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Monday, August 13th, 2007

  • Mason County
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      Water Temp: N/A

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Well got there a little after 8:00 and had to wait in line a bit for the pleasure boat's but they did a good job.Hit the first rocky point from the ramp in 30' and tried drop shot.My first drop I got a loop in my line and by the time I had it out I had a fish on.Ended up with three off that point all typical Anderson fish about a pound maybe.

      Left there and went and fished the drop off by the back picnic area at the south end of the lake with same rig but never had anything.Then went and fished directly under the bridge with same and cought four more but two were over 2 lbs.

      All of a sudden fish were busting the surfuce for awhile and after about five differant offering's without a look I put on a Kastmaster and cought 7 more fish some very nice for Anderson.

      I seen some of the shad they were chasing and I have seen them in here before and they were to me huge.They were all of 3 1/2" to 4" long.Why they would only hit a small 2" Kastmaster is beyond me.
      City: Salinas

      Tips: To the group of people fishing off the bank the LEGAL limit on Bass is 12" minimum length and only FIVE.

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

      Report: thanks for the tips george, you left not one. here's a tip, use the weight formula by measuring length X length X girth divided by 1200. Here's another tip, senkos for the big fish on high tide.
      City: concord

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 73-79

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Being a guide on Lake Oroville, I've met a lot of great clients and made a lot of friends. I was really excited to have two of them ask me to guide them on Clear Lake on Monday. We went out at Red Bud and went to the tules by Indian Is. to throw some spooks. With no luck there I tooked them to the Pirates Cove area to throw senkos off the deep docks. It did not take long before they were into the bass. The morning bite slowed at noon and the winds also picked up so we went Anderson Is. and the Glendhaven area to throw crank baits and lipless crank baits on the flats up to the drop offs. They picked up 6 more nice bass before it was time to head home. They ended up with 27 bass with a 6+ a 5+ and many 4lb bass the best five went around 23 lbs.
      City: Paradise

      Tips: We used senkos in many colores, water melon, pumpkin,blake with red flake were the most productive. We targeted the deeper docks.

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      Water Temp: 78-81

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: there was a small topwater window from 5:30 to 7:00. was on the water with 9 in the boat. the biggest was 3.12.caught couple of them jiggin in the tree's. once sun was out found them dropshotting in 20 to 30 feet.
      City: visalia

      Tips: had a guy on the bank ask me if a fish was big enough to keep when it was only 15 inches (maybe). when I told him no he said f**k it and said he was gonna keep it anyway. Took some convincing for him to throw it back. where is fish and game when you need it! becareful there was a boat up on some exposed rocks, hope its ok if he gets it off

  • San Francisco County
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      Water Temp: Warm

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: LMB man, go to photos, submit photo. J, I'm still looking for those spots after 10 years of Hawg Hunting here. Bought a pontoon and 12' Gregor this summer to find them. I find it disturbing that people I meet fishing here hide there catch because others make them feel bad for keeping it. I go fishing because it make me feel good and people should be proud of your catch. I used to keep everything I caught when I started 40 years ago, but now realize I'll never catch my 8+ if I keep the 5, 6 and 7's so they always go back. 1-2 lb'ers always end up on the dinner table. 8-4 pic I posted was caught by my daughter and her choice was to release it.
      City: Daly City

      Tips: Catch and Release - To each his own. If you do eat the fish out of this lake, be careful to fully cook it, they have alot of parasites (nematodes).

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: FYI TO ANYONE THINKING OF A GUIDE TRIP ON THE SAC RIVER FOR SALMON STAY AWAY FROM OUTDOOR ADVENTURE/ KIRK PORTOCARRERO HAS TO BE THE BIGGEST A-HOLE ON THE PLANET SAVE YOURE TIME AND MONEY HE CARES NOTHING ABOUT MAKING A PLEASANT TIME FOR HIS CLIENTS .
      City: corning

Sunday, August 12th, 2007

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 73

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: lauch out of Lundborg 7am, caught few three ponders, my buddy Tony caught his personal biggest bass over 8 lber at 9 am, after that we keep catching 5lbers, 6 1/2lbers and 7 1/2 lbers. what a great day at delta. best five bass over 30lbs. we almost went fishing for tuna today.thanks for the bad weather forecast on ocean. will fishing again next sunday for Persauder tournament. have fun on water!
      City: el cerrito

      Tips: color of lure.

