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Sunday, September 28th, 2014

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 72 degrees

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Big Break in the AM with my buddy Tom for topwater stripers. Had a few blow-ups with 3 shakers. Then flew out to the entry of in Sherman where the water was extremely muddy, one major LMB hit that broke my line—then up to Decker for the outgoing tide but the rollers were about 2 feet. Headed back to Big Break, fished the TULES in Dutch with incoming tid after 1PM wherever water was moving and openings— caught about 8-10 LMB in the 1.5 to 2.5 lb. range. Caught them on texas-rigged flapping hogs and wacky worms.Winds about 5 MPH in the afternoon vs. 10MPH in the AM.
      City: Orinda

      Tips: I think the water is too warm still to see the striper/bigger fish onslaught in the AM. The birds were hunting, but very little diving anywhere. Try for stripers in the AM, then switch to LMB because they are still out there.

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

      Report: Fished today from 6:30 am to 11 am. Cloudy with sprinkles of rain off and on, nothing serious. Managed to land 27 fish this trip, from fishing two locations. Spotted bass for three 17 inch, one 15 1/2 inch, one 15 inch, three 14 inch, with the rest of the bass at 10-13 inch.Great fishing with nearly every cast a bite. Lost a couple fish that had the BIG feel, but never saw them. Got all fish tossing worms in 20 to 35 feet. Most fish 25-30 foot deep. Fish slow as if you know herds of fish are below below you. Just about all my fishing was on a 1/8 oz. Carolina rig, drop shot style, with the YoYo action. Let it sit, pull up, let down, hit bottom, crank it up a tad to avoid hang up, sit, etch, like a yoyo. Works!!!
      City: Magalia

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

Wednesday, September 24th, 2014

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 78.5

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: FISHING WITH SID


      What a difference a week makes! Two weeks ago on a Saturday I was at the vineyards with Judge and Marcus fishing by the stumps with bass jumping all around us. This past Saturday we went back to the same location but no surface activity. We didn't stay there long before deciding to try the west side working the weed line. Lots of smaller bass which were fun to catch but we were looking for bigger bass. We saw big bait balls and worked them hard. Marcus hooked up to a five pound bass which turned out to be the biggest fish of the day. All the other fish we caught were between 2.5 and 4 pounds. Between Albert, Judge and his son Marcus and myself we caught a limit of quality bass (see photos). 'til next week..................................................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: RED AND BLACK WAS MOST PRODUCTIVE COLOR IMITATEION CRAWDADS

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2014

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

      Report: There has been a good top water bite on super spooks in the mornings and periodically throughout the day on points and steep rock structure. Colors of choice have been wounded shad and bone. Dropshotting to 40' with 6" robo's in sxe shad and hologram shad have been producing limits. Some better fish have been being caught on tubes and jigs in the 20' to 30' depths on tube's and jig's

Monday, September 22nd, 2014

  • Yuba County
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      Water Temp: 76-78

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I visited the lake last Friday for a few hours before dark. Saw lots of bait in the center part of the lake but not much down by the dam. Had 3 or 4 bites and landed one 2 1/4 lb spotted bass - near the dam. It hit a jig of all things! Water is still warm and bait is deep.

      Tips: I was not surprised that there was no surface activity - didn't get a hit on topwater. Things should perk up in mid-October.

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

      Report: Fished today at Lake Oroville from 6:30 am to 11 am, fair day for a change. Managed to catch 36 fish today. Spotted bass measured as One 18 inch, one 17 inch, three 16", four 14 inch, with the rest 10-13 inch. Fished at 20 to 40 foot down to catch them. Also got one 6 pound catfish, two 4 pound catfish, two 2 pond catfish. Released all to catch another day. So smoky from the fires that it looked like fog for a while.
      City: Magalia

      Tips: If you find fish, stick in that location for a while, you'll catch more fish. 3/4 of my fish came from one location!! fished one location for 3 hours in a 40 foot section of shore. All fish today from 20 foot to 40 foot, most 25 to 30 foot.

Saturday, September 20th, 2014

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

      Report: I took a friend of mine CC to the lake to have some fun spooning for bass. She caught the first four or five fish by big island in about 40ft. Then we went up by putah creek and found a lot of fish that didn't want to bite so we fished our way south to the Spanish flat area where we found a large school of fish and caught quite a few spots and smallmouth to 5lbs. using 1-3/4 and 2oz Blade-Runner spoons.

