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Friday, June 2nd, 2006

  • Siskiyou County
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      Water Temp: 60

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Lots of smaller fish in the shallow stuff (12-14")4 fish over 2lb for the day. Brown grass jig for the best bite. Water still very high and visability is still low.

  • Ventura County
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      Water Temp: 71-76

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished till 11:30AM. Most fish to 4 lbs were caught on Normans "deep little N" crankbaits. (In baby bass color). A few smaller fish were caught using Rico

      Tips: Cranking grasslines on main and secondary points were most productive for me.

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 60's

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Took to young men (15&17)out for a day that had never fished before, caught 3 fish each in about 30 min. let them keep the largest 2 for home. Anyway they had the time of their lives. Spots seemed to hit on pretty much whatever got tossed at them.
      City: Cottonwood

      Tips: Fish are about 10 -20' off the banks and sitting on the egde of the coves. Have a ball !!

  • Trinity County
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      Water Temp: 64

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Finally! Back on the lake today with a client from LaLa Land. Showed up at the ramp at 5:30 to find that the lake had dropped about 4' since I saw it last. Oh Oh! We all know what happens when the water starts dropping. The fish disappear. Based on what I've figured out the last few years, I could see that a big change of plans was in order. As near as I can tell, when the lake comes up a foot the fish move right on up with it. When it drops a foot the fish drop 20'. OK, I know an area that has been holding a ton of good smallies, so let's try those willows nearby, which are in 20' of water and see if my theory is correct. I really like throwing topwater early this time of year, so I hand my client a spook. After tossing around the willows a few times with no takers, I give him a gitzit and it stops dropping about 5' down, in 20' of water. SET HOOK! 4.5 smallie. Next cast, gitzit makes it down maybe 15' SET HOOK! 5.5 LM Whew! Mission accomplished. Guide can relax the rest of the day. Next stop 4+ smallie on a speed trap, plus a couple more quality smallies on the gitzit. Wow! almost 20 lbs in the boat and it's going to be 7:00 AM in a few minutes. The fishing stayed pretty good the rest of the day although I'm not sure we would have culled any of those first 5, we came close with several of the 20 or so we caught the rest of the day. I felt that the rain-drizzle that went on most of the morning, probably mitigated the falling water scenario, but the fish continued to bite even after the sun came out.
      City: Weaverville

      Tips: For those of you who are fishing the ABA tourney next weekend, kindly forget everything you have read in this report. See you there.

Thursday, June 1st, 2006

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 65

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Got on the water about 5:45 AM and went north. My partner lost one that would have gone 3 or better on top water right off the bat. I was soon to follow in his foot steps. I lost one that would have gone 3-4 on a buzz bait. We had at least 7 fish before 7:00 AM on top water, but just could not seal the deal bringing them to the boat. Top water died then we went cranking for the big one's and the big ones we found. I immediately picked up a 3 lber in 20 feet of water of a main body point. From there on the bite for us was wide open for about 2 hours on crank baits. I lost 2 big fish right in a row while my partner was scrambling around looking for the net. The first one was 5+ easy lost her right at the boat. The next one was 7+ easy lost her when she decided to do the air show. She came out of the water at least 3 feet in the air me and my partner both had the same response when we seen her "dude that's a frigen big fish" right when we said that she spit my crank bait damn near right back at me. So the day ended good for us even though we lost several big fish I am happy knowing that what I was throwing was producing quality fish.
      City: Roseville

      Tips: Keep your rod tip down when you are cranking in the big one's off top water and crank baits.

  • Mason County
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      Water Temp: 68-70

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Caught and released several 1's and 2's in 5-15 feet of water over grass in coves. All on small white crankbait.
      City: Santa Clara

      Tips: I think you can always get Anderson bass on plastics but I enjoy throwing crankbaits this time of year. Stop and go action works best for me. Competed with skiers in upper north end today where they were violating the 5 mph speed limit in only 15 feet of water. Guess the main lake was too windy and choppy. Hmmm?

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 66-68

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Dissappointment and white slough in the afternoon to evening. Caught over 20 fish mostly in the 1-2lb range with a 5lb and 4lb. Very windy but managed to catch them on senkos and frog in wind protected areas. Only 2 fish on crankbait.
      City: manteca

      Tips: Senko in tules and frog over the weeds/cheese by the tules.

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I GUESS I SHOULD HAVE FISHED ANTIOCH AFTER READING THAT LAST REPORT. FISHED OUT OF STOCKTOM, WITH MUDDY CONDITIONS AND TRASH WEEDS THROUGHOUT THE SYSTEM. ENNDED UP WITH 6 FISH; ALL UNDER 2 LBS ON TOP WATER. WIND CAME UP 15+ AT 1100 HOURS.
      City: CARMICHAEL

      Tips: ALL FISH ON TOP WATER; SMALL 2LBS -.

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      Water Temp: 68-70

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: OOOOOHHHH Man! What a day? Only 7 fish but nothing less than 5 or bigger than 8.5lb! I could not believe the size of these fish all on drop shot!!! I was by far an unreal experience... I dont fish here often but Big Break is awesome. I cought all those fish on one weed bed just out side the marina (almost in the middle). Good fishing!
      Maybe I should start fishing tournaments in my bass tracker!!!
      City: antioch

      Tips: Drag it, dont shake it.

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 66-70

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: fished june 1-4 fished senco's, flipping tubs, and worms first 2 day caught few to 3.5 lbs, son put on green pumpkin lizard and really started getting bit. largest fish 5.6 lbs on watermelon 4" flipping tube at the bouy at kelsey ck. in about 6' of water. son's 4.6 lber in konocti bay on lizard in 10' of water. had good success at the following locations, henderson pt, kelsey ck/state park, sunset resort area, indian beach, konocti bay no. shore so. of trailer pk, and between konacti resort and water tank. had less success at soda bay, and rattle snake. clear lake is a great place to vacation and fish except for the ever present wind.
      City: medford

      Tips: fish outside tules to 10' use anything watermelon or green pumpkin. leave your hard baits home.

