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Wednesday, September 8th, 2010

  • Lake County, California
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      Water Temp: 74

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Got in a few hours each day 7th-9th. Last two days just fished off the dock, as my tilt/trim malfunctioned on the merc. Bite was off and on, but did better towards dusk than AM, except for one day: I woke up at 4AM on the 8th to the sound of rain on the water...1/2 the cove was BOILING with silversides, and lots of bass smacking them. Saw several injured minnows swimming in circles around the dock, it was just a slaughter. Tried to match the hatch with a 78 pointer, but it was lost in the crowd. Did get one 3# on a chartreuse blade at 6AM, but the fish had gorged and were taking a siesta all day. It was a pretty awesome sight. Did just okay the rest of the time, a few more on blades, one on a king shad, a few on T-rigged jelly worms. Threw spooks and sammy's at dusk, but nada. With all the baitfish, I threw mostly reaction baits, as my results with jigs and worms wasn't great. I think the one's that picked up the jelly worms were looking for dead bait falling to the bottom. Nothing bigger than 4#.
      City: Clearlake Park

      Tips: Was only on the boat for a few hours, but did best with blades.

Tuesday, September 7th, 2010

  • Yuba County, California
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      Water Temp: 76

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Too many recreational boats. Still all in all a fun day. Ended up catching 4 iddy biddy bass.
      City: W.Sac

      Tips: Wait for the crowds to leave, then hit the main lake points.

  • Solano County, California
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      Water Temp: 70

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Took pop out fishing from 4-8pm n found bass right away. Caught them on swimbait, plastic worm, buzz, drop shot, and frog. Some where in fallen trees but most where in front or behind weed beds. They look heatlhy as heck, fat n nice looking. Froggie caught all the biggy.
      City: elk grove

      Tips: nothing on spinner(kinda wierd cuz around tree it's alwyz a killa for me) and nothing on crank. MOst fish were in shade pocket n when sun is low..froggie got the most hits, 4 hits on one spot but was able to set hook on two..boy did they ever wanted the frog. Hit froggie 1 foot in the air n swallow it...soo sick. Got pop laughing on the backseat.. Fishing with pop n make him laugh=priceless !!

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Hey hitchhiker...where do you float tube? My buddy and I tube all over the delta. Got some awesome spots that have turned off recently. All I can find now are smaller bass to about 4 pounds and stripers. Fished Italian slough for 2 hours...only managed 8 stripers to 21". No bass, but the stripers slaughtered swimbaits and vixon's.
      City: Antioch

      Tips: Topwater before first light, then swimbaits outside the weedline.

  • California
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      Water Temp: 73-83

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Lots of dinks (9), biggest 2#. The lure-de-jour was a Texas-Rigged straight tail worm in watermelon candy.

      Couldn't get a reaction bite with cranks or buzz-bait in the morning. Guess the fish don't read Ba$$Master magazine.

      Spoke with the inspector at the end of the day who said they are talking about closeing the lake for the season on Oct 15.
      City: Monterey

      Tips: Please practice Catch-Photo-Release for the future health of our sport. That Japanese guy killed his world record for what? Its gathering dust in his room and now he is trying to sell it. Hah!. A replica would have been just as good.

Monday, September 6th, 2010

  • Santa Clara County, California
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      Water Temp: 70-72

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Lake is in Great shape. 2nd voyage of my new Red G3 Bass boat (love a boat that starts every time!) I was surprised with water temp this time of year at 70-72. I expected warmer. Anyway, bass were definately deep. Find them deep off points and structure, catch fish. Caught some absolutely horse crappie on drop shot rig, started free floating a mini jig while bassin' and caught a dozen more. Nice, big 1lb crappie. No dinks on the crappie front. Bass bite was decent on drop shotting small baits. I caught fish using gulp minnows and chartreuse power bait stick minnows, 4 inch robo worms and a couple on salt and pepper grubs. Lots of shad moving around... saw numerous shad being chased by bass... once in a while you would see a couple shad darting around near the boat - clearly being chased by bass or crappie. The fall bite is rapidly approaching.
      City: Pacific Grive

      Tips: Fish slow and fish deep. No reaction bite at all. Spinners, cranks, jerks = nada. Slow presentation worms and grubs got bites. Bites were a mix of pounding it and gently ticking it. Bigger fish were ticking, smaller fish beating the sh*t out of it. Best 5 went 15lbs. We caught a total of 14. Be gentile with those big bass. 1/3 of the fish had real jacked up jaws where people are not being cool with hook removal and release. 'enuff said.

