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Thursday, July 14th, 2011

  • Amador County, California
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      Water Temp: 78-83

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I had a guide trip with 2 good fishermen - night before last - from 5 pm to nearly 1 am. The bite was pretty good with one of the fellows sticking a 4 pounder pretty quickly, on a plastic worm. The worm bite was best, though I lost 2 nice bass on topwater when I was checking if that bite was on. The fellow with the 4 pounder had a nice limit of around 13 lbs. I think we caught around 18-20 bass, including the small ones. I fished the next morning for about 2 hrs and caught 5 keepers to 2 1/2 lbs on worms and crankbaits. Most bass were surface to 20 feet.
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: It was hard to determine how good the bite really was since trip trip was during the second day/night of a major cold front. Actually, the bite was a little better than I expected. Typical cold front night - dew all over the boat (in July?) by 11 pm and only one sighting of any shad coming to the surface during the evening. It was like the dead sea - no wildlife activity at all - except an occasional bullfrog.

  • Solano County, California
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      Water Temp: 68-76

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished from Whites up to Sycamore and back. Went for stripers til about 9am and caught a dozen undersize fish on spoons and shad. Then switched to black bass fishing. Constant action all day until I left the water at 3pm and caught too many fish to count but not much size other than a 5 lber on a shad pattern crankbait.
      City: manteca

      Tips: Flipped watermelon/red senkos to holes in the weeds and the inside weed line/trough. Also threw buzzbait until the wind kicked up then switched to a shad swimbait or crankbait depending on the weed conditions. Fish were very active all over and were schooled up.

Wednesday, July 13th, 2011

  • Solano County, California
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      Water Temp: 75

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Lauched out of Holland Tract at 7am. Started out sunny with no wind but strong outgoing tide. Headed out to the main channel and fished the first set of tulles. 2nd cast with a popper and landed a #3-lb. Had luck with poppers, wacky worms {fished both wacky and weedless}brush hogs, frogs. All fish caught on dark colors.
      Wind picked up about 10am and headed in at noon.
      City: Antioch

      Tips: In the past I've seen a lot of garbage floating in the current but today a 20 foot+ boat dock with all the cleats and benchs floated by.
      Be real careful out their.

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      Water Temp: 72-76

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the Delta the last two days, first day we fish 14 Mile, water was dirty and picked up two keepers on chatterbait, missed two on a frog.Headed to mildred tossed frogs and sencos and got nothing. Headed to whites tossed frog, chatterbait and spinnerbait getting small ones on spinner and chatter baits. Heading back to Ladds we make one last stop at the mouth of Calivares and pick up a 6lbr on the chatterbait. Sometimes it pays to make that one last stop lol. Tuesday we start at the north entrance to 14 Mile for no bites, head to train bridge at Middle River for no bites, head to Old River and start fishing our way up to Woodward, fish a cople spots in Woodward and back down Middle River, hit one more spot on the Main Channel. We were tossing chatterbaits, spinnerbaits, secos and frogs, picked one on a senco and four on the frogs, off the water bye two.
      City: modesto

      Tips: Bigger fish of the day came on the frog, but nothing over 2lbs.Biggest fish of the two days on a chatterbait swimming by a tulie clump.

  • Alameda County, California
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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Got 6 bass in hurricane type continual breeze (oops, first fish was a 2 lb. crappie on a shad crank). Bass went to 4 lbs. Boat inspection ranger said I caught more fish than anyone he'd talked to all day.

      Extreme heat and wind on latter days: Got skunked fishing plastic worms on 7/1. Got 3 to 4 lbs. on 7/3 on 3 different types of baits, biggest on senko. Landed 5 on reaction bait 7/5 thru or around weeds but all under 3 lbs., although caught 2 HUGE crappies on a crank.

      Tips: All bass somewhat out of the wind near tules with a senko, 5/O hook and 20# blue/fluorescent line. Only ever missed 1 bass that I hooked on this set up wherever I've fished that I remember.

