Fishing Report
Wednesday, January 18th, 2012
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Kelsey Bass Ranch Lake
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Water Temp: 45-48
Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)
Report: Started off crankin, topwater, chatterbait and nada. Slowed it down with a jig and dropshot. Had 3 fish - 4+, and two over 5lbs.
Tips: Berserk slop jig sprayed grass and shad colored worms for dropshotting. Fish it slow, barely shake the dropshot too.
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Monday, January 16th, 2012
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Berryessa Lake
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Water Temp: 50.2
Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)
Report: From: bestguide@hotmail.com
To: bestguide@hotmail.com
Subject: Fishing with Sid
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 11:47:01 -0800
Headed out late Friday morning hoping to hit some trout but spent most of the day trying to find them. At one point Kevin and I decided to try for catfish so I beached the boat on shore and we put out four poles using hotdogs for bait. I have caught catfish many times at this spot. We had our lunch and waited for over an hour with no signs of catfish activity. The water was a touch over fifty degrees and crystal clear. While waiting for a bite I was trying top water lures with no success and worming with a senko in fifteen feet of water produced nothing. Defeated we decided to head in and call it a day. Saturday morning with renewed enthusiasm we headed out once more adding my buddy Albert to the group. We spent most of the day trolling with no bites. My son was out fishing with his wife Sarah, my wife and his friend Bill and he called me to let me know that my wife had caught a nice size trout. That lifted our spirits and we headed towards the area they were fishing. Albert and Kevin wanted to try for catfish again but just couldn't seem to attract them. I had received some new lures from PK Products and Kevin wanted to try a count down crankbait. As soon as the lure hit the water and started to sink a trout just blasted it and he caught the first trout on my boat. We were all heading in early to watch the football game so we called it a day and were happy we had at least caught two trout. On Sunday I fished from the shore and used the new crankbait and landed a trout. I met some kayakers and told them about the lure I was using and gave it to them to test. Hoping to hear from them soon. 'til next week.........................................good fishing!!!!
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Hello Sid!
It was great meeting and talking with you at Berryessa on Sunday! As promised, here is the report for the day. Long story short, only trout were caught. Between Saturday and Sunday around 12 kayakers gave it a shot for bass and trout, but only finding the latter in a biting mood. Most bites were on worms, either tipped on needlefish, or by themselves on a dodger trolling setup. Some bites and a lot of short strikes on some shad type lures, with only a couple fish being caught. The bass were very tight lipped, even ignoring minnows, dropshots, wacky senko's, and jigs. Our friend with a bass boat found one bass willing to bite, all the way up in the Puta Creek area, but that was about it.
Thanks again so much for all the tips you gave us! Cant wait to get back up to berryessa and give them a shot! At the latest, that will be 4/21/12 for the Salmon tournament we are having. Tournament is on Sunday, but we will be arriving Friday. Feel free to come down and meet a lot of friendly kayakers and share some stories with them!
Alan
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City: Napa
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California Delta
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Water Temp: 45-46
Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)
Report: Launched at H&H at 11am; wind was already kickin' up. Threw senkos and tried to fish slow but couldn't. Ran to St Francis and got behind 3 bass boats already there. Worked the docks using BassinZ118's suggestion...cranked a Staysee 2-3 turns to about 4-6ft and waited, twitched, waited; picked up 3 barely-keepers (ok, dinks) this way. That was it for today, left 3pm.
City: folsomTips: BassinZ118's tip to throw a rip bait and just let it sit after gettin' it down to whatever depth you like worked for the short time we were out. Wind was pickin' up so we didn't go to our usual spots where I would've liked to continue to work it. Thanx BassinZ118!
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Saturday, January 14th, 2012
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Anderson Lake
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Water Temp: 53'
Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)
Report: Fished from 2pm till 4:30. Son caught a 2# on dropshot, I picked up a 2 1/2# on rattletrap. Shad pattern on both.
City: Santa ClaraTips: Fish were up shallow chasing shad! Pockets off main points held fish.
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Oroville Lake
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Water Temp: 47-51
Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)
Report: Fishing has been really good with this clear water. 9 1/2 lb. to 11 lb. bags on average using worms, jigs, tubes, senko's. In low light conditons the reation bite has been good with crank and rip baits. Finding bass in shallow water and deep, from 5ft. to 60ft. Some bass now going into coves while others are staging and still others are chasing bait fish in 60 feet of water.
City: ParadiseTips: Keep changing patterns until you find the one that is working that day in that area of the lake. Colors are changing day to day and also during the day.
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Friday, January 13th, 2012
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Berryessa Lake
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Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)
Report: Hello Jesse Motenegro, the baitshop selling minnows north of capell cove launch or south towards turtle rock bar. Are the minnows pretty expensive?
City: san mateo -
Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)
Report: Thanks Sid. As far as minnows The Berryessa Store in Winters has them and just past Capell cove ramp about 7 min. there's a store that has them as well.
City: Woodland
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Clear Lake
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Water Temp: 47-49
Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)
Report: Well, the water (and pm air) temps have dropped at Clear Lake - and it seems, so has the bite. Mike Sperbeck and I gave it about 4 hrs to prove Clear Lake was worthy of our time - and it barely passed, har!! We only landed 4 - the biggest at 4 3/4 lbs on a Blade Runner jig just before dark. My favorite brown/orange jig with #180 Yamamoto grub did the trick - again! After dark - 3 more in the 3 lb range and 2 lost in the 5 lb range - one right at the boat! We were at McDonalds by 10 pm for some HOT coffee and a general thaw out!! Short trip, but at least a little action. We fished the west and east shore of the south end.
