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Saturday, July 28th, 2007

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      Water Temp: 75

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Two of us only caught 4. 2 on a Pop-R, biggest 3-8!
      One on a DT HulaGrub. One on an olive Bitsy Jig with green pumpkin trailer.
      City: Monterey

Friday, July 27th, 2007

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

      Report: Looks like I won't be fishing the stockton bass tournament tomorrow because I was involved in an accident and my truck maybe totaled. Good luck to all you guys at stockton bass tomorrow and be safe. I might still be able to make the TOC it all depends on how everyone else does. Of course I'm fishing the rest of the season because my partner and I had a falling out and we will not fishing together anymore. So it looks like I'll be finishing the year solo.
      City: EDH

      Tips: Be careful out there!!

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 80ish

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I took my 9 year old daughter to sample the action. We got a late start, 10 am and really didnt catch a fish till a tad after 11am. Rodstrainer jigs made up the bulk of our fish. I only caught one fish over three pounds today, but it was a good one, 6.25. Not long and skinny, but short and fat. I saw a group of fish shallow in the rocks and cast a jig in 1 foot of water and brought it by them. One ate it. That does not usually happen in July at 11:30am. Then my daughter throws her senko in the right vicinity. and before long yells that she has one....what a nice fish for a 9 year old. 2.75lbs. She hooked another, but it broke off down below the boat. The farther north(shag rock, henderson) we went, the tougher the bite was. This may have been due to the time of day also, 4pm. Finished up down south in some trees w/5 more, but only 2 of them were big enough to write home about.
      City: yuba City

      Tips: Unlike others, I saw millions, ok, maybe only a million shad today. They were bunched up in the shade near henderson. I also saw what I believe were many schools on the meter.

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      Water Temp: 75-80

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fishing was great. I was standing in the water in the north area of clear lake and I saw bass literally 3 feet from my legs. I caught 8 off of senko rootbeer and watermelon. One bite off of buzzbait near the docks. Everytime I caught a fish there was others following along! A seven-pounded was following my bass! As always shad been swimming everywhere! I used my new abu garcia revo/lamiglas senko special and it was great! Good fishing buddies!
      City: santa rosa

      Tips: Switch up colors of senkos. Go wacky with gamagotsu's weedless hooks(ewg). Also try Xrap minnow or shad look alike rapala's in the beds around 7-8 feet.

      (bass are around 7-10 feet around beds and vegetation)

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      Water Temp: 73-81

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Alert! Shad spotted!! Actually I saw one 3/8" shad dying on the surface near Anderson Island. Hope that wasn't the LAST one!!! I did spot a few tight small schools of bait on the meter at about 25 feet in the south end. Let's hope! I finished 4 days of guiding Mon-Thurs and found nothing new - the bite is still good though average size is down a bit. While many appear to be on a slim-fast diet, we did get some that looked like bass from last year - they must have found those shad schools! Highlights included my longest-standing client (since 1984) having a great day Wed landing many bass including a 5 pounder in spite of lots of pain from a recent fall. On Tues a father brought his 11 year old son who had never fished much before and never caught a bass. He could cast however. The Clear Lake bass hope he never returns as he was 9 for 10 - 10 bites and 9 in the boat up to 3 1/4 lbs. I watched in amazement as he started pitchin' to docks with a spinning rod with no hint from me as to what pitchin' was or how to do it. Talk about instincts!! He is a natural! We fought the wind Mon and Tues and then hoped for a breeze to cool us off on Wed and Thurs. Forgot what a flat Clear Lake looked like! Overall, fishing was excellent with counts of 26, 32, 35, and 40+ bass caught and released. 3 of the 4 trips were teach-the-lake and techniques trips - moving around a lot looking at different structures. Pros-to-be in the making - especially the 11 year old!
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: The algae that was forming in the Oaks arm during the last short heat spell has all but disappeared. There is pretty good water color however. The normal early morning summer carp splashing did not happen much this week (south end) because of the cooler water I guess. In keeping with that, the bass activity didn't really start for us until later in the morning, except for a few buzz-bait fish up to 4 lbs. The jig bite continues to be great with black/blue the best color. Brown/orange produced a few yesterday. Junebug 10" Power and 8" Dead Ringer worms were excellent too. The Yamamoto Kreature baits were the baits of choice however - Junebug (#213) the best and green/pumpkin (#301) second. We used Senkos yesterday a lot with excellent results - hooking bass up to 4 1/2 lbs. Best colors were 912, 921, 927, and 213. We found lots of shallow bass yesterday crusing around in the weeds from 3 to 6 feet deep. Even spotted a few under docks in the shade - thought it was spring revisited!! I nailed a good Senko bass under a sailboat but lost it half way in. One of the fellows yesterday did some drop-shotting with 5" Senkos and did very well - hooking the biggest of the day. If you haven't used the laminate colored Senkos yet - you should!

