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Saturday, June 23rd, 2007

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 79

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: The Devil Mountain Bassmasters made the 4 hour trip to Shasta Lake for a small club tournament. While some struggled to fine keepers, the bite was off the hook for me. I wasn't doing anything special, swam a grub on a darthead, dropshotted morningdawn and prism shad worms, green worms worked, but not as well as the girlie colors. Green pumkin hula grubs on a 1/4oz darthead in the steep canyons. Brown jig with a smoke/purple flake grub trailer. While everyone was taking steep & deep, I found schools of fish in the 20' range.
      City: Walnut Creek

      Tips: By 11:00 AM it is really hot out there. Be prepared for the heat, drink lots of water and remember to eat. Bring a wash cloth to dip into the lake while fishing and before you run. This will cool you down and keep you fresh.

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      Water Temp: too hot

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fishing was very difficult. We were up the Pit arm past the NO SKI buoy. Where is the Sheriff boats? There were people skiing, wakeboarding and jet skiing inside the NO SKI bouy. Loud vulger music with every profanity you could hear clearly. What a wonderfull family outing. Many of these abusers came dangeously close to us while we were fishing. Where is the Forest Sevice enforcement? Sheriff? Someone is going to get KILLED. What do we pay our fees for? Fishing was not so good.
      City: Redding

Friday, June 22nd, 2007

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

      Report: me and my buddy, fished for a little while with no luck.
      threw almost everything i could think of, however almost everything i threw got hung up on weeds except for plastics...
      City: Chico

      Tips: Don

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 75-78

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I love to fish this lake this time of year during the day. Too Hot! No pressure and some great fishing 2 days of a good bite on Topwater, Jerk Bait, Jig, and worms of course, with the sucess and the size of the fish, dont change what's working. We got out fishing from about 8:15 are usual starting time till about 1:00 p.m. we quit a little ealry, wife was ill, upchucked 2 times and still manged to out fish me. Our best 5 was 31.10 oz, Sunday we got out yeap 8:15 first point we went too, 2 topwater bass, both a 4.5 and 3.10 those were for the most part like the rest of the fish we caught, we fished till noon. A little bit cooler sunday morning tempature, had the bass biting. Lots of good fish nothing huge our best 5 32.8. I have to fish the day I'll fall alseep at night. So keep staying away its too hot ..
      City: Topaz Lake

      Tips: secondary points were working well and anywhere there was moss along the shoreline. Worming deep down to twenty feet jerk bait was working betwen 4-6 feet

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 74

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Franks Tract. Knocked the heck out of them on jigs and senko's

      Tips: If you want to catch fish, then fish in Franks tract and surrounding area. I heard the bite in Franks around the 30th should really take off.

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 70's

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Man it gets light early in June. On the water Friday @5:15 from the keys and found major wind that spilled my coffee and knocked the windshield loose. Hit a semiprotected area and caught 4 on a frog and lost 3 more. Nothing huge, up to 3-13. Fought wind again down to honeymoon cove and caught a nice 5.5 on the frog and a 2 lb also. I switched to a fluke and caught a 3 on the first cast. Followed it w/a 5.5.....cool. Switched to a senko as I got to the windy end of the cove. Caught several, but it was too hard to feel bites and control the boat. I tried to fish wheeler w/a froghair jig, but the wind/waves were too intense. Hooked one on a DD22, but it spit it. Tucked in south of Buckingham and had fun catching fish on a 6" darthead. Mostly 1-2 lb fish, but fun no less. About 11, the wind began to subside, so I ventured up to henderson. I'd been hearing guys were really getting them there, but the cloud cover and front that was now upon me appeared to have put these fish off the bite. While fishing some docks near there, I saw a dead bass on the surface. What was interesting is that there was another fish suspended below the dead one. I figured it was a carp until I saw the mouth. It looked to be about 2 feet long. It spooked down to about 6 feet and I let my fluke drop near it. I saw it nose down and my fluke disappear.........Then I saw it reappear.....rats, too slow on the draw. I finished the day in the south side of the rattlesnake arm w/a few more 1-2 lb fish on the darthead. That gave me 22 fish and about a about a 21 lb limit.
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: I saw a blue heron w/ a swallow or martin in its mouth standing on a dock. It shook its head and squished the small bird. It flew off before I could tell if it was able to swallow it. The water north of the narrows was very clear and the fish were not biting as well. The whole south lake seemed easier to get bites.

