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Saturday, December 16th, 2006

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 53

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: swimbaits around submerged islands and main points
      nothin to big 1-7.3lb 1-5.7 we also had some luck using watermelon seed brushhogs carolina rigged around 20-30 feet one 3+ on brown jig overall decent winter day!!!!surprising
      City: Corralitos

      Tips: swimbaits for big fish buddie don't forget your thermals coldddddddddd!!!!!!!!!!!

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

      Report: caught all my best fish on docks on upper sac arm. use jig or grub lots of fattys under docks,and easy to catch. No Gas Docks For You Tournament Guys,But Lots Of Docks To Fish,I Also Caught Fish At Silverthorn Docks Again Easy Pickens. This Pattern Of Small docks on upper sac will hold till Post Spawn.
      City: Lakehead

      Tips: Spots love to get under docks more than beside them. these community fish do not go deep as often as open water fish,so remain consistant till spring or warmer weather comes. THESE SPOTS ARE BIG SO HANG ON.

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: 52

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: The Redwood Empire Bass Club held its annual Open team tournament today. There were 27 teams which was a record turnout. The winners were 1st: Joe Leonard & Patrick McGee with 15.94 lbs.& big fish of 4.55lbs. 2nd: Derek Castro & Brian Hoxsie with 13.51lbs. 3rd: Mike McPherson fishing alone with 13.04lbs. 4th: Dave Church & John Kidder with 12.59lbs. 5th: Brent Schneider fishing alone with 12.29lbs. and second big fish of 4.17lbs. My partner Dave Nieto and I finished sixth, one place out of the money with 12.19lbs.
      The weights wern't as heavy as I had predicted in my previous report but everyone caught fish and there were 20 limits weighed in. The winning team used heavy jigs fished at 30 to 40 ft. A variety of crankbaits, drop shot worms and blades caught the majority of the fish. A special thanks to Marine Unlimited for co-hosting the event with us and providing raffle gifts.
      City: Santa Rosa

      Tips: I would like to invite all you bass fishermen both boaters and non boaters to fish with the Redwood Empire Bass Club in 2007. Our first meeting is January 10th at 7p.m. at the Rohnert Park Community Center at the corner of Rohnert Park Expressway and Snyder Lane. Our guest speaker will be Ross England a well known pro and guide on Clear Lake. He will be sharing with us all his favorite baits and techniques to help us catch fish at our next tournament January 20th at Clear Lake. For further info and the 2007 tournament schedule log onto rebc.net or call me at 707.758.5762. Enjoy the holidays and I look forward in seeing you next year.

Friday, December 15th, 2006

  • Palo Pinto County
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      Water Temp: drunk

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: sizeeeeeeeeeeeeeee all day long my partner bill & I slayed!!!!!!!!!!
      City: monterey

      Tips: swimbaits buy the marina killed

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

      Report: spent 2 days here visiting family and fishing. having not been here in almost a year I just started at Bridge Bay and caught them on a small craw crankbait, XPS brand from Bass Pro. Tried a spinnerbait with no luck. Fish seemed real shallow for winter.
      City: Corvallis OR

Thursday, December 14th, 2006

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

      Report: If that salmon guide is legit. and you have his guide license # you can get his bonding Co. name from DFG and get your money back from them. Don't let this guy rip you off!! It sounds to me like he's the cry baby that didn't want to get cold.

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: You should open a can of whopa$$ on that sucker!Do NOT let the JERK get away with your deposit!

      Tips: If you do not stop him the next guy will get screwed the same way!

