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Monday, September 22nd, 2008

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

      Report: Back again for more, stayed a bit longer. Fished the south end again. This time got no bites. Fished the dock too with no luck. Same at the impound. When I was fishing the dock there were some guys fishing for carp. I seen him pull a couple of them up using 15 ft rods ....lol woah.. anywayz, no fish today for me... ill be back some time later this week.....
      City: The Bay

      Tips: Have fun, be patient, and do what you Love ..BASS FISHNG BABY! YIT-TA-DEE. lol

Sunday, September 21st, 2008

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 75

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: This past weekend was very successful for bass if you trolled. The question
      now is where to troll and how deep. Tom and Marie headed toward the east
      side of the lake and looked for signs of balls of bait in the water. His fish-
      finder showed there was fish activity between 20 to 25 feet down. He used
      a pink lady and crankbait to get down deep enough and it worked because he
      ended up with two nice limits of bass which included a nice 4+ pounder. My
      wife and I went out for a little while that evening but we didn't do as well. My
      wife's bass was larger than mine but no real size to speak of. Juan is holding
      one of the catfish I caught at the dock by the marina. (see photos)
      My fishing tip this week is to first find the bait and target the depth. Water is
      still clear. My recommendation is to zigzag from 15 feet to 30 feet until you
      find where they are and troll with different depth crankbaits one that goes
      around 6 feet down on the shallower side and 12 feet down on the deeper
      side of the boat. Please let me know how you did.
      'til next week...........................................................good fishing!!!!!!!!!
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      please email me at bestguide@hotmail.com or call me at 650-583-3333.



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      City: Napa

      Tips: fish now while the water is clear,almost any color will work now water is cooling down,natural is what i use or silver and blue.

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 68 to 70

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: went out to mildred in the morning caught one 2 pounder on popper. some more blows ups and some blow ups on buzz bait at about 6:30 AM. went out to a slough right after next to cruiser haven marina caught about 15 stripers and a miss of about a ten pounder on a jerk bait. went out to franks one dink.
      City: Brentwood

      Tips: topwater in early morning. use poppers in mornings and once the sun goes up a little switch to a walk the dog.

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 71-75

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Got to the lake on Tuesday and found a very tough bite BUT as the week progressed I found some good action. Most days resulted in a 17-20lb sack on a variety of techniques but there was one technique that worked better than all the rest. There are some deep fish but there are shallow fish too. With all the tournaments coming up I can't give it all up but don't get discouraged by reading some of the previous reports because there definitley is a pattern and there are some good ones to catch. In reality I should have had 22-25 lbs per day but I did loose some key fish but thats the way it goes.

      Tips: Cover a lot of water and pay attention to what your doing when you get bit. Don't leave fish to find fish or you will pay the price!!

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      Water Temp: 72

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: i thought it improved the bite in some areas. reaction bite was pretty good. i think that fall bite is coming soon!
      City: santa rosa

      Tips: email me

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      Water Temp: 70

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished a two day club tourney and the bite was tough! I had one fish each day and still got 13th out of 21 people. Many people blanked either one or both days...

      Of course, it didn't hurt that my one Sunday keeper was a 6.5 lber that hit a white spinnerbait off Shag. That one at least made the trip worthwhile.

      It seemed the front that moved through Friday really lockjawed the fish. The only people who got into them with any consistancy were fishing deep (25-30 feet) and slow. Of course, I didn't find that out until we wrapped up after the final weigh in.
      City: Mt View

      Tips: Deep and slow worked over the weekend, but with the weather warming that may change soon.

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      Water Temp: 72

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I did a "teach the lake" trip yesterday with two real good fishermen. The teachin' and learnin" was great, but the fishing wasn't. Sat was the first slight post-front of the year and I felt the bite suffered some. We did catch 5 or 6 nice bass up to 3 lbs and a couple of - yes - 4 inchers!! Good to see them. They are fishing a tournament soon so not much else to say.
      City: Yuba city

      Tips: Water temp has dropped 5 degrees in a few days so fall is coming - ready or not! Lots of boats on the water yesterday and we did see two nice bass caught (around 5 lbs?). Weeds have really thinned out in some places.

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished from 4 to 8 pm. 7 bass from 1-4 lbs. on dropshot on the east shore. then moved to the boat ramp at 7 pm. Caught 4 more from 2 to 5 lbs on a crankbait in sexy shad color. The last hour was insane as the fish appeared to be chasing shad up onto the ramp.
      City: Antioch

      Tips: Try ripping a lipless crankbait over the tops of weeds.

