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Saturday, August 6th, 2005

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: you want to fish the left side in the summer and in the late fallbut in the winter to about april fish the right side back by the satellite station in the flats and the drop offs their are some good size bass and some big cat fish as well in their you just need to find them best hrs are 6am-11am and then from 530pm or so to dark.
      City: petaluma

      Tips: worms / sinkos / jigs most fish or 2 to 3bls my biggest 6 but their are a lot of fish .

Friday, August 5th, 2005

  • Plumas County
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      Water Temp: 77

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: SUNSET RIP FISH AWSOME OTHERWISE SLOW DURING DAY
      City: MOUNTAIN VIEW

      Tips: LUCKY CRAFT POINTERS

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

      Report: was wondering were u are catching all the bluegill
      City: Santa maria

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 75

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished evening starting at 2 pm. Tide was out and northern sloughs were shallow. Caught 4 bass on outer openings to sloughs. End outgoing good for about 30 minutes and then dead. Headed down to meet incoming water.. As evening progressed bite improved. Around 7pm buzz bait kicked butt. Lots of action.Mike and I caught 20 bass.All small.
      City: orangevale

      Tips: Check out tide. Hit it early or late. Middle of day temp was 104. No fun. Bring lots of water.Seinkos and worms best.Crank if no slime around. Buzz early and late. No spinnerbait fish but there wasn't any breeze.Fish current anywhere you find it.

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: NA

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Pete from San Rafael - To keep the hook perpidicular to the line is easy. I tie a pallomar knot leaving whatever extra length to put the weight on as the "tag" end. After the knot has been tied, hold the hook, point side up and put the "tag" back down through the eye of the hook. Snug it all up. Then put on the weight. This keeps the hook pointed up on the line. Is this what you were looking for?
      City: Santa Rosa

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished from Thurs to Sat. in my 12ft tin can (what can I say, Im a broke college student) just south of the state park on the rockwalls. Hit the water every morning at 0600 and threw crawdad type crankbaits and mini bombers in shad color. Once the sun started picking up I continued fishing the rockwalls and weedlines on texas and wacky rigged powerworms, senkos and those good looking creature baits. The colors that were working were pumkin-seed, dark browns and motor oils. Tried drop shotting, but It was my first time and was kind of lost. Landed about 15 fish each morning! Actually, if anyone can post something about drop shotting, and how to keep the damn hook perpendicular to the line I would appreciate it.
      City: San Rafael

      Tips: Motoroil colored plastics

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      Water Temp: 81-83

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: The bite was so good 2 weeks ago, I decided I just had to play hooky from work and go again. I took a buddy of mine who had yet to experience Clear Lake at it's very best. Needless to say, he wasn't disappointed. Began throwing cranks and blades on deeper breaks down south, and immediately my buddy sticks a 5+ on a Rat-L-Trap. We managed several more fish on the crank/blade pattern, but nothing else over 2.5lbs. and with less consistency than 2 weeks ago. About 12:30 we headed for a deeper break in the Honeymoon Cove area, and after 20 minutes of fruitlessly casting the cranks and blades, I decided it was time for a change. I could clearly see bass relating to the shad schools moving up and down on the break, so I began dropshotting a 6" oxblood/red flake Roboworm in about 14-20'. The first 4 drops produced two 4's, a 5 and one more in the 2.5lb. class. My buddy then got in on the action and stuck another 5 and several more in the 2-3lb. class. The last hour of fishing produced ~20 bass and a helluva lot of fun! Our best 5 fish limit was easily in the 23-24lb. range.
      City: Elk Grove

      Tips: Cranks (DD22 in Lavender Shad and Parrot colors, Rat-L-Trap in Bleeding Shad) and blades (1oz. Blade Runner Tackle in chartreuse/white) fished on deeper breaks down south and in the narrows produced ~15 bass between 1.5 and 5lbs. Dropshot fish were all caught from one break down south, and the key was fishing a bend in the break. Just monitor the movement of shad on the breaks, and fish depth ranges accordingly.

