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Wednesday, June 8th, 2005

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 67

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Cold,wet,but little wind out on the kayak today. Fished white's for couple of hours this morning. Caught around 20 fish until 10 o'clock. More than half were keepers. Largest going just over 7lbs and others under 3lbs and dinks. Fished senkos, hula grubs, and buzz.
      City: stockton

      Tips: fished the deep pockets in the tules.kayak helped to reach those pockets. senkos and hula grubs in watermelon/redflk, motoroil, and red shad patterns. buzz did not do to well but still caught a couple.

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

      Report: Chabot has been soooo sweet, I've purposely been neglecting posting here because I'm greedy, and I want all the action for myself! Man, what a year! Lost a 10er the other day, completely heartbroken.
      City: Oakland

      Tips: Catch and release.

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

      Report: Top water bite was awesome today.
      City: Folsom

      Tips: Throw confidence bait during warm rains!

  • Mariposa County
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      Water Temp: 69-71

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Great Day on the water!! Got on at 5:30 am. Topwater bite was ON!! Started in Horseshoe. Had first three fish in boat within 10 mins.! Bite slowed as the rain increased. Caught 23 fish by noon. Most slots. Two over the slot. One weighed in at 4 lbs. Topwater Super Spook..Everything else Super Fluke, every color worked!!
      City: Modesto

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 66

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: In water 5:30 Jones Valley, no wind but rain and the bite was good. Cranked several but no size, dart head was better size with the largest going 2.5lbs.
      Color didn't seem all that important, but smoke with red flake caught big fish and the browns and green seem to always work. Off at 1, good day lots of dinks but some nice fish to keep it interesting.
      Tight lines
      City: Redding

      Tips: Slow presentation

Tuesday, June 7th, 2005

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 69-73

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: PC has been down so haven't had a chance to post. Last couple of weeks have been great. Limits or near-limits for 4 trips. Fishing hog/sycamore sloughs w/spinnerbaits and Rat L Traps. Largest fish during those trips was 4.5 lbs.
      City: Dixon

      Tips: On the water by 5:30A to catch early bite. Last Friday, 3 of us had 12 keepers and, yesterday, 4 of us had 12 keepers by 7:30A. Fish weeds. After morning bite, fishing was tough.

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: dunno

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished 6th and 7th and had the lake to myself. Glass in the morning and puddling baitfish, trout and bass up the North Fork to Rat Bar. One 4-5 lb spot on the tube on Monday at 10 am. out deep she looked pre-spawn. Lots of fish in rocky flat areas free of newly sumerged grasses, but must have deep water adjacent. Keep moving until you get bit, the fish bit right away and usually we could get a few quick ones before we shut the school down. Drop shot worked well in grassy areas and had just a few follows on swim baits. Get out the lake is sooo nice right now.
      City: Citrus Heights

      Tips: Fast, slow, senko, it all worked if you were fishing.

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

      Report: Fished from 19:00 to 21:00. Caught and released 6 bass - largest just over 2 lbs. Fished small sized soft plastics that got 3 and a small floating minnow for 3 more.
      City: Daly Cty

      Tips: Try different presentations: topwater, twitch baits, plastics, etc.

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

      Report: I eat what I catch. I don't believe in catch and release.
      City: Fremont

Monday, June 6th, 2005

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 70

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Windy but fishable. Started at Franks again, picked up 4 keepers to 3lbs on white spinnerbaits. Only one other boat in Franks. Moved over to Holland and fished protected areas - Dinks!! On cranks and Senkos. Moved to windy area with rocks and timber, and picked up several keepers to 2lbs. Cranks in craw color. Tough finding any fish with size. Quit at 12:30
      City: South San Francisco

      Tips: Fish against wind to control lure presentation. Fished cranks/spinnerbaits. Look for rocks with weeds/wood. Fish holding tight to structures.

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      Water Temp: 73-75

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Me and a buddy got in at 1/4 mile cove in the Float Tubes. managed 4 keepers on drop shot and senkos. the wind came in real bad around 5pm so we decided to bank it in a cove and wait it out.and what a good idea that was, the storm blew though in no time. after about 30 mins of rain we were fishing a flat as glass lake and ended up fishing near the house boat. managed 3 dinks there and another 4 keepers. fish seemd to be scatterd.
      City: Sacramento

      Tips: try anything, its bound to work. but drop shot is a sure bet off secondary points.

