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Saturday, July 8th, 2006

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      Water Temp: 83 to 85

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: There still a algae bloom on the upper end of the lake and is starting to break up. Bass are hold ing in brush piles and around bases of rock piles and in trees in deeper water.Brown jigs arkie/ fiberguard in 3/8 oz tiped with a yamamoto 208 watermelon red/black flake 5" single tail grub works well in the trees. brushogs robo wormsand also black/blue jigs in 3/8 oz with a smoke single tail 5" grub with black/blue flake as a trailer also works. Bass are up to 4 pounds and are hold in 15 to 30 feet of water. Topwater buzzbaits and big spooks in the wind work on flats and points in the 5mph area. N ight fishing is starting to pick up also blade fish are starting to show. Lake is still full and not much water going out. Traffic should be back to normal by this week end.
      City: kerman ca.

      Tips: Early morning or later in the day as in 5pm into the evening and fish in the deeper water structure. Top water early or late also.

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

      Report: Fished a club night tourney. I can't believe how those night fish are so close to shore. I didn't do so well as I lost too many fish, but the winner had over 25 lbs for Sat/Sun, with over 14lbs on sat. Of course he didn't reveal how or where he did it. And a 7 pounder was caught! Now that's amazing for this lake.
      City: Fresno

      Tips: Black blades and 10" worms.

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

      Report: Tom,
      You can't go wrong with "Green Pumpkin" or "Watermelon" at Oroville. Try to drop shot a 4" or 6" worm on those fish. You might also try "Morning Dawn" it can be a great producer as well. Tight Lines!
      City: Sacramento

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      Water Temp: 74

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Yesterday, after a slow morning, John experienced a super buzz-bait bite from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. He caught nine bass, topped by a 5 lb. scrapper, three 3 lb'rs, and three 2 1/2 lb'rs, all caught on a white buzz-bait on the outside of the weed-line on mud banks and 15-20 feet out on rock banks. The wind had come up by then and it was choppy, which seemed to turn the bass on to the buzz-baits.
      We tried to repeat the pattern today but it didn't happen up until noon. There was little wind and glass-like calm through most of the morning. About 8:30 a.m., I caught a nice 2 1/2 lb. bass on a Spit-n-Image dog-walked along a rock bank, and hooked a 2 lb'r on the same lure a few minutes later on a mud bank, but he came un-buttoned.
      The wind finally did pick up a bit later in the morning, but neither of us could get any bites on the buzz-baits today. Other presentations, including crankbaits, spinner-baits, and swimbaits failed to produce for us today, and we had to be off the late at noon.
      City: Monterey

      Tips: Wait 'til the wind picks up around noon, and sling the white buzz-baits on an angle toward the shore. Expect the hits as the lure passes over the outside of the weeds. Casting parallel to the outside of the weeds can increase the exposure to bass holding outside the weeds.

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      Water Temp: 70ish

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: My first time at San Pablo. Water was really murky and there was this green film on some parts of the lake. Water is very low. Got the boat in the water around 6:30. Saw fish jumping everywhere but didn't catch anything till around noon. Caught a 12-13 inch LM on a white/chart spinner bait. He was hanging under a tracter sized tire in about 3 feet of water. My buddy caught 2 6-8 inchers on the same bait and of course "the huge one" that got away. Bring your sun screen.
      City: Santa Cruz

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: First time here and there was alot of people BBQing on a hot day. 100 degrees out there. Started off on the first pier with no luck. Hiked over to Arroyo with no luck as well. Saw some float tubers out there that had little luck as well. Ended up at the end near the bridge where there were a bunch of fallen trees. My buddy had a fish on his line. Only action all day. Used everything from top water frogs, spinnerbaits, brush hogs, lizards, jigs, and grubs. Nice place though. Will be back.
      City: San Francisco

