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Thursday, November 4th, 2004

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 53 (air temp

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Had a pretty good day. Fishing by myself caught 11 fish., 8 spots, 2 smallies, 1 largemouth. Best 5 would go for around 10 lbs (largemouth went about 2.5 lbs).Fished from Skiers Cove & South in narrows. Fished Robo curly tail (hologram shad) on split shot and drop shot, Robo worm (Warmouth)on darter head. All fish came between 20 & 40'Better fish came shallow and on the darter head.
      City: Fremont

      Tips: Be patient, fish at half the speed you like to fish at. If you don't get bit drag a split shot and small curly tail worm.

Wednesday, November 3rd, 2004

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      Water Temp: Cool

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Bass action is slowing down a lot with the cooler weather. I dont have a tube so i cant reach where the bass have gone. Any tips on where and what to catch them off of.
      City: Oakley

      Tips: Small bass are still feeding on baitfish, so at least there is some action.

  • San Francisco County
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      Water Temp: Cold

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Its been some tough fishing lately with fall upon us, but worked the lake for about hour and managed 3 bass in the small to medium range. I worked a drop shotted 4" plastic. All fish were released to fight another.
      City: Daly City

      Tips: Work it slow. Crank it slow.

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Took out 2 clients today down at Discovery Bay. We caught a total of 10 fish. Lost 6 and broke off one. Fish ran from 8 to 17lbs. Caught all fish on live bait. Did not try any artificials.
      City: Sacramento

      Tips: Fish are on the move. If you don`t find them in one spot keep moving and you will run into them. Don`t wait for them to come to you.
      Good luck

Tuesday, November 2nd, 2004

  • Santa Clara County
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      Water Temp: 61

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: First boat on the water at 7:30. We ended up with 12 bass and a couple of random crappie. Bass were mostly on large plastics Carolina rigged. Only one on the dropshot. Biggest was just under 4lbs. Nice day on the water.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Water temp is dropping...have to slow way down.

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I went fishing saturday for trout but almost no action all day, on green and rainbow powerbait. My friend got a 3lb trout near the swimming pool area of green powerbait and he lost about a 5-7lb there.
      City: oakley

      Tips: cast out far with rainbow or green powerbait,and so far this here there have been 1-8 pounders being brought in

Monday, November 1st, 2004

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 62-64

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Well, I ran up to Berryessa with a client with the intent of doing a lot of searching (being the water is know starting to turn over)

      We launched out of Markley Cove and thus ran to Wraggs Canyon. Started on point's, Client Drop-shottin and I throwing a brown/208TwinTailGrub 1/2oz jig. Point 1, nothin, Point 2, one hit at 35ft Jig. P3-4-5-6- All produced one fish on Drop-shottin around 20-25ft (Side's). Thing'in to myself OBoy the lake's on probably up North. Started to head North hitting the corner to the main lake, WOW, what's this 5-6ft roller's from the North,(Wragg's was dead calm, is the reason I left). Made it to Big Island and fished some outside point's, Noth'in. Went inside and fished a Small island and caught a 2 1/2lb smallmouth on a jig. fished all the way around it and caught noth'in. That's it we're out of here, down south we went and went between Little P and Portugue's Canyon and went up to this point and proceeded to put 6 fish in the boat in a matter of 30min. 1 on a jig and the rest on a Robo Arron's majic and a ???? worm. Tried the dam area Nothin. 5PM Quit.

      Rich Thiel.

      Caught probably a dozen fish inwhich 6 were keeper's.
      City: Livermore

      Tips: Fish looooooong extended point's. There's more fish on them than the short buttercut one's. Everyone of our fish came deep and off of medium shale. No big rock fish at all. If your look'in for jig fish, their there, You may have to cut down your skirt some, but I feel that you can get 5 quality fish by doing this over any drop-shot fish.

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 56-58

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched out of Holland at 7am. Spent the morning fishing around the Middle River, and a little time in Old River. Caught about a dozen, biggest went 4.7. Best luck w/ a gold/gold dble willow white/chart blade. Had a few bite a brown/purple jig around pipes in Connection Slough. Also caught a few small ones on a watermelon-red senko. Water was surprisingly clear in Old River. Tried dropshotting several tule islands that had produced in the past, but no luck.
      City: Newark

      Tips: Pretty good blade bite around shallow tules.
      Jigs on rocky structure.

