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Sunday, November 9th, 2003

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Hey guys! Today I caught a largemouth in Big Break Marina and it had a yellow underside. It wasn't white, not o white, it was yellow! Has anyone else ever seen this? Just curious why that ish had a yellow stomach. Thanks.
      City: Antioch

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Water level dropped at least our eet. No cover to lip to near shores.Me and a riend decided to crank mostly with more luck than we anticipated. Found structure that we werent previously aware o when water was higher. New ideas and presentations will be implemented. Getting towards dusk and my buddy, Paul, cranks along rocks to the right o dam and landed an 8lb. largemouth. Fattest ish I have ever seen in person. I snapped o a couple o photos and will post ater roll is developed.
      City: Concord

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      Water Temp: cold!

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Raining like cats and dogs when we put in the tubes! thenit cleared up and was a beautiull day! only a ew shore ishermen braved the weather and us two crazy loat tubers! We both got 3 bass.Kyle got the biggest this time, it was 2 lbs. on the dot! We ished near the dam. The water is cold but the ish are willing. The road is closed past the camp grounds during the week and the boat launch is still closed. The shore line is heck o muddy and the water is down.
      City: Santa Clara

      Tips: Tex posed 6 inch grub, bouncing o the bottom. also smal grubs and worms ished slow. some ish are shallow neer the rocks, but most were caught in deeper water.

Saturday, November 8th, 2003

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 63.5

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Friday on a overcast day and could still see 8'+ deep. Drop-shotted all my ish rom 20'-35', mostly smallies.Tried cranking and traps or a while with no luck. The "er sure" stu on East bank is out o water right now(willow trees).Caught ish in Putah and rocky points in Narrows.
      City: Middletown

      Tips: Those smallies still hate a chartruese tailed bait pretty bad!I used a heavy sinker to get my bait down quick, and it seemed like they were hitting the bait on the way down. Spooning maybe?

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 61

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished South Fork & near Spillway launch ramp. Lots o ish on bait 18-24 eet, and deeper. Shad color plastics worked on drop shot (try Morning Dawn by Pro Worms)or on darthead. Mostly slot ish. One keeper smallmouth on crank bait, but generally no reaction bite. Amost all Spotted bass, but riends caught some smallmouth up N. Fork on dartheads (color unknown).
      City: Penn Valley

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      Water Temp: 63

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Tough ishing with pre rontal weather. Fished rom 0730-1130. Only caught 10 ish all under 2lbs. All ish caught along the weed line in 15-25t o water. Could not get bit on the rocky points which is the norm at this time o year. All ish caught on drop shot and hula grub.
      City: Foster City

      Tips: Sot plastics thrown into the weedline along a vertical drop. Shake or drag the drop shot over the drop o.

Thursday, November 6th, 2003

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 54-55.5

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Well, hit the old Delta today with a buddy. We launched out o Vieras with visions o salmon. The people we talked to said the ishing was bad so we decided to try or the smallmouth we heard that lived around there. We headed up past Snug harbor and ished rom 8 to about noon with no takers. Slowed down and went a little deeper (10-12t) and started getting ish on various t-rigged plastics. Best one went 4.5 with a 2 and a bunch more dinks. I even got a 1.5 Smallmouth, my irst ever in the Delta! Headed back to Vieras with no luck. Decided to ish around that area beore heading in. I threw on a spook, a ew casts later and my lure got slammed by what turned out to be a 22" squawish. My irst one o those as well.
      City: Walnut Creek

      Tips: Go slow!!!!!! Fish a bit deeper, all our ish were on structure ie wood ,rocks etc..

Wednesday, November 5th, 2003

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 54-58

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: 3 o us launched at Wimpy's at 8AM. Went to our avorite slough and started throwing RatLTraps. My 2nd toss, I hooked what I thought was my biggest bass ever. Ater a 5 minute battle, it was a 15+lb salmon. An hour later, we had 6 salmon in the boat (15-21lbs). Released 3 others and lost at least 6 more. Kept tossing RatLTraps until 3PM. Also caught 2 stripers (biggest - 12 lbs) and 2 bass (1.5 lbs each).
      City: dixon

      Tips: Rat L Traps...Rat L Traps...Rat L Traps. Any that imitate a shad. Upgraded original hooks to Owner 4x size 4 and orginal split rings to heavier rings. We lost salmon the previous weeks because rings ailed.

