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Sunday, June 24th, 2007

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 73

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Past few weeks have really been keying in on how to locate fish and find solid limits (2-3 lbers) most of you laugh at those small sizes, but from what I'm used to, catching these size fish consistently is a huge boost to my confidence. Now just have to work on landing the 6 lbs and up type fish. 4 straight wkds of fishing i've been able to boat 25+ myself, while my dad has only been able to boat 8-10 fish each trip. he was determined to beat me this time around, so he went out a bought the same lures that I've been killing him with. i decided to change it up and use different colors and styles. needless to say i caught 15 keepers to his 9, along with the big fish that weighed about 5.5 lbs. wind beat us up, but fishing was still good considering the weather. Damn is fishing addictive!!! Now if i can only figure out how to catch bigger and better bass more consistently.
      City: EC

      Tips: Fish are schooled up, work the outside of a spot that you "feel" has fish, and slowly work your way towards it. This way you dont scare away the other fish holding in that same area as easily. bigger fish are definitley holding deeper around 8-15 ft. kut tail worms are a GOD SEND!!!! TIGHT LINES!!!

  • Ventura County
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      Water Temp: 75-76 Surface T

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Just got back from some unbelievable Bass fishing in Texas and was excited to fish my home lake after not seeing it for over a month or so. Got out about 6:30 and had three in the boat about within the first hour then it slowed way down. Fish were all about 3-4 lbs. All caught on custom poured worms from Kevin @ Preferred Plastics. Made a move toward the dam area at about 9 am and got three more same bait, and the same fish I believe. Tried one more spot at about 11:30 am near north/east side of the main island and got two more about 1 1/2 lb. Lake was crowded but I still had a blast. Boat was on the trailer and headed home by 1:30pm.
      City: Camarillo

      Tips: I parked the boat in about 30' and made diagonal cast toward shore in order to keep the bait in the strike zone areas a little longer. Funny thing is that I caught them in all depths from 2-30 feet. Believe it or not, the smallest ones came from the deeper water. Fished drop shot and carolina. Best was the drop shot. Was fishing it a little faster than normal. I did see a school of bass that must of had at least 30 in it. All about 2 lbs and moving fast in about 5' of water. I never saw a school that big at Casitas. Wish they were hungry 10 lb'rs.

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 70-73

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: We launched Sunday just before 10AM to fairly windy conditions. We immediately caught fish using the drop shot....well the wife did I couldn't get bit right away with my shakey head worm. I switched up to a shad swimbait and proceeded to get bit consistently fishing a somewhat sheltered shoreline near Buckingham point. I ended up taking 6 fish off this shoreline in about 30 minutes of fishing including a fat 5-03 and a chunky 4-12. The wife also caught a couple fish drop shotting in the same area. We fished Glenhaven and scratched out a fish or two but decided to not fight the rollers and headed behind Rattlesnake island. I continued getting bit with the swimbait and the wife kept hammering fish on the drop shot. We ended the day behind Anderson island with two double hook-ups in a row... that was outstanding. All in all we had a another terrifc day catching just under 30 fish with our best 5 coming in at just over 20lbs.
      City: Petaluma, CA

      Tips: Watermelon plastics and shad swimbaits caught most of our fish today. I also caught a few fish on a brown jig with a Yamamoto DT trailer. It was amazing to see how deserted the lake was there was hardly any boat traffic at all....odd for a beautiful Sunday in June for sure.

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      Water Temp: 71

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished AC on Sunday. 9.08 first thing on a jig, had 22 lbs for 5 fish by 6:30, struggled to get rid of a 2.9 lbr all day and finally found a buzz bait bite in the north and culled that fish. Finished with 26.6 for 2nd place. All early fish came on a jig or sweet beaver in the south.
      City: Santa Rosa

      Tips: Go south!

