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  • Lake County, California
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      Water Temp: 61+-

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: My brother and I spent a ew days down there. More o the same, lots o wind and some skittish ish. We ound some shallow ish in a ew pockets but didn't mess with them to much. Justin managed a nice 6lber the irst aternoon but we got blown o the lake. Messed around in the keys on Tuesday and didn't get a bite. The evening wind died down a bit so we headed up the lake towards the narrows. Finally ound an area with some staging ish right at dark. A couple o smaller ish and a slug just shy o 10lbs! Stayed out ater dark and landed 5-6 more with about as many missed ish. Nothing over 4 though. Wind kept up so we headed back to camp. Wednsday morning we had to leave and it was a gorgeous day, no wind, go igure.
      City: Arcata

      Tips: Maybe I will get paired with a Nutcase this weeekend at the WON event. It should be an interesting weekend.

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      Water Temp: 60

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Had a nice aternoon-night trip on Tuesday - 3 ish beore dark, 6 ater. Client had 6 bites and landed them all - very rare! Fished the west shore o the Rattlesnake arm with watermelon-red lake brush hogs carolina-rigged. Fish were next to walls, and up to 4 lbs. Ater dark we ished the south end with Magic "Big Dipper" worms and Power Worms near walls with tules. Client landed his personal best, a spawned-out 8 lb 10 oz toad. Would have liked to seen that ish 2 weeks earlier! His limit was a little over 23 lbs. It was a beautiul, warm evening!!
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: Fish are starting to committ to shallow water in the south end. Look or walls with hard bottom and tule clumps. Fish like those areas to spawn.

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      Water Temp: 54-62

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the Keys both days pitching brushhogs.Could not get quality ish to go.Bite was late both days.Fish are deinately moving up but still cold at night. Hard rost Sat., water temp low 60s in the p.m.

      Tips: See Bob at Limit out bait or whats hot. (707)998-1006

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      Water Temp: 55-58

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went to Clear lake or our annual spring break trip. We sihed Friday and Saturday around the State park, ripped clown and black/silver Smithwick suspenders. Fishing was slow but the ish we caught we all pretty nice. We ended up with a ew 3 to 3.5#ers a couple 4's a 5 and 2 6#ers. My buddy caught a 10.9 pounder on Saturday, it was the only ish we caught that day but some guys in told us it would have taken big sih by 4 pounds in their tournament that day. We ished at the south end on Sunday morning and I managed to get a 7.3 throwing a brown DUH!!! jig. It was a great trip. Oh yeah, even caught a 15 pound channel cat, and my riend caught a 10 lb carp ripping.
      City: Weed

      Tips: WEll, ripping worked pretty good at certain times o the day, better in the evening, we caught ish on brush hogs also. My Brown and orange jigged worked or me. Even caught a 6 on a chug bug just beore dark!!!

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      Water Temp: 55-58 Degrees

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Good Day - Took awhile to ind the pattern. Wind was up in the morning. Launched in the Keys. Caught 1 about 7am against the docks coming out o the keys on a #39 magic worm. Fish were not in the keys. Waited till the wind shut down a little and went to Konocti, nothing there. Went south and started ishing the steep rock banks...bingo, ound'em. 12 to 18 eet. Caught and released 14 bass rom 8lbs to the smallest ish weighed at 3lbs. Had 28# 7 ish limit. Fish would not hit anything but a worm, shakin' it real hard right below the boat, very agressive when they ound the bait. Had a good outing or the irst o the year. Talked to some tourney pre-ishers (about 10 boats), they weren't catching anything, only a couple guys said they were catching 1 or 2 on jigs o the rocks. All o our ish came between 11am and 3pm, Good luck.
      City: Redding

      Tips: I ain't good enough to give tips. But I catch all my ish down there on #39 magic worm, 6 inch, gave some out to some tourney isherman yesterday, guess they can't get them down there.