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Guys im taking time off i have a very bad knee thats giving me some real problems. The doctor said i may need surgery. So i out for awhile.
      City: kerman ca.

      Tips: Buzzbaits on windy day off points and also big zara spooks also work on windy days also. Its gettin that time. Afternoon & evening bite coming and the wind will be a big factor.

  • Siskiyou County
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      Water Temp: 62

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: caught several 1 2#ers in the late afternoon. wind was a little tough.
      City: Medford,Or

      Tips: take someone fishing!!

  • Fresno County
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      Water Temp: 70

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: can anybody help on finding fish here
      City: fresno

      Tips: please

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 65-69

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Rainbow Spook 7.07lb. Largemouth,6.81lb spot, over 20lbs. for 5 fish zebra spook bite coming on. for all you worm pokes,66,32a,116 for keepers all caught early in morning bite off 9:00am.
      City: redding

      Tips: comp investagators at both twin view tackle stores last 3 days with camera looking for all you pokes looking for a free ride on uncle sam. caught 3 keepers on albino fluke.....you are welcome for the tow Gary At PEPSI,should have took you up on drag boat tickets will keep posting till i go back to sandbox to hunt HODGEE.Good Fishing To All.

Wednesday, May 31st, 2006

  • Mason County
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      Water Temp: 68

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Same old Anderson bite masterbassinator...tons of 1-2's and a few 2 1/2 pounders here and there. The water is almost the highest I've ever seen it.
      City: San Jose

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 71.4

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Subject : Fishing with Sid

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      Memorial weekend has come and gone and Lake Berryessa was filled with holiday boaters enjoying their long weekend. The weather was a mix of windy, overcast, cool and very warm. For all of you who called me for fishing info before they went up last week, I am glad to hear some successful stories. One in particular was from Ron who was accompanied by his friends Jim and Dave. Ron told me that they had a 40+ day. They fished the east side of the lake towards the ranch house. My friend Abe's sister-in-law Kim joined me for a brief fishing lesson at the docks. She had never caught a fish before and you guessed it she landed a 14 1/2 inch bass and is now hooked on fishing. On Friday I got a late start and headed out to Big Island midafternoon. It was quite windy and a little hard to control the boat with the trolling motor. I finally decided to go along with the drift and that worked out fine. We fished between 2 to 20 feet however the wind directed us. I was using a weightless senco and my wife was using the same with brass and glass. Not being able to get to the bottom, I picked up another rod that had brass and glass and a baby brush hog on it and that worked fine for me. Between us we landed 27 bass and missed a few too. Saturday we headed out not knowing exactly where we would go when we hit the main lake the boat traffic was unbelieveable so we decided to go into the cove behind the Spanish Flat Marina where it was quiet and the water was calmer. It turned out to be great fishing day but we had to work for it. Sunday we started out a bit earlier and knew we had to find a sheltered area so we stayed near Steele Park in my favorite cove all day using mostly the same setup but hitting a few on topwater. Monday we headed to the back of Capell Cove again to avoid the boat traffic and fished the bushes and trees. I did not have any success with top water even though I threw it over fifty times. What seemed to work for us this weekend was using plastics. The methods that I like to use with plastics are a weightless texas rigged worm or a texas rigged worm with brass and glass depending on how deep and the wind conditions. Some other methods I recommend are split shot rigs, carolina rigs and drop shot rigs. See attached pictures of the tackle we used. My preference is a wide gapped hook size 3/0 or 4/0 and my wife does just as well with a straight hook. My worm of choose is the senco. My favorite plastic is a River2Sea crawdad. "til next time......................................good fishing!!!
      www.fishingconnection.net If you have any fishing stories you would like to share please email me at bestguide@hotmail.com or call me at 650-583-3333.
      City: NAPA

      Tips: Email me if you want to see what i use at lake berryessa

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 70

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: went out of ladds at 6am, fished til noon.
      my partner and I caught about 20 to 25 fish, mostly on senkos. Best five just under 17lb,
      big fish 7.4lb. all in all a good day.I keep hearing top water bite is good. well it wasn't for me, I didn't have even one blowup.
      City: Turlock

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 68-70

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Hit the water at 5:45 throwing a super spook for about an hour had 4 hits/ no hook ups. Switched to small crank bait, caught 1 dink on first cast. Switched to small shallow rip bait lost a good one, changed hooks no more takers. Switched to weighted wacky rigged cut tail worm in green pumpkin boated 3 small bass & 1 sunfish. Off the water by 8am got to go to work.....
      City: Roseville

      Tips: I know one day soon, I am going to hit that wide open top water bite, just hasn't happened for me yet this year.....

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 66-69

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: FISHED FROM 630 AM UNTIL 6PM USED SENKO IN WATERMELON CAUGHT ALOT OF DINKS FINALLY CAUGHT ONE AROUND FIVE PDS USED CRANKS NO FISH TRIED TOP WATER EARLY NO FISH FISH . FISHING NOT EASY AS IT WAS TWO WEEKS AGO
      City: antioch

      Tips: TRY TO STAY ON POINTS FISH 15-20 I USED PLASTICS FOR MOST OF MY BITES

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      Water Temp: 65

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Arrived at around 6 and fished until 11 or so, caught 12 bass, biggest going about 2.5. All fish were caught dropshoting in 15-30 ft of water off points
      City: Salinas

      Tips: Roboworms in sculpin, shad/aaron's magic patterns..have fun out there