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Saturday, July 16th, 2005

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: I'll be out there tomorrow with a green caddis tube. that's fine..i already know what i am doing.but i'll see you around.
      good luck to you tomorrow.
      City: Fremont

      Tips: fish with respect

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: 78

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Launched boat at 5:45a.m. to get an early start. Headed up to Cherry Creek and started throwing crankbaits,zara spooks and frogs with no success for the first hour. My partner, Jack Rosetti started throwing senkos and nailed a 2.5lb. I was determined to catch a frog fish so I kept on trying with still no blowups while Jack gets two more 2lb. fish. We had a bet for first,biggest and most fish so I put down the frog and started throwing senkos. I missed the first two hits because I set too soon so I said next bite I'll let the fish take it before I set. My partner was fishing on the outside edges of the grass so I decided to go shallow and right away a I got a light tick tick. I waited until the line started to move and when I set the fish immediately broke water and I knew it was a big fish. I kept the rod tip down but the bass still jumped out of the water and seeing the fish I knew it was a Hawg. Jack gets really excited and asks where's the net which I never take out of the locker when I'm fun fishing. Well the fight is on and the bass dives into the weeds and keeping pressure on I bring her up close to the boat and then Jack lunges out and grabs the fishes jaw and brings her in the boat.My biggest bass at Lake Sonoma weighed in at exactly 8lbs. We proceded down the bank and caught four more fish.By 9a.m. we had 7 bass with best five going 17lbs.
      City: Santa Rosa

      Tips: Keep the boat out in deeper water so you don't spook the fish. Throw on the outside edges and in pockets of the grass and keep a eye on your line. When it twitches wait a few seconds until the line moves and then set. The fish were aggressive and didn't hesitate to run with the Senkos. Best colors were watermelon with black flake and green pumpkin although other colors worked also. Here it was Saturday in the middle of Summer and we didn't see another boat until after 10a.m. It's definitely a early bite so get on the water at first light.Good luck and tight lines.

  • Trinity County
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      Water Temp: 78-81

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: First time ever on this lake. Fished one of the large side arms about half way up the lake. Got several smallmouth on top water poppers. Nothing of any size maybe a pound at the most but lots for them. Did get a few on gitzit's and plastic worms also. Lots of fun.
      City: Ben Lomond

Friday, July 15th, 2005

  • Santa Clara County
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      Water Temp: 77

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: fishing was ok.... windy as a mutha fcka.. overcast... blowing hard... had trouble controlling the boat,, so decided to turn the bow out.. stay off the band around 30 feet and start crankin..just outside the shit stinkin moss line..did well.
      City: morgan hill

      Tips: the tip of the day is.. throw a deep diver..just outside of the smegma line.. crank hard.. and hang on... also .. let the ranger's know if any of the "J " skier's and or other wake board boat.s give ya grief.. bring a piece of paper and write down the CF number's and report them.. WE ALL HAVE TO BE SAFE AND SHARE THE WATER!

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: Mid 70s

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Got on the water by 5:15A this morning. Fished Disappointment Slough and Columbia Cut. Went to the same sweet spot in Columbia Cut as yesterday and caught over 15 keeper size bass by 7:00A. Caught a 6+ lb fish in Disappointment using a Sizmic Toad. Our best 5 weighed 18+ lbs. Off by 12:00P.
      City: Dixon

      Tips: It's cool in the morning, but watch out for the heat. Bring plenty of liquids. Rat L Traps and wht/char spinnerbaits worked well today.

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 76-83

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished at night 9pm-1am on Friday and caught 6 totalling just over 20 lbs (biggest going just over 6 lbs) all on buzz baits and jitterbugs - nothing on plastics the whole night. Dropshotted, t-rigged, senkos...but all the fish came from top-water. Focused on grasslines near lakeport.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Fish the grasslines- black buzzbaits and dark green jitterbugs. I tried throwing all kinds of colors, black was the only one working. Most fish were caught about 4-6 feet off the grass lines.

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      Water Temp: bathtub

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: i looked at my post again was kind of rude! although that was not my intentions
      City: redwood

      Tips: i will be using this for fishing reports only in the future

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      Water Temp: bath tub

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Tim/rexx-
      I will be out there on saturday 6 am
      yellow float tube
      show me where you are on the shore I will show you fish

      smoke-smoke more be happy, 420 :)
      City: redwood

      Tips: buy a float tube

Thursday, July 14th, 2005

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: Mid 70s

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched out of Paradise at 5:30A. Fished Disappointment Slough and Columbia Cut. We caught over 15 keeper size bass. Found a sweet spot in the Columbia Cut area and caught 7 keeper size bass in about 15 minutes on a shad colored Rat L Trap (including my all time best - a 9.1 lb hog -- took some pictures and released her). Best five was around 19+ lbs. Off the water by 12:00P before it got too hot.
      City: Dixon

      Tips: Caught early morning bite fish on a white/char spinnerbait. Saw another fisherman that caught a 8+ lber on a buzz bait.

