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Monday, June 20th, 2005

  • Yuba County
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      Water Temp: 70

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went up there on an afternoon trip, and was real slow until about 6:30 at this time we put 5-6 fish in the boat. The best method seemed to be senkos 4 inch, caught the best one on a crankbait, but all in all still pretty slow.
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: Cover, cover, cover

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      Water Temp: 72+

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Got skunked - Does anyone have any good tips? I have not been doing well at this lake for a couple months now.
      City: Gilroy

      Tips: Anything would be great!!

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 70-75

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: A fun late day for Jim Malm and I after 7pm. Using jigs in the trees to using top water lures until. The bass are slowly moving up to get the pop r's, sammys and spooks. The darkness comes way to soon and the gates close at tem pm. Work around the standing trees in 15 - 30 ft , some fish are shallow but small. Have fun.
      City: rocklin

  • Trinity County
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      Water Temp: 62

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the last 4 days,three of them in the pouring rain. That rain would be fine in March, but in June it seems to be more miserable than usual. The bite seemed to deteriorate a little more each day as front after front went through. Sunday it finally cleared for the ABA tourney and I experienced the worst bite of the 4 days. It started out hot and we had our limit by 7, but it dropped off quick after that. We ended up with 11.59 which was good enough for one place below a payday. 16+ won it and big fish was over 6. The weather is finally supposed to clear and stabilize and with all the rain the water should keep coming up, so the fishing should improve and, with water temps still cool, should stay good for some time to come. I'll keep you posted.
      City: Weaverville

      Tips: Most of the better fish have been in 20' or so, but the upcoming full moon should pull a number of fish into the shallows.

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      Water Temp: 70

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: TOP WATER ANYTHING WILL GET EM' IN THE A.M. TILL THE WIND BLOWS. THEN RATTLE TRAP TYPE LURES
      AND FLUKES TAKE OVER. GOOD BITE AT BIG BREAK, SHERMAN, AND BRANNON ISLAND. 24 TOTAL FOR THE DAY.....FROM 4LB. TO 17-LB. MOST WERE 8 TO 12LB.
      City: PALO ALTO

Sunday, June 19th, 2005

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: hi 50's mid 60'

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Four days on the lake were GREAT what a vacation... between my son and i we caught over a hundred fish most in the 2 lb. range and a few 3's and 4's for good measure. dropshoting, Senko's wacky style , jigs, and Kreature's texas rig, were our top baits. no top water, crakin or reaction bit on our end. Fished the South end between Kinocti Bay and Soda Bay and a half a day in Monitor Bay, 20 - 40 fish days were our norm. Docks were a big producer as well as rocks in Soda Bay. Our thanks to Ross England at the Tackle It for the info and having all the tackle we needed to replenish what the fish chewed up. See ya in August i hope if not in Sept. for sure.
      City: turlock

      Tips: Senko's - Watermelon Red or red and black flake. Skinny Bear Jigs 3/8 brown and purple w/single or double tail trailer (green pumkin black flake). Kreature - green pumkin black flake. Dropshot worms - you'll have to talk to Ross, he'll put you on the right worm for the day... Docks, rocks and weed lines moved slow. Deeper water (15-25 ft.) was the key to most of our bigger fish.

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Slow day. Float tubes in south end by creek channel. No bass relating to cover, at least no hungry ones. Took the skunk on Father's day. Bass boats report more action in main lake off points. Day was still fun, as my friend Jay and I got to try out our brand new flippin' sticks!
      City: Belmont. CA

      Tips: I got skunked, what do you want from me?
      420 Float Tubers
      High 5, keep the dream alive

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      Water Temp: 78

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: WENT OUT THIS WEEKEND FOR FATHER'S DAY.FOUND IT TO BE PRETTY TOUGH. FISHED ENTIRE BACK OF THE LAKE WITH NO LUCK.OTHER THAN A FEW LIGHT BITE'S TRIED LOT'S OF STUFF NOTHING SEEMED TO ATTRACT THEM.RIGHT ABOUT SUNDOWN WHEN THE SKIER'S GO HOME I, HEADED FOR THE DAM GOT ONE RIGHT AWAY ABOUT 2.5# .THAT WAS IT. EVERYONE I TALK TO SAID THE SAME .BUT THE LAKE IS STARTING TO GO DOWN SO THAT KIND OF GO'S HAND&HAND THIS TIME OF THE YEAR.
      City: TURLOCK