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 82

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: CATFISH; NIGHTCRAWLERS AND CHICKEN LIVERSTS IN THE EVENING. BIG RANGER TOURNAMENT THIS WEEKEND SATURDAY 08-06-05 !! GUEST HOST IS DENNY BRAUER. HOSTED BY C & C MARINE; MODESTO; CHET HAMMONS. SHOULD BE A ZOO AT FLEMING LAUNCH RAMP. 7 A.M. TO 1 P.M. WEIGH IN AT FLEMING PARKING LOT BLEACHERS. AWARDS AND RAFFLE PRIZES AT THE BLEACHERS AND A BARBACUE ALSO.
      City: LA GRANGE

      Tips: FOR BASS: SPINNER BAITS IN FLAT CLEAR WATER FAST. CLEAR & SILVER. CLEAR YAMAMOTO AND KALIN'S GRUBS ON STEEP ROCKY BANKS ALSO SOME FLUKES WILL PRODUCE ZOOM SUPER FLUKES WE FIND ARE BEST; SILVER RAINBOW COLOR. SALMON SEEM TO BE DOWN AT 60 TO 100FT OR MORE. GOOD LUCK IS OUR SUGGESTIONS.

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 84 Degrees

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Well i made it up to the lake on Friday Morning, and it was well worth it let me tell you. I started up in the South Fork early but soon decided to make the move. First cast new location 17 incher went about 2.3 pounds two more cast and a 16.5 incher 2.0 pounds we got 13-15 bass all on two baits. good Luck
      City: Yuba

      Tips: Fish Slow and deep concentrate on 18 feet to 30 feet of water on the wind blown points.

  • Trinity County
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      Water Temp: 78-81

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished early 5am before the sun appeared and until around 9ish. The heat from the sun was intense. Top water action was hot Look for feeder streams and fish the edges. Later in the day Texas rigged MF38 worked well and dropshot with oxblood roboworm
      City: McKinleyville

      Tips: Fish from bank out to about 30 feet and go slow

  • Calaveras County
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      Water Temp: warm

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: River fishing great for small fish. 5 keepers in 6 hrs of fishing. But alot of small fish in all types maybe 30-40 fish in all. Biggest a 2 1/2 lbs. Boy scout cove no keepers but fish are there.
      City: Ceres

      Tips: Dark colors with a flash of bright color on the tips of worms. Got bites on pop-r's also, fish them slow.

Thursday, August 4th, 2005

  • Mason County
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      Water Temp: 79

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: First boat on the water (8AM!). Threw a jerkbait for most of the time along the main lake points. Ended up with 6 on the jerkbait and 2 more on a Carolina-rigged brush hog. Nothing over 1.5lbs. Off the water at 11:00.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Use your favorite summer patters...reaction bite or go deep and slow down.

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Hey guys,

      Everyone setup is different. It all depends on how comfortable you are with your setup. As long as you stay in the 7' to 8'1/2" range with rods your fine. I use a 8'1/2" lamaglass swimbait rod with a reel that is a 5:1 gear ratio because it gives the swimbait better action with the slower retrieve. I also add a 15lbs to 17lbs yozuri hybrid monofilament line to my arsenal.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Make sure you use mono and not braid because braid don't stretch and when a big bass tries to inhale a swimbait with braided line, it struggles to get it in its mouth. Trust me, use mono instead.

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      Water Temp: n/a

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Hey Dog,

      You've got the right area once you reach the top of the levy you are looking down on one of three ponds back there. The one you are looking at is not the island pond. Go down the hill to the left and you will pass the second and smallest pond. Keep going along the road staying close to the levy and you will come up on the island pond. BTW, I don't think you are allowed to fish the island itself as it is a nesting area for some endangered bird. Lots of good water in both big ponds. Have fun and stick a BIG dog!
      City: Santa Cruz

      Tips: I usually fish cover (trees, tules, etc) with a senko or lizard. I like the 7" senko in green pumpkin/black flake.

