Fishing Report
Tuesday, October 14th, 2008
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Folsom Lake
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Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)
Report: Not a report, just a response to Martin on the boat ramps; my big brother told me that Granite Bay is down at it's lowest point and it's one boat at a time.
City: folsom -
Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)
Report: Fished Split Shot plastic 15 to 20 Ft. Had a Poor Day.
I know Brown's Ravine ramp is open, but can anyone tell me if Granite Bay's ramp is open?
Thanks in advance
City: Carmichael
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Shasta Lake
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Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)
Report: Fished pit arm, caught over 40 keeper bass on the new brown jig I blought at phills. Its called pit river craw. My biggest fish was over 3 lbs. I've never caught so many fish on a jig before.
City: shasta lakeTips: The eyes in the jig glow.
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Monday, October 13th, 2008
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Amador Lake
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Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)
Report: Top Water Bite was on!! got at the lake at 6am (Had to wait a bit longer for someone to open the gate) and fished the rest of the day till about dark. Threw Spooks ALL day. That was the only lure i used. Lost a fish early on at the point nea the docks, the fish still has my Bleeding Shad Super Spook, so someone might end up with a nice lure soon!! Spooks in Baby Bass, Frog, and just about any other pattern worked for us. we fished just about all the Arms. The Carson (I think the name of it is) seemed to produce the most fish. Fish were all very shallow. There is a lot of trees sticking up as well to throw the spook around. Caught a lot of fish, all throughout the day. most fish were over 3lbs and also caught quite a few 4 pound fish and a couple fish that went about 5 pounds.
City: LincolnTips: Super Spooks, most of the fish were goin for the bigger Spooks. Cast as close to shore, let the Spook sit for a bit, start working it and wait for the blow-up!
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Anderson Lake
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Water Temp: 70
Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)
Report: Ed and I get to the lake just as the gates open at 8am. While driving down the boat ramp, we noticed the five foot decrees from where the water line was a few weeks ago. Let me tell you, the water level was not the only thing that changed. The fish were behaving completely different compared to my recent trips. In spite of the warm weather, most of the grass has vanished. As a result of the grass dying off, the bass have really started to scatter. Points, coves, main lake, or the ends of the lake, wherever we went we picked up a few. The key right now is to find the bait that is balled up, whether that is in 5 or 50 feet.
The first two hours we moved fast and threw reaction baits, such as topwater, crankbaits, and ripbaits. Only catching a few small fish, we soon realized we needed to slow down. Using a 3 inch senko on a drop-shot Ed caught several fish, including one just under 5lbs and one just over 3lbs. At 5pm, before we headed in, we came across a school of bass busting bait. Casting poppers to the shaded main lake point we caught a few more, leaving the days total at around 20 bass.
City: San BrunoTips: <a href="http://www.russnyders.com/">Rus Snyders Guide Service</a>
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Sonoma Lake
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Water Temp: 66
Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)
Report: Well since i have been a 10 yr + berth holder ,I try to go camping @ least twice a year..usually start back by yorty work way up as water drop's...This time of year especially with water level's..so we camped @ WARM SPRING'S...60 ft to water @ least...First night 3 fish ...all caught on minnow's...by the way don't even waste your time or $ @ dry creek store buying minnow's they die??..alway's small..go to Petalume Sport & Dive... truck them up with a aerator...we were there from monday 10/13 thru friday 10/17...second day trolled with everything all depht's all area's..nothing every one i talked too same story...so i said it's worm time on bottom lot's of sunfish ...one small bass ....back to camp finally found crappie...4 ft off shore by some old bush's...all on minnow's...one squaw fish less in lake...third day throw topwater's early 6 to 9...nothing to brag about got 4 all small..bass..how-ever that night got a nice cat-channel about 12 lb's..wife had fun landind it..fourth day decided to get brave & run down to yorty...be careful lot's of timber 3 to 4 inch's under water..caught one nice trout trolling on top about 100 yrd's behind boat with #5 rapala broken back..
City: San RafaelTips: lake is getting ready to pop..seem's like bite is early @ on top..if your camping on warm spring's arm beware of boar's...
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Sunday, October 12th, 2008
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Berryessa Lake
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Water Temp: 64-67
Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)
Report: Wind made it impossible for me to get out of Capell cove and made it difficult to control the boat with my whimpy 12 volt trolling motor. But hey its better than sitting at home watching football! Did manage a 6 pound catfish on a jig and two 2 lb bass on a sexy shad.
City: SonomaTips: If the wind stays around, know you not going to get too far if you launch @ Capell, Waves were 4 foot easy. And a 12 volt trolling motor is no match for those 30+ mph winds.
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California Delta
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Water Temp: 56-60
Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)
Report: Fished yesterday at the Delta only to find the fishing was tough!! The NCCC was won with a combined weight from SIX two man teams of (23/30 fish) for 48.9 lbs. The second Place team had (23/30 fish) for 48.6 lbs. The weight for this event is usually double that. A lot of teams without limits and the the wind never stopped blowing. The water temp dropped to 56 degrees at Russo's at blast off and warmed only to 58 degrees by weigh-in.
Tips: Stay home!!!!
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Clear Lake
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Water Temp: 67
Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)
Report: I was up at Rodman last weekend and ran into the county workers hooking the carp from the shore line. I asked what was going on with the die off. They said it had something to do with the vegatation dieing off and the lack of oxygen and the fish not getting any. Other than that the fishing was really bad. I caught 7 all day on a jerk bait. The biggest went a wopping 6 inches. What a bad day.
