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Monday, August 7th, 2006

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 78

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Me and my dad got on the water about 7:30 went up past the big green brige! He started with a dart head and I started with a crankbait in about 10 feet of water. Got 1 taker(not even a pound!) Then my dad stared to catch fish and so I switched of to a green dart head and still didnt get anything! Finaly I got a keeper a 3pounder! total catch Dad 6 Son 4 I get him next time! of the water at about 10:30
      City: Folsom

      Tips: The Fish seemed to be on top of the water and where stricking at anything that was moving! Stay on the water longer than we did and you catch fish!

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 78

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished from 6am until 1pm. Caught about 7 keepers from 2-4.5 pounds for a total of 21 pounds. Drop shot for all of them, using 8lb line, Robo Worm in the morning dawn color (almost a pink/purple color. Caught all the fish in 12-15 feet range
      City: Sonora

Sunday, August 6th, 2006

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 68-74

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Overall a good day on the water, 7am to 11am, though my winch strap broke as I was trailering the boat. Started off with a 10+lb on the first flip of the day. Continued to catch nothing but keepers ranging from 1.5lbs up to 5lbs, did not catch any dinks. The wind plus the low tide kept me limited to a few areas because I didnt feel like fighting it, but the water temp did drop 8 degrees in some spots from last Thursday.
      City: manteca

      Tips: Fish were in the tules, weeds, rocks, and some crusin around. Caught most fish on senkos and only two on red crankbait.

  • Yuba County
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: First time to this small lake. On at 2:00pm off at 6:00pm. 12 fish to hand and several missed. Big fish for the afternoon was 5.2lb. Dartheading a 6" morning dawn worm. Found fish on flats and long points.

      Vaughn
      City: Roseville

  • Riverside County
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      Water Temp: 80

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: MY Partner Brian PiPPins and I put together a five fish limit for 15.24lbs. JERKBAITS AND PLASTICS WERE THE TICKET.
      City: Escondido

      Tips: DO YOUR HOMEWORK!

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      Water Temp: ???

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: does anybody know if bass fishing at eastman is good right now??? Anyone fish on shore??? Is the algae visible???
      City: visalia

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: ??? fished from

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: went out with my friend at about noon and fished till 4. We caughed 6 fish all day. My friend caught 5 and i only caught 1 but he was using my stuff so we didnt have a tournament. But we fished to the right of Granite Bay boat launch. Used a secret soft plastic that we fished with a bullet weight non peged. We used it around the trees my friend caught 2 fish over 3 pounds and mine will i would rather not say how big, but it put up a good fight.
      City: rocklin

      Tips: fish next 2 trees and fish them hard not 1 or 2 casts and change your presentation each cast

Saturday, August 5th, 2006

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 76+

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Bay Tackle's annual Berreyessa Night Turkey shoot. It was a nice night but windy at times. My brother and I fished the north east side and pope creek with texas rigged magnum lizards and brushhogs. Most fish were caught in 10ft. of water or less. Our final weight ended up being 18.09 with a 6.07 kicker, good enough for 1st place and big fish.

      2nd place team: John Anderson/Dave Smith: 12.13lbs
      3rd place team: John/Tim Clark: 11.01 lbs.
      (tie) Art and Jim: 11.01 lbs.
      City: El Cerrito

  • Santa Clara County
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      Water Temp: 70's

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fun day with dad on the lake. Got there after resies at 10. Hit outside points and produced on drop shot. Good numbers, but all small ones, probably about 20 (who counts the little ones) by 2pm.
      City: Los Gatos

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

      Report: Windy, windy. Crossed Franks Tract in the morning, but the motor overheated due to weeds clogging the intake. Had a tough time re-starting it, so ended up fishing the nearest % water. Caught a few to 3.5 lbs, including an 8.5 lb. pig on a worm.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Weeds and current.

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 80

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Top Water city, rainbow trout size 13 Rapala twichted on the surface fished very slow, over the submerged trees. On the Lake at 5:00am, fished till the moron water skiers and personal wc's showed up abt 9:30, caught and released 8 fish, 2 largemouth and 6 spots all between 2-3 pounds.
      City: Sacramento

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 73-80

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Devil Mountain Bassmasters held our August tournament at Clear Lake this weekend. We launched 5 boats from Redbud. Water temp ranged from 73 in the morning to 80 in the afternoon with the usual summer green algae growth. The bite was very good for us although no one weighed a monster. Largest fish was just under 5lbs but just about everyone brough in limits of good fish. Most guys weighted limits of fish from 14 to 15.5 lbs. with many guys reported catching more than 15 fish during the day. Morning fish came on reaction baits including top water. As the sun hit the water the fish seemed to move deeper, around the 10 foot mark. Rocky shoreline with deep water access seemed to hold more and larger fish. Jigs and plastics took most of the fish mid-day with the spinnerbait kicking in. Windy pretty much all day but blowing more in the afternoon.
      City: Walnut Creek

      Tips: Try top water in the morning then go to jigs and plastics. If the wind is blowing, toss a spinnerbait, we got on to a wicked spinnerbait bite in the afternoon. On Sunday the wind died down and the drop shot bite was off the hook. My kids hauled in three limits by themselves off one dock in an hour and a half. I didn't even have time to fish cauz I was unhooking fish, taking pictures and tying up rigs. They were catching bass like bluegill!

