Fishing Report
Saturday, January 7th, 2012
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Berryessa Lake
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Water Temp: 56
Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)
Report: Where can You buy minnows around lake Berryassa ?
I have not been this year yet .
City: hercules
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Clear Lake
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Water Temp: 48-50
Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)
Report: I fished yesterday from 4:30 to 11 pm with Jason Kincannon, launching at the Oaks. The time around sunset was nice but a north breeze came up and air temp dropped a bunch - 28 to 30 degrees when we left! Pretty miserable. The bite was fair for shallow bass. The 7 that we landed were from 5 to 15 feet though we lost a few deeper fish. They ranged from 3 1/2 to 5 1/4 lbs - best 5 at 22+ lbs. I didn't expect much better with the weather conditions. I was using the new Yamamoto 5" Flappin hog (#924) while Jason used swimbaits, swim jigs, and brush hogs. He caught the 2 over 5 lbs. No complaints though - the fall nights have been nice over all and the fishing way better than last year. We may need to have an official rain dance pretty soon however!!
City: Yuba CityTips: If you don't do the minnow thing, I feel it is always good to fish a bait that has a lot of "bulk" during the cold water months. That includes jigs, brush and Power hog baits, Yamamoto Kreature and Flappin Hog baits, or whatever your favorite is. One can drop-shot or Texas rig those baits. I love the D&M Piranha swim jigs as some of you know. A look-alike bait Jason used last night produced a few and I lost a good fish using the D&M. Obviously, rip baits and rattle-trap type baits will work - depending on conditions. Lastly, if you can time your winter tripsloel to any lake - try to fish during incoming cloudy weather - something we haven't seen for 2 months! Any type of milder weather does seem to help the winter bite at Clear Lake more than deep reservoir lakes like Oroville, Shasta, and the like. Thank goodness those lakes have spotted bass that don't care what the weather is!!! Good luck this winter!
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McClure Lake
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Water Temp: 52-55
Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)
Report: Bites came throught the day with the first fish on the 3rd cast with a "Realfishbait" 6" floating trout swimbait. The rest came on drop shotting a 6" "Keeper" worm. Caught 3 under, 1 over and 4 within the slot limit. Kept seeing trout following baits to the boat so my partner started following up with a kastmaster and caught a limit.
City: Modesto
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Shasta Lake
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Water Temp: 50-51
Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)
Report: Fished the 7th and 8th with good success, we caught fish anywhere from 10 to 65ft deep with the best concentration and size in the 30 to 40ft range. Most bites where very subtle, just pressure bites, but some fish would nail it. All fish caught on 4.5 to 6 inch green pumpkin w/blk & purple flake finesse worms, shakey head. Tried throwing blades and jerkbaits on windblown points and banks with no luck.
City: SacramentoTips: Deep creek channels in the arms of big spawning coves is where the best concentration of where. Found fish to be very spread out on the main bodies of water. There was a good night bite on the shadow side of banks due to the bright moon, all fish caught on drop shot rig at night.
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Wednesday, January 4th, 2012
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Clear Lake
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Water Temp: 47_DEG.
Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)
Report: Got the boat inspected in lakeport and hit the water after getting 2 dozen minnows. Tried artificial till about noon then BAM Switched to a jumbo minnow 8_LBR Then came a 5,6,3,4.5 Just kept on rolling!! Fishing was HOT! Totals for the day was 20+ fish nothing under 3_LBS and our best 5 going 22+. Going back out on the 10th on Jan, Cant wait!!
City: Travis AFBTips: 15-20 foot of water, 10LB test and a 1/0 drop shot hook. Have fun!!
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Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012
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Clear Lake
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Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)
Report: The bass here in Trinity County are in hibernation. Can't find one for the life of me. Looking to travel to Clear lake on the weekend of 1/14. Any info as to where to launch, what section of the lake to fish, hotel, campground, etc. Lookin to cure the winter blues!
City: Weaverville
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Oroville Lake
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Water Temp: 53
Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)
Report: Actually the slot limit on Oroville for bass is 12-15 inches, not 14. You can double check this on dfg.ca.gov. Also if you are a game warden you should know the regs and not give false limit sizes.(looks unprofessional and makes people, well, keep short fish)
City: oroville
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Monday, January 2nd, 2012
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California Delta
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Water Temp: 46.5-47.2
Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)
Report: Fished Beaver Slough on 12/31 and 1/2 good two days on the water. Caught a total of 15 keepers both days; 6 fish on 12/31 and 9 fish on 1/2. Could not catch any fish on Rip Bait, crankbait or slow rolling a spinner bait. All fish came on either a weightless Senko or a Texas rigged Sweet Beaver, fishing SLOW, VERY SLOW...
