Fishing Report

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Tuesday, December 3rd, 2002

  • Alameda County, California
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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: caught me some carp on my secret bait and took em home and grubbed.
      City: Oaktown 700 like what!

      Tips: ish or carp, theyre good eatin!

  • Sacramento County, California
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      Water Temp: 53

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Scott,There is not any boating allowed on Folsom ater Dark, so ishing would be a problem. Launcing as well, since they close and lock the gates.I am not saying it has not been done beore!!!! but......not suggestedMark
      City: Sacramento

      Tips: BYW The bite is hit and miss right now

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Does anyone know i you can ish Folsom at night and i the bite is any good?
      City: SJ

  • Butte County, California
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      Water Temp: 53

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Can you say wide open boys and girls?.....I knew you could! Wow, what a day as the action started on the irst cast and although slowing some around 1:PM, the action was ast and urious. Decided to concentrate on the South Fork and irst cast over a point with a crankbait netted the irst ish. Most ish came either right on the bank or up to 10-15' rom bank working a worm or jig. When the hit it, they hit it and altough we had many in the slot, we must have boated over 12 that were over 15". Water was picture perect and smooth as glass which made Senko ishing even more enjoyable.
      City: WHEATLAND

      Tips: Although color had no particular bearing, wacky style seemed to produce the most today as the water was so lat. Biggest ish seemed to relate to a brown color while a ew nice ones were caught on a white tube. You threw it, they ate it!

  • Shasta County, California
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      Water Temp: 56-60.6

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Ino or Keswick, yes there are some very nice ish in Keswick, mostly spots with some smallmouth, I have never caught a largemouth in there but have heard o them being taken, the trout ishing is usualy good, I can't imagine wading or swimming Keswick as the water temp coming out o the bottom o the dam is usualy around 42 degrees. There are however, some hazards you should be aware o. I you leave the ramp and head upstream you will enter a rocky area about a mile up where you will be in 70t o water, you will also be passing some 69t rocks, the lower part is pretty much hazard ree but upstream is dangerous or those who are not aware o the channel up there. The other problem with Keswick is the thets that occur at the ramp or in the parking lot. Trailers have been stolen, trucks broken into and vandalized. I imagine you noticed that the lot and ramp are out in the "boonies" a bit and some o the local thugs(cranksters) will hit your vehicle without any ear o getting caught due to the remote nature o the ramp and parking area. The ishing is good though and very under utilized. I have caught spots to 3lbs and trout to 10 lbs inthe upper ends o Keswick where the lows are obvious. a threaded nightcrawler in ront o a 1 1/2 inch slinky bounced along the bottom as you drit downstream is deadly. Keep your glass boat at home and use a tin boat unless you REALLY know keswick or you are likely to pay the price.. crankbaits are good but jigs ished on the bottom are not so hot as you will be winding in a lot o grass with anything that spends a little time on the bottom.
      City: Redding

Sunday, December 1st, 2002

  • Solano County, California
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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I've been ishing the delta or years but only or stripers on shad. I have been trying to go or lg mouth and blackies but don't know any good spots. Could someone clue me in on a ew spots i could ind some bucketmouth thanks tight lines
      City: San Jose

  • Alameda County, California
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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Took a canoe out with a buddy to ish or some bass and trout. First hit up the burner with a pig and jig and stuck a 3lb cat o a steep drop o! What the hell? Continued to ish around coots to another spot where I spoted a hog that saw us beore we saw her, and just stared at us beore she swam o. Threw castaics or a while, along with other slow presentation but nuthin'. Finished up at alder with no bites and decided to troll back in or trout and got skunked.
      City: San Leandro

      Tips: Fish the delta

  • Lake County, California
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      Water Temp: 55

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Started at Konocti, ished all night,caught just enough ish to keep us going,some 4s, some 5s, using zippers, and powerworms 10 inch, then watched the sunrise,ished till 11 am, got o the boat, andcould barely walk, somekind o weird motionsickness. Ate breatast elt better, wantedto go out somemore but used common sense andwent home to sleep. Clearlake is way bad.I mean that in a good way.Something unny happened to me about a monthearlier, I was ishing in niece with a partner or a club tourney. He had cast around this dock and was ixing a rats nest,and I was circling around the other side. I cast in saw my line move and set the hook. The ight was great until I looked over at mypartner who said whoa we doubled up. Fiveseconds later ater some serious loomis tugging I reeled up enough to see our gamagatsus were caught on each other.
      City: angwin

      Tips: I ound the bite to be tough, all these guysare using live bait, not my bag, there weretons o pelicans, tons o shad in certaincoves, and I wish it was October when I was ishing at night with my black light inmy shorts and short sleaves. Oh well, springsa comin.

