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Friday, November 12th, 2004

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 60.3

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: In at Jones Valley at 0640, lake down to 102 ft, 5 knot wind out of the NNE, ran down the pit for a bit to get back on the fish I found tuesday and found some but no bites for 2.5 hours. pulled out and went up the McCloud above Shallow point and saw a friend who is one of the better sticks hereabouts and he is having the same trouble, no fish. We talk for a bit then I run up further and try some steep walls and fish till 10AM when the wind died down and finally stick what seems to be a good fish on the MGM hoo-dun-it and 1/2 oz in about 17ft. The fish just loaded up and didn't do much. moved a little south and threw again with another rod wearing a yamamoto hula grub #176 also on a half ounce and get bit hard and have to turn into the wind to keep up with this bad boy. Get him up and in the net and surprised to weigh him at 3lbs, the same weight as the first but a lot more active. Fished some more back over in the lower Pit and ran for the ramp at 1215. Just 2 bites and that was it. Wind up bigtime as i was getting out near 25 knots still out of the NNE.
      City: Redding

      Tips: some folks reporting a rip bite but I haven't found it, Have also heard of some action on spooks and worms.

Thursday, November 11th, 2004

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      Water Temp: 59.5

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: 1st time on float tube, fished with hunter and dad. we caught three altogether, two 3's and one that was puny. Not bad for a pouring day.
      City: SJ

      Tips: fished slow with anything that can be fished slow, anything with roboworms works good.

  • Riverside County
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      Water Temp: 170

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Just like Chad, wasn't getting anything until I threw out a slab of gecko. Got 50 stripers in the 500 lb range and 30 Cats in the 300 lb range. Great day! I also got the world record Bass at 32 lbs. I just released it and didn't even think of taking a picture.

      Tips: Shut up Chad.

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      Water Temp: 78-80

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fishing for any thig that can bite not shit was until i cast out a piece of cut sardine and just in a few minutes i hooked up with a 50 pound striper and two cats each weighing at 30 pounds.
      City: Riverside

      Tips: None find out your own way to fish

Wednesday, November 10th, 2004

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 54-58 deg

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: A rainy day but no winds made the day of fishing the delta a great one. Out at Paridise Point at 6am with the guys from Basin Bassmasters started down disappoinment slough using crank baits and spinner baits in white w/gold and silver blades. Staying outside the weeds and cranking,cranking and cranking until my arm feel off. But by the end of the day I found stripers and largies in 5-12 ft all day, from 1.0 to 3.5 lbs. Wait for the tides and stay in open water.
      City: rocklin

      Tips: crank outside the weed line. match the crank bait to the shad in size and color.

  • Riverside County
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      Water Temp: 65-75

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fishin by dam was great using a gold and and red kasmaster trolling i caught a 17 puond trout. and when using a rattle jig with pork jig i caught two bass each weighing 5 to 7 pounds. But the big fish was caught by a castaic trout bait a 35 pound striper hit that so hard it took about 20 minutes to reel in and it kicked that castaic bait it just killed it bit in half almost.
      City: Long Beach

      Tips: Fish with all types of bait and go for anything want and goodluck

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Jones Valley road is going to be closed for about a month starting the 22nd of Nov while the forest service replaces a bunch of culverts burnt out during the fire. It is rumored that the road might be open on weekends but I wouldn't count on that.
      City: Redding

Tuesday, November 9th, 2004

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 61

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: in at Jones Valley at 0640, air temp 53, water at 101.7 ft down, saw s ome shad right on the ramp and picked up a worm rod and got a 1.82 on first cast with ah Rainbow Worms #99 ust as two more rigs pulled up, backed away from the ramp and followed the shad throwing a spook but it only got slapped, no bites with 4 blowups, took off for some water I fished last week with the brother in law but couldn't find any fish and no surface activity at all, and no wind. Left downstream in the pit and fished till 0930 without a single bite using the MGM hoo-dun-it when things turned on pretty good and caught 4 more and the size was much better between 2.2 and 2.58. The three biggest came on the smoke blue and a half ounce and were fairly shallow in 17 feet of water. The 2.2 came out of a cut in 47 ft of water on the #23. Things came to a halt at 1030 and I did see a guy stick a dandy fish on a spook that easily went 4-5 lbs. Saw him back at the ramp and he said he caught 4 others all on a chrome spook. Out at 12noon, air temp at 55 and heavy overcast just like the early start. Supposed to rain this evening.
      City: Redding

Monday, November 8th, 2004

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 56

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Had one of the best days in a long time!

      Got late start 1000hrs and worked Mid Delta. Found a bunch of fish flipping with a new technique Randy Pringle taught me, just out of current on points. Then found some schools of Largemouth and had a ball. It was like catching schooled strippers. One 2-4lbr every other cast. These came on slow moving Rattle traps. By 1500hrs I had fifty to sixty 3lbrs. Yes you read that right. My thumbs where sore. Never caught so many Large Mouths the same size before.

      I have to say thank you to Randy Pringle for the new techniques. I learned this a few weeks ago on a trip to Clear Lake. I watched several guys go down a bunch of docks and catch nothing. He pulled into them and said "Just watch and do what I do" After a few minutes we had limits of 4-5lbrs, out of the water the boat before us had given up on. He also gave me the starting point for todays trip. All in all the most I have learned from any guide has been from Randy Pringle.

