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Sunday, October 17th, 2004

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: raining........

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: out of all the days this week (my vacation) i go fishing today...WOW WAS IT RAINING!!!!...well i tried senkos, spooks,ripbaits, split shot 'n, texas rigs, buzz baits, and a jig...i got to the lake around 12noon and fished till about 6pm...did i mention it was raining...
      well i don't know how to understand what fish do during the rain. nor do i know how to make them bite...
      but i did get one and dat swas all i needed was one. she was a lm that weighed about 4lbs on a texas rigged worm, but she was fouled hooked and released....so like i said how do i get them to bite during the rain???
      City: san francisco

      Tips: just keep on fishing, you'll figure it out!!!

Saturday, October 16th, 2004

  • Mason County
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      Water Temp: n/a

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: A bit late for posting this report, but here it goes. Fished Anderson on Saturday Oct 16, 04. Condition looked good, pre-front, overcasted sky. First time fishing there. Went with two friends. At the gate, paid $5 to enter and a ranger gave us some precaution about mercury in the fish. Well, we normally catch-and-release, so no problem. Started fishing at 8AM near the boat ramp (from shore). Shoreline access was quite limitted. Nothing for the first 30 mins. Moved toward the dam and started catching fish. Caught 5 on Rat-L-Trap and 3 on Brushhog. Bigger fish (well not that big, around 2-3lbs class) were caught on brushhog. Stayed until 2PM and drove to the other side (east side??). Water was a lot shallower. Couldn't get any bite there. Called it a day around 3PM. (Not bad for the first time. Might come back with a float tube.)
      City: Palo Alto

      Tips: Brushhog in watermelon color. (The dam is loaded with crawdad.)

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 67

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: fished our two day club tourney this week end. bite has been tough for me lately . saturday i did get 11.7 good for first day lead in our club including a 4.94. got 9.71 sunday includind a 4.48 but dropped to second as one member brought in an 18 + bag including a 6.25 and a 5.8. both days we caught bunches of dinks... keepers were tough to come by .. we spent most of sat and all of sunday in victoria canal. saturday 90% of fish were caught on wacky worming a yamamoto cut tail worm .. the few others on spinner baits . sunday just the opposite 90% of keepers on spinner baits and rattle traps and the rest on the worm. both days the bite was the best for keepers on the end of the tides and the first hour after the change... dinks bite all day ..broke my trolling motor cable sunday.. luckily only had an hour to go when it broke. rained on us sunday but just a little. wind came up around 10 am each day ..
      City: SUNNYVALE

      Tips: fish tight to the tules . after sun comes up fish are tight in shade pockets..chart/wht spinner baits and watermelon worms seem to wotk the best .rattle trap fish were caught on the rocks .

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished on the 16th with my fishing club. Windy, difficult for boat control, or baits for that matter. Flip/pitch bite was nothing for me, started cranking. Areas with current and bait was the ticket. Caught a small limit, with a four pounder for the kicker. Had a big fish bite, but never turned on the bait. That fish managed to blow out a crank loaded with Gammie trebles and not one hook touched it. Amazing.
      City: Rio Vista

      Tips: The was a Timber Tiger DC-8 color light tan or 203, had to go down to ten pound test as it was high tide. Crank the submergent grasses, with moving water. Have fun with it!
      A.G.

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

      Report: A cold front was moving in, but the fishing was still pretty good. Fished Soda Bay and had a few fish on crankbaits pretty deep, and dropshot and senkos, pretty shallow. Couldnt find a pattern.

      FIshed Konocti. Was pretty calm in the morning with some rain. THen the wind started up and it was hell from then on. In the end, i caught about 20 fish dropshotting docks and rocks. Only one of those over 12 inches. Broke off a nice fish, prolly around five pounds right in the konocti marina.

      I think i saw u out there Cooch, but didnt have a chance to say hi.
      City: Clear Lake

      Tips: Reaction bite in the morning.
      In the afternoon, drag plastics, dropshot, or throw senkos. Something slow.

