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Monday, May 28th, 2007

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

      Report: wanted to go this weekend. called wind number, way to windy for my taste. did anyone else brave it? i will be out next weekend (if wind will let me)
      City: hollister

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      Water Temp: Unknown

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished both the Island Pond in the morning and the Arroyo "hidden" lake in the afternoon on Memorial Day.

      Bite was pretty slow on the Island Pond. My buddy, LTC, and I basically got two bites in the morning and caught one just around the island near the shore. Tons of tubers out and I didn't see many fish being caught.

      Arroyo was a bit better. I caught a 2 pounder and missed a bite pretty much during midday. I didn't deviate from my baits other than color and was throwing a weightless Senko into cover.

      My buddy had TONS of success throwing a frog. With all the weeds starting to clog up the water, the frog is definitely a good option right now. He got 7 or 8 bites at least.
      City: San Mateo

      Tips: Bring your sun screen. It's getting hot as hell out there.

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

      Report: Anglers Attic annual nite series will start on June 2. Blastoff 5pm at packers bay. Must sign up at Angler's Attic any time before the tournament. Entry fee will be $80 per team big fish included. Any questions call Chris @ Angler's Attic 530-245-0654 Tips:
      City: redding

Sunday, May 27th, 2007

  • Santa Barbara County
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      Water Temp: 62-67o

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Gold Coast Tourney today with 19 boats on hand. Early low fog at 6AM launch with weather reports saying sunny to low 70's and 9mph winds. Well, temps were close but not till after 1 and the winds were close as well but failed to add that 14-15mph gusts. --- Cachuma Bay is clearing from last week but still chocolate colored but fish are there. Partner and I had a great start on top water with three in the boat on our first stop but all were too small, headed to second stop and the same, small fish. Partner finally pulled a keeper and we headed out towards the river. Only hit and miss so moved towards the dam looking for more weight. Hard day with only three in the hole and a dissapointing 13th placing.

      Winners in with 23 and big at 6.58, second in with 11.53, third in with 10.81, 4th at 9.48 and so on. arted with jigs on a spot they hit the week before but switched to a senko weightless back in the river area where they stayed pretty much all day.
      City: Santa Maria

      Tips: Smaller fish were in close and bigger post spawn fish were holding on points in small areas. Senkos are always a good choice worked slow as was Sweet Beavers weightless. I hit a good top water AM bite on a silver MegaBass popper but didn't get to try the Rico as it shut off. No crankbait fish today which was sad.

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      Water Temp: 70 deg

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Good vis most places. Temp now up to 68-70. Drop shots on flats and senko still working for a few fish. Another nice honest 5 today.
      City: Santa Barbara

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

      Report: Hey trey i'm 14 jeez...and jon u gettin all mad??...jus cuz i catch more fish then u?...by the way nice fishing reports!!
      City: cv

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

      Report: Launched out of Clear Lake Oaks around 8 am with a late start I started on walls immediately at the ramp and started catch some 2.5 pound speed trap fish. I then moved over to the east side of Anderson Island and caught several more speed trap fish but move out to around 20 feet and caught a few on a jig. Move up to Hey 20 side across from State Park and caught some more speed trap fish and jig fish but the wind was picking up and with all the boats on the water I felt like a cork bobbing up and down so i move back into the Keys catching a few on speed trap but main the jig. All in all about a 45 fish day with a 5.9 for my biggest.
      City: Lincoln

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      Water Temp: 70 -76

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Arrived at the Red Bud ramp at midnight - we slept until 5am and started right at Beeman island, did not even start the big motor and caught 15 to 20 fish before the sun came up. :) My friend started off throwing wacky riggged senkos and caught two fish on his first three casts, both around 3lbs. I was throwing a spook with no takers, I switched over to to T-rigged sweet beaver and whacked about 10 fish up to 3lbs. We then moved over into Jago bay and started working the docks and tules in between. Found most of the fish had moved out a ways and caught them on the texas rig ROBO 7" MM. It really did not matter what I put on as it was more the areas we fished it seemed like. What was cool is that you can be fishing behind other boats and still pick up fish if you do opposite what they did. We fished until 1:30 pm and then got some rest. I would say we caught 60 to 80 fish in that time.
      Got back on the water at 6pm. A little windy and the boat traffic was a little heavy as the wakeboaders -skiers were coming as close to us as possible. We did manage to pick up about 15 more up to 3lbs that came on Senkos for my pard and I was using a 10" power worm in Blue fleck and Junebug to get the bigger fish. 6 plus lbs. This was at night until 10pm. Weird, but No spook or frog fish on this trip. :(
      Sunday 5am head right over to Baylis point and fished all the way over to Lakeview point w/out using the big motor and caught 30 fish up to 5lbs. Wow, What a phenomemal fishery this is.
      It got to the point that if you did not get bit after 10 minute you thought something was wrong. Yep, casting accuracy comes into play once the sun gets up and your target area gets smaller and the fish move into the shade. Easy pickings once you figure them out. Now go fishing to Clear Lake... :wink:
      City: Santa Clara

      Tips: just go..... Use sunscreen, wear a hat and drink plenty of water.

