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Wednesday, November 12th, 2003

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

      Report: Help, has any one been on the lake in the last week?
      City: Lodi

Tuesday, November 11th, 2003

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 58

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: My wie, daughter and I didn't begin ishing till almost 9:00 am but ound very aggressive ish in the narrows and near the dam. From nine till 11:30 boated ten ish all averaging two pounds each in water 15 to 25 eet. Splitshotted plastics in browns and greens were working just ine. Dropshoting did not seem as productive. Great "Fall" morning: wind 0-2 mph, saw about our other boats and boy do I miss wakeboarders and jetskiers. Berryessa is stilling holding alot o water.
      City: placerville

      Tips: Plastics in brown and green. Mainly six inch worms. The ish were all aggressive little "ootballs".

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      Water Temp: 60

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: ished the second bridge rom 7:50 am until about 11:45 am and cought about 14 ish with 11 keepers. biggest ish was a 3.73lbs. largemouth bass, and second best was a 3.03lbs smallmouth. all ish were cought dropshoting. ish the rocky points.
      City: larkspur

      Tips: rubber worms, rapalas, live minnows.

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Don't worry Dave. I don't keep or eat any bass. Never will. Someone gave me an email sayin it's belly may have been yellow rom eating craws and crabs. Thanks or the help though. (Humping a carp) HAHAHA
      City: Antioch

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: i think maybe that bass has to many bananas in its diet..or maybe its been eating yellow senkos.....hahaha.....ive never seen or heard o a bass being yellow on the belly. wait i got it, its been humping a carp. acctually i dont have a clue...sorry.
      City: modesto

      Tips: dont eat a yellow bellied bass....lol....better yet dont eat any bass or keap any bass.

  • Yuba County
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      Water Temp: 62-64

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Ater the drastic weather change I was anxious to see i the jig bite had started at Collins. I had a chance last week to ish the lake on Wed and Fri or about 3 to 4 hours, and guide there on Sat or about 4 1/2 hours. Sat was a near wipeout as we ished in a windtunnel most o the time - at least it didn't rain. One o the clients who hasn't bass ished beore blanked but his riend landed 4 nice spots on Camanche Jack's morning dawn worms. His biggest was right at 2 pounds. I landed a 2-2 on a jig and a smaller one on a worm. We really would have done better but there is no escaping a strong south wind at Collins when the lake is down (35 eet). The other two days ound good ishing and I was pleased to see hal my catch were largemouth - a couple at 2 1/4 and 2 1/2 pounds. The jig bite was "on" Wed and I landed 8 - lost about 6. Fri was slower with the two big largemouth caught on morning dawn worms. I ished the river arm mostly and also had several main body areas set or my clients, but they were all blown out. Most o the bass on all trips were caught rom 10 to 25 eet. There were some big ish deeper, but I didn't really try or them. Next time!!
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: I think the shad population is up this year. Nearly every ish is ull o some kind o bait - one spot spit up several shad. These are the attest all bass I have ever caught there. I am hoping soon the big ish will become more active. I am ready to nail another trophy spotted bass!

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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Skunk day at coyote. road closed to dam so we had to slop threw the mud to launch our tubes. we both got one bite and we lost both ish! only got bit on tubes and a jig. Fished the south end creek channel and the lats. Saw some big bass jump but couldnt get them to take a top water bait or crank baits. Still better than siting at home.
      City: Santa Clara

      Tips: carolina riged tube bait or double tail yamamoto grub on a jig. south side is muddy buddy, dont bring your avorite shoes. :)

  • Alameda County
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      Water Temp: 62

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished rom 0730 to 11:30. Caught 7 nice ish 1-2lbs each. Used dierent baits but the pattern was the same. Worked lats with a big drop o. Fish were on the drop. Caught ish on drop shot, carolina rig, and hula grub in 12t dropping to 25 t o water.
      City: Foster City

      Tips: Sot plastics on the drop o rom shallow to deep water. Bite was over by 1030 AM.

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished LB creek this morning. Fishing was great rom daylight to arround 10:00 a.m. Found the shad by the dam area and had a limit in the boat by 8:00a.m. all ish came on hopkins silver spoons 3/4 ounce with the best ish going 4.75 pounds. Culled ish until 10:00 and went searching or more bait ish. Found one more ball at the mouth o the river and spooned up a ew more keppers in the 1.5 to 2 pound range. All in all a pretty good day at LB with the best ive going 13 lbs.
      City: los banos

      Tips: ind the bait ish and jig those spoons. the bait ish were holding about 25 eet, oh yeah we did catch 3 trout along with those bass.

Monday, November 10th, 2003

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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: went ishing or about an hour this evening just to mess around. I caught one 14" bass on a Rat-L-Trap along some rocks. had another ish clobber a blk/red jig, but immediately dropped it. hey david, ya know, we were nice enough to give you some good tips to put you on some more and better ish on this lake, and now you're givin' some pretty vague reports. The purpose o the reports section is to help out other anglers or their upcoming trips. I you're going to be so vague about what you're doing out there, then there's no point in making the reports. JMHO
      City: Antioch

      Tips: The ish are really loading up on craws right now...

  • Westchester County
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      Water Temp: N/A

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: The cover program is a go. Saturday January 10th 7:30 am 2004 will meet at Quarry as we did last year. we will have coee and donuts sponsored by BBAC, then drive down to the loading site and start dumping trees. We estimate 1000 trees at Quarry. Anyone that lives close to a x-mas tree lot please spread the word to call Pete Alexander at 510-258-2211 to arrange drop o. BBAC will provide receipts or the lot owners so they not only get the write o but do not have to pay to dump the unsold trees. Its a win win or everyone. Ater the dumping, we will all go to quarry lakes Ensonata Picnic area or the BBQ o Tri Tips and the works or lunch at 2pm sponsered by the parks dept. Volunters are asked to wear boots and bring gloves to help. So dress appropriatly or the weather. I hope to see a good turnout
      City: Castro Valley

Sunday, November 9th, 2003

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 58-60

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished a club event. Heavy cloud cover, storm ront moving through. Caught 30-40 ish with about 12 keepers. Won Big Fish with a 2.9# spot caught on a 1-ton with Yamamoto hula grub color (#284) Most ish came in 28-35 eet on dropshot with Yamamoto 9J Senkos or Aarons Magic 4" worms. Catching ish was simple...just cruise the bank until you ound a ball o bait ish. Drop down on them and catch a ish almost every time. Also, caught one o our weighed ish on a shad colored DUH spinnerbait.
      City: Fair Oaks

      Tips: Fish are strongly relating to bait ish. Cover a lot o water watching your depth inder.

  • 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.