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Tuesday, June 28th, 2005

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

      Report: ZACK,
      Learn English and use a darthead/4"senko on points with rocks. 12 to 25 feet deep will keep you out of the green slime and get you better quality fish.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: When it's windy try anchoring within reach of points and drops.

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 71-74

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: launched at king and had some boat troubles. Then finally got the boat working at 11o'clock and I dropped my phone into the water not the first time. fished disappointment and whites. caught around 20 fish. largest around 4lbs. used wht/chart spinner, senko, white kalin grub.
      City: stockton

      Tips: Fished around weeds and tules. a lot of fish in the 1-1.5 lb range.largest was caught on the spinner along the edge of the floating lettuce. Also never leave the fuel tank outside in the sprinklers the day before and dont drop the o-ring into the water.

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      Water Temp: 70's

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Disappointment, Slough, Columbia Cut, and Potato Slough. Probably caught over 40 bass, but only 9 were keeper size. Best 5 weighed around 14 lbs. Caught two on a red/blk buzz bait. Most fish caught on white or wht/char spinnerbait.
      City: Dixon

      Tips: Fish those weedbeds. Two biggest fish (3-3.5 lbs) were pulled out of the weeds.

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      Water Temp: low 70s

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Whites Slough Monday and Disappointment Slough on Tuesday. Got a late start on Monday and the wind was as bad as the fishing. Tuesday had the best wind conditions yet this year, but fishing still slow. Top waer bite very slow. My fishing partner nailed a 4.5lb on a Frog early AM. Nothing on Buzz baits nor Spooks. I saw 2 guys Running around on an AIR boat both Monday and Tuesday, they were spraying something on the Tules. Might have been an herbacide. Tuesday Beavers, Senkos, and Robo worms were consistant producers. Caught a total of 20 fish, average was 1.5lbs
      City: Sacramento

      Tips: Cast like no-ones looking and fish like you've never been skunked.

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      Water Temp: 80

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: went out tuesday set up with drop shot. At about 7 i started fishing but got nothing by the handicap dock. My friend just caught a 1.5 on a spinner bait so i decided to try one. got nothing for about a half hour until i casted out by a fish that just jumped and got a 12-13 incher. that was all the action. left at 3
      City: oakley

      Tips: try anything

  • Leon County
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      Water Temp: 70

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Got a boat at about 1:00p.m. Fished all the docks and my dad and I got about 12 keeper bass with the biggest around two pounds. Got them on dropshot and splitshot with a finnese worm. MAn does this lake have some giant bass. There was probably three swimming around this one dock and they were all at leats 13 pounds.
      City: cv

      Tips: All the fish are under the dock across the lake.

Monday, June 27th, 2005

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

      Report: Fished from Mon - Friday from shore. It rained on Saturday and the weather is just beginning to warm up. Caught some smallies on senkos and cranks on Monday but then the fishing shut down. fished rocks and around by the Dam. Late evening, no fish activity on the water. Fished for trout as the mayfly hatchings were just beginning. Counted 28 float tubes and boats in one area each night where we were fishing. Plenty of good size trout on flies. Hatchings seem to occur at 8:30pm each night and last for 1/2 hr and then the bite stops. Caught SMB on flies also.
      City: South San Francisco

      Tips: By Pratville, near the marina, there are two rocky peninsulas and the trout are holding right next to them each evening, waiting for the mayfly hatches. Using bobber with fly, cast out and retrieve very slowly. This action should last for 10 days. Weather was starting to get gloomy with forcast of 30% thunderstorm.

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      Water Temp: 78-80

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: went out about 8 am caught about 10 before noon,i was workin them with the shad rap,and also did good with the chartruce 3 inch grub, they seemed to be hangin out in the backs of all the coves and points
      City: chico

      Tips: shad raps work good

  • Santa Clara County
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      Water Temp: 72

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Green..everything is green.. weed line... I call it SMAA... slimy green.. messes up everything... as far as drop shotting.. In this wind...? teach me..LOL cuz doesnt and lately hasent worked .. I"m still throwing crank bait's... went to a deeper.. and started to get some bigger fish..ya right...Nothing of size..Numbers ok..dink's smallest . my bait was bigger..nothing to even mention..I think that with this wheather..early or late..wind is a factor...I still have to figure this year out...Thanks
      City: morgan hill

      Tips: Hey..If any one has an idea.. sure.. brushhog's. been there..senko's? Dropshotting ? What.. in this wind"? how the hell do you maintain..nope..I will figure it out this weekend I hope...going to Lexington..the windy one...trying that..A question to all of ya.. the green slime. at the weed line.. No matter what ya throw..it is there and I know you all will agree..damn..ya flick it... Have a great day and fish safe my freind's..

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: They have been letting more and more water in, keeping this lake around 77% full. The fishing hasn't been too great recently, but don't let it deter you... once the temperature comes back up you should have more luck.

