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Thursday, October 27th, 2011

  • Solano County, California
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      Water Temp: 64-72

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: So I was out the other day in my brand new wrapped ranger cruising along at a cool 68 mph and I came up on this a$$clown an Allison. I almost hit him cause it was so foggy, but I was able to veer outta the way cause I felt his wake before I saw him. Let me say this, he's a total liar. I was GPSing myself on my brand new hds-8 lowrance and I was only going 70 and it was like he was sitting still! He saw me and tried to get on it, and off we went racing down old river in the fog. He's right....exhilarating is an understatement!! I haven't had that big of a rush since I was killin' Charlie in the trees in southeast Asia!!! Anyway, I smoked that pansy and there's no way he was going 70! My boat maxes out at 69 and he was toast! Anyway, the bite was great, I just watched tactical bassins video where they say they caught 42 lbs for five, and eventhough they only showed one fish out of that limit, it was enough for me, and I knew that bank. I went and never gave up, just like Matt Allen says, and sure enough caught a 3lber, 5lber and 2 4 lbers and an 8lber all on an Alabama rig with live crawdads. That was so many pounds of bass filets that I had to feed my dogs the leftovers! I recommend deep frying the bass, the bigger ones taste better! !! Caught em deeper in current, on points.
      City: The delta sewer

      Tips: Alabama rig 5 live crawdads!! Had two fish on at once!!

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      Water Temp: warmish

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Slow day today started at 6:30 finished by 9:30. had to work caugth only 3 keepers and to 1.5 lbs and couple of dinkers. BIG BIG difference compared to monday. everything was on crankbait. On monday got a bonus 2 salmon to 8 lbs. the bite is on cranks, maybe its cause of a cold front today..
      City: sf

      Tips: i dunno, lol.. ANYONE KNOW WHERE I CAN GET SOME FALL CRAPPIE NEAR THE BIG BREAK OR FRANKS TRACT AREA?? THANKS MUCH. STAY SAFE, especially from stupid boaters!! lol

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: The Problem is anyone can buy a boat and put it in the water. No fish is worth anyone's life.
      Hey My Boats Faster stay off the Fu#$en water!!!

Wednesday, October 26th, 2011

  • Solano County, California
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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: my boats faster you need to get whiped by every boaters fishing rod ! "LOOSER"
      City: eg

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      Water Temp: 67

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Question for myboatsfaster...do you know what distinguishes stupidity from ignorance? Stupidity is someone who knows they are acting in their own worst interest, so why are you so ignorant???
      City: Sacramento

      Tips: Keep off the delta so the rest of us can stay safe and enjoy what the delta has to offer.

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      Water Temp: good

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: myboatfaster is a moron.

      Tips: watch out for morons.

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: note to speedemon

  • Sonoma County, California
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      Water Temp: 64 -68

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Yup, the bass fishin' has not been anything to write home about ! ? Oct. 26th was my third prefish day. 1st day nothing = fishing mid lake (dam and marina areas) for smallies... NOTHING the water is way too clear ! Some areas you can see down 25 ft. ! Day 2, fished up north. The fish were holding away from the trees in small sub-creek channels. caught 7. Three that were 2 1/2 to 3 pound range the rest smaller. Day 3, went back to the same spots hoping to build off of them,,, the only fish we caught were small-ish . Nothing that would be large enough to be put in a live-well for a tournament..? One more pre-fish day before club tournament next Saturday, Nov. 5th.?????????????????????????????????????????????
      City: UKIAH

      Tips: I hear that Folsom Lake is in the same boat. Clear water and tough ! I guess I would say, don't fall in-love with a area. Keep moving ! Most of my fish were caught off swim-baits and crankin'. ??? The fall fishin' on Sonoma can be a ???????? Maybe the front coming in at the end of the week will turn things on ??
      GOOD LUCK ! Don

Tuesday, October 25th, 2011

  • Solano County, California
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      Water Temp: 63

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fog was so bad out of b&w got later start than i wanted. Fished behind Little franks. Threw small white blades. Got sick of dinks . Went with senkos on ikey heads green pumpkin with red. Got several 3 & 4,s. All in dark black shade with wood. If i was in sun bite was dead. Came back to pirates cove for shade. Sure enough fish on! Talked with bluegill fisherman at the dock. They got run off by big bass once they hooked blues. Same pattern for blues wood.
      City: Orangevale

      Tips: Should have thrown shell cracker or anything in blue-yellow or chartruse. Thats why im not on espn2 yet. You have to find the pattern within the pattern!