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: SCOTT: INDEED IT SUCK'S,BUT SOMETIME'S THERE'S MORE BAD THAN GOOD IN PEOPLE.WE CAN'T CONTROL IT UNFORTUNATELY. WELL I WILL BE UP THERE ALSO (sat) ILL LOOK OUT FOR YOU. FISHING HAS BEEN SLOW AT BEST. BUT I LOVE THIS LAKE IN THE FALL. I USUALLY DO REAL WELL IN THE THANSGIVING AREA. EVERYONE IS HOME TOO SO IT'S ALL YOUR'S TO YOURSELF. GOOD LUCK MAYBE WILL MEET..............!
      City: turlock

      Tips: CATCH &&&&&&&&&&&&&&& RELEASE

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 68

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the Future pro tour Saturday. Caught fish dropshotting and on spoons. Look for bait and stay on it. Depths anywhere from 20-55 feet deep. Had 13.43 lbs for 5 fish. Had a great day.
      City: folsom

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      Water Temp: 64-67 deg

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Well Joe Miller and I fished the Future Pro Tour Tourament hoping to make the TOC. The day had changed to being windy and the temp had droped 4 degs., the air temp also dipped down. Going to our first spot left of the dam in a large cove area finding other fisherman also had the same idea. Seven other boats were in this cove and no fish for us until later. We left to spot two looking for our fish, finding none, (large hump just outside dyke 8 ramp). Returning to spot one, finding that the fish had returned using a Pro Worm # 266 leach on a split shot in 20-30 ft of water. In the next three hours we started catching our 15 bass (four smallies ), culling seven. Moving out to other humps in the main body at 1:30pm looking for balls of bait fish in the 20-50 feet, culling one more before weighting in . We finshed 19 for 7.65 lbs, the big fish winner was a 4.0 lbs +. Some of the winners used jigs, rip baits, drop shot and split shot. To much winds for top water bite. The winning weight was 11.0 ? The small boat division winner had 13.0 + lbs, slow day for some
      City: rocklin

      Tips: Look for large bait balls with large bass on humps in the main body in deep water, work your bait slow.

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 69

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: This lake SUCKS right now. I fished it the 15th and 16th. Don't go until November. The fish are scattered from the surface down to 50'.
      Unless your a stud on Melones like Johnny C you will struggle to catch fish. It ain't worth it!!
      I pre fished for a club tourney on the 15th and found balls of shad in the back of a creek and went back the next morning and they were gone. The rest of the day was miserable.
      The shad balls were 30'-50' deep.
      I forgot my spoons so I counted down a 3/4 oz chrome trap and yo yo'd / ripped it back to the boat and caught fish that way. I also dropped a heavy gitzit down and caught a couple fish that way. I caught about five fish and got out of there. The spots were fat and easy to catch.
      Topwater, rippin' and crankbaits weren't working at all.
      I did catch some fish on a Yamamoto twin tail spider jig (brown with green flake)in about 15' of water.
      The tournament was won throwing spinnerbaits in shallow water. Five small spots took it.
      City: Modesto

      Tips: Look for those white and black diving birds in the back of creeks because they will tell you where the shad are. I saw a dead shad on the surface and they are big right now (4"-5").
      Wait until it gets colder so the shad will be more concentrated.

