Submit
Report

Northern California Lake Fishing Report

Limit:

Wednesday, April 27th, 2005

    • By

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Yeah I saw the same thing right before closing a nice 6 or 7 lb bass full of eggs, in a plastic bag. Its your choice whether you keep a fish or but try and put the big girls back. I've given fisherman smaller males at times to convince them to let the bigger ones go back, they are important to maintaining this small lake. This has been a good year for bass and will continue to be good if you practice catch and release. I've caught a number of nice fish that its obvious have been let go.
      City: Oakley

  • Alameda County
    • By

      Water Temp: 66

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: This report is for yesterday and today:

      Yesterday-
      Fished for a few hours with a buddy in the mid afternoon and got 5 largemouth bewteen us. All on senkos, mostly purple and cinnamon w/red flake. Most were caught at the south end, near the tullies along the shore. All were in shallow water, to about 8ft.

      Went out again that evening with my girlfriend, and we each caught a fish I have never seen and could not identify. Found out today that they are called "sacramento suckers", and that only 3 have ever been reported from Del Valle. Tripy looking fish, kind of a cross between a catfish, bass and carp.

      Today-
      Went out around 11:30a with my woman, trying to beat the rain. We went around to badger cove (mid-lake, Eest side) and trolled the shoreline, fighting a very nasty wind. Hooked into a 2.5lb largemouth on a cinnamon senko, just as it started to rain. we seeked shelter on the west side of the lake in an unnamed cove, and spent the next 2 hours there catching fish. We caught 2 smallies and 5 more largemouth in that cove, all on senkos. We also had many hits, and a few fish that we on, but managed to get free.

      All of them were caught on my new boat ...life is good!
      City: Pleasanton

      Tips: Catch and Release!

  • Trinity County
    • By

      Water Temp: 58-60

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished with clients several times over the past week and it's been hot and cold. A couple of days of nice weather and the smallies move up. Then 2 days of high winds and they dissappear. They've been in and out 3 times in the last 10 days. I sure hope they get their business done pretty quick as major water releases are scheduled to begin soon.
      Yesterday started out pretty slow but the bite improved steadily in the PM. Now we're in for another couple of days of rain. Who knows?
      City: Weaverville

      Tips: I'm anxious to see what the big releases bring this year. Last year the fish moved off-shore and sulked for days.

Tuesday, April 26th, 2005

    • By

      Water Temp: 58-60?

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Back to Back slow days- threw swim baits for a couple hours, senkos, craw patterened rat-l-traps, jerk baits, spinnerbaits, top-water. My brother caught one with a junebug senko, thats it!
      City: Los Gatos

      Tips: Looks like swimbaits is the ticket for the hogs, patience will pay off.

    • By

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: 1st time at Almaden, caught nothing. Threw spinners, senkos, and craw pattern cranks. fished under the bridge and by the sandy area. I'll be back...quite a few people fishing this lake, there has to be some fish in there.
      City: san jose

      Tips: fish on

  • Solano County
    • By

      Water Temp: 61.4

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Got to sugar barge @7:30.brother in law caught first fish on second cast with spinner bait.bunch of small bass.out of the water by 12:30 with 4 keeper.8lb,6lb,4lb and of course a 1.5.

      Tips: fish with senko,watermelon,peanut butter and jelly.slow.......

    • By

      Water Temp: 66

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Caught a good sized bass about 2lbs. trolling for trout. Hardly saw and fish though on the brand new fishfinder.
      City: Los Gatos

    • By

      Water Temp: 65

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Launched at about 3:00. Weather was perfect, about 70-75 deg.s, very little to no wind, starting to cloud over. Fishing was a little slow. Caught two while waiting for my friend to show up. Once he got there at about 3:30, we only got four more each in about 4 hours. The lake sure is looking good though. Everywhere you go on the lake looks like perfect bass hold water. Was a little noisy on the lake today though as the scullers were out in force and the CDF chopper was practicing picking up buckets of water. Maybe why the fishing was a little slow?
      City: Ben lomond

      Tips: Plastic worms in cover, which is not hard to find right now.