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 81

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: After 2 years of not night fishing this lake, I got the green light to go. Kris and I arrived at 8:45 and tried flipping trees in the south end w/no luck. Just at dusk, Kris bangs a 3.5 and I soon feel like I've got a weed on my brushog. I keep reeling until all of a sudden it is below the boat and up comes a 5+ and goes down and throws the hook! I thought that might have set the tone for a not so well evening, but it turned out ok. We ended up w/ 11 keepers by 2:30am. All fish caught on plastics. I must say that the water is higher than I've ever seen it on this lake in july. Some of my rocky spots had bushes hanging 10 feet over the water, so proper presentation next to the bank was not a possibility.
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: It became apparent that all fish that bit for us were right on the bank. Working the lure back produced no bites all night. None of our spots were red hot, just a fish here and there. This was the calmest night I've ever seen on this lake. One interesting side note: After a long dry spell, I decided to turn the flourescent light on along with the black light. I did this so I could get my lures as close to the bank as possible. I cant ever remember catching a fish with this white light on. On this night though, We did get 3 good ones and missed one with it on.............I shall have to experiment more.

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 82 DEGREES SURF

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: LOTS OF FISH , 2 TO 4LBS ON 5" CLEAR,HOLOGRAM & SMOKE GRUBS BY YAMAMOTO & KALIN'S. FISHED DEEP ROCKS UP RIVER & ALSO BY THE DAM IN THE ROCKS.
      City: LA GRANGE

      Tips: USE DARTHEADS 1/16 TO 1/8 OZ CAST TO DEEP ROCKS AND ROCKY SHORES, LET IT FALL. ALL HITS ARE ON THE FALL. GREEN LINE OR FLOROCARBON. WE USE 12 TO 17LB TEST.

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      Water Temp: 83 DEGREES

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: WEDNESDAY WENT OUT FOR SHORT TIME 1 P.M. UNTIL 3 P.M. GOT FRIED IT WAS 105 DEGREES, IN THAT TIME WE CAUGHT 6 BASS RANGING FROM 2 TO 4 LBS. ALL CAUGHT ON YAMAMOTO GRUBS. TOSSING INTO DEEP WATER AND LET FALL, ALL STRIKES WERE ON THE FALL. LINE WAS BASS PRO NEW XPS FLORO-CARBON. GRUBS WERE CLEAR SALT & PEPPER AND SILVER FLAKE
      City: LAKE DON PEDRO (LA GRANGE)

      Tips: IN TIHS HOT WEATHER, LOOK FOR THE CLEAREST WATER YOU CAN FIND, AND FISH DEEP WITH SMALL WORMS AND GRUBS HERE AT DON PEDRO , AS THE WEATHER IS HOT HOT HOT ! WEAR SUN SCREEN, AND JUMP INTO THE LAKE ONCE IN AWHILE...

      JIGS

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 82

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Yep, the fish have definitely moved. A month ago I was practically catching them at will on a split-shot rig in 20 ft of water, yesterday I fished from 9am-4 with no luck. Oh I forgot, I graphed some bait in 35 ft of water, threw out my drop-shot, set the hook, and pulled up a 12" trout. Classic!

      Tips: This time a year you're better off riding the tube.

  • Mariposa County
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      Water Temp: 78 DEGREES

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: CAUGHT LIMITS TUESDAY UP RIVER FROM HORSESHOE BEND ALL ON YAMAMOTO SENKOS IN CLEAR SILVER FLAKE AND WHITE. ALL FISH WERE IN THE 2 TO 4 LB RANGE AND MOST EXCEDED THE SLOT OVER 15". ALSO CAUGHT SOME NICE CRAPPIE UP BY BAGBY SOME TREE TOP ARE SHOWING AND THEY SEEM TO BE FULL OF CRAPPIE..
      City: LA GRANGE (LAKE DON PEDRO & MC CLURE)

      Tips: LAKE MC CLURE GETS LESS PRESSURE THAN DON PEDRO, WE SUGGEST TRY IT YOU WILL LIKE IT, IT SEEMS COOLER, CALMER AND THERE ARE LOTS OF FISH.