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      Water Temp: cold

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I realize this posted will be deleted (as will Tom's, hopefully), but I must say I'm with you Warren. Tom, I've read your Loma reports with respect and interest for a while (and yes, I'm one of Brentwood's "finest", I guess). I'm a human being, with a loving family, college educated and a 6 figure income. Your broad assumptions, categorizations and venom are disappointing. Still hard for me to believe people can hate you for just being. Did you tell the guy you were working a fish, or just storm away cursing every person of color?
      City: brentwood

      Tips: Find God and lighten up. This isn't what fishing is supposed to be about.

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      Water Temp: Cold

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Tom, thanks for the fishing report, however, in case you didn't know God gave everyone life...even you. Keep your hatred and bile to yourself and just submit fishing reports. You ought to be grateful that you've got a $12.00hr job. Oh I'm willing to have a one on one bass tournament any water any time I'll take vacation to make it happen...this will be for all those down trodden folk you so despise. Check-out the water clarity...CLEAR....I see what you represent.
      City: Vallejo

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      Water Temp: 79

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Big blow ups on topwater.Only landed 1 fish...8 lbs. Worked another big fish for an hour until someone weaseled his way up on my spot from a float tube.I float this lake a lot too, but there is an etiquette when on the water and this ass never heard of it.I have fished this lake for over five years and caught lots of huge bass.This is a quick getaway for me to escape the crap like this city's "section 8" crisis. So now these bastards are invading my favorite fishing hole.You just can't escape Antioch's "finest" now.I'm pissed that now they even have to crowd you out of a fishing spot WHILE you are actually working a big fish. Time to hit the Delta where they haven't yet traded in their "Escalades" for bass boats.
      City: Antioch

      Tips: Tight lines to all of you who are hard working, don't milk the system, and have a sense of respect and ettiquette while out fishing.

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      Water Temp: 80

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished New Hogan Friday for some stripers. Got there late, 9 am, and didn't notice any boils. Started bass fishing and hooked and lost a nice on a spook. Caught a few bass and then noticed a boil across the lake. Got into quite a few boils but didn't seem to be tossing the right baits as we only caught two. Oh, well it was fun as always.
      City: Concord

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 84

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: At the lake for our annual week-long vacation. It was a weird week to say the least. We normally pull alot of fish off main lake points, but got very few there this trip. Also noticed that all the hits came very close to shore. Nearly every fish we caught was puking up crawdads, so of course, we switched to crawdad imitations, but things were still very slow. We also noticed that because of the rapid drawdown, the crawdads along shore by our houseboat were very active all the time...we could look off the front of the boat and see them moving any time of the day. We finally devised a tactic where we would find a rocky stretch of shoreline (not necessarily near a point), and pull the boat in parallel to the shore, hold in about 6-8 feet of water, then cast parallel to the bank. We started catching more fish, mostly on plastics & shad imitations. Never caught a fish worth bragging about (lots of dinks), but did get maybe a dozen or so in the 2-3 lb. range.
      City: Fernley

      Tips: Work shallow along rocky, gently sloping shorelines with plastics and shad imitations (I did pretty good twitching a fluke on a darter head, my buddy caught most of his on a Mystic Shad-R). Best times seemed to be right before dark, or early morning before the sun hit the water.

