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Sunday, July 31st, 2005

  • Trinity County
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      Water Temp: 80

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished today with a buddy and his grandson. WOW! Haven't experienced summer doldrum fishing like this in a few years. The three of us caught in excess of 50 fish, and although many were dinks there were enough bigger fish to make it an excellent day of fishing. The fish today made me look like a genius. Everywhere we stopped we immediately caught fish, even on my big fish spots where it can sometimes take a little patience. I just hope that 12 yr. old understands that today was special and that bass fishing isn't always like this. I've had days like this before but was usually alone and pretty reluctant to post a report. It sure was nice to share today with great people and good friends. I should have some pics to share in the next couple of days.
      City: Weaverville

      Tips: Our best five today would have gone about 14 lbs. Sure wish I could have sent Aaron a couple of those 3 lb smallies. Bigger fish were in 20'+ next to deeper water. Dropshot should be working good, but we never tied on anything but a Gitzit.

Saturday, July 30th, 2005

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 74-76

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished between 14 mile and Honker Cut. Great topwater bite for the 1st 1/2 hour. big fish was 2 1/2 pounds. Got a 4 1/2 around 9:30 am on a Beaver and then it was very slow for the next 4 hours with a fish here and there. Then at 1:30 the plastic bite turned on. In the next 2 1/2 hours we upgraded 20 pounds. I personally had my best day ever with an 8'12, 6'2 and the 4 1/2. Also had a few others around 3 to push the five fish limit over 25 pounds. My partner kicked in a few nice 3 pounders as well. Just one of those days I was so happy we decided to brave the heat. I can't go into too much detail on the exact area or method due to upcoming tourneys but I will tell you that the fish were not picky once you found them. They hit every plastic and color we threw at them.
      City: Roseville

      Tips: Stay patient. There is a lot of pressure out there right now, but they will turn on at some point during the day. 5-7 feet was the most consistent depth. Sure wish I was on a house boat out there for a week or so. Can't focus on work. Got the fever bad.

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

      Report: Went fishing from 1PM to 8PM. Caught 1 striper, 1 smallmouth, and 2 largemouth. Caught them all on Rapala Shad Raps. All were off rocky banks.
      City: Pleasanton, CA

  • Mariposa County
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      Water Temp: SURFACE 78

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: A.M. TOP WATER, BABY ZARA SPOOK, BABY TORPEDO, LUCKYCRAFT SAMMY 65, IN THE CANYONS AND DOWN BY THE DAM. UP RIVER ON STEEP ROCKY BANKS AND TREES. RIP BAITS TROUT PATTERNS, SPINNER BAITS CLEAR/WHITE/SILVER...3/8 TO 5/8 OZ. SINGLE WILLOW BLADES...........WORMS ROBOWORM HOLOGRAM SHAD.
      GOOD LUCK.........JIGS
      City: LA GRANGE

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      Water Temp: 75+

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: caught over 40 fish all night. took home 20 14" cats. no striper action in back of refuge by parking lot 5. bugs weren't too bad. had a nice outing.
      City: fresno

      Tips: used stink bait shallow on mud flats in slough.
      dip 3" lure in stink bait cast out 25-30 yrds off bank. wait 15 min dunk bait again bites came fast and would last about 20 min at a time.

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: ??Very Warm??

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the middle fork from Saturday till Monday. Three of us probably boated well over 50 fish. All spots and two smallies. Only four or five of them were over the slot. The biggest fish were caught early in the morning and late in the evening in shade pockets. All fish were caught on rattle traps, dropshotted oxblood robo worms, and c-rigged oxblood robos. The biggest was 17" and it was caught on the blue-chrome rattle trap at first light. Non-stop action until the sun hits the water. Lots of small fish though some no bigger than my rattle trap. Bigger fish were in deeper water 20 feet or more and shade, shade, shade. Have fun!!
      City: Napa

      Tips: Find the shade. Get up early or fish late.

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

      Report: first time to this lake, I'm not sure if I fished Rainbow or Horseshoe. Caught 2 bass in the late afternoon. I was fishing the shadows. First bass came on a brown/purple carolina rig worm, the second came on a white splash it popper.Both were released in great shape. I wish I had more time to exlore this lake.
      City: salida

Friday, July 29th, 2005

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 74

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: My friend and I took a guide trip with Randy Pringle and had a great day. We caught between 60 and 70 fish for the day. All fish caught were on reaction baits. We even tried a new bait coming out on the market that really drove the fish wild. Even when they missed it or dropped it, they would hit it again. Randy really understands the delta and the tides. He put us on fish all day, while constantly providing knowledge on how to do it ourselves. To check out this new bait or to have a great day on the water and gain some knowledge of the delta, give Randy a call. We have already booked a couple of more trips with him.
      City: Suisun

      Tips: To gain better knowledge of the delta waterways and the tidal system, book a guide trip. I would highly recommend Randy Pringle.

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Thanks pfc for your great advice. We'll fish the productive areas that you said were good.
      City: antioch

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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Anybody know whats workin' out there and know where the bass are?
      City: antioch

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

      Report: it seem like nobody send a report from fishing from shore, Ok I did fish from shore almost one day a week every week with good results.I did catch limits of Largemouth bass 2-5 pounds,using plastic worms riged either texas or carolina rig
      City: Winchester,CA

      Tips: you has to be early in the morning, and work all the shore until find a good spot, stick to it,cast in every direcction to cover the whole shore.

