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Wednesday, November 12th, 2014

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 60-62

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Well, someone has to do a recent report - so, here it is. A friend and I launched out of the Oaks ramp Tues about 4:30 pm. Ramp is still fine, but when taking out my Z521, I noticed the back trailer wheel went off the ramp. So, we're getting close. Hopefully, the predicted rain in the next week will come to past!! We fished until 9:15 pm with most of our action about 8 pm. I started off with a dink, which are rare when they move off-shore in the fall. The story is that the fishing was pretty good but the catching - not so good. I lost two over 5 lbs and one probably so, and he also lost a bigger one. I landed a 4 lb 7 oz and he got a 4 1/4, and we each landed a 3 3/4 pounder. We fished from the Oaks up to Henderson. Most of our bites were 10 to 25 feet. It always amazes me how I can loose the bass that smacked the bait, but land the ones that are just "there!" The two big one that I lost nailed the jig, all the others just held on until we became "suspicious"!

      Tips: Because of the lack of cold nights to drop the water temp, I think it is going to be another week or two before we see some bigger bass. Fresh rainwater will help too. As (hopefully) the water becomes colder, short, compact baits should become more attractive to the larger bass. The D&M Piranha swim jig and like baits will attract cold water bass too. Beaver type baits are excellent in the winter!

Tuesday, November 11th, 2014

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

      Report: Did a little fishing today at Lake Oroville from 8am to 11:15 am. Not a great bite today. Managed to catch just 9 spotted bass with the largest right at 15", all others the basic 13-14 inch range. Fish were caught mostly about 30 foot or so, Other fisherman said slow for them too.!! Storm coming in with rain tomorrow, so the changing low pressure probably messed the bite up.
      City: Magalia

      Tips: Anyone with a boat looking for a fishing partner, then let me know and lets go fishing. Email me at Jewelweaver@earthlink.net No boat, then lets take my small 14 ft Klamath, small, no room, rough ride and slow, but it catches fish.

Monday, November 10th, 2014

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 62 degrees at r

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Weather: Mid & upper 70's clear and sunny
      Lake Level: 32%\Best Depths: Shallow to 15'
      Rapala, spin bait and wacky worms were reported
      Big Bass: Shallow to 15'11/09/2014 - 9.1 lbs.
      Events: 11/1 Manteca Bass Buddies - small tournament no results given
      11/9 ORO Madre Bass Anglers- small tournament - 10 teams of 2, 5 bass per team limit, 47 bass brought in to be weighed. Largest 9.03 lbs. Jerry Harvey, winning team 23 lbs. prize $300.00 went
      Guide Information: Hours 7:00 am - 1:00 pm North Shore 209-763-5166 or South Shore 209-763-5915\Name & Number: Terry Willard 209-781-5806

Sunday, November 9th, 2014

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 55-57

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: The spoonmeister, Rick Tietz and I hit Berryessa Friday, out of Markley Cove. I can almost say we fished the whole lake!! Yes, we were looking for the best bite! I think the full moon may have slowed the day bite. We did well on the Blade Runner 1 3/4 oz spoons around 10:30 am 'til noon. The rest of the day gave us one here and one there - and they got smaller. The good hour did produce some great smallie fishing with several from 3 to 3 3/4 lbs. Couldn't get anything bigger. I did catch a few small largemouth and Rick did get a near 3 1/2 lb spotted bass. Nearly all action was on smallies. Our best 5 were a solid 18 lbs - most of those caught in a one hour period.

      Tips: Other than a nice topwater bass I lost at dusk, all our bass were caught on spoons, mostly using Rick's new UV morning dawn color. Black shad worked some, but not as well as previous trips. The average depth of our hookups was about 40 feet - mostly far off-shore. To look at all the exposed structure with your own eyes as opposed to on a meter is simply amazing! One finds oneself saying "so that's what that hump looks like!!!!"

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 68

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: fished tourney Sat 11-8. Pretty good action all day. Weather was perfect. Every single fish caught of graph at depths from 25 to 50 ft.

