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Wednesday, October 5th, 2005

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 70

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: All the bass seemed to be holding at the 50 ft. plus range.With the cold front that moved through the bass were right on the bottom. So I switched from my usual drop-shot and went to split-shot which allowed me to keep the bait right on the bottom. Once I did this fishing became very easy 20+ fish days are common. And the bigger fish came on Hula Grubs.
      City: san jose

      Tips: fish 4 inch straight tail worms, or Hula Grubs. Also fish the creek channels where there is less direct sunlight, and the fish are less spooked because of how clear the water is (visibility 15ft or more in some spots)... good luck

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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Got a 5.3-pounder tonight at 6:40 pm. My biggest fish this year!! Caught from the shore, by where people launch the paddle boats. I only fished for about 30 minutes. Caught on a senko, green with black tail. Dead sticked it, no action and the bass just picked it up. This was my first fish on my new bait casting set up. Quantum Accurist, with flipping switch and 7'2" laminglass rod.
      City: Hidden Valley Lake

      Tips: Don't spook'm

Tuesday, October 4th, 2005

  • Santa Clara County
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      Water Temp: 70

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: the summary is.. this drop shot really doesnt work..the wind control's everything.. Myself..never have tried the rig...I know it..but never tried...Hey How's Anderson? Any one know?..Probably lot's of dink/s...
      City: morgan hill

      Tips: Tip of the day...It's been tuff... lot's of bait fish.. bout 10 feet down... some fish on them but..no freaking hit's.. If you have and Idea.???????????????? let me know... thank's and oh by the way good luck for you guy's that are doing the tournament at Lake Anderson..

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 64.8

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I went to delta on tuesday after work. We got there almost 6pm. the frank tract just started to calm down a little. I hooked three nice fishes on Mccoy spinner bait within 10 min, fishes were 3lb, 2.5, 3.5lbs, I also use the crank bait got few 2 ponders, a 4lb bass hooked on a tube. we were off the water by 8pm. it's good evening out there, good luck guys.
      City: el cerrito

      Tips: slow roll the spinners, dead stick the tubes.

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 70

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Just returned from the Anglers Choice fish off Sep 29 - Oct 1 out of Konocti Vista. Lots of fish in the 2 1/2lb range. We focused mainly down in the South End. Caught numerous fish on blades, Dropshot, carolia and cranks. Most fish came from the docks with rock and tules. Winning weight was 55lbs. Gee I wished I new where they got that! Overall fishing was great. We averaged 30 - 50 fish a day. My partner and I both lost two fish ea or 9lbs. The weather was great until Saturday. 25+mph winds and three foot waves. What a ride
      City: Oxnard

      Tips: Slow roll spinner baits, Carolina rig with Brush hawgs around docks & tules seemed to get the better fish.

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Ok, time for the annual Father Son fishing trip. Lucky us its in Clear Lake but weve never fished the lake in the Fall. Any advice would be great. Staying in the Oaks and wanna fish there but never once read a report on it. Any tips on fishing that part of the lake would be great!!! THanks in advance and good fishing.
      City: San Jose

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: 67

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished warm springs arm 6am to 3pm Tuesday.7 fish total with best going 2.5lbs, best limit appx. @10.25lbs. Best fish caught on 6" black senko w/red flake rigged texas style/weightless in 3 feet of water on deadfall. Most of the rest were all dropshots on 4"-6" shad laminate roboworms/berkley cuttails in 35-50 feet of water. Please keep posting tips on this lake!
      City: san anselmo

      Tips: Locate fish on finder, then dropshot or darthead 'em. Some fish shallow in the trees, but LOTS on the bottom and suspended around structure in the coves.

  • Trinity County
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      Water Temp: 65

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: This is not a report. The link on the top of the page is an old one which somehow appeared out of the blue a couple of weeks ago and I have had no success getting the webmasters to correct it. My web site address is www. snowcrest.net/themaineguide. Be sure to check out the Eagle pics by Chris Shafer, they are fantastic.
      City: Weaverville

