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Sunday, July 1st, 2007

  • Santa Barbara County
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      Water Temp: 74 deg or so

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Crystal clear water to left of marina and progressively cloudier to the right.

      Drop shotting with a kid and his dad. They got a couple each and had a good day. Fish on the the flats near the drops, esp across from Santa Cruz. Lots of marks at 25 ft or so.
      City: Santa Barbara

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 69-75

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: We had a tough day on Sunday. Worked some deeper points and flats and could only scare up a few small fish. Moved to several locations but still not much action. Water was murky and the wind was blowing hard. I threw an AC 7" swimbait most of the day with no takers. My partner caught some fish on a brown and orange jig with a watermelon/red Big Mama trailer. He also caught about a 4 with Junebug brush hog. I had one nice fish on a crankbait that jumped off and a few smaller ones. Best 5 about 11 pounds, no help from me.
      City: Concord

      Tips: No tips this time around, Delta got the best of us Sunday.

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Hit disco, Had 2 limits in a hour. Sinkos were the ticket. Only down spot was when a resident yuppy started yelling we were to close to his empty dock. Was actually pulling out a snag full of lines and hooks out of water. should have left it there for his feet to find. blew lower unit, but that didnt make as mad as the yuppy.
      City: Sacramento

      Tips: Check your braided line, nicks break easy. re-tie often.

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Early start in Middle River. Tooswerd live crawdads on 65 test braid. Couldn't keep them off my presentation. #0 pounds by eleven .
      City: Tracy

      Tips: They want something real that they feed on, ask Andy Cuccia, he has a trap for this time of year.

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 75+

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Shakey Shakey at Clear Lake! I fished Sunday tucked away from the wind on the southside along the shore below Konocti Resort. I did ok with a smaller Reaction Innovations Screwed Up Jig and a watermelon Zoom Trick worm in the calmer water. Out on the open points I used a Spot Remover Magnum and the same worm. That is about the biggest shakey head jig I have and the water was deeper off those points so I wanted to make sure it got down there quicker. Probably had 15 fish to the boat, biggest 4+ a few under 2. Lake was pretty rough Sunday so I didn't move much.
      City: Oakland/Clearlake

      Tips: Smaller fish up tight, bigger fish out off the shore a little. Bite shut off where I was (for me) around 1pm. I was using 2 newly home built rods. One was a cheapie American Tackle Matrix blank and the other a G Loomis Spin Jig IMX Slate number SJ723. Guess which one I liked better? The G Loomis felt great, but I'd like to fish it more to see what I like and don't like about it for dropshot and lighter jig fishing. The Martix blank was just so so. Even considering the price it felt kind of dead in my hands, and to put in the time to build a rod I'd rather have a better finished product. Next I'm building a Batson Rainshadow blank. I'll be interested to see how that compares to the G Loomis.

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      Water Temp: 70.5

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: My neighbor John and I decided to hit Clear Lake to see if it was still as good as we experienced last month. We launched out of Clear Lake Oaks and hit 4 walls with very little wind. After getting some light on the water I hit a 5.8 on a Senko in about 8 feet of water with 8 pound line. After a little fight we were on our way to a day of wind, and some good jig fishing. John decided he realy didn't like his brand new Bass Pro Shop fishing pole and snapped the last 6 inches of it off while trying to get lose of a snag! Brown and purple jigs with a cinnamon and purple trailer was the ticket as John (with my rod) decided to catch more than his share of fish. I had a few more and did manage to catch my first frog fish........not a toad though!
      City: Sacramento

      Tips: Senko's and jigs......slow!

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      Water Temp: warm

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished for 2 hours this evening with some new gear from Bass Pro Shops I got for Father's Day. I never Fished shaky head worms until today. THEY WORK! I caught Only 1 fish...But it was 25" inches(this was the first time I didn't bring my scale). I will guess about 8 lbs. plus. They raised the lake back up and the fish have moved up into the tulies again.
      City: Antioch

      Tips: Try shakey worms in watermelon or green pumpkin on a tungsten jig head. Toss into the tulies...these fish seem to be picking off bluegill and dragon flies.

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: high 70's

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished humps again, first cast 7 pound smallie, didn't mov eoff hump all morning, hookups werer fantastic. left early before lice got there.
      City: Davis

      Tips: Get a spot for post spawners, get the hell offf the lake.

  • Leon County
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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: buddy and i rented a boat today. fished from 3-9pm. sunny and breezy. caught 20+ dinks in the afternoon. caught three 2# and one that was about 5# (in photo section)towards closing. fish were holding in 10-15 ft of water. all fish were caught finessing and all were C/R...
      City: pinole

      Tips: find the color of the day and stick with it yeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.........

