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Saturday, November 25th, 2006

  • Mariposa County
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      Water Temp: 60.5 to 62.5

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: We had about 20 fish, but only 7 keepers for about 8 1/2lbs. All our keepers were about a pound except for our big fish a 2 1/2 lb. spot my partner caught. We caught fish in 5 to 60 feet of water. ALL our fish came on worms (we did throw swimbaits, spinnerbaits, crankbaits, ripbats, jigs, and even spoons without being touched). Most of the fish came on darterheads and brass and glass, but we did catch a couple dropshoting. We caught them on 4" and 6" Keeper 082 with red, red and green, and gold flake, as well as Roboworms in Aarons Magic with no flake. We caught fish on rock, and "nothing banks", but most of the keeper fish came IN or AROUND WOOD. There was quite a few boats out there, that being said hopefuly some of those folks will post reports as well. I noticed a couple of the Motherloads "Big Sticks" out there so maybe they will let us know what was working.
      City: Modesto

      Tips: Worms in and around wood in 25 to 35 feet of water.

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 58.3

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: The Giant Orange across the freeway from Phils is back open again. Remodeled with a larger blacktoped parking area and looking forward to serving fishermen. Ate there this morning and the food was as good or better than before. They will be open early, 430 AM for the Cottonwood open team tournament on December 2nd. The boss said he guarantees getting you in and out in 20 minutes. (530)275-9582 if you have any questions or suggestions.
      City: Shast Lake City

Friday, November 24th, 2006

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

      Report: This lake has turned to crap now with the cold weather i assume. Missed a couple bites. Then after catching nothing for about 3 hours, i had caught 3 in a row on consecutive casts. Weird but I enjoyed it. Small fish. Then shut off after that. Used everything but they only seem to want a good old green pumpkinseed worm.
      City: Morgan Hill

      Tips: You tell me...

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      Water Temp: 56

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Got out on the water at 9:00. Headed to the north end and marked fish suspending at 20-30 ft. in 50 ft. of water. Tried jerk baits and jigs on rocky points with no luck. Decided to try the south end at 11:00 and landed a 3 lber dead stickin a senko. Off the water at 1:00. Overall, hard November day on the lake.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: The worst day of fishin is better than the best day of workin

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 56-58.5

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Took my dad to Berryessa for a post-Thanksgiving fishing trip. Fishing Berryessa, how could one ignore the possibility of a monster LM on a big swimbait? And so it was for MANY, MANY fruitless casts yesterday. Checked out all my usual LM haunts and came up snake-eyes with the Huddleston. Oh well, I'll be seeing them VERY soon! Wanting to get pops on some fish, we decided to lighten up a bit and check out those deep fish we were consistently seeing on the meter. Much like I see at Oroville this time of year, the baitfish appeared "layered" on the graph, almost looking like a thermocline, except a bit closer to the bottom. The dead giveaway that what you are seeing is bait and not the thermocline are the random streaks running through the layer of bait, indicating feeding fish. Moving to a series of points and ledges in the narrows and main lake, we found bait and bass in 25'-45', and dropshotting a 4.5" Roboworm in either Hologram Shad or Prism Shad did the trick. We also missed one fish apiece, one on a jig and the other on a darthead worm. Finished the day with 12 fish total: 1 LM, 2 SM, 2 smots (smallie/spot cross) and 7 spots. All fish were nice quality, with nothing under 1.75lb and the biggest spot right at 3.5lb. Total for best 5 something around 12.5-13lb. Despite the lack of a swimbait bite, a great day on the water... beautiful weather, serene conditions and time spent with my dad. It's ALL good!
      City: Elk Grove

      Tips: Know your electronics! Learn what you're looking at and how to see what you need to see. Now, any tips for those early season swimbait fish? :-)

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      Water Temp: Around 60

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Put the boat in around noon and trolled Markley Cove and the dam area till almost dark. Hooked a 19 inch rainbow on a superduper and a 15 inch rainbow on a needlefish. Both on top line (no weights).
      City: Middletown

      Tips: Trolled at 1.6 to 2.1 miles per hour.

  • Santa Barbara County
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      Water Temp: 61.1-62.5

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: It dawned Cold and Clear. I was into the swimbait this morning but the fish were not there. I was sure after my last trip it could be done but I didn't even have a follow on this day and I threw it plenty. I fished the ledges with minimal success on the spoon. Yeah I caught everything on it again but all the bass were runts. my best 5 MIGHT have gone 8 pounds. I gave away a great big old catfish to a nice enough guy....I just can't for the life of me remember his name ....He was going to release it in hot oil for me. I fished a bunch of new areas and the newer theory as to what my deep fish have done did not hold up. I guess I'm going to have to look in the same areas but with a different bait. I think the trout activity was good for the trollers up in the top 10 feet but I didn't see the trout on the surface like I did two weeks ago. Weather? Most likely. I'm sure the deeper fish are the more consistant bite right now but how to get a fish over 2 pounds was tough for me this day.
      City: Santa Barbara

      Tips: I have noticed the birds and shad are in the murkier water down lake. The shad are thick but the deeper fish were not responding in this murkier deep water. Most likely the active fish I'm looking for pulled up to 15-30 feet and are nearby to the dropoffs. Worm or jig should outfish everthing else for awhile until the water really gets cold.