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      Water Temp: 76-80 F

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished from sunset to sunrise. We caught and released over 30 fish biggest was 8lb 5oz. I caught it on a puff ball jig from jigs tackle. I personally only caught 9 fish but all were over 5 pounds. My buddy caught the rest using a wacky rigged senko. I also got a 6lb on a jointed jitter bug. The bite died around 2:30am when the moon went down. All colors of senkos worked and I mainly used brown, purple and black, blue jigs with a Kalins lunker grub as a trailor. I forgot the color but it was brown with a chartreuse tail.
      City: Roseville

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: /

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: early fishing main body hump off beales point. One smallie aveage size, about two limits spots off same hump. Drop shotting morning dawn.
      City: davis

      Tips: fish gatherering off shore with bait.

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 77.6 - 78.9

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched out of Lime Saddle, tons of fish boiling on the surface, through the spook and Pop-R but only cought 3 rats, with tons of blow ups. Quickly abandoned topwater and went up toward the feather. Cought over 60 fish all on Jigs (two worm fish) biggest fish being 15.5" most were 14 - 13" fish. The jig bite was wide open until 12:30 and tappered down from there. Fish were throwing up smelt in the AM in the late morning they were throwing up Dads and Bluegill.
      City: Antelope

      Tips: Fishing the Shade was key - if you want to gain confidence in jigs the Hula bite was on FIRE and I strongly recommend Orroville for Numbers. Take extra lead and hulas cause we went through tons!

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 70's

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Dern it, got broken off first presentation. i sdaw it too, it was an eight or so. Got it within ten feet of boat. It was a black. Fished that little drainage and hit some points and drop-offs with good success onbig smallmouth and a few blacks. Left about noon .
      City: Stockton

      Tips: Use crawdads about three inches long, not including claws. I raise them for use when they hybernate. The best bet for lunkers at that lake.

  • Ventura County
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      Water Temp: 72-74

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Extrememly windy, but there was a decent bite on 4" drop-shotted Robo's on the east side. Caught 14 in a couple hours, then moved to the west side and didn't get a single bite. Was only on the lake from 10:00 until 2:00...
      City: Moorpark

      Tips: Stay away from bigger plastics. They were only biting 4".

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      Water Temp: 75

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: The Algae bloom is kickin in now. The water used to be gin clear and now max visibility is around 5 ft.
      Fished Arroyo on Sunday morning until 1:30 pm. Brought in 2 fish both about 1.5 - 2 lbs. One was caught in the back of a HUGE weedbed under a tree (how's that for cover). Other was caught on submerged hump I spotted on a previous outing.
      City: SF

      Tips: Find the pockets in the weeds, near shade. Senkos are still working. Try jigs also.

Saturday, June 23rd, 2007

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

      Report: Shad patterned crankbaits seemed to be working pretty well. cought all of our bass on those. we used rattle traps and rapalas all in shad colored patterns.
      City: Lincoln

  • Mason County
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      Water Temp: 73+

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Started at 8am fished main lake coves South end
      with Brush Hogs and shad crankbaits and caught only a couple till 3pm :(
      Then Caught 15 off the main lake point off the long narrow cove across from the launch ramp. Wind was strong from the North in the main lake and strong from the East coming out of the cove. Ski boat wake was heavy. Where the winds met, there was a long mud line coming off the rocky point toward the 5 mph bouy. Started casting olive shakey heads with Kinami cut tails in brown/purple and mad melon into the mud-line, up close to the point. Water on the deep side there 30+. Fast and furious for one hour! All small, nothing over 2#
      City: Monterey

      Tips: Very subtle bite on the shakey head, made more difficult by the wind and waves. Couldn't detect it on the heavy 1 oz. C-rig. Needed to keep a constant but very light tension on the bait. Boat wakes definitely turned them on. Once the lake calmed down the bite stopped.

