Fishing Report

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Sunday, November 25th, 2001

  • Los Angeles County, California
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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fishing was TUFF !!!!!!Only 2 bites and only stuck one. It was a nice ish about 3.5 Lbs. I was ishing jigs real slow. But ater that storm I knew it was going to be hard to get them to bite. But it was a nice day.
      City: La Mirada

      Tips: Fish big baits and REALLLLLLLLLLL Slow.

  • Washoe County, California
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      Water Temp: 58

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: The best day in a long time we got 9 small mouth all 2 to 3 lbs they hit crakbaits spinnerbaits plastic robo 41/2 inch worms 2 stripper 8 to 9 lbs on jerk baits all and all it very good we were o the lake by 11.30 all ish were taken by the dam
      City: reseda

  • Shasta County, California
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      Water Temp: 57

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went with my buddy Richard again. Got out about sunrise. Cloudy and cold. Went to Dry Creek and Backbone. Did well with spinnerbait, deep wee-r, and shad rap (Rich won't use anything else). 12 in the boat, 9 keepers, nothing over 2 lbs. Good time. Back home by 11.
      City: Redding

  • California
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      Water Temp: ???

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Sonoma in the Canoe with ather-in-law rom 3:00pm to 5:50pm. Temp was about 58F, slightly clowdy. Spring Lake has an alge bloom going on now, which seems strange or Novenber...then again, it's my irst season bass ishin'! Har, har! We started pitching twin tail grubs(Yamamoto) in greens w/ lake, classic split shottin'. I caught a nice 1 1/2 lb smallie BIg Mouth on a mushy bite. No ight in that ish, but looked great and healthy! Let's hope he plumps up durring winter! Not many bites on anything else: spooks, carolina segemented worms, rogs, and pig'n'jig. BIg ish broke surace on bugs twice. Good day on Spring Lake in my book...at least we didn't break another rod! Haha! Got teh eeling there was a monster nearby, can't explain it, just a eeling...
      City: Santa Rosa

      Tips: Go monster hunting! I got the eeling one's ready and hungry or a baby bass bait ot sunish.

Saturday, November 24th, 2001

  • Solano County, California
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      Water Temp: 57-60

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Got together with Cooch or a day o ishing ..the weatherwas terrible but we inally got a break in the storm andheaded out we started throwing crankbaits .. on aboutmy 3rd cast I got a nice 3 lber . Cooch got one on aworm .. we headed urther south and ater throwingcranks without much luck Cooch went to the jig . Coochended up with close to 20 ish , I only got 2 but it stillwas a un day these were all quality ish 3-4 poundersbiggest might have gone 5
      City: Stockton

      Tips: We ished rock banks with not alot o weeds1/2 brown pig and jig with brown and olive trailerRead Cooch's artical on jig ishing ..

  • Riverside County, California
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      Water Temp: 64

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Started out throwing a Crank (Normans, Baby Bass color) in ront o the island. Caught one about 3 pounds and had one more shake o at the boat. Ended up with three more on worms and spoons. I let at 11am. Real slow.
      City: whittier

      Tips: None

Friday, November 23rd, 2001

  • Napa County, California
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      Water Temp: 61

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Out of Capell at safe lite and headed for the narrows. Fished north side above dam. My partner and I got 7 or 8 spots, nothing big but exciting. Moved out to main body got three samllies, largest 2.5#'s, fish was a beauty, shades of yellow and green. On the day we boated 15 fish, only one largemouth. Nothing big but we had lots of action. Berryessa this time of year (when ther is no wind) is just beautiful and most of all no skiers.
      City: Benicia

      Tips: Fish from 8 to 15' shaking S&P worms with chart tail. Good ol'e witches "T" also. Nothing cranking couple blow ups on popper. Most fish on points and rocks, espically in the narrows. Keep shaking, they are there. Dress warm.

  • Santa Barbara County, California
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      Water Temp: 61

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: To ull o apple smoked turkey to go to Casitas so I went to Cachuma. Went towards the island and started throwing cranks . I got several dinks a ew keepers and blam...Best ish o the day about 5-6 pounds. She really gave me a workout but I grabbed her by the lips so I guess she lost that argument. Played around with jigs or awhile and got some smallish smallmouth and 1 nice largemouth. Played around with dropshot junk and narrowed down by choices or Casitas WON tournament on Dec 1. I noticed that the grebe's are arther out rom the shore so about 11:30 I pulled out into 35+ eet on a break with nice meter marks on what appeared to be brush and put 6 NICE smallmouth in the boat in???5 minutes???? that was un. Went home early and I'm o to Casitas early in the morrow.....KELLY
      City: Santa Barbara

      Tips: I did notice that the redear isherman are slaying them. Give it a try. Hal a crawler will do ya!