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Got off work at 3:00 AM and then drove to Clearlake. I caught 17, Rashelle caught 7 or 8, and my dad got 5 fish. Pops also lost one that was close to the 10 pound range when it jumped about 15 feet from the boat. At least we got to see the fish...it was a pig. The only downside to the day was that the wind was brutal. We were able to find a few spots that were out of the wind but for the most part, we got blown around all day. At least we didnt get the 100+ temps that we had last time we drove up.

      Top 5 fish for the day went 16-17 pounds. Big fish was 4 even.
      City: Fremont

      Tips: This lake is on fire right now. It didnt matter where we went or what we threw we caught fish. We stayed within 2 miles of the redbud launch the entire time. We picked up fish on dropshots, jigs, brushhogs, senkos, and kreatures. Greens, browns, and junebug all seemed to work equally well. We missed easily twice as many fish as we landed. A lot of short strikes on the jig and the kreature baits.

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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: me and my friend twl are gonna go out on our tubes on wedneday in case anyone wants to join us...
      City: Antioch

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 82

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: CAUGHT THREE, TWO SPOTS ON DROP SHOT AND ONE LARGE MOUTH ON SENKO. ALL WERE 12" DINKS.

  • Mariposa County
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      Water Temp: 81.5

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Spent the afternoon at the lake with my wife. Told myself I was only going to dropshot, but ofcourse tried a bunch of other things first and just wasted time. Caught 15-20 fish 14" and better all on shad pattern with a red stripe. Don't know the name, got them for Christmas. The bite was solid and the fish were all spitting up shad.
      City: Oakdale

      Tips: Fish any point about 20' of water, fish the windy side of the point.

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      Water Temp: 79-82F

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Got on the water at about 6:30 and fished until 11:30. Started in the spillway area and then headed upriver. Caught a few largemouths and had a few blow-ups on a double-jointed topwater walker in ghost shad. Once the sun was high overhead, switched to dart-headin' and split-shottin' 4 and 6" worms. Caught 2 nice spots and the rest were largemouth.
      City: Atwater

      Tips: They seemed to like the dark colors the best. Best luck w/ green pumpkin, black, and rootbeer electric blue - www.berserkbaits.com

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: fished the island with my buddy John. We caught fish on top water, crank baits, brush hogs, superhogs, beavers. 18 fish in all, nothing big. Lots of ticks.
      City: novato

      Tips: catch and rtelease

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      Water Temp: 75

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went out from 12:30 to 3:30 p.m., trying to work the buzz-bait bite after the wind came up. Wind was whipping across the lake at 10-20 mph. Fished the windward mud bank again, making several passes with white (silver), black, and red buzz-baits, Tiger Tube, and waterdog swimbait...Nada, zip, nothing...not a single bite or even a swirl.
      Most bass anglers are experiencing a very slow bite now on this lake. But the bigun's were there...a bank fisherman using a nightcrawler caught a 12 lb. and a 5 lb bass from the rocky bank next to the parking lot.
      City: Monterey

      Tips: Last week's aggressive bite occurred right around noon, so I was probably late for it today. Next time I'll be ready from 11:45 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
      Please practice catch and release.

Friday, August 4th, 2006

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 79-83

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Nothing earth-shaking about this report since everyone seems to be doing pretty well! What a lake!! One thing this lake can do is get a new visitor hooked right off the bat! I guided a good angler from southern Cal Friday who had never been to the lake and was going to be up for a week with his family. It has been a fun month for me as clients have caught a big bass the very first time they have used a new bait - like a Senko or a jig. On this trip, the Clear Lake bass welcoming staff allowed one of its members to eat his crankbait! His first-ever CL bass was 5 lbs 2 oz - and still is unless she lost a few ounces over the experience of seeing daylight!! I showed him some rockpiles and other areas that should work for him this week. We got into a good bite near Anderson Island and even a double hookup. I managed to land a 4-3 there on a black 10" Power worm. About noon, near some Soda Bay docks, the bass started showing themselves - which they rarely do - as they cornered some shad against rock structure. Wow - I thought I was fishing SF bay for feeding stripers as grebes, gulls, and bass attacked the shad as we tried to catch the frenzied bass without catching a bird!! He used a ripbait and for me - a white Berkley Frenzy (fitting name!) did the trick. In about 30 to 40 minutes it was over. We did not catch a lot because each bass seemed to target a single big shad. We each lost a 5+ but did get a few over 3 lbs. After 1 pm the bite died and the wind was coming alive. We wound up with 32-35 bass and a nice 18+ lb limit. Exciting day!!
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: Bob Higgins of Limit Out tackle in Clearlake Oaks told me as I was leaving the lake that someone else had a similar experience with bass bustin' shad. One doesn't often see that at Clear Lake like one might at Berryessa or Amador. That was an exciting half hour!! Black grape and green pumpkin worms also worked in the early morning. The jig bite continues to amaze this summer - excellent! It was interesting to note that the carp and bird activity was almost non-existant in the early morning and sure enough - the early bite wasn't so good - at least for us. I happened to mention to my client that the bite sometimes begins at 9 or 10 am. He reminded me about 10:30 what I said as we were sticking bass after bass. It's nice to be right once in awhile!! It is hard to give too many good tips when the bite is so wide open. I did notice that some bass have moved their home area, probably because of the record heat and the fact that the lake is dropping now. They seem to be near deeper tule lines and rock ledges with 20-25 feet of water nearby. The only real tip I can give - go do it!!!