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 73.7 deg

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Well went out of B&W ResortLots of boats out doing there tear up the water thing . So I managed to go look for some new fishing ground Went up south fork of the Mokoleme Up towards wimpys looked Really good But no soap went back to Tower park and started slaughtering them at the bridge on Baby Brush hoig Blak green red flake T- style caught some nice fish nothing Really big average 2, 3, 4 lbers Picked up and moved fishing rip rap and deep water hooked into a 14 lb striper. oOnly had 10 lb test on my cabelas fish eagle 1 piece 7 ft rod Quantum Casting reel was throwing spinner bait saw a huge flash and knew imediately what it was it al most spooled me could see bottom of spool coming up fast thank god it stoped its first run .thank god for my wife who was with me I told her to start the boat and head towards my line , it was half way across the river as soon as i got line back i knew he was done for.. had a great fight on his 2nd and 3 rd run . when i liped him finally i noticed mt spinner bait was staightend out completely and my knot was at the blades. Was a awsome fish revived him and sent him back to where he belongs. anyhow after that continued to fish caught lots more dinks . went to venice Island did real good on plastics . No luck on top water it seemed to have laid back some . caught most dinks on spinner and all bigger fish on plastics. Going to go again next sat see ya on the water tight lines to all
      City: Elmira

      Tips: Go to ares you know produce fish some times some areas are not as good as other move around and find where they are stacked up

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      Water Temp: 82

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Well a weird weekend. Saturday was good. Started off up in Bear River Arm, pretty much immediately, got a huge bite on the Shakeyhead, unfortunately I was spaced out at the time and totally missed the fish, hell of a bite though! Shakey head took a small keeper largemouth, a 3 lb largemouth and a nice ~1.5 lb spot. Both LMB's were in 5 ft o' water next to a bush, first one in Bear River Arm, big one in Rock Creek Arm. Spot was up in Bear River Arm in about 15-18' of water in the middle of the cove. Also cranked up a channel cat, weird (part 1). Sunday, Nothing...Water dropped about 5-6" overnight,(artifical super low pressure system) turned the fish off, or I just suck, but hopefully not! Weird!! (part 2)
      Get back to the boat ramp to find that some jerk off stole one of my new buddy bearings off my trailer, unfortunately I don't know who it was and therefore I don't know who's ass to kick. Wierd (part 3).
      Gonna try the afternoon/evening fish to see if I can get any more activity, still nice, and for those who want a challenge every once in a while when they go fishing, CFW is still worth the time.
      City: Lincoln

      Tips: Shakeyhead seemed to be the ticket, to put it simply, powerfishing slowly! Still can't bring my self to real finesse fishing...Maybe night fishing?

  • Ventura County
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      Water Temp: 76

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I prefished and then fished the J&T night tournament Saturday. I got to the lake and ran the boat around a few laps ( non-use ). Since all was well my partner and I stretched our lines out behind the boat and tied up our stuff. I went around fishing mainlake stuff with topwaters and had him throw a worm. He had two fish to 3 pounds on oxblood light red flake while I was hauling along fishing my reaction bait. I had a number of follows and finally stuck a 4 1/2 . I kept it up for another hour and CRASH...I got one over 8 pounds. Pictures and high fives we went in to sign up for the tournament. We were the tenth boat out and got to our spot,....No love on the topwater and I was moving the boat to fast for my partner to fish a worm effectively. I put down the big topwater and told him we were going to go fish worms and away we went. John struck the first fish about 5 pounds and then it really got slow. I changed his worm color and Wham he gets a 6+...Hmmm. We hung around a little longer. Wham John gets a 7.36...Hmmm as we drift along I toss out a big ol power worm to deep water and start retying one of the dropshot rigs that was all messed up when I see my line take off. I get up and set the hook and the fish goes right under and around the trolling motor. Not good! I get out of that and the fight is on. I got her to the boat three times but my partner could not see her with the glare of our lights etc. Well the third time she screams off....She found a tree and I had to brake her off....Darn but that's fishing. We continue down the bank 150 yards or so and I tell John lets go back and try the hole one more time! John sticks another 5+ pounder and things get slow...I get a 14 incher and we move the boat...Now things are really slow. We travel along nice and slow and found pockets of fish and then nothing. I got another real nice fish and she comes unbuttoned half way to the boat. Bad day for me but we ended up weighing in 22.17 for 11th place. 34 pounds won it. We'd have been in the top three if I'd landed my fish as I saw her and had her in the 9 pound catagory. But that's fish'n.
      City: Ojai

      Tips: Oxblood worms when light and switch to black around 7:30. Topwater seemed best at high noon but only lasts a few hours.There is a crank bite but I didn't try any.

