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Monday, July 2nd, 2007

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 76-80 F

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched out of Markley around 5:30 am fished til 3:00 pm was tired from the day before at Oroville and it was hot. Started off in the north side of the lake with a jig that was producing the day before with very little luck. My partner threw his kalins grub and was nailing them. So I switched to the good old drop shot with my favorite robo worm color and started to catch alot of fish. We moved around alot fished Putah creek a little past the 5 mph and caught quite a few in there no size though. Moved over to Portugese cove and it was on fire. I never caught so many LM at this lake I mainly catch SM and spots. We ended up with about 50 fish biggest one was a nice 5lb LM that couldnt resist my robo worm.
      City: Roseville

      Tips: Keep switching it up I tried everything, topwater in the morning. I was also throwing my new huddleston shad with no luck. jig with very little action. The drop shot seemed to be the ticket today. I caught most of my fish in the inside bend on all points leading into coves if there was a mud line it seemed to be better.

  • Ventura County
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      Water Temp: 75-77

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Hit up Casitas on monday - only about 10 boats on the whole lake. We caught fish all day but nothing big. 34 fish total for the day with 90% at 2-3lbs. Good topwater bite in the AM and wide open on cranks like DD-14's all day long. Stuck it out untill about 6:30PM

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      Water Temp: 80.1 to 83.4

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: This lake is still producing bass to 4 pounds top water and jigs and crankbait seen to be catching most of the bass. There been a few bass caught in the 7 and 8 pound range but most bass are 12 inches to 4 pounds. Traffic is light on weekdays but heavy on the weekends the lake is droping about 5 feet a week. Early morning bites been good and the late evening bite also. Lake is on it way down to 10,000 arce feet min pool. 559-689-3255
      City: kerman ca

      Tips: Again trees drop off rock piles and under water humps these places will hold bass as the lake drops. big structure is starting the show now.

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

      Report: PS> What type of lake would this fishery fall under?
      City: Sacramento

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Hello Everyone.

      Has anyone every had any luck on Natomas for bass? If so, would you mind helping me out as I want to take my 5 year old son out on a trip there?
      City: Sacramento

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.