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Wednesday, November 15th, 2006

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 58

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Disco for both linesides and largemouth. Started by slow trolling live gills in some of the marine side bays. It was a tough bite for the many boats out there as the fish were scattered. Managed three stripers, smallest was 8 pounds. I caught them all in one particular bay, near the mouth of it and close to the docks. It was reported that some guys had success in the Marina area early on. There was a good topwater spook bite for largemouth reported early as well with one guy catching bass up to 10 pounds. My buddy drop shotted a ton of smaller bass late in the day.
      Tight lines
      City: Brentwood

      Tips: When stripers are scattered, keep in contact with the bottom while trolling slowwwww. The fish seemed to like the smaller bluegill yesterday. Get out there and have some fun. Respect your fellow fisherman, no matter what level they are.

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      Water Temp: 58ish

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Got on the water at 245ish this afternoon and trolling by 3pm. First fish nice SALMON! WOW on a RAT-L-TRAP!! Snapped line and got off. OUCH...Then picked up a nice 18ish LBER Striper same Rat-L-Trap. Fished until 445 ran back in. Only on the water 1 hour and 45 minutes. Caught 8 stripers not counting the SALMON and big striper. Most stripers were 3-4 lb range. All catch and release even the lucky SOB Salmon. Tight Lines...sorry buddy (and everyone else) I had to post something especially seeing that beautiful Salmon...
      City: d-bay

      Tips: Watch the current tide cloud or sun situation and fish the weed lines. Use more than 12lb test line at all times in the delta!!! Where did the LM's go?

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      Water Temp: 57

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Iwent out went my brouder tooday and we caught some Strippers and a few blackies. Most of the strippers were in the 10 pond clas and some of the blaks were 5 pond. We throwed some plugs at them. Late for dark a stripper ate my plug and took off. I got him up by the bote and then it took off striping my fishing string off my reel. it too all my strang then broke off. It was a reel tode. Some necks thank they done sompin when they catch a 10 pond black. A 10 pond stripper is a baby. I cathes them balks on minners and I like to eat um up. I let the strippers go they are too good to eat.
      City: Disc Bay

      Tips: throw plugs in curent

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      Water Temp: 62

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Got a chance to fish mid-week so I took advantage of it. I fished the drop shot for a while and continued to catch small fish in the 30 ft. range. I did catch a few slightly bigger fish than usual but tired of the 11 inch fish. I moved up and fished the 15 ft. range with a jig without any luck so I picked up my favorite reaction bait and started fishing shallow. Having few boats on the water, it allowed me to cover a lot of water quickly. I proceded to finally catch some quality fish. I probably had 10-12 bites or followers. I had 5 fish pushing the 3 lb. range. Finally some fish that pulled back. Great weather with very few boats to compete with.
      City: Clovis

      Tips: Better fish seemed to be shallow. Still lots of bites to be had in 30 ft. but most are small.

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      Water Temp: 61.2 to 64.7

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Well from sunday to today it been good on bass from 2 to 5 pounds. There were two 9 pound swimbait fish caught one on monday and one today with the weather as nice as it is there should be more action through weekend. I got a good report on dropshotting pro gold and purple death both color are working well. Jigs in brown /green pumpkin tip with a watermelon red/blk flake 4" twin tail yamamoto work well bass are in 20 to 40 feet of water.Traffic heavier on weekends. 559-689-3255
      City: kerman ca

      Tips: For swimbait fish humps and islands in the dam area also major points on west and east bouy line swim area dropoff and also the second ramp parking lot on east side there are orange marker up allover the lake our just starting to show. dropshot jigs brushogs sweetbeavers there a variety of bait to use here. markinman51@aol.com

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

      Report: Has anyone been fishing McClure lately? I'm planning on doing some fishing over the Thanksgiving holiday and would appreciate any input. I haven't been up there in a few months.

      Thanks,

      Steve
      City: Atwater

Tuesday, November 14th, 2006

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: OK NOW THERE GOING TO BE SOME NICE WEATHER ALL THIS WEEK AFTER THE BRIEF STORM WE HAD HERES A CHANCE TO GET OUT AND TRY FOR THAT DD BASS THE HUMPS IN THE DAM AREA THE SECOND AND THIRD RAMPS ON THE EAST SIDE AND ALSO THE SWIMMMING AREA ARE HOLDING GOOD BASS ALSO BOTH MAJOR POINTS AT THE BOUY LINE HAVE BEEN KICKING OUT NICE BASS. LIVE CRAWDADS ARE TOPS ON THE LIST NOW WITH SWIMBAITS A CLOSE SECOND.
      City: kerman ca

      Tips: SLOW IS THE WAY TO GO NOW TAKE YOUR TIME AND FISH AND AREA WELL.

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

      Report: Don,

      Would you like a little cheese with that wine? Man it is what it is so don

      Tips: Always keep that man card in your wallet you never know when you will need to pull it.

