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Monday, October 17th, 2005

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 68

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: The water temperature has dropped to 68 degrees. Balls of bait are all over the lake and the fish are gorging on them. I watched some bass, about twenty of them, herd the bait into a ball team work style and then proceed to devour them. Fishing was good this past weekend except for Sunday because of high winds and rough water. As we trolled for bass we caught some trout on the surface. Friday was an excellent day we hit fish all day long everywhere we ventured to. The boat traffic has settled down to a minimum and the lake belongs to the fisherman again. 'til next week...................good fishing!!!!! www.fishingconnection.net
      If you have any fishing stories that you would like to share, please email me at bestguide@hotmail.com or call Sid at 650-583-3333 From : Sidney Silberberg <bestguide@hotmail.com>
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      The water temperature has dropped to 68 degrees. Balls of bait are all over the lake and the fish are gorging on them. I watched some bass, about twenty of them, herd the bait into a ball team work style and then proceed to devour them. Fishing was good this past weekend except for Sunday because of high winds and rough water. As we trolled for bass we caught some trout on the surface. Friday was an excellent day we hit fish all day long everywhere we ventured to. The boat traffic has settled down to a minimum and the lake belongs to the fisherman again. 'til next week...................good fishing!!!!! www.fishingconnection.net
      If you have any fishing stories that you would like to share, please email me at bestguide@hotmail.com or call Sid at 650-583-3333


      >>
      >>A husband and wife go to a counselor after 15 years of marriage. The
      >>counselor asks them what the problem is and the wife goes into a tirade
      >>listing every problem, they have ever had in the 15 years they've been
      >>married. She goes on and on and on. Finally, the counselor gets up, goes
      >>around the desk, embraces the woman and kisses her passionately. The
      >>woman
      >>shuts up and sits quietly in a daze. The counselor turns to the husband
      >>and says "That is what your wife needs at least three times a week. Can
      >>you
      >>do that?" The husband thinks for a moment and replies, "Well, I can get
      >>her here Monday and Wednesday, but Friday, I fish.
      >>
      City: Napa

      Tips: Watch the birds and follow the bait

  • Santa Clara County
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      Water Temp: am 68

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: full moon right now ..slight breeze...lake's are being drown down...Havnt heard of anything in coyote.. Is it still open...? Let me know..
      City: morgan hill

      Tips: If any one out there think's they know it all...Call Rocky and Bullwinkle" <Mr Know it all.. fish safe... and good luck..they are down hanging tuff...deep crank.. 50 feet from shore..wide wobble.. chrome and blue..have fun

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: ???

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Finally managed an hour this afternoon, and it was high tide. Caught six around bridge again. Caught another 5lber that put on a good fight with the buzz. Some on buzz and some on senko. Be careful this weekend because duck season is opening and it can be hell out there on saturday.
      City: Stockton(UOP)

      Tips: Buzzbait and Senko. Fish are aggressive. Watch out for hunters this weekend!!!!

  • Trinity County
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      Water Temp: na

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Heading upto Trinity to do some fishing with my Father. I was hoping I could review the reports page for some tips but it looks like no ones been on the water in a while. If you've been out lately I would appreciate some advice on the bite. Thanks
      City: Gilroy

Sunday, October 16th, 2005

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 68

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Sunday was bad. Windy morning. Although, it was the only time we caught anything. Very early-10 minutes after sunrise. Trolling for trout caught 2 bass 1-10" the other 12" both about 1lb. Let'em go. About noon caught a trout using a broken back rappala. Was out for another 4 hours with out a nibble, bite, nuthin. Other fishers near bye experienced the same luck.
      City: Santa Rosa

      Tips: I was told to get "early, early, early" was a big thing as well as troll by the damn. - Both seemed to work. Next time I'll be there earlier.

  • Santa Clara County
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      Water Temp: varies// in am

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: jcab.. I guess I'm an "idiot" funny...yes drpshoting work's... if ya want dink's..ya sit there and catch those thing's all day long... why even bring a scale..? It's funny.. some person called me and"Idiot"... that's great...right now they are deep..water is being drawn.. Hey jcab. throw deep crank's..to the bank around 50 ft from shore...wide wobble works great.. other than that have a great day fishing my freind's...Be safe and watch out for J skier's...
      City: morgan hill

      Tips: Jcab ya sound like some one that has been doing this for sometime...the tournament. at Anderson is soon I think.. Hey.. Jcab I respect you . I can give ya a couple of tip's...take care

