Submit
Report

Northern California Lake Fishing Report

Limit:

Saturday, May 4th, 2002

  • Solano County
    • By

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched out o Sugar Barge 6:30am on Saturday. Had an OK day, most ish caught during high tide. Had several blow-ups on topwater: buzzbaits and jitterbugs. Nailed a ew o them. They were short striking the buzzbait and nailing the jitterbug. Fished senkos the rest o the day, but to limited success. Tried blading and cranking, but no takers.Regardless, it was a beautiul day to be on the water.

      Tips: Any pointers on ishing the low-tide? Or should we just chase the high tide? Most o our senko ish (dinks) came out o shady pockets tight to tules or on 3-5' deep weed lines.

    • By

      Water Temp: 63

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched out o Lundbord Landing at 6:30am. Not much oa story caught 7 ish all day, all on Senkos. Still a beginner only my 3rd time out. Any tips would be appreciated.
      City: San Lorenzo, Ca

    • By

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: ished in tube all around lake did horible got 2 small ones most o day just gooin around going out tomarow thanks or tips habitat

      Tips: in the tullies

    • By

      Water Temp: 61

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Out o Ladd's at 6:30 am made it as ar as channel marker 28 beore the tule og slowed us to a crawl. Decided to spend the day ishing the main channel rom marker 28 to 6, water we just normally drive on by. Son boated 15 rom dink to 3 lbs. using a Speed Trap & watermelon Senko. I boated 10 rom dink to 3.5 lbs. using a Speed Trap, watermelon Senko, & split shot green craw pattern worm. No big ones but a pleasant day on the water. Out by 1 pm as the pleasure crat swarmed.
      City: Delhi

      Tips: Fished isolated tules, rip rap, & then weed beds as the tide came in.

  • Sacramento County
    • By

      Water Temp: 61

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: My partner and I launched at Granite Bay at around 7:00 a.m. Got a late start. Fished the rock piles up North and caught 5 small spots - 1 went about 2 lbs. Then I went south and threw a spinner bait on the rock walls and caught 6 more. All in all a pretty good day. We were o the lake by noon to avoid the boat traic.I'm still learning the lake since I've only ished it a hal dozen times. Two weeks ago, it was on and I nailed 30+ ish with two over 5 lbs and 3 over 4 lbs. Yes and Gary is the man!!!!
      City: Auburn

      Tips: Gary..........

  • Palo Pinto County
    • By

      Water Temp: 61

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: i went ishing on sunday and lost ive on a swimbait. i got 2 bolth were 5 lbs.
      City: watsonville

      Tips: there eeding on trout that they stalk

Friday, May 3rd, 2002

  • Napa County
    • By

      Water Temp: 65

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished oak shores on friday from the shore about 11 am. walked down to a cove and saw a lunker sitting in the flats. tried a live nightcrawler , power worm and plastic crawdad - nothing! wacky rigged a 4" purple senko and Wham! the battle was on! pulled him onto the shore and weighed it- an 8 pound , 8 ounce fatty ! I couldnt believe it! This was my dream fish and i didnt have a camera - oh well, catch and release .At least i had my buddy there to witness it ! Who needs a boat when you can catch fat ones right off the shore .The carp are taking over right now , but there are lots of fish in the shallows.
      City: oakland

      Tips: the wacky rigged senko rules

  • Santa Barbara County
    • By

      Water Temp: 60?

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fishing was great. Caught a 6-7 pounder over by sage/poppy/lupine huts. Lost one same size there also. Caught a 1 pounder small mouth 100 yards right o there. Caught a 6 pounder opposite side o the huts. Had my limit o bass. The rest were small around 1-2 pounders. Saw a lot o BIG ish checking out my stringer. All ish were caught with split shot night crawler.
      City: Goleta

  • Solano County
    • By

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: usually in the delta we troll with rebels around iselton bridge

  • Alameda County
    • By

      Water Temp: 58

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Oh yeah! Chabot can be diicult! Son John and I ished her or six hours Friday, beginning at 7:00 a.m. Hit the let bank on the way out, then spent most o our time in Bass Cove. We ished 7" & 10" plastic worms, jigs, split-shotted tube lure, Brush Hogs, 7" Senko's, and the Castaic Trout (deadsticked, retrieved slowly on the surace, and trolled at 25-30 eet deep behind a downrigger). No takers, and only two "pops" on a Brush Hog. Wind hampered presentations early, but subsided later in the day and became no problem. Water is very clear in some areas o Bass Cove. (O course, I spent too much time re-visiting the allen tree where I caught the 9.5 lb. bass a couple o weeks ago. Apparently it's been tried by several others in the meantime. Word spreads ast when a catch like that is witnessed!) Had my Lo-K-tor on most o the time when moving (in the slow boat!). The bottom is clean and eature-less - virtually no structure, except or a couple o underwater points and a ew sunken trees. Bass must relate to weeds along the shore (we sure couldn't interest them in anything we threw) or suspend away rom shore, although I saw *very* ew ish and no bait indications on the Lo-K-tor. It's hard to believe there are enough bass in Chabot to justiy shocking them or transplant to the quarry lakes in Fremont, only to be caught, kept, and eaten by the meat ishermen.
      City: Monterey, CA

      Tips: Can't help here...nothing we tried worked. Even down-sizing to a split-shotted tube lure (rainbow trout inish, no less!) did not produce.