  • Butte County, California
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      Water Temp: 74-78

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I guided 2 great guys yesterday for about 7 hrs - teaching them some good areas to fish and techniques that we use at Oroville. This was their first visit to this wonderful lake. You wouldn't know it was Labor Day weekend - until about 9 am! Then I taught them how to dodge wake-board boats, har!!! They mostly wanted to drop-shot Robo worms and they did catch several - one close to 15 inches. We fished the middle and south forks. I made the catch of the day - a 4 inch largemouth on a 3/4 oz Duh! spoon - in 20 feet of water. Yes, he/she are it!! They caught some as shallow as 10 feet - probably because there seemed to be an algae bloom in some areas, along with mud lines. Not a wait at all taking the Ranger out at the dam at 2 pm!
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: Can't say much that isn't already known - the lake is dropping fast and most fish are off-shore. One will have to hunt for quality bass for another month - then things should get better.

  • Coos County, Oregon
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      Water Temp: cooling/droppin

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Got a couple decent bass out of Cottage Grove Lake last week. On the 3rd I got a 3.14-19" on the jig/beaver on a little west shore ledge. On the 1st I got a 3.11-19" also on the jig but over by the mouth of Shortridge Cove. I havn't got a ton of fish from that side but they're usually good ones. Lost 2 swimbaits in one morning- not good! With the water dropping as fast as it is I may be able to recover one or both sometime next week. I subtly marked the spots. Yesterday I took my 7 yr. old daughter for our annual Umpqua river trip. We had a blast and actually caught some bass this trip. Started small and actually downsized all the way to 1" tubes. We got 4 smallmouth that totalled may have been 18"! They were about 4-5" each. My girl built a small dam- gathered rocks for over an hour- so she could watch 'em swim around before releasing them. Every time we put one in her little "pen" they'd disappear immediately. We tried to see how and where they got out but couldn't find a gap bigger than about 3/4". The weather was perfect- about 70 and windy. Had about 5 or 6 drift boats go by the first hour we were there and a raft or two. My girl also found a chunk of line with a snap swivel on it. She took a chunk of grass and a couple pistacio shells and stuck 'em on the open swivel. Her little homemade lure actually coaxed not one but 2 14-15" smalleys out from the rock we were fishing to have a look. I told her I'd tie her on a real hook or better yet she come and grab her Ugly stick and use it. She said "No thanks Dad- I'm having too much fun with this!" She found a small stick and saved her handline for next trip.
      City: yoncalla

      Tips: Take your kids fishing anywhere before the weather's so crappy you can't. And stock up on the small (1"-2") tubes and jig heads to go with them. Red and white was our best color. We gave a couple to the father and son fishing next to us and the bite was just turning on again as we headed for home! Next year the boy turns 5 and he's already asking if he can "Go to the river". He'll be wearing a life jacket if we do 'cause he's crazy for the water!! I'm sure we'll have fun!

Sunday, September 5th, 2010

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

      Report: fished for about 4 hr in afternoon good bite fliping
      City: oakdale ca

      Tips: big 10 inch worms

  • California
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      Water Temp: 76

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Weekend of campers, boaters etc... But get there early and stay in the main body, spoonin (cast masters) in 20-50 ft. Darter head, jigs and drop shot was our baits. Get off the water before you get ran over.
      City: Rocklin

      Tips: after this weekend the lake will be good, try top water lures, Jigin slow...

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

      Report: Spent less than an hour fising this past weekend while boating with the family. Pretty easy bite on drop shot at about 20 feet.
      City: Danville

      Tips: Target rock piles at 20 feet. Easy bite. Oxblood with red flake

Saturday, September 4th, 2010

  • California
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      Water Temp: 77.8 to 80.1

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: We hit the lake a 5 am saturday morning out off the edge of the third ramp east side of the lake i caught two nice bass on jigs but both come unbutton right at the boat when they broke water and after that i stunk the place up my partner didnt do much better he landed 3 small dinks on jigs we fished several area but with no luck.The traffic was very light till about 10:30am when we loaded up.
      City: madera ca.