City: SacramentoTips: Be patient and fish slow...if you thinkk you are fishing slow then fish slower. The bite only lasted about hour and a half each day as the tide was changing.
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Oroville Lake
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Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)
Report: warm weather has the bite picking up good start to the year. dropshot and texas rig mostly pulled a couple of 2 1/2 lb. spottys, a few smaller fish, and a decent coho. only fished till 1:30.
City: paradise -
Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)
Report: NEVER take someones word on Limits size look it up for your self DFG.ORG select the lake It will tell you all the limits size Lake Oroville has a slot for Bass 12-14 anything under or over you can keep again taking someones word on this may cost you a fine and then some ....
Happy fishing Be safe
City: Sac
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Spring Lake
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Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)
Report: Took wife and baby out with me for a walk and a little fishing. First 15 cast nothing then line hit hard. Caught a decent large mouth by the island they have. Pulled it in and it was about 5-6lbs. There was a few nibbles on some stink bait but caught the bass on a spinner. Not bad for the begining of the year on a lake that doesnt have a great reputation for fish.
City: Santa Rosa
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Sunday, January 1st, 2012
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New Melones Lake
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Water Temp: 52
Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)
Report: On the water at daylight - first stop on main lake point - hooked up with a double on dropshot, 2 1/2 and 3lb spots - fat and healthy, full of shad. Hooked 5 others in next 30 minutes.Fish in 60 ft water... double dropshot rig, most fish hitting upper bait in shad pattern. Several other smaller fish on Dropshot, hitting points up in Angles Creek and then good numbers past 49 bridge in Coyote creek - 60 ft water.25 fish total with best 5 going 12lb.
City: San MateoTips: Dropshot deep and slow - shake and let sit - all pressure bites. Double Drop shot with craw pattern on bottom and shad pattern on top.
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Pine Flat Lake
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Water Temp: 63
Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)
Report: Fished 3 hours in the middle of the day. I found a large school of fish on bait at Razorback on the right but couldn't get nay to go. It got warm so I ran some sunny banks with a blade for 1 fish and 2 hits but it was slow. It was also so warm that I sought out some shade. Hit a steep shady bank and busted 7 quality fish on a 1/4 oz homemade jig with a twin trailer. These fish were in about 5' of water. My dad picked up a few behind me at 25' on a dropshot but they were smaller fish. We picked up a few on a point over 40' deep that weren't bad fish.
City: OakhurstTips: Don't be afraid to fish fast or shallow. It was a pretty easy day after we left the first fish.
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Saturday, December 31st, 2011
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Clear Lake
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Water Temp: 47-49
Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)
Report: Well fishing with Jumbo Minnows is a winter fun way of catching a boat full of Large Mounth Bass. We had a day that was just the best ever. Stoped at Limited Out Bait and Tackle and Bob loaded up a bucket of Jumbo Minnows (four dozen per boat). It was a cold morning so we started out about 8:30 and came in at 2:30. A 1/0 bait hook a very small split shot and 10 lb test line on a spinner rod and reel. Stay around rocks and in 10-20 ft. of water. We cought alot of 3 and 4's, but a few 6, 7, 8 plus and a 12.39 by Bonner Veasman of Lincoln. Stop and see Bob and get your minnows now before the bite is gone.
City: Rocklin
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New Melones Lake
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Water Temp: 51-56
Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)
Report: got on the water around 7:30 fished until 2:30. Tried reaction in the morning nothing. around 10 start drop shotting deep 50' to 70'. Shad pattern worms. very slow and lite bite. had around 8.5lb
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Thursday, December 29th, 2011
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Oroville Lake
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Water Temp: 50
Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)
Report: Took my son and daughter out about 3:30pm. Put in at Bidwell, the boat wouldnt start. #@$!, so we just started to fish along the dam side of the ramp working our way out. This was after 30 mineuts of trying to get the boat started. We worked in about 10 to 15' and everyone caught fish. My son was the first with a small coho and then my daughter picked up a 16.5" spot. I finaly got a 17" spot the next point down. We did catch several cohos but mostly small ones. The bass were in just under 10' and we caught them on chartruse grubs and worms on 1/8oz dart heads. The cohos were on the worms also. Lots of hits but think most were the small cohos. We did end up with 6 spots and 5 over the slot. We were of the water by 5:15.
