Fishing Report

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Monday, July 30th, 2001

  • Solano County, California
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      Water Temp: 73

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: First time out in about 3 months (broken leg). Took 2 ish on senkos and 7 on brown 1/4 oz jigs. The ish were caught in 2 to 5 t o water with deep water near by. Launched rom B&W and ished rom 0730 until noon. Biggest went about 2 1/2 lbs.Thanks to everyone who has been posting. While i was layed up at least i got to read about the ishing.
      City: Suisun

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

      Report: I ished San Pablo Reservoir rom 8:00 A.M. until 4:00 P.M. My ather and I ished poppers and spinnerbaits in the Preserve irst thing. We didn't catch any bass there, but witnessed in amazement as a 10lb+ bass jumped out o the water 3 times!!! We then motored over to Scow Canyon and ished the entire canyon with spinnerbaits. No hits, but saw a 2lb+ bass jump. Then ished along bobber beach and my dad caught two nice bass on a 3/8-oz Terminator. Ater a couple more passes we went back to the preserve and ished Senkos and spinnerbaits. Nothing. The water in the preserve is muddy. Went back to bobber beach and I caught a 16-1/2" 2lb bass on a Vyper spinnerbait. Made 4 or 5 more passes on bobber and got a ew more hits but no hookups.
      City: Clayton

      Tips: Try spinnerbaits and ind clearer water.

Sunday, July 29th, 2001

  • Solano County, California
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      Water Temp: 72

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Ater Robert Lee completed his 3-peat he said angler's that ish here regularly have been doing the same things or years. Einstein said the deinition o insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a dierent result. So I made a change today and had a good result. A 5.4 lb and maybe a 16lb limit. I ished all that water i usually motor by in the main channel out o B&W, and put down the Senko- yes, you heard it here irst- put down the Senko. I worked grass beds with reaction. Techniques rom the good ol days were my new methods or today. I'm not alleviated o insanity however- I'm still ishing or bass. Thanks to Kenny at Valley Bait & Tackle in Lodi or the tips he's given me. I'm way down in the money spent in exchange or inormation balance. I'll replace today's mangled, twisted, smoking heap o a spinnerbait there when i get a chance.
      City: El Dorado Hills

      Tips: Warming weather seems to be reactivating the surace action to a degree (pun intended)

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      Water Temp: ???

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished mildred area. Fished buzzer 1st light, had 5 blowups and only caught 2 o them. Followed up with a worm but no result. The 2 landed ended up being the biggest o the day. Caught about 15 ish total all on plastics with the exception o the buzz ish, biggest 5 went about 9 lb. Still trying or my 1st rog ish.
      City: stockton

Saturday, July 28th, 2001

  • Solano County, California
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      Water Temp: 74

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Started at very irst light with buzz baits and spooks. No takers. Switched to spinnerbaits white/Char. w/silver-gold blades. Caught about seven on the blades largets 3.5 lbs. Also gat a couple on red Norman Deep Little N crankbait but they were dinks. Had two blowups and one ish (about 4lb+) on a white rog on outside weed edge at low slack tide. Fished more mats at high tide but only a ew more blowups but no takers. Had a couple more dinks on black and red Senkos at outside edge o the mats. Flipped and pitched a baby brush hog in many areas rom 3-6 eet. Only one hit but missed 'em.
      City: San Ramon

      Tips: Fish were on outside weed edges in 4 eet + water. Nothing on the banks.

  • Sacramento County, California
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      Water Temp: 68

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Got there at about 6:00 pm or what I tought would be prime ish activity time and it was. The wind died down around 7. My ishinder was o the meter! Fish EVERYWHERE! and tons o em. The bad news, I could not catch a sinle one. I tried rubber worms, live bait and power bait. Nothing worked. Im tring again today. Ill let you know how it turns out...
      City: Sunnyvale

  • Lake County, California
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      Water Temp: 78