Friday, July 7th, 2006

  • Santa Barbara County
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: if your into dinks, the shore fishing has been pretty good of late. The wind is still going Cachuma style but patients is paying off. I have been throwing a lot of the new X Rap lately with pretty good success around shallow flats. I only get bites on a slower than normal two pump pause retrieve. This is the only bait I seem to catch keepers on. Crappie are biting around the pier. Yesterday I watched about 10 being caught in about an hour. Drop shotting will get numbers of small fish. I have been throwing a lot of 4" MMIII Sculpins about 18" from the bottom. Senkos and baby brush hogs are slow (for me) Anybody needs someone to share the expense of gas, my wife makes a mean sandwich and I would love to get a real taste for the lake. I am a Delta fisherman without a boat down here. Havent figured out how to do well for size yet. Any tips would be greatly appreciated. The carp are in every bay. If your not to proud and just want a tug, they are there for the fight.
      City: Goleta

      Tips: xrap fished slower than normal.

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 70

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: while visiting a friend on his house boat at the Bidwell marina his fish finder showed fish at 35 feet and 55/65 feet for two dumbies what where the fish and what would you use to fish for them thanks from the not so fish smart
      City: Chico

Thursday, July 6th, 2006

  • Yuba County
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      Water Temp: 82.9

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Spent 2 weeks at collins lake and really struggled the first few days. I started to nail them at all sizes on the east side of the lake at the sides of points w/ small sized rocks going all the way down deep. There were also lots of schooling sized bass which bit small plastics. Caught a few on topwater buzz baits early in the morning, caught a couple on cranks, but most on plastic worms. Take time on a point and dont just gun and run all over the place. My trolling motor broke and I was forced to fish from teh opposite shore. I shore fished and wham.. i started to see the paterns. Good luck. I love this lake.
      City: San Diego

      Tips: Fish 8'-10' clear water, slowly with plastics. I used straight tailed chocolate colored / w/ blue vein or green/purple..

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: 66*-68*

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished 3 separate days last week with good success for lots of little guys and several nice hens. Best bite dead sticking 6" senkos around trees in 5-10' of water on main body and north end of lake. Trick was going S-L-O-W. I mean let it sit for 3-5 minutes and then give it a twitch.
      Several fish on chatterbaits and soft jerkbaits. Lite bite. Scent helps a lot.
      City: San Anselmo

      Tips: slow, lots of scent.

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

      Report: Maybe Trinity lake needs its own forum!!!can anyone tell me how the fishing is? its a three hour drive from Medford.I look here each day for the fishing report and there is always an argument on this report page.How is the fishing?????
      City: Medford

Wednesday, July 5th, 2006

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 82

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: took the family camping after the vast majority of people had gone home ,camped on the water from 7-5-8-2006. We caught on average 25-30 bass per day trolling shad raps along the shore. Bass were suspended at 10ft-15ft. I normally don't troll for bas( not very exciting but its a great for 5 people in the boat to catch fish) We caught Spots, Smallmouth and large mouth.At night we fished for catfish in fron tof our camp site with hotdog/linguisa (combo), ended up with 7 channel cats in two night with 4 fish over 5 lbs the others about 12" long. A great family trip.
      City: tracy

      Tips: We camped out of the lake berryessa resort, we fished in Putah creek, only caught fish on the left side. It was great until all the loud people ruined the enviroment so we left saturday morning, but during the week it was wonderful!

