Fishing Report

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Saturday, June 19th, 2010

  • Butte County, California
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      Water Temp: 69-73

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I think summer has finally hit Lake Oroville! Lots of small bass 9 to 12 inches starting to show. I guided a couple of great people yesterday morning - a guy and gal who wanted to learn more about bass fishing, not having been too successful on their previous trips. Learn they did - and catch they did too!! As we started out from the dam, I made a sudden turn to the left to a spot that now looked good with the higher water. I love instinctive impulses - when they work! His first bass on a green craw Robo worm was a 16 1/2" spot. Nice! We continued to work the main body during rather tough conditions - clear water and no breeze, catching a few in shadows! We moved to the middle fork as the breeze - then wind- picked up - and so did the bite. I was so happy for the nice lady - she landed 3 bass and lost several. She was excited! He did very well with 8 or so in the boat. I tried to keep up with the best color "of the hour" - switching Robo colors for them as conditions changed. I caught 12 or 13 also, including 2 barely over the slot. I was happy for the very willing bass - I know my clients had lots of fun and said they learned a lot.
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: At 76% capacity. Lake Oroville it starting to look like her 'ol self - until you get next to the bank and look up. Still a ways to go! I worked with them on split-shotting techniques to get them going, then I tried to see if drop-shotting was happening. It was!! Retied their rigs for dropshotting and that was the answer for the morning. Lots of action. It was interesting to me that there was no surface action what-so-ever until one fished rolled at 11 am. No bird action - just quiet out there. Out action came on hard-pan banks at about the 10 to 30 foot depth. Morning Dawn w/chartreuse tail was again good along with green pumpkin and Aaron's Magic w/ R&B flake.

  • Monterey County, California
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      Water Temp: 70

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished for largemouth, but seemed as though they had lock jaw. Smallies were biting good. Caught 6 on Saturday with the largest being 4.2 lbs.
      City: Salinas, CA

      Tips: Fish slow.

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

      Report: heading up to triniy for the first time anyone have advice on patterns, where the fish r and what they r doing? going this upcoming week. thanks
      City: castro valley

Friday, June 18th, 2010

  • Napa County, California
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      Water Temp: 71-74

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: My last couple of trips up here, have been not as successful as usual for this time of the year, so my buddy, hOOver felt sorry for me and took me to fish his hot spots. His last 2 trips he caught 20 and 35 fish respectfully. Nothing over 2, but that's fine with me. We launched up at Putah Creek and fish the Creek for most of the day. We hit all of his "hot" spots and didn't do well. It was weird, as we saw only 1 bass boat and didn't boat many more fish than that.
      We fished from 8 - 3 and boated 6 fish and had less than 10 bites. Our few fish came shallow and scattered and all on plastics. We threw jerks, blades and topwater with zero bites. Usually this time of the year, it's usually easy, but this day was anything but that. We marked fish in the 15-20' range, but couldn't get bite fishing deep. Went over to the east side and there were also no boats there, but there were dead carp floating around.
      Nice day to fish with a friend and to have a few cold ones, but the fish didn't want to play. If anyone is having better luck with this off year, I'd appreciate your comments....
      City: orinda

      Tips: Probably my next trip there will be to try the narrows and fish the rocky points. Good company, a good lunch and a few cold ones still make it a good day.

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      Water Temp: 75-79

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: We fished the Narrows from 4 pm until 8 pm. What a disappointment. We only caught a hand full on 4" shad worms (dropshot & shaky head). At least the fish were bigger than average. We caught our fish about 15-20 feet deep. We had a nice breeze and stained water on a lot of the points. We cranked and jerkbaits on and off while the sun was up and for 1 hour when sun was down. We did not get one bite. We should have fished the morning, but because I worked swings, it is tough getting up. I think the fish are going deeper and the fish are in transition. The lake is turning over....and to top it all off - too many wake boards/jetskier even though it was Thurs...
      City: Elk Grove

      Tips: None. I quitting until the fall...

  • Sacramento County, California
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      Water Temp: 68

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Consentrated on 15-20' depth, and then moved up and back. Could not find em. Two fish all day, one SM and one spot --nice 3 1/2 lber but beat up looking. So much water in the lake that it is hard to find my spots because they are so deep now. The peninsula is gone! Tried frog, worms and senko. Wind blew good all day. Sure is pretty tho with all that water and no bathtub ring shoreline.
      City: Folsom

      Tips: wish I had some!

