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Friday, July 4th, 2008

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      Water Temp: 72-75

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: What a difference a day makes, or maybe its the lakes. Another typical day at Stevens with 7 fish in 3 hours. Nothing over 2 today, all on plastics. Key is working bait slowly but with a lot of twitches. All caught in 15-25' with bass relating to bottom structure changes.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: need some.

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

  • Mason County
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      Water Temp: 72-75

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Had a pretty good day out on the water thanks to PapaJohn's advice! Started at 8am and worked the shoreline south of the boat launch. First set of bushes hooked up with a chunky 4.3 and a lot of smaller ones workin a green/blk flake senko. Further south found John "c" point on the finder, and located bass in the 15-20' range. Used pumpkin green roboworm on dropshot, and caught a bunch more in the 1-2 range. In South end found bottom structure changes facing the bridge, and got a bunch more on dropshot. Overall fun day! Thanks again for the Advice PapaJohn!
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Tried top water from 8am-9am, buzzbaits, spooks, even a frog with no luck. Attempted to cross the lake with oars to find shade pockets but gave up after two near misses with jet skiers.

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 78 degrees

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I got on the water at 7:00 thursday morning and went back to the shallow docks north of Lakeport,everything changed since last week when I was there. The water was clouded worst, it appears the algie was thicker and I noticed fewer fish on my graph. I caught two 2#s on Yamamoto cuttails smoke,purple,black rigged weightless and weedless. Threw a frog for a while ,but no takers.Decided to find clearer water docks with deep water near by. Headed to the hwy 20 side of the narrows,a nice steady breeze blew from the north, clearing the smoke a bit. Threw a 3 1/2 inch tube bait in brown craw, rigged 1/4 oz. insert weighted hook. Picked up a nice 2 1/2 #er, largemouth, on the north side of the first dock. I noticed more fish on my gragh. So I circled around, trolling into the breeze,skip casted under the dock, Letting the bait settle to the bottom,took up the slack and crawled the tube a foot or so. When this fish loaded my rod I knew I had a 6 or 7 #er, then I realized it had wrapped the piling . When I got its head turned, it came straight up and broke water. I boated a nice 2+ # smallmouth.For the next few hours I worked an area about 100 yds. long, dotted with docks. Picked up at least one fish at each dock, some under and some in front. I caught 15 fish for the day,counting the two earlier and 4 of them were smallies.
      City: Ft. Bragg

      Tips: I like to work the whole dock, I start with long casts before I get to it. Then cast to the pilings and skip cast under it, as I approch the dock,almost always letting the bait fall all the way to the bottom. I'll swim the tube along the side of the dock. If I catch a couple of fish in a spot I'll anchor up so i can consontrate on feeling what my bait is doing ,not worring about boat position

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Started out of Knocti Vista early. Worked my way south towards the State Park. Got on a topwater bite with a small Punker. a few 3-4lbers quickly on a tule point.The next fish I estimate over 10lbs took me straight into the weeds and I lost her and my punker.I was sick the rest of the day.I guess I Can't complain I was getting bit.
      City: Orland

      Tips: Use braid at clear lake!

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 69-72

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Another big day of winds and stained water. Will summer conditions ever reach the Delta? I'm almost down to NO topwater on any of the rods. Fished rocks everywhere, south and east Delta. Crank, crank, crank fish about 20 for 2 anglers to 3 lbs. No weight, no size, but the fish are eating. Great fun days, but horrible for tourny weights. Need a bit of luck for kickers right now. I hope we get a week of straight heat and maybe some weeds???????????
      City: San Francisco

      Tips: Crawfish patterns in crank baits, fish the rocks or struggle with topwater.

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: A couple friends and I grabbed our kick boats and headed out to the Middle River on the Delta. We got out on the water at first light, which is quite early now, 5am. High tide was right around 6:30 so we stayed around the rock barrier for a couple hours and waited for the tide to turn. Because of the fact that the overnight temp was quite cool the topwater bite was not too great in the morning. At 7am I finally picked up a 3/8 ounce black and red jig. While casting my jig to the rocks and dragging it out to about 8 feet, I caught around 10 fish to 3 pounds. As the water started to drop, the crank bait bite turned on. I was throwing a Lucky Craft BDS4 (baby bass), and my friends were throwing red speedtraps. Between the three of us we caught about 15 more fish to 4 pounds. At around noon the tide finally dropped enough to see a well defined weed line. Pitching a jig to the outside of the weed lines we caught another 15 fish, including a nice 7.5 pounder.
      City: San Bruno

