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Friday, September 19th, 2008

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 72

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched out of Sugar Barge at 4pm and fished til dark. Caught a few on drop shots. One 4.5 pounder on a perfect cast! Then after a few more beers, i decided to throw a hula popper in front of the tules and lily's. Fished patiently with it, then after a couple good pops, I see a swirl on top the water and Boom, fish on! A 7.9 pound bass! My personal best. Good day.
      City: Pleasant Hill

      Tips: Pop lock and drop it. Be patient, stop throwing what everyone else throws. check out my pics on westernbass!

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 74 degrees

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Don Pedro today w/ a friend of mine. It was really nice to get out on the water again. Fished from 7am to 12pm - stayed around Fleming and Roger's. We caught somewhere around 10 or 12 fish total w/ quite a few missed bites. Most fish were in 20 to 30 feet of water on rocky points. Most fish were small - I think we had 4 tournament keepers - all fish were released. Best fish was around 4+ on a jig in about 15 feet of water.
      City: Atwater

      Tips: Tried alot of different things but best bite was on a dropshot w/ light line using 4" shad imitation type soft plastics. Should be getting better over the next few weeks. Only caught 1 on the jig but it was by far the best fish. Jigs will always produce nice fish on these lakes - not as many bites - but better quality fish.

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      Water Temp: 73

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished from about 8 til dark. Didn't see any boils in the morning so we started out bass fishing. Fish were off the hook on flukes. Not much size but a few decent ones. Violent hits too. Ended up with over 20 bass for the day. Boil fishing stunk. Found our first boil about noon. Not a lot of boils the rest of the day. Got on a couple but didn't hook up. bummer. The bass fishing made up for it though.
      City: Concord

      Tips: White or Albino flukes did the trick for us. Biggest fish went about three pounds.

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      Water Temp: 75-78?

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: 4 blow ups on frog in arroyo. 1 fish- 2 lbs.

      PS that fish was tasty.
      City: SR

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 73

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: No floating docks anywhere can't launch my boat. What in the heck is going on? I paid my launch fee and no floating dock..crap it's all mud and rocks. Who's in charge of this? They should be fired...Butcher out.....
      City: Reddin

Thursday, September 18th, 2008

  • Santa Clara County
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      Water Temp: 72

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Took the kids out for 3.5 hrs on Sat got 9 fish to 1.5 lbs on drop shot 5 inch watermellon green zoom worm wacky rigged, tried my black and blue creature bait for a few cast and a Zara but only for about 10-15 minutes, hard to fish these with my 3 little ones in the boat:) There are a ton of bait fish and bass in the back of all the coves in 3-8 feet of water.
      City: San Joser

      Tips: Been fishing this lake for 35 years, I always catch a few, one guy got a 8 lb on top water Sat, my best out of this lake is 7.3 so thinks are looking good, I got a 4.11 last Sat on Black/Blue creature bait, the Ranger makes sure there is no poaching going, I mean they watch this lake like a hawk and you can not fish it after dark anymore so I would say the lake is in the best shape it has been in a long time, just needs a little more water.

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: No need to go here until we get water. Launching in mud with many getting stuck. Go elsewhere!

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 73

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: forgot to mention i lost two of my reaction baits on two 5lbers...and caught a 10lb catfish!
      ill be out there friday. i believe the weekend possibly.
      ill mention one thing. i spent 89.99 on one of the lures that I caught my 6.5lber on in the morning....*wink*
      City: santa rosa

      Tips: email me

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

      Report: Can we go back to Keith O's report- what bait does HM stand for? I'm not familiar with the initials...it's probably something I'll slap my forehead and say, "oh, I shoulda known" but I don't. So could Keith O or someone tell me what the HM is?? Thanx!
      oh, btw, thank you to the guys that supported Jim's report. Or at least his willingness to share his experience.

      oh, my report: a week or two after the 5mph went into effect, my brother and i fished the main body just outside of brown's ravine. we worked the hazard buoys with drop-shotting at 10-15-18ft and hooked up fairly decent on spots and largies. brother got a nice 3-4lb smallie but it did a quick-release at the boat.
      City: folsom

      Tips: keep sharing tips...thanx! all my drop-shot success was on aaron's magic 5", mostly wacky but some nose rigged. brother used perch and also hooked up on jig/trailers and c-rigs with same plastics.

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 76-77

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Wow - the previous post is a new definition of the word "brief"! Big news of my trip last night (Tues) with a friend is that I finally caught a small bass - 10 inches! We did see many small bass chasing Silversides just before and after dark. I hadn't heard that "rain on the water" sound Silversides make for several years! All that action did make for one of the best "first hour after dark" bites I have ever experienced! It was "on fire" for an hour, then slowed quite a bit. Don't know how many we hooked, but put 35 or so in the boat for a best 5 limit of 18+ lbs. I decided to try one of my remaining 10" black/chartreuse Berkley Power worms (they arn't made anymore) on a shallow rock ledge - hoping it would look good in the bright moonlight. It looked pretty good to a 5 1/2 pounder - big fish for the night.
      City: Yuba city

      Tips: Again, no carp rolling in the moonlight. What is going on?! We used many types of baits and colors for lots of action - even before dark. I can't say any more because my friend is fishing an upcoming tournament. As was last Friday night - the night was gorgeous. That will change some as a cold front is moving in today.

