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Sunday, December 21st, 2014

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 54-55

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Only had a a few hours to fish and was really out just to muck around with new electronics. Marked a bunch of fish around the Russo's but out in the middle of the channel. No takers but water was pretty murky. Ran south and found some clean water. Caught a couple small keepers + 3 more bites inlcuding a good sized one that broke me off. Ran out of time and had to return home.
      City: San Mateo

      Tips: Found fish in healthy hydrilla. They were on the outer edges and in holes. All my bites were on drop shot but I'm bringing the punch rod next time out. Did not get any reaction bait bites including 10' crank, Staysee 90, chatter bait, Spook.

Saturday, December 20th, 2014

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 55

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Overall a good day considering the conditions. Some areas had about 10in of visibility and 55 water temp which made the bites far and few between. Bigger squarebills in bright colors and of coarse, blk blue jig, accounted for our bites. looked for cleaner water and the fish were definitely chewing! Dropshotted for the remainder of the day with good results.
      City: stockton

      Tips: look for clean water and fish deep or cover lots of shallow water with a crank or jig. in the dirty water expect only a handful of bites but thy will be good quality ones.

Thursday, December 18th, 2014

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

      Report: Fished today for the morning, one shitty day for me. Water darn near muddy in many places, stained everywhere. Spillway launch closed, guess it's because Bidwel has water up to the concrete ramp now. I couldn't get much going, shallow, medium or deep. Got 2 spots, both about 13", taken in about 10-15 foot mark. Nice day, just no fish for me. More wood today, be careful, some fair size logs now. Hope next week is better.
      City: Magalia

Saturday, December 13th, 2014

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 54-56

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Weather: Overcast, cold, 5-7 mph winds
      Lake Level: High due to rains, back to normal on Saturday\Best Depths: Jig fish are all coming from 4-6 on the rocks and 8-12 feet out off the bank in the grass. The active reaction fish are all in 3-6 foot up on the flats with sparse grass adjacent to tules.
      Fishing after the storms was very productive for us, due to the rains much of the Delta has become stained to dirty moving fish shallow. The fish were active and aggressively feeding, if ya roll up and don't git bit, move on till ya find em! Paddle tailed
      Big Bass: Jig fish are all coming from 4-6 on the rocks and 8-12 feet out off the bank in the grass. The active reaction fish are all in 3-6 foot up on the flats with sparse grass adjacent to tules.12/13/2014 - Largemouth
      Nothing over 6.5 lbs the past two weeks
      Top of incomming
      Guide Information: WWW.CoochsFishing.COM\Name & Number: Cooch's Fishing 925-732-3293\Pricing Specials/Open Dates: See Website

      Tips: As is the case in winter, you've got to slow down, very slow retrieves on the swimbaits and 4-6 sec pauses on the jerkbaits produced strikes, where faster constant retrieves did not. Long pitches with a slowere hop-n-pop of the jig produced strikes, very few fish bit on the initial fall of the jig.

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      Water Temp: 54-56 degrees

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Had super low expectations since we were fishing right after storm but ended up having a great time. No big ones but caught 12, 17 total for two of us. Fished breaks at the north end of Franks but water was pretty stained, 6"-1' visibility. Ran down to Little Mandeville where the water was much cleaner, 3-4' visibility. Started catching them on breaks, grass channels, *1 dock*, edges of hyacinth mats. Caught em on jerkbait and dropshot. Buddy caught a couple on spoon as well. Only one small keeper out total fish but still had fun.
      City: San Mateo

      Tips: Almost all the jerkbait bites came on a long pause (10-20s secs) and were passive.

Tuesday, December 9th, 2014

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

      Report: Tossed worms today from 8am to 11am, short trip, but well worth it. Dirty water had me thinking, no fish today, but I ended up catching 14 fish, 1 nice 17 1/2" small mouth, spots one at 16 1/2", 3 15", with the rest about 13-14" Best 5 fish right about 10.5 pounds. Just about all fish taken at 25-30 foot mark, none shallow, nor any over 35 foot mark. Water came up over 10 feet in the last couple weeks making the walk up the ramp a tad better for this old man. Ramp is much better now that water is getting to the packed gravel. Floating wood beginning to appear since the rains started 2 weeks ago.
      City: Magalia

Wednesday, December 3rd, 2014

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

      Report: Lake is UP 5 feet according to the news tonight. Need a break in rain to get on the lake. Maybe in a couple days.
      City: Magalia

Sunday, November 30th, 2014

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 60-62

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Friday I met my clients at Pleasure Cove about 10:30 am for a post-Thanksgiving trip. Not my everyday set of clients - a father and his 7 and 11 year old sons!! Could the boys bass fish? YES - they would put some of my adult clients to shame! Simply delightful, polite, wonderful young boys. Gives me hope for the future! I was prepared for some tough fishing as one of my friends was there the day before and said the bass had gone very deep. He was right - most of the 30 to 60 foot bait balls were gone. Found some at 80-90 feet! About 2pm they all wanted to spoon! It is amazing to see a 7 year old pick up the spooning technique in a few minutes - he was great!! I had them fishing 1 3/4 oz Blade Runner spoons. Trouble is - with the big fish moving very deep, the dinks became active and they were spooning 5 to 8 in bass right and left! They did land a few nice smallies up to 2 1/2 lbs - biggest on a Berkely Flappin' Hog. We stayed on the west side of the lake most of the day.