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      Water Temp: chilly

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished for an hour after work from the shore, off the far end of the damn same as friday. Caught four bass off a small rainbow spinner, fish went from a pound to just under three pounds.
      City: Salinas

      Tips: Anything that looks like a minnow along the damn has been working.

  • Alameda County
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      Water Temp: go on a sunny d

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: who says winter bass fishing suxs? NOT ME...
      it was a pretty good day. all my fish were caught on hardbaits. i tried them all suspending baits, shallow diving baits, ones with rattles and some with none.
      got into two two bass nice size, one trout, a sqaw fish on a crank bait, and missed another.
      well the one i missed was pretty good. felt like a someone tied my line to a 5 gallon jug and just dropped it, my line ripped a little and then i came unbuttoned. my heart broke down.
      all in all i can say i was glad to go.

      o yea........

      SOME JERK WAS WATCHING ME FISH, I DIDN'T MIND, BUT THEN WHEN I HHOKED UP INTO A FISH I DECIDED TO LET IT GO. IT WAS ABOUT 3 LBS (LARGEMOUTH),A BY STANDER TOLD ME NEXT TIME I RELEASE A FISH I SHOULD OFFER IT BEFORE I RELEASE IT. I WAS SHOCKED...
      I TOLD HIM I RELEASE BASS IF I FEEL LIKE IT. SOMEDAY I WANT MY CHILDERN TO BEABLE TO CATCH BASS LIKE THIS.
      next to him was a stringer of trout, about 8 or 9. i hate bank fisherman sometimes.....
      City: san francisco

      Tips: try, stay confidence, and when u loose your cool, stop and say a prayer, ask God why things are like this, maybe he'll answer you. he answered me!!!

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 58-62

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Stayed at Sugar Loaf Resort from Nov1-5th.had a great time..Nice cabins, good launch ramp close and a slip to park when you come in for lunch..couldn't ask for more.

      Fishing was fair to good with the best fishing coming with the tuesday front. 15-20 keepers a day with lots of short fish in 35-50' near channel bends. Stayed in the Sac arm all week. Best fish went 3.5 on a popper in the am out in front of Sugar Loaf.

      2-5 topwater blowups every morning and were the better fish with most going 2+.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Majority of my fish came on jigs and drop shot and topwater fish early. #208 hula for jigs and robo plastics for DS. Rico for topwater

Sunday, October 31st, 2004

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 65

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Gill, I saw you at the lodge when I was ordering lunch, but you were busy chatting with the ladies and didnt want to interrupt.
      City: Sacramento, CA

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      Water Temp: 65

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Here's another report from your fellow bankie from Sacramento. Started off fishing the Carson Arm by the campsites and scored 2 fish right away at 1# and 2# at one of the coves. Moved to the deeper points east of the spillway and scored 2 fish in a row 1# and 1.5#. Next three casts felt a good nip and set the hook on a submerged stick up. Next three casts hooked another fish, and a he was a fighter at 2#. After that, it went dead on the three points I was covering (plus trout fisherman were starting to move through, So I decided to hit the Lodge for a Largemouth (Cheeseburger & Fries) with a large Iced Tea. After I got done with lunch, hit the points west of the spillway, getting hits and misses. I lost one fish getting tangled in submerged stick-ups probably about 2.5# by the looks of him. As was starting to get bored with little to no hits (it was fairly windy too), I felt a tick and my rod tip lunged. Set the hook on an awesome kicker at almost 5lbs. Grabbed him, put water in the cooler and ran to the Lodge to show the ladies. I always forget the name of the lady that does the fishing reports up there. Anyways after showing everyone at the Lodge, I took a stroll down to the water

      Tips: I used the same patter from my last two trips. Baby Brush Hog in Pumpkin and Black. Also used a Black Cyberflexx Flippin' Tube from Terminator for a few of those fish. Drop-off's and points 5-15 feet deep were key. A lot of the stick-ups that have been gone for the past couple of years are starting to show themselves, and the bass are hiding in them. Each time I set the hook on good bites, I'd either end up getting snagged on the initial hook set, or getting snagged while fighting the fish.

