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Monday, July 12th, 2004

  • Santa Clara County
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      Water Temp: 72-76

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Gotta wonder why the rangers here are such kooks. A guy intentionally almost hit me on his jet ski and almost nailed my trolling motor. I was pissed, went to the ranger to tell him to do something about it because I'm trying to stay out of fights now. He didn't care. He was jusy done tieing his boat to the dock and he didn't want to untie it to help me out. He said there's nothing he could do. So I just took off and went up to the jet skier myself and was just waiting for his smart ass response so i could tackle him off his jet ski, punch him in the face and then tie a rubber band around the throttle and let it ghost ride into the shore. But he said sorry so I let him off. This time. Rangers are quick to give you a ticket but when you need help. They could give a shit.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Jigs, and deep diving cranks off points and submerged weed beds.(5-18ft) My buddy got a nice 4.5-5lbr on a crankbait right at closing on the rock wall in about 3ft of water.

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

      Report: Some good news for our anglers. A reliable source of mine went to Del Valle this weekend and talked to the park ranger and told him that they WILL NOT be closing the lake and they're all keeping there jobs. Great news for our local fishery.If I get more details I will pass it on. By the way, he also told me that the bass fishing is good. See you on the water!
      City: Fremont

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      Water Temp: warm

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: went out and fought the wind on my pontoon boat , I tried almost everything in my arsenal and the only thing that seemed to work were watermelon and red fleck senkos tossed deep into the bushes where the dinks were on the attack , I hooked six and landed three hogs (none of them over a pound) all the big fish were way deep in the bushes in about a foot of water and did not want to have anything to do with me, so I left
      City: santa rosa , ca

      Tips: keep at it , they are in there and they will bite when you least expect it

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Can some people start participating and put some input in please. I need the help
      City: santa rosa

      Tips: please

Sunday, July 11th, 2004

  • Mason County
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      Water Temp: 75

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Tough day for fishing. Used some of the AM fishing time helping a poor guy who just bought a used 19 ft Ranger and launched for its maiden run without the plug. It was a wrestling match to get it floating again but we did it. He got it running for a few minutes but it quit with water in the gas or oil or both.
      By the time I got a line in the water there were tons of boats on the lake. It was not fun. Managed only 5 fish. Larges was 3lbs. Used grubs, carolina brush hog, and dart head worm. Main lake points in 15-17 ft. on drop offs.
      City: Foster City

      Tips: Don't fish this lake on the weekend until Sept. Too many boats that seem to come right at you while you wonder if they see you. If you don't have any other place to go then plastics in a variety of presentations off the points. Hula Grubs caught the bigger fish over other method. Nothing on drop shot.

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 70-74

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched out of paradise today, got on the water at about 6:30am and started with a buzzbait.Had a few blowups in pixely and switched to a frog and caught two over 2lbs. had a good senko bite going strong all day.
      City: Sac

      Tips: Stick it out for the big bite on kermit the frog!!!!!!!!
      6" senkos in colors:rootbeer,watermelon,black with blue flake
      Tritonboy(a.k.a Lucas Boden) thinks spots but alls he does is talk a lot!!!!!!!(of B.S.)!!!!!!!

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      Water Temp: 70-74

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched out of paradise today, got on the water at about 6:30am and started with a buzzbait.Had a few blowups in pixely and switched to a frog and caught two over 2lbs. had a good senko bite going strong all day.
      City: Sac

      Tips: Stick it out for the big bite on kermit the frog!!!!!!!!
      6" senkos in colors:rootbeer,watermelon,black with blue flake
      Tritonboy(a.k.a Lucas Boden) thinks spots but alls he does is talk a lot!!!!!!!(of B.S.)!!!!!!!

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: sorry this is not a report but what are the fees like to launching a boat on this lake. Thx for your responses
      City: visalia

Saturday, July 10th, 2004

  • Santa Clara County
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      Water Temp: 70 or so

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished from about 3:30 to 5:30. Got blown all over the south end then went north to take down 5 between 1 and 2lbs. 2 carolina rigged and 3 spinnerbait fish.

      Tips: Fished mudlines with rock to grass transitions. Got one on a point within a big weedbed. All in about 6 to 12 ft of water. Work a lot of water since it is a small. No tip on why jet skiers are idiots and why rangers are complete buttheads. I think they always got picked last when they were kids and now they have a badges and assume that they should be respected. Try being nice and thoughtful it just might work.

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished White Slough from shore from 5:30 to 9:00 AM. Caught three in 1-1/2 to 2 lb range, all on white spinnerbaits in the trough. Two short strikes early on topwater (one buzzbait and one spook). Tried a Junebug Kut tail on weedlines and in pockets but no bites. Can't seem to find the big ones, however, I haven't been flippin the tules.
      City: Elk Grove

      Tips: White spinnerbaits has been good for numbers on several outings, but not for size.

