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  • Lake County, California
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      Water Temp: 53

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: ished saturday aternoon and sunday morning with my bro rom oregon. thanks to the great advise rom Bob at LIMIT OUT BAIT AND TACKLE in Clearlake oaks we caught and released about 20 ish saturday evening. biggest by my brother 8-4. the rest all at 2 lbers. i couldnt let my brother in the back o the boat outish me. so sunday morning tried another spot thanks to Bob again landed about 30 ish. lots o small 2lber again til we moved out into the wind then wham! a 8-11.than a 7-4. them a 5-6. them a 5-7 by my bro.it was the best trip ever on the lake. all ish were caught on minows in 20-30 t o water.talk to bob. he'll hook you up.best 5 sunday went over 30lbs. best 7 about 40lbs.thanks or the company bro. sorry that dad couldnt come.
      City: ROSEVILLE

      Tips: split shot jumbo minnows rom LIMIT OUT BAIT AND TACKLE.ish are starting to school so ind them and stay put.

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      Water Temp: 56-65

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Found our ish at night on points and rock piles 10-20 eet deep. Tried 10" power worms, 8" ringworms, power pulse worms, big dippers but the plastics just didn't cut it this trip. Bites were ew and ar between and those boated weren't the ones we were ater. Although, I did break o a solid bite on the hook set (was just being lazy and didn't re-tie ater the last snag) so who knows about that one. Slow rolling magnum sized black spinner baits and swimming jigs with large curl tails produced well, our good uns' ranging rom 4.9 to 5.8 and three 2.9-3.2lb ish. Not a single dink on that pattern. Not much success deep cranking (nite or day) save or a 2.1 lb crappie and a ew little bass. Attempted to lip some o the cannals up north sat morning but was only met with more little ones...the lake is pretty low right now and most o the cannals are very shallow. Sun morning beore we hit the road decided to just have un and catch a bunch o the rat-l-trap bass that every one keeps talking about. It worked, shallow weeds and 1/4 once crome/blue traps and both my girlriend and her son were nailing ish ater ish (10" - 13" ish that is). I inally broke down, tied on a 3" pointer and started rippin'. First "just or un" ish or me, a chunky 7.6 that hit right at the boat in 2 1/2 eet o water. Wow! O the water beore 10am with another 2 dozen (at least, maybe more) 10"-13" rip and trap ish. Best ive or the trip went just about 27 1/2lbs, best seven went about 33 1/2lbs.
      City: TRACY

      Tips: The reaction bite is on. Only, it's hard to ind the better ish ones with so many little ones out there.

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      Water Temp: 66-70

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fish Friday aternoon, all Saturday and all Monday. Friday aternoon ound ish on the outside o docks in Soda Bay. Most ish under 2# but got one at 4.4#. Came on senkos in 297 and 240.Saturday tried buzzbaits in ront o State Park or no bite. Switched to rattle trap in chrome/blue or several ish to 2# and one to 3.5#. Moved to the ront o the keyes and picked up at least 25 ish (most in the 13-14" range but several to 2#) on the trap ished over shallow submerged weeds. Several 3# ish ollowed the smaller hooked ish to the boat but we couldn't get them to bite.Monday ished the north end o the lake starting with a buzzbait in several bays or no bite. Back to the trap and picked up about 10 more ish, most 14" but several in the 2+# range. One ish at 3# on a 5" swimbait.
      City: Redding, Ca

      Tips: Water cool in morning, warming to above 70 in aternoon. Traps produced quantity o ish although not much in size. No topwater at all. Heard the buzzbait bite picked up right at dark. We were o the water by 6 pm each day so missed that bite.

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      Water Temp: 70

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the south end Saturday and Sunday. Lots o hits skipping rogs across the moss but no takers. Managed a ew at Wheeler point Saturday and Sunday aternoon aternoon on a crank. No record setters but we had un. Hooked the monster on a top water across rom Rattlesnake but lost it at the boat. Boated one more mentionable on a Zoom lizard in the same cove.
      City: Santa Rosa

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      Water Temp: 65 - 70

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: night ished ri 9-6 rattlesnake isl. 2 ish 3.5 and 2lb. sat. pounded sloughs or 17 ish 5.5lb biggest. 5 best 17lbs. buzzbt. morning crank all day. 11 ish sun. only 11lbs 5 biggest. pitchin crankbaits deep into cover bangin wood. black b.hawgs produced well throughout also. I barely touched a senco got dinks when i did.
      City: eureka ca.

