Fishing Report
Friday, May 27th, 2011
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Anderson Lake
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Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)
Report: Fished for 4 hrs and caught 10 bass all under 2lbs. Tougher than normal bite. Fish are still shallow 1-10ft. Caught them on crank bait, drop shot and Crig plastics.
City: Foster CityTips: Fish shallow with plastics.
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California Delta
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Water Temp: 63-66
Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)
Report: Got to south end Mildred Is. by 6:30. Fished green tullies near clean water. Tried to stay away from moss. Pitched Watermelon w/red/green fleck worms and Brush Hogs. The further back into the tullies we pitched, the more hits we got. This worked last week for some 5+lb fish but only mustered 2.5 pounders today. Still some bigger cruisers around shallow water.
Tips: Fish slow.
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Oroville Lake
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Water Temp: 62-64
Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)
Report: on at 6:30. slow crank bite. only 10 in 1st 3 hours on main body. went to north arm and swithed off between crankin and texas rig robo in light oxblood. consistant for 3 hours then swithed to spinnerbait at 2pm and it was on. fished shallow and fast for 4 hours for 50+. finished off the day with 20 crankbait fish. Been every wknd for a month and had a reaction bite every time. stay with cranks & spinnerbaits and you will be rewarded.
City: BrentwoodTips: a lot of tree needles & leafs in the water made it tough on main lake. Use compact spinnerbait. Cranked with normans deep lil n & middle lil n. sour grape. speed trap in chrome/ black. They will set up shallow to ambush at some point during the day. Keep movin and you will find them. Everything shallow for me
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Water Temp: 62-65
Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)
Report: WOW! I heard about big # days so I made my first trip.. Days one started good with 18 by 0930, then died off with the wind till about 3 pm.. Day 1 total= 49.Small mouths were sitting off shore about 30 feet and spots/blacks a little more shallow..Day two started with a little rain and chilly. a little slow in the first two hours but then it picked up.. picked ALOT of fish 20 feet from shore and on the bottom dragging a variety of grubs and plastic worms.. 13 1/2 hours on the lake and the bite was steady.. day 2 total=101 fish between two of us!!..
City: AtwaterTips: Slow dragging bottom retries worked well in the morning, weightless wackky rig in the afternoon/evening was working too. Not much action on cranks or spinners.. Good luck!@
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Thursday, May 26th, 2011
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Berryessa Lake
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Water Temp: 62-67
Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)
Report: Started fishing @ 7:30 and fished a couple of areas throwing mostly reaction baits. By the time I was on my 3rd stop and it was 2.5 hours later with no fish. Finally started throwing a tube on a 3/16 jig head and the catching started. It wasn't wide open and they weren't tourney fish, but it was steady fun. These were definitely postspawn fish, and they were healthy, chunky, feisty fish. Most of them were spitn up bits of shad and crawdaddies. I thought I would see more than the couple of bass boats that I did see, but most of trailers in the lot look like trout/salmon dudes. From 10:30-4:30 boated around 20-25 keeps up to 2#.
City: orindaTips: Fish were in the 4-12 ft depths. Once in awhile i would mark fish in the 18-20 ft range, but could not get them to go. I basically caught them on 2 baits; tubes and grubs. Tubes in the beginning and grubs in the end. I think they really liked the tubes as they swallowed some of those, while the grub fish were all hooked on the lips. Most of the fish were on small points with a few fish in between....good luck.
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Modesto Reservoir
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Water Temp: 61
Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)
Report: Started at 4 pm threw spinnerbaits, crankbaits, jigs, and plastics only 1 bite on a 12 ribbon worm. Off the water at 8.
City: turlockTips: Find a new lake.
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San Pablo Lake
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Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)
Report: Went here with my brother for the first time in the float tubes. We fished the south end and I caught a 6 and an 8 and lost a catfish. My bro gets a 6.5. Then nothing for three trips after, no bass, only catfish. You see bass swimming around, they're there. Catfish eat plasics. We didn't experiment with too many baits. Beginner's luck maybe.