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      Water Temp: 70-74

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Caught several fish today to 3lbs on everything from buzzbaits to frogs to lipless cranks but couldn't find any concentrations of bass... weather was great.. no wind until around noon and even then it was a very manageable breeze. We were off the water by 3:30pm.
      City: San Mateo

      Tips: don't have any tips since we couldn't find a consistent bite ourselves

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      Water Temp: 72-74

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched out of Ladds for a 6-hour club tournie w/ Modesto Castmasters. Fished 14,Pixley,Bishop, Disappointment. Lots of short strikes early on surface and flipping - tide almost at low ebb. Took a limit of our five best to weigh-in and came in third w/ about nine. First had two good fish w/ approx. 19, 2nd one good fish and total of 15+. Our fish came on topwaters, zippers and hogs in green. No fish on buzz, blades, cranks or jigs!!
      City: Sonora

      Tips: Fish are still scattered. Need shade, deep water close and cover. Not a bite to be had on riprap. R

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 74-78

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished 1o and 11, fishing was hot. Caught over 50 fish. Drop-shoting with green,purple and brown 4 in. worms, caught only small fish nothing over 2 pounds. Switched to spinner late morning to mid day, white and chartrues-white. Caught a 5 and 6 pound fish.
      City: royal oaks

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      Water Temp: 72-74

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Had a guide trip from 10pm to 7am. Started at Rattlesnake but wind pushed us out of the area. Ran up to Lakeport where the wind was not a factor and caught 2 small fish over 4 hours. Tried top water, spinneraits, dropshot and Senkos...both fish came on Senkos shallow. At 2 am we ran to Konocti and Dollar Island where we finally started catching fish. Caught 26 total with best five only 13-14 pounds. Most came on white spinnerbaits with a few on Senkos and 10" grubs. Largest went 3 pounds and most were 1-2 pounds and most fish came shallow. Couldn't find any kicker fish shallow or deep. Fish seemed to be in schools. We'd cover a couple hundred yards with no fish, then catch a bunch of bites in a small length of shoreline.
      City: Fair Oaks

      Tips: Cover water! Fish thoroughly and when you get a fish fan cast that area with repeated casts until the school plays out.

Friday, July 9th, 2004

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: mid-70s

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Windy all day, with high fog until just after noon. Good frog bite throughout the morning, with fish (all largemouths) in about 1 foot of water -- once the fog lifted, the frog bite was over. The only fish (all spots between 10 and 13 inches) I was able to coax into biting in the afternoon came on dartheads -- just about any color 4-inch worm worked, but something with red seemed to work a bit better. Ended up with about a dozen fish, the biggest maybe 2-pounds.
      City: Pinole

      Tips: Fish the very back of every cove in the morning, with topwater, before the sun is visible!

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: Unknown

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: I stayed at Reel Inn trailer park on Saturday, July 3, started fishing from the shore with about a dozen other people. Drop shot was slaying them! Color didn't seem to matter. Biggest fish was 3 plus lbs. I ended up with 9 for the day. I had to work on the 4th. Came back and fished Tuedsay July 7 with my buddy Bob. Not positive, but I think it was at Ben's rock! North west of Konocti about 1 to 2 miles. Bob started with a drop shot and I started with a Crank bait. From 6:20 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. we caught and released about 60 fish. Bob caught some on a Senko too! I did not stray from a crank bait the whole time. Bob switched to a Lucky Craft crank and started slaying them the last hour! He outfished me 3 to 1. I fish Lake Sonoma mostly, but today was my best day ever. 28 fish in 5 hours! Fish went from 1 to 3 lbs.
      City: Windsor

      Tips: I used crank baits both white and shad color. Bob's Lucky Craft had green and blue in it. Fish varied in dept from 2 feet to about 8 feet. We only covered about 1/2 mile during the whole morning. The bite never slowed much.

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Tried the top water striper bite without much success. On the water about 10 a.m. and stayed till 4 p.m. and only saw 4 boils, and 3 of them happened in the space of ten minutes. Managed to boat 1 to 3.5 lbs. Not much traffic on the lake so I can't blame it on that. Had a little more success on black bass though with 6 to 3 lbs. on baby brush hogs and pop-r.
      City: Stockton

Thursday, July 8th, 2004

  • Santa Clara County
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      Water Temp: warm

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fishing the N. shore from 9:30 AM to 3:30 PM produced three fish: dink, 1# 11oz., and a 2# 1oz. The larger fish took a 6" Yamamoto grub in white. Calero bass are always suckers for grubs. Hooked-up with a small one on a white spinnerbait, but it unbuttoned. HEAVY WINDS, bro! Pretty slow for 6 hours of fishing, but that's the way it is with shore fishing.
      City: Belmont, CA

      Tips: Grubs on/around the weed mats, and cast sporadically for cruisers. Senko produced no fish, spinnerbait was only mildly effective. Try doughballs for the huge goldfish in the shallows. Saw a bassboat catching small ones on small cranks off main points.

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      Water Temp: 72-76

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Biggest fish this week was a 2.8lbr on a medium running crankbait off a mainlake point in 4ft of water and another 2.8 off a rocky point on a buzzbait. Lots of smaller bass out there hitting everything from brush hogs(carolina and texas rigged), spinnerbaits(slow with a jerk here and there), senkos(let em sit), dead ringers(carolina rigged, splitshotted), jig and grub combos(jiggity jig jig jig), and topwater action. Fishing weedlines has worked out a bit and fish tend to be in a variety of depths every day. Most action has come in the 5-10ft range. Go away wind please. FROG BITE WHERE YOU AT?!!
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Dropshot for dinks and for an occaisional bigger fish, spinner baits around the weeds, Brush hogs in deeper water.

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 70-72

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched at the break and headed to franks tract. Stopped at one of the marinas and caught one on a speed trap about 3lbs. Hit franks tract and threw mr. 6in. senko for a while few dinks and one that was 4lbs. Decided to hit this concrete wall for a little flipn and caught six over 2lbs.
      City: Sac

      Tips: Throw 6in. senkos in watermelon with red/green flake.Also throw 5in in color 916(coreshot)
      Speed trap:firetiger
      Stay out of the wind!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
      Good luck!