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Friday, August 10th, 2007

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 73-76

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I took a couple of guys out today that wanted to learn how to catch bass. As in the past mornings, we started with top water pop-r's. The bass were all over them up to 16+ inches. We also used flukes and spooks all producing bass. As I was showing them how to use a spook, believe it or not, a 10# squaw fish slamed it right at the boat. What a suprise. We then started fishing with tubes on the banks and they caught one after another. Over 80 bass in a half day, the guys were pretty excited. We had about 10 bass over 15 inches and 2 over 16 inches with several double hook ups.
      City: Paradise

      Tips: Any shad color pop-r's,spooks or flukes are working well in the morning. The tube that produced the best this monring was the clear sparkle gitzit.

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 80

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Good top water bite until 9 or so. Spooks, sammys, Darter head worms later. M/dawn, oxblood.
      2 20 fish days.
      City: Auburn

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      Water Temp: Unknown

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Started out pretty early fishing from, around 8am. began with flipping a tube to some surface cover with no success. Saw 4 good sized bass go swimming by in front of me and cast my tube about 10 feet in front of them, got a nibble but the fish didn't want it that bad and spit it out. Moved down the lake and found a submerged log about 6 feet offshore, roughly 3 to 4 feet deep. Cast a 8" BPS Squirmin' Worm (Watermelon Red), rigged weightless & weedless to the side opposite of where I was and as it was floating down a bass came out of hiding and inhaled it. Landed the fish, probably about a pound, maybe a pound and a half. No action the rest of the day.
      City: Rohnert Park

Thursday, August 9th, 2007

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 72

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fun fishin with the wife today. About 10:30 get a nice jig bite around Franks. Turned out to be a nice 8.8 lbs. Moto mike has a bad back so I went with the wife. Bet he wishes he was there. It would have been a dollar fish for sure. Lots of different color jig worked but the depth was the key today. 15 foot.
      City: orangevale

      Tips: You need good current and depth. Slow down and throw that wadda jig.

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      Water Temp: 70-73

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched out of B&W and headed for Franks. Really windy started fishing new water around franks. Noticed that the water temps have dropped to near 70 degrees, I wonder if they're dumping water in the river for the salmon run? Caught a nice 8lb 8oz girl on a lipless crank but the others were all small around 2 lbs. Best 5 may have gone 16lbs. My buddy Paul also caught a nice 7 or 8lb stripper on a lipless. Posted pics of the 8lb 8oz but she is really thin and wonder why she is so kinny. She should weigh closer 10lbs by now.
      City: EDH

      Tips: Fish new water and enjoy the day with friends

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: You know nothing!! And never will!! U need to be a G to catch them at coyote. Not an internet lurker!!

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 73-77

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: First boat on the water, 3 spots in the first 20 minutes to 2.4lbs. Nothing till noon-found a drop shot pattern that worked for 4 additioal spots(same size) left at 3:00. Salmon falls bridge is Exposed! Can't believe how much this lake is dropping. A little concerning.
      City: antelope

      Tips: Early morning plastics in rocks-Topwater DID NOT work today.(EARLY OR LATE)Morning Dawn flukes got the afternoon fish in about 20-26 feet of water. Scrappy little fish!

  • Trinity County
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      Water Temp: 80

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: fishing was overall slow, but early am was
      good for BIG fish. over two days put 7 fish
      over 4.5 lbs in the boat with a 6.1 l.m. and
      a 5.7 s.m. all in 30 feet of water while using
      a drop shoy setup. use a rainbow trout senko.

Wednesday, August 8th, 2007

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 72-74

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Got another late start out Russo's,, bout 8:30 after BS'ing with the boys at the dock.. Tide was low a falling, no wind, water has cleared up a lot. Hit some docks in Piper with only a few little guys. Moved out to the track and saw a few followers and had a couple short strikes on the swimbait, but nothing impressive and only a couple in the boat. About 1030 the tide had bottomed and just started moving in,, now there was a slight breeze. Pulled up on a tule island and figured I'd give the drop shot (MMIII) a go.. bam, first one goes 6-7. I put her in the tank hoping to get another goodn' quick for a group photo,, 1/2 hr goes by and I get a couple rats and a 3,, then I stick another big dog off some wood,, she goes 7-10. I'm ready to head in cuz I don't want em in the tank any longer than neccessary. As I make my way around to the last unfished area I see some matted weeds and pick up the 797 magnum grass rod w an 1.5oz penatrator and a CA420 beaver.. Into the mat I flip and THUNK! She explodes on the hookset destroying the mat. I hadn't seen her yet but she felt big. Finally get a look and there's no way I'm gonna swing this one in..Reach out for the lip and she goes 9-1. I head back to Russo's for the flick and let em go back out in the track. Decide to give the Wake Jr. another try. The fish were repositioning with the incoming tide. Two hours later I finally found a few out in the current off a small island, stick a 3-11, 3-12, 3-15 and a 6-0 and that was pretty much it for the rest of the day. Best five went 33lbs1oz
      City: Tracy

