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Saturday, November 18th, 2006

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

      Report: The Redwood Empire Bass Club along with Marine Unlimited is hosting our annual "Turkey Shoot" open TEAM (which you pick)tournament at Lake Sonoma on December 16th. You don't have to be a member to fish but we are welcoming all new members both boaters and non boaters to join our club.The signups for the tournament will be on December 13th at 7p.m. at the Rohnert Park Community Center at the corner of Rohnert Park Expressway and Snyder Lane. Aside from winning the tournamnt, having big fish or placing in the money there will be additional prizes donated by Marine Unlimited to randomly selected teams for just showing up. Plese log onto rebc.net or call me at 707.758.5762 for further info. There have been reports of some big fish caught recently and I know it will take over 20lbs. to win the tournament. I hope to see you there.
      City: Santa Rosa

Friday, November 17th, 2006

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 56-58

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched @ 8:00am in middle delta on outgoing tide. Fished nothing but tule islands and rock points. My partner cought 8 largemouth up to 3 lbs. on spooks and spinnerbaits. I was throwing pencil popper and luckycraft pointer (white) and cought alot of stripers but no black bass. (??). Just a great day on the water with very good weather and calm water. Off the water by 1:30, about 25 fish between us. All stripers were of keeper size, but nothing over 5 lbs.
      City: Tracy

      Tips: Tule island points for black bass and sripers, they are feeding together.

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 59-63

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I hate fog!! Not the visability problem but what it does to the bite! Wednesday my client and I had to fish in the first bad fog of the year and it didn't clear totally until noon. The only fair bite was around noon near Konocti Resort and again at dusk around Sea Breeze. Five bass - 2 to 3 1/4 lbs and a few dinks - all on jigs. After some night rain and a very cloudy Thursday, my next client and I expected some pretty good fishing. Not so for numbers but quality was good. Again, all fish on jigs. Brown/orange seemed to be working the best again. I finally gave up on my purple/brown. He caught his biggest jig fish ever at 5 1/4 lbs and another around 4 lbs. Just before we quit about 4 pm, I showed him a tiny rockpile near Rattlesnake Island and I dared myself to try to work a jig over it. I had no success at all - a 6 pounder ate it! No bragging here - I lost the Rodstrainer jig on the next cast. So - you figure this out. We had 4 bass for approx 17 1/2 lbs and 5 bass for 18 lbs. Yes, you're right - the fifth might have been 10 inches!
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: This warmest water I have ever seen in mid-November has caused the dinks to still be shallow. They hit our jigs and bite the tails off the Yamamoto grubs just like they do in the summer. Bugs are still sticking to my boat. They should be long gone by now! If you look at the photo page, some big bass are beginning to show. Unfortunate, the fog really slowed the bite down for the last two days. We tried other baits with no luck. The bass seemed to leave the normal 8 to 15 foot range when the fog hit - just my observation. The nice bass we did catch were in that range and we could not get the deep bass to bite. I tried to remind myself - if you are not catching anything - move! We moved a lot. I heard one angler that has been doing well lately also had a very tough day yesterday. I guess I feel better!

Thursday, November 16th, 2006

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 55-58

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: HIT FRANKS WITH THE CRANKS. LANDED 8 LMB UP TO 3.5# WITH A FEW STRIPERS TO BOOT. ALL HITS AT THE TULE LINES.
      City: WINTERS

      Tips: CRAW PATTERNS AND COVER LOTSA WATER. RUN AND GUN....HAVE FUN..

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      Water Temp: 55-57

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Laundhed out of B&M last Sunday. On the water at sun up and fished Franks and Mildred for na da! 8 hours on the water and everyone I spoke with was batting zeros! I must of been talking to the wrong people I guess....getting ready for the next trip.
      City: antelope

      Tips: I'M THE WRONG GUY TO TALK TO......MAYBE NEXT WEEK.

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      Water Temp: 56 Degrees and

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: In water @08:00 hours, air temp at 54 deg and water temp at 56deg. Water clarity down to two feet and stained. Fished near Dissapointment slough most of the day and best 5 went just over 16lbs. Caught all fish in less then 10 feet of water on "Cooch's" New Wadda jig in Brn. Man what a Jig he has designed thanks Cooch for everything. Tried Crankbaits, spinnerbaits, and other plastics but the Jig bite was on. My personal best tonight an 8lb'er and she is getting fat for the winter....I can't post the picture until I find out how to down size it from 3300kb's to the required 250kb allowed in order to posts.
      City: El Dorado Hills

      Tips: You have to search hard for quality fish but I can attest to you that they are there and man are getting fat. Take a kid fishing and tight lines.

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      Water Temp: boiling hot

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: I've got my two 9/10 year old boys coming to read these reports with me, eveningS before our fishing trip. They get excited to see how the reports have been. Please keep the postingS "G" rated and related to fishing reports. Let's all remember that we come here to view reports, because fishing is joyful and a stress relief. Please make this the last post to get us back on track with the fishing reports.
      City: San Ramon

      Tips: - NO MORE NEGATIVE POSTINGS PLEASE -

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

      Report: Rains have been helping the bite for me. Nothing over 3 lbs, but lots of them on reaction baits and then plastics or jigs. No faith in blades, so no bites on blades. Points, points and then fish points.
      City: Folsom

      Tips: Rain gear is key.

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.