      Tips: Don't pound the banks. the fish are deeper.

Thursday, November 6th, 2014

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 62

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Tossed worms today with Jeff, weird start. Going to meet at Bidwell, to our surprise, ramp was closed, so went to the spillway to launch. Finally got on the water a tad past 8am, hit a point fairly close to the launch ramp and got a few spots, 30 foot or so down. Wind blowing pretty good, so left to fish a spot without the blow. Fished a steep bank and got 6-8 fish, maybe more, again most fish around the 30 foot mark. Left to another point and got more fish, same, about 30-35 foot mark. Left to fish our first point going in and got a few more. No big fish, top mark about 14 1/2", most looking fat. We ended up with 21 fish for our half day trip. They were trying to fix the ramp up when we got back, laying gravel, getting the mud gone. Should last a few days!!
      City: Magalia

      Tips: When you find fish, stay on that location and give it a chance for more fish. Fish deeper and slower this time of year. We have not fished less then 25 feet down these days. Today we used Carolina rigs with no noise maker, just weight and bobber stoppers. Me, I like to fish straight down, less hang ups.

Wednesday, November 5th, 2014

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      Water Temp: 60's

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: fished 6am to 12 noon, second cast on a whopper plopped BLAM!!#@ fish on 2lber then fished stanly blvd cranking caught a few nothing big. fished the pan handle and the cove near the second dock no luck. lost a fish on a trout pattern crank off about 10+ ft maybe bass but have had trout grab my baits fish in for bass.
      City: lafayette

      Tips: Get out there and fish for bass. Follow the trout and the fisherman after the trout. there are hefty hawgs in there.

Friday, October 31st, 2014

  • Plumas County
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      Water Temp: 56-57

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Mike Sperbeck and I made our final trip for the year Wed and Thurs, and found the fishing to be simply great (as well as the weather) - especially the second day as the storm clouds were approaching. The lake was as flat as I have ever seen it with heavy fog in the early morning. The fishing might have been as good as I have every seen it - during the day. We spend both days on the east shore fishing mostly off-shore structure - some of it now good since the lake is down 18+ feet. As last year, we caught fish at all depths, this year from 13 to 60 feet!! While we could not break 4 lbs, we caught more 3 to 3 3/4 lb smallies than I have ever seen in one trip. We used a variety of small plastics, mostly in green and brown colors. I tried spooning for the first time and caught several on a 3/4 ounce Blade Runner spoon. Could not get much of a Senko bite and only a few on a jig. Our best five for the second day weighed between 17 1/2 to 18 lbs. Again, these are some of the most gorgous, hard fighting smallies in the state!

      Tips: Again - a warning about Almanor wind!! As mentioned, Thurs the lake was as calm as I have ever seen it - something like Clear Lake on a cold winter night. About 4 pm at little breeze picked up from the west - in about 5 minutes - shifted to the south. We were up near Big Cove. I just had a feeling - maybe the Lord spoke to me - we needed to get back to the dam - quick! "Reel in Mike - we're outta here!" We immediately hit the Almanor version of the famous Tahoe "black line!" Always beware of afternoon storm winds - Almanor is a big, open water lake! A very bumpy end to a great trip. Man, I love my Ranger Z521!!!

Wednesday, October 29th, 2014

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

      Report: Tossed worms today on my weekly fishing trip today. Slow bite again, only 11 fish for my half day trip and nothing over 14 1/2". Fish were a tad deeper today, all fish from 30 feet to 40 feet, most about 35 feet. Lake is 237 feet down from full pool.
      City: Magalia

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2014

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 70-74

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Weather: Cool nights and sunny days
      Lake Level: 862 ft. above sea level and 214 ft. from full. Well over 200' deep in areas.\Best Depths: 25-65
      Shad patterned drop shot worms, jigs and rip baits. Deep water bluffs and banks near the old river.
      Big Bass: 25-6510/17/2014 - largemouth
      Xperience Fishing Guide John Liechty caught a 5-plus and a 7-plus on jigs.
      Guide Information: Glory Hole Sports\Name & Number: (209) 736-4333\Pricing Specials/Open Dates: Show your fishing license and get $2.00 OFF a Tri Tip Sandwich exp.12/01/14

      Tips: The bite continues to get better with the cooler nights and days. Shad are schooling and the bass are chasing them.

