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Friday, July 1st, 2005

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: ya, i also got lots of action on a brown jig and drop shot. iv'e been going for catfish more lately but these next two weeks i'll go for bass.
      City: oakley

      Tips: iv'e seen and heard of people getting a lot of action by the boat dock.

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

      Report: You've catching 50 - 100 bass per day plus 5 trout????? You should get a guide license. I know guides that have been fishing the lake for years and they are struggling to hook a dozen fish per day. Your claim is amazing to say the least.
      City: sacramento

      Tips: Keep it real

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

      Report: i have caught some catfish at sonoma on chicken livers left in the sun for a while. the rot smell seems to work better. i have heard the bridge is the best place because the fish are larger, but have caught fish to 16lbs in yorty creek. near the ends of the creek a bit after dark seem to be best
      City: penngrove

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: I have fished this lake for about 7 years and over the hundred times ive been there never been skunked. it has one of the best february bites around. lately been catching fish to 4lbs among the smaller fish. if y'all have to complain about the lake dont come again, it wont miss you.
      City: penngrove

  • Trinity County
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      Water Temp: 76-79

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: WOW what a great day on the lake. Launched out of Trinity Center and headed north-east to fish brush piles in the water where the creeks are flowing into the lake. The water coming into the lake is moving full force. Fished senko's wacky style and caught fish after fish. Landed 2 large mouth one was around 5lbs and the other was an easy 8lbs. It did not matter on the color green pumpkin blk flake, watermelon red flake and I even got slammed tossing a rainbow trout senko right as it hit the water. We caught fish all day long even when the sun was beating on the water.
      City: McKinleyville

      Tips: Keep back away from the brush pile in the water. Hold on and have fun.

Thursday, June 30th, 2005

  • Santa Clara County
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      Water Temp: 82

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: caught 2 bass and a blew gill, the first bass was about 7 pounds cought in the back of a cove on a white and pink spinner bait. I also had a lot of huckups with smaller fish but they never made it into the boat
      City: san jose

      Tips: there a lot of shad in the back of the coves so use somthing that looks like a shad

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Launched at 9:30, out by 2:00. Caught and released a 4.5 lb LM on buzzbait at back end of Bailey's cove, over the weeds in water three feet deep. Unfortunately, this was the only bite I had all day. The no-bite "cast" of characters included the usual suspects, i.e., spinnerbait, frog, crankbait, dropshot robo worm (Cali Rig?), splitshot w/kalin's hand poured worm, senko, baby brush hog, spook, swimbait, etc. Fishing was very difficult today at Calero. I ran into another fisherman who felt the slow fishing could be due to Calero's fluctuating water level during the last week or so. (I can't remember if he said up or down.) It was nice not having to battle the wind today...fairly calm conditions until about 1 p.m. when it got a little breezy but not too bad. A good day to be on the water! Note: Saw two other LM's landed by bank fishermen using the dropshot. One fish was a dink, the other appeared to be around 3lbs.
      City: Santa Clara

      Tips: Couldn't figure out a pattern so can't really offer any credible advice on how to catch em. However, if you are easily annoyed by water skiers and jet skis, you may want to consider fishing somewhere other than Calero this holiday weekend. Had a holiday-like crowd there today (Thursday).

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

      Report: Had some luck today in Bass Cove. 4 bass to 2 pounds, all caught on a Pop-R about an hour before sunset, just off the tulies. Saw no big fish, but the action was good for the couple of hours fished. Since May, I've been having good luck with surface plugs and no luck with anything else. It always seems that Chabot is best when the weather is warm. Fishing seems to slow on the days the fog makes its way in. Hopefully, the weather stays hot and gets into the 90s or the 100s.
      City: Danville

      Tips: I've had the most success with surface plugs by popping and then skimming lightly for a few seconds, followed by a complete stop and then a pop again.

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      Water Temp: Warm

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: With the water down so long the lake is full of vegetation. That means lots of good cover for the bass. I havent been able to go for bass a lot lately because of my foot but from what i've seen and heard the bass bite is going good. Just from sitting on the dock throwing my gold/silver double bladed spinnerbait i got good action. in about 30 minutes from casting in the same area constantly i got 2 1.5 pounders. Lots of chasers too. The shad and bait fish are really active now. all around the lake they are in schools exploding on topwater from the bass going at him. my brother and neighbor have been getting action off spinners too.
      City: Oakley

      Tips: anything that may resemble baitfish is a good choice right now.

  • Westchester County
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      Water Temp: Non-Wader temp.

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Not complaining, caught 4 small mouth with in one hour. To bad that hour came during my fith hour of fishing.
      City: Fremont

      Tips: Three words, small brush hoggs

Wednesday, June 29th, 2005

  • Mason County
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      Water Temp: 79

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Well i sure wish this place was open before 8:00
      of course when you get there at 8:00 they still are late.started out on the shallow end of the lake.tried spinnerbait nothing then switched to green and white senko.had two dinks on the senko.
      of course the party crowd showed up so i ran down to the other end whrer the bridge is to get away from the crowd.found a very large shallow area that had steep drop off to about 60'of water.started fan casting out to the deep water with a fat frre shad reeling as fast as i could.ended up with nine fish two just over 4lb.the rest all cookie cutter 2lb.fish.wanted to stay and try topwater but was burnt out from crankin so hard.
      City: SALINAS

      Tips: go back to the bridge area and fan cast out in deep water this time of year you may be surprised.

