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Saturday, November 12th, 2005

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 61

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Took the boat up for probably the last trip of the year. Launched out of Markley around 9:30. Imediately put two fish in the boat from a small cove. Then headed over to Putah Creek. Found a couple more spots in another cove there. Finally finished up at the bridge pylons. Landed 3 fish there from 75' of water. All fish were caught drop-shotting, light colored RoboWorms. Ended up with 13 fish between myself and my wife. Very little boat traffic.
      City: Woodland

      Tips: No fish shallow, none on cranks, jigs, tubes, or darter heads. 35-45' seemed to be the magic depth.

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 59-61

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Saturday for about 4 hours with Mike McFeely from 11:00a-3:00p. Caught 20 blacks to 3.5 pounds on jig-n-grubs and lizards. All the fish came on hard bottomed flats with big grass pockets in 4-8 feet of water, out of the current.
      City: OAKLEY

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 57

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fish our first club tourney since the death of our member Bert Studert last month. It was a little somber at the blast off but I think all had a good time. We heard the bite was tough and it turned out "they" were right. Couldn't get much of a reaction bite going in the Henderson Point area throwing blades and deep cranks for two hours so we switched up to darter head worms and dropshot and still foung it tough with 1 blade fish for 2lb and nothing else until we s3witched areas. Went through the narrows to Anderson Island and while I tried a craw crank to no avail, my partner drug out his Carolina rig and found a little something in 30-35 feet on a break. A baby black brush hog seemed to grab the interest of a few fish but nothing over 2 lbs. Ended the day at Soda Bay and caught more fish (7 or 8 I believe) but again, nothing over 2 lb. Ended up with our best 5 going 10.2 with our club winner getting 14.6 for five fish. Not the kind of weights we are used to seeing in November but I guess the enormous pressure on the lake the last 6 weeks is showing up.

      Still better than work !!
      Dave
      City: Ukiah

      Tips: Slow down and go either real shallow as some of our members reported getting their fish in less than 3 feet of water, or go deep and try for some less molested fish. Carolina rigged plastics on deep breaks would probably work all over if you could find the deep breaks. Sure would like to know where the bigger fish have gone.

  • Siskiyou County
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      Water Temp: 60-62

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: started in the main lake throwing spinnerbaits with awesome action right off. caught 15 spots 2-3lb range within 10 min. Every spot was spitting shad. Caught a few more through out the day on 6in. dart heads and tubes. Ended up with a 14lb 5 fish limit.
      City: talent

      Tips: spinnerbaits first thing w'fast retrive. Find the shad find the spotts. Main lake secondary points produced the best.

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

      Report: Skunked. Tried on top, deep. Nothin. We were'nt the only ones either. The morning was windy with white caps. Not a typical day at sonoma - more like clearlake. Got nice at noon and we had to go.
      City: Santa Rosa

      Tips: fish nice days.

Friday, November 11th, 2005

  • Santa Clara County
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      Water Temp: n/a

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Yea, especially the power-tripping douche bags from Calero....By the way, I still haven't paid my fix it tickets you clown.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: stay away from the power-tripper in green, he's usually rolling around the lake doing who knows what back in cherry cove....by himeself

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Hey zach you got some brown stuff on your nose
      and the rangers can bite me. I hope they slash all their funding, their a fricken waste of money
      City: sj

      Tips: avoid jackasses in green

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 54-56

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Friday with Jim Malm out of Wimpy's, spent the first part of the morning back in the narrow slough to the right of the marina (low tide). Headed down to Beaver and found some small black bass with senkos, stripers with a rip bait. Moved down to the Hwy 12 bridge and found more bass and a 3 lb striper.
      Went out Saturday out of Pardise Point in the fog and light winds. Found in the back sloughs some nice bass upto 3.0 lbs and about 10 dinks, 4 stripers with a Green Pumkin Senko. Riped a 4" black/silver bait, picked up small stripers and black bass. Super Brush Hog and Brown/Purple JK jigs with a Sweet Beaver trailer. The North winds came in around 11am and turned off most of the fishing.
      City: rocklin

      Tips: Rip, crank and finess slow, replace your hooks with better ones. Red hooks are good too. (bleeders)

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      Water Temp: 59

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Just got back from a 2 week vacation where I didn't touch a rod. Went out on Thursday (3 of us) and Friday (2 of us).

      On Thursday, we fished Beaver, Hog, and Sycamore -- caught 5 stripers (7-9 lbs), 4 salmon (11-14 lbs), and 3 bass (1.5-2.5 lbs). Salmon were real fighters -- lost 2 salmon that jumped a least 2 ft in the air and threw the lure back at us. I lost another salmon that swam around the boat and rubbed line on a submerged structure and line broke.

      On Friday, we fished Disappointment -- caught 6 stripers (3-7 lbs) and 12 bass (largest 3.5 lbs -- best 5: 12 lbs). Caught a lot of shaker size stripers on both days.
      City: Dixon

      Tips: We used 3/4 oz Rat L Traps (w/upgraded owner 4x hooks) about 90% of the time. All of the traps were either the chrome w/blue back or the chrome blue bleeding shad. Definitely need to make sure you upgrade the hooks -- the salmon can straighten out the factory hooks during their struggle. Be alert at all times, we caught several stripers and salmon that hit the lure within 5 ft of the boat.