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 56-58

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Jim Ryan and I started out with some of the bass fisherman from Basin Bass Master at Bishop Slough in the early morning. Windy and cold, not the best day to be on the water. We fished Disapointment for most of the morning finding some small bass and stripers. The winds picked up as we were in Hocker Cut. We were cranking a orange/red/black rattle trap, black/blue flake senko worms, white/white spinner baits and some red/black also. We also used long black worms. High tide was at 9am and out going was at 10am, so work the tules at each end in the curents.
      City: rocklin

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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Decided to give my local lake a break and fish SP. The extra hour from the day light savings felt good and I almost didn't get out in time. But nontheless fished till about 1:30pm and ended up with four decent trout in the 2-4lb range no DFG size trout. Fish were caught in the shallows(4' to 8')on green(Chartreus)power bait spiked with garlic scent and 2LB-4LB main line and leader.
      Didn't really notice until I was leaving that they are giving out warning notices when you buy your permit on what amount of certain species you can eat out of the lakes and still be ok health wise, I didn't know that was an issue. Anyways I must say that the staff that run the concessions are top notch on the customer service department and are a great group and made my last day to fish SP a very pleasant one till the re-opener in February.
      City: Daly City

      Tips: What can I say when fishing for trout. The right place and right time and right presentation will decide if get any fish. Example, the guy fishing just to the right me about 6 yards down shore while I was fishing got the black and white(skunked) and I ended up with four. Go figure! but theres been times when I was the guy on the right scratching my head trying to figure out what was going on with the eminent smell of black & white upon me. Right place and right time and right presentation at that time.

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 65

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Launch at packers bay, it's one lane now.
      On the water at 6:15 up the sac to shasta marnia area.First fish was at 7:00 on a green worm it was a dink.Up to the antlers area started to spoon with 1/2oz hopkins spoon. Bingo on fish caugh 8 fish in a hour in one spot nothing big just keepers.Moved to goose neck area started worming again little luck only two fish both dinks.Started spooning again 3 more fish just keepers.A fair day a the lake caugh about 15 fish.An oregon bass club was weighting in top weight was 8/12lbs for sunday.
      City: Redding

      Tips: Fish were holding in about 35ft of water.
      Bite was slow had to park on top of fish to get a bite.

Saturday, October 30th, 2004

  • Mason County
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      Water Temp: 63

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: hey jcab,,,try using a crank bait...there is no pattern...crank through an area.. you will get bit...bait fish run.. 10 to 12.. in ball's..run a crank that will dive to 7.. tight wiglle..when you find they dink's...I dont know if your in a boat or not.. let me know
      City: san jose

      Tips: jcab post again and give me your email address,, then we can talk... oh by the way right across from the launch ramp...very good c rig withpumpkin seed brushog's... the big one's..drift with the wind....thank's mike

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Pretty tough day for me and my brother as usual. The fish seem to bite best when I'm fishin' alone. We worked very hard for about 20 fish and they were all barely keeper size. We could not find a solid pattern because some came shallow and some came deep on reaction and finnese presentations. I'm confused. Oh well, better than getting skunked I guess. Honestly, we had lots of fun just being out there.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Snags are abundant here so bring lots of gear. As far as lures and technique they all work. Plastics on the bottom is always a sure thing.

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

      Report: Good fishing was found in the Oaks area. Fished from 1 pm till about 7pm. Caught around 30 fish all were about 1-2lb class. Fished slow. Most fish caught on drop shot rigs. Notable catches were caught sunday morning. About a dozen caught over 2 lbs.
      City: Bay Area

      Tips: Anything purple or brown. Big baits catch bigger fish.

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

      Report: Good news is that I caught 11 fish. Bad news (for a bass fisherman) only 1 LM, and 1 stiper. The other 9 were trout (1 was near 4lbs). What can I say. They just couldn't stay away from my rapala. For bass I tried carolina rig, brass n glass worm, drop shot, and gub. The only lm was taken on drop shot and the stiper (3.8lbs) went for a c-rig brush hog on the fall. Tough day for bass fishing. Great day for trout. Caught all 9 fish in less than 30 min.
      City: Foster City

      Tips: Didn't figure the bass out. The trout were in shallow water schooled up. Some looked like torpedos - big trout! If the bass have lock jaw don't go home empty handed. Something out there is hungry.