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      Water Temp: 73-81

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: What a tough act to ollow! Took over where Cooch let o, ished with Jonathan Ashcrat to help round out his vacation experience on Clearlake. Fished the north end, timber, tules, and weed mats. We had a good 4 pound average cranking, lipping, roggin. Frog bite was cool, 6 blow ups in 30 minutes, then they shut down. Spent the heat o the day in sloughs lipping and cranking some very healthy ish. Cooch taught Jonathan well, he was the hot stick with the jig!!!
      City: ukiah

      Tips: bang them cranks around in the timber, then lip the same water really slow.

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      Water Temp: ???? Warm

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Spent two days on a guide trip with Jonathan Ascrot rom SoCal who was up or a weeks vacation experiencing ClearLake. We spent the entire two days down in the two arms o the south portion o the lake. We caught 40-60 ish each day. Unortunately 2/3 o them were under 12". We ished a wide variety o baits rom worms, buzzbaits, Spooks, cranks, rogs and jigs. All but maybe 6 o the ish came on a brown or black jig with a single tail grub trailer. We did catch 4 nice ish on buzzbaits and the biggest o the trip was a 7+ that came out o a grass clump to gobble a black Bobby D's buzzer. The better ish, seven o them between 4-5 pounds, we caught on jigs. Most o these came out o 18-35 oot ishing breaks, humps, piles and ledges out in the middle o nowhere!
      City: Oakley

      Tips: The deep jig bit has yet to turn on during the day or the giant ish, but they are very suceptable to night time ishing. Also, tossing a black buzzbait around the wide leaed grass up there will catch good ish all day long. Need to ind clumps o this stu that doesn't have the green mossy stu on it. Find areas like this and there are some good ish using that stu right now.

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      Water Temp: warm

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Had some great nights ishing Henderson and Horseshoe at night. Threw a jig with bubba Super Pork the whole time and nothing else. It was so nice to stick to just one bait. Tired o dragging tackle and rods around. My best night was 5 ish or about 29lbs(8.1,7.8,6.2,4.8,3.2). I won't orget that night or awhile. All caught on jigs and bubba pork. Color did not matter. Just kept going back and orth up and down the bank. You could make a couple o trips without getting a bite, then all o a sudden all hell breaks loose. Those three big ish came within 35 minutes. The irst(8.1) came at 10pm and then the other two beore 10:35pm. All shallow in the rocks. Tried like hell every night to get that double digit ish, but could not pull it o. Still had a good time though. Every night out there was like heaven catching ish on jigs.
      City: Petaluma

      Tips: Listen to the experts and ish the rocks with a jig or a big worm. Keep it simple and believe you're gonna catch ish with these baits. I you have not tried Fireline(lame green 30lb test), you're missing out on something. Awesome line or night ishing and great hooksets. Mr. Hemphill is right about that line. Keep the jig moving slowly o the rocks and hang on. Don't give up. There will be slow periods and you have to ight through it. Don't go changing baits because they are not biting. It's a timing thing and they will eventually move up in waves throughout the night. I threw 1/2oz jigs and big pork the whole time and never changed. They call it living and dying with your one bait. I lived. Thanks Scott Green or all your help and also thanks to Mr. Hemphill and Cooch or their willingness to share inormation in helping people like me become a better isherman. D.B.COOPER

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      Water Temp: 70 something

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Gold Country Bassers night tournament Saturday night with Doug. We started in some trees in the south end and lipped 3 or 8 lbs or so just beore dark. Ran into Konocti or dusk bite. Find 3 boats where I want to go, so we hit another area or two others, 1.5 and 2.5 by 9:15. A boat approaches and passes me rom I thought he said the red blu club. I get a 3.4 that they missed then a 4.1.......things are good. Interestingly enough, I caught 4 ish the irst hour ater dark, unusual. I then stick a 5+ and am eeling good. I inally got Doug to give a brushog a try. He gets an 8.36 and I get a 3.5.......things are better. One more 3.5 by the resort with a hundred onlookers. Dollar Island and shag rock were dead today. Very hit or miss places. 12:30 am back down to konocti where I stick a bigun behind a post and it saws through my line.....rats. Doug breaks a good one o also. We get another 2.5 and a 3.4 beore we have to get back to weigh in. Pat D. caught his personal best, a 9.24 lb toad. Good job Pat. All teams weighed ish. We ended up w/ 25.28 lbs or top honors that night. I igure we ended up w/ 15 keepers, all except one caught on brushogs.
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: Plastics seemed to be the best. Some weighted, some not. Several guys got topwater and crankbait ish.