      Fish baits that cover water when they are not biting other presentations. Didn't fish this pattern much because of the huge effort involved, though.

      Don't fish plastic worms. I spent the majority of time each day but the last trying to force feed them this because I like to fish this way if I can and there are weeds.

  • California
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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Update today from SBCWD: There has been little change in status since last report. Re-opening for recreational use may not be until fall of 2012. Environmental studies done and underway all agree that use of potash to eradicate the mussels is the way to go. Issue is funding. Cost of potash application will be at least several hundred thousand dollars, and could be over a million. Water district is asking for a grant from the Bureau of Reclamation, since it's their lake, but there are no earmarks now that would enable BOR to foot the bill. Congressman Farr is aware of the issue and has visited the lake for first-hand look. Lake was drawn down about 30' below max last fall. Mussels dried out and caused bad stench. Lake needs to be drawn down even further for application of the potash.
      City: Monterey

      Tips: Lake is not open for recreational use. Pray for a miracle to open the purse strings at BOR.

  • Coos County, Oregon
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      Water Temp: plenty warm

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Great job at the brown bag tourney Nick and Kev!! That was not an easy day to fish especially with lures you're not exactly used to using. My pal Mike and I fished it too- we only got 4 for a little over 10 lbs.. But I did win the Dobbyns rod at the raffle after so it turned out great. We got 3 on the sow chow craws and one on the green and black spinnerbait. This was my first brown bag tourney and I love that format. I was sorry to hear that it was Backlashes last one. I hope someone steps up and carries the tradition on. My 8 yr. old girl or 5 yr. old son might want to fish it with me someday.
      Started fishing Cottage Grove Lake on the way to work most days. On the 7th of July I got a 17 1/2" 2.10 on the jig and beaver up the creek. The next morning went back to roughly the same spot- about 100' north- and tossed my jig out. About 6 seconds later I set the hook and the fish comes completely out of the water thashing its head. I thought wow- another one of those full of piss and vinegar 2 1/2 to 3 pounders this lake seems to be full of. But when I lipped her I could see she was a tad bigger- 5 pounds and 8 ounces- 21" long! Almost all the fish I've caught over 5 pounds calm right down once you land them. This one would not she was so fidgety that I had to zero my scale and weigh her twice. Got a couple quick photos and took one of her swimming back into the lake. Wish I would have fished more this early spring- she might have been 6 pounds full of eggs.
      On 7/11/11 (If that isn't a lucky date- what is?) I got my first swimbait fish of the year. Got it on a 5" trout along a fairly steep bank. I tossed it a lot this week and knew it would pay off. This fish was a 3.14- 19" long and had the bait half in and half outof its mouth. Looking forward to an unbelievable week or two coming up. Once that bite gets going it's usually fast and furious- if the swimbaits not working the jig usually is. I've got 4 days off out of the next 9 and the boat will see the water at least twice. See you at the lake.
      City: yoncalla

      Tips: Take your kids fishing- it's fun and you make memories that will last your whole life. Be safe and wear your life jackets too. And again- way to go Nick and Kev!

Tuesday, July 12th, 2011

  • Mariposa County, California
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      Water Temp: 82

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Went out in the afternoon and stayed until dark, great bite. Hit main lake points, caught them on rip bait and a jig. Then went to the drop shot and the bite was off the charts. Threw LunkerDaddy 6" worm in 420, OH82, and the new Barney color. Best was a 4 pound spot, with most being 2 pounders. Even had a few top water bites at dark.
      City: Atwater

      Tips: Get to McClure and fish! The bite is great, just find a point and fish in 12-15' of water. Take a kid while you are at it, this is a great time for kids as the action is good.

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

      Report: Took my brother to oroville for the first time today to bass fish. We did well managed about 30 fish between the both of us. I got on a good topwater bite with spooks and poppers. Caught a nice spot a little under 3 pounds and 1 around 2 1/2 a bunch of blow ups just couldnt hook them. the rest of our fish were caught on a M.Mutilator II robo worm. drop shot and t-rig best 5 a little over 11 pounds
      City: elk grove

      Tips: wind blown point were the ticket for me.

