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Wednesday, November 14th, 2007

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

      Report: GOTTA LOVE THIS LAKE!! HAD 21LBS AND RELEASED THEM.
      Dropshotting wacky worms and texas rigged 7inch power worms bluefleck.
      Sure do miss the Texas lakes, but finesse fishing is okay once in a while keeps out the boredom.
      City: macktown

Tuesday, November 13th, 2007

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Is the luanch ramp at the dam still in operation? Wanted to start fishing this lake more with the rising cost of fuel, any information would be helpful thanks.

      Tips: work more fish less to save gas money.

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 62 - 68

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Threw a swimbait most of the morning. only 1 fish. 3lbs. found a GIANT school of threadfin shad, amazingly big. fish finder just showed 2ft of bottom, when I know I was in 15ft. fished in and around that. 7lbr.......Catfish..... man did I think I had a big one on! Started drop shottin a break line and got 2 more up to 3.5lbs. It was a little windy and I avoided a few spots because of that.
      City: Petaluma

      Tips: Your always rollin the dice with the swimbait, but it works year round for me. Drop shot will always get you something.

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      Water Temp: 57.5

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: We got out there about 9:00 we started out using a drop shot rig wtih a 1/4 ounce weight in about 14-30 ft. we were using tiny brushogs catching a lot of fish we even got two 5 pounders.
      City: Elk Grove

      Tips: zoom brushogs in watermelon red (drop shotting or texas rigged)

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      Water Temp: n/a

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: The bass are holding in 18 to 30 feet of water and 1/4 oz bullet head or 3/8 oz. football head jigs in brown or brown/purple work good here right now. there are some quilty fish to be caught you have to work for them but they are there. Dropoffs edges of rock piles and humps are all holding bass.
      City: kerman ca.

      Tips: LONG CAST SLOW RETRIVE

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 61

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Out at 7, got a blow up on second caston a vixen, followed with a 1/4 oz Green Pumpking hula grub and got a 2# kept fishing island tops on main lake got 1 more on the HG and another on a dartheaded 4 1/2" curly tail. Moved to the Dam area and finished the day with 2 Dropshot fish a LM for about 2.5 and a spotted for 1.5
      City: Folsom

      Tips: Don't get in the "restricted area" in front of the dam...

  • Trinity County
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      Water Temp: 56

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I've been telling everyone lately that the Trinity Center ramp was good to 86' down. I fished today with the lake @75' and the back tires on my trailer were 6' or so from the end of the ramp. So apparently my memory has deceived me again. Anyway, unless we get some rain or BOR stops sending so much water over the hill, this may well be the last week of launching at T.C.
      A lot of you have asked why I haven't posted in a while. Here's the story....... This summer while returning clients to the Wyntoon docks a couple of fishermen came up to me, politely introduced themselves, and proceeded to tell me how much they enjoyed reading my reports and how helpful they were. My first reaction was " you gotta be sh*ttin me " but they seemed sincere as well as clueless. I kept my cool and told them I was glad they liked my reports as they had just read the last one. Then I got in my boat and left. One of the guys had a limit of smallies that would have gone about 18 lbs and the others' limit was only a little smaller. I know this because they were holding up their stringers to show everyone who walked by. Needless to say, when I found out that I had been contributing to the slaughter I became phisically ill, and it's taken me this long to get over it. I now realize that teachin people how to catch more and better fish is a large part of my job, and I enjoy it. I guess I'll have to work harder to teach catch and release.
      City: Weaverville

Monday, November 12th, 2007

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: i saw a big schhol of bass while fishing for trout at channel point dock. there was about 50 bass in the 3-10lb plus. but i wasnt fishing for bass.
      City: P

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 60

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Started fishing aroound 7:30 a.m. Went around hitting points. Found a few but couldn't get them to bite. Around 1 p.m. caught 3 spots split-shotting. Biggest going 14 inches. My partner caught one largemouth on a jig around 15 inches. Went home about 3 p.m.
      City: El Sobrante

      Tips: Look for calm areas with direct sunlight. Shady areas weren't producing at all or even showing fish. Good luck

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      Water Temp: 63

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Took the float tube out with my new depth finder today only to be surprised how shallow the Arroyo is. Found pockets of 10-20ft but the majority was around 3-8ft. Anyway, spotted fish in the middle of the lake but found numbers of fish still along the bank to 5ft. off the bank. Used senkos and was still able to catch a couple. (1) 2lbs. and (1) around 3.5lbs. Only out there for about 2hrs.
      City: Pleasanton

      Tips: Senko's watermelon in color jigged weightless along shore and grass.