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 64-66

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Rough Day. My partner and I pounded the water until 2:00pm. 1 Trout and one mini smally. We tried everything, you name it, we tried it. I have ished this lake many times.....never had a day like this.
      City: San Leandro

Tuesday, November 4th, 2003

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

      Report: 100 bass in 2 days. That's 50 a day. Let's just say you ished 10 hrs a day. That's 5 ish an hour, one every 12 minutes. I bet your arms got pretty tired.
      City: Sac

      Tips: I'LL BE BACK!!!

Monday, November 3rd, 2003

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Started o real slow. Moved past island towards west. First ish landed was a 4.5 lb ish! My biggest ish so ar. Next ish was at the dock ater the island 1.5 approx. maybe a tad smaller. Just past the dock I got hammered. I knew it was big I never have had a bass bend my rod like this. Was nervous, tried to hog it in, drag was too tight, got sight o it right at my ins and SNAP! There is a very large bass with a 2/0 Gama hook in it's jaw swimming around. Let me know i you catch it.I am guessing 6lbs. plus. Would have been my irst ish over 5. Ater the intense rustration passed I headed towards rock wall. Sun started to all so I headed back. I wanted to go urther up to small cove at ar corner o lake to try some topwater as Tom recommended but time was running short. Went back to area near bridge past island where I got the 4.5 and immediately landed another 3.5 lber. First thought it might be same ish but marking and total length were dierent once I landed it. On way back started cranking shallow. Landed 2 lber just outside o the island. Landed 0ne more on the shallow crankbait about a pound. Lost about 5 other ish. Happy with end results. really would have liked to have known actual weight o that ish. Broke 12lb. Mccoys. Will be replaced with stronger line asap!!
      City: Concord

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

      Report: Arnold you can believe what you want, just because you can't catch bass. We had 2 days that we were there that between the 2 o us we caught 100+ bass ( that is 50+ each ). Why is that hard to believe, we spent 6 days on the lake rom sun up to sun down which gave us plenty o time to igure out the pattern. No we don't catch that many very oten but sometimes you get there just at the right time. Why would I make it up. You have a nice day and just because you are board and have nothing to do don't stur up trouble.
      City: Hayward, Caliornia

      Tips: Get a lie. At least I put my real name and a e-mail address i I was making it up I would be like you and be annonomous.

Sunday, November 2nd, 2003

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

      Report: Hit the Delta out o Oakley on Sunday or bass. Got a good striper irst thing, and pulled in 5 keeper sized largmouths along with some smaller ones in the morning and early aternoon. By mid aternoon, the ishin died o considerably. Got the striper on a silver and black rattle trap. The best lures or the bass were spinner baits (willow lea colorado tandem with black skirt) and senko worms (blue colors worked best)

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      Water Temp: droping

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Was at work riday and saw those clouds and no wind and thought I should be in the delta ishing sat was nice and today was like riday got a striper early and it went 5 lbs lost two at least the same our bigger started on some large mouth and got one too go 6lbs nice ish best ive around 15 lbs good day lot o ish Got one more striper later in the day that went 7 lbs nice resh run striper really had good color un day too ish the delta.
      City: Pittsburg

      Tips: Fish topmwater early than throw shad type cranks bleeding shad has done great or me so ar .

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 58-61

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: My brain was on overload driving over to Clear Lake yesterday - Saturday - thinking what in the world would I suggest to my clients with the summer to winter pattern we experienced in 48 hours. As one o my riends said: Autumn was last Wednesday! What would the bass be up to? I suggested we start at 9:30 am and ish 'til dark - taking advantage o any warming there was in the aternoon. Again, that worked or us! Ater launching in the still cold morning, I started showing them some areas in the Clear Lake Oaks arm and we started catching ish about 10 am. We drop-shotted several, including my biggest at 3-9. The other client nailed a 3 pounder. They both wanted to learn to ish jigs better and we did get a ew, with lots o tail-biters. Man, they love that Yamamoto #180 grub tail!! As I expected, the crank bite was slow but I did catch one on a Terminator spinnerbait about 2 1/2 pounds. We ished the south end with very slow results - even up to 4 pm. I was getting worried about my promise o better things to come. Suddenly someone turned on the switch and the jig bite was on! We caught 8 in the last hour with one o the guys boating his biggest jig ish ever - at 3-13. We probably had 20+ hits, but some were small ish I'm sure. We really had un on a bright chilly day, landing 17 bass with a biggest ive limit at 15 1/4 pounds - a real nice surprise or a trip that we were pretty unsure about. Since I was helping them prepare or a tournament - we looked around a lot in addition to ishing and still had a great day. We didn't get a big bite but I really wasn't expecting one. We talked to two other guys coming in and they only had 2 or 3 ish, but they said they did nail a 6 pounder.
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: Since they are ishing an upcoming tournament, I won't be speciic about what we were using or where we ished. I looked careully to see i the sudden cold weather had cleared the water any - not so ar! Some o the bait had dropped down to deeper water, though there were still Silversides on the surace. It was un watching 5 to 7 inch bass chase the bait - no wonder they are at!!! There are a lot o big ish - some have to be bass - in the 30 to 45 oot depth. Dragging a big worm in deep water could really yield a monster. I noticed that a lot o bass that had been drop-shotted under docks have moved out - somewhere - probably to the nearest ledge. That bite had really slowed or me in the last two trips.