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      Water Temp: 73-75

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: WIND, WIND, WIND. Ducked into the Keys to get out of the wind. Fished from about 6:00 p.m. for four hours and got about 10 fish between us. I got a couple frog fish and the rest on worms. My friend got all his on worms. Nothing over 3#. All fish came from the new keys. We are here for the weekend so we will be back out there at the crack of dawn.
      City: Ben Lomond

      Tips: Try to find a place to fish out of the wind.

  • Mariposa County
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      Water Temp: Between 70-80 D

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: went out to day with my girlfriend and my dad. got on the water at daylight threw top water and chaterbaits cought 20-25 fish off the water at noon. caught all big fish on top water best five about 15lbs
      City: Modesto

      Tips: be on the water early and fish slow

Thursday, June 21st, 2007

  • Mason County
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      Water Temp: Sorry, didn't c

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went looking for crappie, found none, so began targeting LM around noon. Caught over 50 with dink to keeper ratio 4 to 1. Nothing over 2 lbs. All fish taken while drifting the east and west banks on the north end. White crankbait was red hot. After a couple of hours, I experimented with a crawdad colored crankbait which they hit just as well.
      City: Santa Clara

      Tips: Drift with the wind in 15-20 feet of water and cast tight to the shoreline, varying your retrieve with a deep-running crankbait. As others have recommended here, don't hesitate to fish the mud lines. I took that advice and it paid off.

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 100

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished in Franks Tract all day. 5 of us in a 12' boat. We didnt catch any fish!!! G-man please tell us how to catch them??? We will be fishing this little tournament on the 30th out of Sandmound Sl.

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      Water Temp: 77

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished near the dam Water very low and not going to get any more water for a while Caught one on Drop shot Went areoud to find structure but water real low I think I am done with CFW untill Feb TO many boats not enough water
      City: Roseville

      Tips: Clear lake

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 74-76

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Just finished two father/son trips in a row which started early in the morning - good fishing and 38 bass each trip. A 27 lb catfish was the bonus today I guess one could say - second fish of the day! Dad wanted to learn to fish jigs - maybe he will change his mind after that 10 minutes plus tussle!! He was tired!!!! 12lb Big Game line did the job! She ate a brown/orange Weapon jig with #180 Yamamoto grub! The wind blew pretty good but we still found areas to fish in the Rattlesnake and lower lake areas. The areas north and south and the cove around Sea Breeze were good to us - lots of bass to 5 1/2 lbs. Off-shore at Anderson Island was good too. Dad was on a tear in the afternoon on rock walls catching several good bass to 7 lbs 2 oz. The green pumpkin Dead Ringer was his favorite. His son had some luck drop-shotting MMIII Robo worms. He hadn't bass fished much lately and was bit rusty. Our best five were pushing 26 lbs - excluding the catfish!! The day before found very good fishing for us, though we couldn't get anything over 4 3/4 lbs. We had a possibility of a 50 fish day, but converting a trout fisherman is often not easy when it comes to the hookset. He lost many, many bass half way to the boat because of his "trout" set! I think he understands now. He son did very well. We used green pumpkin brush hogs, Yamamoto Kreature baits (#301), Power worms, and Robo worms. I used a Weapon jig some preparing for todays trip and as has been told to me, the jig bite is good!! Both days found us fishing the 20 to 30 foot depth for better quality bass. I also hooked a 5 lb frog fish near Indian Beach but lost it. #301 Senkos were working very well but we didn't fish them all that much.
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: Both days as I was showing my clients some keys to off-shore structure at Clear Lake, it became clear to me that bass are starting to relate to their deeper water homes. It was also clear that they are moving around to feed. I like to target the same area more than once and sure enough, bass will be feeding at a certain time on a rock ledge for example, and will not be there at another time. Sometimes you have to move around a bit to find the fish since they are pretty mobile at the beginning of summer.

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 74-78

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I had the opportunity to take out a father and his 6 yesr old son Thursday. We started on the main points on the min body with top water and on the 1st cast a nice bass. After several short strikes we moved up the main body for steep rocky walls to find some feeding bass. We found more on the West Branch and then some on the upper main body. The biggest thrill was watching the 6 year old reel in the bass. He kept saying He's a good fisherman. Although we only fished half a day and only landed 14 bracket fish I know he'll be hooked for life.
      City: Paradise

      Tips: Top water with pop-r's and on the rocky walls senko's in water mellon with red flake, clear sparkle and motor oil gitzits and drop shot with a 6 inch Robo worm in the Arrons Majic color. Keep moving to find the bass and go deeper as the Sun gets higher. Also look for shade lines and mud lines.

Wednesday, June 20th, 2007

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

      Report: Went out for an evening fish in the bays in discovery bay and just hammered them on the top water. Used a black Dog bait blue gill. Man does this thing work good. had 8 fish in 30 minutes over 3 pounds. No bigger than 5. Good job grant.
      City: Discovery bay

      Tips: Spend the money on a Black dog bait Top water Blue Gill.

