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Saturday, October 7th, 2006

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 68

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Pretty much a typical fall delta day. Around 40 fish to 3 pounds. Kinda just went on the same run I did last weekend. Started near Hog and got the 3 pounder on a Rover and had one other big blow up. Went to the Lucky Craft crank and got 4 or 5 more, but no size. Tried for salmon for 45 minutes and then up to Sycamore. The bite was definitely slower than last week, but we were looking at different conditions this week. Calm, blue bird skies with a slight north-east wind compared to last weeks breezy, overcast, south-west wind. Also had the big moon this week. The crank and jig were the the ticket. Also nailed a dozen striper or so, but all small. Beautiful day to fish on, but could have used some wind out of the west to spur the bite. Regardless, a good day on the water with a couple of buddies.
      City: Roseville

      Tips: Work topwater for the first hour. Not a ton of bites, but the quality is good. Jigs and cranks are working well. Drag the jigs on the outside weedlines and work them fast. Best method was hop the jig or rip it out of the weeds. Remember, the crawdads spawn in the fall and are very active. The bass are feeding heavily on them along with the shad.

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: about 68

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Bridge again, 16 keepers, 16+ limit. One black, rest spots. Bite was off at 8:00 a.m. Jigs prevailed again, tossed everything but the kitchen sink, nope, wanted jigs. There were a few boats on it throughout the morning, didn't see anyone catch a fish.
      City: sacram ento

      Tips: The fish are probably coming to feed there briefly then returning back down stream to rest in deeper water. It happens this way every year. Follow the fish as they travel back and forth to increase your limit. There are several sanctuaries close down stream, try those as bite slows. Cut'm off at the pass. Deeper fish will require heavier weights so, rig up before you leave. good fishing, jimbo

Friday, October 6th, 2006

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 70.7

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished full moon from 5:30 pm - 2:30 am. My friend caught most of the fish but I managed 3 at least. Biggest 5 went about 12. Biggest was around 3. Mostly senkos but I had a keeper on a chug bug for awhile. We tried about every bait. Very slow - about 1 fish per hour. Evening bite was better than nite bite. It was post frontal conditions but I don't think that was what affected the bite - I think it's just that the fall bite hasn't started yet. Water down over 15 feet. Caught fish on main lake points and in coves. Saw fish on humps but no takers.
      City: Folsom

      Tips: Fish were shallow during the evening and deep at night (25 feet). I guess if I could have stayed till dawn the bigger bite would have materialized. Soon trout planting will begin so the lake will be a zoo with trout fishermen.

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

      Report: i thought the crankbait would really produce but NOT!!! maybe i chose the wrong spot to fish or wrong color to fish. anyways, jigs did the trick for me again but not too many fish or size. hey, at least i didn't get skunked . nice to be out in nature? yeah, right! i hate being out there and getting skunked. i like to catch fish period!!! the bass were tight up against the weeds for me . deep water only produced crappie which i'm not complaining about.
      City: san jose

      Tips: try marios topwater approach and punching the weeds. i still believe the bigger bass are 20+ feet deep most of the day. just can't get them to bite.

  • Alameda County
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      Water Temp: 69

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Caught 5 LM bass to 2 lbs on a cloudy, windy, and cold day. Hooked all the bass on the bottom at 15 feet on a carolina rig with nightcrawlers. No other lures worked -- spinners, crankbait, or plastic worms.
      City: San Leandro

      Tips: Nightcrawlers at Alder Point.

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      Water Temp: unknown, but su

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Super windy with a constant cloud cover. No luck at all from 9-2. After talking to some guys on a boat that were trolling all day RIGHT after they caught a good size trout I asked them what the fish were hitting and they said go for red and brown lures. With renewed enthusiasm, I threw on a bright red rappala jointed shad, and then cast&reeled about 20 times before BAM I had a good size fish hit. I set the hook hard and fast, at about 40 ft. and reeled her in. Great fighter and weighed in at 4 and some change, over 19" long. All in all a great day! And no, I wont tell you where I was!
      City: Hayward

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

      Report: Had a # 14 limit today. Most were fooled by a chrome smithwick along the edge of the stained water in the coves, but we probably caught just as many on watermelon colored plastics. (gitzits, shakeyhead grubs, and senkos)
      City: desert hot springs

      Tips: throw your stickbaits thru the stickups, then burn em up to it, and stop.... then wait

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 67-69

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Yesterday (10-5-06), VERY SLOOOOOWWWWW!!!!! With the weather that moved in you would have thought some fish would be up shallow eating reaction baits. ONE spinnerbait fish to report for 3 hours of throwing rips, blades & cranks. A few very small fish on a dropshot up north in the narrows and that was it for the day.

      Today (10-6-06), no reaction although there was a perfect wind from the south creating some awesome mudlines, yet no fish. Moved to an area that I haven't fished in a few weeks and found a PILE of fish in 45-50 ft. on a darthead. Limited in about 45 minutes that included a 4 1/2 lb. Largemouth. Fish and bait in this area and they will stay for alongtime.
      City: Roseville

      Tips: I guess I just need to get deep and stay there. Fished from 25-30 and didn't see much activity, once I moved out to the 40-50 ft. range I saw the bait and fish and just worked the school with a dartheaded Roboworm.