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      Water Temp: 51-56

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Drove by the keys and knew it would be a windy day (25-35). Opted or Lakeport. Put in and lost one on a rip bait. Caught 2 13" ish in the back o coves? Water temp 51. Caught a 4.6 and 5.2 lipping brushog in trees. Relocated by truck to the keys or new scenery. Spinnerbaited a 4.6 out o a tree that had allen in h2o. Flipped or a while while air was getting colder. One more ish 3.6 arther in keys on brushog--water 55-56 in keys. Lots O WCB preishers throwing spinnerbaits, a ew lipping.
      City: yuba city

      Tips: Dam, brushogs get bites! I catch ish on these here so much better than jigs(shallow ish).

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      Water Temp: 51

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: WOW - 2 exciting trips, 10 ish each trip. Started 3PM Sun Aternoon - irst 5 minutes client lands a 6 1/4 on blue Weapon jig, I get a 4-9 on a brown weapon - both at entrance o south keys. Had 6 beore dark on jigs and big dead ringers. Fished all over. Ater dark, caught a 2 and 3 1/4 and then nothing or 2 hours. All o a sudden my client is grunting, trying to handle a toad. He wins - a 12 pounder ound its way into the net. Fish was on a rockpile in 25 eet. A ew minutes later he lands a 5-9 in about 4 eet. All ish ater dark were caught on 6" Big Dipper Magic worms with 4/0 Mr. Twister keeper hooks - outstanding big ish hooks or thick baits. The monster was hooked at 10:30 PM. I have been ortunate enough to see many 12+ pounders in the boat - but each one is a thrill!!The next aternoon clients and I caught ive males up to 3 lbs around Rattlesnake island using Rodstrainer jigs and dead ringers (watermelon and junebug). Ater dark, my clients landed a ew 2 1/2's and lost a good one at the pumphouse south o Knocti Inn on a Weapon jig. Switched them back to Big Dipper Magic worms and bingo - guy rom Ohio lands an 8-1 and 7-14 back to back. He was a basket case - that's almost a state record in Ohio! We are ishing steep rocky areas with deep water nearby.
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: I think north end has more shallow ish. So ar, not too many big ish have moved shallow - south o the narrows. Caught many good ish last week on jigs in deep water. The three or our warm days that are promised should get them moving. Look or staging areas irst. Some ish are moving into the keys. Watermelon/red lake is a good color.

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      Water Temp: 49 to51

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Wed nasty but stuck a couple #3 on Dead Ringer in the trailer park west o Lake Port.Thurs Rain o and on but very ishable. Nailed some #4 on pig and jig in Holiday Cove. Some dinks on a LC pointer 110 lash minnow at Rocky Point. #4 on Chart blade at the dock at Lake PortFriday nasty again no bite. The buzz around the lake was a rip bite or ish in the #7 range"NOT". Just the club ishermen protecting their bite or the tournament.
      City: Gilroy

      Tips: Black and blue jig, rattln o course with a black trailer. Flip into the trees and under docks at Holiday Cove. chart blade, cast to the shore and slow roll to 6 eet on the north shore at lakeport or in nice. Dress warm and dry, got the eet wet on wed and cut the day real short.

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      Water Temp: 49

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished ABA and bite was tough. Started in north end o lake hoping or warmer water and ound none. Cold ront and all. HookSetR stuck three ish and two came unbuttoned on the DUH jig. I caught one. We weighed in two ish or 5#'s.
      City: belmont

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      Water Temp: 53

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Sautrday-Bright clear day. Hook and I launched out o Library Park in Lakeport. Fished sparse tules by Lakeside (?)and I caught 3 LMB in the 2-3# range in the irst 45 minutes throwing a big junebug brush hog. Ran up to Rodman and ished the tules down about 300 yards. HookSetr caught about 8 ish in the same # range. His biggest went 5-6#'s. Caught all his using a 3/8" DUH jig with a Yamamoto twin trailer.Sunday-Miserable conditions-Windy and rainy. HookSetR and I only caught a total o three ish. The only ish I caught was an 8.08#er on the scale using the DUH jig.
      City: Belmont

      Tips: Fished sparse tules all the way back to the boat. Boat was in 5' water, casted to 2" and worked through tules