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      Water Temp: 54

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: A client and I started ishing the lake Friday about an hour beore dark. In less than an hour we had our in the boat - using jigs - with the biggest at 4 lb 13 oz. We were ishing rocky areas along the hwy 20 side. Ater dark we worked our way to the south end o the lake and ound a lot o biters, but not too many swallowers! We had short strikes rom small bass to be sure, but I think some were rom quality bass that just wern't very hungry. Worms seemed to produce bites better than jigs ater dark. The best ater dark bass was a 3 1/2 pounder and a hot 5 lb 1 oz bass that took a 6 inch zipper worm. We landed a total o 10 bass with the ive biggest about 16 1/4 lbs. I'm not very proud o that, but I elt we did well since the bass just arn't eeding much at night as in previous years. In addition to the trophy bass population decline, the baitish explosion has caused the bass and catish to eed heavily during the day and I guess they are just too tired and stued to do much at night. It will be interesting to see i that changes soon, as the water temp is about 5 degrees above normal or Dec 1st. I will be there to ind out. Stay tuned!!!
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: The baitish seem to be heading or deeper water, at least at night. I even saw some schools on the meter that were right on the bottom o the lake. The carp were rolling good most o the night and the bass seemed to be active but not aggressive. None o our hits were the normal all smashing jerks. The weather was cold but stable - I really thought we would do better. I really think there will be a period where the night bite will turn on, but the water temp has to cool o a ew degrees. All o our ish came on rocky areas with a good dropo.

  • Sacramento County, California
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      Water Temp: 51

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: ishing tournament turkey shoot that scott schambre put on worth about $200 we thought we had a really good chance o winning this one. it was the irst major storm o the year it was a really rainy saturday morning. there was 25 boats at this tournament we werent sure i we should cancell the tournament or not because o the weather is good or not. then the men o all men larry newby the owner o newbass ishing tournaments came up and said some words to all o us that made us go out on the lake we couldnt resist the thought o gettn put in the dust by larry. we all decided to go out any ways and catch some ish. we got out to our avorite spot on browns and the third cast or the both o us we got a ish my uncle said chris get the net and i couldnt cause i had a ish on it was a nice 5.2lb spot and when i got it closer up to the boat i noticed that the crankbait i was throwing(bomber red craw)had two ish on it at once the other ish on the lure was probroly a 6 lb largemouth. it bent the hook on the bait straight. it came o and really made me mad. we ended up takn third out o 25 boats and we had a total weight o 15.0 and the winner had a weight o 15.4 and the second place had a weight o 15.2
      City: orangevale

      Tips: bomber red crawish deep diving crankbait

  • Tulare County, California
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: The rain has the lake all turned upside down. real muddy water and debri in every cove and pocket has made ishing very bad or some time. might not be good till next year. tight lines brian
      City: Visalia

  • California
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      Water Temp: cool

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: trolled the lake or trout. the irst time being on the lake.caught a limit o 5.2 large 3 small nice place to spend a quiet day with out spending a lot o time driving.
      City: remont

      Tips: started planting again.used rainbow runner neddle ish, real image minnow.

  • Shasta County, California
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      Water Temp: 57-60

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: The Cottonwood Bass Team annual Team Tournament is this coming Saturday, Dec 7th at Bridge Bay, check in starts at 0330, $150 per team, winners get $100 per pound and big ish gets $100 per pound, 2nd place and on gets $50 per pound. Great rale prizes oered or the rale ticket buyers, the lake is near 91 t down, water is clear and a good bite is on with some big ish being caught daily, the hirz bay ramp is out o the water and no loat, centimudi is one lane and muddy, suagarloa is in great condition, packers is good with some hardpan in one lane, Jones Valley is on the temp ramp and in excellent condition with beach parking at the water line. Bailey cove is out o the water as is the antlers public ramp.
      City: Redding

Saturday, November 30th, 2002

  • Solano County, California
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      Water Temp: 50

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched at Paradise Point beore light on Saturday and proceeded to Whites. Two good topwater ish ( 2.8lb and 4.8lb) beore low tide. Could not get a Senko bite going and no luck on traps either. Two good ish still makes a good day.
      City: Folsom

      Tips: The big ish was between the weedline and the bank just prior to low tide.