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      Water Temp: 68

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Caught 3. Two dinks on a senko and a 3#'r on a black and blue jig off a secondary point on the eastern bank of the main lake with vegetation,
      adjacent to deep water. Saw others catching a few as well. Worked hard for those 3.
      City: Monterey

Saturday, September 20th, 2008

  • Ventura County
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      Water Temp: @72-74

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Had not been out in a month. Got new boat on water and went fish'n. Found topwater to be a dead end. Switched to jigs and worms and did well enough on points. Nothing to brag about but consistant action when on the points. Fish caught on cranks were the same size as my worm fish. Bait blocked out the meter in some areas. I had better success when I lengthened up my dropshot rig. If I had @ 12 inch distance or so from worm to sinker I got bit when the bait just touched down. Strange because the jig bite is a little tap ...but of course right on the bottom. Better fish came on the jig. I was only on the water until 11:00....Rumor was the morning bite was better than the evening bite.
      City: Ojai

      Tips: I used watermelon candy and oxblood red flake worms. Jig was brown with a brown trailer. Crank was Luckycraft in ghost color. Bite is improving and the better fish should play very soon.Fishing uphill seemed to help.

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 72

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: caught 7 fish yesterday for a couple hours of fishing. 1 on the jig. all 2.5-3lbers...
      fished the day after and caught a 5 on a frog and a couple more on a crankbait.

      tough weather
      City: santa rosa

      Tips: email me

  • Yuba County
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      Water Temp: 71

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Early topwater smoking hot. Bite died off after about 11:00 AM. Lots of small fish schooled on bait driving them to the surface. We could not get anything over 10 inches on the shcoolies.
      City: Woodland

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 69

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Tough day, boated 2 fish to 2lbs on darter head. Tossed the big baits pretty much all day. Nothing doing. Ready for the trout plants to start.
      Does anyone follow the law on this lake? 5mph is still in effect right? Watched MANY boats blow past me doing about 60mph.

      Tips: Keep at it!

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 71-74

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: After doing a video for Western Bass Tuesday, I took out a father-son team today for the son's 12th. birthday this week. We started out in the main body and worked our way up to the North Fork. We found bass all the way up. It was great seeing the birthday boy catch a lot of bass and also the biggest bass for the day. The father- son competition was a lot of fun. They caught around 25 bass for the day and lots of photo-ops. Also, the ramp was pretty good today because the steel tarmack was mostly out of the water and there was no mud.
      City: Paradise

      Tips: Most of the bass came on tubes and a few on lipless crank bait.

  • Ventura County
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      Water Temp: 75

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: crank am for first two hours,then split shot 24-28 feet,ox blood,some pop r fish,dd 22 norman .
      City: la canada

      Tips: crank cow cove and rocky areas am,try split shoting,if nothing go home,its an early bite

  • Merced County
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      Water Temp: 70's

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: First time fishing for Stripers @ this lake.....Headed over to the rock wall...Threw topwater for the first 2 hrs and GLAD I did....Me and my buddy landed fish consitsnatly for 2 hrs at what I cal MY GLORY HOLE!!!!

      All fish weighed in at 4lbs and above....Topwater was OFF THE HOOK.....We saw a BOIL last 45 min or more half the size of a FOOTBALL FEILD!!!!!
      City: Gilroy

      Tips: Topwater,topwater,topwater.......Did I mention TOPWATER!!!!!!!! Vixen's....Hint hint...

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      Water Temp: 66

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: fished forebay this morning with top water lures and nothing bit at all,saw couple stripers taken by bait and some taken by what looked like jigging up and down i dont know what they were useing,because i was in the bank,what do they use and how do they use it?
      City: los banos

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 68 to 72

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched from Bridge Bay. Seemed the place to be for a user friendly ramp. Fished 7 am to about 4 pm. Could have caught too many fish to count, probably boated about 40 or 50 then moved on searching for larger models. Top water, reaction bite, jigs, dartheads, all worked well. Top water was mainly a morning event. Largest spot at 3 lbs and we caught a few smallies. Fished the Pit and the McLeod. Fish are stuffed with small 3/4 inch shad so the small imitations work well
      City: McKinleyville, CA

      Tips: Look for birds and bait and have fun. Call the USFS for more advice on usable ramps. I think Centimundi may be functional or at least that is what USFS told me last Friday.

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: 70-72

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: had the future pro tour event on saturday i had never been to sonoma only heard it might have good fish in it so i decided to treat it like clear lake look for grass and hope the fish were there well there was not a lot of grass but what was there was producing nice fish my biggest and the tournaments biggest went 6.74 on a 3:16 wake jr second cast of the morning then a frog fish on the same grass brown snag proof the last fish came on the same grass line in the afternoon on wake jr again for a 3 fish total of 12.81 good for forth the winners had a limit on black jigs on grass edges so going to sonoma attack the grass for good fish!
      City: grass valley

      Tips: big baits big fish it will work!

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      Water Temp: 69

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: do you know what a 10 lber looks like?
      i dont doubt there is 10 lbers in there but i think your 10# was a 5lber and your 5# was a 2.5lber.
      City: santa rosa

      Tips: i have to see it to believe it. i would of called my buddy to come to spring lake to take a picture of the 10#