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 74

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: 430 pm to 630pm. Fishing activity much improved. Caught a few 1.5 lb fish near the woods creek side of the lake, on the berserkbaits don pedro special spinnerbait.
      City: atwater

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 73

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: The ramp at Jones Valley is almost unusable...You got about 6 feet of asphalt left then a 1 foot drop off the edge. The dock is out of the water. No idea what the USFS ("piss-fir willies") or the so-called Shasta Recreationx intend to do now.
      City: Shasta Lake

Tuesday, September 16th, 2008

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 68

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: night fishing on Frank Tract.... crazy wind blowing ..... 3 people manage to catch some striper(small)... As the wind calm down just a little.. landed 3 18" to 19" striper... Thank was it for the nite....

      Good a few question for the Benicia fisher out there....

      Is there mudsucker bait fishing out there now??? I remember using pile worm for bait and catching mudsucker off shore and use it for striper bait..... But I forgot what season it was......
      Thanks.... and good luck fishing......
      City: Union City

      Tips: If the wind is blowing hard... Don't go!!!!!!

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

      Report: Sun, went to racho seco and killed it on horny todes in 1-5 ft up to 3.5lbs. Mon,Folsom was just ok got most fish on cb in 8-10ft in bays with rock and sand for ten fish up to 2.5lbs.Tuse,went north and had my best day in months found that the bait was cornered in a larg bay and fish were killing everything, got bites on every rod cb,tw,sb,c-rig there was shad and pond melt in the area best five 18lbs and cought 40+ fish in one area!Weds, went back to the same area as the day before and had the same type of day .
      City: roseville

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      Water Temp: 74

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Went fishing on tues. morning got on the water about 9am after having problems with that stupid ticket box that refused to give my ticket after puting 15 bucks in it and this is not the first time, finally found a park ranger to take care of the problem what was wrong with filling out the old envelopes and dropping the money in the box never had problems with that. well we finally got on the water and caught 5 fish total all on dropshot with a morning dawn robo worm. all in the 1 1/2 lbs range with one going 3 lbs
      City: carmichael

      Tips: give that stpid ticket machine a swift kick before putting money in it ps I think HM stands for home made at least thats my best guess

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: I'm new to this board and this is my first post. I'd like to respond to Jim's report from 9-13-08 where he claimed catching over a hundred fish. I was one of those four boats (white Triton) he referred to in his post. I don't know how many fish he caught, but I know he caught a lot of fish. I saw it.

      I was fishing up by the bouys, a couple hundred yards from his hot spot, when he left. He stopped when passing me and we talked for a couple minutes. He seemed like a nice guy who just had a terrific day on the lake.

      I was surprised when I saw the Jim Scarlett's Gay post. Where did that come from? I have seen Jim Scarlett's name on the message board before and it wasn't very complimentary, but, again, I'm the new kid on the block and I don't know what's happening.

      What I do know is that Jim's post was probably accurate (with a little leeway for a fisherman's ability to count)and that the Jim Scarlett's Gay person didn't have the balls to sign his name.

      Round 1 to Jim.

      Tips: Be nice.

Monday, September 15th, 2008

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 75

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: 28+lbs night fishing.
      9.44lber
      6.12lber
      6.44lber
      4lber's
      and a whole bunch of 2-3#lbers
      City: santa rosa

      Tips: email me

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: the frog bite is on hard. my friend caught his first frog fish on sunday 2.5 lbs. and i caught 3 bass and missed a bunch 4-04, 3-13, 2-01.
      City: THA P

      Tips: frogs moving fast with quick litte pops. or crawling them slowwwly. both ways worked for me.

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      Water Temp: 79-80

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: lots of algae blooms ,water is extremely low, watch for submerged rocks herd a guy hit one. got a few on spinners bur really disapointed in the management of this lake. if the water drops a few more feet u wont be able to use the docks. seen lots of baby bluegill , two bald eagles an some deer was a fun day.
      City: merced

      Tips: they are feeding on all the blugill.

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: cooler

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: What the guy said was true as I watched the show from about fifty yards away.After he left about eleven thirty, I moved onto the spot and had a darn good time. You weasels need to respect the man because he can catch um and you evidently can't.
      City: Loomis

      Tips: P.S. I don't see why NCBF lets anyone on this site without a verifiable website to bring names out into the open which would prevent "weasels". My input.