      Tips: The bass are there dont get me wrong i guess my heart wasnt in it saturday. jigs 1/8 or 1/4 oz in green pumpkin barb wire Yamamoto trailers 208/watermelon red/blk flake 4" twil tail grubs
      Baby brushogs/watermelon red/blk flake will also will work The bite was light for us fish slow waters stable and there some cool weather on the way middle of next week. Sorry for a slow report but it wasnt there for us this past saturday. Will hit it again soon hopefully with some better luck

Friday, September 3rd, 2010

  • Ventura County, California
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      Water Temp: 75

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Sorry guys my figer was to quick on the hook set. I did get senko fish by the launch ramp. I took a Big Minda Spear worm and threw it texas style to get the big 9.8 bass. did get some smaller one today on senkos. I had senkos on the brain. chief
      City: Camarillo

      Tips: proof read your reports lol

Thursday, September 2nd, 2010

  • Ventura County, California
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      Water Temp: 75

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the last two days at Casitas and the topwater bite is okay.Been getting them on a mixed bag on sammies and a Deps buzz bait. I picked up a senko and threw out by the launch ramps and nailed a 9.8 pound bass.
      City: Camarillo

      Tips: Throw out and change up often and move around the shad and around but in small schools. good luck, Chief

  • Josephine County, Oregon
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      Water Temp: warm

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: think what you will just dont think it on the reports page, it is funny that you think selmac is a bad lake not only that you think its a turd witch i find absolutely absurd. I will be the first to say Selmac is EASILY without a doubt, no room for argument one of the best if not THE best bass fishery in southern oregon. sure its pressured and could use just a bit of management but its better than the other local lakes by a longshot, why you cant catch fish there is unclear to me i have got numerous over 5-lb largemouth out of there this year so far and more to come. sure it gets tough but where doesnt i got 2nd at the last howard tourny with 5.-- lbs the only person to get a limit both days to top it off, its the instant cold snap turning them off;......but as i said earlier think what you want, im glad to hear the "bad" news. selmac is a killer lake i love it and hope it doesnt end up like out other lakes.--- but in this report there will actually be up to date experience, fished selmac last week got a lot of fish not much overall size got a 2.5 on a swimbait early and a few more to follow it was very windy that day and got fish on all sorts of baits from senkos to swimbaits, on top of that all summer this lake has produced time and time again big bass ever since late march.
      City: central point

      Tips: some may not like it i say good i let the days on the water speak for themselves a 5 fish 1 man 23-lb post spawn limit at a supposed "TURD" lake,LOL....lets end it and get to more on the water experience,as far as im concerned toho etc... should not EVER be brought up in an oregon forum let alone compared to a local ORE, lake you have got to be kidding me- dont mean to go on a rant but c'mon

Wednesday, September 1st, 2010

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

      Report: Martin, Thank you. I will get an email to you today or tomorrow at the latest. Appreciate it!
      City: Dublin

Tuesday, August 31st, 2010

  • Solano County, California
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      Water Temp: 70

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: At it again early this am. Caught 5 shaker stripers before landing one with some size (7#). Put away the topwater and went with a Senko Blck/blue and landed 3 large mouth including the biggest I have ever caught (8#). Nice morning out! Float tube. Off the water by 10.
      City: Dublin

      Tips: Enjoy...be careful and watch for us poor guys in float tubes.

Monday, August 30th, 2010

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

      Report: This is to Hicthiker, if you want to go out on a small boat contact me. I have a 16ft boat. always looking for partners. MWitter@sbcglobal.net
      City: Sacramento

  • Josephine County, Oregon
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      Water Temp: -

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: nice fishing reports!!!!, its for reporting your catches not for conversation.florida out of all places, Selmac is one of the BEST places to fish in southern oregon when i hear its a "turd" i just laugh. im not gonna disagree on pressure and the idiots taking fish...."You guys are watching too many bass fishing shows on Versas and trying to live that life here in Oregon" who are you referring to i was the last post in october of '09."And oh yea, i let them all go including the 9 pounder" no big bass in oregon, dont worry i let go the 8.1,7,6.5, and multiple 5's this year.......think what you want selmacs if selmacs a turd in your opinion think that way more fish for the rest of us to catch!- selmacs a good lake it can produce good fish every trip if fished right, if this lake is more carefully managed for the future it will stay that way. the pressure is high now i agree but selmac is worlds away form a "turd".
      City: central point

      Tips: :)

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      Water Temp: -

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: nice fishing reports!!!!, its for reporting your catches not for conversation.florida out of all places, Selmac is one of the BEST places to fish in southern oregon when i hear its a "turd" i just laugh. im not gonna disagree on pressure and the idiots taking fish...."You guys are watching too many bass fishing shows on Versas and trying to live that life here in Oregon" who are you referring to i was the last post in october of '09."And oh yea, i let them all go including the 9 pounder" no big bass in oregon, dont worry i let go the 8.1,7,6.5, and multiple 5's this year.......think what you want selmacs if selmacs a turd in your opinion think that way more fish for the rest of us to catch!- selmacs a good lake it can produce good fish every trip if fished right, if this lake is more carefully managed for the future it will stay that way. the pressure is high now i agree but selmac is worlds away form a "turd".
      City: central point

      Tips: :)