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Wednesday, July 18th, 2007

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: ??

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Went out with my dad and i pro angler. Started the morning throwwing topwater in bass alley with buzz baits,spooks,and frogs.Didn't get one blow up there so we started to fish docks and tullies with frogs and buzz baits got about 15 fish off topwater going bout 2lbs-6lbs. then when the sun came up we started to fish flats and structure fish using jigs blue and black patterns and shakey heads with mmIII.Then we started to fish deeper water with drop shots and shakey heads with pretty good resluts.When the wind picked up we found little coves and personal marina throwing watermelon red tubes and frogs.Once we went back on the main lake we threw rattle traps and senkos.Then we fished bass alley again with jigs and shakey heads. By the end of the day we over 45 fish and 10 over 6lbs.The best went 9.8 on a senko.
      City: castro valley

      Tips: KEEP IT WET!!!!

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: cool

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: What a beautiful cloudy day. Expectations were very high because of conditions. Got one fish about one pound and that was it. Did food chain go deep or what, I don't know. I'll leave it up to biologists to figure that one out.
      City: Loomis

      Tips: Pray before you go, it may help.

Tuesday, July 17th, 2007

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

      Report: Actually, if this makes the previous poster feel better, I caught the 7-3 a few minutes before I picked up my clients. I included it as part of the total report. Did you forget about the "7" the client caught? He caught the big fish on our trip. Hope you can sleep now! Noticed that you didn't mention his fish on your stupid post. Glad you read the reports however. Have a good day.

      Tips: Don't think a tip would help here!

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      Water Temp: 80

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Great job Larry, catching the big one in front of your clients, again. Great job, money well spent to see a big one caught.
      City: ollimpdick

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 76-78

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: just moved here two weeks ago ,this lake is awesome .got into a buzzbait bite early 10-12 to 5# then swiched to jigs .brown and orange with sweet beaver trailer worked best 10-20 feet deep caught lots of fish to 5# got off water 12:30
      City: lakeport

      Tips: buzzbait shallow early then move out

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      Water Temp: 78-81

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: got on the water at 6:00 and started with topwater. baby bass rico was the only thing i could get them to hit. caught six but only one was 12+. Switched to a jig in the tree's in the 5 mph. The bite was consistent and the fish were bigger. best fish was 5.2 off the jig. caught them until i left at 11:00.
      City: chowchilla

      Tips: I love this lake. 15+ fish in only a couple of hours. catch and release so everyone can have this much fun. get on the water early and off early to avoid the heat.

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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: My buddy went fishing this morning for a couple of hours and caught two. They were pretty puny so he let one of them go. the second fish was about a pound. Since there hasn't been a report on this site for sooooooo long, I would suggest going to fishsniffer.com.
      City: Fremont

      Tips: Give reports, or go to fishsniffer.

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Killed the bass this last weekend, monday and this morning. Nothing but crankbaits along the mud line. Deep divers. light colored baits worked best.I actually did much better when I had that mud line to fish, when the ski boats left it slowed down a bit. Thats strange to me.
      City: chico

      Tips: Hey scott! I'm lookin to catch some cats this weekend and I was wondering what boat ramp you guys were on? Was it Lunt road? thanks!

Monday, July 16th, 2007

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Got on the water at 0430. Could not get the top water bite going for me. Started with the crank bait, hold on. Caught 6 fish in six casts. Biggest was 4lbs 10 ounce. It kept up the whole time I was there. Off the water by 1030. Great day.
      City: Chowchilla

      Tips: When I was leaving I spoke with the ranger. He said the lake was at 57,000 feet. The plan is to drop it down to 11,000 feet before summer is over.

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      Water Temp: 79-84

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: We were on the lake from 6 am to 3 pm. We caught 30-35 fish. 6 were between 2-4.5 lbs. Caught them on Oxblood worms and watermelon lizards Carolina style. Water has dropped 10 feet since last Saturday and still dropping.
      City: Los Banos

      Tips: fish submerged rocks.