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: The wife and I had a great day today. We caught decent numbers of fish. She outdid me with the most fish, she had 35 to my 32. I however had the biggest fish of the day a 5-6 taken on a shakey head worm. I also caught my first ever smallmouth on a MMII drop shot, that was quite a surprise to say the least. We found fish everywhere we stopped and caught fish on the shakey head, LV 500, drop shot, senko and jig. The fish are starting to show up in their summer haunts and many of the fish we caught today were quite wore out from the spawn. Their was a TON of boat traffic on the lake, but we had no problems finding plenty of water to fish.
      City: Petaluma

      Tips: Get out and fish, the bite is pretty much wide open. However you like to fish should produce. for use today it was watermelon and MMIII worms and brown jigs that produced the most fish for us.

  • Fresno County
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      Water Temp: 73

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished from 6:00 am tell 1:00 pm caught alot of small one's alot of boat's but still had fun mostly caught fish up in the river.
      City: hanford

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 72-74

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Hit the lake on Sunday with the crowds. On the water around 10, waited 30mins for my turn to launch. We swam and fooled around until a wind came up at around 1pm...fished the mudlines (thank you wakeboarders) for fast action. 30 fish in about an hour and a half, mostly Aarons magic robos and flukes
      City: Benicia

      Tips: The fish were suspending in 12 to 25ft under the mudlines. Look for banks that the wind blows into.

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

      Report: Anglers Attic annual nite series will start on June 2. Blastoff 5pm at packers bay. Must sign up at Angler's Attic any time before the tournament. Entry fee will be $80 per team big fish included. Any questions call Chris @ Angler's Attic 530-245-0654 Tips:
      City: redding

Saturday, May 26th, 2007

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      Water Temp: 65

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: got to the lake about 6:30 walked the bank while throwin a jig caught 1 about 3 pounds(released)the went and walked the dam stuck a nice one but came unbuttoned.Not a single bite after that
      City: Gilroy

      Tips: dark colored baits work best right now

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 67 Degrees

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the C&C tourney today with my wife. We maged to stick several fish many small males and some suspended females. Maged to get the full bag of seven fish at 11.73 pounds.
      Really had to work for our fish today. We used 6-lb florocarbon line drop shotting small 4-1/2" robo worms off flats, main lake points and secondary points. Alot of the fish were suspended.
      What a great tourney to fish, I reccomend this one to all Ranger owners. Everybody wins in the raffle lures, hats, rods, reels etc. and a free tri tip bar-b-q. All for a measly $50.00 bucks entry fee. Paid out to 21st place with top prize $2,100 bucks. See you all next year at the annual C&C tourney at Don Pedro.
      City: Tracy

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 65-69

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I took out a father,grand father and grandson out on one the busiest weekends of the year. Boats, house boats,jet ski's all over the lake. To keep it enjoyable we kept to rocky walls, some what away from the baots. We only used senko's and tubes to catch nearly 80 bass with 5 over. It was really great seeing 3 generations all catching fish. Lots of double and one triple hook-ups. We fished from 6:30am to 1:00pm. on the West Branch to the main body.
      City: Paradise

      Tips: Rocky walls using pumpkin and water melon senko's and tubes in brown craw,motor oil and clear sparkle colors.

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 68

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: We took (1) 3lb 2oz smallie early in the day on a small floating shad in about 1 ft of water. Had just cast to shore and had a fouled reel. Just when I cleared the foul, bam he sucked that puppy down. After that, not 1 bite. We were on the water from safe light until 2pm. Biggest problem I think was the water, it was ultra clear with visibility at aroung 10+ feet.
      City: East Bay

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      Water Temp: 69

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Caught 4 dropshotting Yamamoto 4" shad in watermelon with black and red flake ~ 20' deep off of grassy banks. Largest 2.5#.
      City: Monterey

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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Did pretty good on crankbaits on saturday afternoon. uvas is pretty low! only the second time I've fished here in as many years. my buddy even managed to catch his first spinnerbait fish.
      City: RedWood city

      Tips: deep diving crank baits in bluegill colors bouncing off of stumps seemed to be the ticket!

Friday, May 25th, 2007

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: ?????????

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: fished amador with a buddy of mine friday night.we got on the water around 10:30 pm.the bite for us was a little off.we missed alot of fish and the ones we caught was hooked on the outside of the mouth.around 3am my buddy stuck a 8 pounder.all in all 20-25 fish night and one eight pounder.morning time,no top water bite for us.

      Tips: texas rigged plastics and blades

  • Mason County
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      Water Temp: 68

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Caught 23 bass with the largest 2.5lbs. All were caught on main lake mud lines on Carolina rigged plastics and drop-shot cut-tails in 3-10ft.
      City: Foster City

      Tips: If there is muddy water - fish it.