  • California
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      Water Temp: 66

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished for 2 hrs one spotted bass on a yellow spinner. Fishing was slow due to windy conditions.
      Some trout being caught at 29 ft and catfish starting to pick up. Monday 1200 lbs of trout were planted and next week 2000 pounds of catfish will be planted

  • Shasta County, California
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      Water Temp: 78

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I wish we had cought more fish but just been out there made it all worth it. Saw some bald eagles and some beatiful spots and managed to catch a few keepers (biggest 2 1/2 LB). What worked the best was brown with red flakes senkos and clear with different color flakes, also white spinner bait and salt n' pepa grubs. Senkos worked the best....for me.
      City: South San Francisco

      Tips: Early morning bite before all the noise. Try submerged trees and points. Most bites for senkos were on the fall. Have fun, I can't wait to go back.

Monday, July 11th, 2011

  • Napa County, California
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      Water Temp: 78 thru 83

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: This past Friday I took Kevin and his son Nick out for a few hours. Nick caught the most fish that day with the largest one being a fifteen inch spotted bass. The bite was pretty good and we had a lot of fun that day (see photos). Saturday at 7 AM I took out Andy, Pauline and their daughters Katy (age 10) and Grace (age 7 1/2) who had never caught a fish for a fun day on the lake. As we left the dock the girls helped me drive to the east side of the lake and boy were they excited. The girls were using a "Speed Trap" silver and blue on one rod and a "Rattle Trap" silver on the other rod. Grace caught the first fish with a little help from her father and it was an eleven inch bass which she was happy to release because I had explained to her that the bass had to be at least twelve inches. Then Katy got hooked up with a trout and brought it in with the help of her father. We trolled for a little while and then we headed out to the Vineyards. We started at the first barbwire fence and were using brass and glass and senko worms (three different colors - watermelon red fleck, watermelon black fleck, and my wife's favorite color which I'm sworn to secrecy not to reveal) and not suprisingly my wife's color worked the best. By the time we left the Vineyards we had caught some large sunfish and the big star of the day was a fourteen pound large mouth bass brought in by Andy!!! Please see photos. Needless to say it was a very happy and productive day. On Sunday I went out with Dan and we fished the west side by the Bureau. Using brass and glass Dan hooked a nice three pounder. Later that afternoon we fished the back cove of Big Island and Dan landed a few more nice bass. My buddies Albert and Jory who have been fishing for catfish from the shore told me that they have been catching good size cats using hotdogs and mackerel. 'til next week...................................................good fishing!!!!!
      www.fishingconnection.net If you have any questions please email me at bestguide@hotmail.com or call me at 650-583-3333.
      City: Napa

      Tips: I LOVE BERRYESSA

Saturday, July 9th, 2011

  • Solano County, California
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      Water Temp: 79-86

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Gentlmen,I'd like to share a pretty scarry experience with you. Launched out of Orwood this past Thursday with my 7 yr old son for a day of fishing. Caught small fish pretty much all day 1-1 1/2lbs throwing senkos and drop shots. I decided to call it a day later that evening around 6:15. On the way back to the launch ramp my son asks if we can fish a while longer. After a hesitant moment I decided to safely u-turn in that stretch between Disco Bay and Orwood and head to Cruiser Haven. After turning left at the slough that runs parallel to Disco Bay (Indian Slough I believe) there's moderate boat traffic and a few jet skiers. So we're headed up the slough at about 35 to 40 mph when I notice a big cabin cruiser headed in the opposite direction. It's traveling at a safe speed. Near the end of the slough and preparing for the right turn that we're about to take, I decide to veer to the right to minumize the affects of the cruiser's inevitable wake. It's at that point when I hear and feel a loud crashing sound at the bottom of my transom. The boat immediately begins to spin out of control. I quickly turn off the engine and we end up facing the opposite direction pretty shook up but absolutely unharmed, thank God! Two bass boats with two anglers each immediately approach us to see if we were OK. They were kind enough to rope up to our boat and tow us back to the launch with the other boat following us. Back at the launch they help us pull the boat up onto the trailer, provided us with extra rope to help secure my severely damaged and dangling lower unit to my engine! After a friend of mine showed up to help me and the little one home, the four samaritans decided to head on their way. My son and I'd like to thank Jeremy, Leroy, Ryan, and Josh (four complete strangers)from the bottom of our hearts for taking the time to help two complete strangers in an extreme time of need! Thanks fellas...that was very big of you all! Oh yeah, FYI for those that are unaware...there are obviously submereged pilings or some sort of structure in that afformentioned area that we clipped causing our accident. Please be careful...we were very lucky! Good Fishing and safe boating to all!
      City: Hayward

