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Wednesday, June 20th, 2007

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: 70-72

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: The Redwood Empire Bass Club Tournament results from last Saturday June 16th as follows: 1st Place with 13.85 lbs. and big fish of 6.18 lbs. were the team of Gene Cardle and Greg Fina, 2nd place was 11.64 lbs. by Rick Camilleri fishing alone and the third place team was Brandon Service and Mike Purtell with 11.13 lbs. and second big fish of 4.29 lbs. There were 11 boats and 20 anglers(11 teams)(10 limits caught)
      City: Santa Rosa

      Tips: My big fish was caught on a 6" watermel/red/black
      senko wacky rigged in a bush on the main lake. The other anglers caught there bass on crankbaits, top water, senkos and texas rigged worms in both Cherry, Warm Springs and the main lake. The best depth seemed to be 10 to 25 feet.
      I would like to invite any bass fisherman or woman both boaters and non boaters to fish with us next month at Clear Lake. It will be a night tournament on July 28th(6p.m. - 12p.m,) & July 29th(2a.m. -8a.m.) With a full moon and the hot bite everyone should catch a lot of fish. PLease join us at our next meeting On July 11th at 7p.m. at the Rohnert Park Community Center at the corner of Rohnert Park Expressway and Snyder Lane.There will be a grat raffle with lots of bass tackle to win. For more info log onto rebc.net or call me at 707-758-5762.

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      Water Temp: ~65-70

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I got out on the lake at about 7 with another guy and fished until 1:30. We were surprised at how stained the water was. Started fishing a rattle trap initially and got 3 fish in about an hour on isolated weed beds toward the middle of the lake. As the sun came up I fished a senko on the edge of the tules and caught a couple more keepers. The gentleman I was with also had luck flipping a senko into cover.
      City: Santa Rosa

      Tips: It seemed like the bite shut off by early afternoon, so get out there as early as possible.

Tuesday, June 19th, 2007

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

      Report: Launched out of Holland Tract on first light. Started throwing a Shellcracker I received for Fathers day. I threw the bait in sparse tules and had alot of blowups. The first Bass was 3.9lbs. I ended the day around noon with alot of Bass in the 3-4 lb range.Being my first time with Swimbaits I look forward to more outings.
      City: Walnut Creek

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      Water Temp: 81-84

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Well it's nice to be back to the old stompin grounds of my younger days. A nice day on the lake. Air temps in low to mid 90's and water temps about 10 deg less. Got out to the lake around 10:00, fished till about 2:30 (got a nice tan!!!) The big surprise was the crankbait, catchin fish. Nothing better than some small keepers, but a nice alternative to silly little finesse baits. Started up in shallow of the "tree cove" up Bear River Arm, a quick fish (LMB) cranked off a tree (Bandit 200 series)in about 5 ft of water. Went up Bear Arm further, had a nice pop on a drop shot Berkley Minnow, but it just wouldn't commit, maybe a nice spotted bass?! Shot to Rock Creek Arm(?) east of North Shore Boat Launch, tied into a few white crappies (Bandit 200 series cranks) my pops hit a small keeper largemouth in the same general area. i tied into another small keeper but he flipped me. Took the cranks to the long finger (sometimes island) in the South middle part of the lake cranked some more with some swipes but no one would really commit (probably some more fiesty Spots). A few rude wakeboard boats flying up and down Bear River Arm but all in all I nice day out at CFW.
      City: Lincoln

      Tips: Tired of shakey heads, darter heads and finesse worms?! Toss the cranks in 5-10 ft of water. Bandit 200's run about 6-8 ft, so maybe a little deeper might do the trick for some bigger fish. Drop shot the complex rocky areas, near deepwater (had a nice hit and some other hits later up Bear River Arm, it was a little cooler up there). Most importantly, don't rule out the shallows during the summer, you may not have the big fish up there, but there are keepers in the brush/trees.

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 75+

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: It is completely Awsome when you can take your 4 year old son fishing and he can catch a 10lb limit of Bass in a few hours by himself with the biggest going 3. Thats like me catchin a 30lb limit with a 10lb kicker. I dont know how long this lake will be on fire but The only thing more I can ask for is that 10lb kicker. I had 17lbs in the short trip with my son. Two 4lbr and the rest 3's.
      City: Petaluma

      Tips: Drop shot, Senko, Swimbait. For some reason couldnt get a jig bite going...????

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      Water Temp: 82

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Wen't out today had the best fishing in a while .It was great after a bad tournament.Started up about 12:30 started with buzz baits had atleast 10 2/4lbs .Then decided on a spook with a buzz bait. Thats when it got good within three cast i hooked into a five pounder out by the danm.The top water and buzz bait bit lasted all after noon.
      City: merced

      Tips: Look for big rock piles in the 5 to 10 foot range .Also hammer those trees and bushes piles real well its werth the outcome even if you lose a lure or two.

