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Saturday, June 2nd, 2007

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 71-73

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished from 7am-2pm, Threw worms galore(wacky, weightless, texas), lizards, jigs. Got nada. ~1pm, got 3 dinks on some weird green tube bait with 6 legs on it from the bottom of my tackle box. On Sun, fished from 7am-10am. Got a dink on chrome/blue deep diving crank and a 8 pound cat on a zipper worm.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Not sure if the full moon affected the bite, but I was expecting better results since they planted 1400 lbs of florida strain LM last Nov. This lake has too many water skier/wakeboarders in it. They even go into the 20mph/fishing zone. I wish Ranger Rick would sit back in a cove and pick them off one by one. It'll buy them a ton of donuts for sure.

      Careful navigating this lake. Saw a pleasure boater hit an unmarked shallow at high speed. It was funny.

      $80 to camp and fish from a boat for the weekend. And I thought Amador was expensive. Guess we gotta pay for that off-ramp at the Maze.

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 75

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished with my friend Adrienne Dunn on 6/2, Adrienne landed 25 fish to 4 lbs and I landed 40 fish to 6 lbs, the water is the clearest I have seen in June since I been fishing it 17 years. We were fishing rock and you would throw your Yamamoto Hula grub out there and a fish would come out and eat it that was not there a second ago because you could see where you through it. We also got them in a cove past Shag Rock in the weeds and under docks. I saw 2 8 lbers in 5 feet of water and 2 4 lbers next to them and I hit one of the 8's with my Yamamoto grub in the nose and she just swam away very happily:( I got the biggest bluegill I have ever seen there also on a Yamamoto Creature bait with a 3/8 oz foot ball head!! I will post a picture of it soon, the Creature bait is in its mouth and I am holding it like a bass with my thum in its mouth, yes bluegill not crappie:)
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Did not get a fish over 2.5 until 10:30 PM and than the big girls came out to play, My friend got a 4 lb and I got a 5 lb and a 6 lb all with in 30 min of each other after 10:30 and lots of more 1.5 to 2.5 lbers also, we fished until 3:00 am because we would keep getting one every 15 minutes. All fish over 3 lbs came on Brown Persuader jigs with Yamamoto Watermelon twin tail trailers drug reeeeeeal slow. Hey Larry I finally found that rock pile off Anderson island that I got my 5 lber on when I went on the guide trip with you 10 year ago:) the only reason I found it is because I could see it 10 feet down!

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      Water Temp: n/a

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I fished channel point area and the bridge with no bites. Bass started get more active as the sun came down. Fished the boat ramp with a jig and missed one. Threw zara spook bait and caught a 1.5lb.
      City: Antioch

      Tips: Use Bluegill colors seems like the bass are going after them.

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 72

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Started out trying three systems with no takers (new marker bouys didn't hold, shame on me)Threw jigs till 11:00 and left. Caught a real black smallie in fifteen ft, came back 45 min. later and caught it again off the same spot(had a black mark on the tail). Caught a nice catfish and some spots, nothing big, just having a day with the skiers.
      City: sac

      Tips: With boat traffic the way it is now, move into the 5mph zones.

  • Mariposa County
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      Water Temp: 76-78

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished from 4:30 until 9:30pm and caught a bunch of fish. The biggest was a 4+ spot. Started out on main lake south of Barret's and worked our way towards McClure Point. We then moved into Cottonwood and finished out the night at McClure Point. Caught them from the bank out to 30'. Dropshot, Darthead, Jigs, Spinnerbaits, Topwater.
      The most consistent bite was the jig. There is no question when you get a bite. The days of the light pressure bite are over. They just about ripped the rod out of your hands when they hit. Dark colors (browns and greens) were the ticket.
      City: Atwater

      Tips: Get out to McClure and go fishing. We caught fish at every spot we hit. Now is the time. We noticed alot of garbage on the shorelines and floating plastic bottles. McClure is such a great fishery, we can't let it get trashed. I now have my net out and I gather every piece of trash I come across for proper disposal. I challenge all of you to do the same. Check out the great new fishing section at Snelling 76 on your way to McClure.