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      Water Temp: 59-60

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: WHAT A DAY, WHAT A DAY.
      i feel sorry for all you poor guys that have to fish on the week end.
      if you know how to work a spinner blade A 25# bag is not a problem.
      City: san ramon

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

      Report: Just to add to my last report, i RELEASED MY 8LB BASS BACK INTO THE WATER AFTER THE PHOTOS, i had forgot to mention that in my previous report, i had the fish back in the water in less then a minute. She swam off vigorously and in good condition.
      City: Hayward

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      Water Temp: mid 60's

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: fished for a couple hours in afternoon, lake is real low, i was lucky enough to catch an 8.2 bass on a brown jig, and pig near the narrows. Only bite i got, (see pix in photo posts, sorry for the botched 3-4 attempts, before i got it right. I fished from shore, throwing crank baits, and of course the jig n pig.
      City: Hayward

      Tips: Lake real low, good time to view the exposed breaks, and dropoffs, etc. I took pictures for future use when the lake fills in the spring. My fish bit in deep water off steep shoreline, throw crankbaits, jerk baits, and jigs.

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: unknown

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished last Friday and Saturday at Oroville with my young son and his grandpa. Day one was anything but good for us. The five fish we did catch were all quality fish, however; so it wasn't a total lost cause. Fish came on drop shot. Fished all main lake. It clearly was not a good bite for us. Day two was much, much, better. Caught in excess of 20 keepers with (4) over the slot (1 went 3.1 lbs). These fish were caught on drop shot and brass-n-glass and splitshotting. Upgraded the bait size and moved off the main lake down the northern arm and fished steep clay banks that dropped off quickly. All our bigger fish came in the deeper 40-60 foot range. Son landed a nice 2lb on a dart head right at the boat when reeling in which brought a huge smile to all on board. Bite totally shut down around noon.
      City: brentwood

      Tips: Bigger baits and sheer clay banks made all the difference. Used a variety of baits, including; brushhogs, aarons magic, and bold bluegill, all worked fairly well on day two. Wish we could have stayed one more day as I passed this information to my nephews who went out on Sunday and they absolutely hammered the fish up until 1:00 PM. Weather made the slow times much more enjoyable.

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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Was out today prefishing for a local club tournament. I caught alot of small spots dropshotting (of course), but quickly turned away because I am trying to find what the bigger fish are biting. I used some hula grubs in salt and pepper on 1/2 oz football jighead and caught the bigger ones around 20ft. I started to swim the jig around bluff banks and did well. However the biggest fish of the day came on a half oz. brown jig with a matching #11 pork frog. I was pitching the jig into cracks in bluff banks and hopping it sharply. Caught many swimming that jig too. Caught the smaller fish in about 45-60ft. Nothing over 15" today however I lost two fish that definintly would have pushed 16".
      City: Paradise

      Tips: Small 3" salt and pepper worms on dropshot. Work jigs with 2 foot hops. When you reel in the jig for another cast dont reel in fast, slowly swim the bait back, lots of big fish will hit it coming back, keep rod tip around 1oclock and when swiming the jig back and you get hit drop rod tip and then swing.

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      Water Temp: Don't know

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I turned forty on this day and decided to give this lake one more try before winter. It drizzled all day, and when I arrived @ the lake around 1:30 there wasn't a soul around. Naturally I fished hard, nothing. Then around 6ish San Pablo's staff yelled 10 minutes till closing. On my last cast just as I was about to go .....Bam it hit, just as my lure was almost fully retrieved. I was careful not to reel in too fast and as the bass gave up the fight when I saw the size as it was on its side...... this was the biggest bass I had ever personally seen let alone caught. Anyways I ran as fast as I could yelling at the store-guy to re-open the store and weigh this catch of my life time....Of course he said no, after much begging also letting him know that it was my birthday...my 40th, he did, and this baby was 14 lbs 8oz. Considering I have gotten ridiculed and skunked many times by my competing friends, this was the fish of a life time. I got the last laugh..... thank Jesus!!!
      City: Vallejo

      Tips: Develop stamina and keep the faith. Fish Slow then Slow down finally go slower.

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

      Report: Steelies are legal according to sherrif who radio'd fish and game. Fishing tomorrow - let you guys in how we do.
      City: Santa Rosa

Thursday, November 10th, 2005

  • Santa Clara County
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      Water Temp: 62

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Hey, We all had a good year..It was a safe one.. hopefully no one you guy's know got hurt. and if they did, wish for a safe recovery..Thank's to the Santa Clara Parks and Recreation/ the whole staff, I feel that they need a round of applause..not so much the applause thing,, but an email or a phone call to say thanks...Remember We all have feeling's...Oh by the way....If you disaggree with my word's. let me know..All ya have to do is post it... Have a Happy Holiday Season ,, Drive and Fish Safe,,,,
      City: all of them...from livermore, morgan hill, cupertino,los gatos, campbell

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

      Report: To mjb. Wow, sounds like you a a good stroke of luck. Good for you. Did you keep any of those fish? What color crank bait?
      City: Sacramento

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

      Report: John Coyle, my good friend, teacher and former owner of mgm lures is in the hospital(again). His health is not good but his spirits are high. He would be thrilled to get a visit from any folks who used to come into his store and lie about all the big fish they caught.
      questions concerning John? He is in Rm. #3023 ( 3rd floor) Shasta Regional Med Center(the old Redding Med Center downtown Redding.

      Questions? give me a buzz (530)244-0865
      Jerry Waltman
      City: Redding

Wednesday, November 9th, 2005

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

      Report: Come on they all belong on here.We like them stripers.Why were at it heck go head and put the crappie and bluegill and perch reports on here.Heck why not the lowest dirtiest fish on earth the carp.Put it all on here.