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 76-80 F

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched at the spillway 6 am and fished til 7 pm. Started the day off in the west branch and made our way into the north fork. I was drop shotting robo worms with minimal luck. My partner was throwing his kalins grub with some luck. Stayed with the same pattern til about 1 pm. We ended up going into the middle fork and I started throwing my favorite jig with a cinnamon blue fleck yamamoto trailor and started to nail them. We ended up catching about 40 fish all day with a couple nice 3lb spots. Seemed like all the bigger fish wanted that jig.
      City: Roseville

      Tips: Every nothing bank that had a rock pile seemed to produce, wish I had figured that earlier in the day.

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: high 70's

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished mainbody humps, 30 40 ft, using medium crawdads. Caught one about nine lbs, six over four pounds early. Later on fished certain points where current was available with trout showing, caught two more around tweo to three pounds, then a whopper about eleven pounds. Got broken off by a monster just past the five mile an hour zone.
      City: Stockton

      Tips: locate the trout, that's what they are feeding on, but craw fish are an impossible offering to pass up.

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: 78

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Two friends from Redwood Empire Bass Club caught 12 Bass up to 3.5lbs on jigs, senkos, and crankbaits mostly in the main lake last Friday.

      I would like to congratulate the winners of our night tournament at Clear Lake last weekend.(10 fish-two weigh ins) 1st place with 54.11 lbs. was the team of Tim Schlander & Brandon Service with an 8.0 lb. kicker. 2nd place with 51.06 lbs. was the team of Jerod Adams & Pat McGee with a 9.04lb kicker(2nd big fish) and third place with 41.39lbs. was the team of Steve Adams and Greg Fina with a 10.53 lb. kicker(big Fish)caught by Steve Adams which was his personal best.
      City: Santa Rosa

      Tips: Redwood Empire Bass Club would like to invite new members both boaters and non boaters to fish with us at our next tournament. It's going to be a night tournament on August 18th at Lake Sonoma from 6p.m. to 12p.m.The signups will be at our next meeting on August 8th at 7p.m. at the Rohnert Park Community Center on the corner of Rohnert Park Expressway and Snyder Lane. For more info log onto rebc.net or call me at 707-758-5762.

Saturday, June 30th, 2007

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 76 surface

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Thanks again to those who provided tips on Night fishing! I did give it a shot Friday 11pm-3am, and did OK, no size, but it was cool to catch fish on blades at night! No real size, 1-2lb, and a few 2-3lb on big worms, nothing on jig or slammer. The next evening bite was much better, my girlfriend tore em up on bigger worms and while I hit and missed on a popper for lots of 2-3lb blacks and a few smallies(one 3lbr on the popper). She lost a solid 5+ when it dug deep into the weeds on 8lb line and spin rod, and I lost one about the same when it jumped and threw the popper. The next morning was much slower, but still managed a dozen or so up to 3lb on worms, and also a big catfish on a plastic worm! Even with the all the lake lice and idiots on PWC's buzzing within 10' of swimmers, moored boats, and me fishing...the fishing was excellent and only saw one other bass boat the whole time.
      City: SF

      Tips: Few on Buzzbait, sammy, and prop bait, but small popper had more and bigger bites. N o need for 4" handpours this time, fish were hammering 6-9" worms. Jig, BBH's, Spider grubs got bit, but nothing like the big worms texas style and shakey heads.

  • Santa Barbara County
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      Water Temp: 68+

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Trout fishing is very slow with only small ones comming up. The last plant were all small. The Bass bite is still on and I landed a nice 4 lb Bass drop Shotting from shore at E-point today. I have been working E-point and the Cistern using Drop shot Robo worms and Texas Rigged senko's. The smallies are over by the Cistern in 3 to 10 feet of water. They seem to like the senko's and the large mouth are also in 3 to 10 feet and seem to like the Robo worms (Ox blood red flake). Lots of lake fools buzzing the shore with their boats just to cause waves, but it takes all kinds I guess. If you rent a boat, go where people are not, seem like a waste to pay so much money to fish where you can from shore for free and really there are not that many trout being caught a e-point. Look towards the Cistren or even sweet water. What trout are to be had are deeper and they seem to be moving towards the dam.
      City: Santa Ynez

      Tips: Trout are hitting Power bait, Dark Green or Rainbow they don't seem to be interested in worms right now.
      Bass are all over the Drop shot Robo worms and Texas rigged Senko's from shore. Fish them slow

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 72-74

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Slower than most trips that I was accustomed to on the delta. This place makes people take fishing granted sometimes. fished from 7:30 to 12:00 and hooked up with 20+ fish or so (for both of us). Battled against others for spots to fish that were in a tournament. I don't mind sharing water, but when I come up to a spot and start pulling up fish, and another boat fishing the opposite side of the bank pulls up their trolling motor and jams over to my side of the bank (200 ft ahead of me) and starts fishing...that ticks me off. I understand that you're in a tourney and you need fish, but PLEASE...there is still etiquette a$$h0le. perhaps i'm wrong for being mad, but does that seem right to get cut off 200 ft esp if your approaching a hole that has lots of structure and you wanted to approach it slowly?