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 75-77

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Wanted to get this report on before I forgot what all happened, last weekend. Me and my fishin partner Mad Maggs took the boat out before I had to leave town for a week. We launched out of Lime Saddle and headed straight out across the lake to the house boats and started on top water against the steep walls and house boats with no takers. Went to tossing a football jig with various trailers on it and first fish was 15.5" we fished on for a bit and I took off the top water sammy and put on a Chartruse Chatter-bait with a single tail chart 2.5" grub on it, and after a few cast's I pitched it next to a small tree and let it fall about 6-8' and bang the fight was on I had no clue what it was but it was dragging me all over the front deck of my Tracker PT 190! Then I did it, I made the call for Madd Maggs to get the net, something I have never asked him to do on any of our prior trips, so he was bouncing all over the boat with excitement just waiting to see what was on the other end of my Chatter-bait. A brief belly flash told us it wasn't a bass but something else, I fought for around 2.5 minutes with em' and Lo & behold it was a 12 lb catfish according to the rapala scale!! I debated making fillets out of him while I let the monster recover in my live well, but respected him for the outstanding fight he put up. So I released him right back where he was caught.
      So back to fishing for the ones with green scales on'em! I had to switch Chatter-baits as the big cat destroyed the other one. We caught 20 or so spots over the six hour trip, w/2 over the slot. Dart head & football jigs were the baits of choice!
      City: Plumas Lake

      Tips: Had alot of fish hit the lures on the fall, so watch you line. Had alot of missed fish as well, allow a few seconds for the fish to take to bait then reel down on it, and set the hook. I pulled back alot of craw trailers that had no claws on them any more, maybe that had something to do with color, but the other bass I caught thru out the day didn't mind it!

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      Water Temp: 67 to 73

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Anglers Choice tournament day, most every one caught lots of bass. We finished 6th with 10.41-lbs. The top weight was 11.75lbs. with a kicker of 3.75lbs. Big bass was 5.20lbs. We started in the lower main body and worked our way up. Fishing both sides,we fished rocky points and walls with gitzits, senkos, and spinner baites working the best. Some of the teams used worms and jigs.
      City: Paradise

      Tips: Gitzits in motor oil, craw and clear sparkle. Senko's in pumpkin and watermelen and spinner bait in white.

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

      Report: what is the wind number?
      City: san bruno

Friday, June 1st, 2007

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 74-76

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I did another marathon at Amador - Thursday thru Friday morning. I started with a guide trip on Thursday morning - 6 am - teaching a good angler some of the basics of Amador and techniques I use and some good areas to fish. The morning was amazing - foggy, windy and cold! Great bass fishin' weather!! Because of that, the bass ran small, most in the 1 1/2 to 2 1/2 lb range. We threw frogs a lot but only landed 2 - missed several. Most of our bass were on worms - Dead Ringers and Power worms - 19 bass total. He was using some other lures as well. After a burger and a nap, I started fishing about 7 pm and the Chug Bug bite started about 8 pm. I landed 4 nice ones on the bug and one on a Brush Hog. After dark, I fished the "10 Power worm and 5" Power hog. The bite was good wherever I could get out of the moonlight. I fished until 1 am and landed 10 up to near 5 lbs - all spawned out of course. I slept for a few hours and tried again in the morning. The morning was nice for an hour or two and the delta breeze (wind!) kicked in again. I caught several topwater bass before that and even got a 3 1/2 lb frog fish. The cold weather just seemed to shut off the frog bite which didn't surprise me. After a few on green pumpkin Power worms and 11 total bass, I quit at 9 am, had breakfast at the "Amador Inn", and towed back to Yuba City - sorta wide awake!!
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: It is amazing to watch the weather effects on bass fishing. The cold wind on Thurs hampered the bite. That evening was nice as the wind died and no east wind came up at night. The bite was good and the fish were bigger. The next morning was nice early and the bite was good. As soon as the cold delta wind kicked in, the bite was all but over. Amador is finally getting some color in the water which should help the overall bite. It has been slow in coming because of the lack of heat.

