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Saturday, June 4th, 2005

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

      Report: Started out late today (10 AM) lauching out of Wimpies. Fished Hog Sloug and Sycamore. Found fish close to tule walls that were out of the current, and wood. The areas without current are usually at the minor bends of the sloughs. Major bends such as those that direct the flow of the current do not hold spawning and post spawning fish. I used Senkos, Wave Worms (Senko imitation) , and Black Jig with Yamamoto twin tail grub. The final tally was alot of dinks and three keepers. The three keepers added to 11 lbs. Not bad for three fish and the bottom of the tide. Pulled out at 4 pm
      City: Sacramento

      Tips: Find fish in current breaks and outter weedline.

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

      Report: Hit the lake @ noon. Took an electric boat out on the water. Went to the tules and nabbed a couple good size ones. Then we headed for the island. Caught 4 more. I couldn't believe it! What a lucky day. Thanks to the guy at the marina for some tips.

      Tips: Don't woory I caught and released. Brown and black/red worms were the ticket.

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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished from shore from about 6:30pm - 8:00pm. Not a single bite. Used a couple of different type of Rapala crank baits. Tried some top water spinner bait also. Nothing took. Better luck next time hopefully.
      City: Gilroy

  • Alameda County
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      Water Temp: 69

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fishing was good until 10:00Am when it just turned off. Caught 7 fish. Biggets was just under 7lbs on a PopR top water early. Good top water bite until about 8:30 along the tule lines. Switched to carolina rig and texas rig along the tules and caught several fish under 2lbs. Also caught fish throwing a jig against a wall and letting it drop into 20 ft. Wind came up strong in the afternoon and blew me off the lake.
      City: Foster City

      Tips: Top water along tule line early, then switch to carolina senko or other soft plasic. Pitching a hula grub to rocky shore in shady spots also got bit.

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 65-75

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished from 6 am to 4 pm with Jimbob and did well.We caught around 80 fish for the day between us.Most were small but some areas have better fish than others.Amost everything worked today,topwater,darterhead worms,brushhogs,senkos and flukes etc.Had one lrge mouth 3-14 and one spot 4-1 for the best fish of the day.Total weight for best 5 was 14 lbs 8 oz
      City: Granite Bay

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 74.2-72.8

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: back on the water ater a bout with pneumonia, out the last couple o nights out o Hirz Bay, in the water on both occaisions at 715 pm, lake is 4.5 t down and now starting to drop steadily, no wind either night and not much debris, Had my neighbors son with me up rom San Jose, had 38 one night and 28 the next and all small save 4 over 2 and he busted o a good one. He was using gitzits thrown right on the bank, I tossed hula grubs on 3/8oz darter heads, mine were salt and pepper yamamotos and my avorite shasta crawlers in root beer by MGM. bite went great between 730 and 10 and died around 11pm. not a soul out there except or a ellow and his wie catishing. The area around Dooles Creek was the best with a run o 17 caught on as many casts in a row, we easily lost as many as we caught and lost double that last night. I went to the 3/8 oz to slow the drop which really worked, most were right on the bank and the better ish were 10t deep, beautiul starlit night with a little moon last night, the next ew days should be better, all came o o rock walls, the more vertical the better. 89 degrees going in and 72 coming out at midnight. 108 in Redding yesterday, no more ishing in the daytime or me!
      City: Redding

Friday, June 3rd, 2005

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

      Report: forgot to mention, it was a largemouth bass, and was released safely. Please practice catch and release of all bass.
      City: Millbrae

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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: caught a 3-pounder at 1030am this morning in south lake, 5-ft of water.
      City: Millbrae

