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Sunday, October 30th, 2005

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

      Report: Fished my usual Alder Point this morning and caught a 5 lb LM bass. The fish was in about 12-15 feet of water just outside the weeds. I used a Zoom white fluke with silver flakes and got the big bass. Nothing else worked, not drop shot, not crank bait, and not even nightcrawlers. Strange day on the water today.
      City: San Leandro

      Tips: work a white fluke slow and deep around weedlines.

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      Water Temp: 62

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: I dont think this is a bs... thing..guy's my freind took picture's//I cant wait to see them.... No bs...16 that is a big ,.not real..congratulation's ..I'm not a greedy mutha. fcka but still havent boated a "double digit" fish Excuse me.. double digit Bass Real close but not yet.. Hey ya fools out there...water temp is good.. 63 to 65... where the hell are they..????????????
      City: morgan hill

      Tips: I have none..I drive all over .. I spend more time fishing the lake's in Santa Clara than I do here .. Yep I'm the fool..If I'm an idiot..let me know.. All I know is dropshotting work's if ya want number's.(dink's)..nothing of size..Hey.. please let me know if ya have an answer to what "WE ARE ALL ASKING" Temp's right...water level. (a little high this year)..should be feeding..Question where the heck did the Crappie go?? Hey Help

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      Water Temp: 63 -67

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Took my firlfriend fishing with me this day. We started off around 10AM, fishing plastics but only caught "dinks" in the shallows. Moved further out, tied on a couple of deep-diving crank baits (one blue & silver and the other shad colored). Both of us hooked up with several fish, on the points, in 20 to 25 foot depth. Called it a day around 4PM with a total of 5 fish in the 2 to 3 lb. range. Many other, smaller fish caught as well. Pictures taken & ALL WERE RELEASED. A great day!
      City: Fresno

      Tips: Try a key your deep-diving cranks on the points holding bait fish in the 20 to 30 foot range......and hold on!

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

      Report: Hey you and your buddy should really think about fishing the tournament on sunday. only 90 dollar entry fee. If you guys can catch fish like this all the you will win easily. Sign up here sat or on sun at jones valley marina.
      City: redding

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

      Report: KEEPING MY BOAT IN BERTH FOR WINTER,CAN ANYONE TELL ME WHEN IS THE BEST TIME FOR STEELHEAD, ALSO HOW LONG BEFORE LAKE TURN'S..HAVE BEEN BERTH HOLDER FOR TEN YR'S USUALLY DO WELL IN EARLY SPRING,BUT FINALLY CONVINCED WIFE TO LET ME PUT ON DOWNRIGGER'S.ANY ADVISE WOULD BE APPRECIATED..
      City: SAN RAFAEL

      Tips: HOWEVER I HAVE FOUND DRIFTING WITH A UNWEIGHTED WORM DOE'S WELL...

Saturday, October 29th, 2005

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 60-65

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the NCCC over the weekend and caught a bunch of fish cranking the outside weedlines on a deep diver crank in crawdad pattern in the morning. Was overcast all morning. But when the sun broke out, we lost the crank bite. However, by early afternoon, we caught some fish on a blade up on some sparce weed in ~3-5 feet of water. Did also managed a few here and there on some plastics, but it was not the major bite for us.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Crank and blade ... put the motor on high and cover water till you find a concentration of fish. Then slow and see if you can coax a few more w/ worms.

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      Water Temp: 62-64

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: fished the northern cal club championship .... our club ( gilroy bassmasters) finished second to a delta club ( who else)? by about two pounds... my partner and i had big bag 16.99 and one of our guys had big fish (chuck peak) right at 8.. chuck and his partner also had second big bag at 16 + and my partner ( adam mcandrews) had second big fish.. all in all bite was better as the day and tide got later..we caught our two biggest 5 and 6 off docks north end of slough behind wall by franks.. chucks big fish came in victoria.. actually chucks boat broke down so his partner took their 16 + bag and had another club guy run him to weigh in . they made it by two minutes (WHEW) spiro and guys ran a great tourney and cooch did a great job as mc....
      City: sunnyvale

      Tips: slow slow slow

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      Water Temp: 63

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Excellent day on the Delta, started a little late, dead batteries, on the water by 9:00, started with a chrome jerkbait, action right away, even had a 5pounder try to take the bait from a smaller fish and caught both at once, that was fun, jerkbait worked well until noon, had 25 fish in the boat by then. Then I switched to a Senko with a a splitshot to get it down and caught 10 more by 2:30. Fished down south, low tide. Very fun day, fish are aggressive right now. best 5 was probably aroung 15lbs.
      City: brentwood

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      Water Temp: 58-60

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Black bass are still biting, I was the extra boater in a tourament out of Russo's. 15 clubs, 5 of the top boaters and non-boaters from each club had a day to see who was the best of the West. The day started out with a light rain and a lots of clouds with light winds. After blast off I found some water running out of Frank's tracks with tules and rocks. No body was around so I used a speed trap in sliver/blue getting four nice bass with one keeper. spinners did ok, Rattle Traps ok. As the tide moved out so did I, cranking and draging. As the tide started back in I looked for fast moving water around eddies, points with rocks. texas rigging a brush hog was the way to go for me, finding 30 plus bass and 10 keeper my best was 10.25 lbs. Not near my best, but a fun day in the Delta. I left at 2:30 before the tourament boaters came in.
      City: Rocklin

      Tips: find moving waters, tules and rocks. Around docks, pipes and inside pockets.