  • Shasta County, California
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      Water Temp: 68-70+

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Started out of Centimudi and fished up to Digger Bay, fish were deep only got about 10, mainly on green and reddish worms, 4" greenpumkin senko's did will also. Head over to Dry Creek area, got one over 3lbs. got another 20+ agin all but 3 were over 12". Fish were mainly 15+ deep, only shallow fish were in mud lines. Biggest surprise was, 90% of fish were smallmouths. Saturday went out of Jones Valley, weather was cooler at first and light wind, took awhile but the bite stared, Greenpumkin 4" senkos, and green and reddish 4" worms, had to stay in the 15+ range and secondary points did well. Baby Bass color did will also, Only 1 smallmouth, other 20 plus spots over 12 and up to 17". Two good days, Boat traffic picked up when the weather got warmer, good thing was it made mud lines, which made a good area to fish.
      City: Redding

      Tips: Had to keep trying different colors but once you find the combo, it worked alday. Had to stay in the 15+ foot depth, or shallower in mud lines.

  • Coos County, Oregon
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      Water Temp: 62-65

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Had another nice day at Tenmile. This time my 7 year old daughter went with me. Got on the water at about 9AM. About an hour in we got a nice chunky 2 pounder on a black/blue jig with a chunk trailer. This was way up shallow near a bush. Tossed in- lifted a bit and it was there. She was laughing like crazy 'cause the fish shook the jig and was flopping all over the floor. She fished for about 10 minutes and then went back to playing with the night crawlers. By the end of the day she was actually holding them without a glove! We decided to switch up our lures. She wanted to try a frog and I went with a brown jig with a green beaver. I put a bluegill colored tube on a dropshot on the 3rd rod just in case we saw a nest guarder. Dead for a couple hours- we saw some bass fry around some christmas trees near a dock. She wanted to net the fry- with the bass net. Told her it wouldn't work AND the game warden might get us. She stopped. Put on a spinnerbait about 1 PM and started tossing along a shoreline that had wind howling into it, sparse tules and some fairly thick pads in the back end. About 8 casts in a 3 1/2 pound bass whacked it. My girl netted it and took a couple quick photos then we tossed her back in. The wind had blown us almost to the back of the cove- had to put the troller on 5 with the wind to get us out of there. Love that new battery I got about 3 months ago! We decided to find one more spot with a little less wind. She wanted to toss her frog some more. We pulled into a medium sized cove and then into a bit smaller one from there. Looked a lot like where we were fishing previously. Sparse tules, some pads and a still pretty strong breeze blowing. She was working the frog and I was tossing the spinnerbait. Tossed it up into a shade pocket under a tree and wham- another hard bite. She grabbed the net and the 2.7, 17 1/2" bass was in the boat. It ruined that spinnerbait! Almost no skirt left and bent up like crazy. The bass had a wierd looking wound just in front of the tail along the back. Looked like a bird or something took a bite out of it. Just a little u shaped chunk gone. My daughter wanted to get a photo with it but didn't want to get bloody. Too bad we forgot the fish bandaids! I told her I'd tie the same bait I was using on her Ugly Stick but she said "You go ahead I gotta keep the nightcrawlers busy". We fished 'till about 3 and headed back to the dock. She wisely decided to put on some more clothes before the windy ride back to the dock. She was barefoot with shorts and a t shirt for the last hour or two. She liked the cool wind and the warm sun. I had on a light jacket all day and didn't take it off until we hit the dock at the end of the day. At times it looked like it could rain any minute and sometimes it looked like a perfect summer day. The constant was the wind- it was blowing the whole time we were fishing. Should have tied on 3 spinnerbaits to start.
      City: yoncalla

      Tips: Don't throw a spinnerbait for 2 hours straight with a flippin' stick. I reel lefty and my right forearm was all pumped up. Wind couldn't have helped although you could make some super long casts- 1/2 ounce x 7'6" rod= 5 seconds of air time! Colorado blades with the water so stained. Get to the lake NOW!!!!!!!!

Thursday, June 17th, 2010

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

      Report: Went out with my brother around 1630. We went over by the arms next to the marina. We were throwing crawdads with a bullet weight. My brother caught two on the crawdad with the biggest around two ponds. Very windy day, really worked the trolling motor to stay were the fish were. Was only out there for about two hours. Too windy.
      City: red bluff

      Tips: Crawdads worked well. Black with green claws. Missed a few fish

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

      Report: Went out to Delta couple days ago fish around Orwood and Holland. Caught couple small frog fish and had some blow ups. Tried disco bay with no result at all. 5.5lb was the biggest of the day I caught, the fish was hiding in the tullies. Overall still pretty slow for everybody else.
      City: Fremont

      Tips: No Tip. Junk fishing is the key!