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Well, maybe some good news! I took a long-time client out yesterday or some beore dark ishing and night ishing. Finally - some decent numbers - 14 in the boat with the ive biggest at 20 1/4 lbs. I lost two reasonably big ish - bent hook-tip on my Weapon jig. I hate it when I'm lazy and don't check those kind o things. I usually always pay the price!! I talk to Bob Higgins at Limit Out Tackle about the trip as I let this morning, and he agreed that ishing might be picking up a bit, and that most o the ish are about the same size - maybe up to 6 lbs. People talk about the Shasta "cookie cutter" ish all being about the same size. Well, Clear Lake has the same "problem" - Har! Except this "cutter" is about 4 lbs. All but ive o our bass were 3 3/4 lbs to 4 1/2 lbs - nice problem!!! Three were bigger and two were smaller. I caught the irst bass about 8:30 pm on a Rodstrainer jig and it was the biggest o the trip at 4-15. My client caught the next - 4 lbs - on a green craw 8" worm, and we were eelin' good at dinner!! We started the trip by throwing rogs, buzzbaits, and other topwater in several areas north and south o Konocti Resort. Nothing. So, as it got dark, we went to worms and jigs and that seemed to be the answer. These bass were 15 to 20 eet deep and were aggressive - a new concept at Clear Lake recently! Ater dinner, the Clear Lake I know and sometimes love, tried to put on her best night ace. We caught ish in several avorite rocky areas without weeds. The Weapon jig (black/chartreuse) with 6" Yamamoto grub trailer was producing the best quality bass and the most aggressive bites, including the two I lost. The junebug 8" Dead Ringer and 10" black Power worms continue to work well We caught 2 on crankbaits and one on a black Terminator spinnerbait. The best bite was 2 to 4:30 am. The previous trip (see post) was dead at that time. The moral o the story - don't ever sleep - just keep throwin' that bait!!!!
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: Whatever bait you choose to use in rocky areas - remember to "swim" these lures so they "tick" the rocks. Deadsticking jigs and worms on some rockpiles is only or the rich and amous, with emphasis on the rich! Learning to do this well with a spinnerbait (one o my goals or the past two years) is absolutely deadly in late summer and all.

  • Tuolumne County, California
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      Water Temp: N/A

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Took my loat tube out on saturday and stayed in the 5 mileper hour area. Only had 4 all day. One on a Lipless Frenzyand the others on a dropshotted ringed dilly lure. The combine wieght was around 6 lbs.
      City: Livermore

  • Tulare County, California
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      Water Temp: warm

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: ished night or about 4 and a hal hours. took crawdads to try or a lunker. a couple takers but couldnt hook em. water still dropping quick. caught a ew on senkos and jigs. nothing o any size.
      City: visali

      Tips: when the water settles the night bite should turn on. next ull moon should be the ticket.

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

      Report: Me and my riend ished at Millerton rom about 5:30 to 7:00 and caught 10 ish!!! However they were these little ass bluegill. We kept all o them, and on the way back we threw them on the highway. It was great un!!!! (just kidding)
      City: resno

      Tips: Unless you like catching little ass bluegill, stay home or ish somewhere other than Millerton.

  • Shasta County, California
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      Water Temp: 82

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: back out with John this evening at Packers Bay at 630 pm, lake at 69.20t air temp 101 and very busy, ran up the McCloud near Ycotti creek and grabbed a couple quick o a rolled point in 25 t, moved over to the east bank as the sun got o the water and worked an emerging island or a hal dozen and one smallmouth to 1.6, ran dwon near the shasta cavernsdock and picked up a near 2.0 at ater dark in 28 t, continued down the east shore hitting points on the steepeer stu or a totalo 13 with one coming on a blade that John was throwing, water very murky with huge mudlines as aras 200 yards o shore, took ish in 6 to 30 t with most coming out o the 12-15 t area, throwing the bigger jigs again and most hit with authority, didn't miss as many tonight but didn't get bit as oten as last night, out at 1130 pm on a beatiul moonliteevening, air temp down to 73 when we got out.
      City: Redding

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      Water Temp: 81-85

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Did the annual weeklong houseboat trip to Shasta last week. First time we spent the entire week on the Sacramento arm. Started the week o back in O'Brien, moved around some ater three days there. Had a hard time getting the irst ew ish and iguring out a pattern. Most o the ish started out well o the sides o points in about 12-15' o water, but as the water warmed, they moved up closer to the tops. Fish aren't too thrilled about chasing crankbaits, but picked up a ew with Fat Free Shads, Rebel Deep-wee craws and Yo-zuri rattlin vibes. Fish seem more interested in smacking the cranks than eating them- oul hooked quite a ew ish. Plastics seemed to do a better job... M-90's & Morning dawn worked best, but almost anything with some red in it will work too. Best bite seemed to come between 9:00-10:00 PM, never did that well in the mornings (but didn't get on the water that early most days). Biggest ish all week were 2 to 2.5# spots with tons o smaller ish. Most productive places were the points southwest o Marshmallow. Seems like ish are relating to the shorter points, didn't pick up as many ish on long, slow tapering points.
      City: Fernley, NV

      Tips: There must be an unwritten law or the "pleasure boaters" to get as close to ishermen as they can without actually getting in your boat with you. Had one stupid @**#!^$ pass between me and the shore while I was sitting in 30' o water working a point. A well placed cast with a big-ass Rogue got his attention. You're better o catching the evening bite ater the other boats get o the water.