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 70's

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: The bite at Clear Lake this year has been unusually good. I'm not sure why it has hung on so long other than the possibility the bass are having to compete for food. If you can BATTLE the winds you can catch fish doing almost anything. Two and 1/2 days on the lake, my partner and I must have boated well over 150 fish, most of which were over 2 lbs and up to 7 lbs.
      (not to mention 5 catfish on bass baits to 25 lbs.) If you enjoy bass fishing you really should go now before that bubbble busts...but beware the wind!!
      City: Sacramento

      Tips: We caught them on blades, sinkos,jigs,buzz baits,swimbaits,brush hogs,grubs,ripbaits and our other club members on frogs,worms,crankbaits,as well as the items above. Thursday and Friday color didn't seem to matter much but Saturday it got fair specific. Most reported dark colors working best (example dark green/red flake and MMII)Fish don't really seem to be schooling by size you might catch a dink(in this case a dink is a 15" fish. lol) and 20 minutes later get a 5 or six pounder off the same spot. Of course the wind blown banks seemed to produuve better...so make sure you have a good charge on your trolling motor batteries and expect wet feet from rollers over the bow. Tight lines!

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: If you want more information on Coyote, including the ramp situation, check out the www.sanjosebass.com website. They have more information on the lakes and reservoirs in the San Jose area.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: I personally doubt the ramp is open but I don't get down to the South Bay very often.

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      Water Temp: 77.0 to 79.1

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: THURSDAY WAS VERY WINDY BUT THE BITE HERE WAS UNREAL IN 15 TO 18 FEET OF WATER ON HUNTER GREEN/RED FLAKE 1/4 OZ ARKIE HEAD JIGS (LEFTY'S LURES )4" TWIN TAIL YAMAMOTO 208 RED/BLK FLAKE GRUB AS A TRAILER. DONT LET THE WILD STOP YOU FROM HITTING AREA WHERE IT THROW YOU AROUND. WE GOT TOSS MOST OF THE TIME WE WERE FISHING.6' 6 " MED HEAVY SPINNG ROD 10 LBS. TEST LONG CAST CONTACT BOTTOM IT GETS WILD IN SOME AREAS AS MANY AS 6 TO 8 BASS OFF SMALL STRUCTURE.AND THEY HAVE SIZE IN THE RIGHT AREAS OF FISHING. 559-689-3255
      City: kerman

      Tips: POINTS BASE OF ROCK PILES AROUND BRUSH PILES LEDGES MAIN BODY HELD THE BETTER BASS. IF THERE WIND THEY WILL BITE

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      Water Temp: 67

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: John really slammed'em today! He caught 16 bass while most others were having a tough bite, including his Old Man. We had a tough day on Friday, getting very little action on the swimbaits we were both throwing hoping for the One Big Bite. John shifted gears on Saturday, used his soft plastics (any color is good as long as it's green pumkpin with black flake!), slowly retrieving them uphill, and nailed 16 including some over 2 1/2 pounds. He also got some yearlings which is a good sign there was a successful spawn last year. I continued casting mostly the big swimbaits and Tiger Tube but had no action on them. A few casts with a buzzbait and a crankbait didn't produce for me either. Another angler was seen catching some nice bass on a purple worm, so other colors can work also.
      The big carp are very active in the shallows in some of the coves on the south end of the lake. Looks like they're into their spawn. They are muddying the water along the shore in those coves, and thrashing around on the surface. It's easy to be distracted by them since they're SO BIG!!!
      City: Monterey

      Tips: Try soft plastics (worms, lizards, craws, creature baits, and Senko's) rigged weightless and retrieved slowly uphill on rock banks in 10 - 15 feet depths. It helps to find the fish, since they aren't everywhere, so keep moving 'til you get on'em.

  • Merced County
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      Water Temp: 65

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: caught 3 stripers, 20-21 inches
      City: san jose

      Tips: try using anchovies and fish at the edge of dinosaur point.