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Tuesday, September 9th, 2008

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

      Report: Killed it with a spinnerbait pattern. Slow rolling it around the weeds. 8 total between 1 and 3 lbs.
      City: San Jose

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

      Report: Fished out of Big Break early. Blow ups on Buzzbaits around tule islands. 2 fish to 4lbs. The wind picked up and switched over to a weedslinger. Hooked two schoolie Stripers to 12 lbs.Missed a few others. I didn't know the Stripes had moved in yet.
      City: Antioch

      Tips: look for baitfish and birds aound tule islands. You will find fish.

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      Water Temp: unknown

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Launched out of Russo's with Eric Thoss for an afternoon of fun and fishing..We stayed pretty much in Frank's looking for clear areas among all of the weeds..Spotted a lot of bass, mostly small ones, but a few good quality tournament fish..Frank's was just about as smmoth as glass, and the tide was outbound for most of the time we were there..Tossed Sweet Beavers, Senkos, Rattle Traps, Speed Traps, Chatter Baits and Jigs..Caught fish on everything except the jigs..I still need to learn more about jig presentation and fishing..I am sure if I had been doing it right and in the right place they would have caught fish also..Caught a ton of dinks, some not much larger than the baits they were gaught on..Cplors of the baits didn't seem to make much difference on their effectiveness..I used 6 different colors of Senkos and caught fish on all of them..Not sure what color the Sweet Beavers were that Eric was tossing, but they sure drew the attention of nearby bass..The crankbaits were all red/orange colored and the bass lined up to chasse them..I was a great afternoon to be on the water..
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Look for clear water with deeper water in the same area..If all the young bass we saw survive the coming winter, the bass population of the Delta will be unbelievable..Good luck all..

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: 5 bass to 4 lbs. Two on Spro "little john", 2 drop shotting, and 1 frog fish. Missed 4 more in the thick slop on frogs. Bass are feeding up on shad now. Today was the first day that true evidence of Fall is coming. Cooler temps at sunrise...no big deal...fish were definately chasing baitfish, especially along rocky structure.
      City: Antioch

      Tips: Crankbaits get the nod at sunrise. Try either lipless or shallow to medium runners. No senko takers today.

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 68-73

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I took a couple of guys out Tuesday expecting a great day. After about a 45 min. delay watching the Dept of Water Resources redu the ramp we were able to start fishing. It was a little late to use top water after that, so we started with tubes. One of the guys was bass fishing for the first time so I really wanted him to experience the action. After a few lessons he was catching some nice bass. We targeted points and walls in the lower lake and upper lake and North Fork. About half of the North Fork is now river. We finished the day around 3pm. and had caught around 70+ bass, several over and 2 large mouth in the 2lb+ range. It was a great day.
      City: Paradise

      Tips: The bass were full of pond smelt and shad so we used tubes, drop shot, and rattle traps, in shad colors and senko's in green pumpkin, watermelon and pumpkin colors.

Monday, September 8th, 2008

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

      Report: Cought fish on a spook when they were chaseing bait. Cought a lot of fish on a robo worm one that was between 7&8 lots of fish in 10 to 20 ft. Fished main points mostly they didn't seem to be back in the cuts.
      City: Cameron Park

      Tips: Through up on the bank and inch it back slowly

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

      Report: Started early around any rocky structure I could find. threw topwater shellcracker around rocky structure. alot of quality fish. biggest was 4 lbs. The sun came up and swiched to jigs. bite slowed later but lucky to have hit them early.
      City: Atwater

      Tips: Work the topwater slow. look for shaded areas. before sun comes up.

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

      Report: is the secondary ramp at jones valley usable these days?
      City: reno

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

      Report: any ramps in the water here? best place to put in?
      City: Shasta Lake City

Sunday, September 7th, 2008

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 77

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: First time here. Lake is down quite a bit 40 - 50 feet? Saw lots of fish on the Humminbird but nothing. Not even a bite. Tried top water, senkos, wacky, crankbaits, jerkbaits, etc. Tough day. Thank goodness they reduced their prices.
      City: Elk Grove

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 70's

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Took wife with me. Fished for 4 hours in the afternoon. Wife caught the big fish of the day 3.0 LB on a wacky rigged Senko. I caught a lot of small fish on spinner bait and Jigs. Concentrated in the Mokelumne Fiver area.
      City: W.Sac

      Tips: Take your wife fishing. A couple that fishes together stays together.