Friday, October 15th, 2004

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

      Report: to add to my report i must say this small reservior is full of wakboarders and jetskiers they are very annoying and disrubt the fishing
      City: the bay

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished with buddy for 4 hours and got only 4 fish bigest being 2-3 lbs. First time at this reservoir wasn't quite as good as i expected it to be
      City: the bay

      Tips: use rapalas

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: unknown

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Spent one of my vacation days on the water. Launched out of Sugar Barge at first light and fished until 4:00 PM. The weather was so calm and balmy I thought the world was going to end. Spent the first hour in franks throwing topwater and the bite was poor...Decided to move up river and headed to Sycamore Slough and for the first two hours the bite was terrible. I then came upon a point as the tide started to drop and caught a 7.6 Largemouth and 15lb striper within three casts...Both on topwater. Moved down river and fished the middle delta where the topwater bite from 11:00 - 2:00 was as consistent as I've ever seen it, unfortunately, the fish were in the 2-3lb class. Mix in two 8-10lb stripers and the day was extremely fun.
      City: Brentwood

      Tips: Tide is key...when it is either at the top or bottom the bite is real good using topwater baits. Fish outside edge of weedlines at the bottom of the tide and fish inside the sunken islands at high tide...White is the ticket for me. Same bait, new day, consistent results. Stay safe and take a kid fishing. TG

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      Water Temp: mid - high 60's

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Had a mixed bag day. We caught 3 limits of black bass, 2 stripers (largest - 7.5 lbs), and a 7.5 lb salmon. Largest bass was 3.5 lbs, but I loss a bass that we estimated to be 6+ lbs. Caught it in the middle of a slough on a Rat L Trap, but it jumped out of the water and did a couple of flips and threw the hook. Also caught a 5.5 lb sacramento squawfish.
      City: Dixon

      Tips: Salmon and stripers are moving up. Use a shad colored Rat L Trap. Fish near the end of sloughs.

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Juan....damn shame isnt it? We spend all this money on our gear and license etc and with all the taxes we pay and stuff you'd think they'd have enough to get enough people to patrol. It's such a shame we all do everything by the book and one small percentage of poachers takes it all away. Have you been up lately? I was thinking of taking my new Stratos up tommorrow (sat) to see if I could boat my first fish outta her! Tight Lines-thanks for caring and doing what you could man-wish everybody did the same-GOOD JOB!
      Tight Lines-see ya on the lake!
      Scott
      City: Chowchilla

      Tips: Report each and every poacher you see!

Thursday, October 14th, 2004

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      Water Temp: COOL

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: NOT MUCH HAPPININ
      City: SJ

      Tips: BE PATIENT

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

      Report: THANKYOU PHILS STAFF I WENT FROM 5-6 FISH A DAY TO OVER 50 A DAY ON THAT NEW DROPSHOT RIG THANKS I DID NOT CATCH ANY GIANTS BUT I FELT GOOD WHEN I WALKED TO THE TRAILER.
      City: REDDING

      Tips: PINK POON WITH MORNINGDAWN TRAILER .

Wednesday, October 13th, 2004

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 70

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Caught a bigger fish than Ryan Davis Troughton!
      8.2 pounds on a fluke. Threw it into a brushpile with my pink fishing rod. Dad was proud. By the way, I love you Ryan.
      City: brentwood

      Tips: Love Ali

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      Water Temp: 65-66

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: no wind yesterday. we fished dawn til about 1pm .. was starting to get hot . caught several dinks and some keepers . still some frog fish out there but with water temp dropping not as many as a couple weeks ago ..caught a couple and missed a couple ..was mainly pre fishing for or club tourney coming up this weekend so don't want to give much away as i know vince reads rhis.. also with won bass saturday and the hook tourney sunday we will already have enough competition as ours is a two day ..
      City: sunnyvale

      Tips: follow someone you know catch bigger fish

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      Water Temp: 63-65

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went out around 0630 out of Franks and got a 6+ at first stop. We fished until 5:30, a long day and got several Flippin over 4lbs. The only wind today was moving from one place to the other. Flat all day long had to work for the fish but had a great day.
      City: Fairfield

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      Water Temp: 68

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went fishing at 1:00 PM in back yard with senko.
      Caught largest bass of life. 7.25 lbs on dads Cul m right scale. Later caught a bunch of smaller bass.
      City: Discovery Bay

      Tips: Pitch into shade pockets during middle of day.