  • Nevada
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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: wipers,whites,crappie, bite time 11am-1pm
      City: Carson

      Tips: sm jigs white to black

  • Mariposa County, California
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      Water Temp: 81 to 83 surfac

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: The lake is at full capacity. It looks like a whole new lake. The temp was 81 to 83 surface. The fishing was really good. Topwater, jigs, and worms. Great jig bite for July.

  • Tuolumne County, California
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      Water Temp: 79-82

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Hit the water at 5:45 am hoping for a Topwater bite...nothing, nada. Switched to medium crank baits and rattle traps, nothing on rattle traps and 2 small spots and 1 keeper on crank bait. Switched to drop shotting Robo worms until 1:00 pm, caught 23 fish but only 2 keepers; not sure where all th big fish went???Didn't hardly recoginize the lake, last time I was there was about 1+ years and all my usual fishing spots were no where to be seen except about 20+ feet down. Oh well had a nice moring on the lake and enjoyed the day.
      City: Elk Grove

Friday, July 8th, 2011

  • Solano County, California
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      Water Temp: 68

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Yes, I agree as well and did not mean to exclude bass boats from the list of those who lack courtesy and mutual consideration..in fact, some are downright arrogant and rude. To them, if you don't have a bassboat, you ain't worth their attention. I think every group has that element. But also have met some very cool bassers who talk to you and don't mind sharing insights and courtesy, and no matter what kind of boat you have. And YES I DO slow down in the sloughs when I see others fishing or just moored.
      OK, FOR THE REPORT... fished the early morning outgoing tide, first topwater, only 1 blowup, next moved to speedtrap and picked up 4 1-2 lbers; moved along the tules and worked senkos from inside weedline, over the top, then dropped along the outside weedline. picked up 4 more this way, mostly as the bait moved over the top to drop on the outside. then changed from wacky to t-rigged and this sliced it through the weedline and picked up 2 more. off the water by noon.
      City: folsom

      Tips: Fish both T-rig and wacky senkos between the weedline and tules. Work it through or over the weedline and to the dropoff to deeper water. Worked for us but not all the time obviously. Hoping for an increased crank bite.

  • Lake County, California
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched out of Red Bud yesterday afternoon with a friend - fishing until about midnight. He is fishing the Sat night tourney - so this will be brief. We started catching nice 3 to 3 1/2 lb bass. Everything was fine until I hooked a huge bass on a D&M Piranha swim jig - and lost it after 15-20 seconds. Wow!! My bud covered lots of water and did quite well. After some excellent spring trips, this was my night to stink up the place (in addition to the algae!) and I did - only caught a 4 1/4 and a 3 1/2. He did well and it was his turn to nail a nice one - 7 lbs 3 oz. Our limit was pushing 23 lbs.
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: We'll let the weekend tournament folks figure out the "tips" for this weekend!

  • Sacramento County, California
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      Water Temp: 83

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: fished north fork for the first time in a long time. picked up 4 from a dink to 3lbs
      robo worm darter head and split shot got the bites

      there was a TON of boat traffic for a week day night
      City: cool

      Tips: work it slow, all bites came off the bottom while sitting still

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

      Report: it's open?