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 70 ish

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: We fished Fri-Sunday for a club event. Each day, there were stories of people catching 4 pounders. Pre-fish, my partner catches one that goes 4-10 on topwater near the bridge. the wind is up a bit so blades caught quite a few including a 3+ for me. On Sat, the wind was virtually non existent. The big chunk rock that produced on Friday did not work on Sat. However, we found a good bite when the topwater was worked near a secondary point when either cast into a cut or when in the cut, casting out past the point and retrieving back toward it. We then put the boat close to shore (yeah I got back seated but said to do it if we can win). We caught 11 pounds that day for the lead. Day 2 was more windy, but we could not get any big fish that day. Weighed in around 8 lb to take 2nd place. First place got a 4 on day 1 and a 5 on day 2. Tough to beat that! We had around 30 fish in the boat Sat and 18 or so on Sunday.

      Tips: Blades when windy, cast toward shore and bring back out. Topwater worked fine though definitely not wide open.

Thursday, September 18th, 2014

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 732

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: (Video here: http://youtu.be/kekcKdXl_EM)

      Another great day on the Delta. Started out with stripers on topwater in Franks. No keepers but just fun way to start the day out. Even caught one on a frog (see video). Ran north and started catching dinks. Quality didn't improve until we started punching around 9. Also caught 'em on jerkbait and one quality keeper on 6" Senko. Countless fish for the day, I got only 5 keepers including a 3lb. 10oz. and a 3lb 3oz. Buddy got 10 keepers.
      City: San Mateo

      Tips: I was expecting bite to be off due to the front moving through but I was wrong. If you've already scheduled the day off a week in advance (like I did), just go out and fish!

Tuesday, September 16th, 2014

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 73

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Good day on the Delta. Started in Little Potato Slough but had very little success. Went to the San Joaquin River and immediately started catching 2 & 3 pounders on a variety of soft plastics. I lost a very large bass at the boat – apparently I didn’t have a hook set and the big guy simply let go when he saw the boat. My best guess is that he looked to be around 24 inches, maybe even a little bigger, which would equate to a real quality fish. Oh well - next time! The action stayed hot most of the day and continued when I shifted over to the Mokelumne River later in the afternoon as I was heading in. I got into a school and caught a 3 pounder and saw several other bass following the hooked bass all the way to the boat. It seemed like they wanted the lure that was already firmly in the jaw of the hooked fish. That happened twice – once on a crankbait and once on a spinnerbait. All in all a real fun day.
      City: Stockton

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: forgot to look

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished at Lake Oroville today, on the water at 6:15 am, off the water a little later then normal, about 11 am. I managed to catch 26 fish, 25 were spotted bass, one 17 1/2", two 16", two 15", 4-5 14 1/2" with the rest 8-13". About 6-8 were dinks, under 10". Fished slow and deeper, all fish caught 20-35 feet, most 25-30 feet. Find steep points, rocks, any good structure holds fish.
      City: Magalia

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

Monday, September 15th, 2014

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 72-75

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Weather: Clear, sunny, Hot
      Lake Level: Falling tide\Best Depths: Lots of smaller fish can be caught in the 6-10 foot range, the bigger fish are all stacked up in deeper zones of 10-20 feet.
      Delta bass are starting to school up in areas where the shad are congregating along deeper drops and high current flow areas. Some really big topwater fish can be had early, our best results has been fishing a variety of brown TNT Wadda Jigs tipped with a
      Big Bass: Lots of smaller fish can be caught in the 6-10 foot range, the bigger fish are all stacked up in deeper zones of 10-20 feet.
      a 10, two 8s and several 7+ pounders caught this weekend in the Don Lee Memorial. Clients and I had four fish between 8-9.5 pou
      Outgoing
      Guide Information: WWW.CoochsFishing.com\Name & Number: Andy Cooch Cuccia 925-732-3293\Pricing Specials/Open Dates: See Website Above

      Tips: Gotta bounce around, 15 minute rule, if no bites or keepers, move on, find the active schools and pound, don't waist any time in non productive areas, fish the moment.