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Water Temp: high 64 low 52
Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)
Report: Hello all, Well we just back from 3 days of clear lake and it was BRUTAL!! we threw everything and got a total of 4 fish in the boat!....little ones at that. I really don't know what is up with Clear lake this year. On top of that the smell of the rotting carp was at times tough to take. Maybe that has something to do with it, has anyone heard what has caused the die off? the only good news was we laughed alot and made fun of each other for sucking so bad at fishing. Even the tournament guys had very little action.
City: martinez, ca.Tips: Keep Laughing when all else fails
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Contra Loma Lake
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Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)
Report: catching small fish all day probably about 25- 10 inchers on senko and red eye shad. also caught a 1 3/4 lb bass on a swim senko that fish folled it all the way to the shore i only had like 3 feet of line to set the hook.
City: THA PTips: swim senkos, reel slowwwwwly. and red eye shad lipless cranks reel on top off submerged weeds and rip it over them kind of yo-yo style.
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Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)
Report: All I can say about today is WOW. Went ot at 6 am and in the first 20 minutes, I landed a 4, 2.5, and a 9....yes a 9! These 3 fish hit a Lunker Punker. The rest of the fish got progressively smaller. Off the water at 11:30...Great Day!
City: Antioch
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Silverwood Lake
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Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)
Report: Got to the lake about 8:00 am went to the dam and caught 3 bass about 2 to 3 lbs and 5 Stripers about 7 to 12lbs.All on Yum Bill Dance Sweet Cheeks Swimbait GOLD BLACK and PEARL /CHARTREUSE 5-1/2"6/0 HOOK1/2 OZ
City: San BernardinoTips: Swim it fast. The faster the better.
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Trinity Lake
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Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)
Report: Cedar Stock Resort is in, try that place
City: Weaverville
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Saturday, October 11th, 2008
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California Delta
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Water Temp: na
Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)
Report: launched out of new hope fished the mokulemme slow for the first couple hours then thee spinnerbait bite turned on caught a lot of smallmouth up to 3 or 4 pounds almost all keepers on spinnerbaits chatterbaits crankbaits jerkbaits and shakeyheads
City: sacramentoTips: fish your plastics very slow or drag a grud or robo slow but burn the spinnerbait close to the surface most of the time you can see the fish come up for it medium retreive the crankbait swim it past secluded weed patches 4-5 foot diving bait is probably your best bet
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Don Pedro Lake
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Water Temp: 69.0
Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)
Report: Started in cannon area near flume, Vry windy,no reaction bite at first,started throwing jigs,2nd cast 3lbr off lrg bolder point in 20ft water.Rest of the day bouncing lrg bolder points only average 1to2 lb fish. Spnrbait fish tight to cvr on bank in afternoon,no size to speakoff for us. Watched FPT Tourn weigh in,Awesome job done by TD and Staff,Great raffle,Top Anglers did a great job on windy day.
City: MercedTips: For us brn/purple,grn punk/jigs,20ft shad color spnr/baits close to bank.Mix tech from top to bottom for FPT anglers, lake wide open you just got to keep the line wet.. Good Luck!!
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Kaweah Lake
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Water Temp: 69
Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)
Report: Visalia Bass Club tournament results from the 11th.
1st place Krandell & Vince Bryan 18.36 lbs. They had big fish of 9.37 lbs.
2nd place Brett Kemmer & Ryan Schaefer 12.03 lbs
3rd place Bill Reeves & Ray Gauerke 10.99lbs
Overall cold front came in friday cold in the am sunny in the pm.33 teams, 29 weighted in 135 total fish with a total weight of 214lbs. 0 dead fish. Had 22 limits caught. Sounds like they were caught everywhere on the lake using almost everything as well. Next tournament is Nov 1st.
City: Visalia
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Los Banos Lake
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Water Temp: 68.3
Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)
Report: Skunked. Periodically very gusty. Had a blowup on a frog in the back of the lake near an isolated grass top 20' off the bank, but that was it. Nothing on cranks, blades or jigs.
Around 2pm I slipped and put my hand down on a Rapala DT10 and sank a hook into it. Nice sharp hooks. Figured that was a clue to call it a day and visit the local Emergency Room. Big shot of Novacaine (ouchy), hook cut out, tetanus shot and I'm on my way. Not a good day, but still better than working.
City: Monterey
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Nacimiento Lake
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Water Temp: ?
Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)
Report: fished from my "U" boat from about one thirty a.m. to five a.m. around the marina.caught four smallies and four lm. all on plastic texas rigged worms real slow across the bottom
City: L.O.
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New Melones Lake
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Water Temp: 64 west side to
Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)
Report: Went out all day 10/11 Sat and caught 18 between 2 of us. All but 2 were very small (1 1/2 pounders) The other 2 were almost 3lbs. Did well with dart heading-6" margarita Mutilator Lipless crankbait did ok. Several on the flick shake. Rippen early in the morning with a little luck. Sat, the wind was pushing the boat quite a bit. The trolling motor got a workout. The wind was so bad sat afternoon we went in about 5pm.
Sunday went out for just a few hours and caught 8.
There was no wind at all on Sunday. Most all of the fish were at the 12 to 15 foot range. A few were right on the shore. This lake is VERY LOW. Hope we have a wet winter to fill it up.
City: Elk GroveTips: Stay around 12 to 15 foot deep. The bite was light on the dart head. Give it time.
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