      JIGS

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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Got on the water around 6pm on the upper arm of the lake (side closer to town). There were about 5-6 fishermen on the rocks, i think jigging for crappies. I crossed the heavy weeds to the far side, but i brought my tick repellant this time, so no worries. Nailed two small shakers around 7:30pm on a crawdad crankbait. Got a nice 3# on a white spinnerbait around 8:30pm. Tried senkos, brush-hawgs (jerk bait style and texas), but no luck.
      City: San Rafael

      Tips: They hit hard on the crankbait. Steady retrieve. Not to slow. Tried all type of presentations w/the spinnerbaits. Finally i just brought it in steadily with no stop and go. She didnt hit hard, but kind of started to swim away with it, kind of like a drop shot fish. I barely felt any preasure on the line, but saw the line moving up stream. When in doubt-set the hook!

  • Bayfield County
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      Water Temp: 71-76

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: fished across from the marina threw a fat free shad. fish suspending in 20 feet managed to catch 5. 5 5oz, 4 6oz, 3 and 2 shakers
      City: mad river

      Tips: when the wind picks up fish steep walls on shady side of lake, and old on tight! p.s. this is my 6 time on this lake,and iam very impressed with the over all quality of the fishery lets practice catch and release for the biguns' so every one can enjoy them

  • Merced County
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      Water Temp: N/A

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Well it's the lonley angler again.Got on the water at 6:30 lake is dropping pretty fast typical here they send most of it down to la la land.First stop about halfway down to porti cove i saw some fish working the surface thought they were going to be carp.Well to my surprise they were striper's but they wernt boiling like they normally do just a fish here and there.so i started with a spook but all they did was follow it to the boat.So i switched to a large pop-r they were all over it.Nothing big average about 18" but every now and then i would catch one about 4lbs.The good part is they were in real good shape some had a pretty good gut on them.Latly the fish here have been real skinny.that dried up about 8:00 so went farther into the cove and found a spot where they were so thick about every 10th fish i would snag them using a jerkbait.They were all small fish though.you could actually see there dorsel fin's and just before the lure hit the water the whole school would go crazy.Never seen anything like it before over here.
      City: SALINAS

      Tips: Call 1-800-805-4805 before you go to get the wind update allthough it was like glass when i went.

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 80

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I fished this morning, one of the rare times I have to go fishing without a client in at bridge bay at 0500 motored over to the north end of slaugtherhouse island throwing top water, almost got one on first cast a good fish hit at the spook I was throwing three times and I missed him three times. Fish my way to dolly point throwing a darterhead with a chart. grub and a 3/4 oz.jig with a brown hula grub. No bites
      Switch to drop shot with a purple 4" worm and started to catch appox 10- fish all rats, I guess its that time of the year again, It was a pretty tuff bite. caught a total of 11 fish all rats. But it was a real pleasure to fish alone again and watch the great sunrise
      City: Redding

      Tips: most fish were in 15 to 25 foot of water

Wednesday, July 13th, 2005

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 74-84

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished with a friend from 7:00 pm till 3:30 am. Fishing was okay for numbers and poor for size - caught about 20 fish. Biggest went 4.6 pounds, second biggest went 2.5 pounds, all others were below 2 pounds and way too many were under 1 pound. One fish was only 4 inches long. Jigs and Senkos seemed to work but when switched to the big Senko (7") to get bigger fish, still seemed to get same sized fish (8 inces to 2 pounds) but they still bit the big bait. Too bad they cost about a buck apiece - no fun catching an 8 incher and having it cost a buck. No topwater, frog, crankbait or spinnerbait success.
      City: Folsom

      Tips: Cover a lot of water. Fish were on points and in coves at depths of 1 foot to about 15 feet. A few mosquitos were out.

  • Mason County
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      Water Temp: Warm

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Caught 12 largemouth all in the 1-1.5 pound range except for one at 3 pounds and the other at 5 pounds. All caught southside of the lake. Wierd bite. Most fish seem to grab the bait and stay there. Any time it felt heavy, I set the hook and they were there. It was almost like the feeling when your snagged on some weeds. Usually its just tap tap tap. HAH. Oh Well. Keep Fishin! Even though it's hot, it's still a blast. Just take a dive into the lake once an awhile.
      City: Morgan Hill

      Tips: Nothing on crank, spinner, or topwater. All plastics. Split Shot or T-rigged.