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Saturday, June 30th, 2007

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I used to love to take the family to Contra Loma to picnic. Taught my 2 sons to fish on the banks. Reminds me why we don't live there! BTW - hate to tell you but there's diversity on the Delta also, thankfully.
      City: Orinda

      Tips: Classism +/- Racism = Ignorance +/- Fear(Go back to school and complete basic mathematics 101; do your part to help raise the collective IQ of the community!)

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      Water Temp: n/a

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Took the kids swiming today and one fishing pole with a shaky head and a few senkos,I never fish from shore to much boat our tube but today from shore.I saw two good fish up shallow and threw the small shaky head they would look but it did not feel right to me I left them alone for a couple hours went back and took them both on a senko first cast the male swam and nailed it big male at least 5 lbs I let him go and went after her she took it on the 3rd cast dead sticking it she went around 7-8 lbs pretty cool did not think I would hit any spawners and on 6 lb test spining rod go figure HA
      City: Pittsburg

      Tips: See some spawners and catch um then please let them go back in the water

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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I CAUGHT A 8-9 POUNDER TODAY ON A BLUEGILL SWIM BAIT AND I ALSO CAUGHT A 4 POUNDER. I THINK THE BASS ARE LOOKING FOR BIGGER FOOD THEY CAN EAT BECAUSE I TRIED WACKY WORMS DROP SHOTTING AND SHAKEY HEAD AND I DIDNT EVEN GET A BITE. THERE ARE BIG BLUEGILL EVERYWHERE ON THE LAKE SO I THINK BLUEGILL SWIM BAITS ARE BETTER FOR BIG FISH.
      City: PITTSBURG

      Tips: BLUEGILL SWIM BAITS

  • Riverside County
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      Water Temp: 80

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Started at first light. Fished in 10-30 feet of water. Caught 23 fish on drop shots, darterhead panic minnows, and small topwater. Key for me has been keeping the plastic baits on the bottom.

      Had a 7lb & 5lb class fish and a 3.8lb. Should have entered the Ironman event today; I would have done ok. :)

      See pic here:
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      City: Hemet

      Tips: Fish slow. Use light fluorocarbon line (I use the new Visious Fluorocarbon Fishing Line obviously).

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      Water Temp: 76-79

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I have been to Eastman twice during the last two weeks. On June 24, 2007, the bite was on all day and the quality bite was on also. We had two limits over 20 lbs with the best five 23+ lbs. Big fish was 6.56 and we had another 5 lb fish. We caught fish in Topwater, Jigs and swimbaits. On June 30, 2007, the bite was all day but the quality was off. We did have one big fish between 7-8 and several other fish in the 2-3 lb range. The bite was a little bit slower, most likely due to the full moon but all in all we had a great time.

      Tips: Topwater and Jigs were the best producers.

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      Water Temp: 81.3 to 83.1

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Very light traffic for a friday night and the size of the bass were also smallier bass from 10 inches to 2 pounds. Big bass was 5 pounds caught by fishing partner Dewayne Lucckesi on 1/4oz arkie head jig hunter green jig with 208 watermelon twin tail yamamoto grub as a trailer. Bass were in 12 to 35 feet of water. Very windy again and the top water bite was slow for us.
      City: kerman ca

      Tips: rock piles flats with deep water points are all holding bass here.

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: is thair anyone post reports on this place anymore looking for a perduct-fishing pond
      City: Tulare

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

      Report: Does anyone know any good spots at merced?
      City: SF

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

      Report: Started out early using a Lunker Punker Trout spook. I at least 10 blowups and landed 7 Bass along the points. The largest was 7.9 and the rest were in the 3-4 pound range. One of my best topwater day so far. Ended the day tossing jigs.
      City: Paradise

      Tips: Throw bigger topwaters first light around points and hold on.

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 74-75

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I took a grandpa from our church and his two visiting grandsons, age 11 and 18, for a fun trip to Oroville. As has been the case this year so often, the youngest showed the oldest how to catch the biggest! He landed a 15 1/4" spot on a prizm shad Robo worm. Actually, his older brother landed a big spot in the early morning, but jumped out of the boat as he was unhooking it! She looked to be 16" or more - but was over the slot. I caught a 15 1/8" and we boated 27 in the 4 1/2 hour trip. We fished the north fork main body points early but the south wind forced us into coves later in the morning. The bite continues to be good - we just fished shadows as much as we could and then moved deeper as the sun got higher. Oroville continues to provide fun fishing, especially for the young ones just learning1
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: With 4 in the boat, we just threw worms - 4 and 6 inch Berkley Power worms and Robo worms. Morning Dawn color did not work well, but prizm shad and green craw worms did. The black 4" Berkley Power worms caught some too. I did try a Rodstrainer jig and caught a few also - wasn't sure if they were still working as summer approaches. We drop-shotted some Basstrix flashtrix minnows and the youngster even mastered that too. Future pros in the making!!! Stay in the shadows as long as you can. Early fish were 15-20 feet deep and later down to 30-35.

Friday, June 29th, 2007

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 76

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: ANYBODY KNOW HOW TO TELL THE WEATHER BUREAU THEY ARE FULL OF POO? DROVE ALL THE WAY TO THE LAKE EXPECTING 6 MPH WINDS. EVEN IF YOU DOUBLE IT YOU DON'T GET 20+? fISHING IS STILL WIDE OPEN.
      City: orangevale

      Tips: THROW RATTLE TRAPS IN THE WIND. WATERMELON COLORS WORK BEST FOR PLASTICS. Good luck feeling the bite though. Really would like to know what the weather will be before driving for 3 hours. Those 3 foot white caps wear me out.