      Tips: How is is that wednesday fish instinctively know not to bite on sat or sun????? If I could ever figure that mystery out....

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: i cught 1 bass 1.5 lbs on a live frog. then i hooked onto a big catfish or bass my pole doubled over and my drag was going out fast i have a shimano clarus medium heavy with REVO and that fish was big but i lost it. then i caught another small bass 1 lb on a watermelon seed wacky worm.
      City: p

      Tips: there are alot of frogs catch a few and use them. bass are killing them at the second dock.

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: warm

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: This was my third trip this year up to Melones. Again,lots of fish early. My two biggest fish came offthe lunker punker top water.They were 4.5 lbs and 5lbs. Lots of followers. Off the water by noon. Too hot for me.
      City: Farmington

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 73-78

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: With the high pressure system coming in this day, I thiught it might be one of those blue bird days. It turn out to be an outstanding day. I took out a prety good fisherman and started with some top water pop-r's in the North Fork. The blow ups seemed to be a litte short so we went to senkos and flukes in shad colores and what a difference. We boated about 15 bass with two over before the bite tapored off. We then went to the banks and covered a lot of shore line. We threw tubes, jigs, blades, lipless crank, and drop shot. Everything was working. With 80+ bass and 15 over the biggest being 2.72/lb we called it a day.
      City: Paradise

      Tips: With top water action there is more than one way to catch them. Try senko's and flukes. Keep moving on the bank and try different things. Bass were 1 to 30 feet. We fished rocky walls, flats and mud lines.

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 75

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Took some advice of previous reporters and utilized live craws. Went to the public hole (Levesque point) and worked the bait but no bites. I decided to let the bait crawl around and only move it a bit when it stopped moving. WHAM< WHAM< WHAM, nice fish abundant, even broke my line four times, ended up with a limit about 18 pounds, all smallies. The best trip I've ever had there and I will go back and camp out on that point.
      City: davis

      Tips: Live bait really works great this time of year and I guess all the other months also. I'm now looking for a wall hanger limit of five.

Tuesday, August 7th, 2007

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: mid 70's

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched out of Paradise at 6:00a. Found a weed flat on the San Joaquin as the tide started coming in and started swimming spinnerbaits/chatterbaits over the weeds and fishing the edge with Rat L Traps. In less than an hour, caught 11 keeper size bass and loss several too. Caught a bunch of small ones too. Biggest ones around 4 lbs. Best 5 around 17+ lbs.
      City: dixon

      Tips: Thanks god for 50 lb braided line. Had to drag most of the fish out of the weed flat.

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      Water Temp: Mild

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished this morning out of Oakley. Very low tide...threw a popper and scraped up a few. Went deeper with plastics and found some as well. Worms, Jigs, & Creature baits
      City: San Bruno

      Tips: Deeper off the edges of weed beds. Rock/Tule cuts.

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 72-78

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Finally....I broke out of my 2-3lb pattern. Nailed a 7.4 and a 9.5 on a swimbait. Fished South end. Saw and lost other "Big fish" Got a few small frog fiah and a jig and senko fish and a few more on the swimbait. Felt like spring with the swimbait action hot. Finished at noon with 25lbs. personal best. Would have been a bigger sac but 3 of the fish were under 3lbs. I take a near 10lber any day!!!! Thanks
      City: Petaluma

      Tips: I went back to my favorite swimbait in a new color and ...wow...it worked.

