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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.

Monday, October 6th, 2014

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 77-82

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I fished Amador again Fri late afternoon 'til midnight, and Sat morning early. The night bite was dead, maybe because the bass are starting to feed on the surface evenings and mornings. Topwater bite was fun as I would chase the schools of feeding bass which would appear here and there!! I hooked several nice fish but couldn't get them to hold on. I boated two 14 inchers. Sat morning found the bass not quite as active, but they stayed on the hook! I landed 5 for about 12 or 13 lbs - biggest at 3 lbs. no big ones.

      Tips: Bass seemed to be most active in the main body areas - over deep water. Sometimes I forget how really deep Amador is for a small lake. I still found water at 113 feet deep!! I mostly fished poppers like Chug Bugs. I threw a buzzbait quite a bit at dusk with no takes. The bass seemed to shutoff at dusk - sort of a surprise.

Sunday, October 5th, 2014

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 75

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Went out with Albert and Bob for a fun day of fishing. Found a great spot near the BOR that we fished for about three hours mostly top water where we were catching bass left and right. Most of the bass were small but it was a lot of fun. When the sun set I went through the bait balls and the bass we caught were all nice size from 2.5 to 4 pounds. It was a really great day! The following day I took Sunshine and Fabian out and I decided to go back to the same spot as the day before since we had done so well. We hooked a fish almost every other cast and the boys were very excited. Fabian had a good hit and as he reeled it in we saw the fish at the boat and it was a really nice size my bad I didn't have the net ready and he lifted the fish out of the water and it shook loose and was gone. On the way home the boys landed some nice fish from 2 to 3.5 pounds (see photos). Sunshine's Dad called me to thank me for taking the boys out and said they were still talking about the fun they had fishing with me.
      '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: CHARTREUSE AND BLACK PLUS RED AND BLACK PLUS FEATHERS `WAS THE TRICK DONT FORGET PRO CURE

Thursday, October 2nd, 2014

  • Plumas County
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      Water Temp: 65-67

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: My wife and I took a mini-vacation to beautiful Lake Almanor over the weekend, dragging the Ranger boat all the way! As usual - timing was suspect as it was cloudy with rain showers most of the time. The lake is down about 18 feet and got to see lots of "new" stumps!!! Went out Fri evening and found the bite to be good with small bass biting everywhere! I did land one of the better bites - smallie went 3 1/4 pounds! Those "tall" smallies impress me all the time - with light line it took me nearly 5 minutes to land that fish. One doesn't want to rush then to the net because one never knows just how big they might be!! Didn't even go out Sat - just too nasty. Sunday afternoon was better, so I fished the east side of the lake on the bank and some off-shore - dragging and casting Robo worms and Senkos! I had very few bites but two were very nice (see photo section), weighing in at just under 7 lbs for combined weight. Buddy Mike Sperbeck joined me on Monday for some post-front fishing. Lake was dead flat calm until late afternoon which helped the evening bite. Overall bite was quite slow with only 3 from 2 to 2 1/2 lbs. In think we landed about 15 bass total, mostly 1 1/4 to 2 lbs. Small beavers and 6" Robo worms worked best. I caught one surface smallie the was 1 inch longer than the Chug Bug!! Three quality smallies always make the trip worthwhile! A good bite should last another month, maybe.

      Tips: Until the lake comes up some, keep your eyes on the meter - especially on the west side. Some of the flats are REALLY flat now - and shallow!! Bass are spitting up pond smelt now. I didn't try any jigs this trip for some reason. The smallies were moving quite a bit while I was there - probably because of the weather.

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 70

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: launched about 6:15 am and off in the dark lake, with my running lights. Tossed worms as always, 20-35 foot down. Slower day today for some reason. Total fish just 24 today. One nice 18" spotted bass, one 15 1/2", one 15", two 14", way off from my past trips. No idea why the bite was slower, better fish days ahead.
      City: Magalia

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

Wednesday, October 1st, 2014

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

      Report: See it here: http://youtu.be/vP3uzA8yqGc

      Tips: [youtube]http://youtu.be/vP3uzA8yqGc[/youtube]

Tuesday, September 30th, 2014

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 74-78

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Weather: Very comfortable, mostly sunny with scattered cloud cover
      Lake Level: 862' feet in elevation\Best Depths: 15-45'
      The fishing has been a bit unpredictable. Some areas are holding fishing and then seem void the next day. The fish are in transition from a summer to fall pattern. The shad are starting to school up and the wolf packs of spotted bass are using them as th
      Big Bass: 15-45'
      No giant fish but a handful of 2-3 pounders
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      Guide Information: Glory Hole Sports\Name & Number: (209) 736-4333\Pricing Specials/Open Dates: 20% OFF Roboworms- Mention WESTERNBASS REPORT to our cashier

Monday, September 29th, 2014

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 71-75

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Weather: Changing all week, cloud, rains, blue bird
      Lake Level: Out going tides all morning\Best Depths: Dee drops and ledges with heavy current still tend to be kicking out the biggest fish, although many of the areas we've been fishing the past three weeks are now being inundated with smaller fish as well. Tulle islands with short flats that have a 9-18 fo
      These River bass are reading the "Book". One would have thought all week with the changing weather and overcast skies they might take off, yet quite the opposite was true. The numbers are still there, a lot of smaller fish in the 1-3 pound range all week
      Big Bass: Dee drops and ledges with heavy current still tend to be kicking out the biggest fish, although many of the areas we've been fishing the past three weeks are now being inundated with smaller fish as well. Tulle islands with short flats that have a 9-18 fo
      We only had three fish last week out of 6 days of fishing that went over 7 pounds, we did have a larger number of fish in the 4
      Guide Information: Cooch's Fishing, 2737 Alcala St, Antioch Ca. 94509\Name & Number: Cooch - 925-732-3293\Pricing Specials/Open Dates: Plenty of open dates in October!

      Tips: Fish points, look for current and stick to 6-18 foot depths

Sunday, September 28th, 2014

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 70

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Started 830am out of B&W; worked the rockwall at start of the Moke with blk/blk cavitron buzzbait but only one blowup; did this for 5 mins and went to watermelon/red flk senko. started hooking up 12" to 2lbers. when the veggie flotillas got too thick, we headed to potato slough and worked more rockwalls with the senkos and buddy used 6-7" roboworms in shad pattern... continued picking up lots of 8" to 13" and a few nice 1-2lbers. ended the day with a 5.5 lber grabbing my buddy's senko.
      City: folsom

      Tips: No tips as usual...just what worked for us: watermelon/red flk 5" senko T-rigged on owner 2/0 ball finesse ultrahead. Buddy used 5" shad pattern senko wacky on 1/0 Gamakatsu wide gap finesse. We worked the rock walls and inside/outside weedlines and also little cuts in those huge veggie flotillas attaching themselves to everything. but on clear rockwalls, we just kept throwin the senko to the wall and then immediately locking up so it would pendulum swing down along the wall and clear the rocks..then I'd jiggle it like a flickshake and next thing I'd see my line moving sideways. Worked for me.

      btw...we did have one bassboat with three guys leapfrog about 30-40yds in front of us with no regard for our drifting in that direction. They were across behind us and no way could have missed us drifting in that direction. Oh well, I don't do that to others but I guess that's ok to do? We still continued to hook up anyway as we worked the same wall behind them so i guess they left us some fish to catch (well that's my preferred positive way to look at it).