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 67

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: DAY AFTER LITTLE STORM EQUALS BLUEBIRD SKY.sO i SLOWED DOWN AND SPLIT SHOT BRUSH HOGS FOR A SLOW 6 KEEPER DAY ABOUT 9LBS. NOT BAD BUT NOT LIKE THE DELTA.
      City: ORANGEVALE

      Tips: SPLIT SHOT OR CAROLINA RIGS 22 FEET DEEP TODAY. aQUA View showed lots of fish but not many biters. 8 lb test with 6 lb floro carbvon leader.

  • Ventura County
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      Water Temp: 68

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: 0630 on the water - the air was in the 50's - Went straight to airstrip end and nothing - there were a few bass on top but no alot of action - stayed there til 10 - 3 small fish drop shotting - No wind - and cold - about 11 - the sun came out so we tried alot of differnet spots - nothing but dinks - Stoped at one last spot around 12 - and did we find where the big boys hangout - Within a 100ft strip of bank - we saw 3 fish over 12lbs, 2 fish around 8lbs and 3 more that were close to 5lbs - we fished it hard with swimbaits - had a couple turn and follow - but nothing - THe wind came up hard around 2:30 off the water by 3. Few fish - all were dinks -
      City: Oakview

      Tips: Hard day fishing

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: fished on saturday afternoon. cranking most of the day, scraped up a dink on the rat l trap. Switched over to the heavy stuff, started throwing a 8in swim bait - landed a beautiful 10.5lber within the first 15 minutes, nothing else the rest of the day.
      City: san jose

      Tips: big baits = big fish
      catch and release

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

      Report: Started out tough, tough, tough! I was finally able to find some biters dropshotting. I got a limit, fish between 2-1/2 and 3-1/2 pounds. Work hard, stick to the 30 foot depth range, and you'll get some to bite.

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fishing hasn't been good the last couple of times out. There were a few undersized dinks caught using live crawlers. Tried cranks, spiners, and topwater with no success.
      To sum it all up, I can tell you from experiance that this is a good place to catch lots of tics, and great for sprain ankles. I don't know why anyone would waste there time here. I'm not sure why I even come back to this place! But, if you enjoy brousing through a dumping ground,enjoy hiking through cow shit, and looking at garbage, then this is the place to be. There's no shortage of pigs here. Tell a friend!!
      City: Bolinis

      Tips: Not recommended...It wont be long before this place gets closed off to the public..

Wednesday, October 26th, 2005

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Anyone know what the water levels are on the lake right now? High, Low? Are they draining it?

      Thanks!
      City: Gilroy

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: I just got a call from fw and they now have heard of the fish, although still no photo. Congrats to whoever caught it if it is legit. The previous (very unofficial) record was 16.1 pounds, so this would be the new lake record!

      Tips: Waiting to see the photo.

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 67

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I guided a good fisherman new to the Oroville area on what now is his "home" lake - beautiful Lake Oroville! WOW, what a shock. The last time I guided there - on a Friday - I had to park 5 rows away from the ramp 'cause of an upcoming tournament. Yesterday, I was the ONLY rig in the lot. Yes - it rained all day. Wimps, all of you, har!! It rained on my brand new Ranger 520 - got the carpet all wet - imagine that! Actually, there was one rig parked at the end of the ramp when we came in. And yes - we didn't see a boat all day!!! The fishing was reasonably good too. We caught 21 bass total - one spot at 16 1/2 inches (2 lbs 7 oz), one at 15 1/4, and one at 14 and 99/100's, har! All of our spots were 13 inches or over and were caught from 30 to 55 feet. Split-shotting seemed to be the ticket for the day. I drop-shotted a lot, but that didn't see to work. I did it 'til I caught one!!! Topwater, reaction, nothing else worked. No jig fish either. We used Camanche Jack worms in purple ghost color and Yamamoto Kut Tails in a salt and pepper color. We spent a lot of time looking and metering all over the north fork, so we didn't fish the whole time. I think he will like his new lake since he caught 12 of our bass and one of the "over 15's!
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: We found bass in weird places - kind of near the sides of slowly tapering points. Walls did produce some fish and points did produce some. But somewhere between the outer part of a wall (main body) to the first point heading into a cove seemed to hold a lot of fish - if that makes any sense. Almost seemed they were moving in and out of the mouths of coves. Whatever they were doing, they were eating pond smelt. I know - they were all over the side of my new boat!!!!

Tuesday, October 25th, 2005

  • Santa Clara County
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      Water Temp: 61-64

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: The bite is slow right now but you can catch fish if you slow down and use the right bait. Caught 12 on tuesday and 11 on thursday. Majority of the fish were caught on 3.5 inch green pumpkin tubes on 1/8th ounce wieght between 0-15 feet. Caught a few on flukes but couldn't get bit on topwater or cranks. Fish rocky ares with weeds and you should be able to get a few. Bite gets better in the afternoon as the water warms the wind pick up a little. Good Luck
      City: Salinas

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      Water Temp: probably 68

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: great job to the person who did actually catch that hog.. 16 pounder.. wow It had to be a couple of feet around and then some on the length...don/t know what the lake record is that's good shit...Congratulation's to the person who hooked and I hope realeased it..Measure it take photo's... and have something made...that fish.. is probably 7 or 8... smart dude..
      City: morgan hill

      Tips: Again.. congrats.. to the person who hooked it... Hopefully ya got picture's....fish safe and let all the jet skier's and water skier's please respect our territory... 50 feet from the bank..and a 100 foot cast... with big hook's..to clean out a nest... if ya get my gist... good luck fish safe..b

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: I just called the ranger office and they're predicting that the ramp will be closed Thursday night.

      I also talked to the guys at fisherman's warehouse and no one there has heard of the 16 pounder. Sounds like a hoax to me so far.