City: ConcordTips: 6" Senko's in watermelon/red or black/blue depending on clarity. Lizard in black/red for my brother.
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Tuesday, May 24th, 2011
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Eastman Lake
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Water Temp: 66-70
Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)
Report: Started early and got on the buzz bait, first one close to 4lbs the second right at 3 lbs. Nothing for a little after that. Then got a few on the jig and senko. North end of the lake. Went down by the damn at 9 am. Started throwing the big slammer and had a 10lb plus fish come up and suck in the tail got one hook in her but she didn't finish taking the bait. Fished the area for about an hout tossing the big baits but couldn't get her. Started tossing the crank bait against the dam and landed around 20 fish in about 30 mins. Nothing big mostly small fish. Did get a couple close to 2lbs. Ended the day with a good number of fish but just about 12lbs and one lost between 10-13lbs. Needed that kicker.
City: Clovis
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Oroville Lake
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Water Temp: 61 - 64
Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)
Report: Started with top water at 6am. No luck. switch to plastics and crankbait at 7 am and it was on.40 fish between me and my partner. Fish were around 1.5 lbs each nothing big but lots of fun. Lake was full and only $13 to launch at Bidwell Marina.
City: Citrus HeightsTips: Fish the points 10 to 15 feet. Any plastics will work.
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Monday, May 23rd, 2011
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Bear River
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Water Temp: 67
Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)
Report: Great fishing
City: Rancho Cucamonga
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Eastman Lake
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Water Temp: 68-71
Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)
Report: Good Senko bite all morning and early afternoon. Threw crankbait in the early morning catching only two dinks.
City: PlanadaTips: Watermelon red flake
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Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)
Report: Day use side of the lake will be open on May 23 for anyone interested
City: Planada
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Trinity Lake
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Water Temp: 59-62
Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)
Report: Windy on main body spent all day in Hay Flat. Dropshot roboworm morning dawn and not the action I expected. It sure is nice to have water in the lake maybe this year they will keep it that way
City: CoastTips: SLOW
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Sunday, May 22nd, 2011
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Berryessa Lake
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Water Temp: 76-69
Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)
Report: Fished the West side of the big island, caught all of our fish in cuts and small wind blown coves in 8 to 10 feet of water. We caught 10 fish on drop-shot robo worm in morning dawn color. Had another 8 to 10 bites but couldn't land them in the boat. Our best five fish went 17.5 lbs with the biggest fish at 3.5 lbs and included three smallies.
No takers on rattle traps, crank baits, jerk baits or top water...Drop-Shot was the meal of the day.
City: Elk GroveTips: When you get your first bite look at your depth finder and see how deep of water your boat is in...then keep your boat in that depth as you fish. Every time we moved deeper we lost our bite; once we got the boat back at the right depth of our first bite we would get hit again.
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California Delta
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Water Temp: 62-65
Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)
Report: Fished from 5:30 am - 1:00 pm in the east. Fished last 1/2 of incoming to last 1/2 of outgoing. I was in a jacket and beanie until 10 am! The incoming tide was slower and as it was cold, I was not surprised I got skunked incoming. Once things warmed up at 10:30 for outgoing and with a faster tide...the bite picked up. Got them crankin. Caught 10 bass and 4 stripers. For the most part the bass were all the males too small to be on beds (most were about 12"ers with a few 1 1/2 - 2 lbers). The stripers were 12"-14" also the fish too small to try to head up river to spawn.
Tried senko a bit with no bites. Tried topwater first hour with two nibbles and one good boil with no hook ups. Tried small swimbait late in the day with 3 nibbles and 2 strikes.
Wow, saw quite a few school of bait (too small for the bass to focus on), but it nice to see some of them back! I thought they might be baby bass, but they were not. Threadfin shad if I had to guess. They schooled under my boat while I was taking lunch at 10 am.
City: Elk GroveTips: None as I did not do to well...