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

      Report: Went out ishing,Friday only one ish and it was very small seems like this lake is really hard to ish .Maybe someone can tell me what to use this time o year where are all the ish at are they deep our shallow tips would help thanks
      City: Antioch

  • Sacramento County, California
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      Water Temp: 58

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Went with Doug Watson today. Got to the lake at 7:30 but the used batteries he put in his new Aries Bass Boat were dead, so ater going to Wal Mart or new ones, we got started about 10.Caught some real nice spots up to 4 1/2 lbs. shaking shad leeches on dart heads, spooning and shaking green/craw 6" worms in 24 to 35 t. on main body points and ledges.
      City: Savcramento

  • San Luis Obispo County, California
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      Water Temp: 58

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Water is very low. Fished main lake points with rock. 3/8 oz. jigs in brown and drop shot 4" Keeper Custom Worms in #1064. Lots o small ish, largest spot was 1.3 lbs. Five ish limit would have been about 5.25 lbs. Still looking or the bigger ish, they're here just have to look or them. Seems like these ish are roaming alot looking or schools o shad. Lots o shad around though.
      City: Paso Robles

      Tips: Fish slow and hard.

  • California
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      Water Temp: cold

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Went out this aternoon and threw a rattletrap or awhile and nothing happening. Switched over to the jig(1/2oz Weapon-blk,blu,purple with a brown piece o senior Super Pork)and caught three good ish. The irst ish(6lbs) was caught way in the back o a point with rock in about ten eet o water. I cast out deep and slowly worked it back up the hill. Then on my way back I caught two more at the dam. Both ish about three pounds each according to scale. All ish had ull bellys and big. I couldn't believe the big one only weighed 6lbs because he was huge. I'll take it because it was looking really bad until I switched to the jig.
      City: Petaluma

      Tips: The ish were not in chase mode today, so you gotta slow it down big time. Cannot beat a jig this time o year. Fish it slow and make sure you're banging into rock. No rock, no ish. All ish came o points. All you need out there is a jig now. The number o ish might be down, but the size is deinitely gonna increase. Big brushhog might work also. I you want numbers ish the dropshot setup. Think sloooooowwwwwwwwww and you will catch ish.

Friday, November 29th, 2002

  • Santa Clara County, California
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      Water Temp: 56-58

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Calero rom 9am to 2pm rom my boat. Got two ish on a black 3in. sigle tailed grub with a jighead early in the day. The irst one was 3 1/2 pounds and the other one was under a pound. I also lost one using a watermelon colored hula grub. Fishing seemed slow, talked to a ew other boats and no one else was catching anything.
      City: Morgan Hill

  • Solano County, California
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      Water Temp: UNKNOWN

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I AM IN A SMALL ALUM. BOAT. THEREFORE, I AM LIMITED ON HOW FAR I TRAVEL. USUALLY I FISH TO THE BACK OF LADDS FROM THE LAUNCH. ON AN AVERAGE DAY I CATCH 5-7 FISH, USUALLY 2 TO 3 LBS. SOMETIMES I GET A 4,5LB. FRIDAY WHEN I STARTED AT DARK I COULDNT GET A BIT. TIDE WAS LOW. I FISHED THE CHANNEL OUT TO THE MAIN. I WENT BEHIND 6-7 BOATS. I CAUGHT 2 BLACKS OFF THE EDGE IN 3-4FT.2-10,2-11. I LOST A FEW AROUND 1LB THE INLET. CAUGHT 2 SOUTH OF STOCKTON YATCH CLUB 1-8,1-11. ONLY THING THAT WORKED FOR ME WAS A WATERMELON W/BLACK FLAKE TUBE ON A DART HEAD. WISH I COULD RUN AROUND LIKE THE BIG BOATS DO. ANYONE HAVE ADVISE FOR A GUY LIMITED TO A 13 FT. ALUM BOAT?
      City: modesto

      Tips: WATERMELON/BLK FLAKE TUBE 1/8 OZ