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Monday, June 25th, 2007

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

      Report: Fished this weekend on south end of lake. Cold front screwed it up a little, but did manage to find a pretty decent bite on some of the rock piles. Highlight of the trip was a 4+ smallie on a green hula grub in about 10' of water. When it was a few feet from the boat, saw a giant sm trying to take the bait from it, easily a few lbs bigger.

      Tips: Best bite was in the middle of the day fishing jigs and hula grubs off the rockpiles in the mudline when the skiers had really churned up the water. Tight Lines.

Sunday, June 24th, 2007

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: warmmmmmmmmm

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: On Friday afternoon I took Peter and his three sons, Andrew (age 11), Stephen and Thomas (ages 7) no you are not seeing double they are twins to teach them how to catch fish. Peter told me they had been out numerous times but had never caught any fish. They had been out this morning for a few hours with no luck at all. Andrew was able to cast and retrieve which helped quite a bit. I teach most kids how to cast from the dock before we go out. Each child brought in his own fish when we went to my favorite cove. It took a little while for them to figure out what was a fish and what was grass but they got the hang of it. It turned out to be a very successful day as you can see by the photo. These boys will definitely turn out to be fishermen. Saturday I took Bob (#1 salesman for River2Sea) out for the day. We tested alot of River2Sea new products and they were all successful. We started out by the Ranch house and worked our way back to my favorite cove landing fish. When we got back to the dock, I had him bring in a couple of carp on very light tackle and he had a blast. We stayed out till dark and caught some bass in rocky areas that were feeding on crawdads. Sunday I fished by myself in my favorite cove. Top water didn't work for me, crawdads did ok but brass and glass with a 4/0 wide gap red hook with 6# Pline and a rootbeer senko was the secret weapon of the day. All and all it was a great fishing weekend. 'til next week.......................good fishing!!!!!!

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      City: NAPA

      Tips: FISH SLOW PLASTICS or VERY FAST REACTION BITE

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 72/75

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: WENT OUT OF BIG BREAK FISHED DUTCH SLOUGH AND THE BREAK CAUGHT EIGHT FISH BIGGEST 4PDS NEXT TO WEEDS AND 5/10 FT DROP ON CHROME RATTLE TRAP ALSO HOOKED 10PD STRIPER FOR SURPRISE OF THE DAY FISHED EARLY QUIT AT 11 AM
      City: ANTIOCH

      Tips: FISHED PLASTICS RECEIVED A FEW BITES NO QUESTION ABOUT USING RATTLE TRAPS ALSO NOTICED A LOT OF BOBBER MINNOW FISHERMAN ?????

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      Water Temp: 78

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched out of Rivers End Marina at 0600 and the wind was already howling. I have not fished the Delta in the last 90 days and the water has really warmed up. Headed up past Clifton forebay and pulled into a cut with houses. Started with a Spook and got 10 surface fish with the biggest over 5 lbs. At 8:30 decided as I was solo to head up to Discovery Bay and do some exploring. I have only been there once and then in a small area. Must have spent 2hrs just idling around and exploring. Did catch another 25 fish under and around the docks. The fish wanted only black curly tailed plastic worms teas rigged. some were at the back of the docks where there was shade and some were at the ends in 8 to 10 feet of water. The bigger fish ( 3-4lbs) were at the back of the docks shallow. Wind howled all day and made even fishing the docks in discovery bay hard to do. Then the Wakeboard boats made the run back dangerous. They really need to have a limit to wake size, and driver training required. All in all a good day. Pulled out at 4pm.
      City: brisbane

      Tips: Keep trying different colors, places, and lure types as the day progress's.

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      Water Temp: 72-76

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Started out in Taylor Slough. Had a nice swimbait bite in the early morning throwing into Tule pockets. Couple of solid 4's and one real nice fish came unbuttoned. Partner was catching some nice fish on a spinnerbait with another solid 4. Reaction bite shut down for us around 8 A.M. Swithed to 8 inch platic snake and creature baits letting them drift inside the weedline near rocks. We caught about 10 more fish by 9:30 on the snakes. Set on one and thought I was snagged in the weeds but it started to move then jumped once and I yelled for my buddy to get the net. Real nice fish. Bite shut down about 10 for us. We moved toward Piper Slough and finished in Sandmound. Two more small fish for me but my parter pitched up under a shady dock and hooked into another real nice fish. The bite was so good in the morning we didn't take the time to pull the scale out. We guessed the best 5 to be about 23.
      City: Concord

      Tips: Basstrix Blue Back Herring swimbait on Sworming Hornet underspin got a lot of action in the early morning. White with red spinnerbait gold blades also did well. Caught the two largest fish on 8 inch snake. Fish seemed stacked up on points in 8-12' of water for us.

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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.