      Tips: There are plenty of baitfish, look for them and fish accordingly

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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: David and I came in from to back today at about 11:30 AM and started out in the back cove and around the area where I caught the 7-15 yesterday. We saw a good 5lber. that was stalking some bluegill and it looked at David's jig but swam away. We went over to the corner by the dam and caught a few dinks drop shotting brown and watermelon worms. I caught a 2lb. 13oz. and a 1lber and David lost a nice one. We caught 2 more dinks and one 12inch keeper in the back cove on jigs and drop shot. We went to the dock and I cuaght a 1lb. 3oz. crappie! That was the last thing I was expecting to catch on a flippin jig. I caught a dink and a 1lb. 12ozer at the dock drop shotting and then we went by the lagoon. We were fishing frogs around the weeds but got now blowups. I started fishing a spot that David had already fished. I tossed in my Bobby Barrack Perfect Frog and slowly walked it with a short pause after each "step". A big fish absolutely crushed it from the side and I laid into her. I had her up and flopping on the shore within 7 seconds. She weighed 5lbs. 9ounces. Another big,beautiful, healthy fish. We fished some more weeds without any other blowups. I fished around the island and caught one dink flippin the tules. We made our last stop of the day at the boat ramp and I caught 3 more fish: a dink 12incher and a 2lber. I lost 2 others. One was about 1.5lbs and the other was probably 2. David lost a good one too on a jig on the boat ramp. Not too bad of a day with 19 fish caught including the crappie. I caught 12 bass and David caught 6. 7 of them were keepers. I'm finally getting some bigger fish now.
      City: Antioch

      Tips: Brown/black jigs with red flake in the trailer fished around weeds, rocks, and tules in both shallow and deeper water. Brownish, watermelon red, and green pumpkin drop shot worms in a little deeper water with hard, rocky bottom. Frog in and around those weird weeds that are now in the water.

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      Water Temp: 72

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: thanks Brett for a real fishing report..
      City: san jose

      Tips: coyote.. is good.. untill the "Stupidity" start's.."Wake boarder's , Jet Ski's? dont need to see them.. 10 feet from my boat" I think the law is 100 feet.// Hey a 75 foot ski line straight out from a ski boat..every infraction in the world..believe me.. I know ..Let me know what you think...

  • Trinity County
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      Water Temp: 68-70

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Thurs. through Sun. Thurs with clients and with the full moon it was pretty slow. He caught his biggest smallie ever on a crank and lost another at the boat. They're coming back again, on me. Friday, Lorraine and I took a tent and headed for Hay Gulch for some much needed R&R. The fishing Fri. was still slow but better than Thurs. Sat AM was good, found some shallow Blacks in the East Fork and a few good smallies on cranks in the tailings. I went back in at noon for some lunch and a nap and woke up to some pretty serious thunder. In keeping with the spring weather we've had this year it flat poured from about 2:30 till 5:30. It let up long enough to cook some steaks and then it opened up again. We decided that as long as it was only 35 min to our nice dry bed at home it was the place to be. We grabbed everything that looked to be bear bait and headed for the ramp. Got home and everything was dry as could be. Hadn't rained a lick. We've tried to get up there camping for 2 months now. Why me God?
      I went back up Sun morn and fished till 11:30 and the fishing was fun. No hogs but constant action. Went back to the campsite and packed up. Crankbaits are finally working pretty well now, just like they always do in late April. The lake is still coming up, the water temp has finally hit 70, and the current which nullified any stratification of temps has stopped, we're headed away from the full moon, therefore I predict that this 4th of July will be one of the better Memorial Day weekends of fishing we've had in several years.
      City: Weaverville

      Tips: Crankbaits were working pretty good over the weekend. I fish speed traps a lot and fish them like a topwater. Cast and let it sit. It'll amaze you how many blowups you'll have. A lot of them will be small fish, but every once in a while.........

Sunday, June 26th, 2005

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 73

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Haven't seen many reports, so I thought I'd post one for those who are interested. Went yesterday and fished from safe light til 2:30. Most of the day was like there was low lying fog as visibility was poor. Unfortunately it was smoke. Didn't seem to affect the fish as even tho there weren't any bigun's, we caught enough to keep our interest. Most of the fish related to points and were caught between 8-21' with most of our fish coming on various plastics. West and east side produced. The smallies looked like they've been feeding better the lmb. Nothing over 2#, but it was fun. Tubes, yum baits, power worms and jigs all seem to work.
      City: orinda

      Tips: If there's no wind like yesterday, expect it to be very HOT! The fog/smoke kept the sun to a minimum, but it was still pretty warm.

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 70-76

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished camache on sunday and had an ok day. Dropshoted China Gulch and got one trout. Then the boat traffic got terrible (as usual) so we fished the no wake zone. Got nothing there. Then we hit up all the submerged islands with trees on they and got 14 in the range of 1lb-3lb. GGot them dropshottin a finesse worm right in the trees.
      City: cv

      Tips: Fish all the islands were the hazard bouys are. Also dropshot all the sunken trees.