  • Nassau County, California
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: At the lake at about 7pm.. Not much wind and a little hot. Lots o people swimming, jetskiers, and 4 or more LOUD speed boats trying to impress each other. Tried the rocky Marina side o Lure Point, snatched a couple o dinks. Tried the Damn and caught a ew more 12-14 inchers..Ater dark went back to the rocky marina side o Lure point and caught a bunch o 12-14 inchers,nothing o size but it was un....Used-drop shotted black and purple 6 inch FLW worms, 6 inch purple death, purple grubs on jig heads. Also wackied a ew watermelon senko's or some ish....
      City: Tulare

      Tips: Skiers/SpeedBoats/Swimmers

  • Trinity County, California
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      Water Temp: 76

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: WE went out 11 mornings o a 21 day trip. Fished rom about 6-10 AM. Our best smallmouths came on Junebug worms in 4 or 6. Splitshotting worked better than drop shotting or Texas rig. We ished rom Packers Gulch north most days and got ish in 10-30 eet on main lake points. Best ish was close to 4. Oxblood and red with yellow tail also worked well. The lake is about 40 eet lower than normal or this time o year but a single lane concrete ramp is still avialable in Trinity Center.
      City: Belmont

      Tips: Its a straight summer pattern with main lake points producing the best. For rippin or topwater un, head way north to the rock piles but watch out or prop eating rock piles that stick up.

Friday, July 27th, 2001

  • Tuolumne County, California
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      Water Temp: 81-??

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: We ished rom 5:30 pm too 10:30 PM..Caught 18-20 bass..Only 6 were keppers,up to 2 1/4 lbs.Lost 4 ish,3 o these would o been Keepers..All keepers were caught on Worms & reapers,setting in 25-35 t o water & casting too the bank.One ish on a spinnerbait,one on a crankbait```````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````
      City: Riv

  • Butte County, California
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      Water Temp: 80.2

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Results o Friday nights Night Stalker Bass Tournament...19 boats...Big Fish-7.16 Rainey&Olivera...1st Rainey&Olevera 12.07...2nd Flanders&Zinda 11.25....3rd Morris&Lackhart 9.15 ...4th Sipes&Smith 8.72...Congradulations to all. "Remember this Friday night Aug.3rd our third tourney... ull moon .... Come have some un,
      City: ooroville

      Tips: Us Cranks, Black Spinner baits,black buzz baits.... The big ish are up close eeding

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      Water Temp: 80.2

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Results o Friday nights Night Stalker Bass Tournament...19 boats...Big Fish-7.16 Rainey&Olivera...1st Rainey&Olevera 12.07...2nd Flanders&Zinda 11.25....3rd Morris&Lackhart 9.15 ...4th Sipes&Smith 8.72...Congradulations to all. "Remember this Friday night Aug.3rd our third tourney... ull moon .... Come have some un,
      City: ooroville

      Tips: Us Cranks, Black Spinner baits,black buzz baits.... The big ish are up close eeding

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      Water Temp: 70+

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fishing was just air. I was doing alright with a bite hereand there in the trees with reaction baits, while my partnerwould pull one every once in a while behind me with Junebug plastics. During the day I had a chance to ish with a riend Ray who has done very well in the AAA ranks. He has a nice new Triton and I was tagging along while he was doing some drop shotting. He pulled a lot o ish but or the 2 days he was there probably only managed 4 over the slot. It was still a great learning experience. As ar as the report goes. Try to get a bite out o the treesbut i unsucessul, look at your graph and ind schools o shadand give drop shotting a try.Good Luck
      City: San Jose

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      Water Temp: 80

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Forty anglers showed or Thursday nites big bass tournament and the team o Maynard Crider and Dennis Webb picked up the jackpot o $400.00 with one 19" ish caught on a seinko. Fishing or better ish seemed a little tougher this week as the lake level continues to drop, the water stays warm and churned up rom boat and jet ski traic. All types o baits were tried with none being better over the other.
      City: Paradise, Ca.

  • Shasta County, California
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      Water Temp: 79

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: met up with and old riend I haven't seen in years, John Wiley rom Sacramenttook o or jones vally and in the water at 630 pm or so, lake down to 68 t, water at 79 air temp 96 and tons o traicthe jones valley loat is again o the track, the two lanes ar down to about 3/4 o one lane. ran up to blue canyon or one and a ew hits, took o or the squaw pointand put point area at 845pm and got bit repeatedly or 45 minutes with 12 total including one decent smallmouth but all were small, missed 4 times as many as we got into the boat.moved back inside o jones valley as the moon went down and got what seemed to be the beginning o a blade bite but only 4 on and one in the boat, John did have a decent ish next to the boat but it promptly jumped o. not a killer night but cetainly better than some I have had, John has signed up or another go-around tomorrow evening, might do the McCloud, tons o skiers and jet skiers out water is cloudywith about 4t o clarity and murky. tossed jigs most o the time.
      City: Redding