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Monday, September 3rd, 2007

  • Lake County
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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.

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

      Report: Went out today to launch boat and repair damaged trailer brackets. I can confirm that the entire lake is a 5 mph zone and will be like this until SPRING..Yepeee! Now lets go fishing!!!!Yepeee
      City: EDH

      Tips: Watch out for rocks

Thursday, August 30th, 2007

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 71-76 NO WIND

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Had fun catching dinks all day(Franks)-Nothing decent to menation. Blistering hot with no wind at times. Still looking for some big bites...hasen't happened in the last couple trips.
      City: ANTELOPE

      Tips: Most fish caught on cranks and rip baits....once again nothing big.

Tuesday, August 28th, 2007

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: went out this evening from around 5:30 till 7:30 i stuck six only two would of kept but one was around three pounds looked like she was spawning I was throwing a darter head with a yamamoto spider grubs in multi colors but every color i threw got bit started getting more bites around sunset had to go because ranger was lockin gates
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Drag dart heads slowly back to the bank

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 63-72

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I had the opportunity to take a great grand father ,grandson and great grandson out Tuesday. With the full moon the night before I was not sure we would get bit in the morning. We started in the West Branch on points. We started late so the top water was not happening. We just threw tubes and senko's and the bass were every place we stopped. Took them down the main body and the same. With just four hours to fish, they boated 30 bass. Four over, the biggest at 16.
      City: Paradise

      Tips: We threw clear sparkle gitzits and pumpkkin senko's, targeting points and rocky walls, shade lines and shade side of rocks.

Monday, August 27th, 2007

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 74-76

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: When out of Paradise around 6pm and fished disappointment till sunset. Caught around 20blkbass on senkos and jigs. Largest was 11.3 lbs on a senko along the weededge.
      City: manteca

      Tips: Senkos in any color you have confidence in. Tried many colors and all of them caught fish.

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      Water Temp: 72

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launch at Orwood Monday at first light. Ran to Franks on the high out going and found fish tight to tulies alot of wind and current. Only managed about 12 fish, several under 2# and only 2 that went 3-4#. Overall very poor day. Fish really seamed closed mouth for me.
      City: San Ramon

      Tips: caught most on wacky senko and shaky heads

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 72-77

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Out by 7:30 fished off shore structure from 15 to 30 feet deep around the peninsula. Caught about 35 fish spots and smallies, biggest one was a smallie for 2.5 lbs. Most of the smallies were around 2 lbs. as the spots were around 1.5 lbs.
      Every fish I caught came on a 1/4 oz football head jig wearing a DT Hula grub in cinamon w/ blue flakes. My thumb hurts! What a day!
      This is the first time I catch any smallies.
      Back home by 1:30.
      City: Folsom

      Tips: Use the buoys as markers for structure, Parks and Recreation did a wonderfull job marking the spots for us...
      BTW. Not all the buoys are good spots...LOL

Sunday, August 26th, 2007

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      Water Temp: 84-86

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: A fine day at CFW. Spent yesterday fishing the mid-day shift from about 10:00am-4:30pm. Always nice to fish a little more challenging time than morning or evening.
      Worked most of the oiunts on the main boady of the lake, focused specifically on the windblown rocky points with md banks nearby, so I could fish some dirty water. Fished a Red craw Bandit 300, all day. i had tied up some new jigs the night before and they didn't do me any good! Stayed a cast length out and tossed up to the bank. Most fish hit the bait in about 4-6 ft of water or maybe deeper after the bait moved off the bottom into open water near the boat. Put together a nice limit of ~1.5 lbrs, and had about 10 other fish, including a nice 2.5 lb channel catfish. Also had one fish on that "felt" bigger than the others, hooked it in the same area, it ran under the boat and shook loose, I never saw it, but I would guess 2.5+, but with the way CFW Spots fight, who knows.

      And If anyone wants unauthenticated fish stories, a guy fishing from a kayak said he lost 2 bass, "Monsters!" at the boat, he said probably 5 lbs, seems a little far fetched, only those fish know the truth!
      City: Lincoln

      Tips: Put away the sissy dropshot and the shakeyheads, pick up the cranks and chatterbaits for some fast moving reaction bites. The water is dirty (just the way I like it!)and the water temps are up, the sots are cruising the off-colored water for a quick bite. you don't have to fish deep.
      Water level continues to drop and hopefully they will pull the dock further into the water!

  • Alameda County
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      Water Temp: warm

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished at Chabot for a couple ours or so and didn't catch a thing. Used powerbait and some pieces corn and not even a hit. Moved to a new spot and fished for about an hour with no results. Switched to worm and got a giant hit like 3 minutes later. Fish didn't stick, but the worm def. works better than power bait, try it.
      City: Fremont

      Tips: Worms worms and worms.

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 77

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Well.....My pattern didnt hold up. I had been throwing a swim bait in 2 different colors and real getting at em for a few weeks including bunch a 4's and 5's, 2-7's a 9.5. Today fished the WRL with my 8 year old daughter. She got big fish of 2.5 and broke off a 5 at the boat with net in my hand. She was drop shottin a worm. I got one swimbait fish and one droppin.3 fish ..... 3 fish. All my spots still had fish but the water had cleared up so much you could see everything. And they could see me. Had 8lb fish follow me but not take it. FRUSTRATING. 20 - 25lbs the last 2 weeks and Today we couldnt get a limit. At least I had a great time hanging out fishing with my daughter Michaela. Thanks.
      City: Petaluma

      Tips: ask the guys who won.....