Sunday, November 11th, 2007

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 60

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Started at first light. First cast, caight a nice trout on a medium crankbait! Weird! After that, no bites all day. My partner caught one small spot. Nothing to be proud of. Went home at 4 p.m.
      City: El Sobrante

      Tips: Find the fish. If you have any suggestions, please send me an email. Thanks. Good luck

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      Water Temp: 63

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Rain was predicated for this past weekend and I was debating whether to go
      up to the lake or not. Decided to go up on Thursday evening which turned out
      to be a great decision. Friday I went out by myself for a few hours and landed
      eleven fish - two trout and nine bass and missed about six trout near the surface.
      Lots of birds and lots of bait. Saturday started off overcast and drizzly and you
      could smell rain in the air. I decided to stay close by the marina in case of a
      down pour. Albert and I headed towards my favorite cove. We fished a small
      section of rock no longer then about fifty feet where Albert caught his first
      3+ pound bass (see photos). Knowing there were fish there why leave. Then
      Albert landed another good size bass and he was jacked up!!!!! The drizzle got
      a little heavier but we weren't leaving. I had two roll overs on top-water with no
      success. I caught two in a row on a rattle trap type lure. On the second one I
      had a little problem. The fish engulfed the whole lure as I tried to grab the lip the
      fish caught me - the treble hook went into my thumb. I waited till Albert reeled in
      his third fish and asked him for some assistance. Luckily we were able to get the
      hook out without needing medical help. By now it was raining a lot heavier but you
      guessed it we were not going in. My next bass was caught on a R2S crawdad. It
      seemed the bass were hitting on anything we were throwing. We fished the whole
      day in the same area. Came in cold and wet but what a great fishing day!!!!!!
      Sunday I went right back to the same spot (natch). Came back to the marina
      having caught a total of twenty-nine bass. It ended up being a great fishing
      weekend. 'til next week.......................................good fishing!!!!!!!!!
      www.fishingconnection.net If you have any stories you would like to share
      please email me at bestguide@hotmail.com or call me at 650-583-3333.
      City: Napa

      Tips: Rain or shine berryessa rocks

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 59-64

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Good reaction bite today fishing the bends in middle river with my two sons.One boy cranked a Repala blk/gold shad was hookin many nice fish including 2 striper. My other youth threw a matzuo shade 4 to 6 feet to catch his joyful limit.Dad used his red- eye spinner bait and shad color swimbait purchased from Dave's Bass Shack to stir things up in the central delta best five 12 lb.
      City: Tracy

      Tips: Tracy Oasis Marina and Unocal 76 on Grantline RD. and Tracy blvd have great deals on bass tackle.

  • Riverside County
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      Water Temp: 50s

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I heard the ABA at DVL was tough for the majority.WOW! Soo much for swimbait skills,huh? Drop-shotters improvised huh? I wonder had some of those swimbaits been modified with a big TREBLE riding "shotgun" on the head, free slipped on the main line could some of those "muffs" been "BANGED"! *TWO SHANKS MUST BE BENT TOWARD THE IMBEDDED ONE!
      City: Sandusky

      Tips: ROLLING SWIMBAITS? USE BRAID WITH A FLUORO LEADER. COVER THE KNOT WITH A CURLY TAIL GRUB CENTERED ON (WITH "NO" HOOK!)GRUB COLOR RED/WHITE OR WATERMELON/PEPPER (EXPERIMENT)

  • Trinity County
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      Water Temp: 56

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fishing was steady for bass. the coves were
      producing a rainbow bite. they are following the
      spawning kokanees. the bass weren't there yet.

