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Sunday, October 28th, 2007

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 66.5 surface te

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Went float tubing off Foxtail Flat on the west side of the lake from 2pm-4:30pm and caught 6 fat bass near a rocky island just offshore. Caught 5 with a brown darthead Powerbait worm (1/16th ounce on 8 lb. flourocarbon line) in 10-15 feet of water. Then I caught a monster 20+ inch spotted bass on a Carolina rigged green pumpkin tube. I'm guessing it was 4+ lbs...? That's big for me! That fish drug me around in my tube pretty good! On the way home I stopped for a few casts from the steep banks of the Berryessa Park HQ and caught another fat largemouth on the same darthead worm. I saw several fish hunting in packs along the shore but couldn't get them to commit to a spook. Awesome few hours of fishing! Caught 3 LM, 3 spots, and one smallie...now that's a fun day on the lake!
      City: Napa

      Tips: Mix it up till you find what works. I couldn't catch anything around standing timber or weeds but found them around the rock island. I think my success was due to using a natural looking bait on light flourocarbon line in the clear water.

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished from 830 until 130. started out and got a fish on a sammy about 3lbs and it went down hill from there. fished a grass flat in 10-20ft with just about every type of reaction bait had nothing of any size. saw one chasin a shad and made a long cast and got him about 2lbs fished with a drop shot and jig on some rocky points later with nothin. we rented a boat so we didnt have a depth finder so fishin deep was out of the picture. second time on the lake and was fun but slow
      City: san francisco

      Tips: the lake still hasnt cooled enough for topwate all day. got on the lake just as the tw bite ended, darn. should be real good when the tw bite is wide open

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

      Report: Launched out of B&W resort, fished False River. Bite was slow, only hitting Senkos, no crank bite, no top water. Jig bite slow nothing over 2 pounds all in all a decent day for 3 people in the boat with over 30 fish but no real size.

      Tips: keep moving with the tides, fish areas with easy access to deep water. experiment with colors. Use different colors throughout the day

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      Water Temp: 64 ish

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Well a nice day at CFW. Hauled out there late morning. was on the water from about 10:00-1:45, a short day, but WELL worth it.

      Started off down by the dam, within first 10 minutes, stuck a 2.5+ spot on one of my handtied jigs, DT trailer. Fished to the north end of the dam, changed over to 1/4 oz pumpkin spidergrub, stuck 3 fish, 2 keepers. Headed up lake. Mid lake had either a channel cat(probably) or striper, chomp my jig when I was burning it back in, something fairly big and silvery, even setting the hook with just the trailer in its teeth was pretty violent, wish I could hooked it just to see what it was!
      Ended up back down near the dam, cranked up a good 2+ spot, had another good keeper down on the dam to finish up a quick limit for about 10-11 lbs.

      Still not the greatest place to fish, but its sure close. If anyone wants to fish it, let me know, I've usually got a back seat open.
      City: Lincoln

      Tips: Spidergrubs be the ticket, cranks still for aggressive fish.

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

      Report: we were the first ones on the water. started with white double buzz got 5 fish from the 2-3 pound range. then went 2 drop shotting oxblood at 30 feet of water. caught a 6-7 pounder
      City: Ventura

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      Water Temp: forgot to look

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: 2 jig bass 2-3 lbs, 2 crappie and 1 trout on spoon. Crappie are HUGE. Bluebird weather made a Tuff bite for me today, but saw some big fish in 10 or less. Was a decent spoon bite a week ago, seems the bait is spreading out and going super deep.
      City: Camarillo

      Tips: I'd go jiggy in 15-40 feet. Bite should pick back up after the weather stablizes.

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: not sure

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: we started fishing at 8am you could'nt ask for a niceer day. started out throwing x-rap my brother was throwing a robo worm. and he hooked into one on his 2 cast and again on his 3rd. both were small fish though. I started throwintg a yamamoto hula grub I pinched the legs off and drop shot it . I picked up a couple of 3 lbs. we fised till 3pm all fish were taken by hula grub and robo worms. we ended up with 24 fish nothing bigger than 4 lbs. but it sure beets mowing the yard.
      City: sacramento ca.

      Tips: fish were all caught in about 10 ft. off rocks. and docks and fish slow . also their were a few times when they would just pick it up and you would'nt even feel them

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 69

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Took my grand daughter out for some fun fishing and we had a blast. The top water bite was hot and heavy. We cought alot of small fish and a few good ones. The water glassed over about 11:am and stayed that way the rest of the day. Very few people on the lake and that was great.
      City: sonora

      Tips: Look for bait fish on or near deep drops. I chunked a 5" rapala in shad and one in gold and black.

  • Merced County
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      Water Temp: 64

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Have been a few times over the past week and the fishing has been really slow. Must be eating at night with the full moon phase were in right now. Will be heading back to the Forebay for the couple of trips where the fishing has been a lot more consistent.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: The fluke bite has been most consistent bite. While topwater is hit & miss right now!

Saturday, October 27th, 2007

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 62

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: launched out of Capell Cove and got to the first pont and started to hook fish on darted head worms and top water, no keepers. Went over to a favorite point and found the bass biting on spoons of all kinds and caught 25 fish for three fisherman. After 10am it was a tough bite and caught 8 more fish for the day before I pulled the plug at 2:30pm.
      City: san bruno

      Tips: Learn the "Nate Shake" technique. by Nate Lemons works good for spotted bass.

