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Thursday, September 6th, 2007

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 80 thurs 68 Fri

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Something is going on I don't understand. The big fishies they no bite for me. The wife and I caught 12 keepers but nothing over 4 pounds. Maybe 13lbss best 5. It was slow and the bite was lite. Friday was worse. Champion Boats everywhere? Henderson point had a boat every 100 feet apart. Horseshue same athing. What'sa goin on?
      City: orangevale

      Tips: Top water early. darthead 1/8 worms and tubes. No much of a bite. Rattletraps in afternoon when the 6 mph winds were creating 3 foot waves work.Sure love the weatherman. You can see the bass under the docks but they won't eat anything?Back to the Delta for me. Can't wait for the strippers to come in this fall.

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 82

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Launched Thursday around 3:30 pm with my 1st mate Matt. Only ramp open is Hobie at Brown's Ravine. 5mph limit is posted for the whole lake now but it still doesn't get rid of all the wakeboarders or wave runners. F'ing idiots, I'm taking a painball gun next time to have me some target practice! =)

      Fishing was slow, 3.5 hrs on the lake and picked up three shakers, largest 1-1.5lbs. All fish were caught on spinnerbaits. We tried drop shotting, rattletraps, swim baits, texas rigged sinkos, buzz baits and nothing else produced a single strike. We saw another bass boat getting out of the water and they only got one fish....looks like the meat shut down for the day. We're heading out for a Saturday morning run tomorrow, maybe they'll be back in hungry mode.
      City: Rocklin

      Tips: You don't want any tips from the boat who just spent 3.5 hours catching 3 fish for a combined weight of 21oz...............

Tuesday, September 4th, 2007

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 74 to 76

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Had the opportunity to fish Clearlake for a couple of days during the week after the Labor day weekend.Fished primarily around Henderson point and in the several areas near Shag rock.Tuesday evening landed 10 bass ranging from 1.5 lbs to 2.5 lbs with two weighing in at 4lbs 8 oz. & 4lbs 11 oz.Almost all were caught slow cranking a Berkley Frenzy diving crankbait in Threadfin shad color parallel to the bank about 20 ft out.It was non stop action for a couple of hours.I also lost several near the boat along with a few that felt like possible 5lb+ fish that never made it into view.The larger fish came later in the evening on a pumpkin senko fished weightless on a 5.0 superline widegap hook close to the bank.The following morning was a repeat performance using the same technique.I had 10 fish in the boat by 9.00 a.m and I didn't launch until after 7:15 a.m.I would have to say that the Bite is still on @ Clearlake at least it was on Wednesday & Thursday!
      City: Manteca

      Tips: Cast out parallel to the bank as far as you can and then give it a couple of quick cranks to get it down and then back off and crank very slowly.They will Hammer it!!Use a sweep set to set the hooks.Go easy on the big ones!!

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      Water Temp: 75-80

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Some members of the Redwood Empire Bass Club fished over the weekend with mixed results. Like the previous report the bite was tough but they still managed to catch bass up to 5 lbs. on crankbaits,jigs,spooks and shakey head worms. Most of the fish were caught from 6 to 20 feet.
      City: Santa Rosa

      Tips: The Redwood Empire Bass Club is welcoming new members, both boaters and non boaters to fish with us. Our next tournament is at Clear Lake on September 22nd. Please join us at our next meeting on September 12th at 7p.m. at the Rohnert Park Community Center on the corner of Rohnert Park Expressway and Snyder Lane. Our guest speaker will be Wayne Hinrichs who will be sharing with us his success's on the WON and FLW Pro Tour this year. For more info log onto rebc.net or call me at 707-758-5762

  • San Francisco County
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      Water Temp: Cold

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished both Sunday and Monday for about 2 1/2 hrs each day. Caught 1 small bass at South Lake each day, tule dipping with 3/8 oz. black and blue jig with a 4" YUM Wooly Hawg trailer in pumpkin green color. The water appears to be falling and the tules are growing back at the John Muir Drive Pier.
      City: Daly City

      Tips: Try jig fishing the tule walls - vertically fishing each little hole in the reeds and swimming the jig occasionally along the points and breaks in the tules. Try to use jigs with a rattle and use scent, if you can.

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 77-79

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Spent 3 days on houseboat, walked the banks and caught lots of fish. Nothing over 2# but lots of 12"-15" fish. Caught fish on just about anything and all day long. My 8 year old son hammered fish all weekend swimming a smoke/clear colored grub on a 1/8 oz. leadhead.
      City: Mckinleyville

      Tips: fish mud lines and shade pockets.