      Tips: <a href="http://www.russnyders.com/">Rus Snyders Guide Service</a>

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      Water Temp: 75-78

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Nice bag blue daddy and guyle! You guys sure know how to get em'! Why dont you drop a few hints to all of us amateurs out here. As for a good fishing report, I know where NOT to catch em' if thats helpful. I've had God knows how many blowups on frogs from what seem to be good fish but still unable to get it goin this season. Catching the bulk of our fish on rocks with a little wind and current on them. Crankbaits seem to be working the best for me right now. I'm catching at least one 4-6 lber every outing but thats the highlight of each trip. Anybody please feel free to offer some tips for an anxious south delta angler. Thanks and tight lines!!
      City: manteca

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      Water Temp: N/A

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: The report of the multi-agency task force on the mussel infestation at San Justo Reservoir is now on the agenda for the 7/22 meeting of the San Benito County board of supervisors.
      City: Monterey

      Tips: Let's hope they consider stocking catfish in San Justo, since catfish are known to eat the mussels and would be a natural, non-chemical approach to controlling the mussel infestation (and could grow some huge catfish in the process!!!).

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 76-77

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I helped a father and his 9 and 13 year old sons experience their first bass trip. We started with basics like casting, rigging, and so on. It kept me very busy but the results were wonderful - a family excited about bass fishing and already talking about a night trip! As you could have guessed, the youngest caught the biggest! After landing a few that I hooked, his first solo bass was a bluegill - on a Power worm. His next was the biggest of the day - a 17" spot - about 2 1/4 lbs. I thought he was going to have a panic attack since the bass was pulling the rod under the boat! Was I ever happy to net that one!! The older boy struggled with his mechanics, but when he landed a 16 1/8" spot on his own - the grin said everything! Dad was very excited with his 4 or 5 bass - amazingly all largemouth in the 1 3/4 lb range. I was really too busy to keep track of how many we landed - 15 or so in a little over 6 hrs. Many were lost until they mastered the hookset - but they ended the day strong - AND hooked on bass fishing!!
      City: Yuba city

      Tips: The weather was gorgeous and light breezes made the fishing pretty good. I told them that the bite would get better as the day went on and it did (11 to 1pm was the best). I saw "tons" of fish on my Lowrance. Some were carp suspended after their spawn. We really isolated steeper points with scattered rock as the structure of choice with slightly off-color water the best. Our bass seemed to be at the 20 foot level more or less. Green pumpkin Power worms and red crawler/oxblood Robo worms were the best colors. We did a little drop-shotting but split-shotting couldn't be beat. We fishing the narrows almost out to the main body. Also caught one or two on off-shore structure, so the off-shore migration may be underway now.

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 74-77

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Last day on the pond but the Spook bite was off the hook in the morning. We caught about 25 spook fish and had several other blow-ups. We went back to the Nice area and found the water had muddied up a bit and the Senko bite had died off. We grabbed our jig rods and started fishing deeper rock piles at about 10 AM. From this point on it was wide open on fish from 2-3 pounds with a few in the 4-5 pound range. At noon my father hooked a 8.72 and an hour later I hooked a 7.92 both off the same rock. This was by far the best "quality" we had for our entire trip. Best five today went about 32 lbs!!! This place is awesome.

      Tips: We were here for three days and the bite was pretty consistent on the "Wacky" Senko until today when our water muddied up from the wind. The frog bite was hit and miss as well as the jig and spook bite. The conditions were pretty stable but the bite would change day-day.

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: caught 2 fish by the boat launch 1 small 1 pounder in the back part where all of those tullies are, caught it on a white fluke. Then on the boat dock caught a 3 pounder on a black brown jig with a black red flek beaver, it hit it on the fall. then missed a 2 ponder that was cruising. then caught one at the channel point dock on a jig.(fernando i think it was your fish because i caught it on the same spot you were at.) then i went for catfish and caught 4.
      City: THA P

      Tips: fish were hitting my lures on the fall.

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 75 to 78

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Launched at 4:30 in the morning with my uncle. Fished around the dock areas before safelight. Stuck a 2.5 lbs. blackie with white bomber crankbait. At safe light, we went back river and caught a few in the 2 lbs. range of both smallies and blacks dropshotting aaron's magic roboworms. Came back to the main by 9:30 and found about close to 20 more fish in the 2+ lbs. range spooning and dartheading. Biggest fish was 3 lbs. 13 oz. on a darterhead. Best five went close to 15 lbs. Good day on the water.
      City: Sacramento

      Tips: Don't forget shad colored plastics and aaron's magic worms. Most fish were spitting out shad so you know what that means.