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: warm

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Same as last report. had 17 pounds, smallies, largies, spotties. Saw Mike from C & C Marine catch four nice fish whilst I caught and released a nice one on a river turn in the South Fork. Bite continued until I left at 11:00.
      City: sac

      Tips: White chatterbaits and chartreuse Heddon Super spooks were the ticket. Seeyah tommorrow.

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      Water Temp: 78-78

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Did a dawn patrol with a friend, on the water at 5:40. Boated first fish at 7:00a.m.3 lb. 14oz. spot-2nd fish at 8:00a.m. 5lb.12oz L.M.The only 2 fish we caught for the day , but a nice total of about 9 lbs. or so. We missed about 5 others- off the water by noon. Wind, wind, and more wind!!!
      City: antelope

      Tips: Most of the hits came in about 20 feet of water with plastics. Great day on the water!!!!!!

Sunday, July 15th, 2007

  • Mason County
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      Water Temp: 75

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished from 2-6PM. Very windy. Caught 22 bass in 15-20ft off wind blown points. Used crank bait and drop shot cut tails. Mainly fished mud lines.
      City: Foster City

      Tips: Fish points and mud lines in 15-20 ft of water.

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: warm

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: The weather has been very warm at the lake for the past couple of weeks and this makes the fish act different. For example, Tony and his father Mike went out with me last Friday at noon Tony was throwing topwater and landed this 3lb bass (see picture) and Mike at the end of the day landed this 17lb catfish on the surface. In between the fishing was sporadic. I went out that evening to my favorite cove, where the water is disappearing rapidly, and topwater was what worked for me. The following day we landed alot of catfish and alot of carp. Fishing with my friend Willie one of his students caught two carp in a few minutes time on very light equipment. Those who never tried fishing for carp before should try it at least once. They put up quite a fight on light tackle. A week ago my neighbor's daughter at the dock caught this large crappie (almost 3lbs see photo). A couple of years ago this young girl caught her first carp with me and now she loves to fish and does very well. Abe's girlfriend caught her first catfish at night using hotdogs. Good job!!!! These young ladies wouldn't touch the fish but didn't mind holding the net to show their catch. All in all it was pretty productive and as always alot of fun. 'til next week............good fishing!!!
      www.fishingconnection.net If you have any fishing stories you would like to share please call me at 650-583-3333 or email me at bestguide@hotmail.com
      City: NAPA

      Tips: TOP IS HOT,SHALLOW IS BEST THAT IS WHAT WORKED FOR ME,crank a minus over the hydrilia then pow

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      Water Temp: warm

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: The weather has been very warm at the lake for the past couple of weeks and this makes the fish act different. For example, Tony and his father Mike went out with me last Friday at noon Tony was throwing topwater and landed this 3lb bass (see picture) and Mike at the end of the day landed this 17lb catfish on the surface. In between the fishing was sporadic. I went out that evening to my favorite cove, where the water is disappearing rapidly, and topwater was what worked for me. The following day we landed alot of catfish and alot of carp. Fishing with my friend Willie one of his students caught two carp in a few minutes time on very light equipment. Those who never tried fishing for carp before should try it at least once. They put up quite a fight on light tackle. A week ago my neighbor's daughter at the dock caught this large crappie (almost 3lbs see photo). A couple of years ago this young girl caught her first carp with me and now she loves to fish and does very well. Abe's girlfriend caught her first catfish at night using hotdogs. Good job!!!! These young ladies wouldn't touch the fish but didn't mind holding the net to show their catch. All in all it was pretty productive and as always alot of fun. 'til next week............good fishing!!!
      www.fishingconnection.net If you have any fishing stories you would like to share please call me at 650-583-3333 or email me at bestguide@hotmail.com
      City: NAPA

      Tips: TOP IS HOT,SHALLOW IS BEST THAT IS WHAT WORKED FOR ME,crank a minus over the hydrilia theb pow

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 70-76

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Lot's of 2 & 3 pound fish caught. No swimbait or topwater action for us. Got a good jig bite in the morning with watermelon red jig and matching trailer. Caught several decent fish on a white Chatterbait pulled over the weedline at low tide. Had one hook up on the Chatterbait where I thought I had a Striper as it was taking a lot of line and not coming up. Got right next to the boat and jumped and came unbuttoned. Very nice LM probably close to 8. Partner caught the big fish (4.8) of the day with June Bug/Red Brush Hog under deep dock.
      City: Concord

      Tips: Still trying to catch that big swimbait bass; however, Jig and Chatterbait were catching a lot of numbers in the 2-3 range.