      Best way to learn it is to go out with Randy. I would screw it up attempting to write it down.
      City: Oakland

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      Water Temp: 55

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Ran around with my buddy to a few of our stiper holes and could find any keepers. Just catfish and undersized stipers today which were all released. We ran as far as brandon island and just could not find any big bites.
      City: Stockton

      Tips: FIND THE SCHOOL!!

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: The water is way down and launching is from the South ramp. There is no dock and you have to pull up to the shore to get your partner. The ramp is pretty flat so you have to back up quite a bit. Now that's the bad news. The good news is the fish are very cooperative. Len and I caught about 12 solid keepers and several smaller fish. A mix of spots and blacks. They bit tubes, jigs and dropshot 4" worms. Remember to have fun and leave the fish behind!
      City: Roseville

      Tips: chunk rock banks and secondary drop offs. found fish almost everywhere we tried.

  • Riverside County
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      Water Temp: 70-75

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: I was fishing at the east end using a Rapal fat rap crank bait casting to shore. Doing that i caught 11 pound striper 4 bass each weighing around 4 to 6 pounds each then i went to the marina and used a beetle spinner and caught two bluegil each weighing at 1.7 pounds each.
      City: Riveraide

      Tips: when casting cranks bait to shore let it drop not deep and reel in slow with a little of action. and for the blues just let it drop to bottom and reel in slow not to slow. !Good Luck!

  • Trinity County
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      Water Temp: 58

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Got up to the lake yesterday AM for a few hours not having a clue what to expect. Went to some deep tailings first thing and basically never left. Launched about 7;40 and had a 16 lb limit by 8;30. Started with my old stand-by, the Pro-Gold red flake worm, and when I finally broke that jig-head off, switched to a Gitzit. It made no difference. The bite was on! Caught approx. 30 fish before I left @ 11 AM. Mostly smallies, several in the 3 lb range with an occasional LM. Best LM almost 4. Haven't fished a lot this time of year but after what happened Sun. I may have to rethink that tactic. There was one other Bass boat on the lake and a couple of trout trollers. Wind was calm, the sun was warm, the fish were biting. Gee, I wonder why I ever moved here from Maine.
      City: Weaverville

      Tips: Move to Trinity County.

Sunday, November 7th, 2004

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 55.9

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched early in heavy fog from Orwood. Slow tedious run to woodward.
      Threw reaction baits at first and spooks, torpedos etc. with Nothing! Some action then off crankbaits, mostly craw patterns and one silver/green rattle trap but only boated one keeper.
      Swithched to plastics, brush hog and flukes with limited action. Best fish of the day was a 3lb 1oz on a Fluke.
      Last effort was jigs (every one in the box, all shapes & patterns) for a couple hours with two fish, both dinks.
      All fish were caught outside the weedlines, relatively deep. Bites were extremely subtle.
      City: Solano county

      Tips: SLOW, I mean SSSSLLLLLOOOOOOOWWWWWWW it down. Suspend alot.

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      Water Temp: 60

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Float tubed Lexington on Sunday from 11:30AM-2:30PM. Water was cold, extremely low, and muddy. Visibility was about a foot. The south end became a big mud flat with about two feet average depth.
      Forgot to bring a fish finder and had hard time finding deeper water. After spending 2 hours using carilina rig to prove the depth, finally found one drop off and imidiately caught one small fish (~1lb). Then moved north and caught a bigger fish (about 2lbs.) Both fished were caught on 4 inch plastic worm in watermellon color.
      City: Palo Alto

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

      Report: Fished from the shore. The bite was slow. Overcast skies, drop in temperature and a cool breeze set up the stage. The lake was pounded pretty good with a major tournament on the lake that day. Caught two nice keepers at the launch ramp on watermellon tube (carolina rig) and watermellon sinko (fly line)
      City: Moreno Valley

      Tips: Fish carolina rig with a long leader, watch your line when flylining your sinkos. Good luck and good fishing!

Saturday, November 6th, 2004

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

      Report: Tough day on Saturday for me. 5 hours and 3 fish. Lost 3 other opportunities on bad hookset. Plastics on or close to the bottom was the catchers for me this day. Got Monday, Tuesday, & Wednesday to redeem myself.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Friend caught an 11 pounder over here so don't come here with weak gear. Always be prepared for da next world record. Ya never know.

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

      Report: Hey guy's and girl's. Sorry to use report page to ask for help, i was just woundering if anyone could help me figure out how to catch those droping water temp bass, i have had trouble on most of my prommissing spot's. some good tip's would be great.
      thank you and tight lines
      City: Turlock

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 61 degrees

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Took the Champion out for its first shakedown cruise since having the engines lower unit replaced. Nothing cranking or drop shotting. The short time we fished did manage to boat two 2.5 lbers. split shotting. Caught one in the Hatch/Willow area & the other in Graveyard Creek area.
      City: Delhi

      Tips: Fish came out of rocky areas in 20-25' on green craw pattern 4" worm.

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

      Report: fished tourney saturday,our catch was up against rock walls, 4keeps out of possible 7, did not spoon or drop, many small <13inches--good luck--great weather that day, thanks Kerman Bass Club
      City: madera