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Tuesday, September 14th, 2010

  • Napa County, California
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      Water Temp: 76

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: One bite on a 6inch sxe shad robo! Fished around capell cove from 6 to 9 pm. My daughter had a huge hit on a hollow belly swim bait right at the 5mph floats didn't hook it tho! My daughter wanted to go fishing for her 5th birthday that is the best to be able to go fishing with your kids and have a great time teaching them all you know!
      City: 707

      Tips: Wait til all the ski boats go home or get there early!

  • Lake County, California
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      Water Temp: 72-76

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: I had the oppurtunity to guide a couple of great guys Tuesday evening. I thought I would pre-fish it during the day but ended up with motor problems to end the pre-fish. Good thing for Clear Lake you can fish almost any where and catch some nice bass. I pick the guys up at the dock at the north end of the lake at 6;30pm, put the trolling motor down, took out some spooks and senkos and focused on open holes in the matts. Didn't have to go very far befor the guys were nailing 3.5lb to 5 lb.ers. Nothing really big, but and evening full of bass that size for a couple a guys that just got off work was a great evening. All of the bass came on spooks, the senkos were to follow up on a missed strike.
      City: Paradise

  • California
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      Water Temp: Cool

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished in the panhandle for trout since they had their first plant about 5 days ago. Friend ended up catching a 15'' trout towards sunset and a small panfish mixed in with some little bass on a nightcrawler. Good sign for future plants if trout are already biting.
      City: Pleasanton

      Tips: Rainbow Powerbait

Monday, September 13th, 2010

  • Solano County, California
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      Water Temp: 71

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Luanched out of Holland Tract about 8am. Weather was overcast and calm My son Evan and I headed out to the main channel to the tules. Evan used a single colorado blade chartreuse spinnerbait while I tossed a ribbit frog in the tules and switched to a crankbait outside the weed line. I caught 1 while Evan caught 3 or 4, all small. Wind picked up and we fished the surface weeds Evan caught a few more dinks on a chartreuse buzzbait with one giant blowup that he missed. Ended the day about 1pm. Total, me 1, Evan 9 or 10. As usual it ended up the student teaching the teacher.
      Good Luck, Have Fun And Be Safe

      Tips: Boating safety tip.I have a plastic wire tie attached to the end of my kill switch line. When moving I loop the wire tie over my wrist. It won't interfere with your steering and it may just save your life.

  • California
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      Water Temp: 70s

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: to cjb- been getting fish cranking speed traps,rapala dt6's,strike king series 4,s,rapala jsr 05,s from 10 days ago ive been using a finese jig alot on the wood black and brown also pure black and avocado,also been throwin the spro aruka shad in magic shad color lately cranking should get better each day.good luck.
      City: rosa

      Tips: cranking has been spotty.ive been consistent with a jig got me 21.1 lbs for five fish week ago.no tule love deep water and wood. to mfb- which photo album would u like to see??oh yeah and my scale actually weighs a 10 lb weight a little under.plus i only lie about the ones that got away.

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: i have been there 2 times the past 2 months and i cought a 7 lber the 1st trip and a 5 the 2nd. there are definately been big fish caught out of there lately.

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: I think I LOVE FAT GIRLS needs new batteries in his scale. Lets see some of your photos!!

Sunday, September 12th, 2010

  • Solano County, California
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went fishing on the Delta the other day. It was probably one of the best days I ever fished on the Delta. Not a lot of big fish, just a lot of fun. It seemed like every bait I threw worked. Presented my bait at all levels and it didn't seem to matter, not sure where the fish were sitting, but they didn't care. Wind did kick up a bit towards the end of the day and it just helped me get back quicker. Thought it was kind of interesting while I was fishing one area that about 10 boats pulled up to this one spot, then fished a while and took off. Hmmm.....must be something going on there.
      City: Santa Rosa

      Tips: Stay focused, fish as many areas as you can and don't leave one fish behind. Fish deep, but don't rule out the top water.