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      Water Temp: 65

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished last Thurs and Fri with clients, Thurs was pretty good, 24 fish topped by a 3+ Black and an almost 3 smallie. Lots of small fish. Had one client Fri and did half as good, only about a dozen fish but one of em was a 4.21 smallie. That's a good sign for things to come. Fished yesterday after a weekend of cold fronts and it was pretty bad and the wind came up about 10 AM and quickly became very nasty. About once a year we have a strong west wind which dives into the canyon in the main lake and creates a strong South wind. It also hits the main stem up around Coffee Creek and becomes a very strong North wind on the North part of the lake. We were fishing around Wyntoon and using the Swift creek break as a buffer from the South wind when all of a sudden 2' swells started coming from the North. It was really weird. I had met my client at Wyntoon so I called the trip short, dropped him off and headed for the ramp. I felt like I was back on the Maine coast. The waves where the winds met were probably not much over 4' but they were certainly the worst I've ever encountered on an inland lake. I've had some horrible rides on Clear Lake but at least the waves were all in the same direction. I sure was proud of myself for deciding to buy a Champion. The only reason I mention this is if any one is on the lake fishing in a pretty good breeze and notice swells coming from another direction, you might want to find a spot a little closer to the ramp.
      Went back out today to finish yesterdays' trip and after a chilly, foggy start, found the fishing to be a little better. About 10 we went out to check some mid lake structure and found rockpiles covered with good fish. Bite was a little slow but the quality fish were there, a couple of 3+ smallies proved it. Get away from that cold front a couple of days and things will get really fun. I'm really excited about fishing in something besides 95 deg weather.
      City: Weaverville

Monday, October 3rd, 2005

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 71

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Subject : Fishing with Sid HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM SID AND FAMILY

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      Day by day the weather is changing, one day you can be in a bathing suit and the next day it is windy and cold and then starts to warm up late in the afternoon. That's what happened to us on Sunday. My wife and I went out and we tried to worm but the wind would not co-operate with us. So we started to troll back home through sloppy water. Bang the first fish hit and from then on we hit double headers and for two hours the bite was on and we caught 13 fish. The largest one was approximately 3 lbs. Abie Nasrah, one of my students from the past, told me that he went out with his dad, George, and his brothers, Nader and Nidal and they totaled 28 fish with the largest weighing in at 4 lbs caught by his father George. The color of the lures they used that were successful were fire tiger and they all trolled between 5 feet and 9 feet deep. Attached is a picture of some of their fish. Good job Nasrah family!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The water temperature is approximately 71 degrees. The next few weeks before it rains trolling will definately be the answer. 'til next week....................good fishing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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      City: Napa

      Tips: Trolling covers alot of ground quickly

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 62to65

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: started at around 7:30a.m. lot of wind today . stayed on the trolling motor all day long, almost ran out of power (i run 36 volt 100lb trust) still managed to catch quite a few fish. fished three general areas. total 34 keepers, biggest was a 5lb 13oz my brohter caught on a 6inch worm our best 5 went 18lbs 4ozs . no top water today about a half dozen cranking and half dozen on blades. the rest on plastics.
      City: oakland

      Tips: brushogs, cranks, blades. if you get bit work the area throughly they should be schooling

  • Leon County
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      Water Temp: Hot!

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Got them steelhead on a jig and bobber rig. Biggest went 20.6 lbs. Then switched over to a helicopter lure and caught a yellow bass. The flyin lure didnt produce much besides a couple notherns. Then tried out the fly rod, threw a yellow humpie and nailed a 72 inch yellow tuna.
      City: Kenai

Sunday, October 2nd, 2005

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 60

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Hit Berryessa on Sunday for the 1st time since spring. Searched around Big Island for bait, and it sure was there in huge schools, but the bass were all suspended below em and not eating. Only had a few bites(small fish) all morning on jerkbaits, traps, blades, drop shot, even a small swimbait. I figured it's a morning thing, so my girlfriend and I had some lunch, and went back in the afternoon to find em stacked on the bottom on 20-30 foot ledges under huge schools of bait. My girl crushed em on drop shot cut tails and I stuck to Carolina rigged slim senkos for fewer but slighly bigger fish, all in shad colors. Also got a few on a jerkbait but nothing on traps or topwater. Most were fat 2lb largies, a few 1.5 lb smallies, no spots, and the biggest was a 3 lb smallie off a deep rock pile on drop shot senko.
      City: SF

      Tips: Sleep in and fish from 3pm to sunset!

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      Water Temp: 60

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Hit Berryessa on Sunday for the 1st time since spring. Searched around Big Island for bait, and it sure was there in huge schools, but the bass were all suspended below em and not eating. Only had a few bites(small fish) all morning on jerkbaits, traps, blades, drop shot, even a small swimbait. I figured it's a morning thing, so my girlfriend and I had some lunch, and went back in the afternoon to find em stacked on the bottom on 20-30 foot ledges under huge schools of bait. My girl crushed em on drop shot cut tails and I stuck to Carolina rigged slim senkos for fewer but slighly bigger fish, all in shad colors. Also got a few on a jerkbait but nothing on traps or topwater. Most were fat 2lb largies, a few 1.5 lb smallies, no spots, and the biggest was a 3 lb smallie off a deep rock pile on drop shot senko.
      City: SF

      Tips: Sleep in and fish from 3pm to sunset!