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 53-56

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Well, now that it's late into the night/morning and all the NCC angler's are or should be sleeeping I will post my report from Thursday the 14 th.Okay, On the water before sun-up, 1st stop I started off throwing a spook around an island in the main body, result's nada. I then switched over to a lucky craft staceeeee 90 rip-bait in ghost minnow, I ripped over shallow flat's & deep one's aswell for NADA.Next up was the swim-bait, for nada.I then broke down and went for the drop-shot rod, result's> (BORING BUT PRODUCTIVE, IF YOU LIKE CATCHING SALMON). I caught four Salmon drop shotting using a 3" Berkley Power Minnow , color was Black Shad,AWESOME bait for bass aswell just not on this stop.I left the main body & headed for the South Fork. The first point I pulled up too, I started off throwing a Bommer-A crank bait & on my 2nd. or 3rd. cast I nailed a 10.8 lb. LMB, IN SIX FEET OF WATER!!! WHO NEED'
      S SWIM-BAIT'S <J/K... IF YOU WANT TO INCREASE YOUR CHANCE OF A DD FISH THEN GO WITH A SWIM-BAIT, I JUST GOT LUCKY!!I chucked that bommer for a good two hour's after nailing that PIG, The only other fish I caught on the Bommer was a 2 - 2.5 lb.Spot like I said "I JUST GOT LUCKY".So, I went back to Drop-Shotting using the Berkely P/M in 15-20' of water & caught three more Spot's before calling it a day. OH YAH, Kent Brown AKA K.B. I gotta give him a little credit for helping me stick that PIG, WHY ?? Well, the Bommer-A I caught that PIG on, was given to my son & I along with a bunch of other misc. tackle that my old friend Mr. B... no longer had garage space for, THANK'S BUD!!! & NO, YOU CANNOT HAVE IT BACK!!! ~MJB
      City: Granite Bay

      Tips: Keep your line wet & good thing's will happen. Folsom has been very , very hard to pattern this Fall & Winter & without a good pattern it's tough to putt'em in the boat. Folsom will turn on & when it does I hope my line is in the water.... If a friend offer's tackle, take-it & use it, IT WORKED FOR ME!!!

  • Westchester County
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Heading to this lake Saturday morning with a couple friends. Real excited. See you guys there!
      City: Freakmont

      Tips: One thing i learned from the locals,"Cast out as FAR as you can!" Trust me. their out there.

Wednesday, December 13th, 2006

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

      Report: in regarde to the failed salmon fishing trip,sorry for your bad luck with kirk,your experience is nothing new,he is affectionatly known in our area as KIRK THE JERK and i think you know the reason why,there our other guides in redding that are simply awesome,dont give up on the salmon fishing up here
      City: redding

Tuesday, December 12th, 2006

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

      Report: The birds are everywhere. Off the top of my head there is mandeville, twitchell, sherman, king,empire tract, mcdonald, bouldin, franks tract area, suisun bay, san pablo bay and a few other places I cant remember right now. Or you can just go over to Grizzly Island WA or some other WA or NWR.

      Sorry I dont have a fishin report

      Tips: Use live bluegills because they work

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      Water Temp: 49-50

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished a half day with Dan today. Fished Coney island area and Victoria up to Hwy 4. Rain was coming down sideways in winds 15 mph +. (lying weatherman!). Dan still put us on fish almost immediately. 2-4 ft, suspending stickbaits/jerkbaits in shad patterns and med size willow leaf spinnerbaits did the trick. Seemed like the fish were balled up over/next to deeper grass, out of the main current following the shad as usual. Anywhere we could find a little cut in the weeds or similar ambush point, we found bass. Good size very chunky bass, lots of fun. Dan is very good at pointing out and explaining the subtleties of the river, i.e.- the 'Drive up Window' phenom. Attention to detail really made the day. Thx Dan!
      City: Dublin, CA

      Tips: Patience this time of year

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Never mind those bluegill, If you want to catch big stripers use a 12 inch largemouth. Use a 3/0 Tiemco SP600 or = and hook it just in front of the dorsal fin. I caught a 30 pounder the other day.
      City: Stockton

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      Water Temp: n/a

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: I found the CA DFG fishing regs at http://www.fgc.ca.gov/2006/06freshfishregbook.pdf. In Section 4.20 (d) it seems to say using bluegill in the Delta is okay. Most other places, no, so be careful. You almost have to be a lawyer to read the regs these days.
      City: Folsom

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      Water Temp: 53to 57

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: This last weekend produced some nice bass and swimbaits took top honors one angler had two bass over 10 pounds. most bass are still in the 12 to 17 inch range and are still in the 25 to 60 foot depth range. Drop shot and jigs are still holding there own. Area to target swim and dam areas also the 5 mph area alsoeast wall from ramp to keepout bouy line and both major points on that bouy line itself. Also target isolated rock and brush piles also. Slow down now and work these areas bigger fish will move in and out on these spots all day long. 559-689-3255
      City: kerman ca

      Tips: Slow down and work the areas these bass will move in and out on structure. WeatherS going to really cool by sunday.