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      Water Temp: 50-53

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: ished the south end o the lake north o the boats workes cought 4 ish 2-4lbs 2 on blades & 2 on jerkbaits. kind o slow. ish were in 6-12t. o water. ished rom 8am till 2pm .no rain no wind just a nice day.
      City: Clearlake

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      Water Temp: 47-51

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Got into lot o good ish, Rippin a Pointer 78 and Staysee. I ished the south primarily o o rocky banks w/deep water. I kept the boat in 14-20 t. Earlier in the week, I cranked a Chartreuse 7aBomber and a Norman Suspending Deep Diver in Red. The better ish came o the Pointers and Staysee. Ater cranking in down I twitched the tip slow, like shaking a worm. Later in the week the ish liked the ast Rip. On one bank I got a limit o ish rom 3-7lbs. in 30mins. The colors that worked or me were Black Aurora and Chartreuse Minnow.
      City: Antioch

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      Water Temp: 49

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: FISHED MONDAY EVE-NIGHT WITH LARRY HEMPHILL WENT OUT OF LUCERNE AS THE WIND WAS BLOWING.CAUGHT ABOUT 12 FISH BY DARK . I GOT A COUPLE TO 4 LBS WITH JERK BAIT. THEY WERE HITTING WHILE THE BAIT WAS STOPPED. THEN WE CAUGHT THE REST ON JIGS.. BLAC/BLUE.. AFTER DARK THE MOON WAS SO BRIGHT IT LOOKED LIKE DAYTIME. A COUPLE BITES AFTER DARK BUT NO FISH IN BOAT . WIND BLEW ONE DIRECTION AND WOULD BE COLD. THEN IT WOULD SHIFT AND IT WAS LIKE A SUMMER WIND.. FISH IS SLOWING DOWN FOR WINTER.....
      City: SUNNYVALE

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      Water Temp: 51-54

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I ished with my younger brother on Monday and Tuesday. We arrived late monday and didn't start ishing until ater dark. Wind was howling so we didn't get to ar rom Rattlesnake but we managed to ind several quality ish including a 7.6 or my brother. Day ishing on tuesday produced lots o dinks to 1.0 on grubs and only three quality ish to 4 lbs on Crankbaits. Tuesday night was lat calm and some haze blocked the moon a little. We got to ish all around the lower hal o Rattlesnake arm and had a lot o bites only seven in the boat to 5.8 on worms, jigs, and crankbaits. I came back down on Friday to ish with Larry Hemphill. We started early and threw crankbaits a little or no ish. We started throwing jigs as the sun was lower. I had three bites until dark a 7lb 9oz, a dink, then a 7lb 6oz. Not a bad start. We at dinner at Konocti or an hour then went back out and headed south. We stayed on a quarter mile stretch most o the night and landed a total o 19 ish. I landed a at 8lb 10oz ish and larry had two 6.5 lbers or our best ive at over 36lbs! Best ten were just over 60 lbs!! Truly an awesome night.
      City: Arcata

      Tips: When there was cloud cover and the air was warm the ish were eeding well. As the clouds moved on the bites were much harder to come by. All ish came on jigs with grub trailers and 8"-10" worms. The bigger ish are just starting to eed, several were still rather skinny.

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      Water Temp: 54-52

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I used a pointer 100 minnow/ghost all day to try it out while my partner used jerk baits and cranks. We came up with 15 ish. Rocks/weed near deep water was our key. A ew ish came rom docks. We had two nice ish 6.7/5.2 rom the pointer minnow. It was cloudy and about 50 degree's with a strong wind on the main lake.
      City: marysville

      Tips: Pointer minnow (ghost) ish it slow with a jerk and twitch combo. Any water depth we ished produced.