  • Alameda County
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      Water Temp: n/a

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: It seems the fish are moving out of the shallows, and moving down & out towards the ever-so-quick growing weeds at about 10-15 feet off the bank. It must be a little bit cooler for them hanging out in that deeper shady cover.
      City: Oakland

      Tips: Fish deeper water, and have patience!

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 75

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Well, a client and I caught 5 fish for about 46 pounds. That's right - 46 pounds. Four of them were bass! I have finally found the solution to that "punched in the gut" feeling when a client loses a 10 lb class bass at the boat. She was ready to net about 11 pm when she made one last lunge and hit the edge of the prop - and that was that! Still using his 10" Berkley black Power Worm, my client set on a fish about 2 am and what happened in the next 10-12 minutes was awesome! After the first minute, he is flat on his belly, hanging over the side on my 520 with both hand on the rod that is slowly being pulled underwater. He simply could not control the fish even with the drag slipping. I moved the boat to deeper water and just watched. I just hoped it wasn't a carp. Finally, after another 20 yard run back to the tules, he had the strength to get the fish up where we could see it. After the third try, I got the monster channel catfish in the net. On the initial lift, I realized I better watch my back as I lifted this "thing" in the boat. I have never seen a fish like this and even my client, who is a world traveled hunter and fisherman, was amazed. We did not have a 50 lb scale to weigh her but we have a lot of experience with big fish and figured she was a minimum of 28 lbs, but more like 30 or more. She possibly could have been a lake record - who knows. We are calling her a "near 30"! I will post a very accurate photo next week and you can decide. We wanted to release her, so back in the drink she went! THAT is how you forget a lost monster bass. We fished a marathon 12 hours and landed 20 bass that included many 3's and 4's. Our five fish limit was 18-2. Power Worms and Kreature baits were the lures of choice. Bass turned on when the moon rose at 1:30 am.
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: Again, rock/tule combinations were working well for us, and most bass were in 5 to 15 feet of water. The big bass that was lost was hooked in 4 feet of water - might have been spawning.

  • Yuba County
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      Water Temp: 79 at Surface

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Caught a beautiful bass this afternoon at Collins Lake. Second cast on a hula popper. Word is the trout have been good but we had no luck on Powerbait. We also brought in several crappie which we released like the bass.

      Kathy Hess has a great fishing report up at:
      <a href="http://www.collinslake.com/index.php?page=fishing">http://www.collinslake.com/index.php?page=fishing</a>

      Collins Lake also has a new site up at http://www.collinslake.com/
      City: Oregon House

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      Water Temp: 80F

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: On tuesday i didn't catch nothin but today i caught a 3.4lb catfish off of handi-cap dock.the water is to murky with algai and to hot so don't even think about goin for trout.This is the worst i seen in about 2 years.
      City: Antioch

      Tips: use a worm blower to air up your worm.

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 72-74

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: In the last four weeks my partners and I have been out once to twice a week at Folsom Lake. We have had the best fishing on this lake that we have ever had with daily catches of 50 to 100 hundred bass and 3 to 5 trout each trip. Our success has been on the main body where ever there are rocks and steep drop off to deep water.
      City: Sacramento

      Tips: Go very slow and use small 4 inch worms with very light weights (1/32 oz.)

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 85

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Night fished the south end of Melones. Very little action before dark. About 9:30 the bite turned on. Caught a 4.5 and a 9 on back to back casts on power worms. Caught several other keepers betwenn #2-#4 on spinners baits and power worms. Landed a #7 channel cat on a power worm. Very few dinks. All fish were in great shape. The lake is way up and still rising. The #9 lm was probably one of the Florida bass planted a few years back. It was in good shape.

      Mo
      City: Modesto

      Tips: Avoid the boat traffic and heat. Fish at night if you can.

Tuesday, June 28th, 2005

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

      Report: Went out and almost got skunked but my friend pulled out a nice 4 pound bass on a senko. The wind was blowin like crazy so it really sucked. Tried to catch the bass on large minnows but couldn't. Thought I would catch a lot on live bait but guess I was wrong. Maybe I was doing something wrong. Just way to windy out there.

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 68-74

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Launched at Capell Cove at 6am. Windy and foggy until 9am. Most fish came on rocky points between Capell launch ramp and Spanish Flat. Once the sun came out the fishing slowed down. 10 fish between 3 oz and 2 lbs. Left at noon.
      City: Fairfield

      Tips: Flukes with fast retrieve early on. Worked hard to scrape up three fish on a red and brown worm from 9am to noon in 10-20 feet of water.

  • Santa Barbara County
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      Water Temp: 70 to 72

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Very slow! Went for top water. No luck. Fish are hiding somewhere!. Got a couple of bites off the walls with a leadhead but nada. Weather was overcast, burned off at 10am. Light wind.
      City: Santa Barbara