Fishing Report

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Tuesday, October 16th, 2001

  • Santa Clara County, California
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      Water Temp: 69

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Snuck out for a Tuesday night excursion. The fish were deep. The meter had them at 18-25 feet. We caught a couple shallow just before dusk. Nothing big. Just a couple of 1.5s. Caught them both on 4" worms.
      City: San Jose

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      Water Temp: 69

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Snuck out for a Tuesday night excursion. The fish were deep. The meter had them at 18-25 feet. We caught a couple shallow just before dusk. Nothing big. Just a couple of 1.5s. Caught them both on 4" worms.
      City: San Jose

Monday, October 15th, 2001

  • Napa County, California
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      Water Temp: 68-71

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: BassBusters was out at Berryessa this weekend and it was tough. It was about 90+ outside and the water was still up to 70 degrees. It was a small tournout for us only 5 boats (the smallest I've seen in 5 years). The winning weight I don't even remember but it was one with 4 fish and the big fish was around 2.5 lbs. As the report before this says they can be caught on Cranks, or you can go deep with Drop Shot or Split shot rig. Still alot of bait for the fish to pig out on so deciding whether to eat your fake stuff or the real stuff is not a tough decision for the fish. Sometimes during the day your electronics screen would just go black with the shad & fry in the water. Trout fisherman we talked to also said it was tough for them as well.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: The bass are there and although I'm to a regular to this lake I've heard that they will turn on in the fall and you can pick up some good limits. Only advice I could give you is wait until that time comes.

  • Solano County, California
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      Water Temp: 70's

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Well my buddy and I hit the good old Delta once again. We launched out o hollands and headed to our avorite spot. First cast with a rootbeer senko and a 3lb. Nothing more or a while. Headed to Franks tract to see i we could get any stripers. Got about 10 on rat-l-traps to about 2lbs. Headed back to our earlier spot and the stripers were everywhere. Caught about 10 more one just under 5lb. I got another 3lb Largemouth on a rat-l-trap. The weather was great all day no wind and not to many people on the water. My buddy snagged his senko on a tule and as he was reeling it in a good sized largemouth took a shot at it. We tried blades and speedtraps with no takers in the evening. All in all a great day.
      City: Alameda

  • Los Angeles County, California
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      Water Temp: 68

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: lot o small ish but steve got a 7lbs on spinner bait white yellow small ish on robo 4inch blk grape
      City: reseda

      Tips: go early no late bite

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      Water Temp: 68

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: lot o small ish but steve got a 7lbs on spinner bait white yellow small ish on robo 4inch blk grape
      City: reseda

      Tips: go early no late bite

  • Butte County, California
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      Water Temp: 70-72

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: My partner and I have been out to oroville ive times in the last two weeks and it has been some o the best ishing we have ever seen. We avgeraged 20-30 ish per day. Most o the ish were caught on a Mourning dawn majic worm, drop shot rig in 35 t. o water. Also caught some on a crawdad crankbait and spinnerbaits.
      City: Chico

      Tips: Fish deep and slow

  • California
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      Water Temp: 69

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Preished up river on a rocky drop o. Caught a couple ish on a crankbait shad color, one 2+ pounds. Then preceded not to ar away to the sumerged trees, caught ew more ish, not many keepers but the bite was good, bounching worms, and drop shoting. Came tournment day and caught our ish on morning bite on the rocks, reaction bait cranking. Not to many ish on the wood but got a ew. Then on the second day, no reaction bite, not even one on a crankbait, only on drop shoting the rocky drop os and wood. Took Third place. Wanted to thank the people at the Pine Flat resort or all the great comort the gave us. Really was a great experience.Caution DO NOT go to ast up river, gets really shallow really ast. Pulled a boat out on Sunday, they ended up beating us and taking second place. O well, Lucky.
      City: Castro Valley

      Tips: Use Shad colors, purple, pink, and brown worms worked great. Cranking o the rocks shad colors, look or weird rocks changing sizes and depths. Fished 20t to 30t water.

  • Shasta County, California
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      Water Temp: 67

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: in at Jones Valley at 615am, temp 49, lake down just past 100t, ran over to the point and got 6 quick on a junior spook, one was a 2.2 the rest were dinks, ran down the pit near Azelle creek and ound Kreg Moss who is here on a houseboat vacation, shot the breeze or a bit and rna back up to Blue Canyon and inside about a hundred yards tosing the spook, had one miss and went back in with an aurora black which got smacked and u p came a rainbow trout! dinked around or a bit with no more action so moved out on the other side o the channel and not marking much and what I ound was suspended, weather ront moving in and a slight pressure drop last night, hauled out and ran upstream just past brrowns canyon and tried some worming with the MGM #54 and got bite 8 times with six in the boat the best was a smallmouth at 2.6, tried the #127 with no takers and tied on a 4 inch #109 or a hal dozen more averaging 1.8 with the best a skinny 2.3. pulled out at 1115 and ran downstream and came across Bryce Fuller getting his butt kicked again by his wie, Susan near Reynolds creek. We talked or a bit and I gave Susan some new stu I made with the hope that she continues to kick his behind. ran down to Jones Valley and out at 1130 temp up to 72.
      City: Redding

      Tips: #54 and 109 MGM are great!