  • Solano County, California
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      Water Temp: 58-60

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched at Ladds with my riend Rob. Caught 5 quality ish at the irst stop on plastic worms in 10-12 t. just o main river. Caught several ish on deep shad pattern cranks in 12-14t o water thru out the day. Never could get ish to go shallow although we dried shallow cranks, Bladed and rattle traps. We continued ishing breaks and points and ended up with 22 ish or the day. No toads but some good quality ish. Great day on the water and no rain.
      City: Danville

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      Water Temp: unknown

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Disappointment slough with brother. Started with irst ish on spinnerbait. Mike cought next ish ater we saw birds diving down on the water and the bait ish jumpin out o the water we through on some broken back rapalas. within 2 minutes he had a 20inch keeper striper. Later that morning he also cought a small bass on a carolina rigged, bubblegum colored 6inch worm. All in all a decent day. Three ish in the boat in about 3 hours. no complaints here.
      City: Escalon

      Tips: I got no bites on senko's

  • Sacramento County, California
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      Water Temp: 60.2

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Reaction bite still going on strong thoughout olsom. Got on the water around 0730 and headed up north to see what was going on.Looked like the same old thing every boat up there was draging worms,god what a boring way to ish, but what the hay so we dropshotted or about 2hrs caught alot o ish but just couldnt stand it no more.Moved back down to the main body and started throwing reaction. The ish are still there up shallow rom 8t to 21t. Lots o bait in 25 to 45 eet with good ish mixed in,caught several nices ish throwing a 3/4 oz thruster tail in a shad pattern working it slow through the bait,all the ish that we caught were throwing up pond smelt!!!
      City: ELVERTA

      Tips: work your baits slow when you ind them stay with them theres aways more than one there......

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      Water Temp: 60.2

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Reaction bite still going on strong thoughout olsom. Got on the water around 0730 and headed up north to see what was going on.Looked like the same old thing every boat up there was draging worms,god what a boring way to ish, but what the hay so we dropshotted or about 2hrs caught alot o ish but just couldnt stand it no more.Moved back down to the main body and started throwing reaction. The ish are still there up shallow rom 8t to 21t. Lots o bait in 25 to 45 eet with good ish mixed in,caught several nices ish throwing a 3/4 oz thruster tail in a shad pattern working it slow through the bait,all the ish that we caught were throwing up pond smelt!!!
      City: ELVERTA

      Tips: work your baits slow when you ind them stay with them theres aways more than one there......

  • Tulare County, California
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      Water Temp: 57-59 deg's

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went up at 8 am and caught 20 ish. Drop-shot and worms. sky was kinda clouded up but I started to get a good bite at 9:45 and got a ish every 10 minutes or so. 19-22 t. was the best in every spot i stopped at. I had a 5 ish limit that would have gone 7-71/2 lbs. And I also caught a smallmouth bass o the dam on a worm. Go igure that out.
      City: Visalia

  • Shasta County, California
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      Water Temp: 58

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Me and my buddy Rich went out Friday AM. Went over to Dry Creek. Saw a beautiul sunrise, and got a double right away. Caught ish til about 11, then went trolling home. A ew trout on the troll. Using spinnerbaits, shad raps and wee-Rs. Got aobut 15 in the boat, lost a ew. A ew to 2+ lbs, lost my avorite spinnerbait. Saw the "killer pack" o otters, several bald eagles, the obligatory deer, osprey. Had a truely great day.
      City: Redding

Thursday, November 22nd, 2001

  • Kane County, Arizona
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      Water Temp: 59

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: LAKE POWELL FISH REPORTNovember 22, 2001 By Wayne Gustaveson Home Page: www.wayneswords.com Lake Elevation: 3660 Water Temperature: 57- 61 FWater temperatures have slipped into the 50's marking the end o good smallmouth ishing or theyear. Bass can still be caught but ishing is tougher. Striped bass will now go deep and travel lessactually making them easier to ind and thereore, catch. These conditions will prevail or theremainder o November and December. This will be the last regular ish report or the year. Updates will be given as new inormation is obtained and disseminated on the Wayneswords.comwebsite. Look there or winter ishing updates, speciically the Anglers Corner and Bulletin boardpages. Striped bass continue to move but are easy to discern on electronics. They are seen as anelliptical dense mass usually just o the bottom. Winter eeding grounds will have numerousschools in the same proximity detectable or 100 yards or more. Stripers ound less than 60 eetdeep are easiest to catch but as winter settles in stripers may be seen at 100 eet or more. Fishwith spoons, jigs or anchovy bait while maintaining position directly over the school. Mark thelocation with a loating marker and chum to draw ish o the bottom and to excite the school. Ahooked ish oten draws the rest o the school o the bottom and causes a quick lurry o activity. Let the irst hooked ish swim deep making sure there is another bait in the water beore the irstish is landed. All canyons rom Good Hope Bay to Hite and Zahn Bay to Copper Canyon oer good potentialor catching wintering striped bass. In the remainder o the lake, graph the backs o canyonswhere bottom depth is 50-70 eet or resting schools. Warm Creek, Gunsight and Padre areconsistent winter striped bass producers. Once detected a striper school has to be

  • Shasta County, California
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      Water Temp: 59