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 76

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Went out at 6am and caught about 50+ bass in 2 hours with poppers, crankbait, rattle traps. Thats a record for me, the biggest fish was 9pounds.
      City: daly city

      Tips: crankbait, rattle traps, poppers

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      Water Temp: 76 to 79

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Got on the water at 4pm went stright to east wall started throwing 1/4 oz arkie jigs( lefty's lures ) with a yamamoto twin tail 4" grub in 18 to 25 feet of water and had no problem landing bass to 4 pounds.We also caught bass on super pop-r's and buzzbaits the wind and over cast made the differents and the bite was very good we fished till 8:30 pm and had 24 fish between my partner and myself.
      City: kerman ca

      Tips: Very solid bite for bass to 4 pounds jigs are by far the bait to throw right now 18 to 30 feet of water there are good numbers of bigger bass in that depth range water is clear and the bite is pretty much wide open.

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Is any one catching top water fish yet?
      City: Fresno

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 70 ??

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Lots of boat trafic when they get started. Some top water early morning, senko's, grubs, worms it all works,,,, BUTT... about 10'ish my boy caught a little blue gill and playing around taused it into a willow bush
      Awesume the battle was on . a 12Lb Catfish when it was all done...... it was sweet...
      City: Redding

      Tips: pop a beer when you get tired

Thursday, May 31st, 2007

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      Water Temp: Unknown

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Caught two nice bass near the boat rental area on a YUM 6in lizard watermelon w/ red flake. Fish for only a couple of hours but saw plenty of fish in the water. Nice weather nice day.
      City: Felton

  • Plumas County
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      Water Temp: 000

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Making a trip to this great!!Can anyone tell me what stage the smallies are in? How's the bite? ~Thank you ~
      City: Redding

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 75-80

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Full moon, cold evening and windy afternoon. Fished with a friend from 5 pm - 1 am. My friend caught about 10-15 fish before dark including a 3, 4, and a 5 all on brush hogs. I got a 3 around midnight on spinnerbait. We had 2 blowups on frogs and a couple of senko fish and that's it. Bite was hot in evening (if you were throwing brush hogs) and slow at nite. Another boat caught an 8 to 10 pounder around 7 pm, so the big fish were feeding during the afternoon/evening hours. We probably caught around 20 or so overall.
      City: Folsom

      Tips: Try to find a weedless stinger hook for your spinnerbait - I wish I had had one as I would have caught 5 more fish! I'm going to look into finding one.

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

      Report: pickle thats a good one the sinking frog and the great fish calls what a blast
      City: oakley

      Tips: practice your fish calls

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      Water Temp: 67

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Windy all day. White frogs, spooks and poppers. Lot's of open water blowups on frogs. Sinking frog was on fire. Best 5= 20#
      City: Pleasanton

      Tips: Poke a hole in your frog LOL

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 72-75

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: fished from 7am to 1pm. Couldnt count how many fish I got. But I did get a 5.5, 5, 4.5, 4, and another 4 as my best 5. 22.5lbs. I will take it. My 4 year son got 3 fish up to 3lbs. And netted most of my fish. Days like today are what its all about.
      City: Petaluma

      Tips: Drop shot and bigger fish on Jig.

  • Yuba County
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      Water Temp: 75

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Was the previous report from Collins? - doesn't sound right. Anyway, I guided a husband/wife team Wed at Collins. They were anxious to learn more about the lake and bass fishing in general. I didn't know how the bass would react to our lures two days after the Memorial weekend. To my surprise, the little lady nailed two right off the bat on a Chug Bug topwater lure - one the biggest of the trip at 2 1/4 lbs (largemouth). She caught two more on MMIII Robo worms and I caught four on various Robos. Hubby blanked for some reason but he says she catches the most all the time! We worked some brushy areas on the shore and I showed them some off-shore structure which will hold more and more bass as the summer progresses. The main lake provided most of our bass - the river arm seemed to be slow.
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: With the very cool weather this week, the evening bite - and topwater especially - should be the best fishing. That may hold true next week also - we just can't seem to get any hot weather yet. Nice for people but not for bass. Since the lake will be dropping slowly through the summer, look for steeper banks to fish. The brushpiles will hold fish all summer. Senkos are excellent for that type of structure.