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: 72 TO 74

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: WOW 4.59 FOR A GALLON OF GAS. HALF MY CRANKBAITS DIDNT COST THAT MUCH.IT WAS A VERY NICE DAY ON TUESDAY WITH NO PRESSURE ON THE LAKE. SAW ONE OTHER BOAT ALL DAY.FISHED YORTY CREEK TO THE MAIN LAKE QUICKLY SO I COULD GET TO THE MAIN LAKE EARLY.CAUGHT A FEW FISH ON GRASS GREEN PUMPKIN SENKOS DID THE TRICK.ONCE I GOT TO THE MAIN LAKE THE WIND STARTED TO PICK UP.I FISHED THE DOWN TO LONG POINT WITH A WHITE SPINNERBAIT WITH SMALL THUMB SIZE COLORADO BLADES. ALMOST EVERY BUSH AND TREE HAD FISH IN THEM.THE BIGGEST WAS CLOSE TO 5 POUNDS SEVERAL IN THE 2TO 3 CLASS.WHEN I FINALLY GOT TO THE POINT IT WAS ALMOST 9 AM AND THE WIND WAS BLOWING NORTH ACROSS THE FRONT OF THE POINT.I SWITCHED TO ANOTHER ROD WITH SPOOK JR IN BABY BASS AND WHAMO.FIRST CAST TO THE POINT A 3 POUND SMALLMOUTH INHALED THE SPOOK I CAUGHT TWO MORE ABOUT THE SAME SIZE BEFORE THEY THEY GOT WISE TO ME EVEN BEING THERE.FISHED FOR ABOUT TWO MORE HOURS AND DIDNT GET BIT.
      City: SANTA ROSA

      Tips: FISH THE MIDDLE OF CREEKS WITH LARGE SWIMBAITS. I MUST HAVE SAW AT LEAST 10 BIG FISH FEEDING RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF YORTY CREEK AT 7 AM.IF IT GETS WINDY THROW WHITE SMALL SPINNERBAITS INTO THE TREES AND BRUSHPILES.GO GET SUM.

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

      Report: The fishing was very slow we caught two nice trout (18+) Best catch was $20 bill in a zip lock bag up near the dam.. Sorry I kept it. God's way to help pay for the gas..
      City: Oakdale

Monday, June 30th, 2008

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 73-77

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Went South this morning and started throwing topwater at Indian Island with only one taker. The carp were everywhere so we headed back north. We stopped in Pirates Cove and caught about ten all around 2 lbs. We then headed all the way back up to the Nice area and fished the outside weed line with great success. All in all we caught about 45 fish from 2-4 pounds.

      Tips: Frogs, Senkos and Texas rig MM III.

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 75

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Got Early Start, On Water At 5:20am. Fished Points, and Banks Off Main River.
      Caught First One On 6' Diving Plug. Switched Over To Split Shot'in 4" Plastics For Rest Of Day. Best 5 total 11Lbs. Most Were Spots.
      City: folsom

      Tips: None

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: I have been fishing the back ponds for years and it amazes me that you have frequently been pulling out fish over 5 pounds. Are you using a scale or estimating those weights? I find that hard to belive that despite the fishing conditions sucking more and more every year you can still pull out fish that size. Why dont you take a camera out and put some of those big fish on the site for us to see. I don't doubt that there are fish that size back there(I have seen several fish over 10#) I have caught several fish weighing 4# and one around 6 but come on man 5-7# range? I will belive it when I see it. Make sure that the the lake can be identified in the background too.

Sunday, June 29th, 2008

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

      Report: Fished from 6:00am to 1:00pm caught sixteen fish. could not get any top water bite. fish came on dart-head and drop shot in about 17-25 feet. green and purple colored worms seemed to work best. caught one nice 4lb. spot on a six inch senko off a steep rock wall.
      City: Folsom

      Tips: best results came near deep water.

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 73-77

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Went back out today to get a full days worth of fishing. We started out in Kelsey Creek throwing a variety of topwater baits with no takers. We workd our way down toward and just past State Park. Caught 4 on frogs which included a 5.5 lb, two 3 lbs and one 2 lb. From there we went to Henderson and caught a 7.5 lb and a few more in the 1-2 pound range all on texas rig and jigs. We decided to run farther up north and fished the Nice and Lucerne areas. We caught several more fish between 2-4 lbs all around isolated weed clumps. We called it quits at noon with about 30 fish.

      Tips: Fish topwater early, then go to texas rigged worms, jigs and wacky rigged Senkos.

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      Water Temp: 77

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: fished about 1/4 mile stretch on both sides of konocti picked up 12 all on senkos mostly all on the west side of konocti under or around docks- nothing big - best slightly over 3lbs. caught all in the afternoon the evening bite was suprisingly slow
      City: Diamond Springs

      Tips: dark colors seem to work best -almost all were in shade or under docks