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      Water Temp: 78

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Got on the water about 6:30 pm on the 23rd and went to the lakeport area . The trip started o with a boom, being short struck on a spook with what looked like a nice ish. Two cast later my largest spook ish, 7.3lbs. We ended up picking up 4-5 more ish to 4.5 lbs beore dark, everything ater the spook was on a zipper worm . There was a lull until 10 pm or so and the bite opened up until 3:00am. The backseat was out ishing me 2-3 ish or my one on a junebug deadringer but all smaller 2-3 lb ish. I was ishing a black/blue rattleback 3/8 oz jig with a #180 double tail grub. Ater his ,third or so ish I was about to switch to a worm when " thunk " , a nice beautiul 9.8lber, very next cast another one about the same size which broke me o at the boat- Too damn lazy to retie. I was using 20 lb p line which is slightly more limp than the stren.Oh, well that's ishing. Steve, my back seat picked up one around 7 , his best clear lake ish an hour later. We ended up with 15 ish between 2-9.8 lbs, What a night!
      City: Sacto.

      Tips: Jigs or the bigger ish, day in day out. The 9.8 came out o 18 eet o water, the spook ish 2-3 eet o water. There were deinately two seperate patterns , one close to the tulle wall and another deep rock piles . Nothing on a crank, or spinnerbait.It was a jig and worm night.

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      Water Temp: 74-80

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Started about 6am with topwater (sammy and buzzbait)on the north end. Mostly small ish, 1lb range. Stuck a 4 our on a black rog while working the moss holding on the tips o that green leay weed growing o Rocky point. Missed a second rog ish about the same size. Jumped around, ished State Parke (Kelsey Creek), Long Tule point, Lakeport area and the entrance o Rodman. Ended up with 12 or the day, mostly little ones taken on senko's and buzzbaits. Not a single ish taken rom the o shore weed beds. We hit em hard but ended up with all ours coming near shore, docks and rocks with weed growth.Started sun morning about 2am, ran south and tossed big worms around Sea Breeze and Rattlesnake. Boated a couple o 3's but mostly little guys. Tried Sammy's and buzzbaits at dawn around Konocti without a single bite. Picked up a ew more little ones on senko's. Then tossed a red craw model A down by the Pipeline and boated seven quick ish, biggest about 3. On the road home by 11am with 14 or the day.
      City: TRACY

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      Water Temp: 74

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: FISHED THE NORTH END MOSTLY RODMAN SLOUGH FROM 5:00 AM TO NOON BOTH DAYS. HAD LOTS OF GOOD FISH FROM 3LBS TO 5LBS. I COUGHT ABOUT 20 FISH FOR THE TWO DAYS. BEST FISH CAME FROM TULLY POINTS RIGHT ON THE EDGES OF THE TULLIES. USING BLACK RED GLITTER BRUSH HOGS. I ALSO USED WHITE WITH BLUE BACK SPINNERBAIT WITH WHITE GLITTER SKIRT. SHAD COLORED SPEED TRAP ALSO WORKED FOR ME. SOME FISH CAME OFF OF THE WOOD IN ABOUT FIVE FEET OF WATER. I HAD NOT BEEN TO CLEAR LAKE FOR ABOUT 18 MONTH. BUT ITS STILL GOOD FISHIN.THE WEED WERE NOT TO BAD JUST BEFORE THE BRIDGE. GIVE IT A TRY AND GOOD LUCK TO YA.
      City: SAN JOSE

      Tips: MIX IT UP WITH LURES STAY ON THE LARGE SIZEFOR GOOD FISH.