Sunday, October 14th, 2001

  • Solano County, California
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      Water Temp: 64* TO 67*

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: FISHED THE MOKOLUMME FOR THREE STRAIGHT DAYS AND POUNDED THE TULES AT HIGH TIDE AND HAD SOME FINE RESULTS. CAUGHT NUMEROUS QUALITY FISH. PITCHIN' SUPER BRUSH HOGS IN BLACK & BLUE AND DOUBLE TAILED GRUBS W/SKIRT IN BLACK AND RED. CAUGHT AND RELEASED 5 LBERS. AND 4 LBERS. NOTHING UNDER 2LB. HOOKED A FISH DEEP INTO THE POCKETS AND TOOK OFF FOR THE RIVER W/20 LB. TEST. COULD NOT STOP IT. DO BIG STRIPERS GO INTO THE TULES AND BITE PLASTICS??
      City: APTOS

      Tips: BASS ARE BACK IN THE TULES, NOT NECESSARILY ON THE WOOD AS OF YET. CAUGHT ONLY SMALLER BASS ON CRANKS.

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      Water Temp: 68, 67

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went out o b&w @ 11:00 am there was alot o boat traic today . Fishing was tough . tide was low and the bite was tough . Still managed too land 11 ish 5 dinks and some 2 and 3 pounders . nothing big like last week . ished till 3:30 pm there were alot o bass isherman heavy pressure on my avorite spots . lost one good ish . all in all , had a good day , hope to have a more productive day next weekend . went over too potatoe slough , and prisners point and the water was way stained ish bite was tough at the south delta tried spinners ripped a little and tried plastics only to catch a ew dinks . going to concentrate in the cleaner water and current and hope to have a better tide . only one thing matters to me on a day o no big ish is ,, I got my ix o getting my lines wet .. tight lines and c ya on the water
      City: Elmira

      Tips: work the tides right and stick to cleaner water and currrent..

  • California
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      Water Temp: 70

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Water is low w/only 35'-40' o water at the dam ace. Algae bloom in ull orce w/enough on surace that when your bait hits it SPLATTS!. Started at 7 am w/top water then switched to shallow & medium diving crank baits both shad & craw patterns w/no action. Started at the midlake islands. While I cranked my wie split shot worms & she boated a 10 incher at 7:30 using a green weenie w/chartruese tail. I inally switched to worming & missed a strike at 9 am. My wie then boated a 15 incher using a motoroil 4" curly tail worm at 10 am. We then moved to the north bank just west o the day use area & my wie boated another 11" dink again w/ the motoroil curly tail worm. Worked our way down to the dam & at 12:15 pm I inally split shot a 14 incher w/a green weenie. Finally boated one so we could go w/o me getting skunked.
      City: Delhi

      Tips: The ew we caught came rom slowly dragging a split shot motoroil or green weenie worm & they came out o 10' to 20'. Maybe deeper water might produce better?

  • Sacramento County, California
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      Water Temp: 68-72

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Like I said I would, here is my report on the pattern I used at the Newbass Metro team event. During preishing I ound alot o bait and bass on the riprap levees around the dam. My preishing eort included a 5.3 lb Largey on the dike west o the ace o the dam. At blast-o I decided to ish the dike in the Mormon Island area beacuse it was out o the wind and I wanted to see i a ew surace ish were going. No topwater, but when I picked up my triple-bladed white spinnerbait, a solid keeper latched on. Soon ater a 3.7 came on-board and shortly ater my third keeper was in the well. I then went over to the dam and didn ot catch another keeper the rest o the day. Lots o snakes came rom the water that had previously produced some good keepers. Tried up north or awhile and little in the south, but no more ish were added to the well. My best laid plans didn't pan out, oh well that's ishin'. Winners had 16+ plus with a big ish o 4.70 lbs. Good luck
      City: Roseville

      Tips: Pretty good blade bite in the right stretches. Find the bait and the ish will be close. Be careul, there are alot o UNMARKED hazaeds out there to destroy your boat.

  • Shasta County, California
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      Water Temp: 68

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Very windy again on Sunday. The Labrador and I hit the water around 6:15 and went up the pit. The water was airly choppy so I pretty much just threw spinnerbaits, we caught around 10 in the irst hal hour, nothing over 1.75, but a lot o un. Once the wind calmed down a bit I did dropshot some ish but thet were all small. So I went back to the jig and caught a ew more decent ish in about 40 eet o water. We got o the water around 11:30 so as to catch the ootball games. The ishing is great!!! You can catch them on just about anything.
      City: Redding

  • Sonoma County, California
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Float tubing at Yorty Creek, ished rom 7am till noon. Landed a 4.5 lb bass o a steep point directly across rom the rocky shore near the boat ramp. Caught the bass on a white 1/4 oz spinnerbait with tandem Colorado blades (hammered/chrome inish). I think the bass was holding on an stump underwater in 8-10 eet o water. I also ished the wood with no results, then switched to a small rapala (Black/silver) with no results. the 4.5 pounder was my only ish
      City: Petaluma

      Tips: The water was clear so I was using light line. get out there early to beat the crowd!