      Tips: MAYBE NEXT WEEKEND WILL BE BETTER, I HOPE!!!! GOOD LUCK!!!!!!!!!!1

  • Merced County
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      Water Temp: N/A

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: am i the only one that fish's this lake and post's a report?well got there about 7:00am lake is dropping typical of summer here.started below the big electrical fan's if you can call them that.cought quite a few fish but all small useing jerkbaits what else do i use here.did catch four about 24" but the fish were pretty skinny.then ran across to fish the face of the dam.please dont follow me you are supposed to stay 500' away from the dam and trash rack's but no one ever does.also i just dont get it.i come back to the ramp where you can ony launch two boats at once the dock is only about 25' long.there are three jet skies tied to the dock and about six people with icechest full of alchohol beer cans floating in the water 10 kids playing in the water right on the pavement part of the ramp and they look at me like i am the idiot when i asked could you please move one of your skies and ask your kids to watch out i dont want to hit them.makes a guy just totally stop fishing after memorial day.where the hell are the rangers when you need them.
      City: SALINAS

      Tips: stop your whinning mike

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 70

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fishing by 2PM and through 8PM. Hit and miss until about 6PM when the bite turned on. Between my partner and I we Landed ~50 fish... mostly dinks with a limit of keepers and a few in the 2-3lb class.

      Tips: Rolling down the bank for fish when things were slow. When the bite picked up, fish were hitting right at the shoreline.

Saturday, June 18th, 2005

  • Plumas County
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      Water Temp: 61-65

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Again, I brought winter to Almanor! My wife and I were going to stay at Lake Almanor Resort from Mon to Sat, but we left Friday noon as Almanor gave a repeat performance of the late May storm. Noon temp was 45, colder than in the May storm!! The wind Thurs reached the 50 mph range and I had to get my boat out of the lake in 4 foot swells. THAT is an adventure!! It snowed briefly in Chester - June 16th!!! The weather was pretty good Mon and Wed and so was the fishing! Tues was ok, except very windy. I fished the south penisula and west shore exclusively and found smallies in post spawn and spawn mode. The fish wern't as big as those in May, but I did catch many in the 2 1/2 to 3 lb range. The last one I hooked on Wed evening was a post-spawn, near 20 inch smallie. Who knows what she would have weighed a month earlier! The highlight of our stay was my guided trip with a mother who LOVES to fish and her 7 year old son who is a future Aaron Martens! In the first 20 minutes - his first smallie of the day - he casts-hooks-fights-and lands a 3 lb 3 oz smallie - all by himself - on 6 lb test. Yes, I was giving him loud verbal directions second by second!!!! I might put his photo in the photo section. Mom also caught a 2 lb 5 oz smallie. We caught 15 in our 4 1/2 hour trip - the 5 biggest about 10 1/2 lbs. We were able to sight-fish one or two and saw several crusiers since the water was finally calm. What a fun trip!! In spite of the weather, summer fishing is here because many of the 1 to 1 1/2 lb smallies are showing up. Smaller, but FUN!!
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: I was able to crank 5 smallies this trip on chartreuse Norman deep little-n's. They were all in the 2 to 2 1/2 lb range - mostly in the shadows of the evening. Topwater was a no-go. I and my clients were mostly split-shotting morning dawn, green craw, green pumpkin, and electric grape 4 inch worms. I was going to use Thurs and Fri to experiment with a lot of different baits, but never got a chance to. Caught a few fish in stumps, but mostly I targeted docks with deep water nearby. Lots of bass were on flats and not on the rock walls yet. Many of the points in May where I caught good quality bass didn't produce this time, maybe because the water was clearer. I did some dragging again this trip and it worked well. Most of our bigger bass were caught casting to targets however. The young boy's bass was caught on a Camanche Jack 4" early dawn worm in about 6 feet of water at the side of a dock. Yes, he made an excellent cast!

