? Dude in a Whaler had a 15# and shortly there after we heard hooting and hollering figured he got another .... saw him later at the ramp. He got what appears to have been about a 25 pounder to add to the 15 pounder. The cats looked like something off the noodling show on OLN.