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      Water Temp: 73

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: fished coochie jigs in sandmound behind coochie's hose, they wouldn't touch the best darned thing. I started throwing senkos couldn't keep them off the hook.best 5 24.5, biggest fish 8.9.
      City: Livermore

      Tips: fish senkos behind coochie"s house

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

      Report: Got out at 5:00 am Sunday morning and it was windy, really windy. Tried to stay in water that was for the most part protected from the wind. A few early fish on a lipless crank and flipping texas rigged plastics in 1' to 4' of water. Bite picked up as the sun came up. Alot of fish shallow hoding tight to rocks and fallen timber. Areas with a mix of rock, tullies, and fallwn timber were best. Alot of 3 to 3 1/2" lb. with the biggest going 7.3 lbs.(lipless) All in all best 5 for about 22 lbs. Off the water at noon with 35 boated bass.
      City: Lincoln

      Tips: Flip tight to cover and make repeated cast at different angles. Slow roll lipless crank with speed changes and pauses, the lipless needs to make contact with cover. We used most colors in the box with darker colrs producing slighty better than light ones.

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      Water Temp: 77-79

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Where are all the posts? I know people are fishing the lake - I saw boats coming and going as I traveled the opposite direction with my night schedule. Another night trip after a nice one Fri evening at Amador! After almost no breeze there, Clear Lake was simply nasty Sat night - wind never let up and blew everywhere! Guiding under those conditions with no moon can be and was stressful!! Our best bite however was "the whole trip". It can be summed up like this: 65 to 70+ bass in the boat with a non-stop bite, another 50+ missed bites, and ONE bass over 4 lbs. Yes, that's right - one 4 1/2 lb bass was big fish! We were fishing an area in the narrows about 8 pm where we were hooking bass non-stop for an hour with my second trip in a row "triple hookup"! Most of these and all of our bass were in the 2 to 3 1/2 pound range with even a few 12 to 13 inchers caught. We probably only had 6 or 7 in the 3 to 3 1/2 lb range. My clients were "self-contained", using mostly their favorite personal jigs and worms. The jig bite is still ON!! The first few places we could actually fish in the Oaks arm, they had 11 or 12 in the boat. I tried to fish a little and had 1! Boat control was my mission for the night. In spite of the wind, we had a fun night with more bass than I have seen in awhile, but still amazed at the lack of quality. Our best 5 probably went 18+ lbs.
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: It is very hard to say much about this trip in a helpful way since the wind dictated everything we could and could not do. I had lots of plans for the big lake section but didn't want to risk that in the dark of the moon. Since the wind was swirling, the lake never got terribly rough but it was unpredictable. We found our fish very active on rocky bottoms and steep drop-offs. 20-30 feet of water nearby usually provides some larger bass, but not this trip. Catching 12 and 13 inch bass usually means that big bass arn't active. That had always been a good barometer for me. In parting, you should have seen us try to fish Dollar Island - the 50 foot or so section that was protected from the wind. Finally I just headed to the end of the island into the wind with the Minn Kota on high. Hey, we caught a few!!

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 77

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went up South Fork and fished a few rocky points. 4 LM and 1 SM within 25 minutes for a 10lb total, nothing huge, all on Spinnerbaits. Colors= all white and all chartruse.

      Best day on Folsom in a while....... make that ever.
      City: Rocklin

      Tips: Take luck with you, it's more fun when you have it.