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      Water Temp: 67

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: To "myboatsfaster" I've known two people like you...One, I went to his funeral two years ago after his boating accident and now you; I don't know you so I won't be attending your funeral and I really hope I won't be attending one of my many fishing buddies funeral who enjoys fishing the Delta due to your inconsiderate recklessness. I would rather put up with the deep v's than you!!!
      City: Citrus Heights

      Tips: Why don't you send us all an emial next time you're planning to head to the Delta so the rest of us can fish elsewhere and be safe.

Monday, October 24th, 2011

  • Solano County, California
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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: In response to "myboatsfaster". Only up to 70mph when you have limited visability. You my friend are either full of it or an absolute idiot. There are other numerous ways to hurt yourself without endangering others that only want to enjoy the water and catch some fish. Pick one of the other ways, PLEASE!!!
      City: Dublin

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      Water Temp: 73-74

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Well today started out pretty foggy when I launched the Allison out of B&W. I could only get up to 70MPH with the fog, but it is really exhilarating to drive that fast when you can't see more than 15-20 yards in front of the boat. Did pretty good today once the fog burned off. Caught several dinks in the rip raps on some hand poured plastics. Then motored over to another spot and landed a 7 lb bigmouth bass with a fluke. Had to head in early and was off the water by noon. Is anyone else annoyed by the deep v's hanging out everywhere? They are always in the way.

      Tips: Try different colors and presentations. Stay on the rocks, thats where the fish are.

Sunday, October 23rd, 2011

  • Amador County, California
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      Water Temp: 71-73

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I fished Amador Friday afternoon and about 4 hrs at night. The bite was very slow and I couldn't even get the spoon bite to go. I did catch several small bass on Robo worms and finally switched to a jig around sunset. Near the dam I caught a 2 1/2 pounder and a 3 lb 3 oz bass on back to back casts. I then tried topwater and the bite was dead. Still too warm. The night fishing was very slow as the damp, clear fall nights are here. Cloudy nights are always better during fall/winter. I did hook a big fish on a brush hog, but lost her.
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: The lake is in good shape - only down about 8 feet I think. The first trout plant happened at the beginning of the week. Cool weather WILL improve the bass bite!

  • Lake County, California
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      Water Temp: 68 - 70

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Went out with my buddy Tiger Sunday to try and find some fish. Had not fished the north end in a couple years so we tried that area. Started at State park with reaction baits, top water, senko, no luck. Tiger did get a dink off the rocks on a dropshot. Headed south a little then we hit some docks for a while with no luck. Then we tried some submerged rock piles that have produced in the past and struck out on those. We tried a few spots south and got a couple off Docks near the old barge. Then headed north to Rodman to try there. No luck but did see a couple fish caught by another boat. The tried points and docks along the east shore. Picked up a few (shade and tulies were key). Overall beautiful day at the lake but only 9 fish up to 2.5lbs. Not what you really look for out of clearlake. Water was very thick almost everywhere, the kind where it gets all over your rod and reel and but there were fish under there (small ones anyway).
      City: Pacifica

      Tips: I'm glad we tried the north, saw lots of places I would want to hit in the spring if I came back then but I suspect the fish were deeper than we fished.

  • Sonoma County, California
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      Water Temp: 65-68

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Found a very tough bite on Sunday; we blanked. We were at the back of Yorty Creek a few minutes before sun up, and thought we'd try some topwater for about an hour. Trolled all the way back to the mouth with nothing on spooks, buzzbaits, spoons, crankbaits, jerkbaits, and drop-shot. There were a lot of small fish busting the surface on the points next to the mouth, but I think these turned out to be the predators, not bait, as I snagged a 6'inch bass on a jerkbait. He had one hook in his mouth, so I think these small fish were doing the chasing and there were no bigger bass in the area.