      Tips: senko

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 70

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I spent 2 delightful days guiding at Oroville (Wed and Thurs). Can't remember when the last time I fished back-to-back SUNNY days!! The lake is in its rare stage - nearly overflowing! It is fun to fish the bank and look right into the forest rather than bare banks. It is more challenging to fish it when full, but it is exciting (except for the debris) to fish when conditions are different!! My Wed client was doing his first serious bass trip (he is of the trout crowd - maybe no so much now!) and had a ball - and did very well. We put 27 in the boat - all spots - with the largest at 2 lbs 9 oz. Larger fish were active which helped us to a 10 1/2 lb limit! We stayed in the south fork all day. My Thurs client was an upcoming tournament angler and excellent fisherman - but the bass wern't as excellent, maybe because of a slight cool front. We did catch 26, but there were more small ones and the biggest was only 2 1/4. We had a limit a few ounces over 9 lbs. The fish wern't as aggressive and seemed to be harder to hook. We did do more running around the south and middle forks since this was his first trip to Oroville, so we wern't fishing every minute. As folks have been reporting for some time, there sure are a lot of skinny spots at Oroville now - but, they can still fight with the best. Some of the females had obviously already spawned.
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: I am limited as to what I can say about techniques since we did many of the same things both days and Mr. Thursday is fishing an upcoming tournament. We fished a lot of 4 to 7 inch worms, mostly split-shotted and Texas rigged. The bass changed their color preference both days. Don't be afraid to switch colors often. We finally got a little topwater action on Thurs, providing we found the right kind of structure. I hope that holds up - my client will do well! We caught bass from 0 to 30 feet both days.

Thursday, June 2nd, 2005

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 70+

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Today, I had a party of two. Launch at Markley Cove at 7:30 and went north for a topwater bite first thing in the morning. Went clear up too the Northend and fished the willows. First cast a 2lb smallmouth. Tninking to myself "man this is going to be a blast". Well guess what??? The fish were there but they all just short hit the TW with no hookups. Changed to cranks and started right away connecting to smallmouth in the 1lb in a half range. Man can they fight. After the sun rose some I start in another bay flippin worms "Robo" 6in FAT in "Mutilator lll" One of the clients connected with a 3lb that didn't look has if she had spawned, Caught her in 3ft of water. Released her right away. By Noon we caught among us around 15 fish from 3ft of water to 12ft moving off shore dropshotting Roboworm's in 5 1/2inch Arron Majic's. From there I went to the very northend of the lake on the westside and fished a point and caught a couple of more. The client wanted to catch some bigger largemouth. I thought, hmmmm 2PM so I headed for the Dam and fished the far wall. There's some long points that drop off into the main. We tried Dropshottin from 10ft to 40 using a 3/8 dropshot weight. Connected on many 2+ spots around 25-30ft. Caught 1 fish at 45ft but lost it half way up that bent the rod some. Tried Markley Cove some with zip results. After running around the lake, one thing I did notice was the difference in location of fish including the specie of bass. The north, all Smallmouth and largemouth 50-50. Down near the dam area all Spots, no Largemouth nor Smallmouth. A Solid 30 fish day with room for more if you just wanted to catch fish.

      Have a good weekend
      Rich Thiel's Guiding Service
      (925)292-5024
      City: Livermore

      Tips: Dropshot in 15-30ft of water off of points to main water or go North in the moring looking for topwater, Then switch to flipping in shady pockets. At Noon move out to deeping water and dropshot in Roboworm's 6inch FATS or 5 1/2 Prism curly tails. Any Purple or Green will work.

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

      Report: Newbie,
      Don't give up. The lake can be sporadic at times. When the bite is on it is definitely fun. Be sure to hit the weedless frog bite in August. Also, try and resist fishing with live minnows. Although it is very productive it is certainly as close as you can come to "cheating" in the sport of bass fishing.
      City: san jose

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

      Report: Caught a nice 54 lbr LMB off the point. Also got a 19.3 lbr Trout at the other point
      City: Belmont

      Tips: Dont believe me

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: went to the bigger back pond today. Caught about 10 fish. most of the fish run about 1lb. I landed a real nice one that's 20inch long and 12inch wide. I wish i have a scale with me. released all the fish.
      City: Fremont

      Tips: dropshot and senkos. nightcrawler is working good too. avoid bluegills!!!!!!!

