Fishing Report

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Sunday, October 3rd, 2010

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

      Report: Picked up quite a few 2+ lb bass dragging carolina rigged lizards. Fish are surprisingly shallow, all were in less than 15 feet.
      City: Sonora

      Tips: Fish are really shallow for late summaer. Expected them to be in the 30 to 35 range but all were is less than 15.

  • Sacramento County, California
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      Water Temp: 72

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fish from 1-5pm, first 3 cast n got a hit on a Sammy. Didn't get another hit til an hr later. Water has drop since the last time I was here so wat was hot for me then is hot for me now. Junk fish til I figure a pattern. Saw a few cloud of bait ball on graph but no bass under or around it. Found bass hidding on submerge rock pile on main lake. Feel like I was in cold water. U think u fish slow....fish slower. Pull up 4-5 bass in some spots. U just gotta get the crowd to commit. Once that happens, u just gotta work the heck outta them. Once they stop give them some thing new. Finesse was the key n then crankbait to reignite them again
      City: Elk grove

      Tips: Still a lot of water craft out there. Can't wait til weather get a bit colder n they stop coming out. That should help us basser out a lot. Spotted n LMB share the same spot.

  • Sonoma County, California
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      Water Temp: 75

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: went fished Dry Crk and Cherry Crk. areas . The fishing was great!
      WHY ISN'T ANYBODY GIVING ANY REPORTS ? ? ??? ? ????? Could it be that it is so good that you-all want it to be a secret ?
      OK Somona County Anglers, You are being called out! SHOW US YOUR REPORTS.. it's all in good fun, don't get bent!
      City: Ukiah, CA.

      Tips: In the morning, start mid way up and then work your way out to the deeper water. Caught all my fish slow draggin' a brush hog and lizard. THE FALL BITE IS ON ! cool.

Saturday, October 2nd, 2010

  • Solano County, California
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      Water Temp: 70s

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Good day, and the fall reaction bite seems to be turning on. Buddy caught a 3#11oz LM bass on a brown jig and he lost a good size striper in the 4# category. Fished mostly Italian slough and caught numerous undersized stripers 10-12" range. These stripers were aggressive, relating to the incoming tide.We also caught a few LM black bass. These seem to be more aggressive when there was current.
      City: San Ramon

      Tips: gotta love reaction baits - Staysees and bassdays sugar deep. majority of stripers were undersized but they were fun to catch.

  • Ventura County, California
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      Water Temp: 76-78

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Hit the lake at 6:30am - off the water by 2:00pm. Caught a few on cranks fan casting the rocky points. Good bite near the bank around the greenery on green pumpkin creature baits. Caught around 10 fish up to 3.5lbs.

      Tips: Hit the shore with your plastics - if your not bit within 5 or 6 feet try again.

  • Lake County, California
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      Water Temp: 55+

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Woke up at 5 am have been catching decent size catfish all morning biggest thus far is 15lbs off shad.
      City: clear lak

      Tips: they are biting really low right now

  • California
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      Water Temp: 73

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Very slow day for us and the few other boats we saw. Caught a dink on a split shot worm then got a nice 5.12 on a T-rigged worm. Thanks to the Red Ranger who had a working scale and helped me fizz it so it could go back down. Got too hot so left at 1300.
      Lake will close to boaters 14 Oct.
      City: Monterey

      Tips: Please practice, Catch-Photo-Release there won't be anything left if you don't.

  • Alameda County, California
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      Water Temp: 71

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished from 2:30 to 6:30. Caught 7 bass largest 4 lbs with one 3 lbs and the rest smaller. Bite was slow but a consitent pattern of shallow 1-4ft on the weed edges. Caught 5 on drop shot and 2 on top water PopR. Not bad for getting on the wate so late in the day.
      City: Foster City

      Tips: Soft plastics shallow along the weed edges. Switch to top water when the sun starts to go behind the hills.

  • Tuolumne County, California
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      Water Temp: 72

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: 2 on top water popper, 2 on texas rigged greenie weenie. Lots of miss hits and thrown hooks. 1 on top water around 5pm before a fast, incoming storm forced everyone off the water. All were healthy 2-3 pounders barely hooked on the lip.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Let them bite a millisecond longer before setting the hook. Wear your life vest. Afternoon was sunny/hot. Sunset storm caught everyone by surprise. Even the camp host wasn't expecting a sudden wind/rain storm.