Sunday, December 10th, 2006

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 49-52

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Sunday up Putah Creek with my buddy, braving the rain and dodging the ABA guys. Pulled out best 5 for 10 and 1/2 lb. One swimbait fish, but only a 2 lb smallie. Most of our fish were on soft plastics fished slowly. most fish around 15 ft deep.

      Tips: fish slow.

  • Santa Barbara County
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      Water Temp: 57.7-58

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: 2/3 of the lake has less visability now. I was hoping to get out in the rain on Saturday but no dice. I did get out Sunday which started out fairly clear but at 12:00 it started to rain. The best thing about Cachuma in my opinion is the Smallmouth/Largemouth mix. I started the day slow on swimbaits on my first hour so I checked the outside edges with a spoon and the fish Gods were happy to oblige me so, realizing I would be able to throw heavy metal all day I went off looking for a swimbait bite. I did get one fish on the Huddleston but not really worth the effort as it was only 3 pounds. I started spooning and did okay but nothing fantastic. I got another huge 15+ pound catfish and had my hands full getting my spoon back. around 11:00 my spoon bite just died. I thought it was because I was getting into murkier water but later I realised that the fish were responding to the weather and were moving shallow. I did best in 50+ feet in the morning but would occasionally get a better fish in 35 feet. I was not seeing as much bait as I would have liked to have seen on the meter but the bait I did see was tight to the bottom. From 11:00 to 12:00 I think I might have caught one fish so I pulled the boat onto the best looking smallmouth water I could find. It had smallmouth written all over it but it was to shallow 25-30 feet. I played on this spot untill I found some nasty stuff that you just could not spoon with my usual method of ripping the bait so I modified my presentation to meet the need and WHAM! 3+ pound smallmouth. Long story short with my new modified presentation and shallow tactic I went back over all the areas I had previously fished during the day and fished the new suicide method. Shallow and in the brush. I didn't loose any spoons this day but I did get 8 smallmouth over 3 pounds : ) ...I was stoked as one was close to four pounds and another weighed 4 pounds 4 ozs. in a weigh in bag on my scale so pretty close to four pounds. Interesting note: one of my fish coughed up a freshwater sculpin? or goby? type fish earlier in the morning which was alive so I put it in my livewell were it made a full recovery so I put it back in. The crappie are still very deep on brush and the rainbows went off in the rain. 1 1/2 colors or right on top with red/pearl needle fish being the better color. The trout guys told me to play with your speed as the fish seemed to want the baits trolled a bit faster.
      City: Santa Barbara

      Tips: Pay attention to what the fish are trying to tell you. When the bite went south at noon I just changed the local of my presentation by going shallow and finding a way to do it without getting hung up all the time and the fish responded.

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

      Report: I thought it was ileagle to use game fish (bluegill) for bait? If Im wrong please fill me in.

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: I read so many striper-fishermen are drifting Perch and Bluegills. Are there any baitshops around Stockton area that carry those? Please advise.
      City: modesto

  • Riverside County
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      Water Temp: 58-60

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Been waiting for some rain as the lake is very clear. Typical DVL winter bite as a few swimbait fish in the first hour, 6.75 and 6.05. Then a long period of no fish as the sun hit the water. About 12:00 as the water warms go to the long points and c-rig a lizard in 35-60 and scratch the rest of the day. 6 fish total, biggest 5-23 lbs. Water is also dropping fast. Shad very deep, 75' plus.
      City: anaheim

      Tips: Stay on the outside.