      Tips: The lake had not turned over as of Friday and we saw no surface activity of any kind - bait, trout, or bass. After I left them off, I went out for the last half-hour of light - working topwater and crankbaits. Nothing! It is raining as I write this, and a better storm is due Tues. I really believe a good dose of fresh water will help get the bite going. Lots of bass boats out Friday and some of them might have found a better early morning bite. No one posts helpful info much anymore. Too bad!

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 56-57

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Decent weekend on the delta, fished both Sat and Sun, winning our local TOC. Sat was slow and cold with a bad tide. still managed a pretty good bag all things considered. Focused on the outside edge of large flats and found fish in the 2-2.5lb range hot on jigs and senkos. Next stop fished dropshot in connection with my HDS to find tightly schooled bass in deeper water, 11-13ft. got our kicker. focused on current edges and deep swings. had our bag and stopped fishing at noon. Sun was a lot tougher early , started with finesse baits but the bite opened up at 11a - 2pm wide open but no size except a 5lb. all reaction. should probably kept with reactions longer to the start the in hindsight.
      City: stockton

      Tips: even if the weather is bad, if has been stable (rain or shine)for a day, the fish will adjust and go back to eating reaction baits. fishing in the 10+ range was a pattern this weekend and where the more consistent bite was, but never sleep on a shallow water reaction bite aft the weather has remained the same for a day or two

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

      Report: Thanks for the reports...Glory Hole

      Tips: No tips , going in the am, How is "smokie" doing? This is for Glory hole staff who took photos of Mr. Man. Hope he made it. The rain should have some impact, throwing swim baits all day tomm.

Friday, November 28th, 2014

  • Alameda County
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      Water Temp: 60's

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: algae bloom still in full effect. fished from 9:30am to 1:00. got bit on a jig at the island then fished a flat i found in the western arm towards the creek inlet. cranked,carolina and drop shotted magic worms...nothing. I fished shallow and deep with no results and dragged worms. dude at the dock said he's on em and to fish the far north near the dam.
      City: lafayette

      Tips: Dunno try covering a lot of water. wait for the algae to die off. get a depth finder. TOUGH

Thursday, November 27th, 2014

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 56

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: My son and I went out Thursday and Friday looking for both stripers and largemouth. We worked Franks Tract, rip rap walls near deep water and Mildred Island. We found a lot of fish both days with jerk baits (we caught 20-25 each both days), but nothing of any size. We did catch 5 or 6 keeper stripers and 5 or 6 largemouth in the 1.5-2 lb range, but everything else were dinks and shakers. It was a lot of fun with lots of action, but just didn't find any big bites.
      City: Elk Grove

      Tips: Not sure I'm qualified to give any tips, but the jerk bait was working for us everywhere we went. Even in areas where a dropshot was the hot bait a few weeks ago we were only catching fish on the jerkbait.

Wednesday, November 26th, 2014

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 56-57

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Never thought this would be my exclusive forum for my reports! Guess no one is fishing Clear Lake anymore - yea, right!! Anyway, Mike Sperbeck and I made a brief trip yesterday afternoon - from 4 to 9:30 pm. We fished from the Oaks ramp to Henderson Pt. Speaking of Henderson - we fished the area for about an hour and a half - without a single bite! That might be a first for us. I had another terrible trip - losing the 5 I hooked. Mike landed 3 and missed 2. Biggest was 7 lbs 5 oz. We used a total variety of plastics - mostly dark colors. The few biters we had were all very shallow.

      Tips: Again, in spite of a beautiful late fall evening, there was no sound of a single carp roll or even a bird. Very quiet!! That usually means a quiet bite! Oaks ramp is still good for launching, and if these coming weekend storms do work out, the lake may start rising a bit.

  • Alameda County
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      Water Temp: 59- 62

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: The lake was calm most of the day. Caught my first bass (LG) on a umbrella rig 3 lbs. fish was breaking on the flats. Went to topwater baits and had a blast. Mostly smallies 2 to 3 lbs. Just moved around and fished points. Final got a jig bite going at the end of the day.
      City: Fremont

      Tips: Topwater baits, poppers and spooks shad pattern. Jig was 1/2 oz. brn. purple around rocks. Good Luck !