  • Coos County, Oregon
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      Water Temp: 63-65

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Carl an I had a fun day at Cottage Grove today. We launched at barely safe light and had the lake all to ourselves for a while. We tried several spots with no bites. I was kind of shocked we couldn't find a jig fish or 2 and Carl was tossing a rattle trap the first couple hours and getting the same thing I was- SQUAT! So we kept moving and tried an area with some steeper banks and a few little pockets. By now Carl had switched up and put on a crankbait. As a matter of fact it was his first time tossing a crankbait. We worked down the bank and finally Carl gets a bite. And another, and another and another. How about 4 fish in 4 casts! None were 12" long but most were 9-10" with big fat bellies. So by the time I found a similar lure, tied it on and casted out Carl already had 6 fish. Nothing like a little friendly competition when it comes to fishin'. He seemed to have a lure the fish liked just a bit better- mine had a red Gamakatsu treble on the belly. Supposed to make it more attractive to the bass- not to these little guys. We kept fishing the area for at least an hour. I finally got one to make it 6-1. Carl had 2 on back to back casts and the score was 10-4. Then the bite slowed a bit and we got stuck at 12-4 for a little while. Oh almost forgot- Carl's 7th fish was a very nice looking rainbow! He asked for the net but we both agreed later it was best we didn't net it. We were letting them all go anyway and they roll in the net like a darn catfish. That is a mess with 2 treble hooks. So of course what happens- my next fish is also a trout- only about 15" or so- Carl's was about 18". I ask for the net and Carl obliges. And the trout proceeds to tangle itself and both trebles up so bad I knew it would involve scissors to get my lure back. So now I'm busy trying to keep the boat headed into the wind, not run aground and untangling a 2 treble hook nylon nightmare while Carl keeps on casting and catching. Took about 12 minutes but strangely enough Carl only got 2 during that time. So I toss back in and get number 5. The score is now 14-5. I'm getting my butt kicked! And man are we having fun. At this point I tell him sure wish one of my kids were here to get in on this action- they would love it. One more fish and Carl's got me tripled up. I got another couple to put it at 14-7. Carl gets another next cast and it's 15-7. But the bite has slowed somewhat and eventually it dies. So we move down the bank a couple hundred yards casting all the way 'till we hit another active batch of fish. Carl's catching them every cast but then his line gets tangled in a treble and he's busy cutting it out and retying his lure. While he's doing that I keep on casting and soon the score is at 19-14. We decide to hit one more spot on the way back to the ramp- a deep cut with a boulder strewn steep bank next door. I toss my 6" trout swimbait and he starts tossing his rattletrap. About 5 minutes in Carl hears a fish jump off to our left about a cast away. He has just pulled the lure out of the water from his previous cast so he lets it fly. It lands right in the middle of the ring and 2 seconds later BAM! Fish on! He gets it to the side of the boat and it's another nice trout- 17-18" or so. He let it shake off and that's how we ended our day. Carl got 20 fish- 19 on the crankbait and 1 on the rattletrap. I got 14 for the day and had a blast- except for that darn net thing. It was totally avoidable too. I have a new long handled rubber net that I keep in my trunk so it's ready when I shore fish. And besides forgetting to load it I left my fishing glasses and the weigh stick in the trunk too. And of course the camera! Unloading and loading the boat was pretty easy with 2 adults- one who didn't mind wading a bit. I'm hoping we can go out again next week and try to solve the puzzle of where are the big ones hiding. We tried deeper and we tossed up real shallow too but only one bass out of 31 was over 12". I tossed the jig some when the bite slowed down and got no takers. Tried a couple different styles and colors too.
      City: yoncalla

      Tips: The weather was perfect- misty at first and it stayed overcast and cloudy the whole time we were there. Normally this is custom made for my jig bite. Water temps were 63 to 65 degrees- perfect for the fish to be eating up for winter. With the shorter hours of daylight they gotta know winters coming and I'm sure the big ones if we could have located them would have been feeding too. We'll keep searching next trip and hopefully have an even better "Day to Remember"!!

  • Calaveras County, California
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      Water Temp: 66

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Good Job ART !!! Nice to hear you had a great day.Put a smile on my face....I like to use a norman suspending crank in craw pattern.Went out for a day of fun myself,NAILED EM....I just love the Red Eyed Meanies hitting my bait like a freight train ! Got a good number on top too.
      Gotta go early for good topwater..