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      Water Temp: 78 TO 80

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: FISHED WITH GREG CLEFISH ON FRI AM, TOSSING PERSUADER BUZZ BAITS AROUND DOCKS AND WOOD, NORTH END. WE WERE ABLE TO CATCH A 3.8 AND 5LB. THEN MISSED TWO OTHERS. SWITCHED TO SENKOS, CAUGHT 3 SHORTS AND ONE 2LB. BY NOW THE SUN WAS UP AND SO WERE WE FOR SOME FROG FISHING. BUT AFTER ABOUT AN HOUR OUR ENTHUSIASM BEGAN TO SLIP, THEN GREG HAS A BLOW-UP AND SETS THE HOOK ON A NICE 4LB. THE NEXT HALF HOUR, TWO MORE BLOW-UPS MISSED..AND THEN THE BIG ONE NAILED GREG FROG AND THE FIGHT WAS ON. ANICE CLEAN 8LB. CAME TO THE NET....GOOD JOB GREG... 5 FISH FOR 22 HALF LBS.. NOT BAD FOR 4 HOURS.. THE NEXT TRIP OUT MY CLIENT CYROS FROM WASH. AND I HAD LOTS OF ACTION CATCHING SHORTS ON DROP SHOT. HOWEVER CYROS ..FOOLED A 61/2LB!ER ON A PERSUADER 4 INCH BABY BASS, WHICH WAS THE LARGEST OF 7 KEEPERS THAT AM.....THE NEXT DAY MY CLIENTS ,ROCK AND BOB AND I STARTED TOSSING SENKOS IN AND AROUND WEEDS AND DOCKS ,BOB SETS UP ON A NICE 5 LB. I GET A 2 PLUS AND ROCK FOOLS A 7 POUNDER USING THE PERSUADER BABY DROP-SHOT RIG. ONLY 3 KEEPERS AND LOTS OF SHORTS,THAT AM...THE NEXT TWO MORNINGS WERE SPENT WITH DAVE & SOPHIA FROM SAC, USEING SENKOS, BUZZ BAITS & drop-shot. the larger ish (up to 6 plus lbs. )came on buzz baits worked over and around weeds...they hade 8 keepers or the two morings o ishing..plus a 12 lb.carp..on a drop shot.....
      City: KELSEYVILLE,CA.

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      Water Temp: 76-79

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the night o the 26th starting at 11:30 until irst light at about 5:30am. Third night ater a ull moon as well as the 2nd or 3rd night beore has been good or me.The bite never broke wide open with a ish or two or the irst hour or so. At about 2:30 until 4:30 I picked up my two largest ish or the night, a 8.2 and 7.6 one on a black ledgebuster spinnerbait and one on a norman crank. Not a single bump ater 4:30am. Found a cove and slept rom 5:30 until 10:00am.Total o 8 ish, the largest 8.2 the smallest a solid 3.5, no dinks which is interesting. Rarely do I catch the smaller ish at night,probably to do with bait size.
      City: Sacramento

      Tips: A little bit o everything tonight, 2 on a ledgebuster spinnerbait, black 1/2 oz with a single colorado blade, 3 on a crank ( dark blue norman), one on a jig/double tail grub, and 2 on a yam. 8" black/blue lake single tail grub ( lorida rig 1/4 oz). The 8.2 came out o 3 eet o water over chunk rock ater a long cast,talk about un. She sounded like someone throwing boulders in the water when she hit the surace. The other ish were deeper down to 26 eet or the jig ish,although the jig never made it to the bottom beore the pick up.Warm night , no wind and plenty o light with the moon, it does not get much better than that. A little breeze would have helped with the bats. Hint, do not wear a white hat around the black light with no wind. The bats will think you are a landing platorm.

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      Water Temp: 80

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished night tourney on 7-20 7pm to 1am. Tough bite. 3 ish won it all coming on senkos. Most o the ish caught in the tournament came on senkos. Majority o anglers noted rare bites ater the sun went down. I ished with Rick Tietz who is a Rep. or several bait companies including Duh and Basstrix. We caught our ish dropshotting prototype Basstrix baits and Predator worms o rocks that dropped rom 9-20t. Rick was an absolute joy to ish with. Very knowledgable and helpul.
      City: redding

      Tips: A ew anglers including Rick mentioned the bite really turned on ater 430am with ish up to 8+ lbs. Unortunately we never got to ish that time rame. Good luck!

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Midday trip today. Started near redbud on docks I usually dont venture near. Caught a 3.0, 1.5, and 6 or so dinks.....good to see small ish except when they keep tearing up your senko. My buddy Dave, struggled w/my baitcast outit, but stuck a 3.2 in a tree. His biggest bass ever. I lipped a 1.5 out o another tree. Every other dock today had a dink on it. Seems like my best docks I hit at the wrong time o day/sun angle and The gooduns werent home. At 7pm I skipped my lure under a good dock and proceeded to dump a 4.5 or so. Dont lose many on senkos. I threw topwater or 2 hrs beore dark in konocti bay and never had a bump. Threw senko in good weedy areas beore dark and came up empty there too.
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: I've heard that the ish are not on the rockpiles yet, but I may try them w/jigs on riday. Maybe the good ish will be on deep docks around midday. I'll ind out!