  • Palo Pinto County
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      Water Temp: 69

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: No production all day. Got on in my boat at 10 and off at 2:30 with only one nibble. I tried every bait in my bag so it definately dropped my confidence level down a notch on all of them. Water has NASTY moss growing on it, no water visibility at all. First time i boated the lake and seems to look like a nice lake. This is also a very shallow lake. I probably spotted 30 fish total on my fish finder for the whole day. Very frusterating, but ya gotta keep you hook wet to catch em.
      City: Watsonville, Ca

      Tips: You tell me....

Thursday, October 5th, 2006

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 65

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched out of Paradise Point with my brother Jerry around 6:30am and 5th cast I had a blow-up on a white buzzbait and boated a 5lb largemouth. Fished in and out of Dissapointment Slough throwing buzzbaits and my brother nailed a 31/2 lber on in the weeds. We threw buzzbaits for most of the day cathing 2 and 3 pound fish. When the sun came out later in the day we got some smaller fish on cranks and lizards..Add a couple of Stripers in the mix and it turned out to be a real nice 35 fish day. Sure beats being a work!!
      City: Lockeford

      Tips: When we had thick overcast and even a little drizzle of rain, the fished seemed to really want the top water stuff. Most fish came inside the sloughs..

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      Water Temp: 61

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched out of Pirates Lair at 7:00 am. When through Potato and my way to White Slough. In Potato, I had two blowups on a white buzzbait, but they were short strikes and I missed them both. The cold front that passed through made the bass go deeper, so they were hard to locate. I did manage a 2.5 lber in White Slough in 15 feet of water on a Berkeley Gulp turtle back worm on a jig head. The crankbait bait along the rocks was cold. Buzzbaits and plastic worms were the only things working for me.
      City: Vacaville

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      Water Temp: 68.4

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went up to prefish for up coming club tournament..Started on submerged humps near dam..there were several boats with the same idea..Caught a lot of 1.5 and 2lb lb fish in 5-10 feet of water...caught one 4lber..moved to the east side on steeper banks and started throwing jigs..that was the ticket...stuck one 8.25lb then a 4lber and next was a 10plus lber that went off my board..went over to another boat and asked to borrow a longer board..she was 24 1/2 inches long and had a 18 1/4 inch girth...hard as a rock..Jigs were the bait of choice for me and a NetBait PumpkinCraw Trailer..worms caught little fish. I think I will use the jig for the tournament...Yes I put them back...I wouldn't kill fish like those..
      City: Madera

      Tips: Dead sticking the jig I think was the trick..same as the worm..if you moved it much you just caught smaller fish..

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      Water Temp: 66

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: On the water around 0930,cought 2 shakers in the fist hour. One was cought on a green worm the other on a spinner bait. 1045 landed a 4 to 5 pounder then a 3 to 4 pounder right behind it. The two big ones where cought on a blueflake worm.
      City: Mather

      Tips: The big fish bite soft. Hard to tell if its grass or fish, so set the hook every time you feel resistance.

Wednesday, October 4th, 2006

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

      Report: the fishing for me has been tough but at least the takers are good size for anderson. because of the upcoming tournament this weekend i will not give baits and locations; however, i can say that the good fish are coming from 28-45 feet of water.
      City: san jose

      Tips: find deep water structure and fish it all day. bites are sporadic but the fish that eventually bite are pretty big.

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 70

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I guided a nice fellow yesterday at Pardee whois getting back into fishing after a few years off. He wanted to learn the lake better and the learning was good but the fishing was not - in fact, very slow. I really was surprised since it was a mostly cloudy day. Bass fishing, however, is full of surprises! We caught 5 largemouth and the biggest wasn't even 2 lbs - wow! We saw suspended bass everywhere and I suspect the fish I saw on the meter, laying on the bottom, were probably catfish. Drop-shotting and split-shotting worms caught our 5 bass. I threw topwater forever - not a sniff!! Only 2 other bass boats on the lake and one of the guys in one of the boats said they struggled too. So, there is always next time - before Oct 29 when the lake closes for the winter!
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: Sorry - fresh out of tips! Maybe some cooler weather will get the fish most active for topwater or ripbaits. I plan to go back for most punishment before they close!!!

Tuesday, October 3rd, 2006

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

      Report: Redwood Empire Bass Club is welcoming new members both boaters and non boaters to fish our next tournament out of Red Bud on Novemeber 11th. Please come to our meeting next Wednesday at 7p.m. at the Rohnert Park Community Center at the corner of Rohnert Park Expressway and Snyder.For more info log onto rebc.net or call me at 707.758.5762.
      City: Santa Rosa

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: I have been jogging around the lake recently (trying to lose some excess pounds) and have been noticing alot of huge dead stripers along the shore. Anyone know what's killing these awsome big fish. I saw one that would have gone over 30 pounds floating dead.
      City: antioch

      Tips: Throw a swimbait. Seeing alot of huge blackbass cruising the shoreline looking for bluegill or trout.

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

      Report: JOHN THANKS FOR THE CONSTANT UPDATES NEED TO GET UP THERE SOOOOON!
      City: mountain view

Monday, October 2nd, 2006

  • Santa Clara County
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      Water Temp: ???? Warm enoug

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: "I like big fish" try fishing topwater in the morning.You might be pleasantly supprised!!!
      City: San Jose

      Tips: spooks & popper's.Then punch the weed's if you can!!!

  • Ventura County
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      Water Temp: mid 60s

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: it was pretty good first thing with topwater {4,4,and a 3 pound}when afternoon hit i did a dropshot and 6, 1 pounders
      City: ventura

      Tips: nightcrawlers are good for dinks