      We moved out to the main lake and fished in the trees until about noon throwing crankbaits, jerkbaits, and drop-shotting.
      City: Windsor

      Tips: I had it in my head that this day would be all about the crankbait based on the report below. While we were out two weeks later, temperatures have remained pretty steady since that time. We didn't have a huge arsenal of crankbaits to choose from (some Speed Traps in craw, which are normally great at this lake, and some Strike King model in bluegill and red). We talked to one other boat that had no fish.

      I would like to know if anyone did well here this past weekend. Also, please post a report if you go out and fish. Even if you don't do well, the information is helpful for others. I used to rely on everyone else reporting, but then I realized that if everyone else was doing the same thing, there would be no reports, which for the most part, there are not. Post!

Saturday, October 22nd, 2011

  • Solano County, California
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      Water Temp: 64 - 69 degrees

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Luanched the Custom Valco "BASSBUSTER1" out of Ladd's at 1:00 p.m. and was off the water by 7:00 p.m. My buddy/coworker also came out and joined me in his Bayliner bass boat. We followed each other around in 14 Mile Slough and then out to Big Al's and back. The flippen/punchen bite was on in 14 Mile Slough behind LVW Marina using oxblood sweet beavers, catching several bass up to 3 lbs. Then we headed out to Big Al's and I started working my California Swim Jig on my new swim bait rod. Got nailed by a real nice size bass that aggressively hit my swim jig.
      City: Stockton

  • California
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      Water Temp: 72 to 74

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: 10/22/11 vertical jigging and drop shot are both sticking bass to 4 pounds areas to fish major points 25 to 38 feet of water And the face of the dam in 25 to 35 feet of water 1/4 oz bullet head jigs and 3/8 oz arkie or football heads jigs. Johnny c has two new colors that worked very well for me on saturday Again johnny thank you very much it was my birthday sunday you made my day on saturday with some good solid bass.
      City: madera ca.

      Tips: Move off shore and target structure on points small brush piles and isolated rock piles and the face of the dam. I was in 25 too 38 feet water off shore and 25 to 35 feet of water off the face of the dam. The bigger bass came out of 30 plus feet of water.

  • Sacramento County, California
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      Water Temp: 65

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished North Fork and found lake in fall turn-over bite was slow, fish suspended no takers on reaction, caught a couple 1# spots on shaky head.
      City: Roseville

      Tips: For local Folsom rats- get your fishin in now big tourney coming Sat 11/5, guaranteed to screw up the bite for some time to come the way this tourney management handle fish.

  • California
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      Water Temp: 70 to 74

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Sonora Bass had a tournament we caught our limit it was slow the winning weight was 11lbs the big fish was 3.39 we took 4th with 10.25
      City: jamestown

      Tips: the fish seem scattered fish rocky points there are a few in coves 20 to 35 ft deep spider jigs, dropshot splitshot smallbaits crankbait produced small fish unless you get lucky

Friday, October 21st, 2011

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

      Report: We tried the western shoreline near the big island. Upon arrival, landed a 2.5 lb smallmouth. It didn't wait for the wacky rigged senko to hit the bottom. Drop shot was the most effective method throughout the day. Small fish were an issue, but there were several spotted bass that provided entertainment. Numbers seemed to relate to brush that was surrounded by water. Later in the day we realized that dropping nose hooked plastics straight down over bait balls in about 20 feet of water was productive. A simple jigging presentation seemed all that was required. Lost count of fish caught. We also caught some on in the northeast corner of the lake.
      City: Esparto

      Tips: The owner mosquito hook in #1 size was most effective for the sure hook on spots. Reaction Innovations, Robo worms, and Senkos all caught fish. Natural colors are key: greens, brown, shad colors. I suggest 8 lb test or lighter. A 3/16 ounce drop shot weight is perfect. Surprisingly, greatest success came with the offering about 15 inches above the weight. Finding the bait balls will be my first objective on the next outing. If you find small fish on shore, pull out a bit and watch for bait.