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      Water Temp: 60-70

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Ive been out here 9 or 10 times, but never really have fished for bass. This last trip, we decided to get a quick couple of trout, then fish for bass. After getting the trout, we entered a small cove on the east side of the lake. This cove had 2 large rocky walls and a stretch of weedbeds. We trolled by the wweedbed with a 4 inch swinbait for first pass and my dad nailed a huge largemouth!It weighed out at 5.3lbs on our digital scale. Released her, and trolled by again. Second pass, we caught another fish! This one weighed 4.12. We thought we'd catch em all day at that spot but thatb was it. So we got out of there and fished the rocky walls. I had a nice 1 up to the boat but it got off. Went down by sunken trees and caught 2. One was 1.21lbs the other was 2.58lbs. went by the rock wall and caught 1 more. It weighed 2.73lbs. All fish were caught with storm swimbaits ranging from 2 inches, to 4 inches.

      VERY GOOD FISHING. Only fished for 4.5 hours. My dad and i are trout fisherman, so I would think that a bass fisherman could have a field day out here!
      City: San Francisco

      Tips: Fish by rocky points and walls, sunken trees, and weedbeds. This is where we had such great luck. I hear peninsula cove is 1 of the best bass spots in the lake.

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 76

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I took a father/son to Oroville this morning for a 4 hr trip. It was a donated trip for William Jessup Univesity to honor the son's 16th birthday! We started near the dam launch ramp cove but caught only smaller bass so me moved out into the main lake. We found a hump that was full of quality spotted bass and caught several in the 14 to 15 1/4 inch size - all on Robo worms in morning dawn and prizm shad. Birthday boy caught the only bass over the slot. We wound up with 21 bass but for some reason lost a lot of them. The delta breeze moved in about 9 am and seemed to slow the bite and cause them not to inhale the worms. Weird! A very nice morning however!
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: Most of our fish were found from 15 to 30 feet in the early morning. A few even deeper later in the morning. We did find them schooled a bit - a few areas with lots of fish and some with none! I suggest moving around a bit - most fish were on or near points. Canyon Creek was a bust for us for example. We had to wait in line at the dam launch - believe it or not - a salmon derby (sort of) on a Tues morning. I checked with some salmon guys when our trip was over and they were all smiles!!!

Monday, June 18th, 2007

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 76-80 F

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the north side of the lake, to the right of the bridge into Putah. We caught and released 30-40 fish mostly s.m. I dragged hula grubs on football jig heads. My buddy was dragging and swimming a single tale yamamato grub. Alot of the bass we caught had crawdads in there mouths or were spitting up dads. any redish or brownish color worked. Best 5 went 13-14 lbs I would say. Biggest fish nice 4lb. dark smallie.
      City: Roseville

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: warm

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Took my dad out to discovery. He is a crab fisherman from WA, never seen a bass. All we threw were sinkos letting them drift under the docks. Nailed about 30 bass is 4 hours. Dads 2 biggest were a 8 and 4. 5 best went about 25. I usually wacky rig but dad was trying to catch a bigger boat, had to texas rig everything. He cant cast anything but a crab pot. didnt seem to effect the pick up. all but 2 fish hit below 15 feet of water. they were hanging deep at the end of docks.
      City: sacramento

      Tips: Slack tide = go have lunch.

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 72-74

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Launched out of Bidwell first light. Started on top with the Lunker Punker Jr. around the house boats. Two quality Spots about 17 inches hit on the first few casts. I later moved to the Bridge pilings and scored 7 Spots and one 3.3lb Largemouth. Ended the day dropshotting with great success at 20 ft. excellent day!
      City: Paradise

      Tips: Throw the big baits early for the Larger Spots. In two trips to Oroville i have had at least two fish over 3 lbs.

Sunday, June 17th, 2007

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

      Report: It's truly amazing how clear this lake is in some spots. Seeing 15' to 20' down is just unreal. The wife and I launched today at about 7:30AM and fished around Henderson (aka; SNAGVILLE) for about an hour. We ended up taking 17 fish there with the largest coming in at 4-7. We headed across the lake and fished along route 20 and caught a few more small ones. We ended the day fishing Glenhaven, Anderson and Windmill point catching numerous fish in each area. Our best 5 went just over 20lbs and together we caught and released just over 40 fish.
      City: Petaluma, CA

      Tips: The bite is still prety much wide open. Now is the time to gain some confidence in baits you don't normally throw. Get out and go fishing. Today we took our fish using the drop shot, shakey head and t-rigged worms, beavers and brush-hogs in the watermelon color. I also caught a few fish using a small swimbait.

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      Water Temp: 80 to 81.4

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: We hit the lake friday afternoon at 3:45 pm and fished till 8:45 pm and i can say this lake is holding up very well. We caught 28 bass from 2 to 4 1/2 pounds some rip bait fish but the bigger bass all came on ( Lefty's lure )1/4 oz arkie head jigs in hunter green/red flake with watermelon red/blk flake (208) yamamoto 4" twin tail grub as a trailer. Bass were in 12 to 15 feet of water on flats and around the base of rock piles water is very clear and the wind made the bite pick up on the bigger fish. 1-559-689-3255 Again watch for snakes if your bank fishing. Lake is dropping
      City: kerman ca

      Tips: 1/4 oz jigs stay with watermelon colors red & blk flake. flats rock piles dropoffs trees are all hold bass.