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 72

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I was a busy guy Sat.late-afternoon and night as I guided a husband-wife team and her father. He didn't have much fishing experience and struggled with his casting, but got much better by the end of the 6 hr trip! I was REALLY worried about the wind because of the cold front, but for once it wasn't bad - just a stiff breeze. We started fishing Dead Ringers about 6:30 pm in weed patchs around the narrows and after an hour it was wife-3, husband and guide-1 each! She was good!! We wound up with 7 before dark - averaging about 2 lbs. After dark, I had them using slippery Dead Ringers (Smelly Jelly) and I tried a brush hog to see if that was the night ticket. A funny thing happened a while later - my client heard a fish jump on the other side of the boat - I thought it might be a carp. Tried to feel my black/red brush hog and couldn't. The bass now decided to jump in front of the black light and by gosh - I was connected to it!! My drag is usually locked with my 30# Fireline and this bass is pulling out line. We got her in and she was 6 lbs even! A perfect specimen - she looked liked she hadn't spawn, or spawned months ago and was totally healed and well-fed. Not a typical Clear Lake post-spawn bass. No, I wasn't asleep - I don't know where that bass came from!! I gave the husband a brush hog and he soon caught a 3lb plus bass. The wife was back at it - hooked one and gave the rod to her dad - and he lost it. She had some others on but couldn't get them in the boat. We wound up with 12 bass in our shorter trip with the top 5 going 15 1/4 to 15 1/2 lbs.
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: Because of 4 people in the boat, options were limited to plastics, jigs, and bait like that. I did crank a bit to see if anything was happening - it wasn't. We found some bass very shallow but most were off-shore in about 10 feet of water. Rocky bottoms helped. It looks like weeds are back this year - so far. If hot weather ever comes to Clear Lake and enhances more algae bloom, the weeds may slow. It is going to be interesting to see what the summer patterns will be like this summer. Frogs, anyone?!!

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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I came in from the back today at about 3:20 PM and started fishing past the back cove toward the dam. I started off using a 3/8oz. Black Brown Spice Booyah Boo Jig with a Watermelon/Red Smallie Beaver as a trailer. After a couple minutes I hooked a dink on my jig but lost it after it came flying out of the water when I was reeling it in. I snapped my jig off but was able to get it back and tied it back on. I moved over to the next little opening 10ft down and flipped my jig into the clump of those wierd weeds (that grew on the shore when the water level was lower) about 7ft in front of me and let it sink down on a slack line. I picked it up to yo-yo it in the weeds and I felt some weight and then a tug and I set the hook and this big bass comes leaping out of the water. It splashes back down and tries to bury into the weeds, but I keep good pressure on her and I get her headed to the surface and away from the weeds. As I'm fighting her I try to bring her over a floating tree branch but she gets stuck and I couldn't move her so she kinda just flopped back in the water and I got her away from the branch and turned her around and she was headed towards my thumb. I lip her and put her on my digital scale and she weighs in at 7lbs. 15ounces! That's my biggest fish so far this year! She was healthy and I could tell she had spawned a while ago because the scarring on her tale was hardly noticable and she wasn't skinny. I called my sister and had her take some pictures. I'll try to post them on the photos section. That was all I caught because I stopped fishing basically after I let her go.
      City: Antioch

      Tips: Brown/Black jig with a trailer with some red flake in it.

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 69-71

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished reaction baits throughout the morning and found alot of followers instead of eaters. Caught some fish off of the face of the dam on a spinnerbait and dartheaded a 2.5# in the west corner of the dam. Bladed a 3# out on the penninsula as well as seeing more followers. Ended the morning dartheading 4 off of Doton's point, which BTW is loaded with so much bait you can see the cloud on your Fish finder and literally see them swimming all around the boat. Topwater still slow to get going, but hope it wll get along soon.
      City: Roseville

      Tips: Darthead shad colors and subtle colored reaction baits.

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      Water Temp: 73

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Took my 3 year old daughter out for 3 hrs in my 14ft Gregor and used the trolling motor and fished for bass and crappie but no luck on the launch ramp side of the lake so I decided to head in at 7:30 and put the trolling motor on 5 and started trolling a blue/silver cast master and caught a trout, hey better than nothing:)
      City: San Jose

      Tips: The last time I fished here I fished the freeway side and did well but that was 5 years ago:), 5 years ago I did well on 3 inch power grub and caught 15 bass and 15 crappie, did not get bit this time. I did here of a few crappie being caught where the water comes into the lake according to the ranger. Castmaster for trout:)

  • Riverside County
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      Water Temp: 74

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fishing for blugil in the marina was red hot off meal worms. We were on float tubes dropping it down and within seconds there would be a fish on. I think total we probably caught over a 100 blugils all released.
      City: riverside

      Tips: Use tiny(tiny) hooks with no weight. Also try flipin a trout worm for big blugil and small bass.