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      Water Temp: 77

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: If you want to catch small fish like me throw plastics on the main river. Better fish were caught in the sloughs off the main river. Seinkos were the ticket for one fisherman who nailed an 11 1/2 pounder on a wacky rigged seinko. Winning weight for folsom bass team was 15lbs I think. Lots of limits for 15 teams. I caught fish all day and all small. 2 keepers?
      City: orangevale

      Tips: Wish I could help. I need tips to find the bigger quality fish. HELP

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      Water Temp: 74

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: wow talk about bait fish everywhere! difficult to find a solid pattern, after a couple hours found some promissing water and it did not dissapoint. Caught fish on mainly t-rigged plastics, pitching to shaded docks and gangplanks, fish were sitting in the shade, best fish came from 5-8 feet of water, 17lbs for the best 5. Topwater has been dead for me.
      City: Oakley

      Tips: watermelon baby brush hogs and screwed up jig with a single tail yammi grub #208 color worked best for me. However it has been something different on every trip, so gotta to adjust.

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      Water Temp: 84

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: THis lake is going to 5mph on the 10th NO launch availble all mud the lake is going to drop another 40feet by Oct due to repairs to the pumps For such a great fishery the Bass will be stressed and may not be a very good fishery next year I hope fish and game keep a eye on this lake keep the fish healthy and keep the folks that fish it illeagaly and keep more than the limit allows
      Pray for Rain
      City: roseville

      Tips: Fish the Delta Berryesa

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 70's

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Top H20=0, Swimbait=0, Crank=0, Plastic=0

      HM = One 6-7# Lg Mouth dropped at boat after 5 minute fight. After the shakes went away, I had a few bites after that but no more hook ups.
      City: Cameron Park

      Tips: Did not fish plastics much. I need sharper hooks and heavier line. Think outside the box.

Saturday, September 6th, 2008

  • Mason County
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      Water Temp: 75-79

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Was the first one on the water on Saturday but it was not long until the place turned into a zoo. Anyways went north caught a few dropshot, lipless crank and on top water. Ended up in the southend but didn't pick up much, was 8 degrees warmer at 80 with idiots swimming and blasting there stupid music. Ended with 15 fish up to 2.5lbs, probably will not be back to Anderson for a few more weeks...
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Go during the week, fish main points run and gun. Should start picking up again when the water cools a little..

  • Alameda County
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      Water Temp: 75

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: first time bass fishing chabot. didnt expect much since we were only up there to goof around and take a boat trip on the water. Fished honker bay side of the lake for about 1 hour. caught one bass on a drop shot near the main point (near the big island). Worked the bait outside of the weedline and it was a good fight. fun times
      City: el sobrante

      Tips: fish slow, and be patient...

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: warm

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: went out to the lack late that night with my bro he cauaght a 2 ld cat i got a nice bass on a chatter bait in the back cove by the dam will try agian later this week only went ut for 2 hrs
      City: san jose

      Tips: repeted casts

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

      Report: Tough day, hot and four main rods with spool cut lines and lost baits. Managed two three pounders (one blk and one spot). Dart heads and drop shot.I did not take time to respool big fish rods and I left early because depht finders would not work because of low voltage.I didn't recharge them.

      Tips: Checks batteries for charge and check lines. Thermocline to shallows are good in a.m.

  • Mariposa County
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      Water Temp: 80

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Returned to Mclure to find the water level lower than I've ever seen it. I fished the Cottonwood creek area and caught Several Itty Bitty Florida Strain Bass. Fish abundant on the fish finder, but never hooked a legal catch. Fished from 1200- 400pm caught 10 very small bass.
      City: Atwater

      Tips: Fishing at night maybe more productive, but with the drastic change in water levels becareful.