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      Water Temp: 82

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Late aternoon, night trip with calm water or a change- almost too calm but ater my trip on the 5th I'm not complaining. No ish beore dark ; however I only ished a Rico, Spook, and buzz bait. No top water bites and the same held true or the am . My irst ish was in Soda bay on a june bug Hoo-daddy in 16 oot o water at 2:00 am. Nice ish at 7.8 lbs at with beautiul markings. Two more ish on a norman red/black DD-22 at about 3.5 to 4lbs, did not weigh them rom shag rock and that was it or me. My buddy got the skunk. All in all a slow night but calm and a great alling star show.
      City: Sacto.

      Tips: Tons and I mean tons o bait ish on the Lowrance. With the water at 82 and the ammount o ood I'm expecting the ishing to slow down or me. O to the Delta or the next month as I have two tourn. in August there. Good luck and make sure your bilge pumps work.

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      Water Temp: 80

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched at Redbud at 7pm, ran to Konocti Bay irst. Since sun had just gone behind the mountain, I started with a spitin image around docks & pilings. Third dock, irst ish, 4#er. No more bites there, moved to some points past the resort, and got 2 more 2-3#s. Switched to 10" power worm, nailed one FAAT 3.5#er. Moved over by Anderson at dark...I thought it wasn't supposed to be windy?? Anyway, nailed a couple more on the power worm 2-3#s. Funny, the wind didn't die down, just switched 180 degrees. Fished around Dollar, and set on something that didn't move initially.....I'm thinking...alright, a hawg.......nope..8# Cat...rats! Fished around a little more, only got 1 more 2#er. Took a nap until 1st light, then started throwing a black buzzer, nailed a couple more 3.5#ers, and one 2#er on a brushhog. Pulled out at 9am.
      City: san jose

      Tips: I thought the weeds were supposed to be bad? I saw ew i any mats where I was....guess the weedkillers had been through there already

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      Water Temp: 70's

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Took the nephew out Sunday @6:30pm when all the holiday crowd would be gone. Hecka windy, but picked up a 4.5 on a tree ater ishing a normally productive line o trees w/no success. A guy was on a bank I normally ish and he tells me he caught 3 gooduns out o the line o trees.....rats! Catch 2 short ish on senkos o same point, then head out to the wind whipped south end. Man was it blowing. Throw topwater in protected area and nephew bangs a 2.5 or so on a popper. I have a chaser that nips at mine as I am bringing it out o the water. Head to some deeper water or dusk bite....nothing. Finally get a 4.5 on a brushog at about 10pm....I mean no other bites at all. Ater a sandwich break I start ishing weedline on a rocky bank and bang my biggest ater dark ish to date, an 8.3. The wind is keeping me in very sheltered areas, so I turned the boat around and get a 3.7 near where I got the 8 just a ew minutes later. Fished another 200 yards here w/no bites. Down the lake to another protected area in Konocti and still no bites on brushogs or 10" worms. Fish probably 400 yards and try targeting shallower areas and pick up a 4.5.....HMMMMMMM, maybe I am onto something. Navigate around a dock and sling it up shallow and eel one take o w/it. Wound up going 5.0. About 1:30 now and the nephew is inished. He has already ished the delta today and is too pooped to pop! The wind is laying down now, as it requently does and I toy w/the idea o hitting another spot, but He has to work 8 hrs rom now. I called it a night.......a night to remember. My personal best 5 ish at night....26.8 lbs.
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: The ish are not biting normal baits or me ater dark. My nephew threw 10" worms all night and never got a bite. I am experimenting w/a new night bait that I'll keep under my hat or now.

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      Water Temp: low o 69.5

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Night ishing trip rom hell. Started out about 8:30pm, nice and calm went by and spoke to a group o riends who were celebrating the 4th, while it got dark. Then the winds picked up and blew and blew. Thank God or Ranger boats otherwise I would have been on the bottom, totally swamped my boat in 4 oot rollers while trying to make it to the back side o rattlesnake or some calm water. That was about 12:30 and it was dark as a mine shat while I yelled at the stairs, what the hell am I doing out here? Any how I ound a tulie berm somewhat protected and waited until daylight.From 5:30 until 11:30 am I ended up with a limit , the largest was 7.1, another 6.8, and 4.6 along with 2 13 or so inchers.All three big ish were on rock humps 20 oot + deep and caught on a pumpkin with red lake yam. grub ( 7" ) Flordia riged 1/4 oz. weight. The two small ish on a luckey crat crank bait, 6-12 oot rock tulie breakline. Found a jet sky ellow who snapped a couple o pictures or me and o the lake or a day o drying tackle and the water vac.
      City: sacramento

      Tips: I had two boats ish to me and past me moving too ast. The larger ish wanted it sloooow.The strikes were hard though. Nothing on a spook or buzz bait early.