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Sunday, October 5th, 2008

  • Napa County
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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.

  • 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".