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Ok this is a question for those with experiance. I see the reports about the island pond and wanted to know whare it is. Is it the area that you have to park all the way back by the launch ramp and has the dirt road that goes up over the hill and all the way back on the small pond side or is the whole area called the island ponds ????
      City: San Leandro

Wednesday, August 3rd, 2005

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

      Report: fished from 9 to around 3:30 am. caught 30+ between four people. mostly small, a few 3-4 pounders and one 5 # on a drop shot. Good crank bait bite. Nothing on blades, few on senkos. I think there was only one or two other boats on the water.
      City: nv

      Tips: you can sit at home and talk about fishing or you can go out and catch a fish

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 80's

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: With 4 little kids, my fishing time has suffered more in the last several years than in my whole lifetime. Today was worth the wait. Brandon convinced me that the jig bite was happening, so I took my 7 year old daughter, Stacy, over for the day. Started off losing a 2.5 on a darthead right next to the redbud ramp, rats! Next stop, I hook something good in some deep pilings on a crankbait. It pulls my line around some underwater supports and I fight the tremendous temptation to pull back hard. Instead, I loosened pressure a tad and managed to get it coming at me. Several minutes into this, I figure I had a catfish, but it turned out to be a 7.5 bass. Wow, what a way to start the day! Bang another keeper of these pilings then cast a jig off these deep rocks and kept missing bites, presumably bluegill. Wheeler gave me 4 fish I believe on a 3/8 oz brown jig, from 5 feet down to 25 feet. Bait/fish everywhere. The highlight of the morning was when Stacy started yelling that she had one. The child must have been dragging 50 yards of line between her rod and her splitshot worm. She caught her first fish on an artificial on her own off the beacon off monitor island.

      Dartheaded some deep docks across from konocti and caught 5 or 6 more to 2.5 or so.

      Shag rock produced 3 or 4 more on jigs, but only to 1.75 or so.
      Along about 4pm at about 100 degrees with no wind, my god it was hot, we pulled in to the concrete boathouse on the south end and started to get bit on the jig. Bites on almost every cast, but I was only hooking about 1/4 of them. Stacy caught another keeper here. Maybe it was the time of day, I dont know, but when I started fishing a long break from 18-25 feet, the fish started to gain in size and I started missing less bites. Caught 3 in the last five minutes including a beautiful 5.2 that swam off with the jig, dropped it, then came back and ate it again! This was the most enjoyable day trip with my best fishing buddy!
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: Rallyers should have no trouble getting bites on jigs, though dropshotting/splitshotting seems like you could catch 50 fish a day. I figure we caught about 25 fish between 9-6 pm.

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went out to Shadow Cliffs Wednesday after work. Fished from 6pm to 8:30pm. Focused on the large back pond. Fished the shore from 5 or 6 spots on the far side from the parking lot. Caught two nice LM, one 16" and one 15". Didn't have my scale with me. Both were taken on a 6" pumpkin seed lizard with chartreuse tail. Worked it with a painfully slow action to get the strikes.
      City: Fremont

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      Water Temp: Don't Know

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Arrived at 7:30 p.m. and walked arroyo shoreline until 9. Landed a two-pounder on a purple persuader buzzbait. No hits on red shad baby brush hog, the only other bait I tried. Fish released.
      City: Santa Clara

      Tips: First time at this water. Hard to access from shore. Don't try to walk around the entire lake/pond. Thought I could do that but the trail dead-ended just before I could complete the loop. Thus I had to quickly back-track and retrace my steps around 90% of the lake (instead of 10%) to get out of the woods before dark and 9 p.m. park closure.

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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: 100+fish! That's not bad. Yea...I just wanted to know what trail would be better to take? The left side or the right side? Can anyone help me out? Thanks!
      City: Richmond

      Tips: Catch and Release!