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      Water Temp: 70-74

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Weather: Cool nights and sunny days
      Lake Level: 862 ft. above sea level and 214 ft. from full. Areas of the lake are well over 200' deep\Best Depths: 25-60
      Drop shot, jigs, crank baits and rip baits. Shad patterns are working well.
      Big Bass: 25-6010/17/2014 - largemouth
      Xperience Fishing Guide John Liechty caught a 5-plus and a 7-plus on jigs.
      Guide Information: Glory Hole Sports

      Tips: The cooler nights have helped the bite improve. The shad are schooling and the bass are targeting them as their primary food source.

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 67

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Tossed worms from 7am to 11 am today, didn't do so good this trip. Just couldn't find the fish, other then the basic one here and there fishing. Only got 11 spots today, all the basic 13-14". Wondering where are the fish today. All fish taken off points in about 30 ft of water. No cove fish,or boulder fish. Better days next week.
      City: Magalia

      Tips: Anyone with a boat looking for a fishing partner?? let me know and lets go fishing. Email me at Jewelweaver@earthlink.net No boat, then lets take my little 14ft klamath, no room, slow, rough, but it catches fish.

Sunday, October 19th, 2014

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: cooling off qui

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Friday I went out with Bob and boy what a great time we had!!! At first we were catching small bass but it was a lot of fun almost every cast brought a fish in. We were using P & K lures and they were great. Bob's largest bass was 5+ pounds (see photo). The following morning I took Rich out to show him the lake and some of my favorite spots to fish. He caught four nice small mouth bass. We spent most of the day exploring the lake from the Narrows to the Boy Scout Camp area and from Big Island to Spanish Flat. He was marking the waypoints for future reference while the water is low. Late afternoon I took my buddy Marvin out and headed towards the ranch house where I had seen huge bait balls earlier. We went back and forth through the bait balls and landed 21 bass ranging from 2.5 to 4 pounds each constantly culling the bass till we had 10 nice size fish (see photos). The following day Marv and I headed out again but the water which had been like glass the day before was now white caps with three foot swells. I tried to find a decent place to shelter the boat but it didn't work the water was too rough. We took our time to get to the Narrows but it was bad everywhere. I took a chance and went to a cove near the ranch house I thought would be ideal. It was still rough but manageable and we landed 32 bass from 2 to 5 pounds it was a fishing frenzy we had at least five double hookups here Marv had to net his fish and then mine because I couldn't leave the steering wheel go(see photos). What an incredible few days of fishing!!! My buddy Albert was fishing from the shore with two rods, one set up for bass and one for catfish. He didn't do great on bass but he landed a 17.5 pound catfish (see photo). Good job Albert!!!! "til next time........................good fishing!!!!!
      www.fishingconnection.net If you have any questions or stories you would like to share or if you would like to book a guided fishing trip please email me at bestguide@hotmail.com or call me at 650-583-3333.
      City: San Francisco

      Tips: Fish are hungry going into there winter mode

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

      Report: Fished from Franks to Potato slough. Got about 15-20 combo fish, but they were all small with nothing over 2lbs, including the stirpers. For Ray in the Lund boat: I should've showed you this umbrella stand I rigged up to keep the sun off oneself. If you read this and are interested, you can email me at-printing@sbcglobal.net

      Tips: In the early a.m. topwater walking baits will help you locate schoolie stripers. Wish I knew what was doing to give you more tips.