  • Westchester County
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      Water Temp: 64 over cast

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: my usual, trolled,4 trout at 21t. 1 small mouth at 35t 2trout or supper the rest still in the lake.nice place to relax.my mina kota co-pilot has been working great.
      City: remont

      Tips: ish serace to 21t thomas buoyants,minnow imts rainbow runners and what works best or you.

Saturday, November 1st, 2003

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 67-68

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Got there at 7am and got a couple dinks o main points rippin. Went into Rock Creek and caught 12 trout rom 2-4 lbs on a speed trap. Fished there or an hour and had some un playin with the Cutbows. Ater that, I went and dropshotted Mountain Springs with not much success. I switched over to a splitshot and did much better. Not much size to the ish, 2.5 pounds was the biggest. I you go there, watch out or the Trout isherman. They are everywhere...I got quite a ew dirty looks goin by them, hehe.
      City: Elk Grove

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: ???

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went out o Vierra's on Saturday around 9am. There were a ton o Salmon Anglers around. We, however, were searching or Largemouth and Stipers. I started with a Chartreuse Spook Jr., my buddy Aron was tossing a Chrome RatLTrap, and my other riend Bob was using a Lucky Crat Pointer (yellow w/white).At around 9:15am, Aron sticks a 4lb Striper (Bob switches to RatLTrap). At 9:20am, Bob sticks a 13lb Stiper (Greg switches to RatLTrap). Ater that, nothing or about three hours but a couple o hal-hearted strikes. Around Noon, I hook a 2+ lb Largie o some Tules(Still using a trap).An hour later, I catch a Sacramento Pike (one ugly ish) o a Chrome w/Yellow w/Orange RatLTrap and then on the next cast caught a dink Largemouth. Then around 2pm, Bob caught a 4lb Striper on Chrome w/blue RatLTrap. All-in-all, less ish than we had hoped, but had a un day out on the water. Best ive went 25lbs (mostly on the back o that nice 13lber).We stayed airly close to Vierras and Rio Vista the entire time and threw mostly traps the entire day. We did spend a little time casting JigsNpigs (purple), Spooks, and Sencos (Watermelon).Greg H.Orangevale, Ca.ggh4@pge.comP.S. Saw some nice Salmon being caught (both Wigglewart and Quikish). Probably 1 or 2 per boat (some in the 22lb range).
      City: Orangevale

      Tips: Looks like the Stiper bite was on early and we just caught the tail end. Throw bigger traps and hang on.

  • Alameda County
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      Water Temp: ???

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: The water is VERY LOW!!! Be very careul where you go and make sure you know the depth. I almost got stuck and ruined my outboard in a very shallow part o the lake (in the narrows). My ish inder said it was about 1 oot deep. From then on, I stayed close to the water's edge.On to the ishing. I didn't catch anything. I got one bite going or striper, but didn't get anything else. I saw a ew others catching trout, but no bass were to be ound.
      City: Hayward

      Tips: Go to the Delta and catch some striper and salmon right now beore they're gone.

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 60+

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: 6 boats, 12 anglers ished a club tournament on 11/1/2003. Clear water, clear sky, cool day. water temp in the low 60's. quite windy. We caught a lot o small ish but only 4 o us caught 5 keepers (13" or longer).I did not go north o Moccasin in Tuolumne River as originally planned because it did not seem it would make a dierence where we ished. Instead, I ished:1. Rocky walls north o Graveyard Creek2. Sole piece o rock at Red Mountain Bar3. Stuck-up bare trees across rom Red Mtn. Bar4. Island across rom and South o the Aquaduct Islands5. Buzzard PointMe and Scott caught many small ish but only one keeper each at spot 4 above. We drop shot with shad color innesse lures and 4-1/2" straight tail Aarons Magic worms. I caught the big ish, all 1.68 lbs o it. It was that tough.
      City: Chatsworth

      Tips: Fsih 17' i you want to catch small ish. Fish deeper i you want keepers. No guarantees.