  • California
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      Water Temp: warm

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went out ant tried some new techniques or practice. No ish, but interesting bites. Thru spilt-shot plastic and carolina dads. Carolina dads produced 3-5 "mushy" type bites, couldn't set tho...but it's a new setup or me running deep. Doodled a bit, and this is what got the mushie bites. One GREAT violent take, but somehow got o the hook. Probably low drag?? Anyhow, or 1 hour on the lake, 5-6 strikes was good in my book. Next time I'll stay longer, and lower my line weight.
      City: Santa Rosa

      Tips: Carilina rigs with rubber lures. Try skin hooking...I will next time.

Saturday, October 13th, 2001

  • Amador County, California
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      Water Temp: 71

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I had one o the greatest trips to Amador Thurs night that I have had in awhile. I took a nice ather and his delightul 11 year old son, and we had un! We started about an hour beore dark, with not much success. Ater dark was a dierent story. 10" black Power worms were the ticket to a good show! Dad had a ield day, landing most o the bass - his biggest going 5 1/4 lbs with a 4 1/4 to back that up. I landed a 6-11, 5-3, and a 4 1/2. The boy hooked a ew, but was not able to put one in the boat. Next time he will!! We were getting so many bite rom little bass too, that I was going to stop setting the hook or awhile. Ater I said that, I got bit again - did nothing but lit my Loomis rod slowly. It elt heavy so I set the hook. Yes, it WAS the 6-11. You just never know!! We caught bass rom 2 eet o water to about 20 eet - the bigger bass were deeper. We ished the main body and big bay, points with wood, and lats. We wound up with 15 bass, with the 5 ish limit at 26 pounds. I ished Friday night or awhile, and ound the ishing mush slower, and some other olks said the same thing. I caught one and two pounders. During the day Friday, I caught a 3 1/4 on a jig and a 4-9 on topwater about 5 pm - what a surprise!! Ater many years o wondering i there really were any carp in Amador - and ater a discussion about that very subject with Bruce Lockhart that morning, I proceeded to snag an 18 lb+ carp that aternoon. Now I know at least that Amador has one less carp!!!
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: As always, Amador is a timing game! One day it's hot, the next, it's not!!! The water still needs to cool o a bit or good topwater action. The jig bite hasn't been as good as the past ew weeks! Worms and brush hogs are excellent. Start looking or wood - it is beginning to show.

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      Water Temp: 71-73

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I started ishing around 6:30 a.m. over by the spillway. Tried topwater a little and got nothing, so I decided to ish a jig. It paid o in about 10 min. I noticed my line coming back to the boat so I set the hook on a nice 4.5lber. I kept pitching the jig just in ront o the weeds, and got another one about 1.5lbs. Then a ew casts later I get a nice tap and set the hook, but apparently not hard enough. I had the ish on or about 10-15 seconds and it spit the jig. The ish elt heavier than the irst one too, and it ripped o one o my rattles and pulled the skirt o onto the hook. I moved and I am not to sure i that was a good idea. About 9:00 I got around 3lbs that I lost at the boat, should o used a net. That was it though I stayed until noon, but it was getting hot and the bite was non existent. Good luck.
      City: Eldorado Hills

      Tips: I got all my ish on jigs in 5 to 15 eet o water. All on main lake points.

  • Napa County, California
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      Water Temp: 70

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: We fished a small 1 day club tournament. No limits were caught. The first and second place got four each for about five pounds. Most people were drop shotting and the winner went down 50 feet to get his fish. The second place guy got his fish early ripping a Husky Jerk or a Shad Rap. The wind was kicked up so picking up worm bites was tough. The best seemed to be on the steep eastern shore banks around the narrows.
      City: Belmont

      Tips: Things should pick up there in a month or so when the water temp drops.

  • Solano County, California
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      Water Temp: 69

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the New Bass tourney out o Brannon Island. My buddy john and I made the long run to the Paradise Area starting with cranks and topwater. I nailed about a 2 pounder right away on a super chugger and my buddy caught a couple small keepers right ater that. I didn't get anything on top or the next 20 minutes so I decided to start throwing lipless cranks. I hit 2 or 3 small ish o o a point right away, but couldn't get the quality. Decided to pick up a rip bait and hit a keeper on irst cast to the same point. John then hit a 3 pounder and another small keeper on the other side o the point. We had 6 keepers in the boat by 9:30 and headed or the 14 Mile Slough area. We managed two keepers there, but one was a 4 pounder. Tried a ew oher places, managed to cull one ish and it was time to head back. Our limit turned out to be 13.29 pounds. Out o 30 boats we inished 5th and wound up inishing in 3rd overall or the year.
      City: roseville

      Tips: Still having trouble inding a real cosistent pattern. I would say we caught at least 25 ish with 10 being keepers, but we couldn't seem to stay on em' once we ound em'. I it cools o this week, the reaction bite should really take o. Fish were pretty scattered. From 6 inches o the back to being out in 8 eet o water. We also got 4 or 5 striper to 6 pounds.