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      Water Temp: 71

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished south delta all day, started on tulie island south end of woodward with no takers. Moved back to entrance of woodward fished our way in, my buddy caught one and i snapped one off on the hookset. We jumped around the tulie islands in the area with just one bite on a jig wich i lost because i didnt check my drag, didnt bury the hook on the set. We moved further south to Coney island, last two hours of out going tide my buddy gets on a good buzz bait bite while i was throwing a frog, i had two good blow ups on the outside edge of weed/cheese matts before i lost my frog up on the rocks, then tied on a buzzbait and helped my buddy out with that bite. We got 6 fish on the buzz bait and missed 6 others, best 5 going 13lbs.
      City: Modesto

      Tips: All fish came off tulie/rock banks, the buzzbait fish were holding on tulie clumps outside the weed/cheese matts.

Wednesday, June 16th, 2010

  • Yuba County, California
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      Water Temp: 70

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Great fising trip with my 25 year old son today. 20-30 fish between us today. Several over 3 pounds with the biggest pushing 4, caught by son on a 6" Junebug lizard on a 1/16 ounce weighted hook. Downsized tubes also pulled out several nice sized fish.
      City: Reno

      Tips: Remember to watch your line. You don't always feel the bite. If you feel anything, "Set the hook, and ask questions later".

  • California
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      Water Temp: 67.4

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: A trip to the pez with my good neighbor fishin buddy. Hiot Whittenberg with a big NADA.. Stopped at Sand point with same results. Headed to the back bu the last dock and started to finally hit in 4-6 foot range off the banks. Partner scored a decent 3+ and a few dinks, I finally pegged a decent 17 incher on a Pumpkin colored jig then busted another good 3+ on the opposite bank on the same setup. Slowed so we headed in about 10:30ish. A good day but pretty slow on the bite.
      City: SM

      Tips: Watermelon Pump black flake Hula grubs, Pumpkin Jigs seem to get most fish.

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

      Report: Hey Don P, thanks for the info, we spent a great four days at the lake and cought in the dozens of fish, the second night was the best senkos did ok but the real bite came from dark red and dark blue tubes. The bit was on from before sundown untile the sun came up the next morning. And yea we released them all. Thanks again. And by the way the most active area for this trip came from going past the green bridge, hooking a hard left and down about a mile or so around the corner.

Tuesday, June 15th, 2010

  • Plumas County, California
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      Water Temp: 69

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: The year of family and PBK ( aka ) Phoebee. Pbk hammered them. Me not so well. Awesome weather great fishery
      City: Mountain View

      Tips: Claim to fame schooled Pete Howell( PBK K one night on rock wall throwin favorite jig and rip bait. He is one of californias best so it made me proud.

  • Solano County, California
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      Water Temp: 63-68

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: fished out of B&W Area and fishing was slow
      Caught a small limit using chatterbaits and dropshots.mainly trying stay out of that Wind again.The only pattern that was consistant was the fish were all holding at least 10ft of water on outside weedlines and the tide was outgoing most of the day.
      Good luck,be safe
      City: Woodpile

Monday, June 14th, 2010

  • Ventura County, California
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      Water Temp: IDK

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Ya threw the swimbait for nad, then we switched to a senko. Hammerd two 5 pounders back to back castas, then some more small fish from 3- 2 lbs.
      Ya the fish are in 10 to 20 feet ow water.
      City: ventura california

  • Tuolumne County, California
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      Water Temp: 70s

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: awesome day out on the kayak. caught 15 fish from between 6am and 1pm. biggest was almost 3 lbs. caught them on pretty much everything but the kitchen sink. guy about the float tube, go to the free launch ramp and just go up and down both sides of the bank. good luck!
      City: modesto

      Tips: throw it all, try everything u got

  • Calaveras County, California
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      Water Temp: 70

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Hit the lake for summer vacation with my sons who are 8 n 10.These boys can catch FISH!We started off just messin' around catching bluegill and low and behold...the dock right at the KIVA was LOADED with crappie.My 8 yr old caught 68 in 3 hours.We moved to another cove and found the spot.I caught 75 in no time at all!My 10 yr old got over 55 but stopped counting after he saw the GIANT largemouth that were spawning right in the crappie hole.WOW it was cool.NO boat traffic...lots of fish.Priceless!!
      City: Hayward

      Tips: Hey Art,you want smallies?Try a craw colored crankbait on the absent bank across from the hotel...Its a cant miss.Good luck buddy!
      Take a kid fishing!

Sunday, June 13th, 2010

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

      Report: No big fish to report. Summer is here. Fished Franks and lil Franks, plenty of dinks on senkos. couple of blow-ups on frog. Fished main river, two follow swim baits and two strikes on swim jigs and again, dinks on senkos. Nothing on spinnerbaits or buzz. Fished rip raps with tulles.

      Tips: Fish were all tight in tulles.