City: san joseTips: Go have fun while we can. With no rain in site we are in a lot of trouble this year, I guess we used up our alotment last year. We did do well on chartuse worms and grubs but only cohos on drop shot, all in 10' or less.
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Shasta Lake
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Water Temp: 49 to 51
Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)
Report: The bass fishing continues to be hit and miss. Hopefully the weather we are getting this week changes things up a little. The most productive tactics have still been Dropshotting, Dartheaded worms in Mojave Oxblood and Nail weighted Senkos in Green Pumpkin, Cinnamon w/ Black flake, Natural Shad and Baby Bass. Lots of keeper size fish are being caught and a few occasional 3 pounders. Those throwing Jerkbaits and White spinnerbaits with white double willow blades on windy banks have had some success covering lots of water.
We realize our reports are starting to become a little redundant, It's the fish not us, We promise :) :) :)
City: Shasta Lake City
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Wednesday, December 28th, 2011
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Clear Lake
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Water Temp: 47-50
Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)
Report: I guided a father and his 2 sons from 3:30 to 11:30 pm yesterday - their first trip to Clear Lake and their first night fishing experience. It was sort of a bittersweet experience since the older son hooked - and lost 4 big bass. He will learn that one sets the hook differently at Clear Lake (night) than one does at Oroville. I had guided them at Oroville about a month ago. Two of his bass even made it to the boat but still came off. Dad did ok, landing 2 nice bass and ending the evening with another - a 4 pounder. I fished some - trying to get the D&M piranha swim jig working so I could let them try it. Nothing - until 11 pm. Fishing one of the ledges in Jago Bay, I was stunned when a big fish nailed it in shallow water and boiled like she was 15 lbs! She wasn't - only 8 lbs 2 oz. Yeah - what a disappointment, har! So, only 4 bass in the boat for 17 something pounds.
City: Yuba CityTips: Once again, the cloud cover I had hoped for rolled in about the time we left. That would have helped the bite. In spite of some light wind, a very pleasant evening. Maybe the first late December night I only had to wear my Ranger Jacket - no snowsuit!! They had their Ranger jackets on too. Clients probably thought winter night fishing was a pretty confortable event!! Maybe I will have to take them on a REAL winter night! The bass seemed to be getting ready for winter and schooling up. We only found willing bass in a few spots. Action was much slowed than my previous 7 trips. Most biters were still in the top 15-20 feet. Deep bass were just not active for us. When we started, we saw a bass landed on an Alabama Rig. Wow, what will bass fishing look like in 25 years???
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Quarry Lakes
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Water Temp: 52
Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)
Report: New to the lake, so spent way more time scoping Horseshoe Lake with sonar than actually fishing today, and boy, what a depressing story...very, very few fish to be found. I did mark a handful of fish, and marked (plus visually saw) one nice largemouth (looked to go about 6 or 7 lbs), but I've never seen so few returns on fish on any lake I've ever scoped out this extensively. This is one of those lakes where the fish really have nowhere to hide (hard rock bottom with little weed growth at this time of year), so if they are in there, you will easily see them on the returns of a quality sonar unit. I picked up maybe 4 fish the whole day - other than the one nice largemouth, the other 3 could have easily been stocked trout.
Based on the ridiculous number of lines in the water today (a weekday), I would have to guess the shoreline trout fisherman are picking off both smallmouth and largemouth bass, and I'd say its also a safe bet that EVERYTHING caught on this lake goes home with the angler. This is a tiny lake with super heavy pressure, and if bass are being kept on a regular basis, its a wrap for quality fishing.
That being said, I won't be back. I'm sure there is still a population of bass in here, but not a healthy one.
Anyways, I'm happy to pay a few bucks to fish and still release my catch, but based on my observations today, I don't think many folks who fish this lake would see it the same way - they paid money to fish, and they are damned well going to keep the fish THEY PAID FOR. Right? ;)Tips: Fish somewhere else where there is more "sport" in "sportfishing".
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Tuesday, December 27th, 2011
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California Delta
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Water Temp: 45
Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)
Report: My first trip out since Augest and I knew it was going to be tough after the cold snap we had over the last couple weeks, but not this tough. Had one bite all day on a dropshot and missed it. We fished the entrace to fourteen mile, middle river connection are, old river by the trian bridge, cruiser haven( missed the one bite) then the boat slipps in ladds. We threw cranks,paddeltails,flukes and dropshot, even punched some heavy grass all to no avail.
City: ModestoTips: wait for a warmimg trend....also heard they been spraying the grass.
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