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Sunday, July 10th, 2005

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

      Report: Launched at Russo's at 10:30. First fifteen minutes on the water had ten pounds for two in the boat in Franks on white spinnerbait. Real windy. Fished a few more banks caught two three's and a two. Tons of little fish on senkos. Best 5 went 18.4 lbs. Off the water by 2:00 Once tide changed couldnt get another fish. Have problems fishing low tide

      Tips: Any advice on low tide would be great. Thanks

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 79-82

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: SPENT FRI-SAT-SUN AT THE LAKE. BIGGEST FISH 3LBS.
      DUE TO WIND CONDITIONS FISHED MOSTLY THE KEYS.
      City: antelope

      Tips: BRIGHT SPINNERBAITS,AND RED AND BLACK MINI-BRUSHHOGS DID IT FOR ME. THE TOPWATER BITE NEVER REALLY HAPPENED, TRIED EARLY AND LATE.

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Smoke, I've certainly considered the fact that I'm not a good bass fisherman. I'm also new in town and don't really know the lakes very well. It's just that I scored a whole bunch of nice bass at Chesbro and Uvas between May and July. Now I can't find them. Where did they go? Deep I guess. I can't get to them, since I don't have a boat. But I'll tell you, as a new guy in town, I talk to everyone I see. I'm very friendly. And nobody else was catching a thing at Chesbro or Shadow Cliffs this weekend. I know Tim the Float Tuber says he did. That's fine. He knows what he's doing. But why would all these people lie to me that they're not catching a thing?

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Tim, one other thing. I was shore fishing, and it's hard to get at all of the water from shore. The shoreline is overgrown, and there aren't too many clearings. Maybe they weren't holding near the clearings. I did talk to many frustrated float tubers though. Just a thought.
      City: Fremont

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Tim, glad to hear you had some luck. You were one of the few. I'm not a local, so when I fisha new place, I ask a lot of questions. I've never seen so many fisherman catching so few fish. Obviously, they can be caught by someone who knows what they're doing. But I'm not used to spending hours fishing at catching nothing. And having everyone else say the same thing. I tried all the stuff you suggested.
      City: Fremont

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: By the way, I forgot to mention that I fished on the tube
      City: fremont

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Well Rex, I went out to shadow cliff on sat and sun. I did pretty good on both days. I fished on the middle back pond, i canght 10+ fish each day on dropshot, topwater sammy, and rattle trap. some of the fish are pretty good size run from 15inch to 20inch. Saturday i fish from 8am to 1pm, sunday i fish from 3pm to 8pm. Try to find calm water, drop shot and taxes rig should do the trick. Try dropshot Roboworms FX 4inch like natural shad.
      good luck fishing
      City: Fremont

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Had read about good bass fishing at Shadow Cliffs in other reports. It sure wasn't happening this weekend. I fished the back ponds for about 6 houre on both Sat. and Sun. Spinnerbaits, buzzbaits, crankbaits, roboworms, dropshot. Nothing was working. I talked to about 20 people during the weekend, including 7 or 8 float tubers. I only ran across one guy who caught a single bass. And I saw that one. It was no more than 12 inches.

      What's the deal? Where are all the fish?
      City: Fremont

Saturday, July 9th, 2005

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 74-78 Surface T

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Ended up fishing for bass since I didnt have any bait for catfish and when I arrived, and the lodge was closed.

      SO, I tied on a senko on one rod, a dug jig on another rod, and a brush bog on a another and headed towards the points and coves by the spillway in my little Sea Eagle Inflatable. Fishing was slow, but I managed 3 bass to 3lbs, all on the Brush Hog. Fish were holding up close to the bank in about 3-4 feet of water right at the weedlines. Few nips on the Senko but nothing buttoned. At about 1:30 AM a bit of a wind kicked up out of the east making bait presentation troublesome so I decided to head back to the ramp.

      It seems there was a club tournament on the lake on Saturday as indicated by the 15+ boats that headed back to the ramp at about midnight.
      City: Sacramento, CA

      Tips: Cast up close to shore and drag your bait. Use lots of smelly jelly.

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

      Report: Fished the Bass Busters tourney on Saturday with my partner Sego and it turned out really great. Launched out at Hollands ramp at 5:00AM til 6:00pm with a split in the middle of the times. We caught all our big fish around Rock Slough and the Channel but suprisingly, we had no luck at Franks Tract. Anywayz, use buzzbaits in the morning, 6" senkos in the noon, and rattletraps w/ a crawdad pattern along the weededges when the tide gets low. Thats what put us on the map. Goodluck!!!!!!
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Like I Said, use buzzbaits in the morning, 6" senkos in the noon, and rattletraps w/ a crawdad pattern along the weededges when the tide gets low.

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      Water Temp: 71 to 78

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: New to the Delta and drifted around just looking for a pattern of some kind. Fished the outside of Franks place from the inlet channel off of the False River back in a couple of miles. Picked up 17 fish mostly small but four over 4 with the smallest 4.4 and the biggest 5.9 all on a chartreuse spinner bait. Moved out to the inlet going down to the Downrigger and picked up 7 more small fish from about a lb to a 2.4 on the points. Moved off into deeper water about 45 ft and did well with Senkos dropped shotted, got 6 fish with the largest 3.2. Only fished two baits--spinner and senko.
      City: Sunnyvale CA

      Tips: Spinner ( chartreuse) and Senkos drop shot rigg.