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      Water Temp: 59-61

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I've been on the deep bite for the last month or so now, so I decided I would spend the day fishing mostly shallow, to see if I could make something happen. After two solid LMs on blades within my first dozen casts, I figured the bite was on. Not so much. Spent another hour fishing similar cover in the same area with no luck, so I moved up lake. Picked up one on a crank and missed two on a jig, both of which managed to steal my plastic trailer. Made another move, this time to deep water, and picked up two on a jig in about 30 feet of water. Picked up one more along the wall, then spent the rest of the day throwing cranks, blades and jigs to shallow cover but with no success.
      City: Lompoc

      Tips: Based on the limited time I spent deep, yet managing to catch two fish pretty quickly, I'd say the more consistent bite is still deep. All the fish I caught shallow were in stained water.

      If the fish aren't biting, grab a beverage and a chair and watch the boat ramp. It's probably pretty funny if you're not in line waiting to put in or take out.

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

      Report: e-mail correction.
      City: greenfield

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: the day after thanksgiving. there were a few bass boats and one brave skier on this cold day.anyways it was a little tough on the lake my friend and i manage 3 dinks and 1- 4.7 lm i caught the lm by the second dam and the rest were on the points.nothin like texas rig worm.first time on lake with a boat (and my friend kim.o manage to leave my camera in front of the live well and it manage to take a dive.) all fish were released.
      City: greenfield

      Tips: hit the rock piles they produce heat and you can't go wrong with a kinami flash 5" natural shad and baby bass colors,they never fail.

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

      Report: Went to Discovery Bay to drift jombo minnows. A dozen minnows and A dozen stripers.Most were 4 to 6 lbs. with one at 10lbs. Fished them about A foot off of the bottom along the docks.

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      City: sac

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      Water Temp: 52

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: LAUNCHED BIG BREAK OAKLEY CA FISHED DUTCH SLOUGH
      USED WHITE/CHARTRUSE HAIR RAISERS FOR STRIPERS TO EIGHT POUNDS ALSO LANDED NUMBER OF LARGE MOUTH TO SIX POUNDS RATTLE TRAPS NEAR GRASS LINES/TULE DROP OFF LOTS OF BOAT TRAFFIC NO SPEED LIMIT HERE///
      City: antioch

      Tips: OUTGOING TIDE/RATTLR TRAPS FOR BLK BASS WE USED HAIR RAISERS SLOW RETRIVE FOR STRIPERS

  • Ventura County
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      Water Temp: cold

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Started around nine - had two blow ups on swimbait by 11 on turkeyday. Most people were off by noon. With the colder weather coming in the bite should improve.
      City: Oak View

      Tips: Avoid all the clowns on the lake.

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

      Report: Went on our annual day after thanksgiving fishing trip. Caught six bass lost two. All fish were caught drop shooting MM Rabo worms tried other stuff but nothing else worked.
      City: Hollister

      Tips: Didn't catch anything in the Merced River

  • Ventura County
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      Water Temp: 62

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Caught 10 fish between partner and I. Maybe 3 were keepers the rest were shorts. Caught them on Jig and Pig, Kreature Bait, and split shot worms anywhere from 5 to 30 feet deep.
      City: Burbank

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

      Report: scott thanks for the info on the restraunt sounds like a good place to get an early bite to eat before going up to the lake to pratice. good places to eat are hard to find that early i wish the owners lots of luck and i will tell eyeryone in sac that is going to fish up there about it can't wait to try it
      City: sac

Thursday, November 23rd, 2006

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

      Report: Oops, boat launch at Calero is open, I was trying to report on Coyote in Gilroy.
      City: SJ

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Boat ramp closed! Totally sucked, been planning trip for weeks, get there, ramp is closed. I have a small boat, but main ranger dude basically would not even consider me had launching my boat. Fished dam and shoreline anyway, no fish. What's going on with this lake? Probably a good thing fishing is poor, bit a break from pressure, and all the friggin trash tha accumulates on the shores. Fisherpeople, please don't litter, and even better, take some out with you.
      City: SJ

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: This is my last reports on here as i offened the webmaster by posting picctures of my work in the forums so its best if i part ways with posting on this web site if you want info you can e mail me or read in the fresno bee on wed mornings paper. thank you very much for reading my reports.
      City: kerman ca.

      Tips: GOOD LUCK IN CATCHING THE BIG BASS AT EASTMAN

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 58

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: fished from 7am to 11am.started out in the south fork off one of the points.nailed a dink first thing,then a 2.5 and a 4 pounder off the same point.headed to the next point and nailed a 3 pounder.went out to the main body and got another 3 on some structure i found with the graph.awesome day for just a few hours of firshin.
      City: Citrus Heights

      Tips: all fish came in around 35ft deep.drop shotted a 2 hook setup with 3/16oz weight.oxblood with red flake on bottom and shad color on top.4 of the bass came on the oxblood.the big fish of the day came on the shad imitation.work the drop shot slow pretty muuch just drag it.