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: went the other way this am, big Daddy neded to gedt the ull impact o the low water levels, in at jones valley around 8am, lake still 100t down, temp 44, clear and windy, ran over into squaw creek or awhile with the oldest boy along, Gary got one on a worm but my usually good locastion wasn't holding much, let or the lower pit, gary tags one more small ish on a drop shot and I miss two with jigs, picked up and ran up the Mccloud and ooled around a couple o spots with nothing happening until around1130 when I stuck a good one and had it get o back downstream near the pit, got a good 2.8 and a 2.0 on a new jig color then stuck a very lively 1.8, gary begged me or a sample and promptly we had a double on with the oldest boy, Russell inally getting one himsel and yes, he made another bet and lost again, breakast tomorrow and that is 12 out o 13 bets won, when is this kid gonna learn? wind came up bigtime around 130 pm so we headed back or turkey day with Big Daddy eeling better than when he got here, got him 20 yesterday and 3 more today ater he had a bad week down south. bright shiny day today, no rain and the ishing was much better yesterday with all the rain and heavy overcast.
      City: Redding

Wednesday, November 21st, 2001

  • Tulare County, California
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      Water Temp: 60-61 deg's

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went up at 11:30 am and ished til 5 pm. caught 17 ish, all on drop-shot in 22-27 t o water. small ones and rain started about 2:30 pm and stopped at 4 pm.
      City: Visalia

  • Ventura County, California
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      Water Temp: chilly

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: beautiul day as usual in Caliornia. Bass are deeper now and slow. Deep diving cranks natural bass color producing the most. Plastics producing a ew also, need to split shot i you try it. West side has been best or me, others claiming east side is the way to go. Need slow presentation though inesse is the key, patience!!! most action very early.Fished trout later rom 10-1. Wide open on Needleish nickel bikini and countdowns producing. Fished 3-4 colors but also catching a ew on mono line as well. Use rapalas cant go wrong with trout limited out past three times
      City: agoura

      Tips: Bass- slow presentation, split shot plastics and slow deep cranks.Trout- goin nuts on needleish and countdowns 3-4 colors best bet

  • Shasta County, California
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      Water Temp: 59

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Back in Business! went out this am with Big Daddy, in a bridge bay at 1030 am, rain coming down at a pretty good clip, wind about 10 out o the south, air temp 49, ran over into the main body on a ew o my good spots and put Gary on a bunch right o the bat, stayed in the area till 130pm when I inally managed a small ish just ater Gary caught a 2.4 on a lash minnow, at 144pm I put 6 in the boat in 5 minutes on a jig, we poked around till 2pm and picked up a ew more on worms, i got some on the mgm156(brown bomber) and big daddy pulled at least 5 out with the rainbow #99(ormerly known as the big daddy special)our total was 26 in three and hal hours and it sure was great getting back out on the water ater my last week. The wind came up big time on the way back in with some 3-4 ooters blowing up the sac arm. Back out tomorrow, weather permitting.
      City: Redding

Tuesday, November 20th, 2001

  • Lake County, California
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      Water Temp: 57

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I just read the previous report by the Blue Ranger man, and thought I would say "ditto"! I guided Thursday thru Sunday (night trips), and ound the ishing very slow or some reason, probably all the rontal activity. But ishing was still too slow. Thursday night was warmer, and we got 5 or 20 1/4 lbs, mostly on jigs. Friday night the ront passed through, with wind and cold everywhere. We only caught two - a 4 1/2 and a 5 1/2. On Saturday, (same client) he wanted to try minnows, so he bought 2 doz and we started about 3 pm. He did get a 4 1/4 and a 9 pound catish! I lost a big one. Since I don't enjoy live bait much, I switched back to jigs beore dark and got a 5 3/4. Ater dark it was dead. We ished a couple o spots near the narrows and inally the Weapon jig did its thing - client did the "grunt' sound and set into a dandy - 8-5!! Hallelujah!! And this ish was early - 9 pm. I thought "good - it will pick up"! Never got another bite, and we quit at midnight. By the way, in 15 years o guiding Clear Lake at night, this was the wettest night (without rain) I have ever seen. The og was all over the north end by 10 pm. Amazing - I have NEVER seen that ever. My carpet even elt like it had rained. Fog usually doesn't starting orming until 1 am at the earliest. I have ound cold, moist air to provide very slow ishing at night. Sunday night was just the opposite - warm and dry. I thought this was it! And that is the way it started - client got a 4-5 right away on a Weapon jig. I was again ishing deep water and stuck a 7 1/2, and we got another 3 something - all by 8:30! Yes, this was the night!!!! Well, we never caught another bass, though clients missed 3. One guy did stick a nice one or a second or two. I still can't igure out why it was so slow. I do have some ideas that I may share at another time. I must admit, sometimes I really worry that the tournament pressure, weed control, live bait ishing, and sight ishing - all this happening year-round now, is really taking a toll on the ishery. But o course, I must be wrong.
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: I don't think I have much constructive to say ater the past ew trips. I do agree with the previous report that colder water will help the ishing - even or artiicial baits. My clients ished very well, but the bass just wern't in the mood.