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Water Temp: 66
Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)
Report: Someone help me: try not to feel discouraged it happens to alot more anglers than you may think. This sat I went all day with only 2 bass and today I didn't catch one dang bass all day but I did come across the mother load of a striped school though. Like deep v said create a mental check list and just go down the list of what works and what doesn't. I like black and chartruse color jigs with a sweet beaver or a rage draw. Post spawn u want red cranks lipless or not it don't matter. Senkos always work but I don't have the patience for them; same for drop shotting. Spinner baits in a white and chartruse color parallel to grass lines on low tide and between the tules and grass on high tide. But im no pro so I have good and bad days also so try not to get discouraged and have fun while your out there.
City: stockton
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Clear Lake
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Water Temp: 62-64
Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)
Report: got a real nice 6 1/2 pounder yesterday man was he fat!. sinko's and drop shoting was about the only thing working i spoke to some guys just comeing in from a tournament on sunday and thay told me that it was a slow and hard day on the water. the bite is hard right now but if you fish hard and try to find them you just mite get lucky?....the fish are just not realy eating much right now but give it 2 to 4 weeks from now the fishing will be on!
City: sacramentoTips: the fish are out there. just get on the water have a good time good luck!
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Saturday, May 21st, 2011
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Anderson Lake
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Water Temp: 64
Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)
Report: Fished 9-1 today. WX was great. Bite was on early and seemed to slow down around 10:30. Caught 12 bass up to 2 lbs. Caught 2 on crank bait, 1 on tube, and 9 on Crig plastics. All fish were up shallow around shoreline with stick-ups. Water is rising.
City: Foster CityTips: Fish shallow with plastics along shoreline with weeds or sticks in the water.
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Berryessa Lake
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Water Temp: 68
Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)
Report: Subject: Fishing with Sid
This past weekend I went fishing with Albert and Jory. What a difference a week makes the lake was calm and clear and I decided to retrace our pattern from last week. We started out by the Ranch house and the water was crystal clear we could see the bass 12 feet down but they would not bite. I guess if we could see them they could see us. Decided to head straight to the Vineyard. The first fish was caught on brass and glass so were the next few. Albert had set up his rod with a weight that was too heavy so I suggested he make it lighter. He decided to use only the glass bead and boy he was raking them in. His first fish (which he lost) must have weighed almost 8 pounds but every fish he brought in was a good size. Of course Jory and I switched to using the same setup and it worked for us as well. I believe that part of the formula was using the Procure crawdad scent on the worm and the other part was using a very light weight. Albert had to go home early so after leaving him off Jory and I went to my favorite cove and I threw a six inch watermelon red senco on top of a submerged tree and "POW" a five pound bass hit it on the way down (see photo). That was a nice catch!!! Jory largest fish did not make it into the boat because he got so excited he lifted it out of the water to early and the fish spit out the hook and waved goodbye. Jory did catch some nice bass that he did land using a rattle trap. The top water bite is not happening yet at least not for me and trust me I tried very hard. The water temperature was close to 68 degrees which was a huge difference from last weekend. All in all it was a great weekend for fishing.
'til next weekend.................................................................good fishing!!!
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City: NapaTips: Waiting for top water to turn on,fish were caught in 5 feet of water,try shallow to deep,try everything in your fishing tackle box till you figure out a patern.cesparce abcence
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California Delta
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Water Temp: 61.8 to 65.2
Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)
Report: My sister-in-law's brother, Johnny, had not gotten to fish the Delta this year. I launched at Russo's and fished in Franks, catching a few, while I waited for him to arrive. He was at the dock at 6:00, as scheduled. We fished around Franks for a couple hours and caught about 15 fish in the .5# to 3+# range using Speed Traps, Senkos and Spinnerbaits. No action on topwater. We hit three more areas heading East in the main river with only a few more fish in the 1# to 3# range. The last are we fished was a marina that we got another 5 fish in 2# to 4.5# range. Johnny tossed a small orangeish spinnerbait and got the best fish of the day 4.81#, it was the same one that he was getting the 5" fish on in the early morning. Great day fishing, fair day catching and our best 5 would go about 14.5#. The Senko bite was very light most of the time.
City: AntiochTips: Fish slow and pay attention to your line when throwing Senkos. The Speed Trap and Spinnerbait hits were solid.
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