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 74

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: On the lake at 6pm, ran up past 5mph buoys, fished wacky rigged senko's on the rocks. color didn't seem to matter caught and released 6. The largest was a spot at 5lbs 12 ozs. It hit a junebug color. getting out at the ramp was a zoo as the water skiers still have not figured out how a que works.
      City: Sacramento

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 72-76

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Sunday I took two brothers out. Being that it was Sunday and the week before school, I was hopeing that it wouldn't be too crazy out there. As it was we didn't have much traffic until 12 noon. We started out with top water pop-r,s and flukes. The guys could not believe the feeding frenzy that was happening. That bite was on from 6:30 to 8am. We then went to the banks throwing tubes. This was a new technique for them as they missed a lot of bites, but still boated 72 nice spots. They were pretty excited about the day with 10 over and 4 over 16 inches.
      City: Paradise

      Tips: For top water action, throw close to the bank on points and coves and look for feeding fish out in the open water. On the banks, the points and walls produced bites from 1 to 15 feet. Look for the shadows on rocks for your targets. The clear sparkle gitzits produced the most bites.

  • Westchester County
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      Water Temp: 78

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went out for a couple hrs in the tube and got some nice catfish for the dinner table. They have been planting some nice channel cats and it is starting to show now. The fish came on nightcrawlers about 15 feet deep.
      City: S.L.

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: idk

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: water is very clear. bite has slown down. water is low(dropped 2-4 feet). fish are jumping but not on senkos, spooks, buzzbaits...caught 1 on a thomas boynton spoon when i was fishing for crappie. crappie is always pretty good over there and the size is not to bad.

      im only fishing yorty creek so probably a better spot would be the mainlake with a bass boat
      City: santa rosa

      Tips: fish crappie if you dont have a boat.

Saturday, August 11th, 2007

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      Water Temp: 70 ish

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Only two fish cought on the (non-swimming) beach. One 1/2 pounder and one 2 1/2 pounder. only spent a quick hour on the lake from 6:30-7:30. Both on senkos dark green. Had a hella of alot of bite, but they didnt want to smack the bait. I had nibbles and wait a good 10 sec to make sure he was on there! Funny and fustraiting at the same time!
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Senkos.. darker colors about 10-15 feet out from the bank.!

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 72-73

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: after a few weeks of deep water lake fishing, and not catching many fish worth braggin' about, finally brought my boat back to the delta. it was unreal the amount of quality bass that hit my lure, especially after battling the 80+ bass boats on the water. finally got my first 20+ lbs bag of fish, (easy for most of you here, but has been a challenge for me). Got a real nice crank pattern going near franks, and instead of burning down the bank, I stayed on fishing spots a lot longer, and plugged away as the tide was falling. picked up on a really great pattern where I would pull out a fish with crank, then stay in the same area with a weightless fluke. the fluke would was a great follow up bait and helped put the bigger bass in the boat. I noticed that each time my crank would hit the water, little shad or minnows would fly out of the water. So that's what gave me the idea to toss a fluke. 20+ fish pulled into the boat, best five going over 20lbs (only had my bogo grips to give me an approx weight)
      City: el cerrito

      Tips: stick to isolated tullie clumps and just watch the water for a bass ambushing the lure. too much fun!!

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      Water Temp: Nice

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Sounds like big daddy doesn't have any class. I saw those two guys fish and they were very helpful to me on how they did it. Great guys. Me and Sam my partnet only had twelve pounds today. Keep your chin up and keep stroking the big ones.
      City: Davis

      Tips: We tried top early, cranks and spinnerbaits but caught our fish on drop shot. Franks was our area for today.