Saturday, November 10th, 2007

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 59-60

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: For a rainy afternoon the anglers from Basin Bassmasters still held a T.O.C. out of B&W marina. My partner Jason Rodiguez and started cranking just down from the marina next to the tulles and got out first two keepers. The cold front started coming in and the tide went slack.
      We moved into Frank's, crankin, pitchin, floppin. Got our next bass (keeper). back to our first sport near B&W and picked up two more keepers.Our big fish was 3.78 and total weight was 10.44 to win our TOC.
      City: Rocklin

      Tips: good luck

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      Water Temp: 60

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Took a gamble and tried to fish, knowing a rain system was going to pass through. Can't say it was a total success, but we were able to land fish throughout the day. Tons of dinks (I thought dinks were only caught during summer time), but we were able to pull out a few decent sized fish as well. All of our "quality" sized fish came from senkos. That phrase "the quiet before the storm" was about as literal as you could get. slow tide movement, no wind, could cover, and just a calm serene feeling on the water. PERFECT topwater conditions....only if the fish knew that too. I threw a popper and got strikes, but I couldnt get the fish to commit. A lot of the strikes seemed like tail slaps. I got anxious on my first strike, which started with a big tail swirl behind the bait, then one pop later...a big ploosh...but no fish on the other end. I got way too excited and pulled the bait away from the fish, and ended up sticking my friend with the lure. Tops, Cranks, ripbaits, and blades only produced small fish for me. Found a good senko pattern where you would cast it tight to the tule brush, and just dead stick it. Fun day, even in the rain, best fish went 4-1/4.
      City: el cerrito

      Tips: Green pumpkin senkos either wacky or t-rig. water was calm enough for weightless presentation. Also had a decent shaky head pattern going too with a Zoom speed tail worm. While wacky wormin', use the "flick" technique as it falls to the bottom and just let it sit still once your line touches bottom. Watch your line just take off. too much fun!!!

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      Water Temp: 61

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: My first time on the Delta. After reading all of Cooch's articles on jig fishing and watching all his videos, had to give it a try. Made a two day trip of it, launched and camped at Russo's, Friday 9 Nov, wx was clear and sunny. Nothing on the jig. So thanks to the earlier report started throwing the chrome and blue RatLTrap. That was the ticket. Ended up with around 10, biggest going 3# for the day. Picked a few up in the East side of Frank's Tract and then all the rest in Taylor Slough. Saturday was another story. Cloudy and then rainy in the afternoon. Thought that was supposed to be good for fishing! Decided to explore some different areas. Tried Connection Slough and Holland Slough. Nothing on the trap and only caught a couple of dinks on the jig. (Brown WhaddaAJig with purple and black pork trailer ;) Watched the Christian Bass Anglers Club Tourny weigh in. They seemed to have no trouble. Winner had 18#'s +. Even got to meet both Cooch and Richard HookPoint Theil and thank them for all their postings. Great fun both days. Bass fisherman's heaven.
      City: Monterey

      Tips: Don't go out without a map! Had to constantly keep checking it in that maze of sloughs and islands.

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 60

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Went out with Jim and stunk it up. Cold front took temps 20 degrees below days before that. Tried a variety, swim bait, crank bait, spinner bait, chatter bait, t-rig, drop shot, senko. Jim got one that got off half way back, Fished docks, rocks, breaks, points 5-25 feet. Wind did kick up. Figured prople also need to hear the bad stuff instead of "we nailed em'" or best five 20+. Still better than workin!
      City: Pacifica

      Tips: Cold fronts push fish deeper. Use a guide if you can. Jim's buddy is a guide up there. He was on the water he same day we fished and took a 15 minute break to fish and got 4 hits including a 6 lb donkey. Guess we just don't know which swim bait to throw.

  • Alameda County
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      Water Temp: 63

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: the water level is drawn down about 20 + feet.
      so fish deep and drop shot all over the lake and catch bass all day... and even a 8 lb.trout will eat your drop shot worm, for some extra fun.
      City: RWC