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Saturday, October 27th, 2007

  • 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.

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 59-62

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: For the last week and a half I've been concentrating on the Delta, what a great fishery. Although I thought it was awesome down there it was good to be back on my home lake again. Today I took out a couple of young military vets. It was great to have a lot of laughs with these guys. The moon was almost full last night so I knew the morning bite would be just a little bit better than the afternoon. We fished just half a day and had around 20 bass with 6 over.
      City: Paradise

      Tips: Since it was a short day, I did not try a lot of different things, just tubes. I knew they would work and they did. Clear sparkle color Gitzit is a go to lure. From 1 ft. to 30 ft.

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007

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      Water Temp: 64

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Out late (10:30am) Started throwing a chart/purple crank first fish on second cast, kept on working wind blown banks, a fish here, a fish there, most of em on a white/blue shad pattern crank. Moved to rock banks on south area, lots of hits on the crank anywhere from 2 to 15 feet. When bite slowed down, at about 1 pm, switched to a pumpking 5" DT Hula grub on a 1/4 oz football head, the results where amazing lots of fish (about 20), best one about 3#, best 5 for 13#. The note of the day: 2 Chanel cats, one 10# one 3.5# both hit the hula grub like a pile of bricks. Also tried ripping, spinners, CR Lizards and dropshots with no luck.
      A very fun day. I have forgoten what a pain in the neck it was to throw the boat in the water without a dock and without getting wet.
      City: Folsom

      Tips: Go out have fun. pay atention to shady side of big boulders, big stumps, fallen trees, etc.

Monday, October 22nd, 2007

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

      Report: HEY JIHN WHY DONT YOU POST HERE ANYMORE?
      City: MOUNTAIN VIEW

Sunday, October 21st, 2007

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 65

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: This past weekend it was pretty windy at the lake. Saturday I fished the west side
      of the lake and wasn't able to cross over to the east side because of the white caps.
      Nothing worked really well. When we noticed our first boil of fish Lonny threw a
      top water lure (Pop R) and he landed his first bass I'm not quite sure which was
      bigger the lure or the bass. He mastered casting the Pop R and enjoyed the blow ups
      on the lure. Due to the weather conditions we headed for a quite cove and finished
      out the day with topwater and brass and glass. We were looking forward to trying the
      east side of the lake on Sunday but as we headed out that way the conditions were
      worst then the day before so we decided to fish Capell Cove. We went all the way to
      the back where it was a little more sheltered but still pretty windy. We threw brass
      and glass into the trees along the shore. We landed a few bass but no size to speak
      of. The fish seemed to be off bite but it was still fun. 'til next week................good
      fishing!!!!!!!!!!!!! www.fishingconnection.net If you have any stories you would like
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      City: Napa

      Tips: it will happen soon,fish all over the meter BUT they did not want to cooperate

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 61

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: My buddy and I went down to the delta today to target stripers. Incoming tide all morning. I caught a 7.2lb Striper in Franks Tract on a rattletrap. This was the only keeper we caught all day. We saw about six stripers in the 5 to 7lb range caught by other boaters in the Franks area throughout the day. It was not red hot but still a lot of fun.
      City: Citrus Heights

      Tips: Look at the previous report for tips. All I know is, if you through a rattletrap long enough you'll run into a striper.

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      Water Temp: didnot check

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched out of wimpys, slid own to horseshoe and sycamore area. Thanks to (Dobyn's Rods) spinning, 702 model, 1/4 oz jigs(woochie jigs). Caught some nice fish on jigs and basstrix(ayu) 6", 6/0 hook. Plenty of fish on reaction and slow presentation. Dopbyn's rod had the power and the sensitivity to get the job done(KUDOS).
      City: sac

      Tips: Try reaction and slow presentation, sometimes both work well.

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      Water Temp: 63

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Water very low,got in at noon with Quency Malone. Winds blowing at 20-30 mph so reaction bait, rip baits on rocky banks with red dirt. Also found bass with a Capt Jack's Jigs "Perch" color in 2-15 ft, most off the bank. Not all windy banks had fish. Just crank or rip down the banks and you will find the bass. Our best 5 went 12.5 lbs
      City: Rocklin

      Tips: have fun and leave the bass

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

      Report: Fished about 4 hours today and caught 10 fish. Best 5 went just over 13lbs. All fish were taken on my own hand poured worms it was my first time ever using them and they worked great. The weed die off is in full swing. I spent the day fishing the mid-lake area mainly focusing on weeds and tules.

      Tips: Pressure, pressure, pressure. Man there were a TON of boats out pre-fishing today. Be advised that the lake level is VERY low so be careful out there.

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      Water Temp: 58-60

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished north end .Got 12-15 fish on a flickshake worm to 3#,and a couple nice 4#ers on a 7"senko
      City: Lakeport

      Tips: small weed clumps

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 66

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Took a two day trip- total for two days was about 35 fish to 2 lbs. No reaction bite- everything came on 1/8 oz. dartheads with 6" pro worms (color 64SPF) and Senkos. I lost my $85 8" Triple Trout in the Mocassin area.
      City: Elk Grove

      Tips: The fish seem to be feeding on presentations above, not below. I don't know the lake so we didn't did not get to dropshot any offshore structure.