    • By

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: tubed the back, 9 fish, 3 over 3 lbs and 1 over 6 lbs. on the water by 5p.m. and off by 7 p.m.
      City: p-town

      Tips: Dudeman, haven't heard from you in awhile. you still fishing?

Monday, April 25th, 2005

  • Santa Clara County
    • By

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Managed to scrape up two nice sized crappie on a small crank. Bass bite was tough, landed nothing - threw senkos, beavers, lizards and spinners. Had some nice bites though, at least thats what I like to think they were. What the hell, it beats working.
      City: san jose

      Tips: senkos, lizards, and spinners have always worked for me here.

  • Solano County
    • By

      Water Temp: ?no guage

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Had a pretty good day today. Headed towards Lincoln Village West Marina and fished the back side on the out going tide. Had an awesome mixed spinner bait bite. For a bout 2 hours of fishing 5 bass nothing over 2 lbs. Also 5 stripers going up to 5 lbs. each. I had to repair my spinner bait a couple of times. Went throught to sets of skirts and the frame will probably snap soon.
      City: Ladd's, Stockton

      Tips: I think the spawn is pretty much over in this area could not find any beds. I went all the way back to the Feather River bridge and back. The froggin sounds good can't wait for the frog bites starts in my area.

    • By

      Water Temp: 63

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Another successful day on the Delta. Launched at 4:00 p.m and fished till 7:30p.m
      Caught alot of fish males and females. Best five went 27lbs. My wifes fish was the big kicker 10lbs 1oz. She busted it on a Super Fluke. The rest of our fish came on topwater baits and senkos flipped in the weedpockets. Topwater is on and the big girls are out to play. Success to all.
      City: Tracy

      Tips: Enjoy yourself and fish for fun. No stress fishing bradda. You know what I mean. Laters

    • By

      Water Temp: 61to64

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: another good day on the delta. total fish 38. lot of 3lb fish. best 5 were a 4.1,4.2,4.6,5.2,5.15, total weight 23lbs9ozs. almost identical to yesterday. no real big fish, but there around. can't complain fishing was steady all day. we had six blowups on frogs but only hooked one.
      City: oakland

      Tips: water is definitly warming up, throw frogs. a few of our fish were spawned out already. it's gonna be busy on the water next week for everstart, should be some big weights!!!

  • Shasta County
    • By

      Water Temp: 57 to 60

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished with a client(Dennis) and his lovely Wife (Jamie) from Sac. He is a very good fisherman and his wife is just starting to fish. Launched at bridge bay at 0530 temp. about 47 degrees fished points right out of ramp throwing spinnerbaits until we have better light to head up the mccloud, Dennis caught the 1st a 2.5 spot and Igot the next 2 both were 2-0. Headed up the mccloud to shallow point where we caught three more all small about 1.5 and Jamie dropped her rod and reel in the lakein about 10' of water,
      Next stop greens creek where a caught a 2.4 . one of my clients needed a restroom, so we went back to holiday harbor and no it was not Jamie, we then fished the willows behind all the boats, nada. next bear cove willows for 8 more 1.5 to 2.25 on weightless trik worms then to squaw point for finished up at the point with 1/4 oz. darthead and oxblood worm for a total weight of 9.5 Three of the last four where smallmouths.
      out of the water at 1400
      City: Redding

Sunday, April 24th, 2005

  • Mason County
    • By

      Water Temp: 61

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished 8am -1pm and Overall it was tough for me, I really had to work for it. Got 8 fish on 5 baits, obviously couldn't figure it out. Got em deep (15ft) and got em shollow, couldn't find any consistent pattern. Kind of wished it would have rained a bit, but it was nice out there. 2 on a buzzbait, 2 on a trap, 2 on C-rig BBH, 1 on split shot and 1 on a senko. Biggest probably a little over 2 lbs with only one short thrown in the mix.
      City: San Carlos

      Tips: Nothing really that would help, but once I could'nt get bit more than once in a great looking area, I moved. I would pretty much get one fish and then move and catch another elsewhere. Cover water.