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      Water Temp: probably.. 60

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: they closed the launch ramp ...dont know the water level... allthough I know I can still launch
      City: morgan hill

      Tips: Hey Jeff..the only small mouth in that lake are the dink's.. water's to warm for them and if some one did catch one.. congratulation's...but I really doubt it... take care , and watch out for the "ROWER'S" THEY HAVE ABSOLUTLY 'ZERO' DIRECTION.. THE WHOLE FREAKING LAKE AND RIGHT NEXT TO THE BANK'

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: QUESTION, for Matt or anyone else? I have been fishing Lexington for a number of years. I have caught Trout, Largemouth, Bluegil, and Crappie. However, have not seen nor heard of anyone catching Smallmouth Bass in Lexington. Are you sure the fish that you caught were SMB and if so, where are they in the res. Thanks Jeff.
      City: Cupertino

Monday, November 13th, 2006

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

      Report: threw crank baits and swim baits, bunch a dinks until an 8lb. largemouth hit my crankbait
      City: p-town

      Tips: watch the tide. inside outside, you know

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      Water Temp: 57-59

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Went out on early Monday morning. Windy, cloudy and the tide rising. Started off with top-water plugs on the eastern weed lines at Franks, landing four stripers 20-30 lbs. Sea lions arrived shutting down the bite in the area. Ran down towards the southern end of Mildred continuing with top-water plugs and had no end to stripers mixed with largemouth pushing bait against the banks.
      City: Stockton

      Tips: Look for birds. For those pursuing big stripers try Musky Mania Doc. Walks and looks just like a super spook just 9 inches long. Small fish will hit it but cannot get hooked causing a commotion for the big ones that can get hooked by the 9" plug.

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Look, guys enough already. If you guys are relying on this website as a barometer for the fish you plan to target you ain't going to be blowing anybody away anyway. You want a good black bass report, here ya' go. chatterbait in sparse tulles. Up north and go with a yo yo retrieve. North but not north of the shipping channel (hint hint). I live in Reno and have nothing to lose but we killed em on Fri and nothing less than 3.5.
      City: Reno

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

      Report: HEY W. JIM HAS TAKEN HIS TIME TO ANSWER FISHING QUESTIONS THAT I FEEL WILL HELP ME TO BE A BETTER FISHERMAN. WHO HAVE YOU HELPED?

Sunday, November 12th, 2006

  • Mason County
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      Water Temp: 60

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished for 3hrs starting at 11:30AM. Worked my normal spots using jerk bait, dropshot, carolina brushhog and senko and caught nothing. Not a bite from shallow to 30ft mostly points and rocky shoreline. The last 30 min of the day I found a steep rocky bank where boat waves were washing up. Started flipping a 1/2 football head hula grub against the rocks and caught 5 very nice fish in the 3lbs range in rapid sucession. They hit it on the fall. Had a pattern established and had to leave. At least I figured it out first.
      City: Foster City

      Tips: Flip jig or grub against steep rocky bank. I think a senko would also have worked. If you don't get bit on the usual baits keep switching until you figure it out.

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 61.3

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: I got to Berryessa late Thursday evening and it was cooold!!!!! Early Friday
      morning
      I took Benny and his daughter Caroline out. As we were trolling out of the
      marina
      Caroline hooked on to her first fish. It was a bass just under twelve inches.
      We took
      this as a good sign for the day and headed towards the BOR in high spirits. As
      we were
      trolling and looking for any top water activity she hooked on to another fish
      and fought
      it to the boat. I thought she had a good size salmon but it turned out to be a
      large
      squaw fish. I decided to head towards the ranch house and we had no luck there
      so we
      changed course for the vineyards where we picked up a bass on a River2Sea
      crawdad.
      Towards the end of the day Caroline hooked on to a five pound catfish which she
      did a
      great job of landing. On Saturday it was almost a repeat of Friday. On Sunday
      afternoon
      my wife joined me and we headed out for the BOR. We fished it for about fifteen
      minutes
      with no luck and no sign of any life whatsoever it could have been the dead sea.
      We
      decided to try one of our favorite spots near the ranch house. Since there
      seemed to be
      no surface activity, my wife used a senco with brass and glass and I used my
      River2Sea
      crawdad. Within an hour and a half we had almost limits of bass within the two
      to two and
      a half pound range. We were fishing in eight to ten feet of water in a rocky
      area. So ended
      a tough weekend of fishing. 'til next week..............................good
      fishing!!!!!!
      www.fishingconnection.net If you have any stories or fishing reports you would
      like to share
      please email me at bestguide@hotmail.com or call me at 650-583-3333.
      City: NAPA

      Tips: Don*t get discouraged try harder Don*t let the fish out smart us.just find there patern.

  • Santa Barbara County
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      Water Temp: 62 - 63

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Started the day at 6:30 and fished until 2:00pm. Tried spoon, drop-shot, jigs and spinner bait. Only caught 10 small fish and they all came on the drop-shot. Not sure if they shut off because of the front that passed thru on Saturday.
      City: Santa Maria

      Tips: Keep moving.

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 61

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went out of Big Break at first light, Ran up into Dutch looking for Stripers. Caught 8 keeper sized to 7 Lbs and a few more that were dinks. Got all of them drifting minnows. Bite stopped at the tide turn again...
      Anyone know how to fish with the bluegills as bait? Please e-mail me with instructions...
      City: Suisun City

      Tips: 16ft deep, just out of the current, back side of the points etc. etc.

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      Water Temp: cold

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I am curious to what "linesiders" means? Daddyblueranger and a couple of you guys have said it once or twice. Can someone fill me in? Thanks
      City: sacto

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 59-61

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Hit the lake early this morning. It was fairly cold and gray all day and I worked hard for the bites I got. I got bit 3 times and landed each fish. A 3-10, 3-06 and 2-08 all fell to the drop shot. I was quite happy with each fish as I used my fish finder to locate each fish (well the structure each fish was holding to) in areas I don't normally fish. Only fished for about 2.5 hours today.
      City: Petaluma