Thursday, July 26th, 2007

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

      Report: 8lbs 7oz off one of the main points (my secret spot). Spotted her following my worm all the way up to shore...she did this three times, just followed the bait to shore. On the fourth cast she took it in about 4-5 feet of water, 15 feet from shore.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: I've been going out from 5-8, I'll work the points and mudflats from 5-7, and then move back close to the picnic grounds area and fish the shallows. work worm super slow, all the bigger ones seem to be hitting on the drop, or when the worm is motionless.

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

      Report: Fish a half day on Friday so we stayed close to Franks track. My buddy caught a few fish using a brown jig with a smallie beaver trailer in the 2-3 pound range. I was throwing black and blue and not getting touched. I could get bit on plastics, but the quality wasn't there. The best fish (3-5 Lbs) came on a reaction bite, blades and red rattle traps in 3-6' of water.
      City: Walnut Creek

      Tips: The best way to improve your fishing is to get a network of friends and put time on the water. Devil mountain bassmasters is a group of friends that fish together, share information and our goal is to have the best on the water experience. We are an active club that hosts speakers and offers a friendly, but competitive monthly tournament each month. If you would like to join in on our fun, please go to www.dmbass.com and come check out a meeting, we have room for more boaters.

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

      Report: Went out from 4:30 pm. til past dark. I was happily suprised about the fishing conditions. We caught 'em on everthing we threw. We had numbers and good size for summer-time bass'n. Fish were shallow, and we caught them on bottom, suspended, and on topwater. Best 5 were just over 15 lbs.
      City: Rocklin

      Tips: Take kids fishing.

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      Water Temp: 76

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Wow, that last post was brutal to read. Jimmy boy really needs some spell check on these forums. Or another beer.
      City: Placerville

      Tips: Hooked on Phonix

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

      Report: Glad to see the posts here. I haven't fished the Lake in a couple of months, but did catch a very big bass a while back. I didn't have a scale with me, but I would conservatively estimate around 9 lbs. Someone on a bike, riding the trail at the South Lake bridge saw me bring it in and came down to see the fish. He said he didn't know there were such large bass in the lake. Unfortunately, I have no pictures. Hope to get back soon...

      Mike
      City: Daly City, CA

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 75

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Went out in the afternoon and got hit on my first and cast and wouldn't you know it was my biggest spot yet, 6#. I ended up catching 15 fish in about four hours, nothing big accept for the first one.
      City: Redding

      Tips: Through clear line and cast far from the boat so the fish don't see you.

Wednesday, July 25th, 2007

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 77-78

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched out of Paradise with a friend and ran to some new water in preparation for Saturday's Stockton Bass Tournament. Can't tell you much bit we fished mostly in Franks using jigs and worms. My friend hooked into some really nice fish and we managed to land them all without a net. Talking about old school, try landing a 7lb bass by lipping it oh Yeh! Anyway he caught a 7lb, 5lb and two 4lbers best 5 going almost 21lbs. I'll post pic's of his fish after Sat tournament. Great job Paul (You're a good stick), I had a great time fishing with you and look forward to more trips in the future.
      City: EDH

      Tips: I used ledge fishing technique that I learned last week while guide fishing with Rich Thiel. He's a great guy and I highly recommend him if you want to learn delta ledge fishing.

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      Water Temp: 82

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Went out for a little night fishing. Not a great bite only boated 5 fish. 4 of them were dinks, but one was my new best! An 8lb even. The water is still dropping I think the lake will be just a puddle in a few weeks.
      City: Chowchilla

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 87-89 surface t

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Water sucks due to an amazing amount of boat traffic, and large drawdown. Caught some on plastics, but very few on reaction baits. Might as well fish an entire arm to get 10lbs... but you may only get 7lbs. Fishing is terrible at this point.
      City: Redding

      Tips: Go catch some frog fish on a lake with some cover.

Tuesday, July 24th, 2007

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      Water Temp: 81

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished after work from 6-10. Lots of shakers but managed two decent fish in the trees and once the sun set caught another five on top water along the dam. No monsters but the top water was sure nice. The water continues to drop almost daily. Happy Fishing! .......
      City: Lincoln

      Tips: I found out that they lock the north gate at 9:00 PM on weekdays and 11:00 PM on weekends