  • California
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      Water Temp: 70.4

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Whats with the Pez??? Lake has been like OFF for the past three weeks. NADA ????
      Any offerings?
      City: SM

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

      Report: question for i love fat girls. what is it you have been using i have been coming here flipping the reeds and catch one big one every once in a while. i am looking for something new. i have been using sencos, brush hawgs, and rage claws. let me know and happy fishin'.
      City: sebastopol

  • Coos County, Oregon
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      Water Temp: cooling/droppin

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: This week was kinda different!On the 7th I took my 4 yr. old boy to the Umpqua River. There were a ton of fish jumping and we saw a bunch of nice 14-16" smallies swimming around. The weather was not good for us. It started sprinkling as we got there and rained hard about 20 minutes later. We headed home and had a fun time slippin' and slidin' across the rocks. On the 9th I fished Cottage Grove for about an hour and a half before work. Tried my ledge by Lakeside with a jig and a spinnerbait- no fish. Drove around to Shortridge Cove and tried there but again- no fish. On the 11th I only had a little time to fish before work so I tried the Delta Ponds. I spent a good 15 minutes just trying to figure out where to park. Tried the little parking area spot but all I did was annoy a nutria dragging a big leafy branch around. Water looks too shallow to even hold any decent fish. Parked down by the retirement place and walked across. A little more room to fish down there. Saw a fish break the surface- looked small. I spooked a decent fish as I walked down the bank. It was in about a foot of water and stirred up the bootom pretty good. A watermelon senko was all I tossed. Should have had a frog or buzzbait tied on too. And my 7 yr. old girl and I went to the Umpqua on the 12th. We were there about 3 hours (3:30-6:30PM). I had forgotten that a friend of mine told me to use 4" purple worms and fish them as close to the rocks as possible. It works! I took 2 rods this time so she could fish the whole time and so could I. We had a blast. She only wanted to use her little handline with the homemade lure to attract the fish and then my job was to catch them. I respooled her rod with some more supple 8 lb. line like the rod I was using. We saw at least 50 fish jump and crash back down within casting distance while we were there. Three or four were for sure salmon- we were looking right at 'em! Some were smallies and not all were real big. We ended up catching 4 on the worms with lots of bites. The biggest was about 10" and had a big fat belly- they're stocking up for winter. The other 3 were about 5-6". My girl actually lipped the 10" one so she could release it herself. She wanted to catch 5 fish before we left so I tied a firetiger baby Zara Spook on her Ugly Stick and started casting. Tried casting upstream first then as far across the river as I could sling it. No bites. I told her last cast and let it fly downstream right next to the rocks. About 5 seconds later a fish tugged the lure under. After a epic battle......just kidding. A 5 INCH smally bit the 3 1/2" dual trebled baby spook and stayed on long enough to be our fifth fish. Another fun day at the river!! Almost forgot the best part. Half hour after we got there a nice gal and her 3-4 year old boy walked up with their 4 dogs. My girl loves dogs and asked if she could go down and say Hi. I told her ask if it's okay before you get too close. She did and the gal said come on over. The dogs were 2 chocolate labs (Both so jacked up you could hardly pet 'em!), a big older black lab and a cute little black and white mutt that was the explorer of the group. He walked all the way down to where I was casting and then another 100 yards beyond me. The lady was tossing 2 orange foot long tubes for the labs to jump in and retrieve. The dogs were very competitive and would fight over who got the 2 tubes. Her boy would yell and point every time a fish would jump. It seemed like about every 30-45 seconds! I took a few pictures from where I was but it was looking upriver towards the sun and I doubt they turned out. My girl got to throw the floaties once and said she liked it. She stayed down there with them the whole 30-40 minutes they were there. Thank you nice lady and hope we will see you again. We'll pack a few puppy treats next trip just in case.
      City: yoncalla

      Tips: All in all a really fun week that demonstrates some of the great fishing opportunities we have living here in beautiful Oregon. It may sound greedy but I'd love to go spend a whole morning fishing that stretch of river with my buddy Carl or Jim or for that matter both. I'm sure we'd have some fun. And perhaps catch a few!

Saturday, September 11th, 2010

  • Napa County, California
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      Water Temp: 74-78

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I took myself to Berryessa yesterday for the late morning and afternoon bite - if there was one! I also did a lot of looking around to check out off-shore structure at the current lake level. Always be cautious when boating at high speed on the west side of the lake. Some of those long bars come out a long way!! The bite was horrible during the mid-day hours - hardly any shadows available during the day. A few small ones were biting. But not all was lost! At 3:30 in the afternoon, while drop-shotting a Basstrix flashtrix 4" "smelt" minnow, I hooked a fish that really gave me a tussle! She turned out to be a beautiful 4 lb Largemouth with some actual girth! What a surprise!! Also with that bait I landed a nice 16 inch+ spot. The Basstrix bait out-did itself when it lured a 7 lb fish to the hook - whiskers and all! That smelt minnow will attract anything! By about 4:30 pm the breeze completely died and what little bite there was died too. I left about 6 pm.
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: Bait balls with bass around them were hard to find. I thought the bait was widely scattered too. Still a bit early for the bass to round them up. The worm bite did not happen for me! Most action was about 30 to 50 feet.