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

      Report: Redwood Empire Bass Club will meet on June 8th at 7p.m. at the Rohnert Park Community Center at the corner of Rohnert Park Expressway and Snyder Lane. Our guest speaker will be Jimm Munk and we welcome boaters and non boaters to attend the meeting and fish our club tournaments.The next tournament will be on June 11th at Lake Sonoma. Log onto www.rebc.net or call me at 568-1277.
      City: Santa Rosa

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: fished to the left for about 5 hours and got skunked. I don't suggest wasting your time.
      City: Novato

Wednesday, June 1st, 2005

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

      Report: Kind of new to the sport, but had the day off and thought I'd check out Calero. I probably would have been better off staying home. It was really windy, and I didn't catch a thing or even get a good bite. I used a weedless sanko, and a few other plastics. Also tried a Carolina rig, but again no results. Gave up and went home after 2-3hrs. I did see people with minnows (live) that were pulling in some pretty good fish.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Think I just hit a bad day, with the wind and all, I dont think I was able to cast far enough. I might try this spot a few more times again before I give up on it.

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      Water Temp: Didn't Check

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Strong winds today, poor bite. For me, anyway. Managed only two yearlings on robo dropshot (California Rig?) after trying everything else in my box. My trusty baby brush hog? Nada! Old standbys senkos and spinnerbaits? Zilch! Furthermore, after today I can now add "windsurfing" to the list of sports in which I've participated. Got good blade action on spinnerbaits today without having to touch my reel handle. As an aside for those who might care, the minnow bite is ON! Saw four or five fish (all under 2 lbs best I could tell) landed in less than an hour by folks "kicking back" in an anchored boat. All fish, theirs and mine, were released.
      City: Santa Clara

      Tips: If you're thinking about taking a kid fishing where they are likely to encounter some good action, consider minnows at Calero. And oh by the way, I think it's perfectly okay for adults to enjoy some hot action this way too if they choose to do so.

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      Water Temp: 68

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: gonna be warm this weekend..hey watch out for the skier's.. and jet skier's...most of them dont have a clue...
      City: morgan hill

      Tips: the tip of the day.. fish safe and watch out.. for people that dont have a clue...

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 70

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: I had two client today from Japan. Started at 7:30 in the morning from Franks Tract and went just below Quimby Island. It was low tide. Couldn't find to much with this tide. Left there and went to Disco (Kellog Sl) found some small fish on windy points. Left there and fished the mouth of Lido Bay. One of the client crank a 3lb'er and a couple of dink's, current. By this time one'ish the tide was starting to roll in.

      Headed for middle river and started fishing above Union Point. The fish were there near current but in calm water. Both client flipped limits, biggiest fish went 4.01lbs with two 3's and many 2's or less. We were catching them on Robo's 6in FAT in Ayu and Oxblood/Red Flack. Most of the fish were near a break in grass pockets getting ready to move in too the main bank. Best 5 went around 14 and change. Went back to Old river and on to Franks with a fish here and there. Most of them were around 10ft. By the end of the day 5:30ish they had 20 fish between them. On too Berryessa for tomorrow. See what the fish are doing there, Probably totally diffent LOL!!!!!

      Rich Thiel's Guiding Service
      Good Luck this Weekend
      (925)292-5024
      City: Livermore

      Tips: Fish slow and look for deep grass near ledges.

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      Water Temp: 70

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched out of Big Break at 6:30am. The wind was blown, but eased up a bit in the afternoon; sun was shining and bass were biting when it got a little warmer. Had 15 blow-ups on the frog. Color: moss green, black and yellow or yellowish orange frogs. Only landed three for the three of us to 2.5 lbs. Water temp started at 68 and warmed up to 71.8 by 2pm. Caught two other small fish on a worm off the water by 2:45.
      City: San Bruno