City: Yuba CityTips: The lake is still in great shape level-wise in spite of no rain. We may finally get some next week. if you are fishing artificials in water that will range from 44 to 48 degrees, slow WAY down. Deadsticking works well too, except in heavy rock. That's called - expensive!!!!
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Merced Lake
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Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)
Report: And that same guy TOM from what I remember used to sell the fish to people he knows. Let me guess, he gave you a storm chartreuse swimbait? Lame-O
City: Daly City
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Siltcoos Lake
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Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)
Report: Best lake in the 70's and 80's.
Now clear and shallow. Hardly any bass left.
What a shame.Tips: Don't bother. Waist of time.
Sorry--just the facts.
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Wednesday, January 11th, 2012
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Berryessa Lake
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Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)
Report: plenty of fish but cold water make them go deeper where it is warmer find underwater bushes and trees in 20 to 40 feet and they are there,also sun fish and bass.when the water becomes 60 degrees in april they start moveing shallower again.hope this info helped.sweenies in napa is where i would get my minows.
City: napa -
Water Temp: 51
Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)
Report: I was just wondering if anyone has had any luck finding some Crappie? I’ve fished this lake for over 20 years and have never had any real luck finding these little buggers. I’m getting ready to take my little one to the lake and would just like to know if anyone has been catching any.
City: Woodland
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California Delta
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Water Temp: 49-50
Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)
Report: Tough day on the water. Fished Woodward,Middle River and Victoria. Dropshot worms and baby Brush Hogs, Caught on 12 incher. Drowned Senkos, deadsticking, and moving very slowly. NADA on the Senkos today, Picked up spinnerbait(White) stuck a #1.5 on a windy point.Not much wind today, so put the Spinnerbait down. Ran back to Orwood and stuck a #1er on a speedtrap. No Birds working anywhere today,But enjoyed the Beautiful day.
Tips: The water was Gin Clear everywhere I went. Once we get rain and the water starts to stain up, we may have a chance to catch some quality fish.
TIGHTLINES ALWAYS ><>J
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Folsom Lake
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Water Temp: 49 to 50
Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)
Report: Fished from 3:30 to 5:00, boated 1 spot on a 4.5 inch green pumpkin finesse worm on a shakey head in 20ft of water. Marked some fish in 35 to 50ft deep, couldn't get any to bite though.
City: SacramentoTips: Lake is getting low and watch out for rocks.
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Tuesday, January 10th, 2012
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Berryessa Lake
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Water Temp: 52*
Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)
Report: RE: Minnows
As far as I know, Markley hasn't carried minnows
for over a year.
City: Esparto -
Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)
Report: Duck Hunter you can buy minnows at Markley Cove Resort. Give them a call first.
City: Sacramento
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Collins Lake
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Water Temp: 48
Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)
Report: Haven't been out to collins in over a year, but had a blast! Between the two if us we caught 18 bass with the best five 16.4lbs only got one large mouth that was a tad over three, but the big spots were hungry. It was a nice calm day, but the lake was pretty low. I thought the fish would be deep, but they all came from 5-15' of water.
City: Yuba CityTips: Fish slow with 1/8oz shaky head matched with a chartreuse chompers 6" worm. And for the spot, well can't give my secret spot away
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Monday, January 9th, 2012
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California Delta
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Water Temp: 46 - 50 degrees
Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)
Report: Not much to report, but to say you all missed a nice calm and sunny day to enjoy a boat ride and some fishin. There was just one other bass boat that luanched out of Ladd's and we had the area to ourselves.
City: StocktonTips: Fish it slow and look for the warmest water temp you can find. LVW marina area was 50 degrees.
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Sunday, January 8th, 2012
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Clear Lake
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Water Temp: 45 - 47
Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)
Report: Steve and I took a ride to Clearlake to see if the water had warmed up.....it had not. day started bad with mechanical difficulties so we fished rattlesnake for a while saw a few boats that looked to be minnow fishing, tried banks and offshore. Steve got a 2.5 on a dropshot around 10:20 and then we headed up to try some rockpiles, no takers, hit a few spots in the redbud arm and honeymoon cove docks no takers, mostly fishing 10-20 feet. Dropshot, t-rig, cranks, jerkbait, spook, swimbait, all with the same result...no takers. Still fun to be out there but too early for active fish. Good Luck.
City: PacificaTips: Talked to a couple guys who said they had no fish but they saw fish all over, really saw fish, they had a underwater camera and found alot of fish and dropped spoons, dropshot etc. to them and would not bite, They also said their buddy sent a photo of a double on the new Alabama rig. Guessing that phenom will be all over the lake this spring after the TV coverage it got this year. Hit the lake with your umbrella rig???
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Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)
Report: Glad someone is reading the reports! It was pointed out to me that I should have reported the Yamamoto Flappin Hog I was using was not 924. So, I was only off by 30 - Should have said #954. Sorry! The previous guy reported a 22 lb limit also, so that makes day and night fishing about even??
City: Yuba City
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