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 74-78

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the night of 6/20, all day 6/21, 6/22,6/23 & a few hrs 6/24 with my brother Benny and friend Keith. We got 10 bass to 3 lbs on 6/20 night plus a 10 lb cat fish on a jig, I kid you not we caught this cat fish 3 times 3 nights in a row at the same spot,I got it once on jig and my brother twice on drop shot the reason I know it was the same cat is it had a white spot on his head the size of a quarter, that was fun. On 6/21 I got my second largest bass on a yamamoto rootbeer hula grub, 8.2 lbs under a dock, I finally broke the 20 lb mark on 6/21 and my Brother & Keith got many fish pushing the 5 lb mark. On 6/22 my brother and I started off with the yamamoto again and we had 21 lbs in 7 cast!!!, my first fish in the AM 4.14, second cast a 4.9 and 3rd cast a 5 lber, my brother got a 4.10 and a 3.14 all off the same wall, we went and picked up Keith and had lunch and charged the battery's and than back out, we get to our spot we want to start at and I get hung up right away and have to re-tie so my brother takes over the trolling motor and says I want to try this area down here that you never go to I said go ahead you are in charge and we start throwing into shade spots along tullie walls and start picking up 2 to 3 lb left and right and than he turns back the other way again and I cast out about 30 yards behind the boat to hit this one shade spot again and nothing so I just drag my black/blue sweet beaver behind the boat across a nothing bank and she hit, a 9.9 lber, my new 2nd biggest fish ever, I broke 20 lbs for the first time on 6/21 and on 6/22 I had 28 lbs!!! My Brother broke his all time weight record and qty of bass in one day and my friend Keith caught his biggest bass ever at 4.14. In about 3 1/2 full days of fishing we got over 200 bass and 5 catfish, all cats caught on bass rigs.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Rootbeer Red flake Yamamoto hula grubs on shaky head, Black/Blue Robo worm sweet beavers or Margareta Mutalator sweet beavers small or medium size on shaky head, 5 inch watermellon Zoom worms on drop shot. We found fish everywhere but found more and bigger ones where deep water was very near, when I say deep water I mean 16-25 feet, the fish we caught were only in 3-8 feet but that deep water was right there. Catch, Care and release, the 9.9 lb was absolutely perfect not a mark on her and she still there waiting for you and maybe 10 lbs by now the way they are eating!!
      Bring a Brother or a friend, it was my Brothers 50th B-day and what a time we had. We fished from just above Shag Rock to down south Red Bud. God bless and tight lines

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      Water Temp: 75

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Got the boat in the water around 5:30am on Wednesday with a few buddies. It was the first time fishing Clear Lake for two out of the three of us and we had a blast. From what I hear, we had a slow day for Clear Lake standards and still boated 40 fish by 1:30pm. Lots of 1's and 2's with an occasional 3 in there. Texas rigged brush hogs and sinko's, drop shotting worms, brown jigs, etc.... They bit everything we tried with the exception of a spinner bait thrown a dozen times (I was told the hard stuff turns on in the fall). Fished the rocks mainly and had success on the underwater foliage up shallow. Most fish were 2-10 feet deep.
      City: Rocklin

      Tips: Don't try to take a leak if you have a line in the water, you might try to set the hook with the wrong rod!

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: 14' ok if you can carry it down to boat ramp. ramp out of water and chained off. some are going to the left of the chain. but i would'nt
      City: san bruno

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 70s

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: An addendum to the last report... fishing was noticeably better in the evenings than the mornings.
      City: Oklahoma City

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      Water Temp: 70s

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I mostly fished the lower Squaw arm during a 5-day trip. Rocky points produced several 2-3 lb spotties and smallies. I caught a couple off Panther Martin Vivif minnow lures, but most were caught off crickets. Fishing success was intermittent, however, and I strongly suggest having a fish and depth finder to get into the good spots. We also went to the Blue Canyon inlet of the Pit Arm, which was loaded with immature bass, so the fishing wasn't good there.

      What happened to the catfish in the lake? I didn't catch a single one during this trip. I saw large fish at depths of 60-80 feet on the finder, but couldn't latch onto a single one.
      City: Oklahoma City

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: After reading the earlier reports on the lunker punker Jr. swimbait. I purchased one before my trip to Shasta. Launched at first light and the first ten casts I landed 3 fish. One was a 4.8lb spot my biggest so far. I had numerous fish along with big blowups until the sun came up. Awesome bait.
      City: Esparto