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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Daylight started south got an eight, tide was off a bit so went northward a bit and finished off with 34 lds. Left at 11:00. Was not using jigs.
      City: sac

      Tips: pay attention to current and shade.

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 76-80

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: As some have mentioned, the bite has slowed a bit and I feel that the bass are moving, possibly because of slowly dropping water level. Wed night a husband/wife team did ok - she caught 3 before dark and he and I caught a few too. i got another on a #128 ripbait. After dark the bite was good after the first hour and for the next 2 or 3 hours and then slowed. I landed a 5 1/2 on a jig near Frasier Point and he lost his big bass a little while later in Honeymoon Cove. I had him throwing a Yamamoto Kreature bait which he threw very shallow and got nailed! She jumped and that was it - maybe 4 1-2 to 6 lbs. Darn! They missed a lot of bass that just wern't taking the baits very well. We did end up with some nice bass however for over 21 lbs for the 5 biggest. Friday was the same story, but for a different reason. I had two nice guys wanting to learn the lake better. They learned a lot about the south end (out of Red Bud) and I HOPE something about equipment. One of the fellows brought two or three trout rods - one was a step above a "Snoopy" rod!! Needless to say we had mid-air releases one after the other! With my G. Loomis rods - I didn't do much better! I lost two good ones and they did too. The bite was good however on black/blue jigs and Kreature baits, along with junebug worms. #301 Senkos caught their share. We didn't land any quality bass but caught quite a few. They promised me they will be looking at some bass rod catalogs soon!!!!!!
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: The water is finally getting some color - even in the south end. This is about 2 months late. The all day and all night bite seems to be changing to the more typcial summer bite - early, late, and 1 to 4 hours after dark. I think we are all having an interesting year trying to figure everything out. I think I noticed that most of the tournament boats that came south on Friday in the morning did not return in the afternoon. Maybe the bite up north was better.

Friday, August 10th, 2007

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

      Report: Nice try buddy. I don't think anybody will be giving you any fishing information until next week. There are tournaments on Saturday. You will just have to get out there and fish to find out what is happening in Franks.

      Bassman
      City: Tracy

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Hey blue daddy ranger, I really enjoy your postings and feel that you have good knowledge out on the water. I have a question for you. I fish mostly on the south side of the delta up to about fourteen mile. I have no knowledge of franks and was hoping to get out all day tommorrow to give it a try. where do I start and what type of water to I look for? It sounds like you throw your wake bait a lot which I do not. And it also seems like you tend to stay near visible structure like tullies and weed mats. I know that many people fish in the middle of franks but its all so overwhelming. Any info would help. thanks a bunch.
      City: manteca

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

      Report: Fished the south end of the lake Thursday from 5:30 am till 12:00 pm. Caught 20 plus bass up to five pounds. The bite and size had slowed down from last week. Caught well over 40 fish with five fish around five pounds last week. The larger fish this week came on flukes around shallow weed beds. Sure is fun seeing those large fish shoot out of the weeds to take the fluke. Most of the other fish came shallow on a dropshot rig with MM III Robo worms. Last week I caught most of the fish at the deep end of docks. They didn't seem to be there this week. Clear Lake is a great bass fishery. It's rough when 20 fish a day feels like a let down.
      City: Rancho Cordova

      Tips: Keep moving till you find the fish. They seem to be moving around. Also, the water level is dropping so watch for shallow rocks.

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      Water Temp: +/- 80

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Started at about 8pm. Seemed like lots of boats on the water. Tried jigs, spinnerbaits, swimbaits, worms, cranks, the whole box. One fish about 3 lbs and one about the same that came unbuttoned. Fished til midnight. Worst fihing ever for this lake.
      City: Fresno

      Tips: Wish I had some. LOL