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Wednesday, September 19th, 2007

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 74/76

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: STARTED OUT OF MARKLEY COVE AT 0630 AM TRIED MY USUAL SPOTS WITH CRANK BAITS/TOP WATER NO TAKERS IN THE COVES MOVED TO DEEP POINTS WITH ROCKS MANAGED FOUR FISH ALL DAY CAUGHT ON SENKOS LARGEST 2PDS WITH SIX DINKS NO ADVICE THIS TIME.
      City: ANTIOCH

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 67

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: cranked some deeper water with lots of bait on it and got nothing. caught one about 3 on a drop shot in the tules. had a big strike on a frog in the tules but i didn't hook him.
      City: san francisco

      Tips: fish aren't very far back in the tules fish the outside ones.

Tuesday, September 18th, 2007

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 67/72

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: FISHED SHERMAN LAKE WINTER ISLAND MANAGED 12-BLK BASS UP TO 6PDS ON RATTLE TRAPS/HAIR RASIER JIGS. ALL FISH CAUGHT NEAR WEED BEDS MANAGED SIX STRIPERS UP TO 20PDS ON SAME BAITS WIND KEPT ME FROM TRYING BROAD SLOUGH .
      City: ANTIOCH

      Tips: FISH WEED LINE/TRY FISHING DEEPER WATER AROUND WEED BEDS.

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 73

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I showed two good fishermen around the lake Monday - my favorite day to guide - yea, right!! We fished several areas with different types of structures and actually hooked a lot of bass but they really didn't take the plastics very well. Maybe they saw a few baits over the weekend! Could they be highly-pressure fish that are afraid to open their mouth? Ya think?!!!!! Clients did land 5 and I got 2. Two biggest were only 3 1/2 and 3 3/4 lbs. The biggest of the day was lost at Rattlesnake Island at the end of the trip - nice fish!
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: Reaction baits did not work for us on Monday morning. Berkley and Robo worms did get some bites. The Yamamoto Kreature baits worked again - junebug was the early-on favorite. Black/blue was best in the afternoon. We caught a few around docks in the lower lake arm but most of our bites were on rock ledges - 15-22 feet deep. Concentrations of bass are hard to find, so move around some 'til you find a willing (or stupid) bass to bite. As I was driving back to Yuba City late Monday afternoon, 4 or 5 bass boats were heading for Clear Lake. A Tuesday tournament maybe?!!!!!

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 78

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Launched from Granite Bay.......Or shall I call it "dirt ramp located a quarter mile from normal shore line with a semi concrete ramp"? I'll be heading to Hobie/Browns Ravine from now on.

      Went out to drop shot since the decent rock shore lines were a bit to far in the 5 mph zone. Picked up two fish in 20-40 feet of water on cloud/fish marks on the finder. Best was 1.5 on Aaron's Magic worm.
      City: Rocklin

      Tips: Barometric pressure was high, fish when it's lower (after this storm front hits).

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: 71

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Took a friend new to bass fishing out for his first trip. Got one 5-6lb pig on 4th cast on a crank-which consequently snapped my line at the boat. Aaarrgh! Piqued my buddies interest in bass fishing right away, though! Went to jigs, lizards, senkos, no luck. One more smallie on the crank, couple more hits then had to get Pete back to work. To his credit, only several backlash in some pretty good wind. He's hooked.
      City: San Anselmo

      Tips: Medium cranks in shad patterns/main lake points, gotta chip some paint off 'em, bang the rocks and submerged trees. Hooked the big one in about 3', got the smallie in 35-40' off the top of a tree.

Monday, September 17th, 2007

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 68-70

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished from north side of Franks to Discovery Bay. Only fished Cooch's Whaddajig. Big fish 9lbs 10oz with a lot of other nice sized fish. Took a trip with Cooch yesterday.
      City: Los Gatos

      Tips: Cooch has a great manner and is a ton of fun to fish with. I am a rookie and he showed lots of patience and had an answer for every stupid question I asked.

Sunday, September 16th, 2007

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

      Report: The wife and I fished for about 6 hours on Sunday and caught 14 fish. The bite is still pretty tough for us especially for larger fish. Our best 5 on Sunday went just over 14lbs. Caught fish on the drop shot, jig and senkos.
      City: Petaluma, CA

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: we got on the water at 6am started throwingA hula popper in a frog pattern and hooked up with 4 lbs. LM. made a few more cast and bam hooked up again this time she took me under the boat and got wraped up in trolling motor and broke off luckily I had 1 more popper in tht color. my brother hung a few on a zara spook 2 to 4 lbs after the sun got up started catching them on a X rap also hung some on drop shoting robo worms witches tee , june bug. wind really got up and forced us to fish out of the wind . the water was also very stained with green algea
      City: carmichael

      Tips: find clear water and stay out of the wind

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      Water Temp: 75

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Must Have been one of the Sturgeon we let go in there a few years back. We caught a few in the delta and they were still alive when we got home. We realized on the ride home they were undersized to keep. So we revived them in a baby pool with ALIVE and then sent them off. We found one the next day but the other 3 ....????
      City: LowerLake

      Tips: Ghost Shrimp on a slip sinker with TriFlow sprayed on.