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 65-73

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: had a awesome day most of our bass were small but we kept one bass that was about 2 pounds,and I lost one that was about 3 pounds we pretty much caught all types of bass largemouth,spotted,and smaalmouth.bluegill action was great too and we caught many keeper bluegills.
      City: vally springs

      Tips: all bass were caught on spinnerbaits,and the best lure was a green twintail grub.spinnerbaits were retrived fast most of the bass came up to 2-4 feet water on the spinnerbait.green twintail grubs caugt most fish fish them with a dart head and let them sink then retrive them slow.bluegill were all caught on night crawlers

Tuesday, July 4th, 2006

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 78 deg

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Went out of b&w 5:00 am Bite was slow On the incoming tide went to my usual spots close by. caught a few dinks . was throwing 51/2 inch watermelon tube t style. was slow till water started out. found them stacked up caught some really nice fish my brother fished top water he had a few blow ups nothing big. caught 13 fish by 9:30 am we got the hell out before boat traffic . had a good short fix in . kicker was a 5 pounder lost a really nice one, when i went to set hook i hit the bail release and you all know what happens.. yep it sucked .bird nest from hell....Going out on sat or sun early tight lines to all c you on the water
      City: Elmira

      Tips: Big plastics produce big fish must have patients

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      Water Temp: 82

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Got on the H2O at 6am and fished the south end with frogs and poppers. No takers. Threw a 5 inch senko along the back wall with no takers. arround 9 am tried a drop shotted 5 inch robo worm and slaughtered them. Finished up the day with 21 fish w/ the largest of 2.5 at 2:30. Best numbers day i have had in my life. Loved it.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Drop shot.....never fails

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: senko no go buzz bait no go take a kid trout fishing
      City: mountain view

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

      Report: MR MODE.
      FISHING LISCENSES ARE NOT FOOD STAMP CARDS.
      City: McKinleyville

      Tips: MR. MODE
      GO KILL FISH SOMEWHERE ELSE LIKE ARIZONA

Monday, July 3rd, 2006

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      Water Temp: 79-82

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Quency and I started out at 6:30am when the gate opened at the North Shore. Light winds for the first two hours. So we headed into the Quarter Mile Cove area with a small spook, buzz bait and a popper, no takers. spinners did ok and lizards. We next moved to the Bear Creek before the lake lice came out. Hitting the rockey points on the way up, finding some small bass in 1-2 lb range. After going back into the canyon and finding the colder water (65 degs) we found the larger bass around the rocks in 10 to 25 ft. My JK jig in brown/orange with #180 grub, had 5 bits and three 2.0 to 3.0 pounder largies. Very slow morning so we went back down to the main body and stayed in 25-35 ft looking with our light gear picking up a few more bass in 1 1/2 to 2.0 lbs.
      City: rocklin

      Tips: Fish slow and small.

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 78-83

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: I took my 14 year old nephew and 8 year old daughter over for a day. We cranked 6 bass and 6 catfish in an hour and a half or so. I saw a seawall I'd caught a big one off of several years past and picked up a dart head worm and caught a 5.0 first cast. The next dock I caught 2 more on a blue ghost 6" worm. I sampled the jig bite and absolutley had a blast. Fished from wheeler south and caught fish everywhere we stopped except the boat works. The concrete boat house area was on fire as I had a 4.0, 4.5, and a 4.7 in the last 45 minutes along with about 5 others. From 7am till 3pm, we had 50 bass and the 6 catfish. The next day, my neighbor caught 30 himself doing similar things.
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: DD22 and a 3/8 oz rodstrainer jig in 5/15 feet of water did the trick.

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      Water Temp: 50

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: well i left to go to my friends house by redbud he has a little cottage that i spend the night at, we fished a little off his dock to just get the feel for the bite this particular day. the bite was very soft i was using kastmasters on a bobber but i got all red bobbers i paint that is the ticket. then we went out after getting the feeling for the bite. my friend has a nice bay liner that we converted into a bass boat with a conversion kit. i no a hump right across from red bud we started at i was using rattle baits slow off the bottom and got three on the back side of the hump my friend got on about 8.5 with a hula popper painted orage with white tail the we went to the docks and through the flying lure it works really good if you just reel it fast on the top we got about 11 more had 5 fish 24 pounds
      City: concord

      Tips: get orange hula poppers and troll them in the middle by the hump, also get white and black flying lures and reel them in on the top of the water fast as you can for a great bite