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 66-69

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the River today with Steve and Jason, started out pounding the deap rock banks with a jig-n-grub & Beavers, put 12-15 fish in the boat to 3.5 pounds. Then found more post spawners willing to eat Beavers and 7X Kut tails in Fishermen's pitching to the pockets in the deep grass beds. Made a run to Franks and found a poket of nice fish in a group of tulles caught flippen. Topwater bite started to pick up and put some good fish, 3-4 pounders in the boat on Spooks and buzz baits. All in all, excellent fishing day with over 50 fish, most of them keepers, we did have a few REALLY small fish that weren't as big as a Spook, our best 5 going about 17-18 pounds.
      City: Oakley

      Tips: Water temps have cooled down again and seem to slow the early topwater bite, it does pick up in the after noon. Lots of fish in transition from post spawn to summer patterns on deep rock banks and grass beds with deep water near by. Although no big fish, the overall bite on this cloudy over cast day seemed much better than the last couple of weeks.

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      Water Temp: 68-70

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Taylor slough with Senkos, caught about a dozen fish, biggest 2.5lbs.
      City: brentwood

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      Water Temp: 66-68

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Man finally after 2 months I get onto some quality fish. Not the quality of some that post but after the 1-2lb size fish over the last couple months it was a nice change.

      Started off with a 5lb spook fish near Franks and throughout the day caught another 10 fish on the spook with the average around 2-3lbs. Started cranking a nice rock wall and caught a good 20 fish on a blue/yellow crank biggest 3 lbs but the majority were dinks. Then stuck a 3lb frog fish in the break with a couple dinks.
      City: san jose

      Tips: Glad to see the bigger fish are coming alive. take care

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      Water Temp: 70's

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: met a friend out there and rode with him in his 18' viking with merc 150, fun!...ended up in the rockcreek first managed 4 dinks. then moved outside to fish a rock wall and got another 2 dinks, ended up catching 2 keeper spots in about 10ft of water draggin a 4" hand pour(junebug)...it sure was nice to fish from a bass boat ill tell you!!
      City: Sacramento

      Tips: fish weight was 4.7 on that last post, got the pic on the door in the north shore, not a huge spot but still a trophy in my book for a spot.

      fish were all over today, seems like the last storm front messed it up a bit, but still a steady bite.

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 68.9

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished South end Sat and Sun.Rattlesnake area.Flipped and pitched Senko along tule edges.Lot of fish in the 2# range,two over 4#.Sun repeated same pattern and got spooled on my second cast,never saw it just snapped my 15# test.Ended up with 1 over 6# and lots in that 2# range again.
      City: Marysville

      Tips: Green Pumpkin Senko with small nail weight in the head.

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: four days of great bass fishing. We have been around the Konocti area (1 mile each way) and have been averaging 5-8 bass an hour on rubber worms on the bottom. My seven year old caught three off of the dock yesterday in the blowing cold. Most fish are males with a few females. The bite has been steady all day. Today the winds are calm and we are going out in about an hour.
      City: los gatos

      Tips: purple roboworms- floating

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 65-70

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Basin Bass Masters and I fished a six hour tourament from 6am to noon. This lake is one of the best fishing lakes around. No skiers or pwc in this water. You can fish all around this lake and all you have is fisherman around you. My partner has never bass fished before, but he did well and got his first one on a 4" lizard split shot in 20 feet of water. A storm had just gone through the day before so the fishing was tough. At the weigh in I though my 2 + lber was big but every team had one and only two teams had 4 fish. All the teams came in with something. The winning team had got most of the bass on senkos in the shade arond the lake. It is a nice lake to have some fun on. Top water for some was working and for the most part a lizard.
      City: rocklin

      Tips: work the rocky points in 10-30 ft

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

      Report: bassinbys -
      It seems like you know what your talking about but how about some help with my question on float tubes. This is for reports and help for local fisherman.
      If you want to stop the legal bag limits then you should write your local legislature. Get involved.
      Fishing P-
      I could of used some info from you also.
      City: redwood

      Tips: Catch & Release
      Help out your local fisherman

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      Water Temp: 70

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Tossed everthing at em, all day.Water was dirty like always. Got two dinks on the dropshot. Snagged a nice carp, the big fish of the day.Should have went to the delta!
      City: orinda

      Tips: Try the preserve, dropshots/jigs.