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Sunday, October 7th, 2007

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: 67

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Slow, slow,slow......... No shad or luck up in the creeks. All the fish were found up on the main lake off main points and in the trees. Not much of a reaction bite yet. This is as low as I've seen the lake and its going to get worse. Watch out for timber! It's starting to show all over the lake. Especialy in the main body before the narrows.
      City: Healdsburg

      Tips: Pray for rain. This lake has to get more water to return back to a normal pattern.

Saturday, October 6th, 2007

  • Mason County
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      Water Temp: 66

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished 4 hrs on Sat Afternoon. Caught 17 bass all around 1.5 to 2lbs. Caught one shallow on a crank bait and the rest in 25-30ft on off shore structure on drop shot robo. Beautiful day with few boats out.
      City: Foster City

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 68

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Slow day overall. Caught 6 bass and 1 channel cat b/w the 3 of us. Carolina rigged 4" robo worms around points and inside of coves. Areas we tried ranged from Markley Cove, the Big Island to Spanish Flat. Towards days end started to witness schools of bait being thrashed by schools of bass! Casted topwater for only a couple of bass. They were definitely there, but didn't seem to take a liking to anything we threw at 'em.
      Good luck & fishing to all
      Allan
      City: San Francisco

      Tips: No real good patterns established.
      Wait for the real fall turnover

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: 1 fish on wacky worm. yum dinger it was 7 pounds even but the bit was slow today also had another bite in same spot but missed that fish.
      City: p

      Tips: wacky worms

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 68

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Leroy and I fished the Badge Packers Fall Tournament Oct. 6th, and won with 13.82 pounds. Caught (1) 2 1/2 lb fish on a Huddleston and the rest were caught on 4" and 5" yamamoto twin tail grubs in Watermelon w/ black flake or red flake on 1/4 or 3/8 oz jig heads. All of the fish with exception of the swimbait fish were caught within a foot of the bank from 1200 to 1400 hours. You had to throw your bait right against the rocks and they would grab it as it fell. Big fish of tourney was just over 6 pounds. Congrats to Rodney Parker for his 4.92 lb Super Spook fish caught first thing in the morning. The previous two fishing reports were bogus if you haven't guessed. We were just clown'n Rod. Good luck at the spring tournament.
      City: Visalia

      Tips: 6 lh flourocarbon line and yamamoto grubs rigth next to the bank in the afternoon. They'll hit them on the fall.

  • Mariposa County
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      Water Temp: 68

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Spent most of the day in the lower end of the lake around the dam and other points. Most bass came on plastics (Aaron's magic, mm3, hologram shad) from 15-25 ft on drop shot and dart head. Early on a few where in 5 to 10 ft. The old dam held many fish and you could see it 10 ft below the water line (cool to see it from that perspective). Some guy picked up a 9 pounder on a swim bait along old dam too about 50 yards from us.
      City: Fresno

      Tips: As the day went on most fish went deeper (25-35 ft)

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: 66-67

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished main body for 12lb limit. Caught 2 quality fish on jigs in trees, then banged 3 fish on 3 casts in 1-2lb range that were feeding on shad in the middle of the lake. The fish had the shad pinned against a tree that rises to the surface in 100 ft of water and for about 10 minutes they were boiling about the tree causing all sorts of commotion. "BE CAREFUL", as that tree could really do some damage. It is about halfway down the main body on the left hand side in 100 ft of water and not visible in low light conditions. I tied a plastic jug on it, but keep an eye out when you're in that area.
      City: Sebastopol

      Tips: Still no reaction bite for me, so for now it's the same old stuff deep in the trees.....

Friday, October 5th, 2007

  • Alameda County
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      Water Temp: 64

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Alder Point for 2 hours and got 4 nice LM bass with largest weighing 4 lbs 3 oz. Silver fluke and brown worms both worked well. Used my fish finder to locate the fish fairly deep near the point. Tried spinnerbaits, crankbaits, and trout-pattern swimbaits but no success.
      City: Richmond

      Tips: Fish are suspended around dropoffs between 10 and 20 ft. Drop shot or fluke with a 5/0 hook should get you a few decent catches.

      Catch and release!!!

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

      Report: Catching Alot Of Bass,Most 1 To 1.5lbs,Topwater Early In Morning,Blades,Cranks,Rattletraps,Swimbaits Then Move Deeper And Steeper As Day Goes On.Switch To Bottom Tactics And Drop Shot.
      City: Redding

      Tips: Rainbow Trout Spook Caught Largest Bass.

Thursday, October 4th, 2007

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

      Report: Fished the lake for the first time in a long time with limited success. I depend on Kelly Ripa's reports. Where's Kelly??? Please e-mail me I need info. Camping out this week with the Mrs. and she gets cranky if she does not catch fish. Please help Desperately Seeking Kelly
      City: Lomita

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 68

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: fished lower Sac Arm Sept 30 and Pit Arm Sept. 31. Temps are dropping and the shad bite is coming on. Picked up only spots up to 1.5 max, but lots of 'em. Drop shot and S & P grubs, with a few early on top water. Bigger ones out to 15 ft. deep on steep rock slopes and points
      City: Elk Grove

      Tips: drag it slow and go light as possible. Secondary ramp at Jones Valley worked fine. Sugarloaf and Bridge Bay are your only other options.