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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Topwaters seem to be getting most of the strikes. Most of the bass are pushing the shad toward the shore. Throw shad colored topwaters and make it look likes its fleeing from a bass.
      City: Antioch

      Tips: Use a fluke bait with yellow tail

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      Water Temp: 75 to 79

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Bass fishing here has been good with fish being caught in the 2 to 4 pound ranger. There have been a few 7 and 8 pound bass caught but for the most part there in the smallier class. Most anglers i talk too are using jigs brushogs & crankbaits. there is some top waer action early morning also late afternoon there a buzzbait bait also. Traffic still heavier on weekends and the lake is low but stable. Places to fish dam area,under water humps or island rock piles dropoffs ( swimmming area ) creek channels. Bass are in 3 to 20 feet of water. 559-689-3255
      City: kerman ca

      Tips: Jig sizes 1/4 oz. bullet or 1/4 or 3/8 oz. arkiehead Jig colors Brown /Lite pumpkin green, Black/blue, Junebug, Trailers yamamoto twin tail 4" grubs in watermelon red/black flake, junebug, dark green pumpkin, rootbeer red/gold flake. Crankbait colors have been perch or crappie pattern colors and 5 to 8 foot runners. Drop shot Pro worms purple death is a good color to throw now. Buzzbaits in shad patterens are working also.

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 73.6

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Hey Jim- Can you give me some help on catching the larger fish? I am catching good numbers up to 3lbs, but the larger fish are eluding me. I am the one who met you yesterday up river.
      City: Elk Grove

      Tips: Follow the bait!!!

Saturday, September 15th, 2007

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

      Report: Took out some folks over the last two weekends. Smallmout on little points and along the shear walls on pop-r's ( rico ). Largemouth occasionally. I caught some nice buzzbait fish but was really there to make sure the others caught fish. Around 10:00 out comes the spoon...Largemouth,smallmouth,crappie,red ear, trout....and one brusier( 20 pounds or more ) of a carp. I would have wacked it over the head with an oar but I just pulled out the hook after letting the folks with me reel it in and took their picture. Awesome spoon bite should be in the next few days and should last for months. So far the best bass on a spoon was a smallie caught by my partner John Younce that was over 3 pounds....but better things are around the corner. To bad it costs me so much to drag the boat there.....I'll just have to wait for the same bite at Casitas.

      Rip
      City: Ojai

      Tips: Read prior posts from my fall trips and it's all the same just a different water level.

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

      Report: crank am,had 9.7 and 8.11 by 7:00,threw cranks on and off had two more after wind picked up,worked jig close to shore,some fish were caught in 60ft,total for four fish 22lbs.
      City: la canada

      Tips: crank on and off,jigs,shaky head

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 76

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the south end Saturday with my buddy Catfish Riggs. We bounced around a lot catching a few fish to 4.9 lbs mostly on plastics. Best 5 weighted around 15lbs, not including the 2-8lb catfish my buddy landed. Didn't find much of a reaction bite so had to resort to plastics around docks and rocks. Tried blades, ripbaits, cranks to no avail. Senkos, worms, shakey heads, jigs all produced.
      City: Rohnert Park

      Tips: Fish slow. The fish are not very aggressive. They just pick up the bait and swim off.

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: tough bite no fish tryed everything too. wacky worm dropshotting swimbait crrapie jig crackbaits rat-l-trap jig .still nothing but will caught the big fish of the day 11 inches.
      City: P

      Tips: i dont even know

  • San Francisco County
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      Water Temp: 69

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: WooHoo, finally caught a Lake Merced Bass (pic posted). About a 4lb'er in the south lake around 3:30 pm off my Porta Bote in a little inlet through the tules near an old fishing pier drop shoting a purple creature worm. Also caught a little dink bass and side hooked a 3lb carp in the same spot. Released the bass but killed the carp.
      City: San Francisco

      Tips: Persistence.

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 72

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I enjoyed the day today showing two good bassin' guys more about the middle and north forks. The bite was slow in the morning but picked up as the day went on. The very cool morning seemed to shut of any topwater bite, though we tried. Drop-shotting Robo worms and Basstrix flashtrix minnows were both fairly productive, though fishing was generally slower than normal. One of the fellows landed the biggest spot - about 2 1/4 lbs - in very shallow water at the edge of a mudline - in the early afternoon. I showed them some nice off-shore structure that I haven't fished in several years because of high water - glad I could still find those spots!! They did have some quality fish - around 9 lbs for the 5 biggest. Fun day!
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: The first bass on of the fellows caught in the middle fork was the ungliest bass I have seen in my 30+ years on the lake. The poor thing had sores and whatever all over her body. We only caught one of two more with the problem - they wern't as bad. Concentrations of bass were hard to find today, but lots of areas did produce 1 to 3 bites. We did catch several shallow bass in the afternoon - kind of unusual. I tried some spooning today without a hit. Odd!

  • Westchester County
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: went fishing today Quarry today. Caught nothing at rainbow, not even a follow. Threw everything at them. Nothing. So i went for cats and only got a couple hits on liver and hot dogs. Came home empty handed though.
      City: Fremont

      Tips: don't really have any but just keep at it.