      Anyways, wind was blowing all day so it stirred up the water. Big boat traffic plus 15-20 mph winds made it hard to control the boat. best 5 went about 14.5 lbs. Caught majority of fish on traps. lots of hits on senkos, but fish were smaller.
      City: el cerrito

      Tips: Parallel rock banks that have isolated tullie brush. Di-sect all isolated structures and fish them slowly. Fish are bunched up and you can pull 2-3 fish on one piece of structure. Also look irregularities on the banks...any rock piles that stick out more so than the others around it usually hold fish as well.

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      Water Temp: 79

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Joe Miller and I got in the water at 5:30am (the gate opened up early for people to get out). Cranked down a rocky bank on the main body, on fish on a buzz bait. Started using Capt Jack's Jigs in Brown/Purple and Green Pumkin with Green Purple flake. After staying in the main body until 11:30am using 10 jigs we got 40 + spots and largies to the boat. Our best was 15 lbs +.
      some of those largies felt like a five plus, but only 3.0 lbs +. Good day on the water with my new Jigs.
      If you would like some just email me.
      City: Rocklin

      Tips: Fish the rocky banks, rocky banks in 5-20 ft and slow.

  • Ventura County
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      Water Temp: 76

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Early launch to investegate my new home waters. I fished topwater all day long ( until 2 ). I had a few fish slap my buzzbait so I changed from all white to more of a shad color and caught 4 fish to 4 pounds. As I cruised the lake I'm always amazed to see nothing where I think fish should be and then find a little pocket less than 20 yards long with 10 fish over 5 pounds staring back at me. The big zara spook immitation I'm throwing started catching fish around 11:30 when the mudlines started to form.The fish came from deep and shallow and wanted a slow retrieve with as much walk the dog side to side action you can give it without moving it forward. If had not been so hot I would have hung around longer as the topwater seemed to be getting better but it was over 90 and and still climbing so I split.
      City: Ojai

      Tips: If you are looking to catch fish a drop shot on the submerged island just might the ticket. If the shad pop up in the back of a cove a shad colored crank needs to be at the ready.

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

      Report: Spent a week at Clear lake and had a great time cacthing fish. Fished with Guide Bob Myskey on Mon. and got my personal best 8 lb 14 oz. on a Sammy top water.Also got a 6.8 on a Shell Cracker. Ended the day with another 6.2 on a popper for 31LBs in best 5 fish. Bob Myskey is without a doubt the best guide I have ever fished with.Just a note,Stayed at Konocti Vista and on Sat Morning there was a small club tournamentin which someone in that club ran into my boat and caused pretty good damage to my motor housing. There was no one else moored there. If the guilty one reads this have some guts to at least apologize.
      BK
      City: Washougal

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      Water Temp: 75

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I guided two guys today - caught nearly 50 - over 20 lb limit - thank you and goodby! Bet none of you thought I could make my report like that - you're right!! These reports are getting boring - someone needs a slow day for variety!!!! Anyway, this morning was chilly (amazing weather for this last week of June) and windy and the bite started kind of slow for us. The lake is dropping a bit so we concentrated on off-shore structure the whole trip. We didn't catch any real big bass, maybe because of the previous report - they caught them all! Seriously, the night bite is on because of the full moon and clearer water. Most of our bass were caught deeper than 15 feet - on rock.
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: We really tried to force the jig bite and it was ok, but the worm bite ruled for us. Again, green pumpkin was just about all we threw. We used Berkley Power worms, Dead Ringers, and drop-shotted the MMIII Robo worm. We did break off a big fish drop-shotting.

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      Water Temp: 71-75

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: friday night we launched at clearlake oaks hoping to be able to night fish. The wind was so bad that the olny place fishible was backside of rattlesnake island fishied all night and into next morning caught 70 plus fish most going 2-5 pounds and 6 bass over 5 pounds including a 5-1 5-3 5-9 6-7 and a 7-1 all were caught on a blue and black jig with a beaver as a trailer we also caught a 17 pound catfish on a rock on the far side of rattlesnake next to some docks on a jig

      Tips: leave ever thing home except a blue and black jig