      Tips: Snatch a kid off the street....and take em'fishing.

Friday, October 1st, 2010

  • Ventura County, California
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      Water Temp: 72

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Lake is still brutal, I talked to an employee that said they did not bluestone it but rather used peroxide. I had never heard of that before but he said that it was cheaper than bluestoneing. I guess they thought they needed they're new $60.000 patrol boat that never leaves the dock with the other 2 patrol boats and forgot they might need to bluestone. Sorry if it seems like a negative post but the fishing has been terrible and I call em like I see em.

      Rich
      City: Oak View

      Tips: find another lake

  • Lake County, California
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      Water Temp: 67-73

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Topwater has picked up for me and have been catching them on spooks,frogs and DDT buzzbaits.Jigs and the lv500 are also working Spinnerbaits around the silversides. Caught fish to 6 pounds on 9/30/2010
      City: Lakeport

      Tips: move around till you find fish willing to bite

  • California
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      Water Temp: 72-77

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: It's about to bust. Heat had the fish down a little deeper - magic depth was 20 to 30 feet. Deeper water near shallower water was ticket. Plastic bite was decent, topwater was great early and late for bigger fish. Brush hogs, worms, senkos all worked well. Weightless was better. Fish were so agressive after they were hooked, but the bites were gentle.
      City: Pacific Grove

      Tips: Watch your line. I missed a few not paying attention. OFten, you would see 'tick' in line but not feel anything. Catch - photo - release. Caught many 2-3 lb fish, one nice 5-1/2lb fish. Quality over quantity now unless you fish shallow...you'll catch dinks all day. Should bust wide open in another few weeks till early November or super cold nights.

  • Nevada County, California
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      Water Temp: 76

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: We got out late about 6:00 pm. Dan caught one early on and then it died for about 3 hours. About 9:00 it opened up and we caught about 15 fish mostly on cb's. a couple on shaky heads one on a spook. Only 1 small fish (2#).
      Three fish were right at #6 each, and we had a few #5 fish. Close to a 28 pound limit for the evening.
      City: auburn

      Tips: slow rolling a dark CB in skinny water seemed to work best tonight. Only 2 fish hit topwater tonight and one of those was a bluegill about 2 inches that hit a spook.

Thursday, September 30th, 2010

  • Lake County, California
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      Water Temp: 73/74

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Tons of Bait in the water we did manage a few to 3lbs and several large cats to 15lbs.Fished the rocky areas if you dragged mud ,you weren't catching them we worked depths of 10 to 25ft using wacky wt'd senkos drop shot and 1/2oz football jigs..but no frog or any topwater action
      good luck be safe
      City: Woodpile

Wednesday, September 29th, 2010

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

      Report: EPIC bass boiling on shad everywhere. Easy limits on small flukes. Lots of stripers to 15 pounds on the spoons or towater. Smallies mixed in. It is sic right now get out there NOW!!!

      Tips: Look for the fish flying out of the water all over the lake. Find shad find thousands of bass and stripers.

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

      Report: sounds like someone is jealous or just has no fishing skills-i too have been catching and RELEASING some hawgs.hit me up fat girls if you want to fish sometime.
      City: p-town

Tuesday, September 28th, 2010

  • Lake County, California
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      Water Temp: 70 -71

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I LOVE Blue Lakes ! NO-BUTT-HEADS! Relaxation!!!
      anywho, Fished hard for 3 bass HOT WEATHER has slowed the bite. THE LAKE IS TURNING OVER. The fishing is going to be really,really good. Soon. PLUS, ----> News is, Fish and Game is going stock trout one more time during the last week of October... Go get on the water !
      City: UKIAH

      Tips: Bass fishing in the Narrows area is best.. Slow draggin' a worm, brush hog or lizard will work fine. watch your line , sometimes you don't feel the bite. Also have caught fish crankin' and a white spinnerbait. GOOD LUCK

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

      Report: Funny fishing day landed 3 stripers all in sherman lake fishing shad during slack tide. Anchored in abour 6-8 feet. Got a 6 lb, 8lb, and 15lb released back for you to catch also. Just trying to figure out were they are going to be for the Rio Vista bass derby. Would love to see some posts of anybody regarding Stripers.
      City: antioch