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 62-69

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Pre-fished a few days over the last week for the Hook tournament....which Gene appropriately called off due to high winds..better safe than sorry... Anyways, topwater had been kicking out some decent fish lately(south and central), a big black buzzer was getting several 3's a day along w a 4+ and a 5. Not a fast paced bite but consistant all day long. Mon I intended to focus on cranks but conditions weren't in my favor, it was flat calm, w/clear sky and the tide only moved about a foot in either direction. About noon I decided to run North and flip around some areas well known for big dogs but I rarely fish. Pitched my senko up to and isolated tule clump, tap, set and oooh what a pull. I quickly checked my drag thinking it must be loose, nope she's just pulling hard. Turned out to be a beautifull 10lb 10z toad. Lukily a DFG warden drove up on the levee just as I boated her and offered to take a few pic's since I was by myself.
      City: Tracy

  • Alameda County
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      Water Temp: 64-65

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished from 6:45 - 11:00. Started by the dam with a ripbait. Had a nice one come unbuttoned at the boat on my second cast. Ended up with 2 decent fish on the ripbait and another on a small crankbait. When the sun hit the water I switched to a dropshot along the wall by the dam. Ended up with about a dozen on the dropshot. Nothing huge with the largest just undedr 3lbs.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Fish are shallow early but move to about 20-25ft once the sun comes up. Try any of your favorite fall baits.

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

      Report: tough out there today,launched @ granite bay 6:30am , fished untill 12:45 pm up north..only saw 4 fish today, all spots,nicest one (14 in) was caught on a chartrusse rattlt trap..the 3 dinks were caught on a drop shot robo worm (margarita muliator) wacky rigged ...
      City: lincoln

      Tips: wait for cooler weather

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

      Report: SHASTA CASCADE TOURNAMENT TOP 5.
      WINNER MAT S. ONLY LIMIT OF THE TOURNAMENT WITH 10.51 LBS. HIS BIG BASS WAS 3.38 LBS. USING PLASTIC AT THE NORTH END.
      2ND MIKE P.WITH 6.30 LBS. INCLUDING BIG BASS 5.13 LBS. MIKE WAS MAT'S BACK SEATER ALSO FISHING PLASTIC.
      3RD FRANK B.WITH 4.16 LBS. BIG BASS 4.06 LBS. WORMED THE UPPER END OF THE LAKE.
      4TH KEN L.WITH 4.03 LBS. USED HIS TRUSTY JIG ON THE MAIN BODY.
      5TH MARVIN M. WITH 2.50 LBS. WORMED THE NORTH END.
      City: REDDING

      Tips: PERSISTENT PAYS OFF HAVE FUN FISHING

Saturday, October 15th, 2005

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 69

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: SLOW SLOW AND SLOW RIPPPED 4 TUBED 2 NOTHING ON CRANK BAIT . WISH I HAD MORE
      City: mountain view

      Tips: IT IS GOING TO BE GOOD HANG IN THERE

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

      Report: Kinda tough on Saturday. Caught ten on black jigs. All 12 inchers except a 2 & 3 pounder. Spoke to other bassers and they were working pretty hard for them, too.
      City: san jose

      Tips: Jigs and drop-shot. Try deep water. I stayed within 3-12 feet of water. Will work deeper water next week and let y'all know how it does.

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 70

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Lake is putting out good limits of spots and large mouth. Lighter line getting more bites. 6 lb the most productive. Split shot brush hogs 10 to 30 feet. Find the bait depth and work the same depth. Afternoons they go deeper. Drop shot island humps that you can see fish on depth finder.
      City: orangevale

      Tips: Work everything slow. We fished sat right after the front friday nite. Wecaught about 15 fish most around 12 inches. Light line helps. Use your electronics to fish best areas. Beware carp are everywhere. I was using my aqua view on some spots I thought had bass and they were carp.If you don't get bit on a spot in 5 minutes leave.

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      Water Temp: 66-67

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: This lake can be good and not so good to some. The Loomis Basin Bass Masters had a small tourament with ten boats on a light wind and rain. At 3:30 weight in time all but 2 had limits, the big bag was 11.58 and big fish 3.58 cought by Joe Miller. Most were spots using jigs, brush hogs and lizards.
      City: rocklin

  • Ventura County
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: On the water by 0630 - alot of other boats putting in - still no trout stocking - so we headed down to the airstrip end and started casting Popn-R's and shallow cranks - Had our first fish at 715 - small dink. Came around a small point inside the cove - throwing a Popn-R and missed a nice fish - maybe 3lbs - Fished the whole end - only two keepers - 2.3lb and 1.4lb - caught a bunch of dinks. By 10 we headed to the main island near the damn side. Caught a few more dinks throwing cranks - the wind came up around 11 - 20mph - By 2 it was really hot and not much action - fished the two island down by the damn - nothing - Fished the day back where we started - GOt there about 4 - the fishing got hot - We land 4 fish for 8lbs in about 20 minutes. My buddy caught a nice 4lb on shallow crank. THe fish were busting on top and anything we threw they hit. By six they were hitting on top everywhere - We ended up with 30 fish only 7 keepers -
      City: Oakview

      Tips: THe morning bit til 9 is good and the afternoon bite after 4 is hot - shallow cranks, spinnerbaits, and topwater all produce.

