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Thursday, July 19th, 2007

  • Mason County
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      Water Temp: 74

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: A duplicate report of T2's except I only caught 8.
      Got the first and biggest of the day on a DT watermelon HulaGrub on the rocky point near the launch ramp, 2#+ (dragging uphill). Very, very windy all day, 1 foot chop with white caps. Caught the rest dropshotting small plastics off of rocky points (15-25')and a few cranking a Rapala DT10 sunfish imitation in the mudlines near stickups.
      City: Monterey

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 74

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: well, I tell you what, This is worth the 2 1/2 hr drive any day of the week. This is a real Bass fishery, not a wannabe. Took my 11 year old boy anda rrived early out of Redbud but found too strong of a North wind in my favorite top water spot where I slammed them last year so I had to find the calmest water and that was Buckingham. I quickly nailed a 4.5 on the spook and thought the game was on. Only managed a couple more so I took off to brand new water down south out of the wind, any small little cove I could find to escape the 3 ft rollers and nailed 3 more on the spook including a 5.4. Once sun was up I just targeted the shady docks with my drop shot rig and I tell you what, I have never caught this many 4 lbrs in my life and many 3's. We weighed our first few to make sure they were 4's and sure enough the first 5 were all over 4. It was amazing. took lunch break at 1:00 and started up again in the same spots and you got it, the replenished with a new stock of 3's and 4's. Ended the day around 5:00 looking for shade with top water and the spook came alive with a huge 6.6 that fooled me, I was sure it went 7 but tripled checked the xtool only a 6.6. She was wide but had that post spawn skinny thing going(see photo). ended with 40+ fish for the day best five went just under 26. What a blast!
      City: sac

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      Water Temp: 79-85

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Well, really it was my first time fishing Clear lake. I gotta say I had a great time. I mainly fised of the docks of the resort I was staying at, and just killed it!! Almost every cast between 5:30pm and 8:30 was ringer! 2 - 3.5 good fighters all on ZOOM lizards and senko's wacky rig style. On my last day about 1:30pm I got my biggest fish yet 5.5 pounder. My personal best! Now to most people thats not too big, but for me with no boat and no fancy fish locator, I think thats good! In all cought about 25-30 fish on a dock in a 4 day span.
      City: modesto

      Tips: I did real good with 6" ZOOM watermelon red Lizards and any green color 6" senko. My dad had luck with 4"-6" swim baits (minnow and crappie)

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: idk

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: fishing was harsh today. lots of wind. decided to quit the senko for the rest of the day and use a thomas boynton for some crappie. one bite. one bluegill haha.

      i noticed the weeks before this day i saw threadfin shad jumping like crazy in the creeks. im guessing there is active bass in the area.im going there when the wind cuts down.
      City: santa rosa

      Tips: go when the wind breaks down

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 75

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Did well at night, caught one 4.2lb spot, and a few over three, several two's. First time fishing here, overall did well for a very clear lake. Mainly spinnerbaits at night
      City: medford

      Tips: Black spinnerbaits and rattle traps

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