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

      Report: Tossed worms today from about 8am to noon and to my surprise a fair fishing day. Managed to catch 16 spotted bass with a few smallies mixed in. Most fish 25-35 feet down, some even at 40 foot. Caught nothing less then 25 feet. To my surprise, got a nice fat 8 pound catfish that had me thinking I had the toad we all look to catch. It was the most talking catfish I ever caught, croaked the whole time out of the water. Hooked it about 35 feet down. Bite was very light, so light that I never felt much at all, other then the rod load up letting me know fish were in the mood. Ramp looking great this trip, seems they understand they need to work it now and then to keep it safe. Hurry up rains, need water. More trees being exposed
      City: Magalia

      Tips: Work it slow and look for that ever so slight bump. Fish deeper then your used too, better fishing deeper.

Thursday, November 20th, 2014

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 57.5-60

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Weather: Cloudy, raining
      Lake Level: Rising tide\Best Depths: 4-10 feet has been best, although a few shallower fish were flipped yesterday.
      The falling temps are moving Delta bass closer to winter patterns. Fishing has been a grind still and requires moving and trying various areas and conditions. Rip baits have been providing the majority of our bites every day, yet with the temps still fall
      Big Bass: 4-10 feet has been best, although a few shallower fish were flipped yesterday.11/20/2014 - Large Mouth - 6.0 pounds
      Our biggest fish of the week, a 6+, came out in 10 feet dragging through the deep grass.
      In comming
      Guide Information: www.CoochsFishing.COM\Name & Number: Andy "COOCH" Cuccia 925-732-3293\Pricing Specials/Open Dates: Call or E-mail Flipbiguns@Yahoo.COM

Tuesday, November 18th, 2014

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 64-68

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Weather: Mostly sunny with few rainy days
      Lake Level: 858 ft. above sea level and 218 ft. from full\Best Depths: 35-55
      Good, it is not uncommon to spoon or dropshot 30-60 fish in a day.
      Big Bass: 35-55largemouth and spots
      Handful of fish weighing 5 to 7-pounds
      Events: The boat launch is a gravel road. Easy launch, no docks, short walk, 4 wheel drive recommended.
      WEEKLY NEWSLETTER: http://gloryholesports.com/
      Guide Information: Glory Hole Sports\Name & Number: (209)736-4333\Pricing Specials/Open Dates: Stop by the store for a FREE cup of coffee

      Tips: Locate the bait and you will be able to catch fish cast after cast. Small 2" to 4" baits have been working best.

Saturday, November 15th, 2014

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 62

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: started in Franks Tract, lot of smaller fish on a 6" dropshot in Robo MM and deeper red colors. lots of ripbait fish too up to 2.5lbs. endless amount of dinks-2 lbs. went down river and cranked rock walls with better fish to 3 lbs. finally decided to go shallow looking for a big bite. got into some water off main channel near good current on a flat in the afternoon. lost a TOAD, boated a 3.5, 4 and 5.25 in 20 minutes tossing bigger baits.
      City: stockton

      Tips: listen to your bites, don't get caught up thinking they aren't biting or only biting finesse presentations. fall afternoons can pay off when the sun has warmed water even if a couple of degrees.

Thursday, November 13th, 2014

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 64

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I went out with Albert and John this past week. The weather was perfect and the lake was calm. The water temperature was 64 degrees. We had a good day and our three largest bass were 2+ up to 5 pounds (see photo). The next day I went out with Sunshine and headed towards the ranch house. We fished that area for a while and saw lots of smaller bass. I was hoping the trout would be closer to the surface but they weren't in this area. But I heard that they were coming to the surface by the dam. I met Hudson and his friend Devine who were casting for bass at the launch ramp and they showed me a trout they had caught and when I spoke to Hudson's dad Justin he showed me pictures of the bass they had caught up to 6 pounds. He said he used large minnows and was fishing in 30 feet of water at the points and were getting hits left and right(see photos). This coming weekend I'm looking forward to getting some trout action as the water gets colder. 'til next week...........................................good fishing!!!!
      www.fishingconnection.net If you have any questions or stories you would like to share or would like to book a fishing trip please email me at bestguide@hotmail.com or call me at 650-583-3333.
      City: San Francisco

      Tips: find the bait balls find the bass and trout

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 61-63

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Weather: Cooling, slight overcast
      Lake Level: Low flow and swings on the tides\Best Depths: 6-10 feet
      Cooling temps are bringing a transition to the Delta bass, they have began to move shallower and are grouping in the grass flats off ledges and drop offs. Still a number of smaller fish hanging in areas with strong current flows. Ripbaits and lipless cran
      Guide Information: Cooch's Fishing\Name & Number: WWW.Coochsfishing.COM 925-732-3293