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Monday, October 8th, 2007

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 68 deg

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the Pit Arm. Had 20 bass.2 smallies the rest spots.Biggest fish 2and a half on a spinnerbait.2 fish crankin crawdad pattern crankbaits. The rest came on texas rigged watermellon/red flake power worms.Had a 3lb. rainbow on a plastic worm and a 5lb rainbow on a crankbait. Go figure.A few more degrees and the bite should really be goin.
      City: Redding

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

      Report: Will be going camping and boat fishing on Whiskeytown later this month. I have never fished this lake this time of year. Any helpful hints?? We are particularly interested in a bass bite. Thanks for any help.
      City: Redding

Sunday, October 7th, 2007

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 60

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: went out late morning to mokulemme river out of b&w tide was low at 9:00 wanted to catch the imcoming water . caught some decent fish nothing real big 2, 3 lbers . got my fix early , fish morning with senko. 3 hour before high tide broke out the stipper rods me and my wife are looking for stripers, soaked some bait and drifted live mudd suckers under georgeana slough bridge NADA, nothing.. for you stripper fisherman word is a couple more weeks till some stripper action , till then ,going to go every weekend till they show up.. black bass is dropping off on the bite, still can catch them but bite will be tough and it will bring out the hard- core bass fisherman for good practice, for next spring sharpening up teqniques . yyea stippers all showing up in south delta discovery bay etc . no real big ones yet. keep tight lines,see ya on the water...
      City: Elmira Ca

      Tips: none today

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 68

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Smallmouth pressure bites and dinks pecking at plastic. No hard bait bites.

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

      Report: How do you catch the bass here? saw a bunch cruising the shoreline buy no takers, threw everything at them.
      City: Morgan Hill

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 62-66

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Everything was real nice for my night trip to Clear Lake Sat evening! Great weather in spite of post-front conditions, great clients, NO WIND (a 2007 first!), and pretty good fishing. We launched out of Red Bud at 4:15 pm and started fishing bass alley. One of the fellows started his early release process as he lost the first two he hooked - one a good fish. We spent the entire trip in the Jago area - fishing both on and off-shore structure. We actually found a "school" of 4 pounders - one after another in the boat. Really amazing after a few slow weeks. The quick-release artist in the middle of the boat was fishing jigs and hooked the fish of the trip - 6 or 7+ pounder. She came up to the surface - said hello, and spit the hook. Client and guide then proceeded to have a discussion about hooksets!! The average size was excellent however and we had good success right up until dark. Probably 25-30 bites in 3 hours. After dark the bite started out slow. I kept waiting for the carp to become active. They really never did and the bass never really did either. The post-front night was very quiet and still. The only bass that would come out and play were 2 and 2 1/2 pounders. One of the guys got big fish of the night - 3 lbs! We kept working on our 20th bass and it finally hit about midnight. Now we could call it a night. A good night - clients with quality bass up to 4 1/2 lbs and a limit of between 18 and 19 lbs. I almost forgot - the token cheap thrill - one got a catfish about 6 lbs.
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: We found fish a little more shallow than on previous trips. I tried to fish my clients on ledges and breaklines from 10 to 18 feet and the bass were feeding there before dark. I think we will soon see the evening bite pick up. The evening and mornings will soon see cold temps while whatever warming there is will happen in the later afternoon. The late afternoon water temp for us was 66 degrees (surface). A few hours later it was 62. I noticed that some of the bass we caught actually allowed us to feel the "bite". This is a sign of "feeding" bass. I tried to see if there was a crank bite - still couldn't get it going. Our best worms were 10" black Power worms and 7 1/2" Robo worms in the Aaron's Magic w/R&B flake. We didn't find many bass around docks yesterday, but mostly on rock structure.

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 66.9

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Cold mornings by the sun came out moving the bass back up in 20 ft of water. Quency and I found some small bass @ Beal's Point around the rocks using drop shot and split shot. Went out to the main point in 30-50 ft by the wind sock using a JK Jig in watermelon red flake and a Green pumkin. No reaction bite.
      City: Rocklin

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      Water Temp: 66

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched at GB around 8am and headed to the main body. We found a drop shot pattern that worked fairly well while metering the bait. Picked up 11 fish. Most were 1-2 range and had two fish in the 2-3 range. Best five 11 lbs.
      City: Rocklin

      Tips: Pumpkin colored berkely worms and senkos were on.

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      Water Temp: 76

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: still no reaction bite. Had one good day on Sept 20th right before a storm system came in, 1 hour with 3 4lbers. 2 of em took 1oz deep diving cranks in bluegill and in shad patterns, 1 on 3/4oz rattle trap.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Until the turnover approaches, use finesse baits. Better yet just go to Calero.

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      Water Temp: 64-67

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Took the wife with me to the lake on Sunday. Got there at 6:30, a little breezy and air temp was 42. Cruised the lake and found a boil up river. Shut down early so as not to spook them and kicked on the trolling motor, my wife pointed at the size of some af the splashes and another boat saw this and blasted right in on top of them! Bite shut down no takers. Cruised up river some more and saw how low the lake is. Spotted on a few spots and caught some real small smallouth and a largemouth. Came back down river, found a cover with no wind, sunshine and a few splashes. Fished a dropshot no takers and then all of a suden the boil starts! Hook up with one and after a battle on 4# test landed and weighed 6lbs. Boil goes down and then comes up again 100yds away, Troling motor on high, catch up, and hook another one and so does the wife! Land both for 6lbs each, just cookie cutters of each other. Boil goes down and never shows up again. As I but the day together the fish started in the back of the cove and worked out to the main channel. All this happened by 10:30. Wife had a great day and that's what mattered the most. Caught all fish on headspins and roadrunners. Color is important, has to have a green tint.
      City: Oakdale

      Tips: 1. Don't run up on the school, see what direction their going and use your trolling motor.
      2. SMALL baits green is the color.
      3. Pleasure boats cause too much chop. Bite done when they arrived.

  • 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