  • Alameda County
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      Water Temp: 68- 70

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Friday, started at the dam a got a smallie on topwater 2.5 lb and couldn't get any to eat after that. Dropshoted the rest of the day for a handful of smallies and largemouth the rest of the day. Beautiful to be out... Go Fish!
      City: Fremont

      Tips: We saw a little bait action on the flats. Try crankin more. Seem to work for others. Looking forward to the fall bite... need to cool down a little more. Goodluck!

Friday, October 17th, 2014

  • Alameda County
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      Water Temp: 70

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: A few largemouth and token stripers to 3# all cranking shelves, drops and/or rock. Fished mid-lake south. Lots of striper boils but all schoolies. I wasn't interested after the 1st one. Guys specifically targeting them were using soft plastics on jig. Find the 3 inch baitfish on the surface in the calm water and you'd find the stripers. Water down maybe 5 feet. Weeds gone and tules high and dry. South end visibility 2 feet and 10 feet in Swallow Bay.
      City: dublin

      Tips: Write some reports.

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

      Report: Tossed worms from 7am to about 11am, a little slower bite today, with 22 spots. Only one larger one right at 15 1/2", good part, 3/4 of the fish were 14-14 1/2" size, very few smaller ones. Fish were on the move, some old honey holes, no fish!! Fish were in the 25 foot to 35 foot range, seemed most right at 30 foot. Fish slow, slow and in the range above and you will catch fish.
      City: Magalia

      Tips: Anyone with a boat looking for a fish partner, let me know, lets go catch fish. Email me at Jewelweaver@earthlink.net No boat, then lets take my 14ft Klamath, slow, no room, rough ride, but it catches fish as good as the big rigs, just takes longer to go after the fish.

Saturday, October 11th, 2014

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 70

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched out of Brannon island at around 12, ran and fished little franks tract til around 6, bite was decent. Craw dad colored crank baits . Lost about a 10 pound striper on a 3/4 ounce rattle trap ..work the rip rap with sparse tules
      City: sacramento

      Tips: Find water that drops off quickly

Friday, October 10th, 2014

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 69

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: What a difference a week makes...and all the other factors (weather, moon, tide, floating weed "South American Spongeplant"), I googled it and that's what it's called... Anyways, launched early dark about 6am out of B&W cuz there were some striper guys gettin' ready for a derby so figured we better get launched. Went straight to Potato Slough and started off great... threw a sweet beaver to the rockwall and a 3.6 immediately inhaled it. Really thought it was gonna be on but only managed about 20 dink to 11"ers for that wall. Moved across and worked opposite rock wall but the wind on both sides made it difficult to maintain our deepv with only 55lb thrust. Yeah, someday I'll have an ultimate bass boat but till then, it's deepvbassin'! So anyways, back to today's fishin'.... changed to senko and picked up a few more 1 and 2lbers, about 5 I think....and probably another 15-20 spunky 8-11inchers. Off the water by 1pm.
      City: folsom

      Tips: Not really qualified to give tips... and today, what landed plenty of 2-3lbers last 2 weekends only got us 1 limit of keepers today between my bud and me. I used watermelon/red sweet beaver with red claws T-rigged with 1/4oz bullet w/bobber stop. Then switched to 5" watermelon/red Big Bite Baits Trick Stick both t-rigged and wacky... 25pk is cheap at Tackle Warehouse and these last longer than Senkos...I guess that could be my tip...BBB trick stick from TW 25/$5.99 :) Tryin again Sunday!

Thursday, October 9th, 2014

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

      Report: Tossed worms today from about 6:30 am to 11 am. I managed 19 fish today, with the largest spots going 17 1/2", 16", 15 1/2" and 15", all the rest the basic 12-14 inch size. All fish came from 25-35 feet of water, with the larger fish on the deeper side. Fish were not in the mood to bite well today, big old moon all night.
      City: Magalia

      Tips: Anyone with a boat looking for a fish partner, let me know and lets hook up and catch some fish. Email me at Jewelweaver@earthlink.net No boat, then lets take my little 14ft Klamath, rough ride, slow, no room, but it catches fish.