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: 75-77

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Two members of Redwood Empire Bass Club fished the main lake throwing crankbaits, jigs and drop shotting in 15 to 30 feet. They caught 14 bass up to 3.5 lbs.
      City: Santa Rosa

      Tips: The Redwood Empire Bass Club is looking for new members, both boaters and non boaters to fish with us. Our next tournament is at Clear Lake on September 22nd. Please join us at our next meeting at 7p.m. on September 12th at the Rohnert Park Community Center on the corner of Rohnert Park Expressway and Snyder Lane. Our guest speaker will be Wayne Hinrichs who just completed a great tournament year by placing 5th in WON Pro circuit and 8th in the FLW Pro circuit for the AOY(angler of year). Log onto rebc.net for more info or call me at 707.758.5762

Monday, September 3rd, 2007

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 80

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Labor Day weekend has come and gone. You can see at the Big Island all the aluminum boats going for kokanee, trout and salmon between 55 and 80 feet. You can see the fisherman on the shorelines going for catfish with the bells on their rods. It was an extremely hot weekend and I choose to fish from the marina in the shade for carp, catfish and bass. In the evening the crappie were coming out hitting on minnows according to my friend Tony. George and his sons caught some carp in the evening and some huge catfish. Your best bet for catching anything was in the evening when the sun went down. I trolled in my favorite cove with my new jointed Rapala and caught six bass in less then two hours no size to speak of but it was fun. Hope the weather starts cooling down so we can get back to some serious fishing soon. These guys (see photo) caught their first carp at the dock with me and learned a little about being patient. When that 24 inch carp hit his bait and took off with it we had twenty minutes of fun as he brought the fish in. It took a combined effort of all three to land the fish and they did a great job!!! 'til next week....................................good fishing!!!!!!!!
      www.fishingconnection.net If you have any fishing stories you would like to share please email me at bestguide@hotmail.com or call me at
      650-583-3333.
      City: NAPA

      Tips: after the sun goes down more comfortable to fish

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

      Report: My God.....Do i have a story to tell you. Ok so my friend and I decided to catfish Clear Lake this morning. We got to M&M campground around 7am and baited up 4 poles with chovies. Within 30 minutes my friend lands a nice 7.50lb channel. After that we got nothing till 11am when i caught a small 3 pounder. Here's is where it get unbeliveable...at approx. 12pm my rod just goes from straight up to doubled over!!!! My rod was just BENT!!!! I quickly set the hook and was in for a battle. The fish quickly started spooling my 15lb test. It keeps taking runs while my friend keeps coaching me. After 5-6 solid minutes. We still dont even get the fish close enough to view it. As soon as it got near shore it kept taking monster runs. Finally we got it close enough to see it, my friend see's it first and shouts something that i couldnt believe. "ITS A STURGEON!!!!!!!" My reaction is "you must be mistaken" I horse it in where i can see it and sure enough, it had spikes. "ITS A STURGEON!!" Then i went crazy trying to haul this thing in and thats where i made a mistake. As it was nearing shore my line snapped "F#@%#^%%@#%@#@#&#*@!!!!!!!" Me and my friend just sat on the shore thinking of how we just F#$ked up. It had to be a good 30-40lber. People, there are sturgeon in Clear Lake. I know i will get alot of "ya right, pals" but it happened. Me and my friend plan on fishing the same spot after work tomorrow. Will report back!

      Tips: didnt get nothing the second time i went :(

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Clear Lake from 10-2 on Sunday and took 10 fish. The bite is still very tough. Half my fish came on the shakey head worm the other half came on the Senko, including my big fish of the day a 4-3. Best 5 went just over 14lbs. Fun day on the lake a lot of pleasure boaters but (surprisingly) very few fishermen.
      City: Petaluma, CA

      Tips: Be careful out there, water levels are dangerously low in some areas.

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: My God.....Do i have a story to tell you. Ok so my friend and I decided to catfish Clear Lake this morning. We got to M&M campground around 7am and baited up 4 poles with chovies. Within 30 minutes my friend lands a nice 7.50lb channel. After that we got nothing till 11am when i caught a small 3 pounder. Here's is where it get unbeliveable...at approx. 12pm my rod just goes from straight up to doubled over!!!! My rod was just BENT!!!! I quickly set the hook and was in for a battle. The fish quickly started spooling my 15lb test. It keeps taking runs while my friend keeps coaching me. After 5-6 solid minutes. We still dont even get the fish close enough to view it. As soon as it got near shore it kept taking monster runs. Finally we got it close enough to see it, my friend see's it first and shouts something that i couldnt believe. "ITS A STURGEON!!!!!!!" My reaction is "you must be mistaken" I horse it in where i can see it and sure enough, it had spikes. "ITS A STURGEON!!" Then i went crazy trying to haul this thing in and thats where i made a mistake. As it was nearing shore my line snapped "F#@%#^%%@#%@#@#&#*@!!!!!!!" Me and my friend just sat on the shore thinking of how we just F#$ked up. It had to be a good 30-40lber. People, there are sturgeon in Clear Lake. I know i will get alot of "ya right, pals" but it happened. Me and my friend plan on fishing the same spot after work tomorrow. Will report back!
      City: Orland

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 77

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished 6:30 to 11:30 a.m. Launched at Browns as I think its the only launch facility available right now. Put the trolling motor down and turned right out of Hobie cove observing the 5 mph.Fished a vixen and a buzzbait first hour with no luck, Then tried a fluke for thirty minutes with no results. Then went to jigs and plastic and started catching fish. Reaction bite was not happening for some reason. Ended up with eleven fish best five 12.5 lbs. Best fish just over 3 lbs.
      It was nice to have a flat lake to fish. 5 mph also forces you to fish water I normally would pass up.
      City: Granite Bay Ca.