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: We tried to beat the storm on Sun but it was already rolling in. Strong winds and heavy rain all aternoon but we still managed to catch around 15 ish rom 1-2.5 lbs in the rattlesnake arm. Most o them bit small pointer minnows and crankbaits in windblown pockets. Monday the wind started blowing out o the North but didn't get to bad. We ished rocky points and rees with cranks and jigs mostly and caught about 10 ish up to 5.4 with the best ive going 17-18. Not to bad or the day ater a major ront. We tried some night ishing at the areas we had bites beore but only had 4 smaller ish. On tuesday we decided to give the north end a try or a ew hours in the morning. It was partly cloudy with no wind but a little chilly. We concentrated on deeper rocky areas and caught ish on crankbaits and jerkbaits. Not a single bite on worms or jigs. Smaller ish were up around the docks, but we ound several good ish to 5.3 with a 16 lb+ limit. Also lost several heavy ish on cranks. Wished we could have stayed or the aternoon bite!
      City: Arcata

      Tips: With the water temp dropping pausing the crankbaits and jerkbaits a lot produced more bites. Jig bites came on a slow drag.

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      Water Temp: 61-63

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Saturday, Monday and a couple hours Tuesday morning.Several ish but all small. The best two were 2 1/2 lbs each.Fished mostly the south end. Water level down 6-7 eet andtemperature dropping. Caught our dragging peanut butter and jelly colored worm in 15-20 t on points. The rest cameon red Strike King Diamond Shad and Norman Deep Little Ncrankbait in shallow around docks. Could not get bit on deeprock piles.
      City: San Ramon

      Tips: Water level way down. Be very careul.

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      Water Temp: 64 - 68 F

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: The Float Tube/Kick Boat Invitational was held out o Rodman Slough on October 22 & 23. Winning weight was 24.07 lb, anchored with 9.65 lb big ish on Saturday. Second place was 24.01 lb, backed up with Sunday's big ish o 6.46 lb. Third place was 17.83 lb, ourth was 16.51 lb, ith was 13.98 lb, sixth was 13.87 lb, & 7th was 11.73 lb. Bite was tough or many olks. The lake level is down several eet, & heavy weeds are still present, constantly ouling many presentations. Nevertheless, lots o nice ish were caught, including two others in the 6 lb + category, one over 5 lb, and another just under 5. Great meeting o the Sonoma County Belly Boat Bass Club & San Jose Bass 'n Tubes. 21 anglers participated. Congratulations to Rob Belloni o calishing.com, who won Saturday evening's casting contest.
      City: Santa Rosa

      Tips: For more details, check out San Jose Bass 'n Tubes @ members.xoom.com/je_sxx, the Sonoma County Belly Boat Bass Club @ www.tweenit.com/scbbc, and calishing.com. Thanks to our many sponsors: Flowmaster, Uncle Josh, Bill Lewis Lures, Luck "E" Strike, Long's Drugs, The Outdoor Pro Shop, Lakeport Tackle, G. Loomis, Fenwick, & Luhr-Jensen.

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      Water Temp: 65-71

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished WCB TOC this weekend.Lots o wind on Sat.and only 2 ish or 6.99.Sunday was much better with 5 ish or 19.6 total and a 7.94 kicker.We stayed south all weekend,caught ish shallow with white and blue/chart speedtraps and also had a deep jig bite on rockpiles using brown jigs with #164 blue yamas twin tail plus black/watermelon yamas twin tail trailers.Most our better ish came on the jigs.Rock,wood and any hard stu produced.The lake has been hammered so slow down and work your spots slowly.Dan B.
      City: Carm. Ca.

      Tips: Crank your speedtraps slow and ish tight to cover.

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      Water Temp: 66-75

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the 100% Western Team Roundup. WOW! 283 boats and it was still great. Fishing was slow or many. Mike R. and I ound a pattern that produced 9 ish 1.5-3# or a 2 day limit o 18+. We just couldn't get the bigger ish we needed to round out the limit. All our ish were caught on blades ished on weed lines/patches in 3.5 - 9 eet o water. We ished the north end o the lake although some good ish came rom the south end also. Fish seemed to be concentrated on key structure and weeds. The weeds are dying o ast.
      City: Brentwood

      Tips: I you need small ish to round out a limit try small shad pattern blades ished close to weeds.