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Friday, June 2nd, 2006

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 75

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the back of Cappell Cove. The bite was real slow. That section of the lake is about 12 feet deep maximum. I got a few dinks, but I think that the fish have moved out into the 15 to 20 foot range. It was a hot day with bluebird skies and I think they were probably hanging tight to deeper structure. You may have a shot in Cappell Cove in the very early morning, but I'm not going back in there until the catfish start rolling in mid summer.
      City: Vacaville

      Tips: With the weather and water temp climbing, the bass are going to move deeper. I'll be jigging and cranking 6 to 8 foot deep shelfs near steep dropoffs. If it's cool enough in the morning, I'll give topwater a try, but I suspect that the topwater bite won't last long when the sun comes up. Green and purple shade senkos get bit at this lake.

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 68-70

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: 1pm launched out of hollands tract with my buddy sean. fished the tulles opposite from the docks with no luck. the wind was just killing us. couldn't get boat position. i had to fight with the trolling motor on full power and was still getting blown around. so we decided to find somewhere with calmer winds. lucky we did! between the two of us we must of caught over 15 fish, biggest one was a 7.75 that i caught next to some tulles. my personal best so far. i was so happy i missed sean's hi five. turned what was going to be a ok day to a great day.
      City: el sobrante

      Tips: all fish caught on rattel traps

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      Water Temp: 68-69 degrees

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Launed out of Russo's at sunrise and went to favorite spots on Franks Tract.My fishing buddy's 1st cast nailed a 3lb stripper that just straightened the wires on his spinnerbait and took forever to bend back into shape..The Gail force winds where extremely difficult to fish in..We then caught several small fish around tules with blades. Tried finding areas out of the wind which was impossible to do so off the water around 12:30pm.
      I love the Delta but the wind really messes up the day.The perdicted wind for the day was 10-20 but it felt more like 40mph Gail winds..
      City: EDH

      Tips: Don't fish when it's windy you will only regret it later..

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      Water Temp: 68

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched out of paridise. Fished around king island and white slough. little mike nailed a 7lber on a rip bait first thing . As the wind increased the bite decreased. Beavers flipped as the boat roared by the tullies worked. Saw a fish or two on beds? Rattle traps nailed a couple of small keepers in the wind. No spinner bait bite?
      City: orangevale

      Tips: Tough fishing in a gail. Big fish need slow presentation. Still the delta is a neat place.Should have checked the weather forcast for wind conditions.

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 68

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished off Brown's Landing tucked in from the wind a little. Worked from 88 rock to the 3rd house. Drop shot with a 18 inch leader, got 12 in 2 hours.

      whee big fun

      Bluegill everywhere, bring the kids.

      A full day of dual sport riding with friends and vintage midgets at Lakeport Speedway tomorrow.

      Is this a fun place or what?!
      City: Oakland/Clearlake

      Tips: wear sunscreen

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      Water Temp: Warm

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Yesterday caught 7.6 lb female...spawned out. She fell for a lucky craft lipless bait in Chartruse Shad pattern. Beleive the theories about fishing the wind blown banks...it's all true. Today, caught 8 fish out of the same hole...same bait and same theory. All 1-3.5 lbs.
      City: Antioch

      Tips: Anything shad pattern and target the windy banks...shad are following the algae...bass are right behind 'em. Also, baby Bass pattern cranks should work as I snagged Bass frye about 1/4" in lenght...3 times. Bass have definately reached "post spawn" mode...in fact, no bed fish anywhere. GOOD FISHIN' !

  • 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.