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 78-82

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Weather: Sunny and warm
      Lake Level: The lake is 866 ft. above sea level and 212 ft. from full. A large portion of the lake is still well over 200' deep.\Best Depths: 15-45'
      The bass fishing has been a bit tough. Early morning and late evening is the best time to catch quality fish. Many fish are suspended due to falling water. Jigs and shakeyheads have been working well and dropshotting a shad pattern worm will help boat a f
      Big Bass: 15-45'09/06/2014 - largemouth - 12lb 5oz
      Yes, a couple spots over 6-pounds and one huge largemouth caught by angler Jeremy Pitts during the FLW College Event
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      Tips: Not a lot of fishing pressure due to limited launching facilities. Launching is still very doable. There might be a period of time where there is not a courtesy dock but, there are no plans of closing the launches.

Sunday, September 14th, 2014

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: Avg 78

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Weather: Sunny/ Hot
      Lake Level: Just below Rumsey 0\Best Depths: 0-14
      The fishing has been tough to say the least. Carolina rigs, jigs, and small swimbaits have been best for me. The water is just too warm for the fish to go into a fall pattern this week. We need a cold low pressure to come in and flip the switch on them. H
      Events: Lots of tournaments coming thru the next 6 weeks. Just about every fish off and a Rayovac FLW tourny as well. This lake will be packed but as always its Clearlake and theres plenty of fish to go around.
      Guide Information: Bigbaitbailey@gmail.com\Name & Number: Paul Bailey\Pricing Specials/Open Dates: Email for pricing and dates.

      Tips: Use the graph and try to find cooler water! Seems like they like to feed right before dark then right at sun up then they disappear for day.

Friday, September 12th, 2014

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 72

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Launched B&W 6:30am; started crankin' and buzzbaitin along the top of the Moke...managed about a dozen dinks and almost keepers, both black and stripers. Water seemed too calm and motionless. Decided to head to H&H area at Little Connection...but never made it...once we got through Tower Park Marina and outside the 5mph boundary, we started chuckin' senkos between the rock wall and weedline. Started picking up 12"-14"ers. Then about a half mile around the corner, bam...nothin' but 2 and 3lbers..... picked up about a dozen 2lbers and four 3lbers with about a dozen solid 1 lbers and very few but still a few almost keepers and dinks. During this time, my buddy continued to try and get a keeper on a crank but anything sizeable just weren't havin' any of it. Every time he went back to senko (watermln/red flk btw), he picked up a solid keeper. Good senko day, I coulda brought just 1 rod instead of my usual 6-7. next time it’s 2 rods on the deck and maybe 4 in the locker... hahahaha. oh, and it was nice without the heavy traffic on the water... one cigarette boat, 2 skiers, and maybe a handful of bassers. lucky day that way too!
      City: folsom

      Tips: I'll always say I'm not qualified to give any tips, but whenever/wherever we threw cranks and didn't get anything, we went back and worked over again with senkos and picked up fish. So for whatever reason I'll likely never figure out, they weren't hittin' cranks like they were our previous 2 or 3x out. When reaction doesn't work, I always keep a senko rig handy...watermln/red flk or black neon (blk/red flk) in 5". Oh, both wacky with o-ring and t-rig worked but majority I went t-rig weightless on a Trokar 3/0...hooked top of the mouth center almost every time....cept the big 3.12 and he basically swallowed it but we got it out and sent him on his way. good senko day! oh sorry, already said that!

Wednesday, September 10th, 2014

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: Forgot to look!

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Had my best ever fishing day today, not quantity, but for size and total weight. I got 17 spotted bass along with 4 cat fish. 2 spotted bass at 18", one 17", one 16", one 15", with all others 13 to 14 1/2". Enough weight to win most fishing tournaments on this lake. Best part, I only fished till 10 am. Lost a couple that felt big, but never saw them to know for sure how big. Cats were 6 pounds, 4 pounds, 2 at 2 pounds. Fished only one 40 foot section of the lake till 10 am and then called it a day. All fish 20 to 30 feet down.
      City: Magalia

      Tips: If you find fish, stick in the spot and give it a good work over. Generally, one fish has buddies waiting to be caught. Slow down and give a location a chance to produce fish. I see so many working a bank like it's on fire, SLOW it down, you'll catch more.