  • Trinity County
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      Water Temp: .

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Heard a rumor of a monster bag of smallmouth coming from a recent tournament. Pushing 30 pounds. Anyone else hear of that?

      Tips: Also heard they were all caught in a short time span.

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 71

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I took myself to beautiful Berryessa yesterday to check on the fall bite. It really hasn't happened yet as the water is still above 70 degrees. That may change this weekend! I did a lot of looking around since the lake hasn't been this low in years - about 23 feet. I really tried to get the topwater going but they were mostly up to 1 1/2 lbs. I did spoon a few and the rest were drop-shotted and split-shotted. No real worm color stood out. I used the Basstrix flashtrix minnow for my drop-shot fish. I caught all three species but the biggest was only a little over 2 lbs - a largemouth. I did get a hit on a Huddleston swimbait, but I missed it. I arrived about 10 am so as to fish the evening bite, but the cold front wind really spoiled my plans. I saw some small fish chasing bait in the narrows, but no quality. Just waiting for the water to cool.
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: I found most of my 18 to 20 bass on structure relating to the shore and some off-shore ledges and island tops. As usual, finding the bait is a key. Any finger of land jutting off a point - that has a deep ledge or dropoff - around 20 to 40 feet deep, is a good place to start. Berryessa has hundreds of points that really go nowhere - shallow running points. Look for something steep. Bass will suspend off the many walls at Berryessa too. They will take topwater - soon!!!!!

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 65

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Caught an early morning bite using my Home-made Arkie Jigs(like "Whadda JIgs") but only about .50 cents a piece to make. Middle river area showed it's stuff, bite was slow until change, then whammo.
      City: Tracy

      Tips: Black jigs with a little red , orange did the trick. 1/2 oz in the open and heavier ones for the thicker stuff.

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 71

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Went up to 'ol Pedro again and slayed 'em, Freaks! I watched another Kevin Van Dam video on spinnerbait'n and I applied what I done watched to my time on the water. Again, threw earthtone colored (you know, browns, olive green etc.) spinnerplugs all day near the dam. You gotta count'em down 1,2,3 and so on 'til ya hit "10", then slowly crank that handle. About three turns and "BAM" just like Emeril live, 16" spotted bass like they's was goin' out of style. Caught 14 for a total of about 21 pounds today.
      City: Pixlon

      Tips: Let that bait flutter on a loose line down on a 10 count, then milk it back slowly......good luck........I'm out!!!!

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 68

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished from 3:00 to 6:30 pm first hour and a half no bites throwing top water and jigs. Finally stuck a two pounder on the jig across from the G B launch. Then looked for rockpiles around the peninsula, if you find the piles you will find the fish.I ended up with seven fish, the largest being the first two pounder. Probably 8.5 lbs for best five. All fish on jigs, 4'' hula grubs.
      City: Sacto

      Tips: With 8.5 lbs I'm not qualified to give advice.
      P.S. I'm going to miss Jimbo, he reminded me of my Grand Pappy ( spent 5 years in prison for perjury )

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: This is a fishing reports page people, please follow the guidelines set forth by Westernbass.COM and refrain from chatting and using this page like e-mail. ALL posts by Jim Scarlett will be deleted as mandated by Westernbass.COM.
      City: Oakley

      Tips: If you have a problem with this, my e-mail is above, feel free to contact me and we can discuss your issues with how we choose to run our website.

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      Water Temp: 68

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the FBT TOC on Folsom and the Delta this past weekend. Came in 3rd overall. On Folsom, we were one of a few teams to weigh in a limit. Most did not weigh a limit. Our fish came between 25 and 35 feet on a 1-ton jig (1 ounce football head jig) with a 4" twin tail Yamamoto Hulagrub in Green Pumpkin. We managed to catch 8 keepers on this rig. Tried dropshot, spoons, ripbaits and spooks without success although this is my favorite time of year for spooning at Folsom. Our limit was not very big because we never stuck a kicker fish but it kept us in the TOC chase.
      City: Fair Oaks

      Tips: Fished the 1-ton off main lake points close to the main channel coming out of the south fork. In view of the 5mph BS imposed by government, we felt it was important to keep a line wet so we didn't run far from Browns. Had the limit by 9 AM.

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: For those of you who do not believe my claim that Jim Scarlet is a LIAR, here's a quote from a report right here, which I have left for all to see by the way, that proves this:
      "I can't send to you because I( have been bl0ocked by Cooche." Ya see, I banned him, he said so himself!
      City: Oakley

      Tips: Jim Scarlett, you are a liar! Have a good life!

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Jim Scarlet, you are a LIAR!

      I indeed did first ban you as Wooch!
      You begged and pleaded with Tony Stoltz for 2 months to let you back in. Upon doing so, it was stipulated only if you used yer real name and participated in such a fashion that the Forum is designed for. Your first day back, you went over board and violated Forum Police. You then sent nasty PMs to Tony, Gator and myself calling us out(the one ya sent me is now public domain at the top of the main Forum). Tony then BANNED you permanantly. You did not request it, that is a flat out lie, we have all the e-mails and PMs ta prove this fact. Further more, I have NOT taken any claim towards doing the recent banning.
      City: Oakley

      Tips: You are a habitual LIAR! Have a good life!