    • By

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I you have the petition send it my way. That stinks. You know I am also a die hard Chabot isherman and what they are doing is only gonna make one o the toughest lakes around impossible. Donald, please keep us imormed i this is true.
      City: Alameda

  • Sonoma County
    • By

      Water Temp: 64

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Senko's almost exclusively. Mostly rootbeer and watermelon. 17 Fish total. Biggest to 2.5#. Sonoma expert Jim McDevitt was knocking them dead, especially in the morning, he got 12 overall. Saw several "bed ish" got some o them to take with alot o proviking (hitting them with your plastic). Hit ish in several locations. South o the ramp in the a.m., north to happy cove and I believe the last cove was honey cove. Fish is several dierent depths, 2 - 18 eet. His buddy also got at least 14 ish mostly with Senko's as well, some over 2.5#. Tough wind in the aternoon slowed things but great day overall!
      City: Paciica

      Tips: Senko's - watch your line, they did not hit, just ate it and swam away slowly.

    • By

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: went 6pm on 4/26/02 4 bass in shallows in 1 hour. ishing slowed when it got dark.2-3lbs
      City: morgan hill

      Tips: topwater,nightcrawlers-ish the lats and shallows.

Thursday, May 2nd, 2002

  • Napa County
    • By

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: PHILS PROPS NOW CARRIES A LARGE SELECTION OF MARKS TAILS 1-800-462-3917 THEY CAN HAVE ANY LURE MATCHED IDENTICALLY EVEN THE LUCKYCRAFTS. SPECIFY THE TYPE LURE AS EACH TYPE OF LURE HAS DIFFERENT LENGTHS. MANY TOURNAMENTS ARE BEING WON ON THIS PRODUCT.
      City: REDWOOD CITY

  • Ventura County
    • By

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: GREAT NEWS I FOUND A PRO SHOP ON LAKE SHASTA THAT CARRIES MARKS TAILS !!!! 1-800-462-3917 ALOT OF TOURNAMENTS ARE BEING WON ON THIS PRODUCT, SPECIFY TYPE OF LURE AS RIPS ARE DIFFERENT LENGTH THAN CRANKS AND LIPLESS ARE DIFFERENT THANTOPWATERS AND SO ON. I CAN'T BELIEVE THE DIFFERENCE THIS PRODUCT HAS MADE FOR ME AND THEY MATCH EVERY LUCKYCRAFT MADE
      City: REDWOOD CITY

  • Alameda County
    • By

      Water Temp: 55-60

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: This is in response to Mr. Osbornes report about the park district, shocking and moving chabot's bass to the quarry lakes, I this is happening, this is absolute B.S.! The quarry lakes gets planted with enough trout to satisy the meat isherman, Ive heard, most o the isherman will keep and eat anything they catch, whether it's a 6" bass or a 2lb trout. I am one o those dedicated Chabot bass isherman who has to work or 4 hours to get 1-2 bites, I would like to encourage all o you to sign any petitions that protect Chabot's bass. I have released a 4.7 emale bass, and the 8-9 1-2lbers I have caught this spring at Chabot. My biggest a ew years back (6.2 lbs, I also released or the good o the ishery. I also would like to encourage all o you to call the park district and/or ish and game to protest this- thanks GREG KMIT
      City: hayward

      Tips: cONTINUE TO RELEASE YOUR FISH.

    • By

      Water Temp: not warm yet

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: To all concerned. The park district is selling our Bass!!!!Over the past 3 weeks biologists have been shocking Chabots bass and taking them to Quarry Lakes to be caught and EATEN.Total losses approx 30 3-5 lb bass taken out o our Supposed over loaded with bass lake. Any o you who ish Lake Chabot know i you catch 2 ish let alone get 2 bites know they are soo ull o shit. In the next week or 2 there will be a petition sent around or us ew bass ishermen to sign to stop this nonsense. Our park district is a sellout.Its all about Quarry lake now because there are not enough ish in Chabot to attract MONEY. Its all about MONEY. We have to do something about this ASAP or Chabot will DIE and become just like the skateboard park downtown
      City: Castro Valley

  • Sacramento County
    • By

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: PHILS PROPS CARRIES MARKS TAILS 1-800-462-3917,A BIG SELECTION !! ALOT OF TOURNAMENTS ARE BEING WON ON THIS PRODUCT, THEY WILL MATCH ANY LURE EVEN LUCKYCRAFTS JUST SPECIFY LURE AS THEY DIFFER IN LENGTH BY TYPE OF LURE.
      City: REDWOOD CITY

  • San Francisco County
    • By

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Went out there or about three hours with no luck. No bites or anything. There were some ish jumping though. I was ishing with powerbait and lures. This was my irst time back in 10 years and could't believe that there were no ishermen,no concession stand, or boat rentals, etc. This used to be one o the best ishing areas around, I caught more ish there than at del-valle, chabot, or Los Vasqueros put together. To bad the lake has gone to hell.
      City: San Bruno

  • Tuolumne County
    • By

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: PHILS PROPS NOW CARRIES A FULL LINE OF MARKS TAILS1-800-462-3917 CHECK THIS OUT www.markstails.com TO GET A IDEA ALOT OF TOURNAMENTS ARE BEING WON ON THIS PRODUCT JUST SPECIFY TYPE OF LURE AS RIPS ARE DIFFERENT THAN CRANKS AND LIPLESS ARE DIFFERENT LENGTH THAN TOPWATERS AND SO ON.YOU WILL NOT BELIEVE THE DIFFERENCE IT MAKES TO HAVE A TRAILER THAT MATCHES IDENTICALLY AND THE ACTION IS UNBELIEVABLE.
      City: REDWOOD CITY