Sunday, September 7th, 2014

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 73 degrees

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: (see video here: http://youtu.be/xCnKI4Q8-fU)

      Launched out of Russo's at 6:30. Windy as hell. Got a bunch of blow ups on buzz frog and toad but no takers and not big blowups. Started catching stripers on jerkbait then LMB on Gunfish, jerkbait, and chatterbait. Also broke my year long punching drought (thanks Robert Matsuura and Jonah at Hi's). 11 keepers in the boat to 2lbs. 7ozs. (not mine!). Decent quality fish - best 5 was probably in the 13lb. range. Also caught two keeper stripers + 30-40 more dinks and shakers. Fun day with non-stop action!
      City: San Mateo

      Tips: We fished points and spots where the current was deflecting into the rip rap. Worked all day. 99% of the bites came on shad patterned baits some I'm guessing there's a shad bite on.

Saturday, September 6th, 2014

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: up to 80

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Labor Day weekend was great I went out mid day and stayed out till dusk each day. My aim was to find areas where the top water bite would be successful and I was able to catch some nice bass that way. It took time but it was worth it. One of my favorite new top water lures is called a "Whopper Popper" by River2Sea and I use the trout pattern which was very effective. Enough about me on Sunday I took out Kevin and his son Nick we headed towards the Narrows and our first fish was about six inches long. With all the boat traffic in the area I decided to look for a calmer spot and headed to the east side where the stumps are. We fished three ways, Carolina rig, brass and glass with a worm and senko worm weightless. We started in 25 feet of water and adjusted till we reached 4 feet. We repeated this pattern several times and did well. As we worked our way back towards home Nick caught his largest fish of the day which weighed in a little over four pounds. Next we had a double hook-up as father and son reeled in to see who had the biggest catch! Dad won his bass weighed in close to 5 pounds and Nick's was 3.5 pounds. Good job guys!!! We were heading in for the day and Kevin was trolling using a red and black crankbait and he yells to me that he's stuck. The boat was moving and his line was moving with the boat so I told him to keep reeling you've got a fish and most likely a good size bass. Nick got the net and was standing by after about what seemed like forever Kevin got the fish to the boat and Nick netted it. It barely fit in the net. It turned out to be a 12.5 pound catfish!!!! Great way to end the day(see photos)!!! 'til next week..............................good fishing!!!!
      www.fishingconnection.net If you have any questions or have any stories you would like to share or are interested in booking a fishing trip please email me bestguide@hotmail.com or call me at 650-583-3333.
      City: San Francisco

      Tips: Fishing with Sid says water is low be carefull if you don't know the water go SLOW so you don't damage the boat.

Thursday, September 4th, 2014

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 78-83

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Congrats to the staff for making the launch conditions better. It is one lane, but clean and straight - for now! My buddy Mike Sperbeck and I fished the lake yesterday from 4 pm 'til 10:30 pm, and found the water to be of good color and clean. I was testing my new surgically repaired prop - the surgeon being Gary Peeler. Looks new again! We fished all over the lake and found some willing topwater fish. My problem from Berryessa was transferred to Amador - can't land a topwater fish!! Lost 3 more - fair sized too. Bite was dead and Mike had only one hit on our trip - BUT she went 8 1/4 lbs - on a swimbait - about 9:30 pm. I fished worms, jigs, and D&M swim jigs without a hit. So - was one fish in the boat worth the trip - you bet!!

      Tips: Follow the bait isn't a good tip for Aamdor - bait is everywhere! I did spoon a little and lost one at the surface. As you probably know - the submerged trees are showing everywhere - be careful. The bite should improve week by week, especially before the trout crowd arrives. Bait is everywhere from surface to 50 feet and a few bass are starting to chase bait to the surface.

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2014

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 74-75

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished portions of Hog Slough and the South Mokelumne River. Plenty of willing bass but not much size. The largest went 3 lbs. but there were several in the 1 ½ to 2 ½ lb. range. Used several baits including soft plastics, cranks, frogs, and spinnerbaits. By far, the most productive lure was a chartreuse/white spinnerbait. Square billed cranks (both homemade and commercial) were next, with red outscoring white by a few fish.
      City: Stockton

      Tips: Mid-week after Labor Day proved to be a good time to go – I think I was the only boat in Hog Slough!