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 66to68

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: on the water at 7a.m. started in big break. caught a few fish on our first spot just some small keepers and maybe one 2 pounder. left the break between 10 and 10:30. headed to franks. started fishing one of our regular spots. my first fish was 6lb10oz. our friends trolling motor broke down so we tied together and fished the rest of the day that way. we caught between 30 and 40 fish for 4 of us. i also caught a 7lb even and our friend brett caught a 5lb 3oz on a frog. my brother and i, best 5 was 22+lbs. our friends best 5 were between 16ti 17lbs. greatday over all
      City: oakland

      Tips: brushogs,frogs,blades,senkos and dropshots

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 67

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Came in for the day and went out of a really nice public ramp (Lucern?). Headed south and fished some Tulies / Structure. Steve nailed a 4.7 early and then a couple other 1.5, 1.7 all on a Yamamoto Lizard Watermelon/Red split shotting. I abandoned the blades / crank and even the dropshot for a split shot with a brushhog. 3rd cast I got mine, got one more a while later. Much too windy to fish with our limited knowledge of this lake. We did see several people locked on off-shore rock piles but not sure if they produced or not. I hear alot of Clearlake experts know of a dozen or so of these secret spots, can't miss areas. For us we stuck to structure / visible rocks and Tulies. Definately had better days.
      City: Pacifica

      Tips: Do not launch a 17 foot bass boat out of the north end of the lake unless you want to get your butt kicked by Clearlake! That was the worst ride I ever had, but limited damage in the end. Our old ProCraft held it's own but we were soaked and happy to make it home. Way too windy for our taste. In the past I have stayed out of the Big Lake and the South can be bad enough. We joked that it must have been a sight from Lakeshore blvd watching us.

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 68.7

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Thanks to all the anglers who fished the 1st annual cast for kids benifit tournament.1st place Benny lentz and Don frisbie 8.82, 2 place was fred couch and mike cordosa 7.60, 3rd was Greg lynch and Scott campbell 7.17, 4th Bill Mclaughlin and Chris wells 7.15, 5th was craig craft 7.13, 6th Jesse Thompson and Rees Thompson with 7.12, 7th was Dan Rickman sr. and Dan Rickman jr. 6.82, 8th was lee bridgmen and james Bridgmen 6.69,
      City: redding

      Tips: Thanks again for fishing the tournament and hope to see you at the next one. Thanks Anglers Attic

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: got me a new boat IT RUNS ON WATER LOL.
      CLOWN SPOOKS GOLD/RED HEAD IT WORKS TRY IT NIPPADEEDEES ALSO RAINBOW RATTLETRAPS ALSO GRAY PIG/JIG AND GRAY SPIDER JIGS. GET ON THE LAKE NOW LOCAL NEWS SAYS GAS AVERAGE IN REDDING $3.05gal. And Crude Oil Speculators ESTIMATE $102.00 A Barrel By End Of November I AM STILL GOING EVERYDAY EVEN IF GAS PRICES GO TO $8.oogal. BECAUSE I AM OLD AND Less Boats Better Fishing YEEEEEEHAWWWWWW.
      City: redding

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      Water Temp: 60s

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I have hit a stride. I am two for two in the sense the last two times i went, i have caughten a fish. Specifically bass. And as Stevens Creek is rare in catching one everytime, or even every 1 outta 100 times, i will keep the spot secret. But the method was drop shotting 4inch robo worms, i just tried to match the worm color with the water that i could see and it worked.
      City: Santa Clara

      Tips: Try matching your plastics' colors with the color of the water...at Stevens Creek, you would want something like a 'dark yellow almost dark green' color, good luck and tight lines.

Saturday, October 1st, 2005

  • Mason County
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      Water Temp: 72

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Very windy. On the lake at 4:00 and off at 6:15. Caught 12 LM in two hours of fishing. Fish were on rocky shoreline in 15-25 ft of water. Drop shot and texas rigged 4" Robo was the ticket. Fun time with a lot of action. Biggest 3.5lbs. Did not try crank, spinner or jerk but with the wind I am pretty sure there was a reaction bite based on the conditions.
      City: Foster City

      Tips: Drop shot along rocky shore with a steep drop at 20-25 ft wherever your electronics show fish. Once you find them with the drop shot try the TX rigged Robo or other soft plastic.