Fishing Report
Saturday, September 11th, 2010
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Casitas Lake
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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: OjaiTips: 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.
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Clear Lake
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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: GlenhavenTips: Rocky points with sparse tules and wood.
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Del Valle Lake
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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 CityTips: Top water early then plastics in the weedlines shallow.
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Pine Flat Lake
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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.
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Friday, September 10th, 2010
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California Delta
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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: antiochTips: 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
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Nicasio Lake
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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
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Thursday, September 9th, 2010
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Clear Lake
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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 LakeTips: 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
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Wednesday, September 8th, 2010
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Clear Lake
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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 ParkTips: Was only on the boat for a few hours, but did best with blades.
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Tuesday, September 7th, 2010
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Bullards Bar Lake
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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.SacTips: Wait for the crowds to leave, then hit the main lake points.
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California Delta
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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 groveTips: 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: AntiochTips: Topwater before first light, then swimbaits outside the weedline.
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Coyote Lake
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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: MontereyTips: 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.
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Monday, September 6th, 2010
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Calero Reservoir
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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 GriveTips: 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.
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Oroville Lake
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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 CityTips: 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.
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Tenmile Lake
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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: yoncallaTips: 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!
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Sunday, September 5th, 2010
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California Delta
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Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)
Report: fished for about 4 hr in afternoon good bite fliping
City: oakdale caTips: big 10 inch worms
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Camp Far West Lake
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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: RocklinTips: after this weekend the lake will be good, try top water lures, Jigin slow...
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Oroville Lake
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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: DanvilleTips: Target rock piles at 20 feet. Easy bite. Oxblood with red flake
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Saturday, September 4th, 2010
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Eastman Lake
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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
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