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      Water Temp: 66-71

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Small turkey shot by John Lowe of Loomis. This was a two fish limit and in by 1:00. With the wind on the west side of the delta and the tide at high going out Dave Shaw and I started in Franks. Using spooks, frogs around the mats had no luck. Working outside Fanks finding some small bass on Senkos. Moving to the east side of the delta to H & H (little White) finding no winds and some keepers for our tourament. Using a JK Jigs in black/purple with a smoke grub finding a 3.5 lb,2.0 and a lot of 1-1 1/2 lbs. We made our way back to Fishers Cut around a old pier got another 2.0 to add to our limit, culling out one. The winners had 10 lbs for two fish. A good windy but fun with my friends from Basin Bass Masters of Loomis. Thanks John and John for a good day in the Delta.
      City: rocklin

      Tips: frogs, senkos and JK jigs in black/purple

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 74-78

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Lake still at full pool,its like a new laketo me again. Well on saturday I could do nothing right finall caught a single fish at 4 p.m. in the afternoon.Tramtized! My frail Male ego shattered. Sunday was a different story Maybe the bass gods felt sorry for me. went over to the dikes got their early topwatered and second cast a 5# .. next cast 4 # as the sun came up and it got warm the topwater was off ..went to wormin split shottin with 6 lb test..ripped on the bass till noon.. probablly got 45 fish all together .. stopped counting after the previous day who cared was having fun
      City: Topaz Lake

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

      Report: Tried all my usual spots: cove to the right of the boat launch, left of the boat launch, near the drain pipe. Tried spinnerbaits, crankbaits, dropshot, carolina rigged lizard, jig. Nothing worked. The bass must be deep. I couldn't find them. Any ideas out there?

  • Alameda County
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      Water Temp: 69-75

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Devil Mt Bassmasters held our July tournament at Del Valle. We had 8 anglers. We found an early morning topwater bite on buzzbaits and poppers around the tulies with weeds. As the sun came up, the bite slowed for us as the fish apparently moved deeper. The wind picked up in the afternnon and really made fishing difficult. Most boaters were crowded around the few areas that were out of the wind. We had one limit of 10+ lbs for our group and several other guys came in with 3 fish a piece. We few had a tough time with one fish each. Our average fish weighed in at 2.06 lbs. Four fish over 3 lbs were brought it. A good time was had by all despite the relatively tough conditions. I got a 5 lb catfish on a senko!
      City: San Ramon

      Tips: Try top water over and around the weeds early in the day. These fish are surprisingly strong.

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 75

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: LAKE FULL......WATER VERY CLEAR TO LITTLE STAIN BACK IN COVES........WINDY EVERYDAY.....
      City: LAKE DON PEDRO (LA GRANGE, CA.)

      Tips: SUGGEST CLEAR SPINNERBAITS 1/2 TO 5/9 OZ SINGLE WILLOW SILVER BLADES, CAST TO WINDY POINTS, ROCKY SHORES, RETRIEVE FAST....LOTS OF BASS INCLUDING SMALLMOUTH IN THE 2 TO 3LB RANGE.....GREAT FUB AND 25 PLUS BASS DAYS ARE POSSIBLE NOW.......TEMP IS GOING TO RISE INTO THE HIGH 90'S LOW 100'S BY7 WEDNESDAY.......SO START EARLY, END AT NOON AND GO OUT AGAIN ABOUT 7 P.M.

      GOOD LUCK.....JIGS TACKLE HERE AT LAKE DON PEDRO

      PHIL

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

      Report: Fished Oroville with my two kids, both caught as many fish as I did. We started out fishing south of the bridge near Lime Saddle with Morning Dawn and Ox Blood worms, both worked very well. Kimberlee(7) was first to put fish in the boat! After one more from Kimberlee and 3 from dad Colin(10) put 2 in the boat! We tried Hula Grubs, Spinner baits and top water, but only worms were our best bet for the day! We each had 3 or 4 for the day and no lake lice to speak of.........Amazing!
      City: Sacramento

      Tips: Fish were only interested in SLOW.......only one fish on a spinner bait at a fast pace. Morning dawn 4" and 6" worms were hot all day.

Friday, July 8th, 2005

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 73-75

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went out to Franks tract at about eight with my dad. Started throwing topwater got a few dinks. Switched to a sweatbeaver for the rest of the day and the best five were 4.2, 3.7, 2.7, 1.8, and a 1.5 for a grand total of 13.9. We also got a bunch of dinks.
      City: cv

      Tips: sweatbeaver

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

      Report: I have fished here a lot for trout and always hear its a good bass place but where does everyone fish? I see alotof people fishing for bass but never see em catch anything. Could you tell me the best spots of the lake and what time of day and what to use. The only bass I have ever caught there was a long time ago split shotting a worm.
      City: sunnyvale

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: I was just wanted to know if anyone knows how to get to this lake??? I've tried twice now looking for this lake and I can't find it. I have a book that shows you how to get there, but the directions don't add up. So, if someone that fishes this lake can tell how to get there that would be great. I wanna try the lake for Largemouth Bass. Catch & Release!! --RMK
      City: EL CERRITO