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 64

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: We (Mendo Bassers) had our yearly 2 day tourney scheduled out of State Park this weekend but a terrible accident on Saturday resulted in our cancelling the tournament. We lost a good friend Saturday afternoon, Burt Studdert, to a boating accident on an ocean-like Clearlake. He was 76 years old. The 18 foot Glastron he was fishing out of capsized in extremely rough water and Burt did not survive the ordeal. Contrary to rumor already circulating, he WAS wearing his lifejacket according to tournament regulations. Burt was a great fisherman and an even better person as anyone who has spent even 5 minutes around him can testify to. We will miss him dearly. I want to remind everyone who fishes on this lake that the conditions can change by the minute. I was fishing the tournament with my 12 year old son and after a typically rough morning down south, we decided around 10:30 am to make the run to Lakeport to fish calmer water. After receiving the call to have everyone come in around 1:00 pm, I realized we might be in trouble ourselves. While it was pretty calm in Lakeport, it didn't take much running to get right into the middle of what can only be described as "scary water." We fought 5-6 foot waves at little more than idle speed and after "punching" several waves, we felt very lucky to make it back to the ramp. It was the first time ever that I was actually scared to be in my boat. Many of our members reported having waves break into their boat that day while one longtime member who has fished many years on Clearlake stated it was possibly the roughest day he has ever seen there to date. I myself have spent days on this lake running full speed without my lifejacket on but that will never happen again. For those of you who knew Bert and even those who didn't, please remember him and his family in your prayers sometime soon. We will miss him. God Bless
      City: Ukiah

      Tips: Keep an eye on ever changing conditions and always wear your lifejacket when running on Clearlake.

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      Water Temp: unknown

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I started out at the corner of the dam on the west side of the lake @ about 12:45. I tried a chartreuse shad spinnerbait and got one hit. I switched to a 4.5" Prizm Shad Roboworm on a drop shot and caught a 2lb. 4oz. I got a few more bites on the drop shot, but didn't conect with any of them. I tried a jig, dart head Flirt, and hula grub too but didn't even get touched. I went down a bit towards the back cove and caught a 1lb trout on a spinnerbait. Once I got in the back cove I started throwing the spinnerbait again and caught a 1lber. I worked the back cove pretty thoroughly witha various baits but didn't catch anymore. I then went to the back dock and caught a 1.5lber on the Prizm Shad worm. I went to the swim lagoon rocks and a caught a 1lber on a Bevy Shad ripbait and a dink on a drop shot. That was it and I left around 7pm.
      City: Antioch

      Tips: I don't have many tips to offer. I'm not really sure where the fish are or what they're doing. I can't seem to catch them as consistently as I have in the past few months. The fish are feeding on shad though, so use shad pattern baits.

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 67.5

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Club Tourny. out @ 0645 Saturday after a night of rain. Top water bite was on in 30 ft or less over rock piles. (babybass spooks)
      Once the sun came out dropshot the cliffs in 45-60ft. caught fish all day in all parts of the lake. I would fish a spot for two keepers and move. (brown/purple ROBO 6in) I caught one on a crank. Fished Sunday morn till 1000 NO top water bite, all dropshot.
      City: Wellington NV

      Tips: -Light line 8-12 Vanish
      -spooks in the morning from first safe light till the sun comes up.
      -Darthead or dropshot down around 60 feet and watch your fishfinder.
      WATCH THE SLOT LIMIT!!!(12-15)

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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched at Black Pt. around 7am. Fished until Mr. Fish and Game docked along side (1pm) to cite us for not knowing the Delta/Bay required a stamp. Stamps for everything these days. California sucks. Got that off my chest. Anyway, not much luck today. 2 king fish, 1 stiper (15"), 1 bat ray (small-med.) Muddy waters due to big tides. Last week, clear waters - great fishing!
      City: Santa Rosa

      Tips: Pick up 1/2 pound of shrimp from bait store ($8) across from launch (marina). Anchov's or herrin ok. Nothing like the shrump though!

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: fished the arroyo from the bank for a change, on sat. I got 10 fish in about 3 hrs, pretty much all dinks. On sun. I got 4 fish all about a pound except for the second cast that I made, almost 4.5 lbs.
      City: p-town

      Tips: fished the weed islands with senko's and buzzbait, big fish inhaled a watermelon 5 inch senko