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 67-74

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I had the pleasure of taking out a young lady, her fiance and his dad today. The lake was pretty windy this morning but I wanted to see if there was going to be any top water feeding. We found several top water bass early but the bite did not last too long. We moved up the North Fork for a short time and found several bass on some rocky walls throwing tubes. We then headed for the main body to fish a drop off with a mud line and threw lipless crank baits. It was real exciting to see every one slam some bass with those cranks. For just a half day they did real good with about 35 bass and 2 over.
      City: Paradise

      Tips: Visual top water, throwing pop-r's and flukes. Rocky points throwing tubes in clear sparkle and motor oil colors and looking for mud lines throwing lipless crank bait with shad colors.

Sunday, September 2nd, 2007

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 77-80.6

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Well it was only my second time to melones and didnt do to bad with all of the traffic. Started fishing at 7am no topwater bite. Fished the damn nothing. Then i decided to make a run up the lake to find steep rocky point and it paid off. cought about 25 fish in 200 yards of shorline. no size really but a couple 3 puonders. They were not to deep i would say maybe 10-15 ft. Baby brush hogs in green pumpkin seed were doin it for us. left at about 2 pm. to many jackasses on the water.
      City: Turlock

      Tips: Fish main points slow if you feel any tension set the hook its probably a fish.

Saturday, September 1st, 2007

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 70's

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: took my girlfriend out and launched out of bw a little before safe light.. started throwing crankbaits and immediately sw action. put a couple in the boat and decided to try a little top water. picked up my buzzbait and first cast had at 5.5 blow up on it. continued throwing with the bass just slapping the buzzer out of the water. switced back and forth with topwater and crankbait with success coming on the crank. flipped as the day got hotter. stuck a couple of 3's and 4's. top 5 going around 19lbs. all in all good day for not going out in 3 months
      City: elk grove

      Tips: fish your strenghts

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched out of Orwood around 6:45 am. We went to middle river and spent most of the morning there with 12 keepers. Most were solid healthy 1.5 to 2.5 lb fish. A lot of smaller fish were hitting the senkos, but we managed to shake off most and save some senkos from an early demise. My buddy did manage an 11 lb. 3 oz. largemouth in about 2-3 feet of water on a senko. We ducked into disco for awhile with minimal success then headed in around 1:00. It was starting to get pretty busy on the water and the ramp was backing up.
      City: Newark

      Tips: On the incoming high tide we did well with pumkin senkos. Most were relatively shallow near tules.

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 75-80

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Water still very clear for Sept, I could see from 1 foot to 5 foot depending on the area. Fished Sat from 10:30am to 7:00 pm by my self and got 10 fish to 3.5 lbs, I got 4 fish from 3 to 3.5 in about 10 minutes ripping a ghost 78 lucky craft, I had a 3 & 4 lber fighting over it at one point, it was very neat to see it happen, to bad the 3 lber won:) A friend of Bob's at Lake Shore bait and tackle said he got 15 ripping, I said in Sept he said yes, I love to rip so I ripped for about 1.5 hrs and got 4 fish ripping at 3:30 in the afternoon, that is just not normal in Sept! I also got a few drop shotting and a few on watermellon hula grup on shakie head. Fished Sat night with my buddy Devin, we got 14-16 fish to 2.5 on watermellon sweet beavers on shakie head and watermellon zoom trick worm drop shot.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: this year I have found Watermellon in any type of plastic works good with the clearer water, last year margareta mutilator worked better for me in the more stained water. If you fish at night fish off shore rock in the moon light, the shaded areas at night did not produce as well as the moonlit areas. Also, watermellon worked better at night than black or brown, those fish can really see at night.

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 72-76

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I took out a father-son team out today. The lake is changing every day so I had to find new water to fish. The morning top water bite was good but a lot of fish missed. Using pop-r's the guys did land one. We moved to the main body and found the bass out around 20-30 ft. Tubes and jigs were catching bass. We found the bass at rocky walls and points. We moved up the North Fork to find the water cooler but more sedament in the water from the river beds being exposed. Fished some shade lines there to get a few more bass. For a half day and they had 22 with 5 over.
      City: Paradise

      Tips: Every day is a differnt day. Keep moving to locate bass. Start looking deep for bass, the last few hot days and moon has spread the bass out.

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      Water Temp: 79

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fish scattered every place we went. Found some good area's holding better fish, however they will be dry ground before the FPT event in three weeks. A park ranger informed us they are releasing water at a rate of one or one and a half foot a day. That means 21' to 30' lower in three weeks. We caught 48 fish with the best five just over 10 lbs.
      City: Granite Bay Ca.

      Tips: Pre-fish 2 days before event

Friday, August 31st, 2007

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Started fishing around Channel Point with plastics and spinnerbaits. Saw alots of shad and baby bass including a 7 or 8lb bass swiming around, didnt catch anything after an hour. Went to the boat launch and caught 1 using a shakey head.
      City: Antioch

      Tips: Seems that bass are stuffing themselves with all the baitfish around so the bites going to be tuff. Caught my fish with a 7in purple roboworm.