  • Ventura County, California
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      Water Temp: 73

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: First out last in. Brutal. Reaction bite was gone in the morning and I tarried to long trying to force that issue for ZERO bites. Shoulda gone with a jig on drop offs and edges. Caught a few decent 3 pound dropshot fish on a flik shake in 15 feet around wood. Switched to a Norman deep little n and finished out the day with some nice 3 pound crank fish.
      City: Ojai

      Tips: The lake has been blue stoned twice in the past few weeks and the fishing is as usual when this takes place. The fish get grumpy when they bluestone and the lake will come around a little better with each passing day. The grebes are chasing the shad schools around so be alert as they sometimes push them from way offshore onto a point in just a few minutes and it can trigger action.

  • Lake County, California
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      Water Temp: 71-74

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went up to clear lake last weekend. Fished Sat and Sun morning. Real tough bite out there, but did manage to get one savage 8lb lunker on my trusty dropshot. Bass are chasing baitfish and there is such a HUGE supply that it's hard to get them to commit to anything else.
      City: Glenhaven

      Tips: Rocky points with sparse tules and wood.

  • Alameda County, California
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      Water Temp: 70

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished from 0800-1200. Caught and released 14 bass. Caught 2 on top water early and the rest on split shot worm and drop shot in 1-5 ft in weed lines and off points. Pretty steady bite. Biggest was 3lbs with a couple more in the 2.5lbs class. The rest were smaller fish.
      City: Foster City

      Tips: Top water early then plastics in the weedlines shallow.

  • California
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      Water Temp: 74

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Visalia Bass Tournament held on 9-11-10. Winner had over 11 lbs. A lot of small limits caught but getting a limit was not assured by any means. A 13" black bass was hard to come by for some teams. The fish could be caught almost anywhere and pretty shallow as well. This would be a great place to take the kids. They could catch a lot of small bass right now. I haven't fished a lake this year that allows you to catch more fish. I have fished a lot of lakes.

Friday, September 10th, 2010

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

      Report: Lauched out of Holland Tract 9:30 am. Leaving the marina I fished the tules with spinnerbaits and strike king lipless hardbaits in sexy shad. Caught 4, nothing big and 3 of them came unbuttoned at the boat. Definately not aggresive, The remainder of the morning was around a rock wall and used 7in. berkely power worms in red shad. Biggest fish went 3 lbs.
      9 fish total. Nothing to write home about but no one there knows how to read anyway. I go for the fun and I got just that.
      Good Luck All
      City: antioch

      Tips: Look for me in my 16ft. tracker and wave.

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Tom, Mostly tube around Discovery Bay (friend has house and dock out there), Holland Tract,and Italian Slough in the Delta. I tube the back lakes at Shadow Cliffs, or at least I did until they shut them down more than anywhere.con
      City: Pleasanton

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

      Report: Went out to the coast for Labor Day weekend. Saw a lot of cars park on the side of the road and a lot of people fishing. I think about trying out this lake for the first time. Can anyone give some info? I read you can't launch a boat but can you use a pontoon boat or a float tube or a kayak? Does anybody know any regulations on this lake? Thanks...tight lines.
      City: sactown

Thursday, September 9th, 2010

  • Lake County, California
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      Water Temp: 70-72

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: This last weeks fishing has been on and off again, we are still catching fish deep down south and some in the shallows up north. Average size has been strong fighting 3 to 4 1/2 pounders. A couple days I had a great frog bite going with fish up to 5 pounds.

      Caught fish on Frogs, Jigs, Hippo Tackle 5" Swim Baits, Cranks and Worms, with the best size fish eating the Frog.

      The cooler nights have cleaned up the algae and the lake is healthy with lots of baby bass and bait everywhere.
      City: Clear Lake

      Tips: Tips: Cover allot of water, when you find them, slow down and fish the area throughly. Try and develop a pattern and you may be able to run it all day.

      Have Fun !! .......... StevePerkinsFishing.com