  • Alameda County
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished 6:30 AM at dam w. topwater had no takers, caught 3 large mouth 1-1/2 to 2# on white spinnerbaits, moved to the right of the dam in the cove and picked up 2 more large mouth on Texas rigged sweet beaver. around 12:30 moved into first bay to right closest to launch and picked up 6 small mouths in about 15-20 feet water on watermelon pig & jig. Again 1 1/2-2# each. Around 2pm wind realy was howling so I switched over to Rapala shad rap baby bass color and worked a real windy wall. Picked of 2 more large mouth 2-3#. Just about to call it a day when I wacked a 7# Rainbow on the same lure. I sure hadn't expected that, sure tasted good. Catch and Release(Bass that is, eat those trout)
      City: san ramon

      Tips: This was the first time I fished del valle as I had just sold my boat and had to rent a 12 foot aluminum. Had to rely on reading the area. Use a lure you have confidence in and keep the lines tight. Never know what you might catch!

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Got a nice 2 pounder LM bass along the rock ledge on the west side just south of the dam. The bass are in about 15 ft of water and taking my Texas rigged 5" watermelon hawg. The bite came around noon, but that was the only action I got between 9am and 1pm. I also tried drop shot, crankbaits, and jigs but no takers.
      City: San Leandro

      Tips: Texas rig a 5" watermelon hawg along the rock ledges, deep in 15-20 ft of water.

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 69-72

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Still able to darthead a 10 lb. limit, but now I am getting a few spook fish every trip. Cool thing is they will eat it all day long. 4.5" robos are the darthead and dropshot baits and i have been throwing a RI Vixen in the flitter shad color.
      City: Roseville

      Tips: Move around until you find the bait. It has been concentrated on rock points near trees. No rock = no fish so keep moving until you find the right area.

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      Water Temp: 70"s

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: the summary is.. let the sail boat's know to rig first and get out..of the way..launch ramp is tied up with incompetent fool's.. If you disagree let me know..
      City: los gatos

      Tips: tip of the week.. is slow bite..if it hit's hard.. it's a planter trout.. take them out... they are roaming the shore's..Leave the bass and take the trout out...thank's Zack

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: 6 HOOKUPS-2 BASS 4 HALIBUT TO 10LBS
      City: DALY CITY

      Tips: LIVE BAIT

Sunday, June 5th, 2005

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched out of Holland with Mike (My Bullet), fished the Holland area, with Senkos, Swamp Donkeys, Buzzbaits, Spinnerbaits, Crankbaits, and Jigs..A few bites, all dinks, some even not much larger than the crankbaits..Caught about 6 keepers, they were all about 1 1/2 to 2 1/2 pounds..Couldn't or didn't find any larger fish..The wind played hob with some of the areas we wanted to fish..Over all another great day of fishing, just not on the catching part..

      mac
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Caught fish on everything we tried except buzzbaits and spinnerbaits..

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      Water Temp: 71'

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Windy day. Started at Franks - senkos and drop shot (Zero Fish). Went to Mildred and p/u 3 dinks on spinnerbait. Went to Rock Slough to get out of wind and p/u 1 striper. Moved back to the Franks area and found the fish in a 50' section of Rocks and pilings at bottom of tide, 12:30. P/U 15+ fish on cranks. Fish on 45 min. feeding frenzy: the first couple of fish, empty belly then the larger fish started to hit and all with full bellies. Fish still on small side up to 2 lbs.
      City: South San Francisco

      Tips: Fished Wiggle Wart and Rat L Traps in Craw colors on rock wall with some wood covering. A few hits off weedbeds but fish active in windy sections.

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

      Report: My brother his friend and I rented an electric boat and trolled the lake a bit to check the lake out, it was my first visit. After getting no bites trolling Kastmasters and Rapalas we decided to fish the tules for bass. Right off the bat my brother caught a 3-4 lb channel on a mini spinner with a orange/chartruse power grub which broke off right at the boat as I was lipping it. Then I had a 6+ lb largemouth on a green and brown worm that did a series of tailwalking right at the boat before going under the boat and breaking off. I ending up catching 6 bass up to about 1 1/4lb and a 2-3 lb channel catfish. My brother caught 3 bass, all bass were caught on worms that had some green in them. All bites were very subtle at best, I set the hook on anything that felt "different". Sunday afternoon was a zoo with all the bank, bait fisherman by the marina.
      City: Montague

      Tips: fish the tulies, stay in the shade during the day and fish deeper waters

  • San Francisco County
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      Water Temp: cold

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: fished 545am to 1045 am, with not a single bite on senkos or topwater. very very windy today.
      City: Millbrae