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 63

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Friday, Saturday and Sunday this weekend and it got progressivly worse day by day. The barometric pressure was on a big climb from the storm front moving in (it's here as I type). Friday put a few fish on the boat dropshotting the main body (only fished 1.5 hrs). Saturday yeilded a half dozen between 1-3 lbs. Mainly caught on the drop shot and a nice one on a chatterbait thrown near the rocky shore. Hopefully this pressure will drop and the fall bass'n will pick up.
      City: Rocklin

      Tips: Notice how I didn't report the fish count for Sunday? Only positive thing that comes to mind is at least the boat still floats. At least I have the juevos to post when its bad fishin instead of just bragging when it's good.

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 65-67 deg surfa

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Decided to to try Pardee before they closed for the rest of the year. Fishing was very tough as it appears lake has turned over (trout hitting all over on the surface ) No reaction bait bite and never caught a smallmouth?

      Tips: caught 4 keeper largemouth up to 3 lbs and lost two others when they jumped . bites were very subtle . 10-15 feet deep on soft plastics fishing steep rock bank on main river channel . once the sun was on the water the bite died and it was over for me .

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      Water Temp: ???

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: low water walked with jack did not see jack when are they planting want to throw some huds?
      City: mountain view

Friday, October 26th, 2007

  • Santa Barbara County
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      Water Temp: 65-68

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Killer jig bite shallow early on down to 40' Decent spoons too, but not too many decent spoon fish . Probably 30 fish between spoons, senkos, and jigs, but only 5 or 6 "good" ones. Best 5 might have gone 12 lbs. Lots of drop shot small fish, but we didn't waste any time on them. River ledge seemed to be deserted too...
      Water is getting lower and lower, most of the flats are getting real skinny. Didn't really try any worms
      City: Camarillo

      Tips: I'd bang your favorite points with jigs early, then slip into spoon mode.

  • Yuba County
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      Water Temp: 61ish

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Took today off to sample collins. Larry posts favorable reports in the fall, so I thought I'd try it myself. $16 is a little stiff to launch for the day. First 3 hours I had 2 pecks on my dropshot worm, but no hook ups. First bite in 16 feet and second at 35 feet. Headed upriver? and saw the bottom go from 45 feet to 27 feet then back to 45 feet. Shad all over the place. Caught 5 decent fish in the next hour and lost/missed 10 more. First two were on a pinched off margarita mulilator. Next three came on a spoon. Lost 3 or4 on the spoon. Though I lost some on the spoon, it was fun to get bites on it. No real size as the biggest may have approached 2 lbs. Did catch one largemouth on the spoon though.
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: What did I learn? The biting fish were not everywhere. They were almost nowhere. The one place I found them had an underwater hump with bait up the ying yang. Talked to another boat that had 3 fish for two guys all day.

Thursday, October 25th, 2007

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 67

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I fished Amador yesterday afternoon and for awhile at night. Beautiful weather and not so beautiful fishing. The afternoon and dusk bite was terrible - I could not catch a bass. The night started out slow - I was fishing a brush hog and a 10" black Power worm. At 9:45 PM - it happened - for about half an hour. I was fishing an off-shore hump that was almost out of the water and a bass finally jumped on the worm. That one was 2 1/2 lbs. Next cast a near 3 pounder nailed the worm. A few casts later, a 4 1/4 hit hard and found her way into the boat. What is going on? Fished the other side of the hump and nailed a 3+ pounder. Wow, the night bite is on! BZZZZZZZZZZ! Wrong answer - that was it for the night. Quality was good however. I quit about 11:30 pm.
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: The lake is some 40 feet down, but water level is steady for the time being. Topwater and crank bite are dead. Some small bass chasing shad. Most bait is still quite deep. Surface temp needs to drop several degrees for fishing to heat up (I like that!). I did a lot of spooning in the late afternoon, but had no takers.

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 56;0

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: isaw one fish and that was that damn skunked again.
      City: santa rosa zzzzzz

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 65

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the main body and the beginning of the S. fork today. Started around 9. Found all my action on steep points, mostly around the dam and islands. Biggest one was 3 with followers around 7. Caught fish dropshotting and S.B's
      City: Roseville

      Tips: Fish early and work the islands.

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 59-62

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: I took my father-in-law out Thursday. It was another beautiful day on the lake and fishing with my father-in-law is always an adventure. We seemed to always find something to talk about each trip and those trips started back when I was just 12 years old. We ended up with about 40 bass for the day all but 2 in the bracket. The bass seemed to be scatterd all over the lake. From suspened schools to feeding on the banks. It was good to see lots of bait fish still cruising around. The feeding bass were from 1 ft. to 25-30ft.
      City: Paradise

      Tips: The two most productive patterns were drop-shot and tubes. The best color for the drop shot for the day was morning dawn and clear sparkle Gitzit for the tube.

Wednesday, October 24th, 2007

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

      Report: Well this is not my report but for anyone who is thinking about heading up to Clear Lake the bite has been good, just look up the FLW results at Kanakti resort, a 13 lber was caught and a few over the 10 lb mark and tons and tons of 4-7 lb fish, the tourney is over today Sat with only 10 boats fishing out of Redbud, if I was not sick I be fishing.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: The pros are getting them on swim baits, jigs and zoom swamp crawlers, a pro got a 11.2 on a zoom 6 inch swamp crawler, you got to love that.