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      Water Temp: 80-84

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Friday July 29th with my friend Wogg and his wife for stripers. Got on the water about 7:30 am and found decent activity on the boils. They had the tendancy to not stay up long though. We wound up with three stripers in the boat. Tried to be as stealthy as possible but just couldn't get to some boils. Found some action around the lake on spooks for bass. Tons of little bass around. Looks great for next year. Water is the highest I have ever seen it there. Most of the main parking lot is underwater.
      City: Concord, CA

      Tips: We used bass assasin plastics to catch the stripers and spooks to catch some largemouth.

Thursday, July 28th, 2005

  • Santa Clara County
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      Water Temp: 81

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I got to Calero around noon, decided to brave the heavy boat traffic and fish the submerged island in the middle. The top of the island is around 8feet deep, I fished the shoulders in around 12-14 feet with 7 inch/texas/pumkinseed worms. I stayed busy with over a dozen clones around 2lbs within an hour until the Ranger booted me from the "Traffic" zone. I hit the shoreline and didn't get bit for two hours.
      Before leaving I decided to pitch the shallow weedlines with a Pumkinseed Hulla Grub and Finally...after 8 years of Bass fishing fairly seriusly caught a double digit Bass.(((It went 10.26 lbs ))). Totally stoked, but no camera...I called over a bass boat...he reweighed it 10.26 and then took a picture. Awesome day...still feeling all good. Mr. Davis.........PLEASE POST PICTURE, or send me an email. I'll make it worth the effort. Thanks dude
      City: Morgan Hill

      Tips: That one time you don't have a Camera...will Kill Ya. Bring one

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Zack,
      PLEASE... OK hot dogs are great...STOP...bomber's...mustard is spicy...senkos.??. rangers.gotta....POSTING>..love. drop shot??...>> wilderness is nice...bigfoot, whatever...crank bait lip,wiggle wiggle...dinks
      You make no sense at all!!!
      City: Morgan Hill

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 73-77

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the past 4 days on Disappointment and White slough. Caught three over 7lbs, two 6lb, and too many to count in the 3lb to 5lb range(over 30 fish in this range), some smaller fish but a lot more decent fish than little fish caught. Lost one fish that was easily over 12lbs but it broke the line when it ran out into the open water. Also caught some stripers that were chasing the little fish in the tule pockets which was a surprise to me seeing the stripers in the tules. Fish seemed to have schooled up in some places and appear to be everywhere. Thousands of little fish were everywhere in large schools.Used senko and spinnerbait. Best 5total for the whole week was over 30lbs. Best 5total in one day was on Tuesday with 24lbs
      City: stockton

      Tips: Fish located in tules, along weeds, rocks, and everywhere. Strangely the time of day or tide did not matter. Used senkos and spinnerbait. Senko produced a much larger quantity of fish than the spinnerbait. Tried buzz and frog with little success.Senko,senko,senko,then maybe spinnerbait.

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      Water Temp: 75

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Dissapointment, white slough and mildred -Vixen and frog bite was on in the morning - followed by a senko and brush hog bite on the outgoing. Top 5 close to 14lbs - big fish (5 lber) hit vixen on tule point.
      City: Sacramento

      Tips: Dead stick that frogee in open water

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

      Report: Went out on wed., got there late/driving from san carlos. Got on the water around 8:00am, drove around a point and looked for some exposed rocks. Threw "yo-zuri" cranks in shad patterns===7 fish.....200yrds. Had to run back to the launch to go to the bathroom and met a guy with a 2005? ranger z21....great looking boat... he gave me some advice. go to the tules and flip white frogs... I had no frogs so I fliped everything else, jigs, worms, grubs... 2 fish... Went out searching for a good spot(some more exposed rocks) got on a piece of shorline with no docks. It was about 500yrds of shorline.... caught 32 lmb,,, biggest was 8 lbs smallest was 2.5 lbs......WOW!!!!!
      Was burning up in the sun(around 2:00pm) and headed back to the ramp. On my way I stoped off at to docks and tossed cranks and worms and caught 10 more in 100yrds of shoreline...WOW!
      I am from arizona and have never experienced fishing like this, I have been to lake fork, Okechobee, Ten killer, Kentucky lake, etc...... This place was unbelievable............
      City: glendale, az

      Tips: Caught the majority of my big fish with--- 7" texas rig culprit worms with curly tails in dark purple with green flakes......

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      Water Temp: 80

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: fished the 28 and 29. Fishing was spectcular, finished both days with limits going 18pds, with 25 to 50 fish. No huge fish, best big fish going 4.3, but had 3 of them. All where caught on blades and senko's and drop-shot, mostly on steep drop offs and changing flats, with shad all over them.
      City: Royal Oaks, CA

      Tips: Slow rolling spinner baits until wind dies, at steep drop offs and changing flats, in chart./white, and white with big blades. Switch to senko's and drop-shoting, where schooling shad are, and fish right in front of the cover, or out in the deeper water underneath the schools.

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      Water Temp: NA

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: What day do you plan to go tubing in there, I'm planning to go there this friday or maybe Sat. I know that this is a good spot for tubing, let me know when I might see you there.
      City: SF

      Tips: drop shot and top water swimbait will be productive

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      Water Temp: 72 Degrees

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: I was out yesterday and boy the fish were tough to get so...... when the going gets tough then throw swimbaits. 8" swimbaits was the key for me yesterday and I tell ya throwing swimbaits for 6 hours straight will put a beatin on you. I caught 3 bass in a matter of the six hours i fished but they wern't small. The first fish weighed in at 7.2lbs, 5.1lbs, 8.4...
      City: San Jose

      Tips: I was throwing 8" offspreys rainbow trout and caught the 8.4lbs and castaic 8" rainbow trout and caught the other 2. Use a moderete retreive and find the breaks with your depth finder