Monday, August 6th, 2007

  • Plumas County
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished lake almanor on friday afternoon and all day sat. Only second time fishing this lake and we caught some nice bass. We fished the east shore both days, We had planned to try the Bailey Creek area but had no reason to leave. We nailed them on Norman deep little N crankbaits and X-raps when the sun was up. The biggest on Friday came from the X-rap it was 3.4 pounds. We were working both baits fast. Saturday morning gave up a pretty good topwater bite on poppers and props. the biggest topwater fish was 2 pounds. We caught more fish later on roboworms, X-raps, and crankbaits but nothing real big.
      City: Paradise

      Tips: we were fishing the whole east shore. Most of our fish came on the points, but we caught fish everywhere. When we caught the big one on Friday there were two or three smallies following it in that had to be anywhere from 3-5 pounds. We hit that spot again on sat. morning and thats where we caught the 2 pounder on topwater. I wont fish this lake again untill next year so I dont mind telling you guys where we were. There is a point on the east shore just north of someones crawdad traps. There's 3 or 4 bouys marking them. There are some fat bass on that point. Great Lake, great times.

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 76-78

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I guess this was the most amazing August morning I have ever seen at Clear Lake in over 30 years - chilly and high fog all over the lake - BUT - no wind!! And, NO carp rolling - they are shivering somewhere! I took a father-son from Southern Cal for their first visit to the lake. I had the 13 year old using a junebug 8' worm and he put the first 4 in the boat. Dad waited for the right moment and nailed his first Clear Lake bass - 5 lbs 9 oz in deep water at Sea Breeze. I had him using a black/blue Yamamoto Kreature bait. We fished rock piles and rocky banks down south for 23 bass and a 21 1/4 lb limit. The young man landed 8 bass on his first formal bass trip! Dad landed another nice one at noon, 4 lbs 10 oz. When the sun did come out around 11 am, the bite really slowed for awhile. I imagine the weather has really got the bass confused this year!! I took a husband/wife from the Chicago area on Sat and found the bite to be off a bit, landing only 18 bass. Bass boats everywhere! We did land 2 over 5 lbs and lost 2 good ones. He spent much of the day rippin' his Rapala lure but it only produced 2 or 3 bass for him. The Yamamoto Kreature bait was again the top bass catcher but Senkos were working well also. Once he gave up on his rip bait and switched to the Kreature, he was hooked and made a quick run to Limit Out tackle after out trip to get some to show the bass in Chicago! The jig bite has slowed a bit but is still good.
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: I decided to try rippin' my Lucky Craft 128 hitch colored bait during todays cloudy morning and had the 2 best bites - they nailed it, a 2 1/4 and one nearly 4 lbs. Both trips featured a huge bass following a hooked bass right up to the net. I actually made a swipe at a 7 or 8 pounder with the net - just missed her. Late spawn? Amazing! I have noticed that some schools of bass that have been in place for some time seemed to have moved and concentrations of bass seem to be a little more difficult to locate - at least in the south end. Black, blue, and purple (junebug) in various combinations still seem to be the favored colors. My favorite brown/orange seems to be out of favor right now. That has got to change!! Best depth for us seems to be 13 to 18 feet. The water is trying to take on some color (and smell!), especially in the Rattlesnake arm.

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      Water Temp: warm

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: i've been going to shadow cliffs for about six years and usually have luck every tme i go out there, but this year its been terrible. I went out there in my float tube and used every thing and only caught one small bass on senko.

      Tips: try using different stuf to get the fish to bite.

Sunday, August 5th, 2007

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: warm

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Friday I took Stan and his grandson Jack out for the day. We looked for bass near the BOR to no avail. We saw a lot of boats near Big Island going for kokanee so we decided to give it a try. We had one downrigger at 55 feet and the other at 65 feet trolling for about a half hour with no luck. We headed out for the Ranch house to try our luck at bass again. Stan hooked up to a nice smallie in about 15 feet of water using a plastic crawdad. The lake was full of feeder fish but surprisingly we didn't see much top water action. When we got back to the dock Jack went for carp and caught a very large one. The morning bite was real tough but the afternoon bite was great. Dave brought his kids and their friends down to see my boat and I showed them how to fish for carp. All fifteen kids did very well. We made plans to meet on the dock again on Saturday morning. Scott had three bass take his bait but was not able to land them. Jeff landed a nice size fish. The rest of the day I spent with my family. Abe went fishing again late Saturday night and caught quite a few fish (see photo). Sunday the temperature had dropped quite a bit and there was some wind we headed out for a family day and found a nice cove to anchor in. I hoped with the cooler weather the bass might co-operate but it was still a difficult bite. Early afternoon we saw some whitecaps forming but by the time we headed in a couple of hours later it was like the ocean we got back to the dock soaking wet and chilled to the bone. All in all it was a fun weekend. 'til next week.........good fishing!!!!!! www.fishingconnection.net
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      City: NAPA

      Tips: be prepaird weather can change quickly