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Anyone have any luck here lately? I'm planning to head out tomorrow, and was wondering if anyone has had success with trout or catfish from shore.
      City: fremont

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      Water Temp: 72

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: great day! I caught 2, 7 pounders and a 13 pound whopper.
      I caught them all float tubbing by the dam.
      City: stanford

      Tips: find out when the DFG stocks trout and throw a 10 inch swim bait near the dam and you'll catch em

Thursday, June 28th, 2007

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 77-81

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished with a friend from 5 pm - 3 am on a Thursday, couple days before full moon, strong delta breeze in afternoon that died at night. Daytime fishing was slow except for dusk which was just okay. Night time bite didn't start up until about 11:30 pm. Total of about 15-20 fish. Most baits worked - only baits NOT productive were topwater and jig.
      City: Folsom

  • Santa Barbara County
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      Water Temp: 71 Early Mornin

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Started Fishing early morning around 6:30 am. I hit the east side of Arrowhead island for no takers. I threw a Rapala XRap 4" glass ghost colors for no takers. I then switched to a drop shot Oxblood robo color for nothing as well. I made my way around the south side of the island eventually to the east and switched between a silver 4" top water zara spook, robo worm and XRap. No takers. I decided to move to a little deeper by going over to the Chalks Bluffs. I finally got my first hit off of a drop Shot in about 15 feet of water. I continued for another 20 minutes for no takers. Fished in front of the Restricted Area on the drops and caught 4 - 5 dinks. All caught on drop shot robo's oxblood. Gotta love the smallies!! Got a little windy so I cruised over to the eastern Chalk Bluffs Point. Worked my way North for no takers. I threw everything but the kitchen sink. Cruised North to Johnson Canyon and threw a drop shot setup again. No takers. I switched to a spinner bait and got a couple taps, no takers unfortunately. Decided to finish my day in Bobcat Canyon. Caught a couple more dinks on drop shot. Man those smallies fight good!!!
      City: Camarillo

      Tips: Drop shot seemed to be the best weapon. Did not see any Shad this time. I think the full moon had a large effect on the bite. Tight lines.

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: warmer

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: fished deep docks in Taylor and some deep grass in sandmound with live crawdads. Probably around twenty four but I didn't weigh them. Had a good time.
      City: tracy

      Tips: Craws work great this time of year for the big ones, they is kinda picky.

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 74

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished with Jack Rosetti on Monday and what a great fishing day we had catching a total of 45 bass up to 5.8 lbs.(caught by Jack on a 5" wtm/rd/blk senko).Best five went 22 lbs.Also had success with frogs,drop shot and shakey head worms, but the 1/2 ounce brn/purp jig worked the best. We focused on offshore rockpiles and rock walls and found the bass stacked up. The best jig bite I have ever experienced. The summer bite is on. Take a kid fishing,and have fun.
      City: Santa Rosa

      Tips: The Redwood Empire Bass Club next tournament is a night tourney at Clear Lake on July 28th(6p.m. -12p.m.) and July 29th (2a.m. - 8a.m.). With a full moon night everyone should catch lots of bass. We welcome new members both boaters and non boaters to fish with us. Our next meeting is July 11th at 7p.m. at the Rohnert Park Community Center at the corner of Rohnert Park Expressway and Snyder Lane. For more info log onto rebc.net or call me at 707-758-5762.

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 76-79

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: The water is coming back up, Mike and I fished from 7am to 1pm. Using my new color jigs the "Green Pumkin with Green and Purple Flake" did real well with the 2-3 lbs spots and largies.
      If was windy and crankin across the rocky points.
      This new color and others are for you, just email me. Hope to put them in stores soon.
      Stay in 15-25 ft and in the morning stay in 5-10 ft.
      City: Rocklin

      Tips: Shake the jigs, worms and brush hogs.

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: 70's

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Once again my buddy Dave and I made the trek up to my favorite float tubing lake. The water wasn't as low as we thought it was going to be. So I started off with the speed trap and it didn't take long before a little ilsanjo fish was on the line. Dave stayed in the open water using his small white blade and I flipped the tullies. At the end of the day I had only 23 fish and Dave had 44. All our fish ranged in the 1-1/2 pound range. My Bucksbag round tube worked great again and Dave had a back packing model of kick boat. This lake is one of the most beautiful places to hike into with a float tube.
      It sure would be nice if the small fish could be thinned out and maybe have some Florida strain bass stocked. For more information on float tubing go to www.scbbbc.com

      Rich
      City: Santa Rosa

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 72-76

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: On Thursday afternoon I took out a father and his two sons. Since the large amount of water craft on the lake and the wind we headed up the North Fork. On one of the coves with a shade line they started catching bass with a drop shot system. We then went futher up the North Fork to fish the rocky walls. Throwing tubes and drop shot they all caught bass. As the evening came we used top water pop-r's. Several blow-ups and two nice bass were caught. 20+ with 4 over, the biggest was 17+
      City: Paradise

      Tips: Shade lines were key. Bass were about 25-30ft deep. Drop shot colors,AYU and Aarons majic, tube colors, clear sparkle and motor oil. Top water shad color pop-r's