  • Santa Barbara County
    • By

      Water Temp: 63+

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Still no spectacular bite. A few here and there no ryhme or reason. I had small Blade fish and better plastic fish. Swimbait is next weekend. Even if the water cools from the next storm they were THIS close to eating a jerkbait on a full moon...next 4 weeks will be exciting....Jumbled around with colors on my flipping jig....One fish on that. I went 4-wheel'n in the back of Big Cachuma,Dead horse and Santa Cruz....Like African Queen in Santa Cruz. If I couldn't have gone forward there was no back. A bunch of HUGE carp/koi/goldfish/mixed breed trash fish in the backs of these areas but NO BASS to speak off.? who knows. I am glad to see the 10-11 inchers that surely would have died without the flood and the real neat thing about the flood is we now have cover on the bottom from 140 feet to the shore.
      City: Santa Barbara

      Tips: Lots of places in 10 feet or less. If your looking for beds.....I've only found two places so far that have more than 1 or two. Think protected when looking for these largemouth...Smallmouth are kind of out a wack too! I'm sure this is going to be the longest spawn in Cachuma history....Good! I like the fish spread out and DOING DIFFERENT STUFF!

  • Solano County
    • By

      Water Temp: ?noguage

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Since it was church day during the morning hours til about 8:30 a.m. just hung around the luanch ramp. Baby brush hogs was the ticket then. Later in the afternoon about 5 p.m. I luanched the custom Valco bass boat and headed out starting in the back of Wind Mill Cove. I also checked some spots in 14 Mile Slough. WINDY!!! the wind ward sides were the ticket for me this evening til 10 p.m. Total 15 bass all just around 1.5 to 2.5 lbs., all males. Senkos, S.K. Bleeding Tubes, and S.K. Bitsy Jigs red/black with the small Zoom Chunk. No big fish for me today. Can't wait til I have more time so I can head out as far as Big Al's.
      City: Ladd's, Stockton

      Tips: Hit the windward sides that have cover. Fish were holding tight to cover, but were aggressive.

    • By

      Water Temp: 60to62

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: got a late start today, launched at 7:30 out of big break. started in franks. lots of boats out for won basshad a good day,played leap frog with a few boats.around 11a.m. i stick a 7lb 8oz on a brushog. at about 2 ron sticks a 6lb 4oz on a frog. we watched another boat stick one about 10lbs. big fish are moving up!!! can't wait till tommarow! best 5 were 23lbs 4ozs

      Tips: we covered our areas on both high and low tides. brushogs, senkos,beavers and frogs. see photos.

  • Amador County
    • By

      Water Temp: 60-67

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: This lake is pretty good. we went out about 6:45 to camanche arm and narrows just like the newspaper reported and spanked about 30 fish. Most came on worms but jigs also worked. Tough since it had just rained we had NONE over 2 # either they seemed to be all small males or females. Mixed bag with a few spotted bass. All in all good trip just dont know where the big fish are at this lake. Since i been coming here the bigest was 3.1 # spot and haven't heard of many people catching larger fish here either good luck !!!
      City: east bay

      Tips: try to find big fish small ones will bite a purple worm for ever but try and find the big ones can u handle it ??

  • Lake County
    • By

      Water Temp: 58-59

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I took a client out yesterday (Sat) for a teach the lake trip - his first time to Clear Lake. I told him how "quiet" the lake would be - I think we had it to ourselves except for the other 250 bass boats that came from somewhere!!! Anyway, we did ok fighting the weather and trying to stay out of the tournament folks way. We fished from Rattlesnake Island to the narrows, and did manage to boat 23 bass and he ended the trip with his biggest at 3.1 lbs. We had a limit of about 12 1/4 lbs, working for bites more than big fish. We did a lot of split-shotting with Berkley pulse worms and small brush hogs. We couldn't get anything on reaction baits and didn't throw swimbaits. We found most of our bass in schools, as long as there was rock nearby. We missed a few on Senkos - the wind made it difficult.
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: Because of the pressure and cold front, many bass had moved off the tules and out to 8 or so feet of water. While we were trying to catch fish near the tules, many bites came from right under the boat. With a cold front, don't hesitate to work your bait out into deeper water. Some areas of underwater brush held a lot of fish for us.