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 74-76

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: WOW great topwater action in the morning, but once the sun was up by 9:00 to 9:30 out action was done. I forced the topwater bite to stay with out success and we got off the water by 10:30.

      Fun action on fish up to 2 lbs, all largemouth.
      the wife had a good fish on but lost it so we never saw if it was a Largemouth or a smallie.
      City: Scaramento

      Tips: Bill Dance spitin image skittered across the surface

Saturday, June 16th, 2007

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 72-77

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Got an early start, on the water at 5:30. Fished Dutch and Taylor Sloughs in the early hours. No top water action for us. Found some fish in 8-10 feet of water off rocks with spinnerbaits. Partner had about a 4 on Spinnerbait. Several more small fish and moved to Frank's Track. Not much shallow water action at all. At 11:30 made a move for some deeper water docks in 12-16 feet. Game on. Caught several quality fish on large brush hog, Big Mama'a and 8 inch snake. Biggest fish just a bit over 7. Lost a giant while using a Roboworm Sour Puss under shady dock. Real heart breaker. Best 5 today around 22.
      City: Concord

      Tips: Bigger fish were in deeper water for us. With bright blue skies they moved up under docks.

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 70-78

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went to Clear Lake for only the second time ever and fished for 3 days. My Dad and I caught so many fish it was unbelievable. We started in the afternoon at Shag Rock and fished to Buckingham point catching many fish near rocks and structure just offshore with Senkos "Wacky and Texas, #208 and 301" The biggest was a 6lbs 10oz toad (my personal best) and many 2, 3, and occasional 4. The next morning we started near Long Tule point with Frogs and Spooks and had a couple of blow ups but only a few hook ups. We also caught a few on Senkos there (same colors) but nothing much so we decided to try Anderson Island. There caught a bunch over there on Senkos from the shore out to 12 feet. I also caught some split-shotting with a brush hog. In the afternoon and evening we fished around State Park and caught several small to medium fish on crankbaits (casting parallel to the tules and making contact with the bottom, ripping it out then they would strike) as well as Senkos and drop-shotting MMII's near the submerged, isolated vegetation.

      On Friday morning it was our best day ever. We started at Lake Side Park and fished to Quercus Point. We were casting Senkos in every color imaginable (we literally caught fish on 12 different colors). Most fish were 2 to 3lbs, but we did catch several 4's each and at least three 5's. Most were up against the tules, some were also right off the first break where it goes from 3 feet of water to 5 feet. We must have caught a fish every 5 to 10 minutes. After working that stretch several time we noticed some cruisers and other bass off the shore a ways (wind was so light could see them really well) We then started to sight fish a few and had the best luck with a Shakey-Head and a MMIII worm. One fish wanted nothing to do with it until I drug it up to him and tapped him with it. He sucked it in and it was 4.5lbs fish.

      This Lake is on fire and even being new to it we were able to catch fish after fish. You could probably catch fish on Senkos all day, but we did enjoy seeing different parts of the lake and catching them with different techniques.
      City: Fresno

      Tips: When the wind was calm and and the water was clear we stayed back off the tules and made longer casts. A lot of fish would come out of the tules to hit the Senko even if it wasn't at the base of it. If they did not hit it on the fall we would wait 5 seconds, drag it about 2 feet and let if sit again. Many of the fish hit it pretty hard and others you would just see your line move.

      Make sure you also bring some lotion for your hands because they get tore up from catching so many fish!

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      Water Temp: 71

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Met a friend from Red Bluff at 6am at Limit Out. We launched right there and within 15 minutes had 17 pounds, just like that. We moved that number to 22 pounds by 2pm when we quit. Big fish was 5-14. The lake is on fire. I agree with the previous post about lure selection. We stayed south of the narrows and fished docks and offshore breaks. The lure list was Vixen, Spook, frog, Senko (wacky and Texas), jig, Norman D-20, Beaver, wooly grub. Like about everyone else, we caught 40 fish, too. Clear Lake is just amazing.
      City: McKinleyville

      Tips: Call in sick, today !!

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 72-76

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I took a couple out Saturday that were up here on business and wanted to see and fish our beautiful lake. We started on the main body with some pop-r's fishing in the shade. With only small fish responding we went up to the N. Fork to fish the walls and points. Useing senko,s and tubes they did very well. By 11am the boat traffic and wind made it difficult to use senko,s and tubes so I changed to spinner baits. They were having so much fun catching bass on the spinner baits they extended their time to fish longer. They ended the day with 30+ with 1 over.
      City: Paradise

      Tips: top water in the early morning,tubes in clear sparkle and motor oil and senko's in pumpkin and water mellon on walls and points and white and chartruse spinner baits on points and rocky walls.

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      Water Temp: 70's

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: fished from 8 AM till about 12:30 PM
      bite was slow but then again we got out there late. we caught 4 spots, missed a lot on rubber worms we could have had at least 10. we stayed in and around the launch ramp due to the visibility. all in all it wasn

      Tips: we got the most bites on Morning Dawn and Margaretta mutilator III (#3) rigged weedless with bullet weights.

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

      Report: first time....any tips????? spots, baits , ext..
      City: san jose